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Original. Common aging effect on the glue

One thing for sure about 1950's stories... she really needed to get smacked around a bit to fall for the dude. Not sure how that would play today although a pretty standard noir element.

This is actually the latest Heritage Sale, and a much more comparable copy. The Ebay one actually has less creases and marring but a bit more missing. Still the point is that this is the Marvel Comics #1 of Marvel pulps and a fairly presentable copy can't pull $300. That says to me that all the comics guys aren't going running to buy pulps. Even if this is considered somewhat common, it would only take a fraction of a fraction of GA collectors to wipe out the supply.

There were dozens of watchers so it wasn't un-noticed

Incredible that the 1st book in the Marvel Universe passed, even in low grade, at $300. Pulps are dead if ya ask me. I see copies for sale for north of 10k. Normal market volatility? https://www.ebay.com/itm/256491972389?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=deHrmBTwQ82&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=XwvppebcTg6&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Just the Fantasy Press colophon is worth the price of entry for me. Robots printing books it doesn't get much more Sci-Fi for me Every book printed in the series is a beautiful example of book making and a ton of good reading and great art.

One of my favorite Clyne covers and the return of another old friend I had in my 1st collection that I sold off. I dug Coppards outlook on the supernatural 🤘 Pardon the mylar glare...

Nice catch.

Y'all think waaaaaaay too much. You see nice books for 5 and 10 in a store, then you take your panties off, put on your man-jeans and buy them all

Buy them all

If those are the today prices rather than being on there for 10 years, I'd scoop every book the seller had.

Are pb's being lain at your doorstep I wish I got such service Those Lovecraft Bart's look pretty good. Any fresh copy that has a good spine and colors and the main cover image uncreased is worth $50 retail, going up in inverse square to the lack of creases and wear.

Some Friday Fun... My Name Is Violence by John D. Matthews Avon No. 847 PBO 1959 Cover awesomeness by Raymond Johnson near the end of the first Avon numbering run

Yeah, there's a few huntlist candidates here for me (getting a lot of Belarskis on there). The Mesh is the one I keep looking at trying to figure out just what kind of book it is... I was interested too so I just finished reading my copy of "The Mesh" and it was interesting (to me at least) enough that I kept turning the pages. It is touted as a lesbian novel but is only somewhat so and it is not anything like the lesbian sleaze novels that are so collected these days. It is much more a "French" novel - of the psychological kind. Not that much action really happens, it is told from the perspective of the daughter of a strong woman who loves her son more than the protagonist daughter, and is mostly observations and descriptions of all the little (and big) hurts they visit upon each other in their home where they live with a few other characters who take sides against each other in the struggle for the mother's love. There's a very memorable dog, a woman with a bad reputation and various cousins who are woven into the mix as levers of power to be pushed by the three as they battle for psychological supremacy over each other. To say any more would give away spoilers but I liked it.

He was a pulp artist straight up, whose work, whether remunerated or not, got re-used into the 1950's in PB's. Not an artist who broke out in the PB's like Maguire, Johnson, Avati etc.

Every copy of the pulp I've seen has paled in comparison to the sharpness and brightness of the PB printing process. I love the pulp, and have a few, but they're limp compared to the PB

Was busy with my own sale but I just took a look and, at first glance, this looks to be the case, even on HA, which has tended to get ridiculous prices for common pulps. The couple of 8.0 WT books got nice prices, the lesser grade ones more in line with unslabbed prices. Still, I think any pulp worth "x hundreds" of dollars might make sense for a seller to get graded due the liquidity/grade factor the slab brings. However I saw things that made me go "hmmm" - A Planet graded 6.0 Blue with all three sides trimmed, when it was stated before the slabs were released that no book with significant trimming would get out of the VG range IIRC.

I'm going to close the thread and start getting invoices out. Thanks again to everyone who participated, it was a lot of fun, and special thanks to the lovely Mrs. who indulges my fondness for these little rectangles, and tries not to complain (ok, a little ) about how all my free time outside of work is taken up when I do a sale. It is a fair amount of work. I'm amazed at the dudes who do hundred page long sales

Thanks Darwin, she's purty....

Since most of what I listed today sold, I'm going to drop the 30% off sale for the remaining stock right now through tomorrow evening. There's lot's of cool books still untook, including some Maguires (gasp!) scarce 1sts and pulpy good cover art books so feel free to dig around if you were close but wanted a better price