OtherEric

$30 for one comic with Frazetta? HA! How about $15.70 total for three?

Fresh in today.

33 and 43. 17 issues to go!

No kidding. I will buy uncscanned books from them that I would never touch from other sellers.

My three best pickups of 2019. Coincidentally, one comic, one paperback, and one pulp. All three pretty famous books within the respective field:

Pretty sure it's actually from the back cover of another copy of the book, not through the front cover. My guess... and it's purely a guess... is they ran off the pence variants at the start of the run. @Get Marwood & I has argued in favor of that for at least some of the pence books, not sure if it includes this time frame. At the start of the press run, the inks are fresher and heavier, so more likely to get transferred to the next book. Which is why it's more common with the relatively small pence run.

Here are the back covers of the Lassie 20-22. When I bought the 20 and 21, Randy (the dealer) asked why I was so excited. I told him. His reaction was "Those are Baker?" as he looked at the fronts. He then flipped them over and went "Those are Baker!"

I don't have the 19... I can do this tri, though:

I wonder how many people actually get why that's such a spectacular run to have...

It may have changed name, but the numbering continues:

The story it goes with is charming... and a telling example of just how hurt by the code the EC's were, if that's what they were forced to present as a twist ending.

Today's find. The file name I used notwithstanding, it's not actually a Mapback.

I think the change was because of the cover image, for obvious reasons jokes involving JFK didn't go over well after November 22, 1963. I have the complete run of Help!, it's a mixed bag but has a lot of fun stuff.

The Mad Reader predates Mad #21 and is the first use of the goof (not yet named) by MAD, if I recall correctly. The character actually goes back to around the turn of the century in various forms.

Wish I had realized people didn't know about this already. Pretty sure the Warren collection is unauthorized, though. Particularly sorry I didn't realize people were interested in the Eerie Tales scan. That been at comic book plus/ the digital comic museum since 2011.

This is probably more accurately my "last 5 years" rather than full decade choices, because I can't remember exactly when I got earlier books. But it's two "holy cow I actually own a copy I never thought that would happen" books, and one "I timed getting that perfectly right before it went insane" book. My decision would possibly change given an hour, but these are all absolutely a-list pickups for me:

A couple random pickups found in the wild today.

I'm pretty sure there were quite a few UK adaptations in between. They may have been comic strips, not comic books, though; and I don't know if they were collected back then.

I think the most I've ever paid for a Paperback was $100, earlier this year. And while I don't think it's the most valuable or hardest to find any more, I would say it's the paperback most famous for being hard to find and valuable... (My apologies for showing this again if you're bored with it, it's one of those books I'm so amazed I have I have to show it off periodically. That need will diminish (but not disappear) with a little more time.)

Despite what Overstreet claims the Out of the World Adventures go for a fraction of that in the Pulp market. They are also close to comic book size. I’ll post scans of my copies when I get home if anybody is interested

And the other Conan cover from Avon Fantasy Reader.

Feel free to ask questions here, we're happy to share info, particularly when it gives us an excuse to show off scans as well. And I wouldn't worry too much about posting here, I don't think one more would make things too much trickier to locate. While there are obviously exceptions, most paperbacks are relatively common (relatively being a key word there), and one more person won't throw the market out of control.

A $10 beater pickup this weekend. Supple pages so it's a good reader, at least; and I'm glad to have an issue of the title in the collection.

The Canadian editions of Weird Tales frequently have different cover art than the American editions. The May 1942 Canadian edition, which corresponds to the January 1942 American edition, featues The Shadow Over Innsmouth as the cover story, unlike the American edition. Given that this is one of only four pulps total with a Lovecraft cover, it's understandably very, very high in demand. The only other Weird Tales is the May-June-July 1924 issue of Weird Tales, which cover features "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs", a story Lovecraft ghost-wrote for Houdini. The other two are the February and June issues of Astounding, which feature "At the Mountains of Madness" and "The Shadow out of Time", respectively, and are relatively easy to get, at least compared to the insanely rare Weird Tales. My apologies for the digression; it's one of my personal interests. I hope someday to get at least one of the two Weird Tales, but both are very very difficult...

I find it useful to use "variant" to describe a book printed as part of the same print run, and "edition" to describe something printed separately. I will happily agree that the terms are not always clearly distinguished. The Captain America #75 you mention is clearly a Canadian Edition, not a variant. In fact, it was published by Superior, not Marvel. And yes, annoying sellers try to conflate and confuse the two.