Darwination Posted September 28, 2023 Share Posted September 28, 2023 On 9/12/2023 at 10:16 PM, Darwination said: Youthful Love 01 1950-05 cover Walter Johnson I tried to grab a few from the box at hand that were maybe scarcer, but this one isn't quite as scarce as I thought. Hideous. Wonderfully hideous Turns out this one is rarer than I thought. I didn't catch it's a Canadian edition (such horrid production values - Oh, Canada!). Zero in census? https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=35510 Kudos to the editor. A spot on treatment. Point Five and Kevin.J 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Courageous Cat Posted September 28, 2023 Share Posted September 28, 2023 On 9/28/2023 at 10:30 AM, Robot Man said: I buy from Adam fairly regularly. Yes, he gets good prices. But you get what you pay for. An accurately graded book, packaged well and sent fast. No monkey business or worry. My favorite regular EBay seller. agree, just not a fan of color image enhancement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post N e r V Posted September 30, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted September 30, 2023 Couple of board buys here finally graded. What Dr. Love calls the flying car cover and a ACG I bought mostly because I dig those flames at the bottom. Sweet! Point Five, adamstrange, pmpknface and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted October 1, 2023 Share Posted October 1, 2023 (edited) I love the top one. Was working with a rare one today, another Superior, one in the census, pretty good romance, Our Secret 6. My Secret ran for 3 issues and then switched to Our Secret for issues four through eight. One issue of the My Secret is scanned and one of the Our Secret (now two), so we're looking to lay hands on the rest. My copy, such as it is, soon to be passed on to the next guy. Romance is fleeting heh heh A slightly interesting cover. It's your typical love triangle but with an added foreign element. It's really hard to make that sort of stache look good, Abdul Abulbul... GCD shows all Iger studio credits which seems fair enough, as I see multiple cooks in the kitchen myself. I like a lot of the art in the ish starting with the opening splash: Original artwork for the story sold at Heritage: https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/complete-story/s-m-iger-studio-our-secret-6-forsaking-all-others-complete-9-page-story-original-art-superior-publishers-total-9/a/7097-93764.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515 You just knew a guy with a stache like that was going to be trouble... Matt Baker in the mix? Maybe? This one kind of reminds me of the flying car above, probably just because I'd never seen it before the recent post. A great splash design if also a particularly grubby page, Oh, Canada!!! The last splash. I love these colors. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. lightly touched and rush scans here, I don't doubt myself or another editor will give it a different treatment for the digital museums. The verdict is in, I like these Superior romances. They've got good art and fun stories. Edited October 1, 2023 by Darwination sagii, pmpknface and mwotka 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MusterMark Posted October 1, 2023 Share Posted October 1, 2023 On 9/30/2023 at 7:06 PM, Darwination said: I love the top one. Was working with a rare one today, another Superior, one in the census, pretty good romance, Our Secret 6. My Secret ran for 3 issues and then switched to Our Secret for issues four through eight. One issue of the My Secret is scanned and one of the Our Secret (now two), so we're looking to lay hands on the rest. When “My Secret” switches to “Our Secret”, I guess that means that I couldn’t keep my secret …. Yorick, Darwination and plady69 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted October 8, 2023 Share Posted October 8, 2023 I'm pretty sure I sent an image of this cover to the GCD years ago. I don't think I've seen an image of another copy. Zero copies in census. 7 copies in for the DC edition. The cover's dark, the back cover's grubby and the pages are pretty brown, but it's really flat and square and solid and supple like no one read the thing til I thumbed through it just now, wild. Has a 3 pager on Burt Lancaster in the middle, kind of odd, will have to track down the original printing to complete the index for the issue. The rest of the stories are in the U.S. edition except for a 2 pager text story, Heavens Above!, (with an illustrated masthead) that runs front and back cover. Definitely not as cool as the inner covers on the American edition. The printing actually looks better than the U.S. edition which is not how that usually goes I don't know how I ended up with at least a few super scarce Canadian romance editions :I Yorick, sagii and pmpknface 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dr. Love Posted October 8, 2023 Share Posted October 8, 2023 (edited) There's a certain early period in DC romance art that is sublime. Sekowsky, or was it Infantino or Barry were beyond beyond Edited October 8, 2023 by Dr. Love damonwad and Darwination 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dr. Love Posted October 8, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted October 8, 2023 (edited) Edited October 8, 2023 by Dr. Love szucchini, Inaflash, pmpknface and 8 others 9 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post Dr. Love Posted October 8, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted October 8, 2023 (edited) Edited October 8, 2023 by Dr. Love comicjack, Darwination, sagii and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dr. Love Posted October 8, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted October 8, 2023 And every so often I'll repost this, the quintessential romance cover and say goodnight, my friends may we all be graced with the love we want and need comicjack, sagii, damonwad and 4 others 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted October 8, 2023 Share Posted October 8, 2023 On 10/8/2023 at 1:55 AM, Dr. Love said: There's a certain early period in DC romance art that is sublime. Sekowsky, or was it Infantino or Barry were beyond beyond Sure looks Infantino to me. Great sequence of panels! Dr. Love 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Love Posted October 8, 2023 Share Posted October 8, 2023 Dearly wanted this Barry page, but couldn't hang with the fierce action. Oh well. I could say there'll be another one like this somewhere along the way...but there won't. comicnoir and Darwination 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post Darwination Posted October 9, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted October 9, 2023 Romantic Hearts? I was looking at my copy of a couple which I'd scanned back when. We're still showing 5 unscanned issues at the digital libraries. An oddity in that the issue was used twice (which is what had me doing the detective work): Check out the number in the upper right. It's issue one of the second series (indicia publisher Story) but exactly the same as #11 of the first series (indicia publisher Master) except for the indicia and the attempt to ink over the second "1" in the numbering. Two copies in the census, a 4.0 and a 8.5. CGC has a few of the second series clumped in the census area of the first series, romance disrespect! Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Just look at those dishes piling up. Make that swine clean, too! JVJ's got this one indexed as Ed Goldfarb. Yeah, now this one's juicy. Is hubby a crook or a rat? I suppose the latter makes the preferable husband, hrm... Beck art, he also did the cover. I was planning on sticking this one (and the other ish I have, #3 from the first series) up at eBay but would HAPPILY trade for unscanned issues, beaters welcome (mine are beaters as you can see). We're missing #2 (3 copies in census) and #7 (1 copy in census) No cover even showing for #7 at the GCD. If anybody has the issue at least show the cover plz :] From the second series, we're missing scans for #9 (11 in census), #10 (zero in census), and #11 (1 in census). I totally remember hunting #9 now with no luck. There's no wonder there's 11 in the census for that one. WANT. Catfight!!! YASSSSS. Dr. Love, Point Five, damonwad and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Point Five Posted October 9, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted October 9, 2023 On 10/8/2023 at 2:13 AM, Dr. Love said: Steamy. But not as steamy as *these* two! comicnoir, damonwad, Darwination and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorick Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 On 10/8/2023 at 5:12 PM, Darwination said: We're missing #2 (3 copies in census) and #7 (1 copy in census) I believe I have a 7 somewhere... (old photo - I no longer have the other two on the bottom row) Dr. Love, jimjum12 and Point Five 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Yorick Posted October 12, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted October 12, 2023 Probably the best Raeburn Van Buren cover art (my favorite). Only three 6.0's on the census, but I seem to recall there being several very nice copies that sold around the same time-frame a few years back... perhaps some leftover warehouse copies? This is the "RC" copy (I think from the Northwest) and I've seen the stamp on other nice books. Bumble Kitty, adamstrange, Dr. Love and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Yorick Posted October 12, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted October 12, 2023 ZERO census copies!!! Freakin Gilda Rita!!! pmpknface, Point Five, Darwination and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
