Sqeggs Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 4 hours ago, Inaflash said: Bought this pretty book at SDCC yesterday. Ken Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 Interesting cover on this one. sagii 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThothAmon Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 25 minutes ago, Sqeggs said: Interesting cover on this one. That East Ave Teens girl better watch it the Debs perfected the malachi crunch. Sqeggs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagii Posted July 21, 2017 Share Posted July 21, 2017 2 hours ago, Sqeggs said: Interesting cover on this one. This one is now on the want list! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted July 21, 2017 Share Posted July 21, 2017 Just now, sagii said: 2 hours ago, Sqeggs said: Interesting cover on this one. This one is now on the want list! I hope you can track one down. This is the only copy I've ever seen. GCD credits John Prentice with the cover. Aspects of it sure seem Kirbyish to me, although it's clearly not all by him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagii Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 ...When you're a Romance comic, but you really want to be a Crime comic... Sqeggs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fett Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 On 7/15/2017 at 2:44 PM, Sqeggs said: Indicating the weirdness of GA publishers attempting to hoodwink the post office, this series was a continuation of Zegra. Of course, both series did feature wild behavior. Great cover. I've never seen this one before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpknface Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 11 minutes ago, fett said: Great cover. I've never seen this one before. +1! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damonwad Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 I added this book to my want list after seeing Bo_Hogg's copy from the first post of this thread (back cover is purple). I got a copy a while ago but just noticed that Bo_Hogg's pics were wiped out by Photobucket. Hopefully they'll eventually get reposted because it would be a shame for the boards to lose a record of all the rare items he's posted through the years. sagii 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 41 minutes ago, damonwad said: I added this book to my want list after seeing Bo_Hogg's copy from the first post of this thread (back cover is purple). I got a copy a while ago but just noticed that Bo_Hogg's pics were wiped out by Photobucket. Hopefully they'll eventually get reposted because it would be a shame for the boards to lose a record of all the rare items he's posted through the years. Nice! Of course, St John eventually picked up this series form Ziff-Davis and Baker contributed covers to the last two issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damonwad Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 19 minutes ago, Sqeggs said: Nice! Of course, St John eventually picked up this series form Ziff-Davis and Baker contributed covers to the last two issues. Thanks for the info. I have a beat up #23 but didn't realize the St. John's were a continuation of the Ziff-Davis series. GCD shows a year gap between the end of the Z-D run and the St. John's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 9 minutes ago, damonwad said: Thanks for the info. I have a beat up #23 but didn't realize the St. John's were a continuation of the Ziff-Davis series. GCD shows a year gap between the end of the Z-D run and the St. John's. I assume that St John picked up the series because their run starts with issue 18 and Z-D's run ends with 17. Also, the "Romantic Marriage" banner at the top is the same on the StJ issues as it was on the Z-D issues. A lot of interesting covers among the issues from both publishers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 On 7/20/2017 at 5:16 PM, Sqeggs said: I hope you can track one down. This is the only copy I've ever seen. GCD credits John Prentice with the cover. Aspects of it sure seem Kirbyish to me, although it's clearly not all by him. Never seen this one. Love these '50's Juvinile Delinquent covers. Wertham must have loved them. sagii 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damonwad Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 1 hour ago, Sqeggs said: I assume that St John picked up the series because their run starts with issue 18 and Z-D's run ends with 17. Also, the "Romantic Marriage" banner at the top is the same on the StJ issues as it was on the Z-D issues. A lot of interesting covers among the issues from both publishers. I agree, some nice covers. Also, per GCD, I see that the St. John #23 and #24 reprint stories from the Z-D #15 and #16. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 11 hours ago, damonwad said: I agree, some nice covers. Also, per GCD, I see that the St. John #23 and #24 reprint stories from the Z-D #15 and #16. In the late going, St John seems to have kept the company going by slapping new covers (in many cases, some of Baker's best, imo) on reprinted material. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manetteska Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 GA noob here; wasn't sure where to post this so pre-apologies. Saw this while flipping through a box of early Romance. 1. Why the weird numbering for this title? 2. I definitely like the librarian painted cover, but is there any value to this one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacentaur Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 (cross-posted from the EC thread) Thanks to a fortuitous purchase at SDCC, I was finally able to complete this tough 3-issue mini-run in grade. Ricksneatstuff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 2 hours ago, manetteska said: GA noob here; wasn't sure where to post this so pre-apologies. Saw this while flipping through a box of early Romance. 1. Why the weird numbering for this title? 2. I definitely like the librarian painted cover, but is there any value to this one? Ziff-Davis started the series and then sold it to St John, who had two series (with different numbers). Yeah, it's a bit confusing! That copy is the second of the Ziff-Davis issues (maybe they were picking up the numbering from a different (discontinued) series or maybe they were trying to disguise from the postal authorities that they had started a new series). It has a Norman Saunders painted cover, which might attract some interest. But my impression is that a mid-grade copy like that one probably wouldn't sell for much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 25 minutes ago, sacentaur said: (cross-posted from the EC thread) Thanks to a fortuitous purchase at SDCC, I was finally able to complete this tough 3-issue mini-run in grade. Love EC romance. Such tough books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricksneatstuff Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 6 hours ago, sacentaur said: (cross-posted from the EC thread) Thanks to a fortuitous purchase at SDCC, I was finally able to complete this tough 3-issue mini-run in grade. Quite jealous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
