OtherEric

Just for curiosity, what are considered the tricky SF doubles? I think I listed most of them earlier, but are any others considered particularly hard to get? I had the PKD books for a while, since I've been a fan for a long time. I do need to upgrade my The Man Who Japed, though:

And Two Two-Fisted Tales today. Or should that be one Four-Fisted Tales? The 37 gives me the entire 36-41 run of the "new" TFT. They're not as good or interesting as the Kurtzman issues to me, but they're still some great comics. The 25 is, of course, one of the true classic EC issues, with the absolutely brutal Kurtzman cover and the classic "Corpse on the Imjin" story.

Three in the mail today. The Incredible SF has "Food For Thought", which is of course famous for its incredible splash page artwork. The rest of the story is beautiful as well, even if they had to add a page to the end to appease the CCA. Even when the ship was clearly sinking the EC crew could turn out the occasional masterpiece. This is another of my "the spine is split but the book is super cheap" EC's...

Sorry you had to part with it, that was a stunning copy. I really do need to finish off my run of at least the Ace D-Series SF doubles... I've got about 2/3 of them, including all 6 PKD books, the Ellison, the Conan, the D-13 and the D-31...

For me, Munden's Bar was what pushed the book up to great rather than just good. It was a wonderful way to develop the world of Cynosure, and the variety of creators and characters wandering through was amazing. It wasn't that the backups were better than the main story, it was the combination that built the world so well. And Munden's wasn't always funny and the main story wasn't always serious... just more often than not. Looking forward to see what they do with the movie.

Yes. It has work from Wally Wood, Steve Ditko, Al Williamson, Reed Crandall, Art Spiegelman, Harvey Kurtzman, Roy Krenkel, and Frank Frazetta.

Ace Double D-150 to Ace Double D-15

It's not a legend. Indicia says Fox Home Entertainment, May 2005

Today's dollar bin find. Not sure how accurate the few asking prices I've seen for this online are, if they're correct I got really lucky. If they're not, it's still a neat cover:

Today's book. Brundage cover, REH Conan story, C. L. Moore Northwest Smith story. In other words, a very nice addition to the collection:

It's the lone issue of the title not scanned at comic book plus.

I don't know much about those. The May 1942 Canadian edition is exceptionally coveted because it's one of only four pulps with a Lovecraft story getting the cover art. Some of the issues that do use the U.S. artwork are notably edited as the Brundage artwork was considered too extreme.

I suspect it was because More Fun #51 was self evidently earlier than More Fun #52. It's only relatively recently that people have tracked down on sale dates, and even then you can argue it varied from location to location. "On sale at the same time" isn't nearly as impressive as a month earlier.

The annual KAYO visit:.

Today was the annual pilgrimage to KAYO:

Found in the semi-wild today (my annual visit to Kayo books):

Here’s today’s winner. I’m not even sure I can call it a grail, it was just filed as impossible. My mind is just blown that I now own it:

On a normal day, this would be the find of the day. Not today, though still worth showing off:

I think, more often than not, single character books in the golden age were less than monthly. Not always, but not even Superman & Batman were monthly in their own titles until much later. So I can understand some publishers wanting to call attention to it. And inertia is a wonderful thing, so the monthly stuck, at least until Blackthorne went weekly with the series in the late 80's.

Wow. I wonder how the book worked its way to me, it's clearly got more history behind it than most books.

If anyone is interested the book is now scanned and posted at comic book plus: https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=73925

http://www.isfdb.org/ It's about 3/4 just knowing just where to look. And the mindset that lets you spend hours looking at references like that and remembering large chunks of them.

Weird Tales with a C. L. Moore story and a Brundage cover to Weird Tales with a C. L. Moore story and a Brundage cover. (I think I may have used this one not too long ago, but the match is too perfect not to drop it in here)