Surfing Alien

A couple more early 40's Weird Tales. I've been enjoying reading the March 1944 issue with the John Giunta cover this week. I haven't read much horror for many years and it's funny, it's still a pure escape from the workaday world when you delve into them. There's a great fun factor to lower grade books. The May 1943 is Brundage with a Bradbury story. The March 1943 looks like a treasure trove with Kuttner, Bloch and Bradbury. The cover is E. Franklin Wittmack who I learned had a fairly extensive Pulp cover career. The style kind of reminds me of the Giunta cover.

Cool. I had never heard of him but he worked on early DC's including New Fun #1 among other things... https://indianaillustrators.blogspot.com/2011/11/joseph-clemens-gretter-1904-1988.html "In 1935, a former cavalryman and pulp fiction writer named Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson put together a 36-page, black-and-white, tabloid-sized comic book called New Fun Comics, the first comic book made up of all original material and the second newsstand comic book ever published. New Fun Comics #1 (Feb. 1935) marked several other firsts as well, including the first original science fiction feature for a comic book, "Don Drake on the Planet Saro." The author was Ken Fitch, the artist, Clemens Gretter. "Don Drake," probably inspired by Flash Gordon and Brick Bradford, ran in seventeen issues of New Fun and its successor, More Fun Comics, and even made the cover spot in April 1935. Gretter worked in comic books for many more years. His last known credited work showed up in Fatman, The Human Flying Saucer in 1967."

Couple of later Lovecraft Weird tales appearances that just came in - not my usual conditions but they were basically thrown into a deal I made so i'll take 'em for now Love the Bok cover, the other is by "Gretta", his only Weird Tales per ifsdb

Nice. I see Jon Bernthal as the leering hood and a young Nicole Kidman as the blonde.

Thanks. That scan is so dark and I'm not getting much luck changing the settings. I think my scanner is finally giving out on flat items. Here's a twofer with the other baddest "...girl" out there.... Much more representative of the color palette.

No, I wish, I had most of them back in the day. Just got this one. Sweet books! Is that the orignal artwork ?

The baddest "Girl" of them all...

Gorgeous... I had a near perfect copy I sold to Jon Warren. I'll get another at some point...

I consider any book titled ".... Girl" as fair game for my JD collection. I'm very inclusive...

Girls Who Take Chances

Nah.. too innocent

If you ever rode the subway up to Lenox & 131st back in the day you know what it is...

By far the scarcest desirable late Avon in condition...

Carny Girls in da House

I'm filing this with my Harlan Ellison collection. even though this is much scarcer...

I'm a need some of this to understand the modern world...

Secret trials with selective leaks...sounds good to me Usually ends up bad tho...

Scarce Ace... looks like it has contemporary relevance to me...

1st edition Charles Willeford. High Priest of California. Tough to find this Royal Giant with such a square clean binding. And a whipping cover on "Full Moon" to boot

Scarce Berkley JD

I consider Blues and Jazz books to be JD ... but they are much scarcer and hard to find... especially this one...

I don't know... i'll fully confess to piling on. ... Sartre said he saw it in hand and it had staple tears. If it doesn't then i\'m wrong.

Stunning copy of my favorite Conan whipping cover. It's a time capsule in hand for sure.

Great work. There's been plenty of quack on the boards here about how Heritage "amps" the saturation on their scans. One thing amping the saturation does is remove details such as the staple tears on this copy of Marvel #1. It's a beautiful copy no doubt, and a small fry like me would love to own just a staple from it but there is no way that a peon like me submits any book of any kind that gets a 9.4 with staple tears like that. Must be nice to be a "player".

I’ve actually sold a lot of stuff over the years (and plenty of regrets lol). I did a lot of Greenberg and smaller local shows in NYC through the 90’s buying and selling mostly silver age and pre code horror back then (lot's of regret there .) I did pretty well at those shows for the time. When Ebay and then CGC started I got most of my Golden Age stuff graded and gradually sold it off as the market rose through the 2000’s. I’d love to have much of it back to sell at today’s prices but I really can’t complain too much, because I got pretty much top dollar at the time (okay, I really regret selling my Human Torch 12 CGC 6.0 for $900 but that was about 2-3x guide when I sold it). Before Ebay, if you were small time, you were really at the mercy of dealers and/or whoever would walk into a show if you wanted to sell anything. I never had too many pulps, for whatever reason they were not around too much in the world I traveled in back in those days, even though there were a ton of book shops and shows in NYC. My paperbacks were another story, I sold nearly my entire vintage paperback collection to Jon Warren when I needed money in the early 90’s before Ebay. It was 5 or 6 long boxes, including a pristine copy of Reform School Girl and tons of 1st ed mystery stuff, Jim Thompson etc.. He gave the best bid out of a couple dealers I contacted, but I did keep a box of my JD stuff and science fiction that I still have today. A few years after selling I started to buy paperbacks again and I’ve reacquired most of what I really wanted back, including a very nice copy of Reform School Girl that is only slightly lesser than the one I had. I don’t think I’ve ever posted it here, maybe I’ll dig it out. I'm still picking up paperbacks when I find the right price/desire ratio and i've been buying some pulps because the posters on this board have ratcheted up the temptation levels, and they're a cool substitute for the Golden Age itch at a price point I can live with (meaning keep my marriage intact, lol)