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It's ok, that "Cry Plague" cover is too current NOT to post and re-post

Humble 1950 issues but my first pulp pickups in a little while. Some nice bright copies, both with Bloch stories and September with Asimov's only appearance. I think the May cover is one of the better ones by Dolgov.

Ok, after a LOT of searching I found the thread with the comics that swiped paperback covers. It's embedded in a larger thread about comic art cover and panel swipes - a testimony to how much knowledge has been shared (and buried for that matter) on these boards over the years. The paperback section starts at the bottom of page 8. The rest of the thread has a lot of cool swipes as well. Well worth going through, even with lots of broken links. The paperback section is all there though.

Couple more digest pickups Not quite as nice as the one I had years ago but pretty good for now. Always love me some hillbilly romance

Love the swipes. I don't know how to do the search properly but someone, I think Doohickamabob, did a long bunch of posts somewhere in the forums that showed dozens of the cover swipes. It was a treat but I just can't find it right now to give a link.

Yeah, Playboy was December 1953 and this was published sometime in late 1953 so too early for Hef. Marilyn exploded everywhere in 1953 (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire) so I guess I only need to salt 1/2 of my hat The robe had me thinking Hef but I can see George Raft there too

Just got around to examining the rest of a lot I won and took a double take when I looked closely at this. I've never seen one before and Google led to Heritage where the original painting is attributed to George Gross. I'll eat my sombrero if that's not Hef and Marilyn...

Some more of the nice Dell mapbacks I picked up and a couple Avon/Eton titles to boot... Dell #6, definitely the best copy i've seen of this early Dell Dell #21, an upgrade of an early classic cover that I probably won't be able to improve on. A couple of minty fresh mysteries... A near perfect romance... This one is a little worn but such a striking cover, it reminds me of LB Cole's Mask covers... A couple of Avon hard boiled Cain classics, Jealous Woman is one of the cases where the later edition has GGA that is spicier than the earlier edition... Finally, this Eton is a classic cover and one where the later edition is the one to have...

Sweet haul all around. Love that Carr cover with the Femme Fatale. I miss digging around in bookstores but at least the mails will be open for now. I got some more nice mapbacks in that i'll shoot tomorrow. That Rawson title is a classic. I used to have a real nice copy.

Some Ward headlight goodness I picked up. The Private Detective series seem to be really beat up in general. I see very few copies out there that are even legit VG/F.

Eric is right, but for perspective, serious SciFi heads always considered pretty much everything before the Campbell Astounding era to be naive and somewhat wooden, but every collector has always carved out certain earlier niches, whether weird fantasy or space opera or victorian sci fi (Verne, Wells etc) as beloved. The sweet thing is that current taste has evolved around cover art and the pre-Campbell pulps have such wonderful and fun covers, many at approachable prices!

I love the ads in the old pulps, and old newspapers as well, especially some of the medical quackery - they really give you a sense of the times.

Just unboxed these two rare British digests and they're even better in hand than the pictures. This is the same author and series as the elusive "Reefer Boy" The seller had a copy of "Duke" in the same series, which I should've gone for in retrospect, but no copy of Reefer Boy.

Just picked up my Bedrock books. Very sharp and happy all around. The Planet and Aug 33 Weird Tales are upgrades. I'm actually getting to the point where i'll have undercopies to throw on the bay

Looks pretty nice to me

For sure, and the Gerald Gregg covers look even more surreal when they're in sharp condition with minty gloss laminate

Cross posting this here LB Cole digest, i'd include it in my Drug/JD book collection with its dope addiction element...

I'm just gonna post random things to make you feel better while we ride out the thing that must not be named... Another rare digest, probably tougher than the Stork Novels...

No doubt I would've been glad for some crumbs out of the pulp folks after you guys hit it but would be just as happy to sift through some of those tables like the first 2 photos with the Avon Digests and the Day Keene's. That is not random stock but a cultivated accumulation, and they don't look like rags.

Picked off some more nice Dell mapbacks. One early classic and a bunch of near perfect condition rarities with killer lamination.

Man I wish I could find a show like that in the south! Looks like crazy fun for a vintage paperback/digest collector. I'd have a tough time with the magnetic pull of the pulps but I know which paperbacks don't show up online so I would've divided my money up between the two if I was seeing paperbacks that are not easily available. Your pickups are awesome. I've been looking for the right copy of the Horror Tales with the guillotine cover. Great find!

I love that cover! Been looking for the right condition/price ratio for a while but haven't found it yet. I may have to Mannup to get a nice one. He was a pretty good and well followed pulp writer before Dianetics. That had a lot to do with why he got followed when he got his religion on.

Two Sinners by Lee Jackquin... cross posting this with the Comics/Pulps/Paperbacks thread... the 2nd and last Stork Novel cover by L. B. Cole. The others are by Rodewald in the same beautiful style. My understanding is that Stork was part of Cole's Star enterprise ... I'm posting my Stork #7 with it for pizzazz

Two Sinners by Lee Jackquin... cross posting this with the LB Cole cover thread... the 2nd and last Stork Novel cover by L. B. Cole. The others are by Rodewald in the same beautiful style. My understanding is that Stork was part of Cole's Star enterprise ... I'm posting my Stork #7 with it for pizzazz

Congrats... this thread just went off the chain and running wild in the woods. I've got nothing to add right now except thanks for the recommendations for the Super Gold Mylite 2's. They just came in so I bagged a couple for the shelf in my mancave...