Ogden Whitney’s Blues for a Songbird, Romantic Adventures at Auction

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Ogden Whitney’s art work plus the thriller of the TrueVision 3D course of, all wrapped up in a quite unusual Fifties ACG romance comedian e-book.

Romantic Adventures #48 is a e-book of its time, that’s for positive. Every gimmick within the e-book was used right here to promote this one: a singing cowl, black borders, and even 3D! Really all they wanted was to let individuals know that Ogden Whitney was accountable for the quilt. That ought to have been sufficient to get individuals to purchase it again then. Really although, the query wanting at the quilt has bought to be, what precisely is Truevision 3D? It says proper there that there isn’t any glasses, so how precisely did they pull that one off?

Essentially, the artwork is separated into three planes: a foreground airplane coloured with the four-color technique of that period and true blacks typically drawn to interrupt out of the panel borders, a midground that has much less use of colour and delicate black or grey line artwork, and a background that’s typically simply grey line artwork.  The non-black line artwork enhances the phantasm as a result of it has a perceptible line display impact because of the coarser line display of that period.  The whole web page border is pure black to the trim, quite than white as standard.  It’s a mildly attention-grabbing impact, although in fact it would not move for 3D and is nothing just like the Anaglyph 3D impact that makes use of pink and blue glasses.  Nevertheless, the ACG comics of this era are an attention-grabbing artifact of the 3D increase of the Fifties and there is a good copy of Romantic Adventures #48 up for public sale within the  2024 February 29 – March 1 Golden Age Romance Featuring Fox Comics & Comic Art Showcase Auction #40258.

What Kind Of Romantic Adventures Need To Be In 3D Anyway?

Romantic Adventures #48 (ACG, 1954) CGC FN 6.0 Off-white to white pages. 3-D impact “Truevision” tales. Ogden Whitney cowl. Ken Landau and Bob Forgione artwork. This is the highest-graded of the 4 copies at the moment on CGC’s census, and the e-book has offered for virtually 10 instances its information worth over the previous two years. This is the nicer of the 2 copies we have encountered to this point. Overstreet 2023 FN 6.0 worth = $48. CGC census 1/24: 1 in 6.0, none larger.

Man, it’s nuts that there are solely 4 graded copies on the CGC census. To get the highest-graded copy is fairly epic as properly.  Whitney’s artwork is all the time telling a story and attracts your eyes in.

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