CARSTAIRS_BAGLEY,_Jr.
05-29-2007, 01:35 PM
21 Auctions of 100 DC/Vertigo comics - Mostly "Big-Name" titles such as Hellblazer, Sandman, etc.
(I love Glen Orbik covers. Howard Chaykin's "American Century" is a great read.)
80 Auctions of 116 Golden & Silver Age War comics - My Memorial Day Sale
(Charlton has some very cool Air Force covers.)
47 Auctions - 217 Silver & Bronze Age Love & Romance comics served up for your
. . . entertainment(?) . . . ridicule(??) . . . both(???)
On Thursday, (ebay's 20 cent listing day) I cranked out . . . no . . .
I composed, 47 auctions in time. Totaling up over 217 romance comics.
Heaping mounds of delicious SA & BA Charlton romance
have been served up for your . . . entertainment? Ridicule?
Usually I flip through each one looking for particularly
weird or oddball stories and panels. Not this time.
You'd be surprised at the amount of coverage Vietnam gets
in these books. Not to mention the groovy biker gangs,
drug-addled hippies and other lounge lizard/swinger-types.
And then there's those "mean girls". I call 'em "back-stabbin' b!tches".
Sometime it's a friend. More often it's the sister.
Once in a while, even Mom tries to steal the boyfriend.
Anyway, just read what Doup Sulipa had to say,
re: love & romance comics, in the new Overstreet #37:
"There are 5 main reasons people collect romance comics:
1) For the GGA (Good Girl Art),
and in many cases the bad GGA (poorly drawn);
2) scarcity due to low print runs.
Survival rates are even lower than most genres,
as most were saved by the non-collecting general public;
3) because they were held by non-collectors, they are
usually only found in lower grades. So many like to try to
find high grade copies of items that are rare in high grade;
4) for the great art. Almost every big name from the 1950 –
1980 era did a few love comics, including Frazetta, Wood,
Crandall, Matt Baker, Williamson, Neal Adams, Steranko,
Kirby, Buscema, Colan, Romita and many others;
5) and because many fans are completionists of publishers
(especially Marvel and DC), or of Age
(Especially Bronze or Silver Age)."
He didn't mention my reason, so here it is:
6) The over-the-top looniness of the stories.
They are soap operas on steriods and a couple of jagged little oxycotins
washed down with a few stiff highballs.
The people populating these stories seem not from another decade,
but from another planet.
(They aren't like Julius Schwartz's particular brand of insanity, though.)
Scott Shaw knows what I'm talking about.
So do those jerks over at Superdickery.
Check out the Guides to Romance Comic Collecting I have posted
on my "About Me" page on ebay.
.98 opening bids on ebay
ebay seller - luxxxuriousness[/size]
CLICK HERE, PLEASE (http://search-desc.ebay.com/search/search.dll?sofocus=bs&sbrftog=1&catref=C6&from=R10&_trksid=m37&satitle=love+france+norway+%22go+figure%22&sacat=63%26catref%3DC6&fts=2&sargn=-1%26saslc%3D2&sadis=200&fpos=ZIP%2FPostal&ftrt=1&ftrv=1&saprclo=&saprchi=&fsop=1%26fsoo%3D1&coaction=compare&copagenum=1&coentrypage=search)
(I love Glen Orbik covers. Howard Chaykin's "American Century" is a great read.)
80 Auctions of 116 Golden & Silver Age War comics - My Memorial Day Sale
(Charlton has some very cool Air Force covers.)
47 Auctions - 217 Silver & Bronze Age Love & Romance comics served up for your
. . . entertainment(?) . . . ridicule(??) . . . both(???)
On Thursday, (ebay's 20 cent listing day) I cranked out . . . no . . .
I composed, 47 auctions in time. Totaling up over 217 romance comics.
Heaping mounds of delicious SA & BA Charlton romance
have been served up for your . . . entertainment? Ridicule?
Usually I flip through each one looking for particularly
weird or oddball stories and panels. Not this time.
You'd be surprised at the amount of coverage Vietnam gets
in these books. Not to mention the groovy biker gangs,
drug-addled hippies and other lounge lizard/swinger-types.
And then there's those "mean girls". I call 'em "back-stabbin' b!tches".
Sometime it's a friend. More often it's the sister.
Once in a while, even Mom tries to steal the boyfriend.
Anyway, just read what Doup Sulipa had to say,
re: love & romance comics, in the new Overstreet #37:
"There are 5 main reasons people collect romance comics:
1) For the GGA (Good Girl Art),
and in many cases the bad GGA (poorly drawn);
2) scarcity due to low print runs.
Survival rates are even lower than most genres,
as most were saved by the non-collecting general public;
3) because they were held by non-collectors, they are
usually only found in lower grades. So many like to try to
find high grade copies of items that are rare in high grade;
4) for the great art. Almost every big name from the 1950 –
1980 era did a few love comics, including Frazetta, Wood,
Crandall, Matt Baker, Williamson, Neal Adams, Steranko,
Kirby, Buscema, Colan, Romita and many others;
5) and because many fans are completionists of publishers
(especially Marvel and DC), or of Age
(Especially Bronze or Silver Age)."
He didn't mention my reason, so here it is:
6) The over-the-top looniness of the stories.
They are soap operas on steriods and a couple of jagged little oxycotins
washed down with a few stiff highballs.
The people populating these stories seem not from another decade,
but from another planet.
(They aren't like Julius Schwartz's particular brand of insanity, though.)
Scott Shaw knows what I'm talking about.
So do those jerks over at Superdickery.
Check out the Guides to Romance Comic Collecting I have posted
on my "About Me" page on ebay.
.98 opening bids on ebay
ebay seller - luxxxuriousness[/size]
CLICK HERE, PLEASE (http://search-desc.ebay.com/search/search.dll?sofocus=bs&sbrftog=1&catref=C6&from=R10&_trksid=m37&satitle=love+france+norway+%22go+figure%22&sacat=63%26catref%3DC6&fts=2&sargn=-1%26saslc%3D2&sadis=200&fpos=ZIP%2FPostal&ftrt=1&ftrv=1&saprclo=&saprchi=&fsop=1%26fsoo%3D1&coaction=compare&copagenum=1&coentrypage=search)