plady69 Posted September 10, 2023 Share Posted September 10, 2023 On 9/9/2023 at 5:26 PM, Darwination said: Romantic Love 10 (1954-03.Avon) cover Everett Raymond Kinstler. Kind of a wolfish look from casanova here. I'm not sure the blonde is impressed. I love moonlight covers. Someone getting lucky tonite! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Darwination Posted September 11, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted September 11, 2023 A couple more moonlight covers. Another Kinstler, I wish I had a better copy, for real Realistic Romances 016 (1954-06.Avon) cover Everett Raymond Kinstler Water stains, creasing, waviness, and pencil marks can't stop me tho - Really a favorite, what a scene. A redhead in black silk, a convertible by the sea under the blowing palms? I even love the strange dotted line around the moon. or Vince Colletta, underappreciated by all except perhaps us romance fans, My Own Romance 40 1954-10.Atlas Dr. Love, Point Five, Get Marwood & I and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Love Posted September 11, 2023 Share Posted September 11, 2023 On 9/10/2023 at 12:05 PM, Yorick said: The interior artwork on many romance titles are fantastic. If you slab it, I hope there's a scan online to appreciate. well apparently darwination is the one who uploaded a scan of the entire book to GCD about 13 years ago. So, enjoy. Although one reviewer left this comment as regards this issue: "A very nice scan but some astonishingly bad art in this issue." Except for the Baily cover, I would have to agree! Yorick 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Love Posted September 11, 2023 Share Posted September 11, 2023 On 9/10/2023 at 9:35 PM, Darwination said: Vince Colletta, underappreciated by all except perhaps us romance fans, My Own Romance 40 1954-10.Atlas if by underappreciated, you mean hated with the heat of a red hot sun by many SA fans, then yes! I strongly recommend a great book, "The Thin Black Line: Perspectives on Vince Colletta, Comics’ Most Controversial Inker" I can't say enough about Colletta's work. At his peak in 1954, it was the best. Not just covers - unlike most others, he could do the heavy interior lifting as well. No harder genre to draw than romance, cause there really wasn't anything exciting happening. Even later in 1958 when he was phoning it in as a surprise uncredited artist in this DC book, his talent shows through Darwination 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Love Posted September 11, 2023 Share Posted September 11, 2023 and speaking of Baily identifiable in terms of the hand, but no one trick pony Darwination, Yorick, Point Five and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted September 11, 2023 Share Posted September 11, 2023 (edited) Nice ID, Doc, there's no way I'd hit that one. I'm honestly not very familiar with Baily. And I can't disagree with your assessment of the art in issue #5, but when it comes to the goldenage, some bad art is still good art if you know what I mean. It looks like the GCD has the issue pegged as almost completely Eugene Hughes with some pencils by Sal Finocchiaro (neither of whom am I familiar with). A couple of pages I like Full scan for those that want a better look here: https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/ij9n7emh9ang2dl/Ideal_Romance_005_%281954-08.Key%29_%28LoveJones-DREGS%29.cbr/file A 2009 scan, but it still looks O.K. I might take a different approach a couple places on the cover these days, but I'm happy enough with that, too. Edited September 11, 2023 by Darwination Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Yorick Posted September 11, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted September 11, 2023 On 9/11/2023 at 8:54 AM, Darwination said: For a second there, my mind went all Wertam, and I thought that wasn't her shoulder... Ryan., Courageous Cat, electricprune and 3 others 2 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorick Posted September 11, 2023 Share Posted September 11, 2023 On 9/11/2023 at 8:54 AM, Darwination said: there's no way I'd hit that Where did that "out of context" thread disappear to?? Point Five and Darwination 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MusterMark Posted September 11, 2023 Share Posted September 11, 2023 On 9/11/2023 at 11:20 AM, Yorick said: For a second there, my mind went all Wertam, and I thought that wasn't her shoulder... I see where your focus lay Courageous Cat and Darwination 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted September 11, 2023 Share Posted September 11, 2023 Darwination, Point Five and Yorick 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted September 13, 2023 Share Posted September 13, 2023 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 pmpknface, Dr. Love, PopKulture and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorick Posted September 13, 2023 Share Posted September 13, 2023 On 9/12/2023 at 8:16 PM, Darwination said: Youthful Love 01 1950-05 cover Walter Johnson Hideous. I like most everything about that... but their faces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N e r V Posted September 13, 2023 Share Posted September 13, 2023 (edited) On 9/10/2023 at 9:35 PM, Darwination said: A couple more moonlight covers. Another Kinstler, I wish I had a better copy, for real Realistic Romances 016 (1954-06.Avon) cover Everett Raymond Kinstler Water stains, creasing, waviness, and pencil marks can't stop me tho - Really a favorite, what a scene. A redhead in black silk, a convertible by the sea under the blowing palms? I even love the strange dotted line around the moon. or Vince Colletta, underappreciated by all except perhaps us romance fans, My Own Romance 40 1954-10.Atlas Years ago on another board there was a thread absolutely roasting his work on Kirby. Even Mark Evanier jumped on a bit in the thread as I remember. I think it’s fair to take exceptions to what he did with Kirby’s work and even his attitude toward treating comics as more a business. The irony is like it or not there’s also a large segment (myself included) that love the Kirby/Colletta run on Thor. As Cory Sedlmeier said when working on the Marvel Masterworks of it that the voodoo magic was just right. A lot of die hard Kirby fans will dismiss that run too and as the thread showed years ago seem to resent anyone who liked it. It clearly bothered some that anyone could like a Kirby/Colletta book at all. I’m glad he has a better place in his romance work today. To bad he left pretty young and long ago… Edited September 13, 2023 by N e r V Dr. Love 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Courageous Cat Posted September 13, 2023 Share Posted September 13, 2023 On 9/11/2023 at 2:20 PM, Yorick said: For a second there, my mind went all Wertam, and I thought that wasn't her shoulder... don't feel bad, that was my initial impression too Yorick 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 (edited) My Secret Affair 002 (1950.Canadian Edition) cover Artist Unknown This one may be pretty rare. EDIT: one Superior issue in census, no Fox issues. From Superior, but still with only that finest Fox quality *cough* I do love a number of the Fox Romance covers, though. They're sleazy but charming, and usually the women are giving as good as they are getting in the battle of the sexes department. https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/umfpgxfm8pd642q/My_Secret_Affair_002_%281950.Canadian_Edition%29%28Darwin-DREGS%29.cbr/file Edited September 14, 2023 by Darwination Point Five, Dr. Love, pmpknface and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 On 9/10/2023 at 9:35 PM, Darwination said: A couple more moonlight covers. Another Kinstler, I wish I had a better copy, for real Realistic Romances 016 (1954-06.Avon) cover Everett Raymond Kinstler Water stains, creasing, waviness, and pencil marks can't stop me tho - Really a favorite, what a scene. A redhead in black silk, a convertible by the sea under the blowing palms? I even love the strange dotted line around the moon. or Vince Colletta, underappreciated by all except perhaps us romance fans, My Own Romance 40 1954-10.Atlas The Realistic Romances 16 contains a great marijuana story. I can’t get to my copy now or I would post it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 On 9/13/2023 at 8:23 PM, Darwination said: My Secret Affair 002 (1950.Canadian Edition) cover Artist Unknown This one may be pretty rare. EDIT: one Superior issue in census, no Fox issues. From Superior, but still with only that finest Fox quality *cough* I do love a number of the Fox Romance covers, though. They're sleazy but charming, and usually the women are giving as good as they are getting in the battle of the sexes department. https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/umfpgxfm8pd642q/My_Secret_Affair_002_%281950.Canadian_Edition%29%28Darwin-DREGS%29.cbr/file I’m not a romance collector per se, but I love the Fox ones. They all have that elevated “sleeze” factor. And they are mostly all pretty hard to find. A lot of amazing covers with minimal but to the point dialogue and wild stories. Point Five 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Courageous Cat Posted September 14, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted September 14, 2023 gotta apreciate grandmas honesty Yorick, electricprune, Darwination and 4 others 1 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 (edited) On 9/14/2023 at 9:01 AM, Robot Man said: The Realistic Romances 16 contains a great marijuana story. I can’t get to my copy now or I would post it. Ah, yes, I've looked at that one recently. I took the occasion of your mention here to do a upsized edition of the scan of this comic I did back in 2008 with wider/higher quality images along with some re-edits of a couple of the cover pages. https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/o1ehcrdqajmwcyc/Realistic_Romances_016_%281954-06.Avon%29_%28Darwination-IA%29.cbr/file or you can read it online at the IA once it finishes deriving: https://archive.org/details/realistic-romances-016-1954-06.-avon-darwination-ia and, no doubt, Yoc or OE will likely have the new version up at the DCM before you know it, too. I had put the splash for the Marijuana story up at Flickr but will drop all the story pages here since we're talking about it. BTW the romance comics group/gallery I have at Flickr is very lonely - if we have anybody else that uses that platform they are welcome to join at Flickr (a very strange place but also GREAT for viewing images not to mention I can up huge lossless files - not this comic tho, I was working in jpeg at the time) Edited September 14, 2023 by Darwination Courageous Cat, pmpknface and Yorick 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Courageous Cat Posted September 14, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted September 14, 2023 (edited) Not sure where this falls on the rarity scale, but she's quite the looker Edited September 16, 2023 by Courageous Cat Darwination, PeterPark, Dr. Love and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...