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Astounding, for instance, started coming factory trimmed with this issue. Which is a high demand book for other reasons:

Actually a case of not having a scan handy rather than not having the book. I may try to dig it out later this weekend. Jaxon was really an amazing artist.

The real answer is "It depends". I haven't seen much indication that Clarke drives up prices very much, honestly. But other authors definitely can. Actually, most of the value on SF pulps was largely story-driven until recently, now I would say with the exception of a few writers prices are more likely to be cover-driven. Just in general, Two Complete Science-Adventure Books hasn't been a particularly high demand title, it's fairly common as pulps go.

Wizard of Oz the book was public domain, but the Marvel/ DC comic version used elements from the 1939 movie, which wasn't... and still isn't. I think the only reprint in Haunt of Horror was Leiber's Conjure Wife, and due to an error in issue 1 Harlan Ellison's story "Neon" was reprinted corrected in issue 2.

Weird Tales was factory trimmed on the right edge but not the top and bottom for a lot of the run, but I don't know of any where just the top was trimmed. Doesn't mean there wasn't, just that it's not coming to mind.

I don't think we ever had a subscription, but we picked it up pretty regularly during the 80's. It was really a good magazine for a while.

A trio of PKD items in today:

Here's the one I got in today. It has my vote as the hardest PKD book published in his lifetime to locate, given that the only US release was a Gregg Press hardcover. This is the first paperback edition, unless you count a German translation that omits half the stories, which I really don't:

In today, not particularly expensive as MMM's go but one of the harder ones to find. I suspect a lot of people saw the reused cover and thought the already had it. Throwing in my scan of the earlier Saint volume that used the cover as well for comparison:

And two more I think we haven't seen in the thread yet.

Interiors as well, I believe. Got my copy in yesterday as well, same order as the Jungle Jim. Just need 7 and 11 now, plus a complementary copy of #1 if I run across one.

I remember the #36 being one of the harder books to track down when I was working on the run. That #54 looks very orange compared to my copy:

In today, too big for the scanner. Always nice to find a 50 year old book with the dust jacket intact:

Hooray for Wally Wood! In today, actually:

In today. I think this was the only time PKD had a story in Playboy, but I could be wrong:

In today, something of an oddball book. Gotta love Goodwin/ Williamson, though!

It may mean it was sold on a military base? Similar stamps are quite common on Mark Jewelers variants.

For reasons unclear to me, Creep, Shadow, Creep is vastly harder to track down than the other Merritt Murder Mystery Monthlies. Very happy to fill this hole, and it's a pretty copy as MMM's go:

Seconded

Excellent! Glad to see standards being maintained during the leadership crisis. Off to work now, but if the postman is kind I should have some new books to share here when I get home.

I thought Barry's job title was specifically "Angry Vole". Is the program to decrease his anger, or to increase it?

A check of the bylaws suggest that a member is not allowed to abandon a position of power within King Club other than at the triennialx club elections, unless it can be demonstrated that the member has eliminated their eligibility for membership within King Club by divesting themselves of all King comics. Lacking documentation of such divestiture, they're stuck with the job until December 2026. Sorry. x As everybody in the club knows, the elections are triennial in honor of the original run of the King Comics being the three years from 1966-1968, even though the only book believed to actually have come out in 1968 is the hard to find Beetle Bailey #66.

I think the real question may be "What was the first appearance of the Earth-1 Lois Lane?", rather than "What was the first appearance of the Silver Age Lois Lane?" The answer to that question is, correctly, Adventure 128 (presuming the information above is correct) because, in DC lore, the Earth-2 Superman was never Superboy. So the earliest Earth-1 stories were the early Superboy stories, even if that only became apparent in retrospect. Similarly, the last story that is considered to be of the Earth-2 Superman before they officially established the whole Infinite Earths concept was Superman #128, from 1959, because the story relies on Superman having never been Superboy. But stories that had to be the Earth-1 rather than Earth-2 version had been appearing for a while now. Earth-1 is not purely Silver Age and Earth-2 is not purely Golden Age in the stories themselves, even if they do mark the general boundaries. So, unless somebody can point to an in-story reason why something is considered the 1st Silver Age Lois, you can pretty much pick whatever date you want to start the Silver Age at (and Showcase #4 is probably the most popular choice), and go with the issue closest to that.