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Amazing as ever Micheal! Every time I begin to drift away from the boards, Serendip seems to be the thread that pulls me back :smile:

Fantastic! It's two...two...two genres in one!

 

The ever-popular Hillbilly-Science Fiction?

Good Sir! Use the socially correct term for hillbilly: "Western".

That's a sweet Astounding with other visible virtues in addition to Isaac.

I really need to read Van Vogt....

Fifties pulps are not mentioned very often here, but have some cool covers nonetheless.

 

This pulp and PB both date from 55. Asimov's "Foundation" has long been a personal favorite of mine.

 

 

I have always enjoyed "Foundation", and finally got my hands on the first printing of the story in pulp form:

Gator

some boardie just told me the golden age ended in 1945

and that OAAW #1 is a silver age comic

I go by the ebay listings so I certainly wouldn't look for 1952 comics in the silver age section heck I would never find them there

what are your golden age, year criteria?

given that most all agree the silver age began late 55 or early 56, golden age ends where silver age beings (unless you subscribe to the atom age )

I would say the atom age exists, but is a subset of the golden age

Bob, there is no connection to San Diego other than that's where the previous owner lived. How he obtained the postcard (from 1930) we have no idea, other than he was a serious pulp collector.

What a piece of history to own, congrats!

That is a lovely book OtherEric! (thumbs u

You gotta READ the listing...

 

Who knew they would make a postcard out of that obscure book?

I bought a cigarette holder to use as a wallet that had Captain Science #4 on the front, so it doesn't surprise me

This 8 year old thread has just exploded recently. Is Ace the next big thing?

 

Not sure, but thanks to this thread I look forward to bidding aggressively when some of these come to market next!

 

My lone Ace so far....

 

That is one heck of a first pick up! I have never seen that before

always great to find signed books and pulps, I've found signed books by Ray Bradbury and Orson Scott Card at Goodwill.

That must have been a thrill! I am luckier at finding good knives in a stack of crappy ones than books sadly

Some recent pick-ups

 

Nice Astounding with the first Foundation story by Asimov!

Thank you! It is really hard to find, especially in grade

 

No kidding. My copy is one of the very few pulps where I broke down and went for a semi-brittle copy; I'm still looking for an upgrade. According to the dealer, it was one of Van Vogt's file copies. It lacked any provenance, however, so they didn't jump the price... which, oddly, makes me think it's more likely that it really was. If you're going to lie about something like that it's to try and make more money; if it's just thrown out as an interesting fact there's a better chance it's true, I think.

It was by far the most I have paid for a pulp, but I was exstatic to pick it up. I would feel the same way about the file copy. Funny enough, I picked up a really terrible condition copy of a 1953 pulp that was signed by Isaac Asimov on page 149, it was an exciting find!

Alternate Worlds: The Illustrated History of Science Fiction by James Gunn includes a lot of these iconic pulp covers. Recommended for anyone interested in learning more about the classic pulp writers of the 1930's to 1970's.

and of course, an introduction by Isaac Asimov

Some recent pick-ups

 

Nice Astounding with the first Foundation story by Asimov!

Thank you! It is really hard to find, especially in grade

I have a complete set minus 7 issues (1-3, 5, 7-9; all from 1923) of Weird Tales/Oriental Stories/Magic Carpet. Condition across the set is roughly fine. Later issues are VF/NM and many are from the Bethlehem pedigree. Earlier issues from the early to mid 20's range in condition from good to fine. The stuff from the late 20's and thirties is in about fine/fine- on average with many in VF.

 

Condition is much higher then that set Adventure House was trying to sell earlier this year where the first 50 issues were all low grade, trimmed and bound before he broke it up.

 

It's my personal collection. I've bought at sold about 2000 issues of Weird Tales both as single copies and collections to get to this point.

 

I might sell it; but you are looking at low 6 figures.

That is very impressive! I always have found Weird Tales to be an interesting run, especially the Brundage covers and H.P. Lovecraft stories

Some recent pick-ups

Life is very bizarre, but I am glad you are ok and you got medical attention. I hope you heal soon Micheal

I deacidified it because the cover was brittle and the pages were still ok, but were darker than my other copy of this pulp. Does anyone else deacidify their pulps? If so, what do you use?

 

What are you using, Bookkeeper spray?

 

Essencially, it is a Krylon clone of it that is easily available

Cool! (and seeing as it's still on the want list in your sig, going for three?)

I just got them in last night, I need to edit my sig methinks

Sometimes you just have to complete a whole publisher twice!

This is the brief run by Youthful. I also have the full run (15 issues) of Beware by Trojan, but too many to post in the thread, per the limit by the OP.

 

Notice in the header, the word, "terror" in the initial issue was changed to "horror" for the next two.

 

Isn't this the end of the "Captain Science" series by Youthful? One might say it changed a little , I have been meaning to complete this run, but haven't gotten around to it

I picked up this pulp as of recent for a fairly good price, but the contents were much nicer than the condition!

I deacidified it because the cover was brittle and the pages were still ok, but were darker than my other copy of this pulp. Does anyone else deacidify their pulps? If so, what do you use?

All in a day's work for a real american.

 

So I had ordered this pulp off Ebay - sold as a VF/NM from a big dealer - no back cover scan but the front looked like this, so how bad could the back be? and given the grading on pulps is way lower, the best a pulp usually gets is a fine+, maybe a vf, so what the heck right? even if the grade is shall we say optimistic, the back is gonna be clean of major issues, right?

 

 

and then the book ends up with an back cover overhang that is curled up about an 1/8" from top to bottom because it was stuffed into a regular plastic comic bag. I coulda spit nickels I was so pizzed. What a waste. Criminal.

 

 

 

 

I would have been peeved too! I recently got a signed Asimov pulp and the bag it came in had literally fallen apart and the deterioration made the paper fragile.....

Fletcher Hanks was........ surreal and truly unique. If you want to read some truly bizarre and creative work, check him out. I am yet to figure out who his intended audience is...

I love obscure and interesting books, and these are amazing! (thumbs u

Keep 'em coming please!

There should have been a hero with a new sidekick every issue...

Let's name the sidekick "Disposable Boy", it would explain the monthly replacement