Darwination

On 5/9/2024 at 9:14 PM, lbcolefan said:

Killer.  Who knew Mark Schneider could throw down such a nice brand of kitschy cheesecake?  It looks like it was just a run of 5 issues in this style. Nice work catching such nice copies!

I had to skip out on most of the auction for dinner, but don't see anything tooo surprising.  I think the high results on the Blue Books and Redbooks for the E.R.B. is a Heritage thing, but I admit I haven't watched those particular issues on eBay.  A lot of the prices seemed a little low? At least lower than I expected to see.  Maybe it's just chalked up to a mid-week auction or lack of Spicy/Weird Menace to bring in the eyes   I definitely didn't see a crazy bump for CGC books outside of maybe a higher level of trust in books graded as 7.0-8.5 and whatnot.

The most surprising results (to me) were a couple of Harrison mags in lower high grade hitting 500 bucks apiece. The Super Science Fiction 18 digest lot that hit 1800 was somewhat remarkable. Someone was very excited to get their hands on a 9.2 Shadow.  I think the really high grade books are going to start grabbing "top of census" investor types 

And this one went for 1440 missing a page, but it *is* quite lovely

I'm not sure the prices are remarkable, but these N.C. Wyeth New Story covers are pretty notable.

Hot damn, somebody's chasing some beat Redbooks for the ERB serial for sure.  Wonder if the fire and fury will die down after that first one...

I'm still confused about what level trimming has to get to to get purple.

Wow!  Love this.

I'm a sometime collector of Sir! and Man to Man, fun mags

Hate to bring vulgar sales talk into the Bolles thread here, but there's an interesting one up tonight at HA that's sparked my interest.  Already at a grand, it's a high-grade copy, but I'm pretty confident it is not the best I've seen.

Missing a page, which obviously doesn't seem to affect the Bolles collectors that are already jousting for it.  Curious where it will end up - a 37 Gay Parisienne isn't exactly the scarcest of creatures even if the high grade ones are few and far between.  It sure is pretty, tho -

and Ruth Eastman

The bean hold, an immobilization technique, teasingly involving flatulation

Fantastic, Bob.  It's really, really hard to find love pulps in anywhere near this nice of shape.  Rangeland Romances was a great long running romance title with many fantastically playful covers that celebrate young love in simple storytelling scenes between cowboys and cowgirls. Unlike Ranch Romances, it eschewed action scenes on the covers for straight romance    

Whose copy was this?

On 5/7/2024 at 11:56 PM, OtherEric said:

 

Had to find a back cover to find out what's up with the weird hypodermic to the zombie eye / elf girl thing going on, a wraparound to boot.  Watch out, boys, they've had enough of our bull

I've got a couple from 63, it'd be awfully fortunate to have the one you're remembering.

I actually own a replica of that very Destroyer mask.  I used to put it on when the kids were misbehaving and chase them around the house.

I used to write about 50s era wrestling but haven't in a good while. 

Debbie Harry's down with one of the Dick Beyer's other masked personas, too

Edit: Don't let's get started on blondes, though.  I married one of those, and that's a whole 'nother ball of wax

A couple of my absolute favorite redheads from my girlie pulps, Harry Moskovitz is the artist.

That's Mae Weston choking out Carol Cook. Jack Dempsey as referee!

https://archive.org/details/official-wrestling-v-01n-04-1951-08-d-vs-m-ia

Here's Moolah choking Penny Banner, though

Second purchase in from SA.  Nice grading, packaging, and communication with a freebie to boot.  A pleasure and a recommended seller.

I went down just to get the Atlas book and for the fact I hadn't gone in years.  After a road trip across two southern states where I'd visited 5 or 6 SAD looking stores in which I purchased not a single book but only a couple of records in exchange for good convo with the friendlier owners (bad locations, no customers, living the dream ), it was nice to see my LCS in Memphis full of kids and their parents, a snow cone food truck outside, and generally beaming faces.  They didn't have the Atlas book but did spend a long time looking for it for me.  Ended up walking out with a fistful of undergrounds, basically the last of the remnants of the whole of the older back issues boxes I've thumbed through the last couple times I've visited.   It's tough, I want to support my store, but I feel like it's charity when I buy there versus Amazon (the little new stuff I get tends to be art books or trades). 

I do like to pick back issues, but there's only so many GA books or undergrounds there, and I barely ever see new stock come in.

I spent maybe 30 bucks after being given a friendly discount from the 50 bucks marked on the bags, and they told me take all the free comics I wanted.  I took the Asterix and the TMNT thinking I'd let some kids enjoy the rest.

The best comic I came away with (cept maybe a high grade copy of Big Apple Comix) was this one, but I do love to tease the fanboys.  Hmm I did get a Fightin Marines with Canteen Kate, too...

My LCS does have a very nice copy of Psychoanalysis #1, but it's got some unfortunate tape pull on the girl, so all I ever do is look at it.  Also a copy of Weird Thrillers #2 with a chunk out of the corner and the back cover missing, I look at that one every time, too...

On 5/7/2024 at 3:59 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Hey, that "Schmoe" is Lou Marchetti! 

I've got trainer I can hook Lou up with - I think the first words he'll say are "push-ups."    Firehair there can pick him out a pair of pants that fits, too.

On 5/7/2024 at 3:59 PM, Surfing Alien said:

 Nobody should seek them out though, there's nothing to see here 

Don't worry, I didn't just go through them all and add *that* many to my list.

On 5/7/2024 at 1:13 PM, Professor K said:

Maybe it's the boring white shirt 

I'm not real crazy about some of the aspects, but I love the eye and the spiraling blue and yellow "classic"