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In GNU Emacs 19.27.1 (sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3, X toolkit) of Wed Oct 12 1994 on supra.comm.mot.com, configured thusly:
# ./configure  --with-x11 --with-gcc --with-x-toolkit

On my machine, stock 19.22 works better than stock 19.27 in the
following manner:

$ /usr/local/bin/emacs-19.22 -q -font '-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1'
M-x list-faces-display
[I see the 9 standard faces rendered as expected.  I.e. the bold face is
 bold, etc.]

$ pwd
/tmp/emacs-19.27/src
$ ./emacs -q -font '-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1'
[Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/local/lib/emacs/19.27/lisp' does not exist.]
M-x list-faces-display
[I now see only underline and background color changes taking place as
 expected.]

The same machine and exact same font configuration, etc. was used for
both examples given above.

I have found that the following explicit commands will get around the
apparent bug in 19.27:
(set-face-font (quote default)
               "-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1")
(make-face-bold (quote bold))
(make-face-italic (quote italic))
(make-face-bold-italic (quote bold-italic))

Notice that the font I set is the same as I was trying to specify on
the command line.

Regards,
Loren