Darwination

Just knew somebody was gonna grab those, er, that one, beauty copy.

That's a fave

Grades in! I studied long and hard before submisson

The thrill of the hunt Anybody know what the print run was on the early Avons? Any resources out there as far as that sort of info goes for pbs?

Forecast: Perversion. Following -

That was the one that caught my eye, too, great colors. I didn't look closely, though, and thought Frazetta, and it's Jeff Jones. How about the HC cover, though

I'm afraid we're likely to derail our thread topic here but why not The Damned have been an absolute revelation to me as of late. Album after album of varied and amazing material - I've been listening for weeks and weeks over and over to a number of their albums. Was listening to the Cro-Mags just this week! I'll be honest and say a lot of the NYHC and hardcore in general doesn't appeal to me anymore (even if I was all in as a teen), but the the metal side still does. I grew up in Lawrence, KS, and attended likely hundreds of shows starting in junior high at The Outhouse, a legendary venue in a cornfield outside of town. Shows were all ages, averaged 5 bucks or less (on a local bill at least), no straight adults (or cops) in sight. Saw 'famous' acts there like Bad Brains, Rollins, Descendents, Fugazi, Tool, Green Day and lots of other bands of equal quality that never quite achieved fame. Nirvana did play there for Bleach, but I didn't go to that one (and didn't like them til later, a pal played Bleach so much I wanted break it). I suppose everybody has a particular fondness for their teen era, but boy am I happy I came up in the day of the all ages show. Outside of a brawl or few, we took pretty good care of each other no matter how wild things got. Never did play The Outhouse but was inspired to pick up a guitar and join a band in the early years (played venues a bit in Lawrence/KC then more later on in Athens, GA though I'd moved on to jazz by then.) I still make music, but mostly in my own den. I like to share this one from a while back when I was messing with computers, as it relates to scannerly activities. Bass is the new thing for me. You'd think it wouldn't be so different from the guitar (my main instrument, piano being the second), but it is. My axes! (those girlie weights must belong to someone else) Somehow I have the feeling that my two guitars pale in comparison to the number of guitars that someone like Lowell might acquire Oh, my, I want this. There's a bunch of Harlan books I'd like. It's funny how Ellison has ties to the paperback scene with all the rockabilly/punkers showing high interest. I sold Miriam Linna a prized juvenile delinquent pocket magazine once for a pittance just because she was so endearing in her request (even though I didn't realize who she was at the time). I later found another copy https://archive.org/details/teen-age-gangsters-1957.-hillman-darwin-ia Speaking of old rockers, I get a huge kick out Mick ****Sedge over at Flickr sharing tour stuff mixed in with paperback/comics materials on his stream there. No way would I ever want to go on the road these days, and I'm *much* younger than you dinosaurs. A long self-indulgent post, I apologize. Can't think of any music pbs I have but lord help me if we get into my music mags. OK, I'll share just one blog post from last year https://darwinscans.blogspot.com/2023/03/rip-v01n01-december-1986.html On the subject of punk rock mags (which have been a buy/scan target as of late, ridiculously expensive for modern magazines, we must be hitting that age of peak nostalgia) this site has some great shares including a full run of Slash, an L.A. magazine I've been digging around in: https://www.circulationzero.com/

So the pulp auction, I won nothing. Nothing new about that. I called this one as top dog, and top dog it was at shy of 6K: A fave in the auction, and it did well, just shy of 2K. I'm not a huge fan of skulls and skellies, but who can resist a par-tay with mr. death. Not quite the highest fetching UK entry but almost. Hammering at 1440, a fine specimen of an intriguing pulp. Harry Moskovitz, best known for his most excellent girlie pulp covers did this funky cover for the Shades on this intriguing title (which morphs to My Self). Would love to get my hands on a beater issue of this title just to scan a representative and see what it's about: There were some pretty good UK covers, but also wonderfully horrible ones (not even sure how these did as far as price lmao) Not to be outdone by Britpulp, Canpulp rears its ugly head

Seems like I have a ton of modern UK printings of noir stuff. Three or four books printed in one - maybe the difference in copyright law allowed them to print in the PD more quickly? Or something. The sad fact is these days I get a used copy of a mass market modern printing from a second hand bookseller shipped for five MAYBE ten bucks. No author or estate is getting paid, no publisher is getting paid, and some bookseller is making .50 on the margins

Very interested in this one (and would love the original but hell if I'm gonna pay a hundred bucks for a reader), so a modern printing it is.

I'm a huge Beatles fan (fave album: Abbey Road followed by the White Album), but I have some serious PTSD from a bar I inhabited in younger days where the entire bar would break out in a drunken rendition of Yellow Submarine about closing time once a month Cobain is solidly of my generation (X, grew up in a punk/hardcore scene too hip for Nirvana but caught on). Thought of them this week when I heard this one for the first time ever (visiting lots of late 70s early 80s punk/new wave these days that I missed out on the first time around):

Let's just say the nurses in my doctor's office resemble in no way the nurses on these covers. Want to see the least healthy people in the world? Go to the doctor's.

Yeah, but the pulp collectors won't be dozing off anymore

I love the baby on Intimate #1. All these shrewish adults around and mama all melodramatic, and the kid's smiling and shaking a rattle. Nice message if you ask me.

Nice! A couple really neat ones on now. Tonight's second half is neat-o then the "oddball" Kump auction coming up. Not books many will freak out about but some true rarities.

Yeah, it's a rough. Just like the broad on the cover.

For real, before this place I knew Eric from the GA comic scan scene and have been pleasantly shocked to learn he collects EVERYTHING.

Love the coloring on this.

Best of the few copies I've seen. Unfortunate double stamp on skin tones, but I don't know how CGC handles that. I'd still consider it VF according to old pulp standards, but the stamps will ding in a sale. Absolute beauty! As far as value, who knows? Depends what auction it's in, most likely

The gawker cracks me up, but the figure behind is straight up gorgeous despite all the camp. "Sin in Suburbia" is kind of an omnipresent subject in the downmarket pubs of the day. Sure there's the Leave it to Beaver exterior, but there *has* to be more to it, eh? I've got like 1400 images up at Flickr, and the number one image in views is one I wouldn't suspect