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Xaltotun

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    Yeah, it *is* an ambiguous cover. What's Murray famous for?
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    The three latest additions to the REH pulp collection. In seven years of collecting REH pulps, I had never seen any of these listed, so the three of them in superb condition, nice paper and all, in one fell swoop... I took the plunge immediately.
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    You gotta love those reds and yellows, provided they don't blind you. Unglaublich!
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    Yeah, they seemed cheap for a long while, then, wham!
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    Sure, but you had to have deep pockets to bid on those. But sure, impossible to compare to the comic collecting fandom. The pulps aficionados number in the hundreds max. Which is why prices are comparatively low. It's apparently a thriving niche market.
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    Weird Tales are officially gone, as well as a good chunk of the pulps offered. The battle for the "leftovers" begins...
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    250k will bring you a complete run in exceptionally high grade condition of the most prestigious pulp ever. The same amount of money will fetch you what, a mid-to-acceptable copy of Action 1 or Detective 27? Whole different playground.
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    Yeah, those Shadow items are really cool! Beautiful stuff!
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    Didn't know that, nice story. Mark is gonna be proofreading that very story for the third volume of the upcoming REH Foundation's "Complete Boxing Stories" (4 volumes in all, with volumes 2 and 3 devoted to the Costigan stories.)
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    I got a number of items from the Richardson auction. I'd say he's consistent but a bit on the optimistic side when it comes to grading. Nothing drastic, but when he says "VF" is a synonym for perfect, I'd rather say it's very high grade, but certainly not perfect.
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    Another Fight Stories with a Steve Costigan story bu Robert E. Howard.
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    Back here... I have been wondering about this "maximum bid already showing" thing... And any idea who bidder 1234 might be? And nothing like reading your notes under some candle-skull light...
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    In 1933, Weird Tales had a string of covers with no texts whatsoever. These are really nice, imo.
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    This is nice! (meaning, creepy!). Now I'm gibbering.
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    Actually, it's more complicated than that. There is no way to way to know if the last three pages or so of the story were rewritten by the editors or by Howard himself. I'd tend to think REH himself did the rewrite, exactly in the same fashion he did for several contemporary stories. I'll email you the details later today.
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    Ghost Stories are also very hard to come by, in high grade even more so, and the Howard issue is almost impossible to find... That issue also has a story by Walter Gibson, but I don't know if there's any Shadow connection.
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    The only issue of Argosy to feature REH, Burroughs and that weirdo Hubbard in the same ish:
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    Howard had five stories published in Argosy in 1936 (+ one in Argosy All-Story Weekly, in 1929). Here they are
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    July 1933, with Howard and Lovecraft and a killer cover:
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    I have April, I have June, but not May, sorry.
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    A very nice bunch of Brundage covers! Here's another favorite of mine, the March 1938 ish (sorry about the Mylar glare on the bottom):
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    I'm still somewhere between 2 and 3, and wondering if there's not a Delusional stage at some point (as in "Maybe he'll give them to me" or "What if I had something he really wants to trade for that [Fill in the blank]"? I am trying to avoid O.D., 100 post a day, no more, no less. Mithridatisation as applied to the colleting area.