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L.B. Cole cover thread! Post your favorites by the master!
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3 minutes ago, manetteska said:

This is definitively a Cole cover, then? I've always wondered about this one (and another I can't seem to find right now that appears to be credited to Disbrow).

Yep, it's one of Cole's.  Is the other one you are thinking of Spook #30?  That cover is a swipe of a Disbrow interior.  There's a pic of it in the golden age splash pages thread. 

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20 minutes ago, pmpknface said:
24 minutes ago, manetteska said:

This is definitively a Cole cover, then? I've always wondered about this one (and another I can't seem to find right now that appears to be credited to Disbrow).

Yep, it's one of Cole's.  Is the other one you are thinking of Spook #30?  That cover is a swipe of a Disbrow interior.  There's a pic of it in the golden age splash pages thread. 

Bingo - Spook 30 it is. So Cole did that cover but it's a swipe of Disbrow? If so, counts as cover or no?

Lastly, if you have any undercopies lying around...

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Just now, manetteska said:

Bingo - Spook 30 it is. So Cole did that cover but it's a swipe of Disbrow? If so, counts as cover or no?

Lastly, if you have any undercopies lying around...

No it's all Disbrow's art.  By swipe instead of copying it I meant they literally took a 2/3 splash panel and used it for the cover of Spook 30.  So it's one of the few Star Pub books Cole didn't do.  

I don't think I have any undercopies of any horror covers.  Maybe a few romances ones....

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18 hours ago, pmpknface said:
18 hours ago, manetteska said:

This is definitively a Cole cover, then? I've always wondered about this one (and another I can't seem to find right now that appears to be credited to Disbrow).

Yep, it's one of Cole's.  Is the other one you are thinking of Spook #30?  That cover is a swipe of a Disbrow interior.  There's a pic of it in the golden age splash pages thread. 

I was able to look more closely at the Horrors cover at home and now see Cole's signature on the left-hand side. (thumbsu

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According to Overstreet, all of "The Horrors" books have L.B. Cole covers.  Here's one of mine;  his signature is just above and to the left of the word, "Terror" near the bottom.

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23 hours ago, manetteska said:
On 11/28/2018 at 10:33 PM, lbcolefan said:

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This is definitively a Cole cover, then? I've always wondered about this one (and another I can't seem to find right now that appears to be credited to Disbrow).

According to CGC, it's apparently not a Cole cover but a Colecover. 

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Just now, Dr. Love said:

One of these things is not like the others!

and have always long admired it.  So nice to see you post it again!  :applause:

I’m not sure if you can see it in the picture but the Flaming Western 3 is dated March/April 1950 and the Flaming Romances 4 is dated May/June.

I wonder why they never published it.

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23 hours ago, lbcolefan said:

I’m not sure if you can see it in the picture but the Flaming Western 3 is dated March/April 1950 and the Flaming Romances 4 is dated May/June.

I wonder why they never published it.

Well, they did use the cover....  just under another title.  And it's contents too, as the stories are the same:

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