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If I hadn't bought a nicer copy at my local store earlier today for $4.99 I would have been annoyed Goldust beat me to this one...

Found at the local store today. $5 each and they look unread. Beautiful copies.

Discussion at local store today. "Look at what I got last week." "Can you remove it from the mylar so I can see how bad it is?" "Sure." "The pages are literally falling apart." "$25" (I don't say anything) "$20" "It's literally falling apart." "$10" (Again, I say nothing) "$5" "I can't say no at that price. At least the cover looks cool." "You should leave it in the bag, though. The cover's falling apart too."

A local store turned this up and gave me first crack at it. Signed by Ellison on the title page, although it's not the S&N edition. It is the actual 1st edtion rather than the much more common BCE, though.

A small lot today, which in one fell swoop gets me the three trickiest D-Series Western doubles, as far as I know... is anybody aware of any others that are particularly pricey? For those who don't know, Jim Mayo is a pseudonym of Louis L'Amour, so these are first editions of three early books by him:

So, how do we want to continue from here? For at least a few weeks, I can take over the Sunday initial post for the week if people want me to do that.

I'm particularly fond of this one, where the previous owner wrote "249" inside the CCA stamp. It's issue 248.

I believe it's Bob Powell's only pulp cover.

It depends on the issue. The 15 issues by Bruce Elliot are generally quite poorly regarded by Shadow fans, from the few I've read they can be pretty fun as pulp fiction but not necessarily great as Shadow stories specifically. I mostly look for them for the John D. MacDonald backup stories... which can be longer than the Shadow story in some cases. I may have posted these in this thread before, not sure. Might as well throw them out here again:

In today, courtesy of @Number 6's recent sales thread. Not something I was necessarily looking for entirely for its own sake, but super happy to get a nice example of a Fantasy Press book for the collection:

That does seem to be the most popular explanation of Fall Out, but people have been arguing the point for well over 50 years now.

I look forward to seeing your cleaned up version, because as I've said before I absolutely love this cover. It's for an incredible story, too.

I do like the reprint Hard Case did of "Fright" several years ago, but in general I love Hard Case's retro look:

I have this one as well. Great cover!

Today's book:

In today. The Berlin is interesting in that it has a wraparound image to the spine but not to the back cover at all. Also, this puts me at 303 of 603 Ace DSG books. Over half way! I'm not quite to half the D Series doubles, but if I counted right I should be over once the handful I have on order arrive.

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Oh, I did create a topic in the personal announcements forum asking if anybody had contact info for @Axe Elf, as well.

Eerie 36 thoughts Cover: It's one of those covers I don't particularly like, but the fault is all me, not the cover. It's a valid and effective design for a horror comic, very well done. Monster Gallery: Atoms. The subject of the Monster Gallery is "Atoms". Moving on... Bad Moon on the Rise: We haven't seen Tom Sutton in a bit, it seems, but that's partly the Annuals making it seem longer. Amazing art, as usual, and Doug Monech turns in a very good story, once he gets the Creedence Clearwater Revival nods out of his system, but there's a lot of them the first couple pages. The Silence and the Sleep: Jose Rubio only has three credits for Warren that I can see, and not that many total at the GCD. Their style works well for the hallucinatory pages in the middle but doesn't land quite as well at the beginning and the end. But it's the right choice for the more important part, so I'll put this in the win column. Prototype: Very nice art by Bruce Jones, shooting from pencils works well for underwater scenes. The story doesn't quite hold together for me, though. Look What They've Done: The Warren Debut of Esteban Maroto. I'm getting 267 name matches in the index, so clearly one of the major Warren creators, who will be with us all the way to Vampirella 112. He's also known for having designed Red Sonja's famous chainmail bikini. The story is beautifully drawn and wonderfully meta; although it seems like it was likely written for a color, code-approved comic and only wound up at Warren after it didn't sell elsewhere. Crocodile: This seems to be Jose Mascaro's only work for Warren, and indeed his only work for US comics. The story is a decent filler but nothing more. The Trap: Greg Potter has around 15 Warren stories; overall he has a lot less comic credits that I expected, given that I knew him as the creator of Jemm, Son of Saturn and the co-writer of the early George Perez Wonder Woman issues. The story is a clever little four pager that promises good things. Oh, Brother: And the issue goes out on a high note with a science fiction story by Dave Cockrum. It's a clever twist on Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder" that is better suited to Cockrum's clean style than his story in Creepy last week. This was an excellent issue; with a good mix of material that hit a very high average of quality, even if there weren't any real standout classics in the mix, and a couple of noteworthy creator debuts (along with a couple of less noteworthy ones.)

Since we haven't tracked down @Axe Elf yet, I'm going to post the index info for this weeks book, and then my thoughts, so if it's a temporary absence he can come back and find we're still going here. If we still haven't found out anything near the end of the week we can discuss in more detail how to proceed. Eerie #36- November 1971 According to the Warren Magazine Index: 36. cover: Enrich Torres (Nov. 1971) 1) Eerie’s Monster Gallery: Atoms [T. Casey Brennan/Pablo Marcos] 1p [frontis] 2) Bad Moon On The Rise [Doug Moench/Tom Sutton] 10p 3) The Silence And The Sleep [Steve Skeates/Rubio] 7p 4) Prototype [Steve Skeates/Bruce Jones] 10p 5) Look What They’ve Done! [Steve Skeates/Esteban Maroto] 6p 6) Crocodile [Don Glut/Mascaro] 6p 7) The Trap [Greg Potter/L. M. Roca] 4p 8) Eerie Fanfare: Steve Skeates Profile/House Of Horror/Occupational Hazard [Steve Skeates, Christopher Wolfe & Billie Fowler/Steve Skeates, Steve Lowe & Steve Cassman] 2p [text article/stories] 9) Oh, Brother! [Steve Skeates/Dave Cockrum] 7p Notes: Bruce Jones’ art was reproduced from pencils, something only Warren seemed able to do with any degree of care.

If @Axe Elf doesn't post the intro for the weeks book by 12:01 AM Monday (not Sunday) I'll go ahead and put up the info from the index and post my thoughts, on the assumption that the issue is temporary but serious enough that he won't be able to get to it this week. If he's not here by next week we can discuss matters. I don't have any useful contact info for him outside the boards, if anybody else does and can check in it would be appreciated. I suppose I could post something in the Personal announcements and topics forum if we don't hear anything by about Wednesday.