L.B. Cole Covers 1952's Popular Teen-Agers #11, up for Auction

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L.B. Cole, was a comic book ebook artist, editor, and writer, recognized for his covers that emphasised main colors over black backgrounds.

Leonard Brandt Cole, or L.B. Cole, was a comic book ebook artist, editor, and writer, recognized for his covers that emphasised main colors over black backgrounds. Creating comics and covers for quite a lot of publishers within the thirties and forties, he additionally labored as an editor for Holyoke. This noticed him discovered Great Comics, his personal comedian ebook studio, packaging work for quite a lot of publishers, together with Ace Magazines, Aviation Press, Chesler Publications, Farrell Publications, Fawcett Comics, Holyoke Publishing, Magazine Enterprises, Spotlight Comics, Novelty Press, Orbit Publications, and Rural Home Publishing.

In 1949, this modified when the writer Novelty Press offered its current characters and paintings to Cole, who had drawn covers for their Blue Bolt Comics sequence, and noticed L.B. Cole start to publish comedian himself as, Star Publications, which ran from 1949 to 1955. Founded with lawyer Gerhard Kramer, Star revealed many horror comics, crime, and romance comics in its time, and Cole created lots of its covers. Including the sequence Popular Teen-Agers which ran for 19 points. One of which is up for public sale from Heritage Auctions, Popular Teen-Agers #11, CGC rated at 5.0, and a comic book that Heritage states they not often see up for public sale. With three uncredited tales, My Dream Lover, The Key to My Heart and My Secret, with a canopy within the basic “romantic clinch” vogue.

Star’s closure in 1952 noticed LB Cole work for Classics Illustrated and as artwork director and editor at Dell Comics. Recognition later in life, particularly for his covers, noticed him recreate a few of his basic covers, featured on the duvet of the eleventh version of the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide. He died of a coronary heart assault in 1995, and was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1999.

Popular Teen-Agers #11 (Star Publications, 1952) CGC VG/FN 5.0 White pages. L. B. Cole cowl artwork. A ebook we very seldom see. Overstreet 2023 VG 4.0 worth = $78; FN 6.0 worth = $117. CGC census 9/23: 4 in 5.0, 7 greater.