OtherEric

He used to say he had never paid more than $20 for a comic so that makes his achievement all the more remarkable. He is one of a handful of top indexers in the volume of story and creator credits that he has identified and that have been used by Overstreet, GCD, Atlas Tales etc. I think he said he paid more for one book... his Mad #1 was $40 or $50. But still! Over the past few years, he's also been loaning public domain books to scanners for the DCM & CBP; there are thousands of books that are scanned because he let people borrow them.

Nice one. I've only got a couple of the 1st run of Super Science, but that one is pretty high on my want list. I'm not sure I've ever even seen one for sale. One of these days I should finish off the 2nd run of Super Science, I think I'm only missing 3 issues from that end.

Any idea what happened to the lower right corner? I'm assuming that's what caused such a sharp looking book to grade so low. Just in general, I love books like that when I hit them... Sharp books with one minor flaw that drops the cost way down but are otherwise great. I've got a Venus 11 with about a 3 inch tear in the back cover that would probably otherwise be a 7.0 or so... that I paid a 2.0 price for.

My other two pickups from last week, and one that showed in the mail today: Clearly just readers, but they were $18 the pair. I'm quite good with that price for John Carter stories, I think... Now I just need to find the June 1941 issue, I've got the other four issues with JC stories from that year. ________________________________________________ In addition to the cover story, this one has "The Million Year Picnic" from The Martian Chronicles. I think I now have every major story from that that first appeared in the sci-fi magazines. (I'm missing a couple of the super-short chapters in pulps and all the longer stories that showed in the slicks.) I've never read the cover story, really looking forward to seeing what happened when Brackett couldn't finish a story and handed it to Bradbury to complete.

And a couple more of my pick-ups: Cover's a bit beat-up even by my standards, but page quality is good and there's some good reading in this one; in addition to the cover story there's a Bradbury and a Sturgeon story _________________________________ Well, you can see the contents on this one. The Heinlein story is, of course better known as Magic, Inc. But I prefer the original title, myself.

I'll have to look for the other two issues. Just in general I'm getting really close to the threshold on Planet Stories from "Let's grab a few issues" to "I'm trying to put together the run".

http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=10778 If you can't stand to crack it- or for everybody else- I was able to scan JVJ's copy of this a few years ago, along with the 25 and 27. Frazetta's work is absolutely stunning on these.

I wasn't at San Diego, but as far as pulps go I had a pretty good weekend. Here's the first half of my finds, I'll share the others in a day or two: This one has Ray Bradbury's "Mars Is Heaven", from the Martian Chronicles and one of his best known stories. _____________________ I already had a copy of this one in even worse shape; it's noteworthy for the Fredric Brown (they spell it right inside, at least) story and the only story John D. MacDonald did for Planet. _____________________ The dealer had this marked as an early Philip K. story. (Insert brief filter rant here.) Which is correct, as far as it goes. It actually has his first ever published story. ______________________ This one isn't as impressive on the writing front, although it does have a John Jakes story for those who like his stuff. The impressive bit is who drew an illustration for the Jakes story. Sorry about the scan quality, it was as flat as I could get it without risking damage to the book. I know Wally did a fair number of illos for the digests, Galaxy in particular; but this is the only time I've seen him in a full-size pulp. ________________________ And that's the Planets I got this weekend.

That is one sweet looking book! Gratz on getting it.

Some amazing pickups there, Hap!

Got this in the mail today: Not only does it have an amazing cover, stories include "A Child is Crying" by John D. MacDonald, "Knock" by Fredric Brown, and "The Off Season" (one of the Martian Chronicles) by Ray Bradbury. Not to mention half a dozen Virgil Finlay illustrations. Very happy to add this one to the collection.

Nice Astounding with the first Foundation story by Asimov! Thank you! It is really hard to find, especially in grade No kidding. My copy is one of the very few pulps where I broke down and went for a semi-brittle copy; I'm still looking for an upgrade. According to the dealer, it was one of Van Vogt's file copies. It lacked any provenance, however, so they didn't jump the price... which, oddly, makes me think it's more likely that it really was. If you're going to lie about something like that it's to try and make more money; if it's just thrown out as an interesting fact there's a better chance it's true, I think.

Nice Astounding with the first Foundation story by Asimov!

Walked into a local shop today- not one that normally has pulps- and walked out with this and a slightly thinner wallet:

What the heck, I'll show off one of mine:

And, the highlight, despite being the only one that's not a first edition (it is the 1st paperback, though):

Right, we want a paperback thread? Let's show off one of my favorite writers, even if I'm not allowed to use his name around here...

Oh, hey. I guess I do have another short run that qualifies: I always think of these as the tail end of the Target run, not as a series on their own.

Great collection! Notice how the second issue has 16 less pages...Inflation? The 1948 issue seems to be one of the first, if not the first, of the Fox Giants that were composed of remaindered books. So it has an extra 16 page signature at the front that's unique to the book. It might be the only case on those Fox Giants which actually has the first page of the story on the inside front cover, other than just plain missing as is usual. It reprints the "Cattle Kate" story from Women Outlaws #1. So, not inflation as such. Just Fox being cheap and deciding they can get people to buy the books without the first story page after all. :-)

Just so I have something to play along with here...

Thank you. I'm not a particular fan of his, but he was not a bad writer of SF and it's always fun to discover something undocumented like that.

The lady in red love the cover and title. Was finally looking through the issue, when I noticed it included the story "Heritage of Osiris" by Fred Engelhardt. My question, if anybody has familiarity with pulp pseudonyms: is this actually a L. Ron Hubbard story? He's the only person I know who used the name, but that doesn't always mean much.

One of the premiere robot covers. Congrats, great pick up! (thumbs u One of? Nah, I think that's all on its own as #1 as far as robot comic covers go...