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A book can be a 5.5 with a clean subscription crease, and I've even seen CGC'ed books at 6.0 creases more faint. That being said, I think you're looking at a solid 4.5 (and a possibly longshot at a 5.0, although I think there are just a few too many spine ticks for that next grade step). A great book nonetheless and a great presenter!

An adoring collector lovingly touched up the right edge of this Dime some years ago, much the same way they told comic collectors in the 70’s and 80’s it was okay - if it was done with love.

Some cover tears, but I’m guessing most of these won’t be much cheaper in five years…

September 1934 issue

May 1934 issue. I love the expression on the woman’s face!

Even though it was the weekend of the Windy City show, I picked this up at the toy show. It’s water damaged throughout and wavy, but it was too gruesome of a cover to pass up.

I second Robot Man's sentiments! An absolute joy to see those glossy covers drenched in blinding colors.

I got a few nice western pulps to add to the piles…

Well, I found a lot of great comics, pulps and paperbacks over the weekend. The highly sought after comics and pulps were, for the most part, aggressively priced, but the lower-tiered stuff I like to collect was available throughout the room at very reasonable prices.

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Nowadays, it’s mostly about the covers. Forty years ago, it was more about the content. There are still quite a few authors like Burroughs, Hammett, Lovecraft and Hubbard, among others, who certainly drive demand for certain issues and titles.

I look forward to it! I was talking to Steve late this afternoon and he showed me some really nice original art that he’s shared here on the Boards, but since I don’t frequent the magazine thread, I missed it.

Normally in this case, I’d forego the toy show, as this has happened in the past. This year, however, I’m helping a friend set up at the toy show, so I’ll take a quick lap around the toy show and probably still stop back by the pulp show later. There’s just so many people to talk to even after the buying is done.

That's horrible! I hope you were able to resolve it without paying the billed amount.

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That Cape Canaveral play set brings back memories.

Where did I write that I have disdain for those who pay large prices for pulps? I suggested they have a disdain for money. Those are vastly different stances. I don’t think impulsive or wildly speculative and inflationary spending sprees are good for the hobby itself and are somewhat akin to the gentrification of neighborhoods. I can lament for the people who lived there for generations that can no longer afford either the rents or to move. That doesn’t mean I necessarily harbor ill will towards the people moving into those neighborhoods. It’s the phenomenon as a whole that invites pause. I am a capitalist who rejects knee-jerk defenses of the excesses of capitalism. Do I think that the most ardent and enthusiastic fans fill whatever Super Bowl arena each year or will sit courtside at the NBA finals coming up soon? I do not. Do I think it’s sad that lower-income fans get priced out of concerts all the time? Yeah, I do. None of these examples would tend to suggest that capitalism is somehow a panacea of virtue. The good news is that the crotchety old guard of pulp collectors, in dimly-lit dusty basements everywhere, will still be able to read things like the Park Avenue Hunt Club in their original format, for a while it seems, as their covers aren’t very lurid.

It’s sad to see what’s happening in pulps. I say this as someone who’s dabbled in them for forty years. The current disdain for money in pulps is barely more tasteful than buying Balenciaga sneakers for your toddler.

I was thinking the same thing...

I agree that Overstreet's guide is one of the two, but I believe the other is storage media, notably comic bags. Anyone who kept up with the annual Overstreet had seen all the big books in increasingly better color photos going back to number 6, which featured the quartet of Action 1, Adventure 61, All-American 16 and All-Star 4 all on the first page of the cover gallery! Other books pictured in that guide include: All Winners 1, Amazing Fantasy 15, Amazing Mystery Funnies V2N7 (recently for sale here on the Boards!!), Batman 1, Blue Ribbon 9, Four Color 33, Captain America 1, Detective 27, Detective 31, Four Color 9, Exciting 9, Fantastic Four 1, Flash Comics 1, Human Torch 2(1), Looney Tunes 1, Marvel Mystery 2, Four Color(1) 16, Military 1, Miss Fury 1, Motion Picture Funnies Weekly 1, Pep Comics, 1 Police 1, Shock Suspense Stories 6, Spirit 22, Sub-Mariner 1, Superman 1, Thun'da 1, Walt Disney's Comics and Stories 1, among others. All in all, a dizzying array of mega-keys as well as some notable classic covers. Subsequent Overstreets would start to fill in even more keys and notable trending books such that, by the time the Photo-Journals came out, a lot of collectors had a pretty good idea what the most important books in the hobby looked like. The Photo-Journals to me, along with the encapsulation that would follow a decade or so later, made comic collecting more cover-focused, if anything, which led to less and less interest in the contents. In that aspect, they were profoundly influential.

Just as a heads-up, this would probably be considered by moderation a trespass into politics, which is expressly forbidden on these Boards. I don't want to see anyone get a flogging, 'less of course they're into it.

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