Dr. Love Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 These black beauties, formerly mine, are now in the possession of another devoted romance collector. I hope he doesn't mind the rest of us looking...from a distance! and I never did get all six of them, just these three. FYI, from my collecting perspective, there are additional nuggets within the ACG lineup. The most sought after are of course the Freaky Fab Four. But I also really enjoy the painted covers (six), the "shadow" or silhouette covers (six or seven), and the Schaffenberger issues (ACG has two of the only five Kurt did in the romance genre). 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Very cool, I don't remember seeing that last one before (thumbs u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Very cool, I don't remember seeing that last one before (thumbs u It's an incredibly tough book. 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Love Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 morning, gov! biscuit with your tea? doing some late night reading on the pulps threads. I hold you responsible for inceptioning me when you sold some of your pulps last year. Paul! Lawrence! Woe is me! for I am undone. 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 morning, gov! biscuit with your tea? And a cucumber sandwich please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Here are two I have: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MusterMark Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 RM, those black covers are hard to find as unblemished as yours are. (thumbs u 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Colletta improving Kirby, imho. Book also has a couple of (posthumous) Baker stories. 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagii Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Colletta improving Kirby, imho. Book also has a couple of (posthumous) Baker stories. I like it. You could always tell his distinctive ink style. 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
29dukedog Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Colletta improving Kirby, imho. Book also has a couple of (posthumous) Baker stories. Improving Kirby, but diminishing Baker, most likely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 I don't think there is a single romance book in the upcoming Heritage auction. CLink seems to be the place where people are consigning their romance books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjpb Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 An impulse buy for the cover story title alone. That's what I love about the non-superhero genres, you can still find stuff cheap if you're not too picky about grade. Interestingly enough, the "clown" in question is a professional comedian who towards the end of the story is actually performing as a circus clown, even better a "sad clown", after his girl leaves him and his confidence wanes. Another story has a Don Draper/ Whitman like twist in which a woman on the run is the sole survivor of a train wreck that happens as she is admiring the wedding ring of a Korean War widow going to meet her wealthy in-laws for the first time. Naturally, there is a confusion over identity and a handsome brother to the dead soldier to be smitten. Deceit and blackmail follow, but of course love wins out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MusterMark Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 An impulse buy for the cover story title alone. That's what I love about the non-superhero genres, you can still find stuff cheap if you're not too picky about grade. Interestingly enough, the "clown" in question is a professional comedian who towards the end of the story is actually performing as a circus clown, even better a "sad clown", after his girl leaves him and his confidence wanes. Another story has a Don Draper/ Whitman like twist in which a woman on the run is the sole survivor of a train wreck that happens as she is admiring the wedding ring of a Korean War widow going to meet her wealthy in-laws for the first time. Naturally, there is a confusion over identity and a handsome brother to the dead soldier to be smitten. Deceit and blackmail follow, but of course love wins out. Ah, the three-headed woman. The two smaller heads are growing off her shoulder and back. (No wonder he doesn't seem to care too much for her ...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doohickamabob Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 An impulse buy for the cover story title alone. That's what I love about the non-superhero genres, you can still find stuff cheap if you're not too picky about grade. Interestingly enough, the "clown" in question is a professional comedian who towards the end of the story is actually performing as a circus clown, even better a "sad clown", after his girl leaves him and his confidence wanes. Another story has a Don Draper/ Whitman like twist in which a woman on the run is the sole survivor of a train wreck that happens as she is admiring the wedding ring of a Korean War widow going to meet her wealthy in-laws for the first time. Naturally, there is a confusion over identity and a handsome brother to the dead soldier to be smitten. Deceit and blackmail follow, but of course love wins out. Ah, the three-headed woman. The two smaller heads are growing off her shoulder and back. (No wonder he doesn't seem to care too much for her ...) Yeah, and he has the mark of Cain on his forehead, so he must have done something terrible to his brother clown. Meanwhile she has a tattoo of a teardrop on her cheek, indicating that she murdered somebody in prison. She also has fingers growing out of the middle of her arm. Some of these romance comics sure get twisted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Love Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 Quality had a great stable and produced some real nice books. 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Love Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 I'm feeling DC now. So I'm going to lay down a runup ramp of gold and use it to spring right into the Silver boards. All missionaries gotta move on at some point and continue to spread the Word. It's so fine, it's sunshine It's the word love Now that I know what I feel must be right I'm here to show everybody the light Say the word and you'll be free Say the word and be like me Say the word I'm thinking of Have you heard the word is love? 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dr. Love Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 And...that's about how long DC hung with photo covers. They turned the front cover over to the pen and pencil guys, and never looked back. And what a ride it was.. They've got a consistent point of view - you could say that DC stands for Drama Cueens. This book is a former one of mine, but I know the owner won't mind us appreciating his beautiful book. 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Love Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 and these early DC's, from the fifties, had Ira Schnapp in charge of creating the most marvelous back covers as house ads for the other romance titles. They are works of art themselves. 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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