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Anyone ever see signatures in comics by any of these artists: Matt Fox Robert Webb Pat Boyette Carl Burgos Bill Everett Bernie Krigstein A.C. Hollingsworth

This was a fun thread and I thought it deserved to be resurrected. Any more unusual ones to add?

Did he pencil and ink Atlas stories or only ink Larry Leiber?

I don't think that Bill Everett peaked in the 1950s... I actually think he improved in the 1970s and did the best work of his career on Sub-Mariner.

Is this yours? Holy !@#$... Awesome.

Fantastic! Thanks... I'll check this out.

Did Fox do a lot of pre-code interiors? His style seems to be an obvious fit for weird monster and sci-fi interior stories, but I don't recall seeing much from him.

Me too... I love this Marvel work that he did. I found a page with some detailed information and a bibliography. I wonder if Larry Lieber did all those weird alien heads just for Fox. https://whosoutthere.ca/2020/04/03/odd-pairings-lieber-fox/

Instead of "right copy", I should have said "affordable copy". I would have been happy with a G or VG- copy of Beware 10 at the time.

The inking that he did for interiors on guys like Larry Lieber at the tail end of his career is so stylized and weird that it's hard to make out the artist underneath.

Right... some really weird and overlooked stuff. I love the art on those books.

All Famous Police Cases #11 is a favorite Cole of mine. I love his attempts to do sequential storytelling on the cover, as in the case of Thrilling Crime #49.

I always loved this cover. Note, the text piece inside the book tells the story of the cover.

I agree with you... the cover would have been better off not having the cartoony Chin Chop. He does drag it down. "buck toothed sore thumb" LOL!!

Japanese insert posters for three Female Convict Scorpion films (1972-1974) starring Kaji Meiko with one from Lady Snowblood.

How is it that no one has made Rice Honeys since? Seems like an obvious win.

Very nice! Cole could really draw aircraft.

So where is Golden's "Patience is a Virue" today? I think of that every time I see his name or work. One of my favorite Boards threads ever!

I agree with having a plan of attack. I like to start with looking for particular books and then back off and look for second tier stuff if I can't find any top priorities. Good deals can be had on the last day of a show. More advice: Research prices on books you are looking for in advance. Don't leave your bags laying around. Thieves abound. Bring something firm to put books in... .an LP mailer, etc. Count pages in books. Don't overpay just because it's in front of you. Spend time looking through bins looking at books to learn about new things you didn't know existed. For instance, flip through genre sections.

I also received a copy as a contributor. It's a fantastic book! Fans need to grab it before the prices get insane. I agree that Catman 28 seemed to be scarcer around 10-15 years ago, but you're right, more copies have surfaced. I really like both covers, and I'm not knocking the Catman 28... having wanted one for a long time after first seeing it in Gerber and the CBG auctions of the 90s (I have to make a thread about those). I just prefer the Power 3.

Let's put it this way... our household would have a reason to be sensitive to these portrayals, and I still think Power 3 is the better cover! I don't like the cluttered composition of Catman 28. Strange to have Kitten facing away from the viewer and blending into the chair that is the same color. I never understood what was behind the skull, a treasure chest? Eliminating that and the chair would have made this cover better.

That's similar to my take. Like you, I prefer the face on Power over the one on Catman. The Catman cover isn't as readable. It's kind of a cluttered composition.The candle's great... similar to Mask 1, but the color palette and inking style on Power 3 looks more like Mask 1 and 2, Contact 12, and Captain Flight 11. Power 3 just pops out at you... and nothing beats Cole's black covers.

Thank you very much, @Hap Hazard! I've owned this book for a long time and bought from a reputable dealer. The reason that I wasn't sure about the back cover is that he was originally selling the book to me with the front cover only. He then located the back cover before shipping the book to me. It matches very well where it is separated at the spine and definitely looked like a match, but I wanted to make sure. Much appreciated!

I just want to mention that if any serious fans of L.B. Cole here do not have the book BLACK LIGHT: THE WORLD OF L.B. COLE by Bill Schelly, you have to get it. The printing quality of this book is spectacular. It's a wealth of information about Cole and his career.

Man, that is a huge price. I realize this is a relatively high grade, but a copy sold in 6.0 on HA in 2021 for 10K. When I was actively seeking out Cole books, this was one that I wanted, but I never crossed paths with one for the right price. Maybe I just didn't want it as badly as some of the other covers... in particular his black covers with what he termed "poster colors". I just don't think the Catman covers are his top covers. I'm really surprised by that Comiclink price. A book with a similar composition, but in my opinion, a better cover, is Power Comics 3. This book matches nicely with Captain Flight 11, Contact 12, and Mask 1 and 2. Give me this any day over Catman 28.