OtherEric

War Heroes to Revolutionary War Hero

EC to EC. This one is from the Don & Maggie Thompson collection:

Fresh in today. 5 issues to go, or 6 if you include the Deadliest Heroes one-shot. I need to replace my recently deceased scanner, but there are so many books I want more!

Those are just jaw dropping books!

I do think the pulps, or at least the Hero and SF pulps, have a somewhat better survival rate and significantly lower demand than the comics. But if Doc Savage had been a comic, it would have gone for 10-20 times what those sales were, at a minimum. I sometimes cannot believe some of the pulps I actually own, honestly, given their importance. I'm quite happy that I do, however!

Wow. I don't know what the first issue normally goes for, but that does seem like a bit of a jaw dropper in the grade it was in.

I figure once you start including promos and variants, there is roughly zero chance that there AREN'T unknown GA books out there. For example, I found this book about 9 years ago. When I did, Overstreet said the series only ran to #30. The Fort Mudge Most claimed it ran to #36. Since then we've found issues as late as #65 and we're really not sure that's the last issue. In fact, we suspect it's probably #66 but nobody has seen a copy that we know of. Welcome to the boards, by the way!

It wouldn’t surprise me. I suspect the first Brainiac 5 might be getting a bump with the character on Supergirl if you’re looking for a specific reason for heat right now.

I vaguely recall an interview with one of the POTA creators (Tom Sutton, perhaps?) describe working on the title as "We went Ape-s#!t !". He really wasn't wrong, Crazy, crazy series. Enjoy your run, goodness knows I enjoyed reading mine.

I was not trying to tie circulation to whether something was amateur or professional. I was trying to tie the print run to the mechanism of the printing. The Vagrant was clearly professionally printed; the printer would have demanded a minimum press run. Whereas a mimeographed magazine would hit an upper limit as the mimeograph masters wore out. I agree with pretty much everything you said, otherwise.

Today’s book, with a beautiful Bok cover

And, fresh in today, the February 8, 1947 issue of the Saturday Evening Post. First publication of "The Green Hills of Earth" by Robert Heinlein. Noteworthy for quite a few reasons, starting with the fact that Heinlein (or any science fiction writer) got a SF story published in one of the "Slicks". It's hard to understand now just how unheard of something like that was at the time. I'm honestly not sure I really get it completely myself; but it's clear from reading any history of the genre or comments from writers just what a big deal it was at the time. The main character, Rhysling, has a crater on the moon named after him. It was originally named by the Apollo XV crew and later officially adopted. "We pray for one last landing On the globe that gave us birth; Let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skies And the cool, green hills of Earth."

I would expect the circulation to be very slightly higher; Wikipedia also suggests the print run on Fantasy Fan was closer to 300. Admittedly, either number suggests an extremely small run; but professional printing rather than mimeographing would require a minimum order in most cases. Still, a very tiny number in either case, and who knows what the survival rate is.

Does anybody know if there's a meaningful difference between an amateur magazine and a fanzine? At least, in terms of production and circulation... there are fairly clear differences in content and objectives.

Creepy 16 & 17 (strictly reader copies), 7 total Hulks, 8 Deadly Hands including 23 & 33, Marvel Preview 5 & 6, the last issue of Unknown World's of SF I needed, and a couple others. Lots of good reading for not much money, I think.

Terry was blowing out mags at $5 at Jet City today, I got a couple dozen. Some highlights (the Creepy was actually $10, but still super happy at that price):

I still say this is the title this thread should be about, given the thread name. Found these 2 today, only 5 more to go:

A pickup at Jet City today. My 60th new trend/ new direction book:

New addition to my sketchbook today by Ty Templeton

Looney Tunes star to Looney Tunes title

How the heck did I miss this when you first posted it?!? Finding one of the early Lovecraft stories like that is just amazing; I consider myself extremely lucky just to have a few of the more common pulps! (More common being a very relative thing, of course.)

I had never heard of the magazine before, it looks amazing. To be fair, other than the early 80's I know almost nothing about German periodicals. (Even in that window what I remember is limited to the small box of Disney comics from when I lived there as a kid.)

And Detective was less than monthly in the 70's, as well.

I know at least 3 copies of this book exist. It's the only one of at least 9 Peter Wheat books in this small format that I know of that I've found a copy of, or even seen a copy for sale in the nearly a decade I've been looking.

Do you figure this is a particularly hard issue of the run to get, or is it just one you happen to have?