OtherEric

I do think his work for UNKNOWN is some of the best stuff by him I've seen, and it seems to be some of the best regarded. Typewriter is probably his most famous and best regarded story:

Hubbard was a decent hack as a pulp writer. Nothing spectacular, but decently readable, even now. But a lot of the demand is from his followers, as near as I can tell, rather than regular pulp collectors. The issue of ASTOUNDING that introduced Dianetics is listed in the new Bookery guide as the most expensive digest issue of the title by far, more than double any of the other digests. Was very happy when I found a cheap reader copy of that one, because I sure as heck didn't want to pay for or care about the main article. But somewhere on my goal list is a complete run of the Campbell Astoundings, so I definitely wanted to plug that hole.

Those are actually a dent in the cover/ scanning artifact, the color is good on the book. You may well be right as to the source.

First Atomic Knights AND a gorilla. What more could you want for your 10 cents?

In today. A classic witzend move: they have two stories by Wood, one by Bode, and portfolios by Crandall and Steranko. What do they put on the cover to sell this collection of talent? A photograph of an elephant's backside. I'm glad I'm putting together this run, because the sheer amount of talent in it is incredible. But it really does feature a lot of aggressively odd choices by that talent...

Thought this was worth showing here as an Arkham House- adjacent book. It wasn't actually published by Arkham House, they licensed the Mycroft & Moran imprint for this and a couple other books. I only wish that attention to detail had extended to the trim size and cover design, so it would fit better next to the other Solar Pons volumes.

I have nothing to add, but I agree completely. Under those exact circumstances, the HtD 1 was the right call.

Out of curiosity, I looked at my run of Arkham Samplers. Only two of the eight issues had clean staples, the rest were rusty to greater or lesser degree. On some of them it was the only notable flaw in otherwise very nice books.

Sheldon Mayer is one of my two all time favorite comic book creators (Walt Kelly is the other). He drew all of #5, cover to cover.

We'll see what happens. I plan my vacation around the show each year, I will likely only be able to go two days if it does get rescheduled successfully. I'm at least slightly skeptical about that happening... not the sincerity of them wanting to do it, but that the situation will have changed enough to make it doable and they can find a weekend when enough guests & vendors will be able to attend. Right now I'm just looking forward to 2021; if we get something later this year it's just a bonus.

This is probably my rarest book, unless it's the other Bell Bakeries Peter Wheat issue I own. I know for certain at least one other copy of this exists; the other issue I have I know at least two other copies exist. So this one gets posted as my rarest.

dungeon to dungeon, blonde to blonde

Found looking through my collection today. Clearly not high grade, but not bad coming from the collection of a teenager who didn't completely understand how to read books without hurting the condition back in the 80's. The 2 is a 2nd, and the Fugitoid I bought the cheaper copy at the flea market where I found these... I didn't start picking up the book new until #8, when my pull box kicked in. Pretty sure that, despite buying them from a reseller, I'm the first person who actually opened any of these other than the Fugitoid. In retrospect, I wish I had paid the $15 for the 3rd printing of #1 instead of the $4 for the 4th... but I was tight on cash in those days.

Claim, unless I'm limited to one CLAIM in the thread. I can't resist a Monster Society chapter, no matter how beat up...

Now I can see the follow-up to the story in 113

I don't know if it's real, but it LOOKS real enough that I ... Now to pop my jaw back in to place.

It shows the .5 I mentioned, but also just has the original BIN price and a ? about how accurate that was.

Such is still my inclination... but I haven't had any luck in the last couple auctions, and a .5 slab broke over $325 (it's hard to tell because the bay won't say exactly what the best offer was, but the next cheapest sale was over that.)

Which tells us the order of creation but not the order of publication. Still, good to know which was created first.

witzend #3 was 1967, no month listed. I really don't know which one actually appeared first, a quick look online fairly rapidly showed sources disagree. Personally, I'm just doing things the easy way:

So, expert opinion time. With ECCC cancelled, I'm considering spending part of my budget on a big EC, specifically a Shock #6. There's a 1.8 on the bay that would cost me roughly $600 with shipping and tax. I'm trying to decide if that's a reasonable price or not, it seems slightly high but not totally out of line. (It's the tax and shipping that adds so much for me that makes it an issue.) I was wondering if people thought that was reasonable or if I should poke around more... or if possibly they knew of a better copy or better place to look. I do know the book isn't going to get any easier with time, and it's definitely the biggest obstacle for me putting together the EC runs I actually want at this point. Thoughts?

GCD suggests Nightmare #13 or Weird Thrillers #3 for the stray wrap.

Like LEAST, not dislike. I'll still get it when inexpensive, or with creators I like.

Claim, if nobody else has already.... (I don't think they have, but may have missed it)