What are your Favorite top 10 GA Covers (That you Own)? 2 2

[Robot Man]

Thanks, at first I thought it might turn into an “ego fest” with everyone just trying to one up the next guy. But as it has progressed I can see the real love and passion we all have for this stuff. 

Nice to see the diversity. Just about every genre represented. High grade, low grade and everything in between. No one should feel their books don’t deserve to be here. 

Keep ‘em coming!

[circumstances]

1 hour ago, Robot Man said:

Stunning books and so refreshing to see them raw. A true collector and lover of the medium!

Thank you, sir!

[sagii]

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[circumstances]

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[143ksk]

My top ten have changed a lot in the past four years...

 

Edited September 8, 2019 by 143ksk
changed my mind...

[Ltpink2002]

[telerites]

@Ltpink2002 Great books!

[AJD]

What an act to follow...!

OK, back to the shallow end folks. It's hard to pick just 10, but here's my list today. Ask me tomorrow and I might have changed my mind.

I've selected on the basis of cover appeal to me, not best/biggest books.  In no particular order...

Honourable mentions (I couldn't leave out Barks and Kelly, though neither cracked the top 10):

[october]

1 hour ago, AJD said:

What an act to follow...!

OK, back to the shallow end folks. It's hard to pick just 10, but here's my list today. Ask me tomorrow and I might have changed my mind.

I've selected on the basis of cover appeal to me, not best/biggest books.  In no particular order...

 

 

 

 

 

Love this.

[circumstances]

On 9/8/2019 at 9:11 AM, circumstances said:

 

 

[SOTIcollector]

Can I join the party?

This has been so awesome seeing all these amazing books.  I tried to narrow it to a top 10, and the closest I could get was a top 11... then I left some of the runners-up alongside just because they fit in the photo.

The comic that was cited by Wertham more than any other as being dangerous to kids.  Off the top of my head, I believe it was cited in Saturday Review of Literature, Ladies' Home Journal, SOTI, the NY State Legislature hearings, the U.S. Senate hearings, and even an art gallery exhibition featuring the pernicious comics of the day.

GGA and iconic cover, pictured in the SOTI illustration section.

 

But as GGA goes, and as SOTI books go, it's hard to get more iconic than this Baker beauty.

As a fan of GA crime books, this one of course had to make the list.

GGA meets PCH.

It's so hard to pick a Baker romance cover, but I went with this one for its salaciousness, combined with that disturbing theme that occurs in some romance books of love=rape or romance=rape.

To this day, this is still one of the funniest comic book covers I have ever seen.  Maybe because the first dozen or so times I saw the cover, it made no impression on me at all.  Then one day I took a new look at it, and suddenly I got the joke.  I laughed out loud, and it still cracks me up that they got away with this cover.  

The ultimate injury-to-the-eye cover.  I keep this in an area of my collection that I call "Wertham Missed It."  Not cited in SOTI, but it sure seems like it should have been, given how much Wertham criticized the injury-to-the-eye theme.

And once again, iconic GGA pictured in SOTI. 

My current favorite of the rotting flesh/flesh melting away covers.

The book Gaines testified about in the US Senate.   Gaines tried to defend the material he was publishing, but it didn't go as he would have hoped.  Newspaper headlines decried the publisher who calls decapitation and a bloody axe "good taste." 

Senator Kefauver: Here is your May 22 issue. This seems to be a man with a bloody ax holding a woman's head up which has been severed from her body. Do you think that is in good taste?
Bill Gaines: Yes, sir; I do, for the cover of a horror comic. A cover in bad taste, for example, might be defined as holding the head a little higher so that the neck could be seen dripping blood from it and moving the body over a little further so that the neck of the body could be seen to be bloody.
Senator Kefauver: You have blood coming out of her mouth.  
Bill Gaines: A little.
Senator Kefauver: Here is blood on the ax. I think most adults are shocked by that.