Darwination

Sort of a surreal Bergey here. Nice batch! The Cult of the Witch Queen ish is my fave.

It's definitely an iconic (and cool) cover, but this was a very surprising auction result early this year. And while I was digging for this result right now I saw this (I knew there were a couple of orignal Bolles coming up in April). WTF https://fineart.ha.com/itm/paintings/american-artist-20th-century-film-fun-probable-cover-watercolor-and-gouache-on-board-11-1-2-x-8/p/8161-23012.s "probable Film Fun cover" on what planet? Cardwell Higgins? The only thing accurate on the whole listing is that some insufficiently_thoughtful_person may pay 700 bucks for whatever this is.

You thinking this is a pre-burning scene @Robot Man?

Late 37 newsstand. A couple from muh boxes: Fall 37, H.J. Ward Bolles

None in my collection, but I can peg the girlie issues - funny there's a Popular Love in with em but not so much since the girlies are basically comedy romances anyways. Paris Nights December 1936, George Quintana/Quaintance, weird the cover date is so much earlier than the rest. Gay Broadway, Spring 1937, Earle Bergey and while I'm at it Saucy Detective April 1937, Jo Szokoli Spicy Mystery Stories May 1937, Harry Parkhurst? Delos Palmer H.J. Ward, catfight! The Popular Love is May 1937, no image in the fictionmags index or otherwise available on the internet or in my files. It happens in the love pulps - all the damn time. No love for the love pulps!!! It's sad :'( H.J. Ward, cover restore by Saskia

Woo! Surprised to see some girlie pulps front and center here (mixed in with the Spicy/Snappy Detectives). The pulps and true crime mags must of been away from where the children play I see a couple from my collection in there June 35 May 35 as well as a most wanted

MCS has some nice ones. There's at least one more I want and maybe all of them The one above is #4, pretty grody. The title kicks off with a photo cover which is unfortunate, but it does have some nice design elements. I've got the first five. Then the rest of the nine issues are all George Gross in straight-up pin-up mode. v01n06 is my favorite but I'm feeling kind of picky about the copy. I hope the people around here aren't rubbing off on me This is one of 3 copies at MCS right now I've never seen v01n08 for sale. I don't think it was a scarce series - I just think the covers are striking enough everybody wants em and keeps em.

My copy's just a little rough. Sort of like this redhead

Enoch Bolles and other *fine* pin-up art

Yeah, I've got a few different sizes bigger than magazine I use for different things. The comment about magazine boxes is apt, because certain magazines will stick up above a magazine box without that being very perceptible and weight on top can harm the magazines. Storage for slicks and other oversized magazines and newspapers, etc. is tricky, but I find storing them standing up with a backer in a tall cardboard box works pretty well. I'm still amazed they say the bedsheets are gonna fit into the magazine CGC boxes

Pulps come in all shapes and sizes, so I use all sorts of different bags and boards for them. They look best in a snug bag or mylar, but a tight bag also can mean loosing overhang chips or biting at spine tears and such on the way in and out A tight fit is best for display but a loose fit is best for a reader. Multiple boards or a thicker sort of matte backer can keep even the biggest pulps stiff enough for display.

Poor Jay Scott Pike, always suffering the acne jokes. He's pure awesome - leave him alone you meanies!

New one, July 1944 Gloria Stoll

Somebody picked up a super colorful copy of this one as soon as it hit the bay this morning

I think I'd have less problem with the occasional fall if I wasn't going for books behind all the time Paperbacks are a little more flighty than comics or mags. I think if I had a ton of vintage ones, I'd have some sort of vintage and appropriate shallow shelving. Honestly, a huge number of my paperbacks are in the attic, albeit on shelves and accessible. It's not great for their preservation, but there's only so much shelf space, and they aren't quite as attractive as other books we keep in the public parts of the house. I bet most stashes of paperbacks live in boxes in attics and storage units >< I rotate display books fairly often and will end up with them stacked three and four deep sometimes. I like to display something I've just acquired or scanned but also favorites. I've recently started cutting some backers from a nice black matte board. A black border is sweet for some things, and the thickness is killer for keeping larger mags or papers stiff

Thanks, RM, for posting the controversial page, an interesting read - I'd like to read the rest of it now.

Beauty!

Maybe this is supposed to be sweet, but all I'm getting is creepy, real creepy.

It looks horrible. Even with a proper fit, a slab is a horrible frame for art. They aren't an even width around the sides like a picture frame, denote no edge, and have the tacky notes and holographs at the top. Slabs are ugly in the first place, and it looks utterly ridiculous in this instance with all that space around the book. And then you get the newton rings and mess, no thanks. On the other hand, some mooks are happy to pay multiple of a book's value if it's in plastic, so I'm not gonna judge anybody for following the dollar. It's hard to beat the way a paperback looks with the right sized bag and board even if they do seem to want to jump off the shelf in display mode sometimes.

Enoch Bolles and other fine pin-up art