Darwination

Not exactly a detective pulp but a December 1935 magazine making fun of the pulps. Magazines like Mad and Cracked would later fine tune this type of satire in the 1960's.  

While it's not an index of Kiss, this book is an excellent look at it and it's ilk, written by the legendary Bill Blackbeard under a clever pseudonym, thus lots on the comix to be found within.
 
Highly recommended if you don't have a copy! (One of my copies is actually an amazing association specimen that was inscribed by BB to Gary Arlington, one of my favorite books!)
 


 

Harry did some fine covers...

I thought you might have had the name wrong for Harry Schaare, even as I was thinking this doesn't look like the Schaare I know from the pulps:
https://www.pulpartists.com/Schaare.html
I wonder if C.R. " D  I   C   K " Schaare there is the dad of Harry...  The bio details line up - but not exactly - and I can't seem to get at the Social Security database like I used to (been a while since I tried). 
As David Saunder's pulp wiki mentions, C.R. Schaare is best known for his steady work at The Ring in the 30s, but he also did some pulp covers.

What Saunders doesn't mention in the batch of titles listed is the bit of work he did in the girlie pulps (my particular specialty)
I don't actually own any of these (which might be a good indicator I'm not too crazy about his girlie stuff, though this first one passes muster)

I'm pretty sure the above is after one of Cheri Herouard's common uses of the the mask motif in La Vie Parisienne but could not find the exact painting


Hmm, after a little more sleuthing (in C.R.'s kids' obituaries) I'm thinking they are unrelated after all - carry on

C.R. is Harry's Uncle.

Turns out this one is rarer than I thought.  I didn't catch it's a Canadian edition (such horrid production values - Oh, Canada!).  Zero in census?
https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=35510
Kudos to the editor.  A spot on treatment.

I sent this one off today, and, for the first time since letting a bunch of books go, had that thought - why the hell did I sell this one?
But, really.  It's funny how the books I throw in the keeper boxes aren't always the highest grade or "Key" books or whatnot.  It's like 5 dollar sports and romance pulps that I really like the covers on that I have the attachment to.  I shoulda held on to this bad mama right there, rough as she may be, just a unique and classic cover, and the hillbilly story at the end???  
Anyways, this is romance, and there's always other fish in the sea.  Right guys? Right??
I admit I haven't watched for romance comics like I used to, so I don't really know if the ones I'm picking out for the purposes of the thread for scarcity are all that scarce.  The census isn't really an indicator either, as all these slab happy yahoos around here will stick some mass market pub in a box that I can literally hop on eBay for and this minute sift through 60 cheap copies to find one in a vf grade, but these GA romances only go in if they are suspected to be one of the best copies.  But that's a good thing, cuz I like to read them
This beat up little number has two in the census

 
Devie's kawk blocking and has got to go "because I love her too much!"
First splash - SAME AS THE COVER - economy or just a crime against comic lovers everywhere?

I didn't really see much art of note in here.  CGD can only ID two stories attributed (and signed) by Harry Lucey.
I admit it didn't click at first that he also did Hangman in Special Comics 01 I just read a week or two ago which has some great panels in it


The best story in the ish is about a girl society reporter that uses a ridiculous tactic to catch her subject unawares:



It delves into melodrama pretty quickly after that-
The last splash - There's always a love triangle, decisions decisions

Really - I think this is just a down issue, as I've read a couple other issues that were really good.
The series is scanned out, as JVJ (RIP) had most the issues, otherwise I imagine we'd still be hunting them:
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=1124
Best covers of the series are photo covers, cuz of the sleaze appeal, though a couple of the line drawn are pretty good too


 

Not me! 

He was very popular in Europe. Looking at eBay there are currently far more of his books for sale in France than here in the UK. Many French paperbacks appear quite modern with photo covers which is surprising when his most recent work was in 1951.

 

 

 
 

Here's a couple of Cheyney's with glossy American GGA, which I much prefer.
Mistress Murder (originally One of Those Things) Avon 349 cover by Raymond Johnson - this is a Terry O'Day mystery

I'll Bring Her Back (originally Dark Bahama), Eton Books E115  A Julian Isles mystery. Cover art uncredited, probably Johnson or Victor Olsen

 
 
 

I sent this one off today, and, for the first time since letting a bunch of books go, had that thought - why the hell did I sell this one?
But, really.  It's funny how the books I throw in the keeper boxes aren't always the highest grade or "Key" books or whatnot.  It's like 5 dollar sports and romance pulps that I really like the covers on that I have the attachment to.  I shoulda held on to this bad mama right there, rough as she may be, just a unique and classic cover, and the hillbilly story at the end???  
Anyways, this is romance, and there's always other fish in the sea.  Right guys? Right??
I admit I haven't watched for romance comics like I used to, so I don't really know if the ones I'm picking out for the purposes of the thread for scarcity are all that scarce.  The census isn't really an indicator either, as all these slab happy yahoos around here will stick some mass market pub in a box that I can literally hop on eBay for and this minute sift through 60 cheap copies to find one in a vf grade, but these GA romances only go in if they are suspected to be one of the best copies.  But that's a good thing, cuz I like to read them
This beat up little number has two in the census

 
Devie's kawk blocking and has got to go "because I love her too much!"
First splash - SAME AS THE COVER - economy or just a crime against comic lovers everywhere?

I didn't really see much art of note in here.  CGD can only ID two stories attributed (and signed) by Harry Lucey.
I admit it didn't click at first that he also did Hangman in Special Comics 01 I just read a week or two ago which has some great panels in it


The best story in the ish is about a girl society reporter that uses a ridiculous tactic to catch her subject unawares:



It delves into melodrama pretty quickly after that-
The last splash - There's always a love triangle, decisions decisions

Really - I think this is just a down issue, as I've read a couple other issues that were really good.
The series is scanned out, as JVJ (RIP) had most the issues, otherwise I imagine we'd still be hunting them:
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=1124
Best covers of the series are photo covers, cuz of the sleaze appeal, though a couple of the line drawn are pretty good too


 

The Only Peter Cheyney books I have are from the Murder Mystery Monthly series:
 

MAMs not in the pulp area, eh? These are pulps, and don't let the high falutin kind of fiction lover tell you otherwise. P U L P
My complete run of Rage, one of Everett Arnold's sweats.  I've got dupes of some of these and I think a much better copy of the v01n01.  Most if not all of them have splash work from Matt Baker among their other charms.  Natlus would come out with a new series by the same name in 1960.






 


Scanwork of a Baker splash in v01n03 for an early Harlan Ellison piece of journalism as he infiltrates street gangs to get the lowdown.

Neat post, MR!
Any chance of you paperback people can ID the artist for this one?

When I find an old paperback written by someone I've never heard of I like to do a quick Interweb search to find out more. It seems Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse-Cheyney (1896 - 1951) was British, but wrote most of his books about an FBI agent by the odd name of  Lemmy Caution. More oddness. He started his career by winning a bet that he couldn't write a novel in "the American style". Extreme oddness. Lemmy Caution featured in 15 movies, mostly French and none of them were English-speaking. Ultimate oddness. The final Lemmy Caution movie was the 1965 Science Fiction movie Alphaville.

 

 

 
PS In the movies Lemmy Caution was always played by the expat American actor Eddie Constantine. I know the DC character John Constantine was originally based on the appearance of Sting, but I wonder if Alan Moore had seen Alphaville and recalled, even if subconsciously the surname of the lead?  It is certainly the sort of thing he would do.

 

Turns out this one is rarer than I thought.  I didn't catch it's a Canadian edition (such horrid production values - Oh, Canada!).  Zero in census?
https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=35510
Kudos to the editor.  A spot on treatment.

Next thing you know ma and pa will be raising Louella and Cleve's baby while they run off to the big city.

I sent this one off today, and, for the first time since letting a bunch of books go, had that thought - why the hell did I sell this one?
But, really.  It's funny how the books I throw in the keeper boxes aren't always the highest grade or "Key" books or whatnot.  It's like 5 dollar sports and romance pulps that I really like the covers on that I have the attachment to.  I shoulda held on to this bad mama right there, rough as she may be, just a unique and classic cover, and the hillbilly story at the end???  
Anyways, this is romance, and there's always other fish in the sea.  Right guys? Right??
I admit I haven't watched for romance comics like I used to, so I don't really know if the ones I'm picking out for the purposes of the thread for scarcity are all that scarce.  The census isn't really an indicator either, as all these slab happy yahoos around here will stick some mass market pub in a box that I can literally hop on eBay for and this minute sift through 60 cheap copies to find one in a vf grade, but these GA romances only go in if they are suspected to be one of the best copies.  But that's a good thing, cuz I like to read them
This beat up little number has two in the census

 
Devie's kawk blocking and has got to go "because I love her too much!"
First splash - SAME AS THE COVER - economy or just a crime against comic lovers everywhere?

I didn't really see much art of note in here.  CGD can only ID two stories attributed (and signed) by Harry Lucey.
I admit it didn't click at first that he also did Hangman in Special Comics 01 I just read a week or two ago which has some great panels in it


The best story in the ish is about a girl society reporter that uses a ridiculous tactic to catch her subject unawares:



It delves into melodrama pretty quickly after that-
The last splash - There's always a love triangle, decisions decisions

Really - I think this is just a down issue, as I've read a couple other issues that were really good.
The series is scanned out, as JVJ (RIP) had most the issues, otherwise I imagine we'd still be hunting them:
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=1124
Best covers of the series are photo covers, cuz of the sleaze appeal, though a couple of the line drawn are pretty good too


 

Hilarious.  Kind of :I  But all's well that ends well, nice get!
I got a large slick magazine yesterday minus any backer in a straight up plastic bag that did not fare nearly so well.  The picker knew they had a nice one but zero clue on how to keep it from getting dinged or folded in the mailbox.  Ended up with big dings/folds to both other corners.  The books can withstand the ravages of time but not the ravages of insufficiently_thoughtful_persons or my mailman.

Hilarious.  Kind of :I  But all's well that ends well, nice get!
I got a large slick magazine yesterday minus any backer in a straight up plastic bag that did not fare nearly so well.  The picker knew they had a nice one but zero clue on how to keep it from getting dinged or folded in the mailbox.  Ended up with big dings/folds to both other corners.  The books can withstand the ravages of time but not the ravages of insufficiently_thoughtful_persons or my mailman.

Hilarious.  Kind of :I  But all's well that ends well, nice get!
I got a large slick magazine yesterday minus any backer in a straight up plastic bag that did not fare nearly so well.  The picker knew they had a nice one but zero clue on how to keep it from getting dinged or folded in the mailbox.  Ended up with big dings/folds to both other corners.  The books can withstand the ravages of time but not the ravages of insufficiently_thoughtful_persons or my mailman.

It’s kind of ironic that just about the only reason LB Cole books are collected are for their covers. And yet, so many have overlooked his excellent funny animal covers for years…

To be fair to the seller, I feel much better about the choice of packaging now that I found *this* written under the mailing label. You can't make this stuff up!
 

It's been awhile since I rolled the dice on an ebay gamble. This book came from a 0-feedbacker, seemingly determined to keep that status by shipping this in a bubble envelope with no protection (after promising a sturdy padded box).  Nevertheless,