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Golden Gurl

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    Fiction house anyone?

    in Golden Age Comic Books

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    Love the colors on this one! Sorry about the purple lines... time to get a new camera

     

    Beautiful bright colors, awesome

     

    Thank you! Once I figure out how to scan you will see how beautiful the colors are. I am a pretty strict grader and I give this a 6.5/7.0 (could even get a higher grade if I CGC it) so it is higher grade with beautiful colors... I paid a higher price for this for that reason but figured it would go up in value since higher grade fiction house with really good colors are super hard to come by.

    Femmes fatales and women in peril - covers and splash pages

    in Golden Age Comic Books

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    This is really creepy - sorry for the small scan

     

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    wow! that is creepy... and yet I want a copy :o

     

    Freudian slip

     

    Either that or I am a little perverse... completely possible since I love torture/bondange...

    Hmmm, this is really not going well for me :insane:

     

    Oh I don't know

    That is one weird funnybook cover.

     

    Many of the people I work with are childhood survivors of emotional and physical abuse, which may be why I find this cover so compelling. To me, this is a real horror cover. But it's all in the sub-text, and -probably?- unknowing.

     

    Whereas the sub-text of virtually all PCH is a wink "this is all just a story". Hence, the more Grand Guignol, the more cathartic.

     

    Or in the case of bondage covers, they are about anything but Kraft Ebbing. They are about the critical moment of rescue. And the damsel is always innocent, and therefore deserves to be rescued.

     

    It is in the rare instances where the damsel has no visible means of rescue that they are more disturbing - cf Underworld Crime #7.

     

    Whereas powerful women tend to be depicted as evil/and or manipulative, which is pure Cinema Noir.

     

    Or if good, then like Phantom Lady shining a light while scantily clad into evil men's darkness.

     

    It may or may not be a coincidence that the same tropes seem to emerge in so-called Men's Sweat magazines after Wertham and the demise of the pulps. I haven't done my research, and don't know enough to be sure.

     

    I do wonder about the influence of the war on the artists who returned.

     

    In real life I am a mental health therapist... so I like covers which depict mental health in some way (hence the Boy #24). I am not sure whether I would call this abuse or just very very strange as the child is getting spanked (not beaten) by an adult size play toy... My feeling is that we read more into the covers than was ever intended. But I could be wrong... hm

    Fiction house anyone?

    in Golden Age Comic Books

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    Just back from CGC. Best coloring I've ever seen on a #88, which is in my top 3 favorite Wings Comics covers. I love the color of the sky in the background.

    First pic is from iPhone (I don't have a scanner).

    Second pic from a scan from the person I bought it from pre CGC.

     

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    Oh Wow! One of my FAVORITE books! The colors on this copy are amazing!!! (worship)