OtherEric

The lists I've seen look pretty good to start; particularly since I'm more about the writers than the artists (although I do love the art too!) I'll add a couple. Hannes Bok did some amazing, stylized covers. And, borrowing from your comic list, Alex Schomburg did quite a lot of pulp covers as well.

Sorry for the lack of comment, it took me forever that I could follow someone on the forums- and the variant price threads are somewhat scattered. Yay, new UKPV marvel! I always find your threads fascinating even if I have next to nothing to contribute.

I'm at around 150, and I want many more too. (I say "around" because I'm not sure if I should count pre-trend books, Mad 24-26 which still had an EC logo on the cover, or Picture Stories from the Bible that were actually from DC/ AA...) The sheer level of quality they managed during the New Trend remains jaw dropping.

That looks like it was printed earlier today...

Nice book. I'm four issues short of the set but I missed the boat on #19 so I'll never finish it...

Buy more bookshelves? I'm not the person to ask, I just have boxes of books in my storage unit...

Posted this in the Underground thread when I got it, but not here. I think I’ve gotten as much of the crease out as i ever will. This is bigger than a normal treasury, I need to figure out how to store it without folding it in half again:

Thank you for reminding me that I'm far from alone in the "I don't like spending more than X" on a book group. I see the prices some books go for and my mind just boggles. Admittedly, my comfort level has inched up over the years... I figure I break the $200 barrier 2-3 times a year; but that's close to my max. I can count the times I've spent $300 or more on one hand. Luckily, there are lots of EC's available in the lower ranges still...

Nice. I don't have the hardcovers (other than the New Fun #1), but my DC set is complete with the softcovers; unless you want to count the original New Fun issues, which I don't. My Marvel set is only slightly above the half-way mark, though. Good luck on the coloring books. I still need to find an uncolored copy of Spider-Man; I have clean copies of the other seven.

I went with a beat up copy, as I didn't want to pay what a high grade copy would go for... I haven't been big into collecting Smurfs since I was about 9. (My sister still has them all, though; and she's not allowed to get rid of them without asking me.) I've posted the front cover before, but the picture was lousy. Figured out later my phone case had dust trapped in the camera window.

Was thinking the same thing. I think we should keep using this as the "recent pick up" thread, personally; out of a sense of tradition.

I think I saw a few of those, but the EC I've really had my eye on a few weeks was a BIN, so I wasn't planning on bidding. The BIN book should be here later this week, though...

if you're going to go big, go BIG: (Just realized that the 2nd one in the spine picture isn't the same as the 2nd issue with the front. The basic "no, these are thick pulps" joke still fits:)

Ah, the classic Bonnett's pedigree...

I have very few detective pulps in my collection. Here's a couple, though.

Complete run. Best known for two things: 1) it's the first publication of Arthur C. Clarke's "Sentinel of Eternity", better know simply as "The Sentinel", which formed the starting point for 2001: A Space Odyssey. 2) The editor couldn't count; there are 13 stories in the issue, not 10!

The only non-reprint Kull I have is a poem; published several years after Howard's death. Not what I would normally call a good starting point, but since I scanned the page a while back I can post the whole thing here. It stands on its own well enough:

To answer the original question: I think pulps have exploded the last few years. There was a lull a few years ago, when for whatever reason there was very little interest in pulps from anybody, and some of us were lucky enough to put together the start of very nice collections. But they're definitely jumping in interest, with a lot of comic folks looking at them as an alternative to sky-high comic prices. What we don't know at this point is how big they will become... we could be at the new peak, or we could be nowhere near. I actually suspect this very forum will, if not cause in increase in interest, will speed up the process of people getting interested. There are a lot of collectors here. Pulps may already be the next big thing. But it will probably be a few years before we can look back and say yes, at this point they were.

A trio of digest issues, including what I believe is the first digest issue...

I think this is the only pulp I have with a sports cover...

I can respect your opinion, even if I disagree with large parts of it. Finlay did a LOT more than 1% of the covers, I do like Brundage but will freely grant that her work is in a fairly narrow register and I certainly disagree with those who try to suggest she's the greatest Pulp cover artist. I like a lot of the Bok covers, personally. Freas did quite a few covers late in the run that I like as well. Budget might have gotten in the way of hiring others, I understand that Weird Tales was always more of a niche magazine than a lot of others. It's too bad Gahan Wilson only showed up in time to have interior art in a couple very late issues... I would have loved to see a cover by him on the classic run.

I suspect most of the hero pulps can fit in one generic topic... But Kent Allard and Doc Savage both deserve their own. Since Kent Allard already has his own thread, I figured I would provide one for Doctor Clark Savage, Jr. Most of my issues are near the end of the run, for better or worse:

Well, the last one is actually a bedsheet... and one I badly need. I do not have the Deadline issue. It's high on my want list, but just in general I want to put together a complete run of the Campbell edited Astounding/ Analog run. With that said, it does stand out on my want list because of its historical significance. You could do far worse with Lovecraft than to start with The Shadow Out of Time, I think. I do need to insert my standard disclaimer that, while he's one of my favorite writers, I do fully recognize he's a problematic favorite. The Shadow Out of Time is my favorite of his stories, I remain very happy that that was the first Lovecraft story I got the original publication of. I'm sure others would have good suggestions on where to start with Lovecraft. The one I would warn you away from is Herbert West: Reanimator, which some people unfamiliar with his work track down because they like the movies. It's actually one of his worst written stories by general consensus.

Sorry about the delay: