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[Electricmastro]

6 hours ago, Yorick said:

I like to look at those gams!!!  Look at your edited face-set of eight.  All the eyes and lips are his "style" as well.

When we're dealing with other hands on the artwork, it is the proportions of the figures that give me something to work with in identifying underlying Baker pencils.

I also think it's different for different artists.  If you see a hallmark with the ears, great!

Baker very much drew mouths, at least on the women, as a rounded square with no teeth lines, and doesn’t heavily shade hair if it’s long and wavy. He also draws noses as two dots, unless they’re looked at from certain angles.

This all in mind, and just having looked at Jerry Bails’ Who’s Who which now makes it known to me that Baker did indeed draw covers for Fiction House from around 1947-1951, I’m willing to suggest that Baker at least drew Sheena’s face on these Jumbo covers I’ve just looked at for starters:

Edited November 11, 2020 by Electricmastro

[Yorick]

16 hours ago, Electricmastro said:

I’m willing to suggest that Baker at least drew Sheena’s face on these Jumbo covers I’ve just looked at for starters:

 

 

106 is an interesting example as you have another woman's face on the cover bottom center.  The two look nothing alike to my eyes.  Only Sheena gets a Baker face??

Another problem is that these might just be swiped faces rather than Baker actually doing the pencil work.  If I was Doolin, I'd probably swipe Baker too. 

[Yorick]

[Yorick]

Here's another Baker box (but not nearly as fun to look at as the certified box with labels). 

[sagii]

14 hours ago, szav said:

Courtesy of a boardie...not as hard to find in decent shape as it seemed a few years ago, the price run up on this has really flushed some nice copies out.  It wasn't 2 or 3 years ago that I found and hoarded I think 6 copies of this in the VG range all for between 25-100$...fast forward a few flips later and those all have essentially paid for this now.  Happy days.

Your list of keepers is becoming more and more stellar (if that's possible).

Congrats! A stunner for sure 

[Chief1332]

16 hours ago, Yorick said:

Here's another Baker box (but not nearly as fun to look at as the certified box with labels). 

That large square bound book towards the center.. could we see that one?

 

[Yorick]

3 hours ago, Chief1332 said:

That large square bound book towards the center.. could we see that one?

 

You mean the two I've put face-to-face (in an attempt to keep the spines from getting smushed - I think I may be causing some spine roll now)?  Yeah, I can get those out.  Two Giant Editions romance covers.  Not sure what the other large ones before and after are...  Probably a Pictorial Romance giant for one.  Those books on the right (the front of the box) are the large format early issues of TAR.  They take the whole box dimension, and this is a slab-book sized box.

I did take a photo of the last few in the back...  some partial Baker covers.  People seem to like those.

[Joshua33]

My newest Baker 

[Yorick]

6 hours ago, Chief1332 said:

That large square bound book towards the center

These Giant Editions are four books rebound, but the 100 pagers are only three.

[Chief1332]

lol... boxes of Baker's.  And I've purchased my third M Baker book.

 

[MB1952]

4 hours ago, Yorick said:

These Giant Editions are four books rebound, but the 100 pagers are only three.

 

Edited November 15, 2020 by MB1952

[MB1952]

Yorick GCE#15 my old copy. 
CGC 4.5 coming up on HA. 

Edited November 15, 2020 by MB1952

[Point Five]

[comicnoir]

Everybody needs one of those.

[manetteska]

I like how they just slapped "TEN CENTS" in the middle of the boat; no numbers, not in-line with the title or issue. 

Just: TEN CENTS.

[Point Five]

3 hours ago, manetteska said:

I like how they just slapped "TEN CENTS" in the middle of the boat; no numbers, not in-line with the title or issue. 

Just: TEN CENTS.

That is a bit funky, right? I wonder what the thinking was.
 

[Sqeggs]

On 5/30/2020 at 3:09 PM, sagii said:

'Art of Glamour' citation included ( added strictly for my good buddy @Yorick  )

Sure looks more Colletta than Baker, but Colletta was known to ink the heck of other artists' pencils.

[Sqeggs]

23 hours ago, Point Five said:

Maybe my favorite among the Baker St John horror covers (of course, there aren't that many!).

[Sqeggs]

On 11/11/2020 at 3:14 PM, Yorick said:

A hoarder, eh? 

[Sqeggs]

Couldn't resist this one after the seller approached me with one of those "Make an offer to a watcher" offers.