OtherEric

No, I’m hooked up with all those guys…

Got my hands on this one I'd posted an image of in a post back on Manning Stokes, happy to see the art extend around to the back cover.  Cool design

Under the Cover of Night - Manning Lee Stokes (1958.Dell A163) cover Ernest Darcy Chiriacka PBO

Will be keeping an eye out for a vf target of opportunity upgrade and enjoy this as a reader.

Love this cover for some twenty years always compared it to the Punch 12 of pulps.This is the second copy i submitted came back a little more than i was thinking so who wouldn't be happy.

I'm crazy about the girl must have seen her when looking through Pease covers.  I don't know Semple, but the blurb sounds fun, and this is a copy I won't bat an eye at reading.
Would love to see a high grade copy.  This one was graded by a traditional bookseller (no pic) in the vg-f danger zone at a lower price than worse copies I was seeing (still the priciest book in the order though).  It's got the red title inks on white, thin cover stock which often leads to some pinkish bleed (especially visible on the back cover).  How white that cover is a good question, though, and you're totally right that the cheap paper and stock lends to grubbiness. 
Still, the spine on this copy is pretty white, and if you zoom in, you'll see a hard line where the painting/printing patterns start where cover and spine meet.  If I do a cover restore on this one, setting the curves or levels is going to be some tricky business without at least seeing a truly high grade copy to work from.  It's not uncommon for graphics designers to absolutely nuke an amount of minor detail on a paperback cover reproduction in the assumption that a cover or painting is pure white when in fact you might get in close and see patterns of yellow or off-white dots or see the original art and find a painting with much more background shading than imagined.  
A modern book (in my world) I recently did at Flickr is a good example of just the simple yellow dots.  Looking at the front versus the back cover here, the automatic assumption might be that my front cover is discolored or that I treated them differently in the edit, but it's actually just the way the book is printed (and I did leave some amount of age in the first place along with the wide crop - a treatment of the book as a physical object versus just a focus on the graphics)

If you zoom in on the cover you see the little yellow dots lending to a nice contrast with the cutie's hair and those stylish white go go boots At a quick glance you'd think that the book sat in the open face up (not uncommon) or that the images were edited differently, but not so!

I grabbed this with an Amazon card I got for my birthday.  Not that new a release, but a beautiful collection:
 

Quick bookkeeping note:  I'll be on vacation next week, so @Jayman has agreed to step in and post the starter message Saturday night/ Sunday morning.  We're also in the early stages of working on a plan so that running the club is spread out a bit more.

Vampirella #15 thoughts:
It's going to be a bit speed round this week, I'm pretty busy getting ready for a vacation next week.
Cover:  An excellent piece by Sanjulian.  The shaped border works much, much better than a boring box, even if I remain uncertain that the border is nearly as good an idea as Warren seems to occasionally believe it is.
Feary Tales:  Nice art by Corben, but that almost goes without saying.  It also seems to me that it highlights some of DuBay's weaknesses in storytelling, with an ill defined situation leading to an out of nowhere twist.  To be fair, DuBay does so much for Warren that he's going to wind up all over the board as we work though the club, not infrequently hitting excellent.  Just not as often as he hits "so that happened", at least for me.
Vampirella: The Resurrection of Papa Voudou:  An excellent story by Goodwin & Gonzales.  I generally think the Crimson Chronicles is a fairly weak thread tying together the early Vampirella stories, but it's well used here.
Quavering Shadows:  I actually rather like both the art styles Bea uses here, the near photo-realism, and the more sparse simple line he uses at other points.  But using the two together is insanely distracting to me, and I don't think it particularly serves the story.  It's something I could see being used to enormous effect on other occasions, but here it works against the story.
A House is Not a Home:  Not impressed.  I am generally not a fan where the lone surviving family member is attacked for the sins of their ancestors, although there are a LOT of exceptions where it's done well.  But the basic idea is unpleasant to me, and this one doesn't really do anything to get beyond that.
Welcome to the Witches' Coven:  Absolutely gorgeous art by Garcia, but the story is a mess, as seems close to universal with stories from this time dealing with Women's Lib. 
Overall, a decent issue, with a gorgeous cover, very strong Vampirella story and nice art on the others.  But a lack of strong storytelling on the others keeps it from getting much higher than a "decent" rating.
 

I think I've got a couple dozen of the ones you've posted.  And one case of Deja Vu:
 

Quick bookkeeping note:  I'll be on vacation next week, so @Jayman has agreed to step in and post the starter message Saturday night/ Sunday morning.  We're also in the early stages of working on a plan so that running the club is spread out a bit more.

Quick bookkeeping note:  I'll be on vacation next week, so @Jayman has agreed to step in and post the starter message Saturday night/ Sunday morning.  We're also in the early stages of working on a plan so that running the club is spread out a bit more.

Resort Hostess - Gordon Semple (1952.Uni Book 34) cover Raymond Pease PBO

Every rule has exceptions, but you've said this before and it's true 99% of the time with paperbacks and about 98% of the time with comics.

I think I've got a couple dozen of the ones you've posted.  And one case of Deja Vu:
 

Australian G74 (1957) - reprints Four Color #736

TGIF   F!

Psyched to have found a decent copy of this one! Stunning concept and execution. A classic cover  in my book.
 

A box of Avon paperbacks

A trio of cheap issues in from MCS today.  I grabbed the WEST issues for the Zorro stories, and it didn't register until I had it in hand that one of them had an early Louis L'Amour story as well:

Although my personal favorite in that style is actually by Finlay:

"Zorro's Hot Tortillas!" 
 
 

A trio of cheap issues in from MCS today.  I grabbed the WEST issues for the Zorro stories, and it didn't register until I had it in hand that one of them had an early Louis L'Amour story as well:

Talk about lamination.... is it just me, or is this one always plagued with poor lamination? GOD BLESS ....
-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

Some Friday Fun. A day when you upgrade three sweet Dells is always a good day
 
This little puppy is high on my list of books I'd like to hoard, but have a hard time finding copies with nice lamination

 
This blurb suggests his lips make a "Z"   Bob Stanley cover art

 
Victor Kalin scored a knockout on this cover to No. 848, maybe trying to outdo Bob Schulz's shiny fabric/bondage cover on No. 842 "The Corpse Came Calling"

 
 

Apparently, the author felt the need for secrecy with this hot-button subject. I wasn't aware it was an issue that long ago, even though it's heinous no matter what the race. GOD BLESS ...
-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

I got in a new Dell too. Coates is interesting. as an art critic for New York Times back in the day he coined the term 'abstract expressionism'. and was big buds with Gertrude Stein who helped get his 1920s dada SF novel, The Eater of Darkness, published (my obscure pb printed on funky paper)...