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[MrBedrock]

4 hours ago, sagii said:

Need to get this one graded soon in time for the next Registry Awards so i'll have a complete certified set 

I can loan you this one for your registry set...

 

...or please loan me yours so I can read it.

Edited December 1, 2017 by MrBedrock

[sagii]

21 minutes ago, MrBedrock said:

I can loan you this one for your registry set...

 

...or please loan me yours so I can read it.

 I think we can arrange that sir! 

What a stunner!

[gadzukes]

On 11/28/2017 at 11:46 AM, Sqeggs said:

My copy of the MM Teen-Age Diary Secrets 6 (sometimes mistakenly referred to as Diary Secrets 6).

Why no mention of Monroe on the Label?  CGC doesn't know?

[1950's war comics]

On 11/28/2017 at 1:01 PM, MrBedrock said:

As Tony Curtis would say, "Do Yvonne DeCarlo!"

 

I only remember here from the Munsters and i thought she was real old then, i never realized till later that she was a real looker in her day.....

[Bat34]

On 11/28/2017 at 8:46 AM, Sqeggs said:

My copy of the MM Teen-Age Diary Secrets 6 (sometimes mistakenly referred to as Diary Secrets 6).

Nice book!!!

[Sqeggs]

On 11/30/2017 at 3:29 PM, sagii said:

Need to get this one graded soon in time for the next Registry Awards so i'll have a complete certified set 

Only complete when you get the Canadian versions, too! 

[Sqeggs]

On 12/1/2017 at 1:02 PM, gadzukes said:

Why no mention of Monroe on the Label?  CGC doesn't know?

I think it's a certainty that it's a photo of MM, but I don't believe CGC has ever formally recognized it as such. 

[sagii]

1 hour ago, Sqeggs said:

Only complete when you get the Canadian versions, too! 

Wow, the colors on that one are off the charts! 

[jpepx78]

Cover Girls: An Appreciation for Women on Comic Book Photo Covers

Part 4
Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (1932-2011) was born in London to wealthy, socially prominent American parents and moved Los Angeles in 1939. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of a handful of actors to continue to have a successful adult acting career and becoming one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. Her breakthrough role was in MGM’s National Velvet (1944) which made her one of the studio’s most popular teenaged stars. She appeared in more than 50 films and received Oscars for Butterfield 8 (1960) and Who’s Afraid of Virgina Woolf (1966). She was known for her beauty and violet eyes and was considered one of world’s most beautiful women. Her personal life was tabloid fodder due to an extravagant lifestyle, health problems and 8 marriages to 7 men.

Reading comics in bed in Hollywood

Eating an apple and reading the comics

Elizabeth at 25

Looking back with her violet eyes and in 1956

Elizabeth probably appeared on as many magazine covers as Marilyn Monroe.
Here she is on the cover of Picture Post magazine in 1954

Movieland magazine from July 1953. Why are they gossiping about Farley Granger?

This is Elizabeth’s son Christopher arriving in London to spend Christmas with her on Dec 17 1962.
He is reading a seldom seen comic Millie the Lovable Monster.

Here are all the cover appearances of Elizabeth:
Calling All Girls 40, Famous Stars 5, Film Star 2, Fawcett Movie Comic 20, Miss America 21, Sweet Sixteen 4 & Sweethearts 121

 

[jpepx78]

Cover Girls: An Appreciation for Women on Comic Book Photo Covers

Part 5
Jane Russell

Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell (1921-2011), one of Hollywood’s leading sex symbols in the 1940s and 1950s, moved from Minnesota to California and worked as a model, actress and singer. Jane was married three times and her first husband was the Hall of Fame quarterback for the Cleveland/Los Angeles Rams Bob Waterfield. Her first film role in 1941 was in The Outlaw produced by Howard Hughes. The controversial film was completed in 1941 but movie production code censorship over the way Jane’s cleavage was displayed caused the film to have a limited release in 1943 and the film did not have a general release until 1946.

Jane poses for The Outlaw movie poster drawn by Zoe Mozert, one of the most famous pinup artists.

The ad for The Outlaw that appeared in pulp magazines in 1943.

In 1946 Will Eisner spoofed The Outlaw’s promotional poster and the public’s preoccupation with Russell by creating a parody splash page showing Olga Bustle in a characteristic Russell pose in his Spirit strip. Briefer paid a homage to Eisner’s Olga Bustle in Frankenstein 15.

Jane on the cover of Tempo magazine in 1954.

Jane was paired with Marilyn Monroe in one of the most popular musicals Gentlemen Prefer Blondes in 1953.
Jane & Marilyn on the set of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

Jane appears in another film The French Line that was produced by Howard Hughes. The film was also controversial for its provocative song and dance number by Russell who wore a revealing one-piece outfit with cutouts. Hughes released the film without the Production Code Seal of Approval. The 1954 film was released in 3-D and Hughes used the the tagline “ J.R. in 3-D. It’ll knock both your eyes out!” as part of the ad campaign.

French Line movie poster

The infamous dance that was “totally condemned” in Union City New Jersey and probably banned in Boston too.

A biographical comic page for Jane.

Jane appeared on these comic covers: Famous Stars 4, Heart Throbs 9, Intimate Love 10 & Love Letters 17.

 

[Dr. Love]

6 hours ago, jpepx78 said:

Cover Girls: An Appreciation for Women on Comic Book Photo Covers

Part 4
Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (1932-2011) was born in London to wealthy, socially prominent American parents and moved Los Angeles in 1939. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of a handful of actors to continue to have a successful adult acting career and becoming one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. Her breakthrough role was in MGM’s National Velvet (1944) which made her one of the studio’s most popular teenaged stars. She appeared in more than 50 films and received Oscars for Butterfield 8 (1960) and Who’s Afraid of Virgina Woolf (1966). She was known for her beauty and violet eyes and was considered one of world’s most beautiful women. Her personal life was tabloid fodder due to an extravagant lifestyle, health problems and 8 marriages to 7 men.

Reading comics in bed in Hollywood

Eating an apple and reading the comics

Elizabeth at 25

Looking back with her violet eyes and in 1956

Elizabeth probably appeared on as many magazine covers as Marilyn Monroe.
Here she is on the cover of Picture Post magazine in 1954

Movieland magazine from July 1953. Why are they gossiping about Farley Granger?

This is Elizabeth’s son Christopher arriving in London to spend Christmas with her on Dec 17 1962.
He is reading a seldom seen comic Millie the Lovable Monster.

Here are all the cover appearances of Elizabeth:
Calling All Girls 40, Famous Stars 5, Film Star 2, Fawcett Movie Comic 20, Miss America 21, Sweet Sixteen 4 & Sweethearts 121

 

glad to see you added Liz

don't overlook the Taylor grail, and one of the rarest of all Atlas romance, as it also has two Everett stories

 

[Electricmastro]

Ingrid Bergman:

Barbara Stanwyck:

Rita Hayworth:

Ava Gardner:

Bonus: a painted cover of Lauren Bacall

Edited September 20, 2020 by Electricmastro