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Let me know what price and grade you are looking for. I helped another boardie get one when I saw a cheap copy come up on ebay. Out of curiosity, do you find that Vampirella #1 tells to send for above guide or under guide? I have no idea what guide price is. For raws I'm going off of ebay sales. Graded some ebay and some other auction sites. Overstreet 2016: G - $44 / VG - $88 / FN - $132 / VF - $326 / VF-NM (9.0) - $738 / NM- (9.2) - $1,150 Here's my recently acquired copy.

Let me know what price and grade you are looking for. I helped another boardie get one when I saw a cheap copy come up on ebay. Out of curiosity, do you find that Vampirella #1 tells to send for above guide or under guide?

Yes, great post, thank you. Several years ago, I posted in some thread... if using the USPS for shipping slabs, then priority box #1095 is absolutely essential. (They are usually ordered online or via phone- they are free) Usually not found at most post office branches currently. After all these years, I still can not believe how many veteran dealers and sellers still continue to use the USPS medium size box, or a flat rate which barely provides any space for wrapping/protecting a slab. The slab pretty much goes to the edge of the box. Totally rolling the dice for cracked slabs or damaged books. Just don't do it! Thank you for your cooperation. I'm glad you appreciate the post. I'm not sure if all of the cost information is still valid (though it's only been a few months), but here is the link to the post again: How to package CGC slabs for safe shipping

I agree, and I also wish people wouldn't use the clear packing tape on the insides of packages. That clear packing tape is designed to seal up the outside of boxes. Not the inside. For inside contents, the best tape to use (in my humble opinion) is either masking tape, or blue painter's tape. Blue painter's tape is designed to stick well but also to be easily removable. You can buy it in bulk at Home Depot, and since you don't have to use much per package, one roll will last a long time. So even if it seems a bit more expensive than other options, it's worth it. There are a lot of people out there who are very, very knowledgeable about comics and whatnot, and they're also very, very good at packaging -- except when it comes to this one issue of interior tape. Just the other day I received a high-grade magazine, and I had to spend an inordinate amount of time carefully picking off the sticky packing tape that had been used to seal together the inside padding and affix it to the comic's mylar sleeve. The use of the fingernail picking off the tape, pressing down so it would "catch," meant that I was pressing into the magazine underneath, potentially ruining the smoothness of the cover surface, etc.

I recently signed up for a subscription. It is much, much less expensive than buying one off the newsstand (one of the few perks of Mad finally accepting advertising), and they give you bonus materials like this cool limited-edition Kelly Freas print that arrived a few weeks after subscribing:

Happy Black History Month!

What a score! I have never seen that "Loco" magazine before. Love it. Must have been a relatively clean "hoarder house."

Those are the bomb. I'd like to have all four of those. "Never Say No" is a fun one, though the green hat and clothing makes me wonder if there's a St. Patrick's Day aspect to the story (probably not). "Reno Tramp" is such a great title...gosh, I wonder what it's about? "Bed-Time Angel" is one I have, and it's a great "optical illusion" cover worthy of outrage from the same people who burned pre-code comic books. The "Confessions of a Model" book rounds out the four for a scintillating scan...or titillating perhaps is a more fitting word here.

Those books are fantastic. I especially love the "excitingly illustrated" bottom-right one, and if memory serves, that one is especially tough to get (I don't have it, and when it shows up for auction there's always lots of competition). Yes regarding the peeking book, BTW.

Good question. This is one of the best sites I've ever seen about paperbacks: www.bookscans.com

Here's my meager collection of Saber/Tropic (Europa, Vegas, etc.) books. These are borderline un-showable here, due to how sleazy they get. Normally I don't collect 1960s-era paperbacks, but I make an exception for the Saber/Tropic publisher because of the appealing style of the cover art -- which was often done by Bill Edwards. I think he used the same model for a lot of his work, and she must have been really cute, to put it mildly. The first group contains some classics. The 2nd photo is indicative of how much sleazier or more violent things got later in the publisher's history, which mirrors the times. "Passion's Greatest Trap" is an image straight out of a Man's Story magazine type of scenario. (As you can see, my copy is trashed. It's tough to find these in grade without having to shell out $$$.) The "Berlin Bed" book has a fold-out flap that I can't show here, as it goes full nudie.

Here's a recent Popular Library pick-up, "The Case of the Crumpled Knave" by Anthony Boucher. The draw for me is the cover art, which is Rudolph Belarski's first work for Popular Library and marked the beginning of his productive and sensational run doing these kinds of book covers.

Some Avons.... The first photo is nothing new, but I never get tired of looking at these covers. The 2nd photo is a recent acquisition, "The Woman Aroused." I love the cover image but especially appreciate the dripping blood at the top.

Diverseys. I am lucky to have found the two #1 issues (at top) as a fluke. Though the Reform School Girl photo cover is famous, I am partial to the Broadway Virgin photo cover. Many of the books from this publisher are fairly tough to find in grade.

Here are some Rainbow, Ecstasy, and Venus books. (Again, a few new additions here and there.) Most of these aren't too difficult to find with a little searching, but they're severely difficult to find in grade. Which is why most of my copies are ratty.

In a similar vein, here are my Quarter Books. I am pretty sure Exotic, Rainbow, Ecstasy, Quarter, Diversey, Venus, and Cameo books were often connected to each other, along with some other digest-sized publishers (including Avon). Hard to keep up with them all. I've posted several of these before, but never got organized enough to group them by publisher.

Here are the other two Exotic books in my collection. Cover-wise and condition-wise, I like 'em a little more than the first two.

Can't go wrong with Exotics Hey, those Luther Gordon books look familiar! (Your copies look much nicer than mine.)

That's really cool! Nice framing/matting too.

A recent favorite. Great title, great image.

Love 'em!

I am really impressed that you caught this. I wonder if anybody else ever noticed before? The draping is almost the same, and the shoes are a full match. I find side-by-side comparisons to be easier when images are really side by side, so...

I be loving the pics people are posting...

Glad to know these are good mags; I can't wait to read them. (I'll have to pick up a copy of #1.)