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Well, I appreciate quality... And that's just what those 'Film Fun's you posted are!! A few of them look newsstand fresh. The pickin' is not bad out West it seems.

Sweet book, Jayman! You gotta love those issues in the single digits.

Wow... truly wonderful space toys, RobotMan!!

I'm betting you have some awesome board games stashed away too?

It is highly likely that a lot of Baker's, Jetta's, and other DeCarlo stuff are sitting in long forgotten boxes in the homes of inactive collectors. There are probably more inactive collectors than active collectors out there.

I second this sentiment, as a recently re-engaged or recovering inactive collector myself.

Sorry for the tight crops on a few of these - I know you guys like edges and corners! (I scanned a few of these years ago for my flickr page.)

Interesting treatment here:

As promised!

From 1931:

Okay, one more early example of lithography, then back to the pulps!

Here are a few "old timey" examples of lithography:

Now back to our regularly scheduled pulps!

Very cool cover, PK. Thanks for sharing. I like the Red Rajjah one the best.

 

Love the early stone litho printing on those. It allowed colors that were out of the four color spectrum.

Can you elaborate on this? I know nothing about it.

Thanks, RedFury. I'm awed by the rate you seem to be adding holy pulp grails like those Magic Carpets to your collection. Major congrats!

There are quite a few sites online that can explain the stone lithography process better than me, but here's a brief intro in the context of something I also collect - antique cigar labels (though I like the boxes themselves):

http://www.cigarlabeljunkie.com/Html/StoneLith.html

Any single color - or ink - that could be conjured was applied directly to the image, one after another, individually. Laborious, yes.

Four color printing involves cyan, magenta and yellow (along with black), and although a wide range of colors is obtainable, the quality of the old handwrought images seemed never again matched (funny, coming from a four color devourer like myself, I know!).

I hate to see the Atlas thread fade to the THIRD page, so I dug up a trio of westerns:

 

Love this cover PK such great posts coming from you!

Thanks ComicJack. It's fun to share your passions with the likeminded.

Thanks, Robot Man. I love the lithography as well. They remind me somewhat of the very early movie posters (pre-World War I).

Since I dabble in comics, pulps, paperbacks - these are a natural!

More properly a dime novel, but a sort of granddaddy to them all:

This seems like an appropriate venue for this memorable cover:

Truly wonderful piece! Cover painting for the story "Horns of Hell" in the October 1956 issue of Man's Daring Adventures.

I have a copy somewhere. I'll dig it up unless someone else posts it.

I like anything antique that makes reference to antiques, such as the antique shop depicted on this cover.

You just know that shop never had any Happy Meal toys and Beanie Babies, nor repro Coke trays and modern die-cast tractors.

Not that there's anything WRONG with those!

Nice books, PK.

 

Thanks MusterMark!

The last two books posted provide an indication of Cole's incredible range.

And the incredible range of condition found here on the boards!

Amazing that it's down to so few!

I thought I had the Bozo, too...