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On 3/21/2023 at 6:26 PM, RedFury said:

Thanks guys!  I just got it back, reframed with museum glass, and it looks great.

That looks fantastic!

Thank you!

I wasn't thinking that Winter 1949 was January, February, etc...

I suppose that makes more sense.

Through some on-line sources, it's stated that Summer 1949 was the last issue of the Shadow Magazine...

"The Shadow was a crime-mystery magazine which featured the pulp hero in his first ongoing publication, and as such became highly influential to other pulps and comic books. It launched as a monthly in 1931. The following year it became a twice-monthly, which lasted for ten years. In 1943 it became a monthly again and in 1947, the schedule dropped to bimonthly. By 1948 it was a quarterly and the magazine finally expired eighteen years later in the summer of 1949. "

So how is there a Winter 1949 issue?!

And some other information on-line states that the final issue is Fall 1949

On 3/24/2023 at 12:22 PM, A-1 Comics, INC said:

Shadow Comics #v2 #5 ( Street & Smith; July 1942)
1 small pc. tape over tear inside FC
Grade = GD/VG 3.0 Price=  $100.00

as per PM

as per PM

On 12/4/2022 at 9:35 AM, RedFury said:

This is Lee Brown Coye's watercolor painting from 1940 called The Old D.L. & W. Station.  The real train station was built in Syracuse NY in 1877 and was demolished in 1940 when the tracks were elevated in the city.  Coye visited the site a made preliminary sketches before the demolition.  In this piece he contrasts the old with the new: the old train and station with the then modern automobile on the left.  The painting was exhibited at the Whitney Museum in NYC in 1941.  Another of Coye's paintings, Dark House, from the 1939 Whitney exhibit was purchased by The Met, where it still resides.

This is an incredible piece of history form my home town!

On 7/29/2020 at 2:35 PM, detective35 said:

The Shadow - The Creeping Death - Jan. 15, 1933
21” x 30” (Oil on canvas)

I remember saying to a few people,  if I could have one Shadow Painting (or any pulp painting ever done), “The Creeping Death” would be the one.  

When it came up for auction at Heritage I couldn’t believe it, and I eventually ended up with it.  A heartfelt “thank you” to Ferd Bernjak, Glynn Craine, and Todd Hignite who helped me obtain it!

Dwight
 

 

This is absolutely amazing... I love looking at this and knowing that a fellow boardie owns this!

Sorry... I've been a bit distracted.

I'm guessing a "Bed Sheet" is an oversized pulp prior to 1930?

I've looked up this year's Pulp Fest and as it coincides with my vacation, I'm thinking a summer destination to Pittsburgh, PA might be in the works this year.  My question is this, as I've been to numerous Comic Conventions, are Pulp Fests similar in terms of the cross interest?  What I mean is that with Comic Cons, you get a lot of comics and toys but with a Pulp Fest, do you get pulps and other types of promotional material?

Thank you so much for that information. I was wondering about how missing back covers factor into grading... this copy was affordable because it is missing the back cover. The tape reinforcement matches the others in this lot that I looked through, including those 1938 issues.

Here's another question... as I was looking through other threads from various chat boards, I found a discussion about sealing bags vs. leaving them open in order for them to 'breathe'.  Is that really a thing?

Thanks!

I saw Bookery's Guide mentioned in another thread but I see it's not available on Amazon. Is there another source?

I haven't checked eBay yet...

This thread has been a wealth of information regarding grading and overhang, etc.

Ok, I'll start with this... around 12 years ago I lightly got into pulps here on the boards and started a small collection which I eventually sold off with the exception of a couple of random Weird Tales. Well, within the past 5 months, the pulp bug has returned with a vengeance and has bitten me hard.  Actually, so much so that comics kind of feel secondary to me now, which is so strange to write.

So that being said, as I'm looking at more and more of these pulps, I've quickly come to the conclusion that you can not assign the same criteria in grading these as you would comics. What I mean is that a VG (4.0) is not in comics what it is in pulps.  Am I correct in assuming that?  And am I also correct in assuming that repairs and 'modifications' do not carry the same stigma in pulps as they do in comics?

Good evening Pulp World.   So many questions...

A new adventure begins.

Thank you @CGC Mike for another fun contest and congratulations to the winners! 

This has been very beneficial to me as it kind of shows my overall tendencies. 

Out of 20 books...

I hit a bullseye on 4, over-graded 4 and under-graded 12. 

I under-graded 4 out of 5 ...

On 1/23/2023 at 5:01 PM, thirdgreenham said:

Daredevil #168 CGC 8.0 OW-W pages $225

Hi Andy, if still available...

Batman 2

Thanks for the heads-up... I'll try it again.

That's a gorgeous copy Michael and as others have stated... "if I had the funds". 

White pages - perfect centering - possibly a CPR candidate.

I will happily accept #25... it makes me think I'm not THAT crazy.

Fantastic book... I'm seeing a 7.0 here.

I think I under-graded so many books in previous rounds that I went crazy with this last one and over-graded all but 2 bullseyes

On 11/4/2022 at 11:52 PM, skypinkblu said:

But were you wearing glasses? I only use them for computer screens, but I grade better without them it seems;)

Actually, yes... and I even enlarged the images!