Xaltotun

Let's add cats and spiders from outer space!

Incredible covers! Beautiful scans! Love the colors! Bravo!

And this copy of Weird Tales, Dec 1936, pristine condition (though the paper isn't as white as I would have liked), with REH, HPL, Bloch, and others, illustrated by Finlay and St John, plus this was one of HPL's contributor's copy, with certificate of provenance and all. Who am I to complain?

A few recent Fantastic Story additions... *

Not technically a pulp, but Clark Ashton Smith's privately published "The Double Shadow" (1933) in über nice condition

Nice! Those Astonishing had cool, if weird, covers!

Picket that one. No war bond, but from June 1940, and a weird cover, in a symbolic way.

Some more pulp goodness:

A few recent acquisitions; nothing as earth-shattering as those of the last few postings... My first hero pulp: back cover by Frank R. Paul

Nice Girasol reprint! No, wait...

And the last four...

Two more Yakimas, (the third Fantastic I got has a problem, with 32 pgs missing, (and 32 others duplicated), so I am sendig it back). Sigh... Here are Bloch, Finlay, St John, etc. and killer copies.

Here are the first three of my recently acquired batch of ten. All are Yakima copies, so page quality and eye appeal is simply unglaublich.

Challenge accepted! And I would like to publicly blame this forum; I couldn't resist those covers any more; I just went on a pulp-buying spree, pulps that do not contain any Howard stories! And am about to buy more! I think I am seriously infected....

"Black Wind Blowing", a weird menace tale set in the piney woods, most recently reprinted in the REH Foundation's Tales of Weird Menace.

Oh man, if one day you ever decide to part with that Thrilling Mystery, I want it! It is just incredible!!!

You gotta love that Detective Book cover! Is that a pure pulp publication?

Bravo! A tough REH issue, and you know you can't go wrong with a charging cossack on the cover!

Now I feel, ahem... informed! Please keep on informing us! Seriously, you never see those covers! I hope the stories are half as good!

No wonder those pulps are that nice! And, yes, what a picture!

A very nice addition to your collection!

I gave the numbers, the links and the statistics. I leave everyone draw their own conclusions. I don't know him personnally, Heck he didn't even say "hi" when sending me emails, the pulp or when he received it back. Simply giving the facts as I have them. I also know he has a history. You guys decide what you wanna do of it.

So, first things first, yes, trimming should have been noted. Many pulp collectors, myself included, don't like trimming, and I prefer slits and overhang to trimming; some don't care, but in all cases this should have been mentioned. The vast majority of the pulps from this collection were bought by none other than the famous Dentist. I know, because he sold tons of them on Ebay in the past few weeks. His ebay handle is Thebigloo. He still has some high grade pulps for sale as I write this. From what I can judge, in retrospect, the immense majority were trimmed, some very obviously. Anyway, I ended up bidding and winning one of those ultra high grade Weird Tales (full red spine, no defect, wonderful eye appeal)... except that it had very obviously been trimmed on two sides (which was impossible to detect from the ebay scans). So I sent it back and was refunded promptly. No problem here. My problem comes from all the work I did before winning that auction. I started tracking most of them, seeing how much they sold for, etc. and discovered something real fishy. Here's the listing I prepared at the time, all based on the bidding habits of bidder m***l (56). Of the 18 Weird Tales I worked on, (I may have overlooked one or two), you can see he didn't bid on the last four (ie the first four, chronologically speaking). He bid on 11 of the 12 others, winning 5. The stars at the end mean feedback received by thebigloo. l***l (56) hasn't left any feedback yet, though his earliest purchase was Jan 06... So you have item #, m***l rank (ie won, 2nd, 3rd, etc.) WT Ish, if feedback was received or not. note that data is a month old and hasn't been updated since. http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&_trksid=p2047675.l2565&rt=nc&item=201015709280 [2nd, Dec 30] **** http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&_trksid=p2047675.l2565&rt=nc&item=201015708302 [won, 12 Jan, Jan 31] http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&_trksid=p2047675.l2565&rt=nc&item=201015705384 [won, 12 Jan, Jul 31] http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&_trksid=p2047675.l2565&rt=nc&item=201015703486 [won, 12 Jan, Jan 32] http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&_trksid=p2047675.l2565&rt=nc&item=201015701769 [won, 12 Jan, Feb 32] http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&_trksid=p2047675.l2565&rt=nc&item=201015707050 [didn't bid] **** http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&_trksid=p2047675.l2565&rt=nc&item=201011698423 [4th, Dec 27] **** http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&_trksid=p2047675.l2565&rt=nc&item=201011697035 [3rd] http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&_trksid=p2047675.l2565&rt=nc&item=201011694697 [won, 05 Jan, Feb 30] http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&_trksid=p2047675.l2565&rt=nc&item=201011693530 [3rd, 06 Jan, Oct 31] http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&_trksid=p2047675.l2565&rt=nc&item=201008342205 [11th, Jul 27] ***** http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&_trksid=p2047675.l2565&rt=nc&item=201008339552 [7th, Aug 27] **** http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&_trksid=p2047675.l2565&rt=nc&item=201008338418 [2nd, Sep 27] ****** http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&_trksid=p2047675.l2565&rt=nc&item=201008336545 [6th, Nov 27] ***** http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&_trksid=p2047675.l2565&rt=nc&item=201005059168 [didn't bid, Apr 27] **** http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&_trksid=p2047675.l2565&rt=nc&item=201005055086 [didn't bid] http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&_trksid=p2047675.l2565&rt=nc&item=201005056403 [didnt bid, Jun 27] **** http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&_trksid=p2047675.l2565&rt=nc&item=201005053663 [didn't bid] In other words, m****l (56) bid dozens and dozens of tiimes on items sold by the Dentist. Go check the bidding history while you still can. When thebigloo had almost only Weird Tales up for auction, m****l (56)'s bidding ratio was something like 95% on thebigloo items. Poor Mr. m****l (56) left hundreds of bids, and he almost always lost! Of course, all those Weird Tales were sold for seriously inflated prices to other bidders who outbid m****l all the time!.Poor m****l (56)... The good news is that mr m***l won 5 of those Weird Tales! Or maybe he didn't, because if you check the feedback of thebigloo / The Dentist, you will see that feedback was never left for/by m***l (56)... As if there never was any real transaction. Could there be a transaction if they are one and the same? At any rate, I wonder where these WT will show up next? Sold at a convention? Someplace other than Ebay? m***l (56) is either the Dentist himself or one of his cronies shill-bidding for him. That Dentist guy is a credit to the hobby, really. Fortunately he doesn't have any valuable items in his collection, right?