Sqeggs Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 The doorway filled with stars makes it look like the house is flying through space. It does. In fact, it's hard to imagine from what perspective you would see stars filling the doorway like that. Still I love Cole romance covers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damonwad Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 The doorway filled with stars makes it look like the house is flying through space. It does. In fact, it's hard to imagine from what perspective you would see stars filling the doorway like that. Still I love Cole romance covers. I can't think of a logical reason either. Maybe it's intended to be a sci-fi/romance crossover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damonwad Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 I knew I had to have a copy of this as soon as I saw Dr. Love post his a while ago. One of my favorite romance covers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 I knew I had to have a copy of this as soon as I saw Dr. Love post his a while ago. One of my favorite romance covers. It's a beaut alright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjpb Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 The doorway filled with stars makes it look like the house is flying through space. It does. In fact, it's hard to imagine from what perspective you would see stars filling the doorway like that. Still I love Cole romance covers. I can't think of a logical reason either. Maybe it's intended to be a sci-fi/romance crossover. I think it's supposed to be snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjpb Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 I knew I had to have a copy of this as soon as I saw Dr. Love post his a while ago. One of my favorite romance covers. Great cover! So how is Branded by a Tattoo Artist ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damonwad Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 The doorway filled with stars makes it look like the house is flying through space. It does. In fact, it's hard to imagine from what perspective you would see stars filling the doorway like that. Still I love Cole romance covers. I can't think of a logical reason either. Maybe it's intended to be a sci-fi/romance crossover. I think it's supposed to be snow. I can't believe I never thought of that. Especially with an L.B. Cole cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damonwad Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 I knew I had to have a copy of this as soon as I saw Dr. Love post his a while ago. One of my favorite romance covers. It's a beaut alright. Thanks. I never really gave Charlton a second look until seeing some of the books Dr. Love and others have been posting. Some real gems there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damonwad Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 I knew I had to have a copy of this as soon as I saw Dr. Love post his a while ago. One of my favorite romance covers. Great cover! So how is Branded by a Tattoo Artist ? I enjoyed it (the tattoo is temporary). All the stories are decently drawn by Cappello but the themes are not the normal romance fare. *Brother and sister fall in love (he breaks it off when he finds out). *Woman doesn't tell a terminally ill man he's really going to live. *Woman asks the readers if she should let a former lover freeze to death in the snow or help him. *Woman with temp tattoo poses in bikini for a painting, she refuses the artists advances and he dies trying to kill her. Great stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Love Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 I never really gave Charlton a second look...Some real gems there. Great copies, damonwad! Both the Cole and the Cappello are fantastic - I don't know how in heck you find these babies in such sweet shape. Black arts, I'm thinkin. Charlton never gets a first look, much less a second. And yet they were the undisputed #1 leader in the genre in terms of output - 1370 issues (vs #2 DC with 932 issues), most of which were cranked out from 1955 on. Everybody rags on Charlton and yet somebody was buying these books - unless Charlton was just printing for the sake of realizing the economies of scale produced through their groundbreaking vertical integration in terms of manufacturing. Charlton had distinct periods of artistic flowering, waxing and waning. A deep bullpen of talented artists, inkers and colorists. A strange fun place to work, where even Steve Ditko was tolerated and given the space to be...well, Ditko. And if you were Italian, like a lot of the Charltonians were, then the Derby compound was like the Badda Bing! was to Tony Soprano - home away from home. There were just a few issues that qualify as Charlton GA. Artie Cappello kinda owned the True Life Secrets run. Take a look. The black covers are awesome cause they make the garish coloring POP and also because they're awesomely hard to get in grade. 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Love Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 True Life Secrets 1 embrace the photocover - you know you want to 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Love Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 True Life Secrets 10 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Love Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 True Life Secrets 12 a fave of mine, interesting composition nicely done 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Love Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 True Life Secrets 17 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Love Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 True Life Secrets 18 this issue gets bid up hard when it surfaces - has a Toth feel to it 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Love Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 and I'm gonna cross the line here for a moment and show you Cappello doing his Charlton gig 20 years down the road into Bronze 1971-72. Sweethearts 115 Sweethearts 126 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 The doorway filled with stars makes it look like the house is flying through space. It does. In fact, it's hard to imagine from what perspective you would see stars filling the doorway like that. Still I love Cole romance covers. I can't think of a logical reason either. Maybe it's intended to be a sci-fi/romance crossover. I think it's supposed to be snow. You're probably right, but sci-fi romance would be a lot more fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 and I'm gonna cross the line here for a moment and show you Cappello doing his Charlton gig 20 years down the road into Bronze 1971-72. Sweethearts 115 Sweethearts 126 These are all great books! I don't think I've seen any of them before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimjum12 Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 and I'm gonna cross the line here for a moment and show you Cappello doing his Charlton gig 20 years down the road into Bronze 1971-72. Sweethearts 115 Sweethearts 126 These are all great books! I don't think I've seen any of them before. Sweethearts 126 ?......unused Barbie and Ken cover ? GODBLESS.... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inaflash Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 The doorway filled with stars makes it look like the house is flying through space. It does. In fact, it's hard to imagine from what perspective you would see stars filling the doorway like that. Still I love Cole romance covers. I can't think of a logical reason either. Maybe it's intended to be a sci-fi/romance crossover. I think it's supposed to be snow. You're probably right, but sci-fi romance would be a lot more fun! The woman he's kissing is actually a robot. Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
