Surfing Alien

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

It's ingenious how those gold silk space bra's filter the Martian air

I'm really digging the aviation pulps. Not something I thought I would but they are even more amazing when you get them in hand!

Cross posting this here in case any Peanuts fans want this knowledge. I picked up an upgrade of the 1st edition, 1st printing of Snoopy. I snapped the copyright page for reference for anyone who might want to know what differentiates it from the dozens of printings it went through. It's gotta have the Rinehart "R". I have a little write up from various sources that removes some of the confusion surrounding the True First editions of the Peanuts books. I may post it or send it if anyone wants to put this tough run together. They kind of fall in the no man's land between comics and paperbacks so haven't been covered in the usual places.

Picked up an upgrade of the 1st edition, 1st printing of Snoopy. I snapped the copyright page for reference for anyone who might want to know what differentiates it from the dozens of printings it went through. It's gotta have the Rinehart "R".

Beautiful! The Berkley series has grown on me. I never had many of them when I first collected pb's but i've picked up quite a few for my current collection. I'll try to dig out a few later.

Yeah, you just have to scroll through them a lot when you see them. I have picked up a few others besides those two sports covers I posted. This is certainly the only Argosy I have seen with a bare breasted woman on the cover! Combined with a giant octopus and the cover 1st appearance of a major Fantasy author's most famous work, it's a triple play

Thanks. Yeah, i got some things from him off eBay and have corresponded a bit with him by email. I really should get an autograph on something but I'm trying not to be too much of a fanboy. It's hard when you've admired someone's work since you were a teenager like I was when I bought Howard the Duck #1 and Dr. Strange books off the newsstand!

One of the first comic books I bought off the newstand was a Frank Brunner Dr. Strange so i'm honored to have acquired Franks personal copy of Argosy with Abraham Merritts Dwellers in the Mirage. From what I understand it's a hard copy to find in nice shape...