1950's war comics Posted September 19, 2017 Share Posted September 19, 2017 On 9/9/2017 at 7:44 PM, porcupine48 said: Real nice train romance cover ! never saw this one before FoggyNelson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Love Posted September 19, 2017 Share Posted September 19, 2017 7 hours ago, Sqeggs said: Bought this one raw on a eBay a couple of years ago. Happy with how it came out. Very nice copy apart from the dust shadow along the spine and some spine wear. Pretty tough book to find in decent shape. H U U U U G E congrats! FoggyNelson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fett Posted September 19, 2017 Share Posted September 19, 2017 (edited) picked these up the other night-impulse buys -never realized Harvey romance had such striking covers. GCD says Warren Kremer. Edited September 19, 2017 by fett Inaflash and Sqeggs 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BakerFanOne Posted September 19, 2017 Share Posted September 19, 2017 1 hour ago, fett said: picked these up the other night-impulse buys -never realized Harvey romance had such striking covers. GCD says Warren Kremer. Harvey has some pretty affordable but lurid romance covers. Like their pre-code horror books, Harvey romance is picking up steam in my opinion so a good buy. szucchini 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damonwad Posted September 19, 2017 Share Posted September 19, 2017 13 hours ago, fett said: picked these up the other night-impulse buys -never realized Harvey romance had such striking covers. GCD says Warren Kremer. Some nice books. I especially like this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fett Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 thanks. looking around for more by that artist but only seem to be a few here and there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicjack Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 11 hours ago, damonwad said: Some nice books. I especially like this one. Like it Another one from the same artist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 On 9/19/2017 at 6:02 AM, fett said: picked these up the other night-impulse buys -never realized Harvey romance had such striking covers. GCD says Warren Kremer. Not a fan of most of the Hi-School Romance covers, but there are nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjpb Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 On 9/18/2017 at 4:03 PM, Sqeggs said: Bought this one raw on a eBay a couple of years ago. Happy with how it came out. Very nice copy apart from the dust shadow along the spine and some spine wear. Pretty tough book to find in decent shape. Nice copy. I recall a friend of mine picking up a VG copy of this for fifty cents back in the early 90s at a con we went to. I offered him a buck but he wouldn't sell. I should have made it two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fett Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 20 hours ago, comicjack said: Like it Another one from the same artist Stunning cover. Need it!! Original for this sold in the Heritage archive several years ago. Missed out on a copy this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fett Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 16 hours ago, Sqeggs said: Not a fan of most of the Hi-School Romance covers, but there are nice. I was in the same boat until a couple of weeks ago. Just realized this is the same artist that drew Richie Rich. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fett Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 found another Harvey cover girl Sqeggs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Love Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 nice ones Fett - cover girls, Harvey style! true, the Harveys had many less than exciting covers but, on the other hand, in those loooong runs there are books by Elias and Kremer and Avison some rough pencils by the King gems hidden in the rough Elias Kremer Avison Kirby szucchini and comicnoir 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Love Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 and of course, mad respect to the crazy Harvey photo cover hey baby I'm into macrame too Sqeggs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 9 hours ago, Dr. Love said: nice ones Fett - cover girls, Harvey style! true, the Harveys had many less than exciting covers but, on the other hand, in those loooong runs there are books by Elias and Kremer and Avison some rough pencils by the King gems hidden in the rough Elias Kirby Never been an Elias fan and his romance covers don't do it for me. Much as I love Kirby and much as I recognize his role in getting the romance genre started, his romance books are way down my list. As I've thought about why, I guess what I love about Kirby's SA Marvel work is how he composed his action panels, how he drew monsters/aliens, and the detail on many of his backgrounds (structures, weird machines, etc.). With romance, what counted was skill in drafting human figures. I now realize that just wasn't Kirby's strong point. His women, in particular, are rarely well done. That's an issue when you're drawing romance books! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damonwad Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 8 hours ago, Dr. Love said: and of course, mad respect to the crazy Harvey photo cover hey baby I'm into macrame too Nice one that I haven't seen (or at least noticed) before. It's always good seeing a nice "girl in a sweater" cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
29dukedog Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 Few photo covers "do it for me". But this one gives me a warm fuzzy all over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 1 hour ago, 29dukedog said: Few photo covers "do it for me". But this one gives me a warm fuzzy all over. One of Alice's best! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damonwad Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 1 hour ago, Sqeggs said: As I've thought about why, I guess what I love about Kirby's SA Marvel work is how he composed his action panels, how he drew monsters/aliens, and the detail on many of his backgrounds (structures, weird machines, etc.). With romance, what counted was skill in drafting human figures. I now realize that just wasn't Kirby's strong point. His women, in particular, are rarely well done. That's an issue when you're drawing romance books! I used to think the same thing about the Kirby romance books until I read the stories in the 2 volumes of Young Romance by Fantagraphics. I thought the stories and art were great. Like you mentioned, Kirby was definitely not Baker or Colletta in the female department and I could see people not being able to get over that. While reading the stories though, the stiff, brooding creepiness of his females started to grow on me and I ended up liking them (similar to the early FF Sue Storm). Now if only they were cheaper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
29dukedog Posted September 26, 2017 Share Posted September 26, 2017 (edited) If you like Matt Baker's covers, even the non-romance ones, and you haven't voted in our poll to rank the ballot of 18 covers selected by boardies... ...please do so! At this time we only need about 7 or 8 more voters to complete our goal and our poll. The candidates are listed below. We want you to rank this list according to your favorites, and PM the results to tabcom, the poll master. I'll provide a link to the thread, too. Amazing Ghost Stories 14 Authentic Police Cases 6 Cinderella Love 25 Diary Secrets 26 Giant Comics Editions 12 Going Steady 10 Jo Jo 25 Phantom Lady 16 Phantom Lady 17 Phantom Lady 18 Phantom Lady 23 Seven Seas 4 Seven Seas 6 Teen-Age Romances 14 Teen-Age Romances 32 Teen-Age Romances 43 Teen-Age Temptations 2 True Love PictorIal 11 Link to Poll Thread Edited September 26, 2017 by 29dukedog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...