Robot Man

You know what The Beach Boys say about “California Girls”…

It was a “crime of opportunity”. I’d never seen it before. PBs and Digests are SO much cheaper than the comics I usually buy. And, although I don’t have the patience to look through endless rows of spines, Digests usually pop out easier when you can find them.

Hey, I got it with the rest of the others I posted all from the same booth. I may be old, but I still have a good enough eye to snap up a gem from you young wippersnappers!

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Another cool LB Cole Digest cover turned up at the LA Paperback show today!

I made it there. Was fun as always. Good crowd with money exchanging hands the whole time. I did a little recap on the show in the GA section in my “50 Year Junk Obsecession” thread.

If anyone is interested, I posted a little thread with pictures over in the GA section in my “50 year junk Obsecession”..

Well, how about that! I didn’t even notice. I had a little “sticker shock” there. I will have to tell him to bring it to WonderCon…

All in all, a very fun way to spend a day! And, unlike comics, nothing that broke the bank! Now, if you will excuse me, I have some old paper to sniff!

A few Digests. I like these generally better than PBs. Easier to pick out on a table but less of them to choose from. A cool dope book I had never seen. “Dream Club” and another LB Cole cover I didn’t have.

A little pile of cheap comics and a $5. EC Picto Fiction with the title cut off.

So what did I grab? Some cool pulps including a weird British Planet Stories 4. And another cool Film Fun.

And more spines than I had the patience to look through…

A very fun pretty girl who looked like a lot of the covers on the books in the room!

My buddy Kookie always brings the goods including this nice Superman book in the DJ.

Terry O’Neil had some heavy duty pulps and PBs.

Not a whole lot of my focus, (comics and pulps) but enough fun stuff to suck money out of my wallet.one table had some fun comics. Nothing over $10.

Hit up the yearly LA Paperback show today. Always look forward to it. Can’t think of any other show quite like it. Good to see boardies @Hap Hazard, @Dreamtoreal1 and another member I can’t remember. I didn’t see @Surfing Alien but I have never met him. He was probably as “junk drunk”as I was Quite a room full.

Seems like I have seen a LOT of pulps come back purple from CGC. I suspect that most folks did some work to “conserve” them rather than resto for profit like comics. Has always been a different market.

About the only thing that was saved more than PBs, are Playboys. They are still everywhere all the way back to the late ‘50’s. Every guy had a stash and they were never thrown away. I used to visit my grandparents house in the summer when I was young. I slept in my grandpa’s study. He was a voracious reader of mystery and detective PBs. He had hundreds of them. I used to check them out when he wasn’t there. Those hot girly covers really got my interest even though I really didn’t know why. Have always wondered what happened to them. I would kill to have them now. To this day, everytime I hear the name Perry Mason, I think fondly of him. Cool guy. He raced motorcycles in the teens, drove a ‘62 Lincoln Contental and smoked fat cigars. He also bought me all the comics I wanted off the racks in the cigar store.

Good to hear Ed. Sometimes, things end up where they should be.

There are also a few British, Australian and Mexican ECs if you truly want to be a completist…

Spa Fon!

Maybe I should have used the word “many” for the benefit of you younger folks. In addition to vinyl records and tube amps there are also carburetors.