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On 4/13/2024 at 8:56 AM, Surfing Alien said:
Some nice lesbian pieces that you rarely see
Heritage's description of The One Between by Arthur Adlon (Beacon, 1962) is ludicrous:
"The One Between dates to what's called the "golden age" of the lesbian pulp genre. These books used the public's appetite for erotic, lurid, and sensational stories to create space for representation of queer characters not allowed elsewhere in mainstream American culture and are highly collectible today."Beacon's strategy in publishing was purely and simply to peddle cheap thrills and sleaze to the prurient interests of men. Heritage knows this, of course, but decides instead to rewrite history to retroject a false motive of "inclusion" on the publisher's part. I hate dishonesty in advertising.
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On 3/13/2024 at 9:56 PM, Ricksneatstuff said:
A couple of mine came back from CGC
8.5 ... highest graded pulp so far?
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Will CGC Note Pedigrees on Pulp Labels? Just curious.
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On 3/16/2024 at 4:54 PM, Surfing Alien said:
They're in Bookscans, but tucked away along with other Pocket side projects
https://bookscans.com/Publishers/pb/pbASE.htm
I think there's something about them in the early pb history books I have back home but were always known as Pocket produced. Reader's League was a hardcover book club so this was likely some collaboration with them that didn't last too long. I'll look in those books when I get back to see if there's any back story mentioned.
Fascinating stuff. Until now, I had no idea there was a "Pocket Book Armed Services Editions" series.
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On 5/10/2022 at 2:26 AM, detective35 said:
Strasser Collection is definitely the top Pedigree when it comes to pulp pedigrees.
They can easily be identified and there were between 1700 - 1800 of them in the collection in high grade, spanning from December 1933 to November 1939.
I will expand on this collection in detail in the future, as I'm putting the finishing touches on researching it to get precise accurate updated information.
I wish someone would start a thread on just the Strasser Collection. The most mysterious of all pedigrees?
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On 1/25/2024 at 9:08 PM, Surfing Alien said:
Picked off this Official Detective March 15th, 1937 (It was 2x a month, pretty cool! and pretty skinny, 48 pages)
This is definitely the largest magazine I've got now. It's huge. She doesn't really have headlights, but she's got a gun, so there's that to love
What the heck is a "N.J.P.O. Bandit"?
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Pulps were periodicals printed on uncoated pulp wood paper. It was a medium that thrived between 1895 and 1950. Pulps specialized in popular fiction, and selling at a price of 25 cents, were more affordable than hard cover books ($3.00 to $6.00). The introduction of comic books and mass market paperbacks in the USA in the mid-to-late 1930s started a competition with pulps, which contributed to their decline.
True Detective, Stag, Saga, and many more men's adventure titles from the 1950s onward are magazines, not pulps. However, the writing style in many stories in those magazines can be called "pulp fiction."
Weird Tales, Black Mask, The Shadow, Doc Savage, The All-Story, Astonishing Stories, Adventure, are prime examples of pulps.
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On 12/8/2023 at 7:23 PM, OtherEric said:
So the woman was the famous comic strip artist? If three dames are the suspects, why is a man's hand holding a smoking gun? Early transgenderism?
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I still have never understood why they were planning on bringing out a NEW horror title in late 1954 (The Crypt of Terror), as this editorial alludes to.
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On 12/3/2023 at 1:21 PM, Randall Dowling said:
Great books, Jimbo! I was perusing the Twitter posts of Pulp Librarian and came across this fun image. Obviously not a successful model but I enjoy seeing these attempts.
If you're looking for a fun, deep dive on all manner of paperbacks and vintage publications, check out their posts. Be warned, it's a very deep dive...
I wonder if any of those still exist?
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On 11/28/2023 at 11:26 PM, OtherEric said:
There are some. There was even one in the batch I posted today.
I'll grant that it's not their go-to design choice, though.
Fully clothed, but prominent headlights.
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What are the most desired, most valuable western pulps?
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The Library of Congress sold their pulps? When did this happen?
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Does this open up slabbing for all magazines in general?
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Good to finally see these...
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Strong Jack Davis influence, but not as good as Jack.
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On 10/13/2023 at 10:02 PM, Surfing Alien said:
I don't know who is behind the buys of rare paperbacks. But I collect rare paperbacks and this is a rare paperback. Most fat pbs are tough in higher grades.
The Fountainhead Signet PB is "rare"? That's surprising. It was a well-publicized best-seller in hardcover, so you'd normally assume that the paperback would be pretty common. I guess the size and cost (three times more expensive than a regular 25 cent PB) turned buyers off.
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On 10/8/2023 at 10:44 AM, Darwination said:
Sorry if I'm all True Crime up in here, but I imagine it's in the same spirit art-wise -
Even the beaters on these can present nicely, the condition sort of fits the material
Except for the mook who decided to put a 1949 sticker on it. WTF. Why WHYYYYYY -
Gotta be a George Gross cover, no?
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On 10/7/2023 at 12:43 PM, PopKulture said:
A classic cover by Jonas (13th printing!) and some sleaze with quite the cover blurb:
That's quite a cover for Jonas. He's quoted in "Paperbacks, USA" to the effect that the other paperback covers were pornography, but not his "symbolist" Signet covers. The above shows that even Jonas could not escape the editorial demand for cleavage, cleavage, cleavage! -- as Tom Waits would say.
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On 10/7/2023 at 9:27 AM, Surfing Alien said:
More upping the game on the Shirley Jackson collection. If you've seen me post this book before, it's because it's about my 5th gradual upgrade and it's a cornerstone book in my collection for all the reasons of
a) all time classic short story in a 1st pb collection by a noted author who has become a major literary figure
b) tough early Lion Books edition (#14, which is the 5th Lion Book), which are all tough, especially in grade. This is a fat volume for a Lion, which makes it even tougher.
c) incredible Herman Bischoff cover that manages to incorporate cleavage into the harrowing image of Tessie Hutchison's final moments.
This one has a touch of foxing at the top and a couple of light finger bends, but is square and sharp with great color and very little wear. Easily the best I've seen since pursuing it for the last 6 or 7 years.
That cover is so ludicrously inappropriate for the story that it's hilarious. A greatly missed opportunity, IMO...if someone like say James Avati had been given the assignment, it may have been one of the classic paperback covers.
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Those are new to me. Amazing.
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Strangely, Matt Fox cited Alex Raymond as his biggest inspiration. I can't think of an artist more unlike Raymond than Fox.