Surfing Alien

Nice book but yeah that's like some Liefeld body geometry

Nice! @OtherEric It's an Argosy kind of day as this cool WW2 cover just arrived at my place. I like finding inexpensive war covers.

Wow! Awesome story... there are still finds They looked very fresh overall, not the usual ratty brittle things that are dragged out to auction.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/164211809405 Incredible action on these Black Mask pulps today...I hope we have some winners here today 🙂

Some random goodness just in... A couple of razor sharp Popular Library's from the later gritty art era An unread copy of the 3rd Ace double And finally, a Maguire that you wouldn't know about from the guides because the early printings had a different, much tamer cover. This 16th printing gets the full length Maguire babe treatment. One of many pb's where the later edition is more desireable.

Phenomenal books. Thanks for sharing these. It's a little ominous with the story "Unlucky Larruper"

Here's a few more:

I took a quick look on the interwebs for some of those Belarski re-uses. There are a ton of them actually. This was 5 minutes of searching Google for Belarski pulp covers - it helps that i've seen so many Pop Libs in my time so when I see a pulp cover that looks familiar I know there's a Pop with it

@Westy Steve I found the thread with the comics & paperbacks covers again - let me see if the link will work again. It's fun stuff. I don't think anyone has compiled the pulp/paperbacks covers like this. The paperbacks start on the bottom of page 8.

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun...

Bad Girls, Bad Girls, what ya gonna do?

I think she means business. Too risky to find out for sure. She appeared on the cover of the paperback "Don't Ever Love Me." by Octavus Roy Cohen. It was also used on a cover of an issue of Mystery Book Magazine.

I posted a link a few pages back to a thread with loads of swipes between the paperbacks and comics but the link is busted now. As to Belarski specifically, i've seen a bunch of Popular Library covers that started as pulp covers. I wouldn't know if he owned the rights and it was him re-working them or the publisher re-using and re-touching them.

Twofer dangerous Maguire dames. The Dewey title is pretty spectacular for a white book, the pages are snowy as well. I want to read it but i'll have to find a beater.

These guys could paint! I love the floorboards at Ruby's Place... you could hear them creak... they're seedy perfect... They had so much more canvas to work with on the digests.

This working from home thing is giving me waaaay too much time to hunt the interwebs for paperbacks, but i've actually dug out a few great bargains. I've never owned a copy of Deadly Streets although it has always been on my want list. I've thrown dozens of thrill bids but nice copies have always been bid up too much but I threw a thrill bid at this and for once no one who cares must've seen it so I got it for a relative song. It's a centerpiece of any JD collection. (P.S. you did not overpay for that Doll's Trunk... very tough that nice)

I love 'em but it's not all about them. I love the moody art covers like the Marchetti, Binger and Meese on those McBain books. Here's a couple sweet digests that came in today that are GGA but in the more moody style... Rudolph Belarski George Gross and Paul Kresse

Nice - great choices. I love the grade point you're going for as well

Quote worthy copy of a great classic bondage cover. I've got some mail call notifications in my email so hopefully i'll be posting a bit later

So I had to actually go and watch that video. While I would not do or recommend any of the color touch techniques they applied (To an LA Bantam Shadow Picture cover no less ) The vaseline might not be a terrible idea, if they are saying it is effective in removing the residue of lost lamination, AND it would leave no odor. From Westy's post I thought they were suggesting the vaseline sheen would replace the sheen of the missing laminate. Missing laminate often leaves a dull residue from the long-dried lamination glue and can look bad enough that I could see trying to clean it off. The microwave "trick" to soften glue to correct spine lean is interesting - but I keep seeing visions of a Gremlin exploding in the microwave lol.

This is so absurd, it's laughable I've encountered all sorts of funky amateur resto attempts on paperbacks - mostly the usual suspects like marker hits on color losses and tape and bad re-glue jobs.

This... it was amateur each time for me. I suspect that, like buying comics in the 70's before the stigma of restoration arose, collectors thought little of hitting a white crease with a marker to make it look better in a bag.

Love seeing so many cool books. Picked up another L.B. Cole cover, I think this is his best GGA of the Croydon series.

I've already found mixed results with disclosure re: color touch and in those couple of cases I had to make a decision about whether to make a stink about it based on what I paid and whether I could get an unmarked copy on similar terms. It really is like the pre-grading company days in comics and it seems like quite a few pulps have color touch and it's not always disclosed. I don't mind making decisions off what I can see, like ragged (or even trimmed) edges and tape, but color touch, even amateur, can be hard to spot on an internet picture.

Mail call. Been keeping a lookout for this Charles Williams Maguire cover since Randall Dowling posted his. It's a filler for now but the price was right and picked up a filler of another nice Maguire cover with it 👍