Surfing Alien

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...

Ray Bolger cover swipe!

Nice, I picked up a few too. I'll rescan when they come in as these scans look uniformly a bit flat so I suspect they'll be a bit brighter in hand. I picked up my first Dime. This is my Galaxy S9+ straight up with no manipulation. It's very vibrant and a sick, twisted cover! Where's that little rail car going?

100% I'd be so happy to have such a bright, flat copy in my box. CGC might actually consider overhang like marvel chipping the more I think about it.

My Argosy stack got a boost in the mail... I'm loving the Zorro but the Franco firing squad stapled wartime cover is amazing. It really feels like a golden age comic.

I'm going out on a limb here because i'm new at this so this will be good for my edumacation. I'd say Fine -/Fine? It looks very fresh and bright and would probably be Fine/VF if not for the torn up overhang. Unless the overhangs are going to be treated like bindery chips. It's way better than a vg but I don't think you can call it Fine or better. If CGC does start to grade these, they're going to have to take a stand.

I'll take it

I'll take it

These just in, I think Wolf Trap Blonde is at the top of the Quarter Books heap with a classy cover composition by George Gross. It's one that never shows up so I had to have it. Infidelity shows up in the Novel Library version but you don't see the Diversey Broadway Novel digest around, especially this clean.

Picked up an insane upgrade copy of one of his rare and best Good Girls this week.

Also has the same type of art composition that some of the late Wings GGA comic books have