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The glue work is super common and varies greatly. If it's a thin bead right along the spine with an archival glue, it's hard to tell it's there and likely can be credited for keeping the cover well-attached through various readings. Other times the front cover glue will meander in an inch or so on the first page (annoying if it's the TOC). Sometimes I'll find that some pulp owner has done this to almost every book in their collection - definitely a "taking care of my books" thing for lifelong owners. No doubt cover hinges can get really delicate even on books where the interior remains totally solid. When the glue is applied with some worry about the value of the book, it seems like it's just a drop or two at the top or bottom of the spine to guard against split or further split. I'm mostly surprised by all the purple just cuz the preliminary interviews seemed to indicate some glue would be allowed for. Seems good to note it, though, for collectors that are bothered. I'm not at all except when it's a heavy glue job that affects the color on an otherwise nice example of a cover (where it seeped through).

Reasonably affordable probably doesn't apply to this batch, though, eh? Junkie is William Burroughs' first novel - what's the flipside? (What a nice copy!) I grew up in Lawrence, KS, and met Burroughs once as a kid (he offered a group of us Lemonade -). Of course the townie stories and lore meanders into surreal territory That Fraternity of Shame cover is wild. Anybody know the artist?

I'll occasionally make the crack that I'm about to go blood simple when I start to lose my cool

MMkay, was looking more closely at the Easy Money cover I was praising up there and caught the signature: It's Charles McCann who worked for the Shades and later Harry Donenfeld. The above cover might be his best, but he did this electric chair cover, too, a near-classic: One original painting at Heritage (September 1935 The Gang Magazine) Looks like he mostly did interior illustration, particularly for Spicy Mystery. David Saunders has a short entry at his pulp wiki on McCann with various signatures and examples. For my digging, I was rewarded with the solving of a minor mystery in the my pet area, the girlie pulps, by figuring out who was behind this grotesquerie, his thus far earliest catalogued work (and perhaps only girlie pulp cover appearance):

Remarkable grading skills up top there, gentlemen Happy with the bullseyes but would happily trade one or two to erase the four ones and the minus one. Even if I tease a bit around here about these blue boxes, I do like learning the skill

One bullseye and the rest undergraded. Crime Mysteries by a whole point It's purdy, tho Thanks for a fun contest, Point Five!

Grades in. Promptly and with supreme care Date night, I'm sure everything will be fine

*Killer* manga - the art is just next level. Takashi Mike's film version is great, too. Was thinking the manga was actually collaborative and studio work under the single pen name, but that's not what I'm seeing at the wiki.

Oh, totally, I am not smearing The Cat! A very common symbol used in a number of cultures (and sort of a simple pattern to draw). I believe a backwards version is on a lot of the Hersey pulps. I even went back after I wrote that last night to check the cover to see if I was missing fiction of note - not that I could detect - I recognized Dwyer from The Popular but that's it

Needs more star boobs and little people

Alright, as promised, commentary on this funky monkey little auction. Top dog - the Fame and Fortune Magazine above. I'm not surprised and think it's a worthy winner. I think the timing of the magazine with the stock market crash that precipitated The Great Depression makes it a classic. Not to mention the high rollers at Heritage no doubt dig the Wall Street imagery - Second dog: One of three 20s KKK covers that did well. Collectors love them some KKK The best KKK-ish cover/issue in the auction was The McClure's with the black hood cover/Bulldog Drummond story that ended with the relatively low hammer, maybe it's the photo cover: #3 was this one. I'm not familiar with it, but it has importance in comics circles, I'm told. I'm clueless about the contents: Those Fifth Column are intriguing, I'd love to read one and find out. I guess the swastika and tarantula was everybody's fave, but I think the snake ish that was up is KILLER, it gets the biggie size treatment but speaking of Nazis, wtf, put a swastika on a Black Cat and it's worth a mint? O.K. The Black Cat is a charming little magazine, dare I say pulp, that had some very cool fiction and an excellent vibe. Forget the swastika, I like my kitties zen'd out I'm not going hard at a Boys' Friend Library but on the other hand you may never see this again. BAD VIBES, MAN, BAD VIBES, hammer price 660. ONLY BECAUSE YOU COULDNT GO 666 MMkay, the one I let get away. I think this is gorgeous, really cool covers on the title. Not sure who the artist is but some neat early experimentation at Fawcett with this magazine: Hard to find and very hard to find in nice shape like that one, I've got a single ish in my boxes: The June 36 edition with H.J Ward cover of the unique title Easy Money went for a fair price, but this one got slept on imo. I slept on it, too. Tremendous art and design, wonder who it is. I'll stop there, but the pattern continued with newbs in the pulp game of overpaying for more common items but there were also scarcities that went undetected. Granted, I get that the vintage magazine waters are a bit untested at this type of auction... The Sports Story with three REH stories was awesome, but there's still not much love for Sports pulp, kind of on the bottom of the heap. Some really nice mags went unbid or sold for a dollar at the end but I guess that's what happens when you gotta ante up the BP. One last dig, I'm pretty sure that this Esquire barely if at all leaves G area and certainly doesn't touch any part of the F area, and that's before you notice it's fade. It's a straight up key tho when it comes to 20th century magazines. I'll show the one I got when it comes in, a small one but very neat to me.

I won one tonight, hell hath frozen over. What a blast to see the Heritage crowd in unfamiliar waters up in my world with all of these very odd non-pulp magazines. I suspect this is where all the oddballs got stuck from the Kump collection and that many wouldn't otherwise be seen at Heritage. But, surprisingly, many of that kind of magazine did very well. I was floored by the prices that some items in my collection fetched that I would not have suspected. I'll cobble together a few faves and a few comments

White pages in that one!

Heh heh, don't get me started on this one tonight

Maybe he got beat to the punch by Flaming Love with a similar title/logo But wait - that didn't stop him from using it on Flaming Western Romances... A flat-out classic cover. Fire plus logs in the same title design?? And many other attributes as well.

There's probably some consensus on classics, dunno if CGC is taking from Bookery or sort of general opinion over the years. The Jones cover is *definitely* a classic in my opinion, the centered and simple composition, the crazed eyes of the dog (you know what I'm talking about, you dogs, you), and the babe with the torn dress and all the shades of red, love it. The "classic dinosaur" cover gets status cause of the attack on the capitol by a T-Rex (I personally sort of think of it as kitsch, but sci-fi can be that way). I just read through this one, looks the Yakimas are late era pulps and are best recognized by "white pages" and certificates of authenticity from Dave Smith. I see something about markings but don't see markings.

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I should have given them the grades CGC bumped them up to instead of the grades I think they deserved one bullseye (MOR), and 3 grades a whole point low It's weird the moderns (and I guess that's what I'm calling the 1971 book - I just don't look at stuff outside of the GA often) give me the hardest time. I feel like they get the opposite of the supposed GA bump but mebbe that one's not quite new enough for that effect - Fun, need to keep learnin'

Oh, I thought you meant something else about busting some @ss

I talked to my daughter once about an album cover. She said, "You mean the little picture on Apple Music?"

I was stunned one day to see my daughter wearing a Metallica T. I told her I'd never heard hear listening to metal (like her dad, though Metallica was just for muh dudes in Shop class) and got back "I just like the T shirt" I spent my formative years hanging out in record stores (smoking/chilling in record stores at 13? my how times have changed) and picked up every boomer in the family's record collection as they discarded their record players. 25 years ago as vinyl re-pressings of classic jazz albums caught on, I'd buy one now and then. Today new pressings can be like 60 bucks! Surely it's not kids paying that I do still love to pick up some vinyl, though. I can grab all sorts of cool jazz stuff from the late 60s and 70s I've never heard of for 3 or 4 bucks for a used album. Now that's a deal I can get behind, a little stack for a 20 dollar bill. Or at the right record store you can get used mass market 70s rock stuff for the same price. The record quality is usually mixed with scratches and whatnot, but I still like looking at the big art and listening to a side at a time. Right now, I'm at the point where I'm selling off some of my high school/college punk/metal/indy stuff just to make room to squeeze in new albums. I'm going through listening to an album at a time which is fun. Some bands that were faves at the time are atrocious to me now, and the album goes in the sell pile (many worth much more than I would have guessed, small print runs). Sometimes I rediscover a band I haven't listened to in years which is a joy. Dunno, digital music has so many things going for it (just the rotating library I'm able to keep on my phone is nuts), but the warm and fuzzy feeling I get from flipping records can't be beat.

Welcome to the pulp section, good sir. But if you buy one for a story, I expect an entry under Release the Kracken I frickin' love that thread That Planet is gorgeous, and the Amazing cover seems in line with PCH sensibilities, gruesome. I know Ed Earl Repp from the top byline of that one only for his *many* westerns, and I didn't even realize he'd done any Sci-Fi. No Krackin' required: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v12n06_1938-11_cape1736/mode/2up