Darwination

I'm being helped by the proprietor to manually make me an invoice. Amazingly, Eric didn't grab any from my cart. Different strokes and all Pretty much beaters but the price is right. I'm kind of finding myself either looking for dirt cheap readers or a crease-less high grade on pbs which is kind of weird cuz I like the middle ground in pulps and comics. I guess it's nice to have the choice on the more common books.

Burgess is a total trip. The last one I recall reading is A Dead Man in Deptford which is just as transgressive as this one here.

Fwiw, there's a lot of replica reprints for both of these titles. I'm just not a replica guy (I own a single replica, Vice Squad Detective, and it feels/looks just like a TPB, very unfulfilling). Weird menace are definitely going to be getting slabbed at a high rate. PCH type of people are after the gruesome art and probably want to avoid any further damage to their copies (how well slabbing achieves this remains to be seen). I don't blame the cover hunters at all - to me this is some of the most offensive material bar none ever to hit the newsstands

Apparently I've never ordered anything from Shopify before and they don't like my house. Damn you, shopify

So, this isn't an area of the pulps I'm familiar with (outside of maybe some of the cover art), but I've heard that Popular pulps would often have A and B sorts of titles. That is - the best stories would go to the top mag and the overflow to the next. Whether that's the case with those two I don't know, as I've never been much of a fan of the stories. Maybe I would be if Weird Menace didn't cost so damn much to find out

My rather large late night order wouldn't process because of a non-recognized address, and I'm supposedly getting help from the proprietor. I suspect half the items in my cart will be gone by the time you jackals beat me to it.

When I thumbed through the MCS covers for this particular title, the two I suspected as Baker were identified as such at the GCD: GCD also has 18 identified as possible Baker (the coming down the stairs one Mavrick asked about) - I can maybe see it in the girls legs but otherwise not so much. It's hard to tell with the heavy inks at Quality, and I wouldn't rule out team/shopwork with a lot of the Quality covers, so they can be hard to peg It's like with any artist, the best work is easy to identify, the worst not so much. Whenever I correspond with the expert on whoever their particular guy is, there's always a readiness/happy willingness to discount the works at the margins and the rushed/botched examples. No one wants a master to get blamed for the shoddiness (even when we all understand work on a deadline for peanuts isn't always the most conducive atmosphere for the artist). Baker's early and late stuff can be tricky af, not to mention there seems to be a lot of money/collector concerns with people wanting a book to be Baker when it's not. I do really like the discussions in here about it, though, these are the sorts of IDs that have to be reached by something like consensus -

A lot going on there o.O

That's fantastic, Point Five. It's innocent and naughty all at the same time. The early ones are so tough, and that one has really vibrant colors. In fact, this image right here is going into my files as the best I've seen. The cover is Jack Greiner. He first went by Otto then Oscar and Jack was a nickname that he shifted to as he was Americanized. His father was a fine artist, Magnus. He might have shifted to Jack not seem so Germanic is my guess, but he'd hardly be the only guy in the pulp/comics biz to shed their ethnic sounding name. I don't know if you'd be willing to take a picture of the contents page for me (no pressure!), but the Fictionmags index is lacking the contents for the issue. I'll make sure it gets up there. In fact, I'm reminded need to index the series for Galactic Central like I have a number of others in the girlies. I've got a couple of other contents pages they need I haven't sent yet, and I haven't proofed this title yet as far as (hopefully) tracking down missing covers or contents and double checking any errors in the volume numbering. As I do a series, I always gather the best possible images available for my own personal files (my one gripe about the index is that thumbnails are OK for identifying issues but nearly worthless for identifying lesser known artists) which is a personal motivator for a somewhat grueling process. Here's the cover index for Pep Stories: http://www.philsp.com/mags/pep_stories.html He's got it at appx. 142 issues. I already indexed Paris Nights (Lacking a possible two cover images! Fifteen years ago it was still a pipe dream to track down all the covers for some of these titles *flex*) which by my rough count has 147 issues. These two titles were the two giants in the genre.

Thanks, JustJimN, and August 53 freebie goes to you as well.

Last one, Manhunt v01n08 1953-08, FREE to the following take to JustJimN This is a great issue but a pile of pages, no spine or binding. It's a classic issue, but the pages are brittle so it's not good for anything but a table read or a placeholder. James Cain, Frederic Brown, Evan Hunter, Fletcher Flora, Frank Kane, more. Illos from Kubert, O'Sullivan, Rus Anderson, and others. A poor book murdered by brutal hands! To the next taker That's the last one for this thread. Not minty books, but good ones, and I managed to dig up a mystery regarding multiple printings of the first book along the way. I'll leave em up for at least a few days to see if there's any interest and *may* move on to a differently titled thread of pulps in the meantime. Thanks to the takers and the lookers.

Manhunt v09n01 1961-02 $16 NOW $12 A scorching cover on a post 1960 Manhunt. Later in 1961, they'd go to photo cover killing the vibe (though maybe with their own charms). Artist unidenfied here, but I think it's fantastic. G/VG There's still some gloss and color but some staining and grossness at upper left as well as som spots of color out at lower right. PQ inside is really good, but there's foxiness on both inner covers and some paper loss on the back cover where there once must have been a sticker. Solid spine but archival tape at both front and back inner hinge. Pay rates had started to slip, and the magazine is losing it's lustre fiction-wise, but you'll still find gems in the later issues. Green, pink, and blue shades of accent ink. I think all the interior art is Dick Shelton.

mstrange just bought the bar a round of drinks on the house What a great book

Manhunt v04n11 1956-11 $16 SOLD TO JustJimN Another O'Sullivan cover in a similar style with a creeping dark figure intruding on the colorful scene. They managed to sneak in a surprising amount of nudity here. (This was before the mag was to face obscenity charges during the shortlived time the magazine had moved to full-size from digest) VG. Nice color and gloss and totally solid but a faint crease at upper right, another crease at lower left, some spine roll. Square supple pages inside with some browning. Gil Brewer, Robert Turner, and other noir authors with art from Tom O' Sullivan, Richard Houlihan, Dick Shelton, Ric Estrada, and more. Ad on the ibc for Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Nugget on the back cover

Manhunt v04n11 1956-09 $16 SOLD TO JustJimN VG+ Nice Gloss and color, cover by Tom O' Sullvan in a very neat style of another poor girl being manhandled. Crease botton right corner, faint horizontal crease that doesn't break color, a ding in the shoulder of the assailant, spine split bottom inch front cover. Nice square and supple pages inside with some browning. Fiction in this issue from Evan Hunter, Hal Ellson,Norman Struber and more. Illos from Raymond F. Houlihan, Tom O'Sullivan, Dick Shelton, John Richards, and a couple from Ric Estrada who also did work in the St. John comics.

Alrighty, here we go. I somehow got into some painting today besides the lawn amongst other *buying* distractions, heh heh, but back to it. Four issues and a freebie left, and I'll cap the thread, all Manhunts. Manhunt v01 n09 1953-09 $12 SOLD TO OtherEric Good Minus. This one's a beater but a perfectly suitable reading copy of an excellent ish. Jeans and white T attacker being fended off via broken bottle by a barefoot blonde with with her blouse coming apart. Artist unknown - it kills me we don't have more solid IDs on some of these early Manhunts, maybe I'll get better at it with more time in the paperbacks. Edge chipping, creases, staining, grubby like the grubby little magazine it is. Supple square pages inside but some browning and a corner stain through the first 15 pages or so. Glue at spine but solid with good hinges. Fictionwise, this is a strong issue. Erskine Caldwell (underappreciated these days), Ray Bradbury, Evan Hunter, Fletcher Flora and more. Brown, olive, blue, and green accent inks, Just caught the sig here, this is a Don Rico woodcut illustrating Ray Bradbury. Rico had a long career in the comics, studied woodcuts under Lynd Ward, and later became a writer of sleaze and SF paperbacks. He has a second unsigned woodcut in here, too. Tom O'Sullivan in blue, there's also art from Ray Houlihan, and I suspect a couple of unsigned Joe Kuberts.

Summer of 69, of course!

Asking for a friend, what's the date of the Man's?

They're definitely the sort of books that might make me go "full sleaze"

I hate the crop on the images on that seller's books - got the goods, though.

I didn't realize The Phantom got all the girls! Chicks dig purple. Some excellent covers in here, panorama style.

Norm Saunders, getting in on some grisly business

Tame? She's a cutie and up to no good. What's with his sour look? He just hit the jackpot!

Thanks, Comcav. Good takes, the Baker splashes in these issues are incredible as is early Manhunt in general. I'm knee deep in chores at the moment but hope to get back and round out this thread with another four or five items a bit later.