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Surfing Alien

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    - I've read the classics at least! I thought everyone read "Catcher in the Rye" at some point. My daughter just did in 8th Grade so they're still teaching them in some places! But in that vein - they did manage to attach provocative covers to some classics and more mainstream authors
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    They ran that double imprint at least until 671, perhaps THE great cautionary tale against the evils of socialism and correctness...
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    Great example...
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    Avati was a master painter... Signet published so much "real literature" with provocative covers... not sure many people know that Penguin ran its numbering into Signet ... The early Penguin art covers...as opposed to years of "Title Only" covers, were mostly very simple, but great nonetheless - especially historically important writers like Richard Wright....
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    Holden Caulfield with his amazing red cap... how bout that!!!???
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    Avon Books #305... Move Along... Nothing to See Here... Look closely at it... Mainstream publisher paperback on the newsstand next to the Chiclets in 1950...
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    You have a dizzying array of books there - this time when you're bagging them, take some closeups to highlight individual books - loving "Rumble on the Docks" and "Play it Cool"!
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    Great selection - there's something for everyone in there! Love the JD stuff - Gang Girl is classic!
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    Beautiful copy... blazing color! Action 1 & Det 27, having set such a high amount of headroom - charting out prices so much higher than the top Marvel GA keys, doesn't that create a big gap for these to move up into if markets stay up in general?
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    The Neon Wilderness - aka the poor man's Intimate Confessions #1 One of the many Avon paperback covers that were later re-used on famous comic books. I believe almost all of the paperbacks are the "true firsts" for these covers.
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    Classic Gold Key JD, cover by James Meese
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    At 25 cents a pop, paperback originals were a revolution. The internet of the 1940's - 1990's.
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    Nice Gold Medals - lots of great covers - and reads - in that imprint
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    Minty copy, vintage 1953 British edition of a lost world classic...
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    Powerful...
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    Hot Rod... nice... love the JD... there's so many cool paperbacks...
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    Nice find. Although it's "pulpy" looking, Hot Bullets for Love is a grail for vintage paperback collectors.
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    JD & Dystopia stuff are faves... here's both genre's in one... the spine tear blows but i think I paid 50 cents for it so....
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    The Universal Giants are tough to find unread...
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    Not tonight honies... I got a headache...
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    As I turned adult...my interests twisted between comics and literature and found they intersected... in vintage paperbacks and digests... I still love my comics but this stuff is damned interesting !!!
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    Thanks - that's a 1975 Gibson ES-335. A great guitar that has the soul of an old blues-man in it
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    2 Jokers atop a Ferris Wheel in an Amusement Park - what could go wrong? Just a great un-sung cover by Jim Aparo.