L.B. Cole cover thread! Post your favorites by the master! 40 40

[Point Five]

On 9/10/2023 at 11:17 AM, Darwination said:

Cole is hands down one of the top 5 geniuses of the golden age.  His sense of color is totally unique.  He puts colors together that should not go together, but they do - amazing.

Totally agree! I’ve made similar comments here before, but it happens to me with LB Cole covers more than any other collecting interest… that when I see a copy with vibrant ‘as printed’ colors, it can look like a completely different book than all the other copies I’ve seen previously, regardless of technical grade etc. It has kept the longtime quest for his books fresh and exciting.

 

[Professor K]

On 9/10/2023 at 11:17 AM, Darwination said:

I've been slowly adding to a gallery of L.B. Cole digital restorations on Flickr, one of the last ones I did:

Confessions of Love 014 (1953-02.Star) cover L.B. Cole

The rest of the gallery:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/197841258@N07/albums/72177720307794063

I've got a beat to hell copy of The Killers 1 on eBay this week, likely well below the collectors here standards.  And I'll be listing a bunch of low grade ones in the coming weeks (new to forum and am not sure of the rules on mentioning auctions and whatnot, do excuse).

Cole is hands down one of the top 5 geniuses of the golden age.  His sense of color is totally unique.  He puts colors together that should not go together, but they do - amazing.

That's really cool. The pics look great. Nice and big. Where are you getting the images from? Actually you don't have to answer that, just wondering if these are your collection. Anyway it looks great. Nice job so far, hope it keeps growing. 

[Professor K]

On 9/10/2023 at 4:11 PM, Point Five said:

Totally agree! I’ve made similar comments here before, but it happens to me with LB Cole covers more than any other collecting interest… that when I see a copy with vibrant ‘as printed’ colors, it can look like a completely different book than all the other copies I’ve seen previously, regardless of technical grade etc. It has kept the longtime quest for his books fresh and exciting.

 

I gotta start multi-quoting more I know. Yep some books are like that. Fiction House books are a good example.......well that's the obvious example. But especially with the Star Publications books. Even if you have the grade/condition you want there is always some that have better colors, often times in lower grade. Almost always. 

Fresh and Exciting. Kool and the Gang reference? 

Edited September 10, 2023 by Professor K

[Darwination]

On 9/10/2023 at 4:46 PM, Professor K said:

That's really cool. The pics look great. Nice and big. Where are you getting the images from? Actually you don't have to answer that, just wondering if these are your collection. Anyway it looks great. Nice job so far, hope it keeps growing. 

Thank you. I've had quite a bit of practice. 

And those who don't know me from the digital museums or other online hotspots might check out my blog which covers a wide variety of comics, pulps, magazines and other printed materials (new post just yesterday):

http://darwinscans.blogspot.com/

The Coles are a real treat, and I'll keep at it, but you might say I have a lot of irons in the fire these days.

At Flickr, I give the image source in the placard. This one was worked from this image/issue at MCS, really a great starting point as far as condition:

https://d1466nnw0ex81e.cloudfront.net/n_ii/originalimage/6561128.jpg

With Cole, I'm usually working from Heritage or MyComicShop images, but I do have some issues in my collection (though I'm selling some on eBay over the next couple weeks) and much prefer to work from a high dpi scan even if that means starting with a grubbier issue.

Edited September 11, 2023 by Darwination

[Darwination]

I added this one to my Flickr gallery tonight reworked from a previously edited Heritage image, kind of a funky jungle scene.  The lush greens and red in front and all that skin tone.  Homegirl is in bondage, there's a leopard and a tiger on either side of her, the tiger looking at the reader.  Then the swami with the fly vest has some sort of electricity or mind bolt shooting out of his forehead.  The scared looking native with the knife.  And jungle man in the leopard speedo way in back all against a magenta and purple canopy.  What was L.B. Cole smoking, anyways?

I do have a copy of this one

Edited September 16, 2023 by Darwination

[path4play]

I've regretted selling any Cole cover, and since starting to look for "the one" to have realized the top tier ones have gone up and out of my price range.  However I did manage to acquire this bright green beauty to satisfy my Cole thirst.

 

[Darwination]

Love it.  The romance covers are so underrated but in my opinion some of his best.  That's a very nice copy, too, as far as I'm concerned.

[Ryan.]

Woah.

[october]

Tough issue, but still a very strong result. 

[WolverineX]

LB Cole has had a strong month.   Suspense 4 sold for 21k on comiclink

 

Edited September 16, 2023 by WolverineX

[Professor K]

On 9/16/2023 at 1:43 PM, Ryan. said:

Woah.

That poor book just can't find a good home. Like that friend you had as a kid who always had a new dog. Where did the old ones go? 8,300 on CC in Dec. 2022, 10,200 on HA in March 2022. 

If you really want to get sick look up what the previous 7.0 went for way way back in 2016. I'll just tell ya. 837.00.  Oh the pain, the pain. 

[Professor K]

On 9/16/2023 at 3:41 PM, october said:

Tough issue, but still a very strong result. 

That's not very strong, that's bloody riduculous. 

[Point Five]

This was a strong result too for a 7.0. Sweet book for sure, but there are so many breakout covers in the Blue Bolt run and I never thought of #113 as one of them.
 

[Ryan.]

Not a Suspense 4 but probably a close second. 

[manetteska]

On 9/16/2023 at 8:06 PM, Professor K said:

That poor book just can't find a good home. Like that friend you had as a kid who always had a new dog. Where did the old ones go? 8,300 on CC in Dec. 2022, 10,200 on HA in March 2022. 

If you really want to get sick look up what the previous 7.0 went for way way back in 2016. I'll just tell ya. 837.00.  Oh the pain, the pain. 

Is it just me or is that a rough 7.0?

[Ryan.]

[Professor K]

On 9/16/2023 at 9:06 PM, Professor K said:

That poor book just can't find a good home. Like that friend you had as a kid who always had a new dog. Where did the old ones go? 8,300 on CC in Dec. 2022, 10,200 on HA in March 2022. 

If you really want to get sick look up what the previous 7.0 went for way way back in 2016. I'll just tell ya. 837.00.  Oh the pain, the pain. 

 

On 9/17/2023 at 4:05 PM, manetteska said:

Is it just me or is that a rough 7.0?

I don't know, you think it's rough? It's got nice color, spine may look closer to a 6.0 than 7.0.  Nice corners. I'd say perfect wrap, and it's very clean. Back cover is as white as a white sail on a dusky sea.......and that's really white. White pages also. It's the R H stamp on the yellow rocket I find really distracting. Hard to tell if that affected the price as there aren't many recent sales in this grade range to compare it to. There are 7 -7.0's and 5 7.5's out there. I'm waiting for a 5.0 to 6.0 to come around before I go broke buying other stuff. 

 

[Professor K]

On 9/17/2023 at 4:19 PM, Ryan. said:

Yeah that was a beauty. Looking at past sales to me it was the nicest looking copy to come around in years in any grade, other than the Promise 9.0. Maybe nicer than the Big Apple 9.2 in 2018 and definitely nicer than Mr. Berks 7.0 in 2017. after this I would think the 9.0 Promise that sold the 1st time out for 18,000 would sell for well over 20k if it ever comes around again. Seems some of the best deals in the 1st Promise auction were L.B. Covers. 

[comicjack]

Cole and Baker have had some run ups lately

[comicjack]

On 9/17/2023 at 4:19 PM, Ryan. said:

That one has nicer paper than my 6.0 one of Cole s top sci fi  covers imho