Let's be "Realistic" Avons Rock! 4 4

[Robot Man]

On 5/19/2023 at 1:15 PM, EdMann2 said:

...and I was the one you outbid on both of those, dang it!   Congrats - glad they went to a good home (besides mine)!

Sorry Ed but I really like these. Good to see there are at least a couple of us that appreciate Cary’s work…

If he didn’t already have them, I have no doubt that YellowKid would have out bid me if he were still here. He had one of the best collections of Harrison Cady books and toys on the planet. Just world clsss and museum quality stuff. 

[Robot Man]

On 5/19/2023 at 6:37 PM, Sarg said:

I guess the fantasy is that women will look and dress like this in the future?

Be careful, you are talking about some ones great, great, great grandaughter…

[MattTheDuck]

On 5/19/2023 at 6:37 PM, Sarg said:

I guess the fantasy is that women will look and dress like this in the future?

I've found that, sometimes, if you buy 'em dinner and ask real nicely, they'll dress like that now.

[Robot Man]

Picked up today. Who says Westerns are dead?

Awesome Kintsler GGA cover.

[Hap Hazard]

Recent pickup: 

Realistic Romances  # 3

[Robot Man]

On 9/13/2023 at 9:05 AM, Hap Hazard said:

Recent pickup: 

Realistic Romances  # 3

Cool, I’d pick her, I mean that up…

[LadyDeath]

My lone Avon.

[Darwination]

On 9/12/2023 at 6:57 PM, Robot Man said:

Picked up today. Who says Westerns are dead?

Awesome Kintsler GGA cover.

I'm crazy about Avons. Great westerns for sure.  It seems like a lot of the Avon westerns in particular survive in nice shape compared to, say, romance or crime.

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But my favorite part about Avons?  The inner front cover "contents" illustration -

 

[Robot Man]

On 9/15/2023 at 8:12 PM, Darwination said:

I'm crazy about Avons. Great westerns for sure.  It seems like a lot of the Avon westerns in particular survive in nice shape compared to, say, romance or crime.

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But my favorite part about Avons?  The inner front cover "contents" illustration -

 

Indeed. The inside covers have some spectacular art. I like they are only one color not “muddled” up by color.

[Darwination]

A couple of pages from the latter, from Louis Zansky's "Two Wayward Girls!"

[damonwad]

A few I don't think have been posted here yet. A couple more inside front covers too.

 

[damonwad]

Some Avon pb's.

 

[Darwination]

On 9/19/2023 at 5:17 PM, damonwad said:

A few I don't think have been posted here yet. A couple more inside front covers too.

 

 

 

Love the Daniel Boone inner cover, love it.

[Surfing Alien]

On 9/13/2023 at 12:05 PM, Hap Hazard said:

Recent pickup: 

Realistic Romances  # 3

 

This cover was a re-use from paperback "No Bed Of Her Own" by Val Lewton, Novel Library #39, which is a very scarce number published in 1950. The Novel Library line was a slightly sleazier line published by Avon under their Diversey Books imprint.

 

[Darwination]

Tex Blaisdell inner front cover and lead story.  Avon has the best gun molls.  Watch out boys, these broads are taking over

https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/h9a74l31q4wm3he/Prison_Break_03_(1952-04.Realistic)(Darwin-DREGS).cbr/file

https://archive.org/details/prison-break-03-1952-04.-realistic-darwin-dregs-ia

 

 

 

 

Edited September 20, 2023 by Darwination

[Surfing Alien]

On 9/20/2023 at 3:16 AM, Darwination said:

Tex Blaisdell inner front cover and lead story.  Avon has the best gun molls.  Watch out boys, these broads are taking over

https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/h9a74l31q4wm3he/Prison_Break_03_(1952-04.Realistic)(Darwin-DREGS).cbr/file

https://archive.org/details/prison-break-03-1952-04.-realistic-darwin-dregs-ia

 

 

 

 

Avon No. 179 1948  The cover artist remains uncredited but it's a very distinctive look and he definitely did several others for Avon in the "Ann Cantor" credit period.

Call me biased, but in virtually every example, the paperback cover is superior in color strike, gloss, and of course, use of the painter's full intended composition.

That said, as a pre-teen, I well remember thumbing through my older brother's golden age crime comics and drooling over the wicked interiors The Avons were always particularly "interesting" to a boy

 

 

[Darwination]

On 9/20/2023 at 6:39 AM, Surfing Alien said:

Avon No. 179 1948  The cover artist remains uncredited but it's a very distinctive look and he definitely did several others for Avon in the "Ann Cantor" credit period.

Call me biased, but in virtually every example, the paperback cover is superior in color strike, gloss, and of course, use of the painter's full intended composition.

That said, as a pre-teen, I well remember thumbing through my older brother's golden age crime comics and drooling over the wicked interiors The Avons were always particularly "interesting" to a boy

 

 

Cheers, Alien.  I didn't post a reference to the paperback since I thought you might chime in, though I hoped you'd have the ID  

I know how that goes.  Sometimes just being able to identify artist's style and the grouping of covers is all we get.

I agree about the superiority of the paperbacks in terms of the presentation of the original cover paintings, even if I vastly prefer a pen and ink cover to one of the paperback jobbers when it comes to my Avon comics.

Reform School Girl remains one of the unscanned grails for us comic scanners, mostly because of the rarity and price tag.  Which must be so high for the iconic JD and sleaze aspect as much as anything.

Not my copy (because it wouldn't be in a damn box if it was, I like to play with my toys, and sorry if I offend by teasing on this point, considering where I am  )

The colors on the PB are so much better on this one, you can see even on this copy jim linked on the pb thread (4.5?! Don't know how paperbacks are graded but I don't know how VG happens with large rust/moisture spots coming through at the staples).  On the other hand, who would expect such a lass to stay all shiny, a little beat down and weathered seems appropriate

 

Edited September 20, 2023 by Darwination

[Robot Man]

On 9/20/2023 at 4:39 AM, Surfing Alien said:

Avon No. 179 1948  The cover artist remains uncredited but it's a very distinctive look and he definitely did several others for Avon in the "Ann Cantor" credit period.

Call me biased, but in virtually every example, the paperback cover is superior in color strike, gloss, and of course, use of the painter's full intended composition.

That said, as a pre-teen, I well remember thumbing through my older brother's golden age crime comics and drooling over the wicked interiors The Avons were always particularly "interesting" to a boy

 

 

As a pre teen, I would go visit my grandparents in the summer. My grandpa was a voracious reader of mystery paperbacks. I would sleep in his study where he kept his books. He had tons of them. I remember looking at the covers and got weird sensations…

I sure wish I had his “collection” now!

 

[Surfing Alien]

On 9/20/2023 at 9:54 AM, Darwination said:

Cheers, Alien.  I didn't post a reference to the paperback since I thought you might chime in, though I hoped you'd have the ID  

I know how that goes.  Sometimes just being able to identify artist's style and the grouping of covers is all we get.

I agree about the superiority of the paperbacks in terms of the presentation of the original cover paintings, even if I vastly prefer a pen and ink cover to one of the paperback jobbers when it comes to my Avon comics.

Reform School Girl remains one of the unscanned grails for us comic scanners, mostly because of the rarity and price tag.  Which must be so high for the iconic JD and sleaze aspect as much as anything.

Not my copy (because it wouldn't be in a damn box if it was, I like to play with my toys, and sorry if I offend by teasing on this point, considering where I am  )

The colors on the PB are so much better on this one, you can see even on this copy jim linked on the pb thread (4.5?! Don't know how paperbacks are graded but I don't know how VG happens with large rust/moisture spots coming through at the staples).  On the other hand, who would expect such a lass to stay all shiny, a little beat down and weathered seems appropriate

 

Here's a better looking copy

[Darwination]

On 9/20/2023 at 2:00 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Here's a better looking copy