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Ogden Whitney "I Sold My Baby" cover The staples are popped from the back cover, and there is some staining Overstreet 2023 VG 4.0 value = $130. "ACG's brief flirtation with grim, sensationalistic stories remains one of the great mysteries of comic book history," noted Michelle Nolan in her indispensable Love on the Racks: A[...]

Hughes got his late-1954 rebellion out of his system and successfully navigated the ACG line through these perilous times.  The highest-graded copy of this notorious romance comics issue is up for auction in the 2024 February 29 – March 1 Golden Age Romance Featuring Fox Comics & Comic Art Showcase Auction #40258. Romantic Adventures #49 (ACG, 1954) Romantic[...]

Every gimmick in the book was used here to sell this one: a singing cover, black borders, and even 3D! Really all they needed was to let people know that Ogden Whitney was responsible for the cover That should have been enough to get people to buy it back then Really though, the question looking[...]

Drawn wonderfully by Ogden Whitney, this is more of a horror cover than romance if you ask me That lady reaching out through the bars is terrifying, and the colors add to the sense of weirdness and dread that pours over you as you look at the cover This raw copy of Romantic Adventures #50[...]

The American Comics Group series Operation: Peril hit newsstands at a time when Cold War era fears and the onset of the Korean War combined to command the attention of the media and the public, and these influences show through in the eclectic contents of the title.  The short-lived series hit its stride with Operation:[...]

An unlikely hero with unassuming beginnings, Herbie Popnecker has achieved cult classic status over the course of his 60+ year existence.  The character was created for publisher ACG (American Comics Group) by writer-editor Richard Hughes and artist Ogden Whitney and first appeared in issue #73 of ACG fantasy/"strange adventure" title Forbidden Worlds There's a Forbidden[...]

Artist Ogden Whitney was likely working on the creation of the character Undercover Girl for Magazine Enterprize's Manhunt sometime during the summer of 1947.  That's around the same time that former Office of Strategic Services officer Elizabeth McIntosh announced her book Undercover Girl about her exploits working around the world for the OSS.  McIntosh had[...]

Sullivan tapped his industry contacts for Columbia, and foundational Golden Age greats like Gardner Fox, Creig Flessel, Fred Gardineer, Ogden Whitney, and others produced work for Big Shot Comics.  An underappreciated title featuring work by a number of important creators, there's a Big Shot Comics #1, #2, #11 and #14 available in this week's 2021[...]

The 1953 Dick Ayers cover of Manhunt #14 is an example of the strange history of the 1950s comic book publishing scene.

An unlikely hero with unassuming beginnings, Herbie Popnecker has achieved cult classic status over the course of his 60+ year existence.  The character was created for publisher ACG (American Comics Group) by writer-editor Richard Hughes and artist Ogden Whitney and first appeared in issue #73 of ACG fantasy/"strange adventure" title Forbidden Worlds There's a Forbidden[...]

STARR FLAGG ( based visually on Hollywood actress Lisbeth Scott by "Good Girl" art specialist Ogden Whitney ), Undercover Girl makes only her second-ever appearance in MOM in a terse 1947 action/spy thriller from a 1947 issue of Manhunt Finally, a trio of first-time MOM guest-strips opens with a late-40's story of The DEADLY DOZEN[...]