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Title: TRUE-TO-LIFE ROMANCES No. 10
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Publisher:Star [Indicia: Star Publications, Inc.]
Date Published: January, 1952
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CGC certified: VG/Fine (5.0). Off-white pages. Cover: L.B. Cole. No story or art credits (Iger Studio?). CGC census: Nine Universal copies. GPAnalysis: Only two reported sales in any grade: a 7.0 sold for $540 in October 2021, and a 7.5 sold for $780 in December 2019.

A brunette cries her eyes out in her lonely bed, while visions of her two-timing boyfriend and his bevy of side-pieces float overhead. It's a wonderfully effective composition that might have been cluttered and difficult to decode had it been drawn by a lesser talent than Cole.

"Cole also points out that his romance and juvenile covers far outnumbered his weird and horror books. Many of these books are also excellent examples of Cole's successful exploitation of what he called the 'poster effect.' Packed with action and detail, presented in vibrant enamelled colors, his work is so meticulously structured that it is never cluttered or confusing." — E.M. Boatner, "L.B. Cole: The Man Behind the Mask," Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide No. 10 [1981-82], p. A-61.

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