OtherEric

I don't have it, but there is an English language hardcover. Supposedly limited to 500 copies, I believe, and supposedly about half were so badly made they weren't sold. Not positive it they sold 500 of an original 1000, or 250 of an original 500.

I was lucky enough to see Paul McCartney live in Seattle several years ago. For the encore, he brought on Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, and Pat Smear (who was a touring member of Nirvana.) So no, I think they fit together just fine. And it remains the most amazing show I ever saw live, one of those moments where you know you were incredibly lucky to be there that night.

Also, copy of the book ordered... it wasn't as crazy as I expected it to be.

In addition to my last comment: Also, now I want a copy of the book, @jimjum12, and I didn't know it existed before you posted it.

A couple from the local store today:

A few from the local store today, they just reopened after a flood caused by a pipe burst during a super cold freeze a few weeks ago. Any suggestion I grabbed the Monarch specifically to get @Randall Dowling's attention is a vile accuracy.

One more today:

I got in a nice handful of reader grade digests with PKD stories in a few weeks ago, I've been remiss in actually getting them posted. Amazing Stories has "The Commuter", Fantastic Universe has "Souvenir". More over the next few days.

Part of me thinks I should upgrade my US edition of #9. Another part of me thinks "Why bother? You've got a nice enough UK edition, why bother?"

What can I say? Old paper makes me happy.

I really didn't post much the first 50 or so pages, to be fair. I was amused to see that my 1st post in the thread was about John D. MacDonald and my 2nd was about PKD. I certainly started out right on brand, at least!

I was a latecomer to the thread... I didn't show up until page 6, four days after it started.

Not my copy, but:

It depends. If he sells the book unslabbed, claiming that he grades it as 9.4 despite what CGC had it at, that would be legal because grading is subjective to some degree. If he claims in some fashion that CGC graded it 9.4, then yeah, it's fraud.

Throwing in the Reading Library reprint of #6 for comparison, as well.

Monarch books are essentially the book division of Charlton. To this day, I don't think I've ever had one simple fact explain so much in so few words.

Which one? "Peter Reed" is a pseudonym for MacDonald as well. Sadly, I find that generally (not always) Super Science Stories tends to mostly have stories that weren't good enough to sell to other markets, and that's certainly true of MacDonald's work on the title. There's a few exceptions.

#5 seems to be incredibly common for some reason.

Another one for the crosshairs collection.

So, quite a few of these have already been shared here. But, in honor of my having completed the King/ Charlton/ Gold Key/ Whitman run, I'm going to post them all here in order, a couple a day, to get this thread bumped for a little bit.

Pickup from my local store, new this week. Maybe we had discussed this was coming as a magazine but if we did I had forgotten until I saw it:

1928 was clearly a stunning year in pop culture. Just those two August issues are huge, and that’s before we add Cthulhu, Tigger, and Mickey Mouse

The thing is, no less an authority than Isaac Asimov identified the book as one of the three times in SF where a new writer appeared and suddenly they were clearly the best SF writer and all the others were trying to catch up. (The other two were Stanley G. Weinbaum and Robert Heinlein.) The first E. E. "Doc" Smith story and classic cover would probably make this one of the top 10 SF pulps even if the Nowlan story wasn't there.