damonwad

Here's a non-first printing of Avon #5 with the globe endpapers. It shows 16 titles on the back and 12 titles on the interior. Then Avon #18 is in the first group of books that has a first printing without the globe endpapers. This has 20 titles on back and 19 titles on the inside (it doesn't list #20, League of Frightened Men).

I like both of these Novel Library covers. The Crystal Girl looks familiar to me. Maybe it was a comic or pulp cover?

A couple Ace's. The guy with the hat on Hate Alley looks like Robert Blake. Someone on ebay auctioned off a nice group of Ace pb's 3 or 4 months ago. I won the She Shark and a couple others but wish I would have picked up a few more.

That's interesting. FF #214 came out about a year later too.

The last two issues of Weird Science. I'm not the biggest fan of Wood's cover on #22 but I love his cover for #21. Pretty Williamson/Frazetta work in the #21 and the Feldstein/Wood "My World" story in #22 was a memorable one.

That's a real standout cover and a beautiful copy. Looks like a great bunch of books you picked up. Here's a pic (not my book) of the earlier pulp version (December, 1943) that I got off the internet. It surprises me that the later paperback is the 'sexed up" version. I like them both but definitely prefer the Doll's Trunk cover better.

I've always liked this Evans/Marie Severin cover and the Kamen story is my favorite of a good bunch.

I agree, and thankfully the prices haven't hit the PCH stratosphere.

Thanks and definitely not underappreciated by me.

Some TFT's and more Jack Davis eyes in #28.

Thanks RM, looking forward to reading it. Your description reminded me of a book I read (and loved) 15 or so years ago about rare book collectors called A Gentle Madness.

A mix of westerns. I'd like to get more Harlequins but they're pretty tough. I started to read Pioneers but quickly saw that it was a fictional, "historical" romance, so that goes on the never going to read pile. Shortgrass was a good read and I was surprised to see a character named Breck Coleman in it. For John Wayne fans, that's the character he played in The Big Trail. It turns out Hal Evarts wrote the story the movie was based on and this book had Coleman in his later years.

Some Aces.

Merry Christmas everyone.

All nice, including the maps. Did they put the numbers on the spines for those?

It didn't last for long.

Two more fun sci-fi books. Orlando's art on Harvest (#25) isn't my favorite, but Feldstein's -script made it the best story from this issue for me. I'm sure most would prefer the Williamson cover story though.

A few more Valor's.

I'm a big fan of the Dell mapbacks and airbrushed covers. When I first bought these, I thought someone peeled off the lamination. I later learned from the Lyles Dell book that the first 96 books weren't laminated.

Wish I had more.

No. It's just a lame attempt at humor. Rex Ryan is a famous ex-NFL coach with a known foot fetish.

A couple from the Rex Ryan collection.

I'll take SA #144.

A week before Christmas so I'll post this one that I picked up from one of catrick's cool sales threads. The 2 books with the Classics Illustrated rip off covers were printed in England in 1947 (with Gaines copyrights) and include the first two issues of Picture Stories From the Bible.