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What are the rarest romance comics?
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On 2/7/2022 at 1:09 AM, Dr. Love said:

speaking of extraordinary - pulled this book out for one reason or another and got reacquainted

it's just a straight up great example of vintage '54 Colletta

whatever you feel about him for his later adventures in inking, for sheer technical/artistic expertise in story telling, it doesn't get much better than this in romance 

enjoy...have you heard the word?  The WORD is LOVE

 

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I never realized how well he could draw the ladies

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On 2/7/2022 at 2:09 AM, Dr. Love said:

speaking of extraordinary - pulled this book out for one reason or another and got reacquainted

it's just a straight up great example of vintage '54 Colletta

whatever you feel about him for his later adventures in inking, for sheer technical/artistic expertise in story telling, it doesn't get much better than this in romance 

enjoy...have you heard the word?  The WORD is LOVE

 

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By 1956 I believe Colletta had an epiphany ... Goodman wasn't going to pay more for better work. If he wanted the 4 bedroom house and the Cadillac it would have to be through volume. I'm thankful we had that year or so, early on, where Vince showed us what he was made of. GOD BLESS...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)(thumbsu

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On 2/7/2022 at 1:24 AM, Dr. Love said:

photo?  painted?  painted photo?

 

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Because of the night scene it could either be a badly printed color photo or a colorized B&W photo where the color was added by the color designer. 

DC Greytones were sometimes achieved by a carefully prepared color design laid on top of a b&w&gray original.

P.S.  Nice cover!

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Picked this up not long ago.  It's the Crowley Copy of a book called Life Story.  I am fairly unfamiliar with the title but came across this particular book when I was looking for a book from the Crowley pedigree.

This is issue #13 and is the highest graded copy of 3 on the CGC Census.  The book is from April of 1951 and graded at a 9.2.

 

PDG

 

 

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On 3/14/2022 at 11:18 PM, Rip said:

Gone blown out on all of my other bids (like I usually do), but I couldn't pass this one up at Heritage tonight.

I figured I would NEVER get a shot a better looking copy.

Sweet Colletta cover

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I was watching that one also great cover and wonderful grade for a love book:luhv:

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On 3/15/2022 at 12:18 AM, Rip said:

Got blown out on all of my other bids (like I usually do), but I couldn't pass this one up at Heritage tonight.

I figured I would NEVER get a shot a better looking copy.

Sweet Colletta cover

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Great one! I was watching the Secret Story Romances #11 on there and thought about it but went higher than I wanted to spend

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That was in the other Atlas batch of Nice books from last week. I was too late to try and jump on it.

Interesting to note, the most expensive romance Atlas books sold in these two batches (Aside from the Linda Carter book), was the Lovers 57 and 67.

$840 for 57 (in 8.0) and $1200 for the (7.5 W) 67. The True Secrets 27 I picked up went for $720 which was the 3rd most expensive.

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On 3/14/2022 at 9:29 PM, Rip said:

That was in the other Atlas batch of Nice books from last week. I was too late to try and jump on it.

Interesting to note, the most expensive romance Atlas books sold in these two batches (Aside from the Linda Carter book), was the Lovers 57 and 67.

$840 for 57 (in 8.0) and $1200 for the (7.5 W) 67. The True Secrets 27 I picked up went for $720 which was the 3rd most expensive.

Underbidder on the 67 - nice book

I was also the underbidder on the 57 when it sold originally in 2013.  Such a great Hartley cover.  Should have ponied up then!

 

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