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https://www.newsfromme.com/2024/04/10/trina-robbins-r-i-p/ Just a legendary creator, and one of my favorite underground artists. I'll try and get some covers scanned later tonight.

Today's book. I'm down to three Ace D&S series SF non-doubles to go:

Did we ever figure out the artist on that one? We agreed the ISFDB was wrong when they said Bok, as I recall.

Dave Barry was definitely where I first encountered the joke. It's still a great one.

One of the all time legendary paperback covers!

Try searching for "Next issue project". I see at least three copies for sale, two on eBay and one at @mycomicshop. Not hugely common but not particularly hard to find, either.

But, let's cut ahead to the big reveal: The group shot (such as it is) of the D-Series Ace Science Fiction books. There's definitely a few I would still like to upgrade, but overall I'm quite happy with the set for now.

And a few assorted items to round out the lot. The John D. MacDonald is the 1st publication of the story, and one I haven't read yet. The Dell and the Pocket were both generous bonuses, I do love the pockets with the sequential numbers at the top. And can any of us here resist mapbacks?

A couple more Aces (they're the ones from other sources) and a couple round logo Avons:

A nice stack in from @Surfing Alien's latest sale today, plus a couple from other sources. We'll start with the Ace Doubles. I'm not generally going to bother with the F-series Doubles, other than the SF, but I couldn't resist the F-102 where the look of the doubles hadn't actually switched over from the D-series style. More importantly, any day where I get a single digit D series book is a great day. The D-223 is a nice upgrade:

Cracked Slab Bad Girls Virgin Variant Prototype

This is new… I’ve apparently used up my quota of reactions for the day. But I’m still loving most of the posts here!

Treasury Edition

You’re always a bit off. But we wouldn’t want you any other way.

PLOD

A gospel choir called Church Collection

Ratio Variant Subscription Crease Cream... wait, that one has already been used...

I went ahead and created a thread over in Comics General for the band name jokes, so we don't totally derail this thread:

Somehow, a recent discussion over in the Heritage Pulp Auction thread has diverted into some silliness over comic collector terms that would make good band names. I was guilty of starting it when @Surfing Alien mentioned some overpriced pukey beaters, and I asked if Pukey Beaters had opened for the Dead Kennedys back in the day. Some other suggestions came from @tth2 and @Aman619 and myself, including: Low Grade Drek Dust Shadow (clearly an emo band) Brittle Pages The Rusty Staples Anyway, I thought it might make an amusing topic for everybody, instead of just the few of us hanging out in the pulp threads. Anybody else have some suggestions?

I've always thought that this was a spectacular cover.

In today. This gives me the complete run of all 75 1/2 Ace D-Series SF doubles, which is roughly 1/8 of the entire D-S-G run and a definite milestone in my collection. The Star Guard leaves me 6 short of all the D-S SF books in total, and half of those I've got on order already. It will be a few days before I do a group shot of the doubles because I've got an upgrade on one book on the way from @Surfing Alien's recent sales thread, but I'll definitely do one soon. I really do need to figure out what later SF doubles I need, I've got lots but I've never put together an organized list. Anybody know off the top of their head how many there were total? (I don't include the very late doubles that only have one cover even if they are two books.)

Trying to think of others, it might be worth doing a thread in comics general for fun. Bug Chew- Punk Subscription Crease- New Wave Dust Shadow- Emo Church Collection- Gospel Cream- I think somebody already took that one...

My list of reasons was never meant to be all-inclusive.

Didn't Pukey Beaters open for the Dead Kennedys back in the day?

What's that look for? He's one of the two writers named on the cover. My low grade copy: