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Forbidden Love #1

Forbidden Love

#1
6.5
CGC Rst. 6.5
6.5
CGC Rst. 6.5
Release:   Mar 1950
Cover:   Mar 1950
Quality Comics
6.5$ 550.00

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Value

Cover Price $ 0.10
Grade and value 6.5 Fine + ($ 550.00)
Grade status Slabbed and graded by CGC Rst. 6.5
Slab Certification Number CGC Rst. 6.5 - 4010025001
Grader Notes CGC Cert #
4010025001
Title
Forbidden Love
Issue
1
Issue Date
3/50
Issue Year
1950
Publisher
Quality Comics
Grade
6.5
Page Quality
OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
Grade Date
11/01/2022
Grade Category
B-2
Label Text
Restoration includes: small amount of color touch on cover.
Art Comments
Reed Crandall art
Key Comments
Hazel Brooks photo cover.
Grader Notes
staple detached top of 2nd wrap
staple detached top of centerfold
foxing to cover
small amount of color touch on left center & left bottom front cover
spine stress lines to cover

Gerber Scarcity Index: "SCARCE" (24 TOTAL GRADED IN 2022)
Key Minor
Purchased Jan 19, 2020 for $ 200.00 at ha.com

Notes

Forbidden Love #1 (Quality, 1950) Condition: Apparent FN. Classic photo cover. Overstreet lists as "scarce". Currently #10 on Overstreet's Top Ten Romance Comics list. Reed Crandall supplies the interior art. Restoration includes color touch on the cover. Overstreet 2019 GD 2.0 value = $123; VG 4.0 value = $246; FN 6.0 value = $369.

Forbidden Love # 1 (Quality 1950). Listed as a 6 in the Gerber Photo Journal, meaning that Mr. Gerber estimates there are 50-200 copies of this issue remaining. Meanwhile, Mr. Overstreet lists this book as "scarce" in his Price Guide, meaning that he estimates 20-100 copies of this book are still around. Contains lots of lingerie panels and other good girl art mainstays. One story is by the preeminent Reed Crandall.