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    Comics, Pulps, and Paperbacks: Why such a discrepancy in values?

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    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).

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    Comics, Pulps, and Paperbacks: Why such a discrepancy in values?

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    On 1/13/2022 at 7:09 PM, Surfing Alien said:

    I've been searching for a perfect copy of Rudy Belarski's best cover for 40 years and finally found it in this collection 😍 

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    If this was a comic book cover it would be worth 5 figures in todays insane cover driven market...

    If anyone has the pulp cover I'd love to see it, but the paperbacks gloss and square-ness make its image superior to the pulp imho.

     

    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.

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    2022 GOLDEN AGE COMIC BOOK MARKET REPORT

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    On 1/8/2022 at 9:06 AM, Robot Man said:

    And if you want a fun read, grab this. Amazing stories of great finds and the very secretative and most obsessive group of collectors in most any hobby. These people are unreal. 

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    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.

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    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.

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