OtherEric

I presume you mean one of the new digests, not the ones from earlier in the sale? If you are counting earlier ones, take.

Imagination has "The Cosmic Poachers", Satellite (the first issue) has "Pay for the Printer"

Vampirella Annual 1972 thoughts: Cover: It's Aslan's only work for the Warren comics and apparently his only work for any US comic. Which makes the fact that this cover was supposedly done for the first issue of Vampirella seem odd... surely they would have hired somebody more of a known quantity for the cover a debut issue? Or do they have other work, say on Famous Monsters, in the US? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aslan_(artist) After all that, it's a nice cover. Does anybody know where the story that it was for the first issue originally came from? Because it just doesn't make any sense to me at all on the surface. Origin of Vampirella: Most of the credits I can find for J. R. Cochran are editorial, with only a few scripts. I don't have much to say on this one, the art by Gonzalez is mixed, with some beautiful images of Vampi but the rest of the art is less impressive. As far as the story goes, the plot introduces some elements that stick, but the actual script is so rough I can see why it was rescripted when the story gets reprinted. I wonder why Goodwin wasn't grabbed to write this. I'm not going to bother with a story by story rundown of the reprints, other than to note they're a very good mix of the material from the earlier issues of the title. This is easily the best of the Annuals this year. I suspect that, having introduced a serious version of Vampi, they didn't want to reprint the first story here. But they did want a Vampi story, so they did the new origin in a hurry. This introduced the habit of having a new Vampirella story in the Vampirella Annuals, unlike Creepy and Eerie... I don't think we have an issue without a new story until issue 63 in 1977, and even then in several cases they do some reworking on the stories to make them work better as longer tales.

Thank you. I note that, while in general they're in that section, they don't seem to have the Red Harvest... I'll send them scans of the book.

I don't think File Copies generally count as pedigree, although there are exceptions, Gaines most obviously, but I would count Crowley as well

Nice! I wonder if any other pedigrees have King Club eligible books. More importantly, I wonder if I can get a Pedigree Label with no documentation other than "MCS said it was a Fantucchio when I bought it."

So, I actually tried to figure out a little more about the Reader's League edition of Red Harvest... and I'm coming up with almost nothing about the publisher or this edition. I couldn't even find it at Bookscans. Does anybody know anything about the publisher in general or this book in particular? Side by side scans with the Pocket edition:

If has "The Golden Man", the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction has "Roog", which was PKD's first sold work, although not the first published.

And today's book:

The unnumbered issue is #24.

You are correct, the Junkie is not generally "Reasonably Affordable". I got my beat up copy for $100 a few years ago and consider myself incredibly lucky to have found it that cheaply. I sometimes like to say it's not actually the rarest or most valuable paperback, but it's the paperback most famous for being rare and valuable. It's generally a grail book for people.

Sadly, not a valid choice, I think... it already appeared in the 1970 Yearbook, and they have avoided reprinting material from earlier Yearbooks/ annuals, at least.

As I've said before, always a good day when I set a fellow board member off on the hunt!

I have no idea how rare that particular edition is, it just looked neat to me today. @Surfing Alien, any idea how scarce that one is?

A few from either a local store or MCS today:

As for the others: The Pockets are both Stated Pocket 1st. The Ellison wasn't part of the batch, just something else the store had today. I've seen the Pyramid version plenty of times but the Ace doesn't turn up nearly as often.

So, my local book store called me and told me he had gotten a box of (mostly) 50's paperbacks and comics, the paperbacks fairly decent and the comics ranging from "bits & pieces" up to about VG. I wound up getting a bunch of books and comics for more than what he paid for the box, but better than I could have expected for the material in general. We'll start with the Hammett. The Pocket Red Harvest is a stated Pocket 3rd, the Reader's League has no printing info, and the Maltese Falcon is a stated Perma Books 1st.

Two in today. The Mandrake #5 is from the John G. Fantucchio pedigree and an upgrade, the #8 is the first copy I've owned.

Galaxy has "Autofac", Imagination has "Project: Earth"

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