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I've been neglecting my mag collecting lately so getting back in with a haul of mostly non-Frazetta covers (because I targeted those first so have most of them) although the couple I got are pretty decent, especially the Creepy 16. Finally landed a Creepy #1 that I could feel good about the grade/price point ratio - I think I have enough of the early issues now I might even be able to join the reader group now and again Solid upper mid-grades to near high grade on a few and decent deals all around.

💯 Just keep doing what you are doing🤘 Great stuff!

George Gross and Howell Dodd did many of the covers for the Rainbows and Falcons, as well as the Best True Fact Mags. Some of the covers were used on both the digests and the mags. BTW, where have you been? We collect the same stuff lol! Great posts!

Picked up a nice 1st print of the Ballantine Tales of the Incredible pb to complete my set. Here's the group shot of the set of 5, along with the Tempo Creepy, which I consider the red-headed step-child of the Ballantines due to the Frazetta cover and Warren mags homage to EC's Also was able to find a minty copy of the Beacon "Mating Cry" to go along with my signed copy of the Harlequin "House that Stood Still" Because the Harlequin is far rarer, most folks know the Beacon cover by McConnell better than the Friede Harlequin. I like 'em both!

You're ahead of the curve my friend. I'm afraid the ship has sailed as far as bargains on these on ebay unless they're mis-listed or found in random lots.

I spy with my little eye a nice array of vintage pbs and digests in there! That would be a dangerous table for me to stop by. I had too much going on to attend but I had fun at Windy City so hopefully can get around to a few others of these shows. Thanks for the pics everyone.

@Randall Dowlingmight come along and punish you for publicizing these

Hi folks - Just posting this as a reminder since it's show day. My pal, veteran Original Art Dealer Rubén DaCollector and I are doing a Livestream video show on Youtube this evening (8pm Eastern Time, 5PM Pacific Time) as a companion piece to my just-published article on artist Raymond Johnson. I estimate his covers were on over 25 million sold paperbacks at a time when the population was about 150 million! Our talk will be wide ranging. Rubén is a warehouse of knowledge on original paperback and comic book art. I'm a bit jealous that he owns the Barye Phillips original art to "Satan is a Woman" by Gil Brewer, one of the coolest paperback covers ever IMHO. I always tease him about it. Here's the link, if you have a minute to stop by we'd love to hear from you. All you have to do is click the link any time during the show and you'll be brought to the show. The show has a chat feature so you can type a "Hello" or other comments on what we're chatting about. If you visit, please mash the "like" button so Rubén's channel gets a lift! He'd like to do more of these, maybe it'll be with one of you, if there's interest! Thanks! https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=jAoWLyZSOIk If you can't tune in live, you can always watch the show on rewind afterwards just by clicking on the link.

I Love Rainbow Digests, they are some of the best Good Girl Art Digests but also have some unknown great story-telling... Famous True Crime Editor Lionel White's first book was a Rainbow Digest with a "Killer" George Gross Cover. It's pretty hard to find copies of this one,

Triggered Great digests @BakerFanOne!

Just throwing it out there that Illustration #77 with the Raymond Johnson article is finally back from the printer and Dan has it posted for purchase on the website now http://www.theillustratedpress.com I hope dropping a link doesn't get me in jail. This message board is mentioned in the article I'd like to post a reminder tomorrow about the Livestream I'm doing with Ruben DaCollector tomorrow evening. I'd love to see any boardies drop by. Ruben is quite entertaining and there will be TONS of paperback art shown!

Great find. There's a lot of interest in George Gross art and this one's a winner!

Thanks for these! Love that Lou Glanzman original art for Dell Mapback #398, "Murder in Any Language"

This thread needs a bump and I just got some interiors, so... Leland Gustavson's original interior art for "The Riddle of the Beggar on Horseback" by Stuart Palmer. A Hildegard Withers short story. It's dated 1940 on the back. Probably appeared in Blue Book as I got several of his interiors that originally came from his estate and most were Blue Book. I kept the handwritten title and instructions within the mat as it was symmetrical and I like how it shows the process a little as well as the image. The man could do amazing things with just a crayon on window shade!

Two keepers in... Been looking for this Harry Whittington Guerilla/Lesbian classic forever and finally found one - the art has never been credited but the faces look a bit like a loose Freeman Elliott to me. Hard to say - he did a few credited pb covers and they were around this time. Landed a nice copy of "The Autumn People" - a tiny corner crease, but no readers crease. I believe I only need one more of the Bradbury Ballantine EC reprints to complete the set

Great stuff as usual Pat. I should have gone harder after a copy of "The Thing From Another World" that was auctioned on Ebay last year. I'm afraid the ship may have sailed on that book for me now

One more from the gentleman who I met nearby. I have/had this in the FPCI hardcover 1st Ed. But couldn't pass up the vintage pb. I need more of this series!

Just picked up this bunch of digests. These early 1940's Skull covers are fun to collect but not easy to find in decent shape. They're all killer but "The Bloody Wig Murders" is new to me. Never seen it before.

Sarg, I agree, but also with a different perspective... GGA has kept thousands of books relevant that have become irrelevant otherwise because of their lack of meaning to "modern" readers. Not talking about this "Frankenstein" edition though, it's an exception 🤘

Sweet! "20 Million Miles" has always been considered a Sci-Fi collection trophy piece 👍 What a great cover and the story is classic. I had one back when but still looking for my keeper. The Galaxy digests are great. I think I have most of them that I want. "Seeds of Life" is probably dated but I always loved it! "Killer to Come" is great art!

I'm usually crying on here about never finding anything "in the wild", and, while not a bookstore or garage sale, I found an old time collector near me who is starting to unload and he has a LOT of vintage paperbacks and is asking very reasonable prices. I walked out of there today with a near complete set of the Bantam Frederic Browns that I didn't already have and they were quite nice!

Won a nice small lot of digests, been getting harder to do lately. I don't collect these monthly digests per se but saw MacDonald and thought of @OtherEric right away. Great cover by Kirberger. I've figured out over the last 24 hours that this Mercury Mystery #33 digest, the only vintage paperback edition of Black Mask star Frederick Nebel's 3rd and last novel, is pretty scarce and costly. George Salter cover.

I was away in Colorado for the week but came home to two more "Girls" Cover art by Paul Rader Cover art by Saul Levine

To be fair, some of these copies have moved on but I was cleaning out my phone pics yesterday and saved them because they look cool. I always try to take a group shot when I get a new one in.

Been known to be a hoarder of my favorite titles...