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Surfing Alien

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    I'll pound you to a "Pulp" if you don't show off yours!

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    Just arrived. Since I dipped my toe in the pulpwater, i've done some looking around on what it would take to land a nice red logo Weird Tales. This one came up in the wheelhouse.

    I love Otis Adelbert Kline and there is a 1st CAS story in here as well. What's funny is that, in hand , this is crazier than what it looked like at first. When I opened the front leaf, it made the sound I've heard on a thousand 70's books that were liberated from dealer bundles... the sound of the ink separating from page to page from being sticky off the press and held together with the pressure of the bundle. I stopped leafing through it so that sound can be spread across the next generation (thumbsu

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    Comics, Pulps, and Paperbacks: Why such a discrepancy in values?

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    Some actually pretty scarce JD arrivals. NIce copies that look unread. I love The Tenement Kid blurb "the whore is their emblem of womanhood"

    GIrls and Gangs has a nice Rafael deSoto cover ad the Wayward Ones must be a scarce Signet. I've never seen one before.

    Ebay always amazes me. 2 out of 3 of these came with no bag, tossed in a mailer and the edges, corners noticeably more crunched and creased than the original scans.... They're so relatively cheap & I guess people think it's just a book, not something someone is trying to preserve. :S

    Makes me wonder.... how many early Actions & Detetcives were thrown in a mailer and sent across country back in the 60's mail order days when they were a couple bucks. Imagine your Action #7 scrunched up in the mailbox like it was no big deal.

     

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    Finlay

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    11 hours ago, OtherEric said:

    That is a weird cover, the man in the lower left clearly looks like he should be carrying a rifle or something similar.

    The Finlay feature (it's not really a story) in this issue is a reprint from Real Fact.  DC reprinted the "Just Imagine" features quite often; one also turns up in Mystery In Space #1.

    I agree. Maybe a swipe?

     

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    Comics, Pulps, and Paperbacks: Why such a discrepancy in values?

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    Back to Ace, here's my copy of The World Jones Made. It's from the same bookstore I bought my other PKD books that survived from my original collection from the 80's. It was from a book & tape trading store in Florida. I was on vacation and I walked in and was hit in the face with a wall of brilliant blue and red spines like I had never seen before. They had two shelves of a bookcase filled with these unopened, unread, square glossy Ace doubles and a few singles priced at $3 each IIRC. I bought both shelves. Man I'd love to have enough scratch to bid on the original cover art in the Crain auction on Heritage. I love the atmosphere of that art. It looks like the cinematographers for The Man In The High Castle on Amazon Prime used it as a model.

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    Comics, Pulps, and Paperbacks: Why such a discrepancy in values?

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    This is one of the first vintage paperbacks I ever acquired out in the wild. I kept it all these years with my other Aces even though it wasn't quite at the condition standards of the others I kept. We all get a little worn around the edges with time, except for Salome herself! She captured my young heart like she did so many others.

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    Comics, Pulps, and Paperbacks: Why such a discrepancy in values?

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    17 hours ago, Pat Calhoun said:

    Hub takes some heat for Scientology that I think gets in the way of his literary reputation. His portrayal of the future USA as an unsavory technocracy, keeping the rest of the world subjugated by military might - in Final Blackout, a 1939 novel - seems courageous to me, and the writing is effective enough. And I'm a huge fan of 'Typewriter in the Sky', a light but lush fantasy of a man who finds himself living in the pages of a pulp novel as it's being written. The sword fight scene on the pirate ship with the typewriter clacking in the sky is an all time fave.

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    I'd like to read that... in the meantime... Wow... what great cover art

    Comics, Pulps, and Paperbacks: Why such a discrepancy in values?

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    6 hours ago, OtherEric said:

    Not a fan of Hubbard, I'll grant he had a few good stories back in the day but in general he was a competent hack.

    I'm acutely aware of how hard to get any vintage books or pulps with his work are to find; though.  He definitely has a following.  And it can make getting issues you want for other reasons tricky.

    I'm not saying this magazine shouldn't command a decent price, for example.  I'm saying that it should command that price because it's the first appearance of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, not because of the cover story. But in my experience people selling it promote Hubbard over the Fritz Leiber story.

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    I agree & I'll take reading Lieber over Hubbard any day. Unfortunately market forces are swayed by what's happening now and Hubbard's following is huge and wealthy and Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are not in the spotlight in any big way :(

     

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    12 hours ago, pmpknface said:

    Speaking of which, WOW!  These are awesome, especially the one on the right!  So of course I go googling things and the Hank Janson books are fantastic!  I came across this website that reprints his old books if anyone wants to check it out.  Here's a link and another sample of a cover:

    https://telos.co.uk/product-category/crime-mystery-and-thriller/hank-janson/

     

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    RCM Heade covers on many of these Hank Janson UK books...  The Archer & Leisure Library titles look similar. Although there was apparently a warehouse find, many were damaged and they seem to have dried up since the 1980's when everyone's jaw first dropped on them here in the states... here's my copy of the White Slave Racket by Roland Vane (how "Hardboiled" of a name could you get!!!) ...

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    Comics, Pulps, and Paperbacks: Why such a discrepancy in values?

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    On 7/28/2019 at 8:40 PM, porcupine48 said:

    Another couple of rescues.Just reread the Jackson Ace and the Nightmare is so odd looking,haven't started that yet.

    Forgive the not great picture skills and the Spaceman cameo

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    I can never find old books in the wild anymore... It sucks because old paperbacks in New York in the 1970's & 80's was like grass underfoot.

    The flip-side is, the internet brings things to your door that you never would have seen....