OtherEric

Been a good few weeks for me pulp-wise, assuming everything I won shows up. Here's a start: Oddly enough, that may be the best known pulp cover art these days... even if most people probably don't know where it originally came from!

Just got this gem at my LCS today: Does anybody know if the "Library Copy" indicates a file copy? It doesn't look like the stamp I've seen on most Dell File Copies, but most of the file copies I've seen are from a few years later than 1947, so it may have changed.

Oh, a quick question on the Bugs Bunny Giants, in case anybody knows: Do Bugs Bunny's Vacation Funnies 6 and 8 have variants without ads on the back cover? I know The Winter Fun issue does, and am looking for it at least somewhat; I'm not sure on the Vacation 6 and 8. Those are the only 3 where I have the ad on the back cover versions, or at least where the ad version is my only copy.

And, just in time for the holiday, the last three Bugs Bunny Christmas/ Winter Giants: Sadly, my copy of the Winter Fun giant is the variant with an ad on the back cover, so only the front cover this time: Got a handful of Looney Tunes issues from Lone Star today as my gift to myself; I may post a few in a few days. 210 down, 36 to go... and I also got Bugs Halloween Parade #1, which was the last Bugs Giant I needed.

Just popped in here, the work on the "missing" Four Colors is just amazing to see. Thank you.

As far as I know, only Bell Bakeries did the mini-issues like that. But there are several different formats they did Peter Wheat comics in addition to the 1/3 height Bell Bakeries 8 pagers: The Adventures of Peter Wheat, which was a relatively normal 16 page comic: Peter Wheat News, which was a 4-page flyer where you could cut off the back page and fold it in half to make a 4 page digest sized mini comic: And the Peter Wheat Fun Pac, which included a edited reprint of an issue of Adventures along the top: The Adventures of Peter Wheat issues aren't common, but the other three formats are all downright rare in my opinion.

Just got this little Walt Kelly gem in the mail today: Has anybody else ever seen any of these little Bell Bakery Peter Wheat issues? Even more than Peter Wheat News, these mini issues are just incredibly scarce.

The problem with my last post is, while it's relevant to the specific post it replies to, it doesn't really fit the thread as a whole. Let's get something that does.

It is indeed: You can even see the "E" in "Crime" bleeding through slightly if you look closely.

My copy is the reprint as well, with the 4-engine plane. It will suffice. If my scanner could handle the treasuries, I would post those too. But since it can't, I won't post them or the digest. Still, I'm happy having the full run.

It looks like these had been posted much earlier in the thread, but are gone now. So, let's have the set:

I'm not sure why Daffy got short changed in the Looney Tunes issues and the giants, but Mr. Duck sure did. Daffy didn't even have his own feature in LT/MM for ages, even when they were going so far as to invent new series such as Pat, Patsy, and Pete or Kandi the Cave Kid to fill pages in the early issues.

And let's get 5 and 6 up as well, 7 was in the original batch I posted. 8, 9, and the Winter Fun issue will go up in another day or so.

Thank you! Here's the back cover to go with it:

OK, let's show off a few more: My copy of #3 is missing a chunk off the front cover, I really should upgrade it. If anybody has a copy handy, please post it! I'll work my way a little further down the run in a day or two.

Pretty sure that's the first pure SF double; with D-13 "Cry Plague" is considered SF but the other half isn't. (I think that's the number and title...)

Nice snag on the Omar Super-Book! I've posted these before, but they seem seasonally appropriate at the moment:

And, for variety, a couple SF books with Cordwainer Smith stories- including his first one: And, slightly later date than I would normally post here, but it's an amazing cover even by Finlay standards:

My first- and probably close to last- western pulps. Grabbed these because they each have a story by John D. MacDonald, 2 of the only 3 westerns he did: I find the 15c price on Dime Western hilarious. That's the problem when you outlast your projected end date, I guess. (See also: 2000 AD)

I don't know if I've ever posted in here before, I don't have many Fox books. But I just got one today, so might as well share it: Not a Fox book, you say? But it is, as the first page shows: The interesting thing is what the interior ISN'T... which is Dorothy Lamour 2 or 3, or even Jungle Lil 1. It's clearly an issue of the Fox series, but it wasn't actually ever published by Fox. Nobody's quite sure if all copies were remaindered without being released, or if whoever had the Red Circle covers got plates to an issue somehow.

Very, very happy to finally get this one. This is one of the issues with a Scribbly story by Mayer; and unlike the 32, 33, and 39, this one just never seems to show up. I suspect the only reason I actually won this one is the seller listed it as brittle pages- looking at the photos, I was pretty sure they didn't know what they were talking about and I was right. They're slightly tanned but extremely supple. Now I just need 3 actual issues of Scribbly for the whole late 40's-early 50's run; this was the last of the 5 books with backup stories I needed.

Sadly, I've only got one Baker Romance book. On the plus side, it's all Baker: