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Everything posted by Surfing Alien
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Pat, I think you posted this many years ago. I looked very carefully at it back then and slowly realized how important it was, and then found out how tough it is in higher grades. I got a great copy after a few years but hey, what do I know about WWII books without a Good Girl on the cover
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It's been pretty clear to me from the first slab to hit the market that, the slabs have a value, a great value maybe, for top line material and very high grade lower value books. This is not a time, though, like free Covid money days, that newbs are rushing into the market, uneducated and willing to throw easy money at the "hot thing" I think many potential pulp buyers right now are collectors who have been around the block and are not gonna open up their wallets to clear money hustle pricing at "everything is 10x what it was last summer" and are bidding accordingly.
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Great cover, close second to Leg Artist
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#2 & 7 both look like the same hand as 12. Harry Schaare signed #8. Leg Artist is Top of the Bill
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The numbering is a bit of mystery that will probably never be solved. Here's a few more cool ones. #2 is the first fiction title... #7 is the last Red Circle before it changed to Lion Books... #8 is the first Lion and one of four Lions before they changed the imprint back to Red Circle for #12 & 13 ("Carnival of Love", above is the last Red Circle) With #14, Shirley Jackson's classic horror collection "The Lottery", Goodman changed it back to Lion for the rest of the run. I love my Avons, Pops and Pyramids, but if there's one manageable run I'd try to complete, it would be the Lions. All the great 1st editions of Thompson, Matheson, Bloch etc and great covers by the entirety of Goodmans Mens Adventure Mag artist stable