Comics-n-ERB

Are you gonna lick it?? Awesome pickup! I can only dream......

I really want a Blue Beetle #12! Nice collection!

A quote like that obviously comes from someone who would have to study to be stupid. Chances are "einstein" would have the gun pointed backwards and blow his own head off...

Thanks! I like him too. Dwight, that is one cool book you picked up!

I missed Friday so don't know how it was crowd wise, but Sat. had a pretty nice crowd and Sun. wasn't too bad either. I thought it seemed pretty good in comparison to a same size comic show. Dealers over all seemed to be doing okay, some better than others which is to be expected. I would also say even though I got a lot of comics, for the most part they were all over priced compared to dealers that specialize in comics. In other words they knew pulps or paperbacks but not comics. This show was about the same size as the Windy City show. Some of the same dealers but also quite a few different. In talking to some dealers they simply do this one show and that's it. I was a little surprised by this as I would think that with there only being two main shows a year for pulps they would do both. One other thing of note. I did not notice any Big or real important pulps. For example I didn't see a copy of Weird Tales with the first appearance of Conan. I didn't see any big Edgar Rice Burroughs pulps. Kind of strange when compared to a comics show. There you will find SOMETHING big; ie: Spiderman 1 or JIM 83 etc... I was a little disappointed in this as I was hoping of scoring a nice big important pulp for myself.

Time is running out as dealers are starting to pack up early (at 12:00). I go back to the dealer who had lot's of stuff and purchased two very hard to find items in the hopes they may be better than my copies. My copies ended up being better. I decided it was time to gather the girls up (they were walking around, Katie bought another autograph pic of I Dream of Jennie.) As I was walking out the door I decided to get two last pulps I had been looking at: This one, I had a copy of, but I knew this one was in better shape: This one I picked up is just super sweet high grade with WHITE pages and a great cover: So there you have it. I liked this show as a fan, and I believe I very well may go back next year as a dealer. Oh yeah, when I went back to work this morning this was waiting for me:

I then ended up at another dealer with some comics. I bought several from him, all silver to bronze. Green Lantern #86 Neal Adams drug issue Swamp Thing #1 The Defenders #1 Marvel Team-up #1 The Tomb of Dracula #1 (2 copies) Marvel Spotlight #2 Werewolf by Night Marvel Feature #11 Classic Hulk/Thing cover Silver Surfer #4 and #14 All-Star Western #10 All in very nice shape. I then bought a couple more paperbacks by Philip Jose Farmer; Lord Tyqer and Lord of the Trees. Along with these I bought a slipcover edition of Gods of Riverworld which is signed by Farmer. All three books came from Farmer's estate. Cool uh?

Detective35DF saw I had a pulp in hand and couldn't stand it wasn't one of his. Finally Dwight put me into this fine pulp: So now I have two pulps, yeah! I then ended up eyeballing a couple of paperbacks so I picked them up:

So the day has drawn to a close and I didn't get one damn Pulp!!! What in the world, this was a pulp show!!! So I started out Sunday looking for pulps. I went over to Dwight's again and drooled a little more but still didn't get anything. I then came across a pulp I had to have because it was a perfect match to another pulp I had picked up the previous week. So my first pulp at Pulpfest: and the one from the week before that I wanted to match with:

While we were trading another dealer came over to look at my box. He ended up buying a couple of books. A customer also looked and bought another book. Then another dealer came over and said would I trade; yep I would. So after collecting some cash I went over to his tables. Lots of pulps and also some comics. Ended up with these.

I ended up looking at one of the dealers with lot's of different things. He also had comics. I asked if he liked to trade, and he said yes but all he was looking for at the time was pre-code horror. So I went out to the RV (drove there from the camp site, first dropping Kim and Katie at a huge Science Center, Katie loves Science) and picked out a box of Gold that I had brought as trade bait. Luck would have it that I had brought some horror with me. He found a few things he liked and I found something I liked. This is what I got in the trade.

I met up with our own Dwight, aka Detective35DF, the be all and end all of Shadow pulps! Dwight is younger than I thought he would be and was built like a brick house! Super nice guy with lots of knowledge in pulps and comics. Great to meet you Dwight Dwight showed me some Shadow Pulps that he was letting go as he had upgraded to better copies. Hard to believe on a few of them, they were very nice! He gave me some pricing to ponder on. I ventured around the room for awhile and saw lots of pulps with Shadows being prominent. (show was a celebration of The Shadow at 80 years old). There was also lots of paperbacks, new reprints of pulp stories and some new stories. there was a couple of dealers that had a lot of variety, meaning more than just pulps and paperbacks.

So I finally made it to the show on Sat. It was about the size of a large one day comic show, around 100 tables at a guess. The first thing I come to is a dealer that sells Autographs. Katie has been on a kick watching the Golden Girls (sitcom from the 80's) starring Betty White. I find a signed pic of Betty for $20. I next come to a dealer who has some extremely nice BLB's. I only collect ERB titles in Big Little Books, he had a few but mine were in better condition. He also has a nice little stack of comics. I pick out two, we barter and I come away with these:

Hi all, Annual Pulpster mag published for Pulpfest. I'm back from my first visit to Pulpfest in Columbia Ohio. The only other pulp show I have ever been to was the Windy City Pulp Show in Chicago this spring. The Family decided it would be a good RV trip for us to enjoy the last few days of no school. Kim, my wife, is a high school Spanish teacher and Katie, our 11 year old is starting 6th grade. We planned to leave around 10:00am on Thursday, (we live in Hickory N.C.) drive about half way and finish getting there on Friday around noon. Well as usual the best laid plans....... After a long story in it's self, we started down the road at 6:00pm on Thursday. Didn't get to Columbia till 5:00 on Friday. sigh...........so I missed the first day of a three day show.

Took the camera, forgot to take a single pic.

No kidding uh? Way to many miles lately. I get home Monday night. Then the following week I fly to Miss. for business. sigh.........

Thanks Jeff! About half way there tonight, be there tomorrow afternoon for some pulp goodness!

Is anyone going to the Pulpfest in Ohio this weekend? I'll be there!

Thought maybe you guys might like this This was done by Kelly Freas who did Cover paintings on Robert Asprin Myth books.

That is cool! Never seen it before. What year is it? Hey Mark! I had never seen one either! It was published in 1941 and is like a big little book in that it has illustrations on the right and text on the left.

Hey Todd, thought you might like the Superman book It was published in 1942 by Random House. Written by George Lowther. It has illustrations and painted page spreads in it by Joe Shuster. It was published with a Dust Jacket which I don't have. Really neat item. I've not read it yet but plan to.

These next two books where too big for my scanner so they are chopped on the right edge. Really cool items that I had never seen before in person nor in research books on ERB items. Check out the letter at the bottom for why. this letter was in the first scanned book, didn't even realize it till after I got home to check it out.

I got this in a large collection I picked up last year. I know it's not gold, but what the heck. This was done by Kelly Freas who did some of the Cover art for Robert Asprin's Myth series.

Here is a really neat item. It's a Dime Action Book. I've never seen the Capt. Marvel one before so I grabbed it up.

It was a lot of fun seeing Bill again, and we had a great time trading! Thanks Bill! I've not scanned anything I got from Pons but here are a few odd's and ends I've picked up over the last several months.