Darwination

Nice copy of that Joker, neat!

Absolutely, RM. Canteen Kate is a truly special Baker series (and there's a long Kate story in Anchor Andrews #1 as well). You can tell how much work and care he put into the title on every page. There's all these extra details in the art, and the layout is inventive. More than anything, though, there's a unique kinetic energy that leaps off every page. Kate's a spitfire, always on the move, and she bounds from panel. Just look at how fast and with what purpose Kate's cutting across that cover Also,In no other comic will you get such a feel for Baker's sense of humor, slapstick and human at the same time. The reader's eye gets pulled side to side, it's like a roller coaster. And you can see how much fun everybody is having from the great facial expressions. Here's that upturned chin again we saw a page or two back on the huffy blonde but a bit different All this goodness right in that one slab there

Show me your girlies, people, even these mooks are throwing down. Who has the issues or some images? I don't think I have em in my files and don't see them at Galactic Central. The cover on the left is a Dealton Valentine probably 1923 to 1925, and the Saucy I'm less sure of a range. Those seem pretty scarce. The Fictionmags cover index could use help with both of these titles if you are holding. The one on the right is an actual photograph but it was pasted on something and the handwriting is obscured, so no help there. A man at sea does need a little cheer from time to time.

Yasssss, love to meet some other collectors of these. I wish I'd picked up more of them when you could get lots for dirt cheap. You can find great splash pages all over the place, but there's no doubt the nice copies of the ones with great cover art are a prize. I'd like a nicer copy of this one: Worship my missile, ladies

With some crossover to the topic of Aussie pulps (on this thread or close by), I wonder if this is a digest? It fits in a digest bag, though a bit skinnier. Can a pub a mere 32 pages in length be termed a digest? 1951, part of the Scientific Thriller series. 32 pages, one illustration, two saddle stitched staples in upper half of the magazine. Blank inner front cover, one story. Kind of a neat format, and the American equivalent doesn't really jump to mind. Paul Valdez was a pseudonym for Alan Geoffrey Yates AKA Carter Brown AKA Raymond Glenning https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/2amdcymppkuqj9a/Paul_Valdez_-_Killer_By_Night_-_Scientific_Thriller_Series_%281951.Transport%29_%28Darwin-IA%29.cbr/file https://archive.org/details/paul-valdez-killer-by-night-scientific-thriller-series-1951.-transport-darwin-ia Some others issues in the series (not in my collection), love the comic-book style covers which seem appropriate for the format: PS all these books are for sale (though they aren't exactly giving them away) via this gallery at Abebooks (more images too): https://www.abebooks.com/collections/sc/australian-vintage-paperbacks-pulps/7RXYkm9F892T0t9zhgj0zw

I've never really been much into it in the past, but I've been doing a little bit of book care or cleaning before presentation. I think I got into it by watching videos of yahoos cracking slabs, cleaning books, pressing books (with all that humidity? really?? though I will definitely be experimenting with some of that with newspapers/tabloids if the fold is going to kill a scan) in the attempt to capture that next .5 of grading. These people are straight up nuts. Cracking and resubmitting books multiple times? I wonder who makes money from this nonsense BTW, if I ever talk about "pressing" a magazine, I'm talking about just putting it between the appropriate heavy objects or squeezed between books in a bookshelf, not some humidity bath and heat thing - But I digress lol. The paperbacks seem to have such a wide variety of cover stocks that likely require different tactics. With a glossier stock just use a tiny bit of water and a cloth? Maybe a little tiny bit of vinegar? I used some Absorbene on this one this morning before setting it up for display or shelving, neat stuff. Probably still want to be careful with it around soft textures or spines and whatnot. Any ID on this one? How about do we know what publisher did the Reader's Choice Library? I think once I can pair the paperback lines in my head with the magazine/pulp lines it'll be easier for me to connect the dots on paperback identifications (and maybe vice versa). These aren't mine but a couple nice covers in the line via Flickr peoples: Saunders might be a guess on Outlaw since he did others in the series (another Gruber even), but I don't know that I'm feeling it. The best one I've noticed in the line so far:

https://darwinscans.blogspot.com/2023/04/sex-november-1926.html

George Gross with the first use of a catcher's mask design Baseball Stories would use twice on top, v01n01 of Fifteen Sports Stories below.

You might be able to find some of this guy's art in another firm's digests as well - https://www.cosmicteams.com/quality/arnold-magazines-digests.html

I love the top one. Was working with a rare one today, another Superior, one in the census, pretty good romance, Our Secret 6. My Secret ran for 3 issues and then switched to Our Secret for issues four through eight. One issue of the My Secret is scanned and one of the Our Secret (now two), so we're looking to lay hands on the rest. My copy, such as it is, soon to be passed on to the next guy. Romance is fleeting heh heh A slightly interesting cover. It's your typical love triangle but with an added foreign element. It's really hard to make that sort of stache look good, Abdul Abulbul... GCD shows all Iger studio credits which seems fair enough, as I see multiple cooks in the kitchen myself. I like a lot of the art in the ish starting with the opening splash: Original artwork for the story sold at Heritage: https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/complete-story/s-m-iger-studio-our-secret-6-forsaking-all-others-complete-9-page-story-original-art-superior-publishers-total-9/a/7097-93764.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515 You just knew a guy with a stache like that was going to be trouble... Matt Baker in the mix? Maybe? This one kind of reminds me of the flying car above, probably just because I'd never seen it before the recent post. A great splash design if also a particularly grubby page, Oh, Canada!!! The last splash. I love these colors. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. lightly touched and rush scans here, I don't doubt myself or another editor will give it a different treatment for the digital museums. The verdict is in, I like these Superior romances. They've got good art and fun stories.

I much prefer the bottom painting and design but the Corgi definitely has that gutter appeal

Anybody up for a little reading? Boxes and boxes of Analog and Astoundings https://www.ebay.com/itm/256237513012 (seller has a few interesting auctions)

It reminds me of this one (though not a MAM)

Just got my new A3 up and running, a budget option but totally amazing compared to what I paid for it (the Scannx 6167). Took her for a spin with the headliner in a batch of five oversized photomags I got last week. I'm running it on an older machine I use for older tech, and the whole installation and operation went very smoothly.

Some truly amazing stuff in there. The Chandler, the Fitzgerald, the Black Mask, wow.

I'm embarrassed to say I don't think I've even read these - I have listened to a little of the OTR. First two issues in 45, the next two smaller issues in 49. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sea_Hound https://archive.org/details/Adventures_of_the_Seahound

lol, Bob

Yeah, that Gun Molls is fanstastic (even if she's got that tiny gun syndrome that got passed around in the pulps). Whatever was done to that image is a bit of travesty (not by me!) so I grabbed a better one. I'll go ahead and post a run of his Gun Moll covers since I just went looking. When it comes to my own files and indexes, I don't spend much time labeling most thumbnails or low res images. They are nice to have for the record but usually useless in terms of artist identification much less art appreciation (though the indexes at Galactic Central can help pair a thumbnail with an ID). Big images are what I like, big images are what I share when I can There's some moire in there but the whites aren't messed up. The v01n01 by the way This one was up in March at one of the excellent Kump auctions, price 1680 Also this year at Heritage, price $528 others