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It will be interesting to see what happens if a new TV show or movie tied to a pulp character is actually a success. Conan and Buck Rogers are both supposedly in the works. Then again, Buck Rogers is an odd case... his first appearance is relatively common for a 1920's pulp, which I think keeps the price down still.

Walt Kelly is one of my all-time favorite comic artists, along with Sheldon Mayer. But I tend to think his Duck covers are hit or miss as well; I think part of the issue is he was almost TOO professional in doing them. He stayed perfectly on model and couldn't bring his own style to them a lot of the time. But when given an element that he could work his magic on, like the totem pole, or the bug on the classic "Donald shooting the bug on his beak" cover, and he did some great ones as well.

August 1939 Weird Tales. Lovecraft has another Fungi from Yuggoth sonnet in this one, "The Gardens of Yin". This will be the last item with just a poem for a little bit, at least:

Yes. Either 100 or 200 copies were stapled together at the office and the rest were pulped.

Weird Tales for June-July 1939. A triple dose of Lovecraft in this one, it has "The Howler", one of the Fungi From Yuggoth sonnets. It has the first professional publication of Celephaïs, which first appeared in the fanzine "The Rainbow" in 1922 and the semi-prozine "Marvel Tales" in 1934. And it has a reprint of "Imprisoned With the Pharaohs", which is still officially credited to Houdini but has an introduction explaining that the actual writing was by Lovecraft. I think this is the only time Weird Tales printed two Lovecraft stories in the same issue where they acknowledged his authorship on both of them.

I think Tarzan is the Action #1 to the Shadow's 'Tec #27 still... but I can't think of any obvious book that would be in 3rd place. 1st Doc Savage, maybe? I think my days of getting key pulps are rapidly coming to a close, but there's still going to be a lot of room on the edges for a little while longer.

I really do need to get at least one of the Picto-Fiction books into my collection as an example. But I wasn't terribly impressed when I read the Shock Illustrated digital archive that just came out on Comixology. Great pickup, Raze!

Over 4K EACH? Holy... My copy of the June issue isn't quite as nice as the one in the auction, but it's still a pretty sharp copy with great page quality and a complete spine. It's looking more and more like a steal every day:

Quite a few books where I’m going “thank goodness I’ve already got my copy “, that’s for sure!

I’ve been going there a couple years since my previous store closed. They don’t have old books in great depth but they’re really good at getting in a small but steady stream of neat stuff

Well, if we’re all doing this I can play too:

Not new books, but updated pictures since I replaced my scanner:

Pickup at my LCS today. Kelly, Barks, and Stanley... this was such a great title!

May 1939 Weird Tales, with the Fungi From Yuggoth sonnet "Harbor Whistles" .

As promised earlier this week. Not a super high grade set, but I think it’s pretty nice copies across the board, unlike lots of my runs. Some really underrated Gray Morrow covers on this series:

Nice Addams collections. I sold my nice PB of Black Maria after I got a hardcover. The Heinlein story is his only credited collaboration, which is I assume why it was allowed in anthologies even if Heinlein never allowed it in one of his own collections during his lifetime.

April 1939 Weird Tales. Two Lovecraft stories in this one, a reprint of "The Curse of Yig" with Zealia Bishop, and the first publication of "The Wicked Clergyman", more commonly published as "The Evil Clergyman." It's one of the most minor Lovecraft stories, but it still blew my mind when I found a copy of the issue for $5 a few years ago. One of the most dramatic demonstrations of how pulp values and comic values are totally different I've ever seen.

March 1939 Weird Tales, with "The Quest of Iranon". I think this is the first professional publication, the story first appeared in 1935 in the magazine Galleon. I think that's another amateur magazine, but I can't really find any info about it so I'm not 100% sure.

Thank you. My Warren collection is actually pretty small still... although I do take some pride in having a complete run of Help!

I'm happy with the Lone Star 3.0 I just got... or, as any other dealer would describe it, a 5.5 with nice eye appeal. A steal at the $14 I paid, at least.

Bluebook was always somewhat on the edge between a pulp and a slick. This one has a John D. MacDonald story:

My duck for the day. Not a classic cover... but a classic story inside:

Two books today. I think the Creepy is the first Frazetta cover for Warren, unless he did something for Famous Monsters I’m unaware of. The Space:1999 completes my run, I’ll post a group shot sometime this week if I remember:

My birthday gift to myself. Only 3 issues of Shock Suspenstories to go. Evans is just horribly underrated among the EC artists, I think:

The February 1939 Weird Tales has two of the "Fungi from Yuggoth" sonnets: The Lamp and Zaman's Hill. This one also has the poem "The King and the Oak" with Kull by Howard, so arguably the most famous items from this issue are all poems.