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Just got back from the mailbox - another Allen Anderson full length space babe - (and Poul Anderson & FB Long stories to boot) Not in newstand condition but right in the price/condition wheelhouse for me

Beautiful. I need to get one. Another "Imagine what it would be worth if that cover was on a comic"

That's "Evil" of the kind Howlin' Wolf would sing! Nice copy. I don't think i've seen one in person.

Switching gears somewhat... still Ace but not sci-fi. Lester was not only about Doc Savage... Uncommon in square and tight condition

Another Fugitive from Utopia.... Robert Silverberg completely blew my mind with The Book of Skulls, A Time of Changes and Dying Inside... just wow... the most honest writer ever IMHO. This early ACE is tough to find with completely black spines and edges....

Oops, I did it again... Just in. I could see this becoming a bad habit if I keep finding them at the right condition/price ratio Anderson Redhead Space Babe riding Jar Jar Binks. If she's the beautiful and fey Berild, she's about to be blasted into eternal dust.

Congrats @OtherEric for finishing that run. I dug out my Dr. Futurity, it's pretty sharp, just some tiny nicks. I actually saved a few more Aces than I remembered.

It's pretty cool so far. I like this era of Planet Stories with the Anderson full length space babe covers. These are some of the best. I just got the first one in the mailbox, i'll post it in the pulp thread. The Black Amazon cover is iconic, i'm going to try to find a nice copy for a keeper on that one.

I've have that one too and yours is better than mine. I think Leiber gets read... and well read

I started reading "The Enchantress of Venus" in the Planet Stories pulp I recently picked up. Although it's a stretch on the science (actually, it doesn't really address the science of breathing and surviving on Venus, the characters just do it) it's a brisk adventure read so far, very pulpy. and fun.

Prices are definitely up, I suspect they will be for very high grade books as they dissapear into collections. I have a few more that i'm pretty sure are unread but i'll have to do some box diving that I haven't done in a while to show them to ya my friends...

I have a couple of the early mysteries... they're very tough in any kind of grade...This is my worst one.. it's real clean but has the crease and the spine is twisted but it is still beaustiful IMO

Here's my Cosmic Puppets. Both of these PKD books are survivors from my original collection that I sold in the 90's. I sold 95% of what I had, about 7 long comic boxes of very high grade books that I had amassed over 15 years of searching. But there were a bunch I kept for various reasons, mostly authors and/or covers I loved in exceptional condition. Glad I kept these.

That's very cool. I know there are a few Avon pulps with comics, Out of This World Adventures for one. Are there many others?

I had a couple dozen Aces that looked like this in my original collection, only have a few now but this isn't a bad one to have

Yeah, I recently posted the nice D-13 I found after a long search, it's not perfect on both sides but as close as I'm gonna get. The Conan is always beat up. I used to have a real nice one in my first collection I posted my Man Who Japes on here a ways back, i'll see if I can find it, it's really sharp.

To get back on your question... I don't think any of the Sci-Fi Doubles are "hard" Sci-Fi collectors go way back and things this recent were always hallowed and well kept by aficionados They might get "expensive" because certain authors, especially PKD and Harlan Ellison, are so loved that there is always lots of demand but I can't think of any Ace Sci Fi Doubles that can't be found if someone is willing to pony up the cash. The mysterys seem scarcer generally. Now, "condition", that adds to the equation and if you're looking for copies with no reading crease and sharp corners, that gets much more complicated as all vintage thick PB's got reader creases as soon as the covers got opened. Unread looking Ace's are amazing and not so common.

I've been bingeing on "The Man in the High Castle" on Amazon this week and it's almost like they pulled the cinematography atmosphere right off the cover of "The World Jones Made"

Supersnipe was great, I remember one day buying stacks of mint overstock Avengers Annual 10 & X-Men 150 there back in the day. Other great Manhattan spots were Village Comics on Bleeker Street, Manhattan Comics under the Chelsea Hotel on West 23rd and a bit later in the 90's, Jeff's Comics and Cards on Sullivan Street (Where I met Howard Rogofsky) In Brooklyn you had Pinnochio on McDonald Ave. in Gravesend, Silver Star on Nostrand & Avenue V, Bob's on E.19th & Avenue U & My Friends Book Store on Flatbush Avenue & Foster Avenue and a few others We used to read the Yellow Pages for used book, magazine & comic stores and took buses & trains all over to discover the shops in other areas. It was a great time because any used book store might have a pile. This was mostly before the proliferation of shops in the late 80's and early 90's (and the subsequent crash that wiped out almost every shop in existence)

I remember it on the path of my Manhattan pilgrimages. I was never a big toy guy but I dabbled in them. Sadly it is gone as of 2008. I found a very nice tribute to the store and its owner, Grover Van Dexter online here: https://gvshp.org/blog/2016/08/24/village-people-grover-van-dexter/

The Batcave, Forbidden Planet, St. Marks, & Roger's Comic Shop (before he morphed to The Mysterious Time Machine) in the Village, Big Apple Comics on the upper west side were just some of the haunts in Manhattan - there were lots of smaller shops that popped up here and there that lasted a few years at a time.

Sweet copy!

The thrill never goes away - but it's definitely different than it was "back in the day" I buy very few comics these days, mostly vintage paperbacks & digests because you can still get a relatively cheap old paper thrill in those arenas. I recently bought a pulp for the first time in a long time - which I know you collect for the same reason - vintage thrills at more reasonable prices and un-slabbed enjoyment. I've been selling off the modest comic collection I gathered in the 70's and 80's bit by bit over the last 20 years - and you bet I slabbed every Golden Age book that was worth more than a few hundred dollars. I've gotten top dollar for those books by slabbing them (and no grading hassles) and learned a fair bit about CGC grading in the process. The few comics i've bought have been undervalued but cool (to me) things like old Crime Does Not Pay, just to leaf through them and look at the ads - and of course... smell the paper

Thanks. Yeah, part of the life situation was being a new father though, for which no earthly possessions could surpass You're well on your way - and now you've got the toughest of them all . I've re-acquired some Aces but i'm pretty picky and cheap so it's slow going