'PLANET COMICS' (is deserving of its own thread) 29 29

[sacentaur]

On 3/9/2019 at 6:17 PM, Spyder! said:

More than 2 days without a post in the Planet thread? Unacceptable!

Not high grade but I still love it.

That is a Doolin cover which CGC doesn’t credit. 

[Flex Mentallo]

5 hours ago, sacentaur said:

That is a Doolin cover which CGC doesn’t credit. 

#65 also goes uncredited.

[Paul © ® ⚽️💙™]

Doolin is one of those artists that goes under the radar a lot for some reason. Don't know why, but he is very under-rated IMO.

[Flex Mentallo]

30 minutes ago, G G said:

Doolin is one of those artists that goes under the radar a lot for some reason. Don't know why, but he is very under-rated IMO.

I agree with you on that, love his covers. BTW not sure he did the cover of #65. It looks more like Whitman to me, but not sure if this has been established?

[Spyder!]

8 hours ago, sacentaur said:

That is a Doolin cover which CGC doesn’t credit. 

 

21 minutes ago, Flex Mentallo said:

I agree with you on that, love his covers. BTW not sure he did the cover of #65. It looks more like Whitman to me, but not sure if this has been established?

30 is almost definitely a Doolin.  The girl looks like a Doolin girl for sure.

I have never been convinced that 65 is a Doolin, doesn’t really look like his work to me. I don’t know that the cover artist has been established.

[Flex Mentallo]

5 hours ago, Spyder! said:

I have never been convinced that 65 is a Doolin, doesn’t really look like his work to me. I don’t know that the cover artist has been established.

Here are #65 and #66 for comparison. The spaceman's suit is pretty much identical in both, and Whitman certainly did #66, which makes me think #65 might be Whitman as well, at least partially. On the other hand, while the figure of the woman is very graceful, it does not compare to Whitman's depictions of women on the covers of -for example - #66, #71, #72. The overall cover design of #65 is classic, but I find myself wondering if it might just possibly be a mash up of Doolin's layouts finished by Whitman. But secretly I want it to be a Whitman cover!

[SuperGrover]

This arrived today:

this is a poor beat up book(though surprisingly complete) with tape all the way up spine and another piece on a 1.5inch  cover rip... it also has some moisture ripple that goes through the entire book, and significant tanning that is evenly distributed throughout,  BUT... it seems very solid and the feel in your hand is NOT fragile at all, in fact, the pages feel supple... while the smell - is of old newsprint mixed with ancient attic- is intoxicating... this book just demanded I sit and read it!!!

something about this book, it's magic or essence, just remindes me of why I love comics! I MUST go read now...

[Zolnerowich]

13 minutes ago, SuperGrover said:

This arrived today:

this is a poor beat up book(though surprisingly complete) with tape all the way up spine and another piece on a 1.5inch  cover rip... it also has some moisture ripple that goes through the entire book, and significant tanning that is evenly distributed throughout,  BUT... it seems very solid and the feel in your hand is NOT fragile at all, in fact, the pages feel supple... while the smell - is of old newsprint mixed with ancient attic- is intoxicating... this book just demanded I sit and read it!!!

something about this book, it's magic or essence, just remindes me of why I love comics! I MUST go read now...

A powerful intoxicant, that GA paper pulp! It's ill-advised to operate heavy machinery after inhaling that intoxicant!

 

[Flex Mentallo]

17 hours ago, Spyder! said:

I have never been convinced that 65 is a Doolin, doesn’t really look like his work to me. I don’t know that the cover artist has been established.

I now find myself thinking of Bob Lubbers.

[adamstrange]

15 hours ago, Flex Mentallo said:

Here are #65 and #66 for comparison. The spaceman's suit is pretty much identical in both, and Whitman certainly did #66, which makes me think #65 might be Whitman as well, at least partially.

The background of 65 and 66 are very, very similar. 

[mwotka]

16 hours ago, SuperGrover said:

This arrived today:

something about this book, it's magic or essence, just remindes me of why I love comics! I MUST go read now...

 

Congrats on yours!  Got my 12 a few weeks back from MCS.  Presents amazing.  But sadly missing a couple wraps.  Still, it is a pleasure to behold.  Gotta love the rivets!

[Spyder!]

Congrats @SuperGrover and @mwotka on your Planet 12 pick ups.  A book I really like that’s a bit underrated in my opinion. I love how you can see the end of the chain in the man’s hand as he was going to assist the tied up woman before being frozen while in the act.  Not an easy book to acquire.

[Spyder!]

Wow, about an hour to go in the CC auction and the prices on several of the Planets are already nuts!  

Good luck to all the boardies bidding in this one.

[SushiX]

32 minutes ago, Spyder! said:

Wow, about an hour to go in the CC auction and the prices on several of the Planets are already nuts!  

Good luck to all the boardies bidding in this one.

[Spyder!]

Wow, Planet 20 in 6.0 over $2,100!

[Spyder!]

Very strong outing for the low/mid grade rivet issues tonight!  

[Ricksneatstuff]

[LordRahl]

Two pickups tonight that I thought looked really good for their respective grades.

 

[Spyder!]

4 minutes ago, Ricksneatstuff said:

You and your love of Planet 17! I tapped out at $3,800 or so.  

Honestly, I think this is the prettiest copy of this book I have ever seen.  The reds are amazing and white pages too!

Congrats Rick

[Spyder!]

23 minutes ago, LordRahl said:

Two pickups tonight that I thought looked really good for their respective grades.

 

Very nice! I especially like the deep reddish-orange background on that 40 

Edited March 15, 2019 by Spyder!