L.B. Cole cover thread! Post your favorites by the master! 40 40

[adamstrange]

On 4/9/2024 at 9:05 PM, adamstrange said:

There was a discussion of Cole Romance cover popularity as a result of the recent Heritage sale of True to Life Romance 11.

I will set up a poll for that, with the following approach:

Pick your 10 favorites out of all 83 Cole Romance covers.

Deadline Midnight Sunday

I have scans ready for all the covers to make it easy to participate.

Thoughts?

I ran into a problem with the approach because the Board poll function only allows 20 items in a poll.

So this will take a couple rounds to get to the final poll.

[adamstrange]

First two polls are up.  I'll do the next two tomorrow.

I did attempt to split up the better covers amidst each of the poll groups.  The top 5 from each group will move into Round 2 where will crown the winner.

I eliminated 3 comics from the list because of the limit to only 20 books in each poll.  I chose these for having the least amount of LB Cole art

[pmpknface]

On 4/10/2024 at 8:54 PM, adamstrange said:

First two polls are up.  I'll do the next two tomorrow.

I did attempt to split up the better covers amidst each of the poll groups.  The top 5 from each group will move into Round 2 where will crown the winner.

I eliminated 3 comics from the list because of the limit to only 20 books in each poll.  I chose these for having the least amount of LB Cole art

#3 should be there, but it wouldn't win anyhow. 

Thanks a TON for doing this!!!

[Point Five]

I think most of my favorites are in the Popular Teen-Agers run still to come.    That said, it's interesting how some covers I've long overlooked catch my eye in this new context.

Fun stuff. As Jaime said, thanks for doing!

 

[Darwination]

On 4/10/2024 at 7:54 PM, adamstrange said:

First two polls are up.  I'll do the next two tomorrow.

I did attempt to split up the better covers amidst each of the poll groups.  The top 5 from each group will move into Round 2 where will crown the winner.

I eliminated 3 comics from the list because of the limit to only 20 books in each poll.  I chose these for having the least amount of LB Cole art

Heh, I do like the snark in the third but doubt it's making any top 10s.  Cool design on all three, but the #1 is my fave.

[Darwination]

I imagine people have been seeing these as they've been going up at eBay:

Maybe a kind of neat accompaniment to a nice Cole. Stories from Ken Fitch, lots of Star scripts, I've seen some Avons as well as some pulp and maybe true story/confession scripts.  Neat artifacts of the biz.

[Professor K]

4,3,2,1 Finally got it. It came all the way from Belgium.

[Ryan.]

Cole books ending strong in the Mycomicshop Prime auction:

4Most Vol. 8 (1949) Four Most 5 VG+ 4.5 (mycomicshop.com)

Power Comics (1944 Holyoke) 1 CGC 2.5 (mycomicshop.com)

Holiday Comics (1951 Star) 5 VG 4.0 (mycomicshop.com)

Spook (1954) 28 CGC 4.0 (mycomicshop.com)

 

[pmpknface]

On 4/16/2024 at 9:12 AM, Ryan. said:

Cole books ending strong in the Mycomicshop Prime auction:

4Most Vol. 8 (1949) Four Most 5 VG+ 4.5 (mycomicshop.com)

Power Comics (1944 Holyoke) 1 CGC 2.5 (mycomicshop.com)

Holiday Comics (1951 Star) 5 VG 4.0 (mycomicshop.com)

Spook (1954) 28 CGC 4.0 (mycomicshop.com)

 

Power 2 @ $610 not bad for a 2.5.

Spook 26 @ $562 sounds about right.

Holiday 5 @ $455 is pretty darn good for an ungraded 4.0!  I was happy to see that!

4Most v8#5 - $810!!!  Holy shnikies!  I did NOT see that coming!  Ungraded, pretty well creased up TRC, and an often overlooked adventure title.  The only think I can think of is that there's only 1 on the census in 4.0.  It's a great cover, but that's one heck of a result!  I didn't have my 4Most issues pegged to be in my next submission, but I may have to rethink that...  

[Ryan.]

On 4/16/2024 at 9:48 AM, pmpknface said:

4Most v8#5 - $810!!!  Holy shnikies!

That one baffled me. I guess two bidders really wanted that book.

[adamstrange]

On 4/16/2024 at 9:48 AM, pmpknface said:

The only think I can think of is that there's only 1 on the census in 4.0. 

On 4/16/2024 at 9:48 AM, pmpknface said:

It's a great cover

LB Cole is sought after so I don't think any more explanation is needed.

[Robot Man]

On 4/16/2024 at 6:48 AM, pmpknface said:

Power 2 @ $610 not bad for a 2.5.

Spook 26 @ $562 sounds about right.

Holiday 5 @ $455 is pretty darn good for an ungraded 4.0!  I was happy to see that!

4Most v8#5 - $810!!!  Holy shnikies!  I did NOT see that coming!  Ungraded, pretty well creased up TRC, and an often overlooked adventure title.  The only think I can think of is that there's only 1 on the census in 4.0.  It's a great cover, but that's one heck of a result!  I didn't have my 4Most issues pegged to be in my next submission, but I may have to rethink that...  

Holiday 5 is a Cole masterpiece! Glad to see it getting the love it deserves!