Darwination

My wife was a lepidopterist in a former life, so I like to collect "Butterfly" covers, a couple from Bolles:

Wow! The Diary Secrets cover is totally iconic. I like the blonde on the Romances edition, too. Amazing group there, RM

These are St. John Giants. Squarebound and all apparently unindexed o.O I'm thinking all reprints. https://www.comics.org/series/20250/ I've got number 6 - will take a closer look at mine and index it at the very least:

This year, BEAT DOWN, decription reads "Severe chipping, brittle, large tears" FR

I'd love a copy of this, even a beater copy

MAMs not in the pulp area, eh? These are pulps, and don't let the high falutin kind of fiction lover tell you otherwise. P U L P My complete run of Rage, one of Everett Arnold's sweats. I've got dupes of some of these and I think a much better copy of the v01n01. Most if not all of them have splash work from Matt Baker among their other charms. Natlus would come out with a new series by the same name in 1960. Scanwork of a Baker splash in v01n03 for an early Harlan Ellison piece of journalism as he infiltrates street gangs to get the lowdown.

Golf Courses: They came to add flavor to the broth

"I Hate Crime!" These are great. Crime cutie here looks to be the same artist as the middle book in the first post of these. I sometimes like to tease the UK and Aussie crowd about their pulp art, but the truth is there are a lot of nice ones (in with some horrible ones) with something of a unique style. An example, I posted a pin-up from an early Adam recently that I'm just crazy about, artist unknown. There's a nice freely available epub from an Australian uni on their pulps you can check out at the IA You Go High, We Go Low: Australian Pulps 1939-1959 - Stuart Kells https://archive.org/details/kells-stuart-you-go-high-we-go-low-australian-pulps-1939-1959/mode/1up or if you are even more interested, an interview with the author upon its release My two faves from the book:

Dude, it is in no way a crime to post or buy low grade pulps. In my experience, especially with early and low run titles, there are issues you never even see. And with a ten dollar pulp, you might just feel comfortable reading it on the can or at the pool. I've let many girlie pulps pass or been a condition snob and NEVER seen em again. And now that wee price point will have exploded 10 times (at least). Just this morning I'm crying in my coffee thinking about a pulp somebody listed this weekend as VF or some mess that was more like VG, and I only took a healthy swing and not a ridiculous one on principle. Now I regret it, as I'd been hunting the issue for 15 years, and it was the first time I've seen it. A pulp is truly only worth what someone will pay. I guess the flip side of that is you can sometimes get a rare romance or sport pulp for a dollar because nobody cares... I don't think G-Men is that scarce, but on the other hand I don't see all that many. With a unique title like that it may just avoid some of the standard eBay searches, though...

Anybody else collect these? The thread title is a nod to the fourth issue of Daniel Raeburn's excellent series on comics, The Imp. Lord knows where I've gotten my hands on stacks of these grubby little comics. I have very few in a decent grade, but grubby is as grubby does. Little squarebound mini comix on various grades of paper - usually color - sometimes black and white. Various genres - mostly crime, horror, and romance. There's a few artists you see over and over, really great but also really prolific. Comedy abounds. As does violence. And sex. Pulp art, no doubt. My Spanish is sketchy, and I believe there's a lot of slang. I don't really have to understand to understand I don't know if this is the place for them, but this Comic Magazines area seems to be a catch-all for some of the more esoteric tastes... I'll show you my Perversas if you show me yours

Oh, Enoch.

These are enormous editions, requiring a splice of two A3 scans. The unfolded copies I have are among my favorite items in my whole collection.

Not scarce, surely, but I was looking at this Harvey today and this thread seems like a nice place to share my grody comics with the romance lovers Harvey romance rocks. If you don't know, now you know. Escape by ladder. And, what, is dude wearing a man purse? Doc Oldschool with the edits on the issue in the images below. Like myself, he's recently returned to the scan scene and will be working with me a bit - I'm very happy to have one of my best former editors back in the fold. I've poured out my love to you like wine. I think both of them have been drinking. The centerfold. Mixing fashion, passion, and violence, just what every teen-age girl likes in her comics. The shame and thrill of Backstairs Love... Her dad dies, she has to leave school, and then she meets this mook. Raw Deal!

I sent this one on its way last week, not a great copy but a great cover I've got one in nice shape up this week (in my world), though maybe not nice enough for how you freaks roll around here Not the greatest Cole but a nice first issue: It's an interesting market. He did so many comics, people let some of the unremarkable ones go by and then pounce on even beater copies of better ones. Just putting some Cole up for a few weeks has fetched me about 5 different eBayers asking if I'm holding Mask Comics (I'm not, but I wish I was!) We goldenage scanners still haven't been able to lay hands on even a coverless copy of Mask 1.

I remember being surprised when the original sold for 40 grand back in 2008, very high for a pulp painting. I bet it'd sell for 100K today.

I'm not sure that looks like Spencer Tracy I went to the IMDB to refresh my mind on the movie and see I gave it 8/10, so it's a good one. Sort of a weird modern western iirc where an honest man finds himself in the middle of a dishonest town and involving a unexpectedly sober look at anti-asian discrimination in wartime. I didn't know there was a literary source (there often is).

In the mail today, an upgrade (great color!) - a favorite cover from George/Oscar/Jack/Otto Greiner. It makes me feel better about a most wanted that got away today on eBay, but I'm still singing the girlie pulp collectors blues (get out of my playhouse, new bloods! :P). It's ok, these birds of paradise are spreading good cheer. Bigger than your standard girlie pulp in this era, Gayety (later Paris Gayety) is a gorgeous mag in the Shade line. Sure, Pep may have Enoch Bolles or Bergey covers and more name authors, but Paris Nights is bringing high production values, neat design features, and underappreciated artists like Jack Greiner and Harry Moskovitz along with a solid claim to being the first of the girlie pulps. Check out the design from this issue. Neat use of red inks along side the black for some flair (Ward Story centerfold) Nice sepia photos to contrast with a blue ink in the slick photo sections