Iksar Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 There were a lot of high-grade Silver/Bronze romance books in the Sunday Heritage auctions recently. Anyone know where they came from? I only snagged a few. Really love this cover! Label says Giordano, but that's got to be Neal Adams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Sqeggs Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 There were a lot of high-grade Silver/Bronze romance books in the Sunday Heritage auctions recently. Anyone know where they came from? I only snagged a few. Really love this cover! Label says Giordano, but that's got to be Neal Adams You could be right, although GCD also says Giordano. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dr. Love Posted January 28, 2016 Author Share Posted January 28, 2016 Now you're talking 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MusterMark Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 Now you're talking +1 Very cool, Sqeggsie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 Kirby! Four stories with all the other stuff he was doing?! Fast worker doesn't begin to describe him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicnoir Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 There were a lot of high-grade Silver/Bronze romance books in the Sunday Heritage auctions recently. Anyone know where they came from? I only snagged a few. Really love this cover! Label says Giordano, but that's got to be Neal Adams You could be right, although GCD also says Giordano. Of course it's Adams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicnoir Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 These books were (I assume) on the stands in the heart of my comic buying mania as a kid, yet I honestly don't recall having ever seen them. Maybe they were kept with the teen mags? Or maybe they were there with the other comics but I didn't pay any attention to them. I'm pretty sure romance comics were invisible if you were a 12 year old boy. In my own memory I recall going from reading nothing but Harvey until I was nine, to never seeing them again. That's probably it. I can remember going carefully through the racks looking for oddball titles -- like the erratically issued Gold Key M.A.R.S. Patrol -- but I just don't remember seeing romance books. But I probably looked past them like they weren't there. I had a sister, no longer with us, who had a small stack of well read romance comics. They now reside with me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Love Posted January 29, 2016 Author Share Posted January 29, 2016 I had a sister, no longer with us, who had a small stack of well read romance comics. They now reside with me. what titles did she like, Ron? 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjpb Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 There were a lot of high-grade Silver/Bronze romance books in the Sunday Heritage auctions recently. Anyone know where they came from? I only snagged a few. Really love this cover! Label says Giordano, but that's got to be Neal Adams You could be right, although GCD also says Giordano. Of course it's Adams The girl looks a little like Adams, but that's it. The guy looks nothing like Adams. This was from when Giordano was first inking Adams, so possibly the influence was already showing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Love Posted January 29, 2016 Author Share Posted January 29, 2016 There were a lot of high-grade Silver/Bronze romance books in the Sunday Heritage auctions recently. Anyone know where they came from? I only snagged a few. Really love this cover! Label says Giordano, but that's got to be Neal Adams You could be right, although GCD also says Giordano. Of course it's Adams The girl looks a little like Adams, but that's it. The guy looks nothing like Adams. This was from when Giordano was first inking Adams, so possibly the influence was already showing. agree with RJ 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicnoir Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 I had a sister, no longer with us, who had a small stack of well read romance comics. They now reside with me. what titles did she like, Ron? She liked the DC's. Heart Throbs, Young Love, Girls Love, Secret Hearts, Young Romance (that Giordano/Adams cover I have, when I saw it as a kid I thought: Adams), Girls Romance, Falling in Love, I knew them all and READ them all. I used them to help draw girls. All the books you guys are looking at through slabs, I've known for decades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
29dukedog Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 Back in the eighties, I had a girlfriend who had no special interest in comics, herself, but since she was dating a comic book nut, she went to shows with me and started collecting inexpensive romance comics. At this point in my life, I was busy filling in my SA superhero runs and EC's, and I hadn't yet developed my own interest in romance comics. When she left, she left her comics behind. Just a few dozen books, mostly lower grade SA DC titles (which I still have to this day). It wasn't until 2002 and my discovery of eBay that I really started collecting romance, and that's mainly because I finally started seeing some of those legendary Baker covers that I'd only seen pictured in Overstreet, up to that time. 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Love Posted January 29, 2016 Author Share Posted January 29, 2016 I know I've posted this elsewhere but not in this thread. Infantino romance covers make my heart go pitter pat, this one in particular. It's got it all. Go-go check, black cover, Elongated Man gets married...well, not really, but that's the way I always think about it! 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aman619 Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 There were a lot of high-grade Silver/Bronze romance books in the Sunday Heritage auctions recently. Anyone know where they came from? I only snagged a few. Really love this cover! Label says Giordano, but that's got to be Neal Adams You could be right, although GCD also says Giordano. Of course it's Adams looks more like Sparling. Even Giordanos early Adams inks (and this is 1968) didn't obscure this much of Adams pencils if Adams had penciled it. The only Adams I can see is the girls face and the man's pants folds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 Romita could draw an evil gal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 And these back covers were great. National Romance Group, baby! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Love Posted February 5, 2016 Author Share Posted February 5, 2016 yes indeedy - nice books bromancer 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 yes indeedy - nice books bromancer Thanks, brobaker! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
