The Undead Thread: Pre-Code Horror 21 21

[precodekeith]

Love the colors on this one! Certainly, "Satan" had to be a hot (no pun) marketing buzzword for horror books in the early 1950's. I wonder how many readers today would know what a stradivari is, though.

Man, wish my LRC wasn't obliterated.

[zzutak]

 

 

 

 

[podboy66]

 

 

 

 

Everett!! :applause:

[Jayman]

 

 

 

Always liked how they made him transparent on this cover!

[dannyboy]

Hey all - been a while. Speaking of Everett, I was looking through the new guide and noticed that Venus #'s 17-19 jumped HUGE from 2007 to 2008. I know a lot of the pricing is subjective, but this was a jump of better than 32% on a fine copy. Pretty rare to see movement like that year over year (especially on mid grade copies). Any idea why this is?

 

 

[precodekeith]

Hey all - been a while. Speaking of Everett, I was looking through the new guide and noticed that Venus #'s 17-19 jumped HUGE from 2007 to 2008. I know a lot of the pricing is subjective, but this was a jump of better than 32% on a fine copy. Pretty rare to see movement like that year over year (especially on mid grade copies). Any idea why this is?

 

 

Those are some very sought after books. Actually, I'm surprised OSPG finally got around to bumping them up. BTW- can you list the new prices for all grades?

Edited April 10, 2008 by precodekeith

[dannyboy]

Sure.

 

2.0/4.0/6.0/8.0/9.0/9.2

 

2007 Venus 13-19

 

86/172/258/538/869/1200

 

2008 Venus 17-19

 

114/228/342/713/1182/1650

[precodekeith]

Interesting. Although I agree that the higher grades finally deserved an upwards bump, I do not think 2.0 copies are realistically going for $114 FMV. That's probably too high. Shocker.

 

[Mister Trent]

 

 

 

Fantastic Russ Heath cover . . . one of my favourites! (thumbs u

[BB-Gun]

I don't know if this was discussed on the Undead Thread before but I have seen a lot of scans recently that have work by Powell and Palais and I was wondering whether one of them or both colored his own art. I have seen where this was done for some strips by some artists. I suspect Powell would do it in his shop. But I wonder about others too. Particularly when they did complicated backgrounds. Did any of these color guides survive? Examples below. I am sure people have seen better Powell examples but I am still looking.

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Another example of the creative use of color is this page by Cole.

 

 

[AtlasFan]

Love Powell's work - he is truly one of the unsung artists of the 50's.

 

I love his work on MAN IN BLACK (Harvey's version of the Mysterious Traveller/Phantom Stranger).

 

Bill

[AtlasFan]

 

 

 

Fantastic Russ Heath cover . . . one of my favourites! (thumbs u

 

Indeed! Nice cover Z. As I collect Atlas Giant monster covers, I believe this may be one of the first. Great work by Heath!

Bill

[precodekeith]

I remember this one actually took me awhile to track down. Kind of a different cover for a horror book, but sports fans ought to like it...

[Scrooge]

I remember this one actually took me awhile to track down. Kind of a different cover for a horror book, but sports fans ought to like it...

 

I can believe that. I've never seen it!

[shiverbones]

It's also a gerber 6, so there seems to be a case building up.

[precodekeith]

Come to think of it, I actually had WoF # 2 (generally considered a scarce book) before this one. This was, in fact, the book that completed my run.

[Jayman]

Always noticed the floating boxing gloves and the fighter in the ring but until now never noticed the goul/creature crowd!

I like it more now! (thumbs u

[precodekeith]

Ya know, the crowd was also the last thing I picked up on when I got this. Those gloves really draw your attention away from everything else!

[shiverbones]

same here, I always thought it was pretty lame until I noticed the crowd on Keith's scan.

[precodekeith]

8 Days w/out a post. Time to dust the thread off...