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Spicy Adventure Stories June 1935 Cover by Harry Lemon Parkhurst This is my favorite Spicy cover, but one that doesn't seem to get much attention. I love the composition of the scene and the palpable tension between the girl and the captor.

Science Wonder Stories December 1929 Cover by Frank R. Paul A stunning deep green cover by Frank R. Paul on this 7th issue of Science Wonder Stories, a bedsheet sized pulp by Gernsback.

Black Book Detective October 1934 Cover by Rafael Desoto Stunning cover art on this one!

Weird Tales August 1934 Cover by Margaret Brundage One of my favorite pulp covers with just amazing colors and imagery. Conan cover story for "The People of the Black Circle" by Robert E. Howard.

OK, so what I've been doing is grabbing a pulp from my collection every day and posting it on Instagram. I'll try to mirror those posts here as well. Instead of using a standard flat scan I've been taking photos of the pulps in a lighted photobox to give a more realistic and three-dimensional appearance. I hope you enjoy them!

Back in December I started an Instagram account to post a daily pulp from my collection. If you'd like to follow, the IG account is @pulphound I've thought about maybe mirroring the posts here, but I'm not sure I could keep up with both. But if I fell behind I suppose I could always catch up with multiple posts. Anyway, thinking about it.

Oh man, I'm crying! That's a great book with very serious problems.

I've read Otto Binder's Lords of Creation. It was collected in hardcover by Prime Press in 1949. It's a Buck Rogers type story. A scientist is intentionally frozen in suspended animation for 3,000 years. When he awakes he finds that civilization has been destroyed by wars and reduced to barbarism. The only remaining power group on Earth rules tyrannically from Antarctica. The hero uses his mid-20th century scientific knowledge to organize a revolt against the tyrants.

Dime Sports Magazine, Dec 1942

New Sports Magazine, Jan 1948

Fifteen Sports Stories, Jan 1951

Here's a few more Sports Novels, Dec 1946

Congrats, a big pulp key! Eh, the writing adds character!

In this picture it looks like the front cover was completely detached from the rest of the book and then glued back on. That's why the cover won't open all the way. A thin line of glue was run down the edge to re-attach it. Usually re-gluing refers to gluing the complete wrap (front cover, spine, back cover) back to the interior of the book. In that case, the glue is applied to the inside of the spine. Your case is much more severe. The cover had been torn from the spine, and then reattached. In my opinion this is not a VG at all, but a restored Fair to Good minus.

Ace Sports #1, January 1936 Rafael DeSoto cover

Exciting Sports #1, Winter 1941 Article by famous football player and future Supreme Court justice Byron "Whizzer" White about the pro-football game as compared to college.

Thrilling Sports #1, September 1936 The "America's Olympic Chances" article calls Jesse Owens "a one-man track team". It's a shame they didn't put him on the cover.

A slew of #1s came in this week.

Here's a nice copy of the first issue of Popular Western from November 1934. The long-running series lasted until 1953. Cover by Arthur Mitchell.

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High-Seas Adventures, April 1935 (#3) Just upgraded this one, #3 of a 4 issue run. Sister publication to the 6-issue Pirate Stories. Gernsback book.

Bill Barnes, Air Adventurer, Apr 1934 (#3) Hero/aviation pulp

Medical Horrors, Jan 1932 Hersey one-shot pulp, pretty rare

Wow, what an auction! I watched all 8+ hours of it and bid on over 50 lots, but I only won 7. I was holding back because I knew the Cthulhu issue was coming up near the end and it was my primary target. Alas, I fell short, and ended up not spending all that much. The prices on most Weird Tales were very strong! I was really surprised by most of those sales. But this is the first time in a long time that a large selection of nicer copies has come to market at once, and there was a lot of interest. Fun to watch!

I do have that Love Crime Detective, and I've seen it a few times.