Popular Post comicjack Posted February 29 Popular Post Share Posted February 29 This copy is a Crippen jimjum12, pmpknface, thehumantorch and 6 others 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicjack Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 On 2/28/2024 at 10:44 PM, Ricksneatstuff said: Carson City beauty I love these Ace covers Carson City copies have great page quality Ricksneatstuff and jimjum12 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 On 2/29/2024 at 8:13 AM, Ricksneatstuff said: I don’t know for certain who painted what but I do know for certain I’m happy to have this one in my collection. Alice gets the credit here. Ah, cheers, an interesting artist. Kirkpatrick is getting credit for interior work there (and I've no doubt she did the line-drawn covers at Ace as well). I'm not sure that she painted too much, though I could be wrong. more info on Kirkpatrick on an intriguing pulp wiki here from David Saunders (where BC snags the Lou Cameron quote from): https://www.pulpartists.com/Kirkpatrick.html and also a nice comics bibliography with a little more unique biographical info here: https://womenincomics.fandom.com/wiki/Alice_Kirkpatrick I'll keep digging. There's no doubt the paintings look damn good on these comics covers - I doubt too many of the love pulps got sacked away in such pristine condition. Point Five and Ricksneatstuff 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BuscemasAvengers Posted March 1 Popular Post Share Posted March 1 Love Romances 83; 0 on the census, with a Kirby cover, and Baker, Pike, Sinnott and Severin art. PopKulture, Dr. Love, pmpknface and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BuscemasAvengers Posted March 1 Popular Post Share Posted March 1 Lovers 69; a Vadeboncoeur copy; lovely Colletta cover. Just 1 on the census (5.5). Darwination, Dr. Love, Ricksneatstuff and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BuscemasAvengers Posted March 1 Popular Post Share Posted March 1 Stunning copy of Lovers 83; just 2 on the census, the highest being a 7.5; more Colletta and Pike. Dr. Love, PopKulture, pmpknface and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpknface Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 On 2/29/2024 at 8:58 PM, BuscemasAvengers said: Lovers 69; a Vadeboncoeur copy; lovely Colletta cover. Just 1 on the census (5.5). Nice sig on that one. Reminds me on Manolo in Scarface who wanted his name on women's jeans... BuscemasAvengers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dr. Love Posted March 2 Popular Post Share Posted March 2 (edited) "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate." But I aint seen nothing like the HA romance auction that just ended tonight. That's one for the books! I'll get into more detail later. Congrats to @Ricksneatstuff and the HA crew for an outstanding romance lineup! a taste: Dell Private Secretary #1 & 2, raw VF went for about 5K the pair. Mind blowing! Edited March 2 by Dr. Love Darwination, ThothAmon, szucchini and 3 others 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricksneatstuff Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 On 3/1/2024 at 9:33 PM, Dr. Love said: "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate." But I aint seen nothing like the HA romance auction that just ended tonight. That's one for the books! I'll get into more detail later. Congrats to @Ricksneatstuff and the HA crew for an outstanding romance lineup! a taste: Dell Private Secretary #1 & 2, raw VF - went for about 5K the pair. Mind blowing! Thanks Andy! This was a fun one to put together. ThothAmon, Dr. Love and MusterMark 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 Some fantastic comics from all sorts of publishers (I especially liked all the Foxes). Overstreet may have a little adjusting to do in the GA romances ThothAmon and Dr. Love 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bumble Kitty Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 On 3/1/2024 at 7:33 PM, Dr. Love said: Dell Private Secretary #1 & 2, raw VF - went for about 5K the pair. Mind blowing! Wow! Maybe I need to think about selling my copies. They are a little better than VF-. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Love Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 On 3/1/2024 at 9:35 PM, Bumble Kitty said: Wow! Maybe I need to think about selling my copies. They are a little better than VF-. Sorry for the confusion - they were listed as VF's each. Still, maybe you should. I know a guy you know who really really wants a nice #2. Well, make that two guys. uhhh, three! I sold my VF #2 five years ago to our friend in LA for $300. I wouldn't be shocked if this was my old copy tonight. That might be true for many of the raw lower grade books in this auction, he's great at timing the market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Love Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 Before I get into specifics tomorrow, let me frame this first from a particular vantage point - from 10,000 feet up. What HA has set out to do - and is accomplishing - is to carve out these Thursday/Friday specialty auctions which focus on a particular artist or genre. This is next level marketing/auctioning. While the best the others can do is to differentiate between two types of auctions, for the most part - separated into the better merchandise, and the lesser. As basic as it gets, and a business model that hasn't changed much in 20+years? One might speculate that for HA this is as much or more a commitment to the brand and to the future of the comic market as to the financial bottom line. Take this romance auction for example. 531 books which grossed $131,712. Not what you'd call a lot of money - their take of approx 40K could just as easily come from a handful of popular SA books. These romance books could have been split into lots of 10-30 and seeded into weeklies or even sigs, easily. They might have even grossed more when all was said and done, as romance collectors may not have as much funds to deploy as other collectors and could get wallet fatigued in the midst of a 250 book dedicated session. We can see that HA is committed to the romance genre. They've had Baker specialty auctions, a Cole auction that might arguably also be framed as an Atlas auction, and now this one focused on the smaller publishers one never sees collected in one place. Rick and crew know the private owners and the consignors are coming to them. And as we've seen in this thread, when it comes to Rick, like in the old Hair Club for Men commercials - "I'm not just the President - I'm also a client!". Point Five, comicjack and Ricksneatstuff 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Point Five Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 On 3/2/2024 at 12:56 AM, Dr. Love said: What HA has set out to do - and is accomplishing - is to carve out these Thursday/Friday specialty auctions which focus on a particular artist or genre. [...] And once again, I completely forgot to bid, even with the incessant email reminders. I can't seem to get it in my head that these specialty auctions don't finish Sunday/Monday nights like the others. Ah well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ricksneatstuff Posted March 3 Popular Post Share Posted March 3 These were my two main targets, both of which I had to stretch beyond my expectations to pick up. I would be happy to upgrade either of these. I once had a better copy of My Life and foolishly let it go. ThothAmon, Point Five, Dr. Love and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Love Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 On 3/2/2024 at 8:28 PM, Ricksneatstuff said: I once had a better copy of My Life and foolishly let it go. I might say the same! Ricksneatstuff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricksneatstuff Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 On 3/2/2024 at 10:39 PM, Dr. Love said: I might say the same! I know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ricksneatstuff Posted March 3 Popular Post Share Posted March 3 I’ve been waiting to post this one, probably the centerpiece of my non-Baker romance collection. If anyone has a high grade 49 to match this hit me up so I can pay for your kid’s honeymoon or something. comicnoir, Yorick, Mr. Lady Luck and 7 others 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Darwination Posted March 3 Popular Post Share Posted March 3 (edited) I fell asleep at the wheel both nights, friday night being date night - you loverboys might know what I'm talking about - and I actually had some issues in my watchlist that ended up in reasonable territory As far as window shopping (and leaving out the Romantic Hearts catfight cover or the wonderfully weird Radiant Love Mr. Spaulding displayed a few weeks ago), these were my faves. The taglines are sleazy though the girls are anything but Edited March 3 by Darwination pmpknface, Point Five, CrocHntr and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicjack Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 On 3/3/2024 at 12:03 AM, Ricksneatstuff said: I’ve been waiting to post this one, probably the centerpiece of my non-Baker romance collection. If anyone has a high grade 49 to match this hit me up so I can pay for your kid’s honeymoon or something. When you get past 7.0 in romance that is amazing and does a 49 in high grade exist we shall see Ricksneatstuff and Dr. Love 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
