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My attempt of a floor shot of my Planet Stories run, Much cheaper to achieve than a complete comic run!

Always been such a striking cover. Now is the time to buy that one. Every comic person I show it to wants it. Any nice mid grade + copy for $100-200 is a solid buy right now. Yeah, it was pretty common but it is getting locked up in collections. A real sleeper. Will it ever go to 4 figures? Probably in high grade but it will never reach the money that it would if it were on a comic book. And it will never be hard to sell if you wanted to.
By the way, that is crazy to get a blue label with all three edges trimmed…

I think the interest in these and a lot of pulps are primarily cover driven.
For many years the hard core pulp collectors were content driven. I was always a cover guy. And with the influx of other comic folks who live in the world of slabs, the covers have really driven up the prices.
Pulps will never realize comic book prices but comic folks are smelling blood in the water. Most know nothing about them now but if it says Weird Tales on the cover, they fly out of my con boxes at what I consider stupid prices. 

I agree. This and the related title pulps have some of the most awsome covers in the genre. Some of my most favorite Finlay covers. It seemed that almost every flea market I went to had these if there were pulps there. I bought up all the ones I liked and even upgraded several times. My under copies just sat in my for sale boxes even at very low prices. Not any more. They have pretty much dried up and the prices are now 10 times what I was asking even a year or so ago.
Since I have so many high grade ones, I considered grading them but the cost, dwindling storage space, and the fact I’m not selling them have held me back. 

I think that one might be partly driven by the Lovecraft story with Bok art inside... not all the heat on pulps is cover based yet.
Or it could be the poor man's January 1950 Startling Stories.

An awesome pick-up and a classic cover!
But also, I'm amazed that we've reached a point where Famous Fantastic Mysteries is a book that warrants the happy dance emoji.  For so long it was a mostly worthless title, and now there are several issues that are genuinely red hot.

Some Friday Fun...
Best Detective Selection No.7 "The Corpse Hangs High" by Edward Ronns (Aarons)  1943  Cover art by George Dunsford Klein   
A beautiful early Atlas forerunner. I'm bearing down on picking up the early 40's books lately. They have such a great Golden Age feel to them, and who doesn't love a hanging corpse on a flagpole cover?
 

Don't think I posted this awesomeness in this thread but I did sell my undercopy in one of the sales threads. A classic  Kurtzman piece 

The key to this is which ones? Although I have always been primarily a comic collector but have picked up cool pulps as I ran into them. But I have pretty good instincts. Back in the day when everyone was focused on Timely Schomburg covers, I discovered and sought out his Nedor and other publisher work and bought them up while they were “under the radar”. Same thing with Baker, crime books and other WWII publishers. The same applies to pulps. There is much more than Spiceys, Weird Tales, Shudder pulps and known hot covers.
I am always excited to find stuff I never knew existed. There is just so much out there even in the pretty dead genres like Romance, War and yes, even Westerns that most people are unaware of. And now with CGC grading, condition is becoming very important.
I am really enjoying the water and the thrill of discovery all over again. 

The only time I ever heard of a mystery box work out was for a co worker. He wasn’t a collector but inherited his dad’s collection. He decided to go to a comic con and purchased a mystery box. The big prize was a Stan Lee autographed book which of course he didn’t get. He did, however get a high grade Black Cat Mystery #50.
He had no idea what it was and was disappointed until I told him what it was worth. He was shocked.
So, it can work out I guess…

I have never used WhatNot so I have no opinion.
I will say it is a “mystery” to me why anyone would buy mystery boxes even more bid on them. The whole premise is for dealers to dump junk and to take advantage of those with a gambling problem. I guess someone might “win” something but the odds are very much stacked in the house’s favor.
I prefer to know exactly what I am spending my money on. I avoid sites like this and IG due to lack of information. Too many shifty situations for me. You get what you pay for…

I have never used WhatNot so I have no opinion.
I will say it is a “mystery” to me why anyone would buy mystery boxes even more bid on them. The whole premise is for dealers to dump junk and to take advantage of those with a gambling problem. I guess someone might “win” something but the odds are very much stacked in the house’s favor.
I prefer to know exactly what I am spending my money on. I avoid sites like this and IG due to lack of information. Too many shifty situations for me. You get what you pay for…

Just got a big batch of WT back from CGC and this one is the highest graded! (today )

There were a bunch of them not long ago on a Comic Connect auction along with a bunch of Bobby Blue collection comics.  You can read a bit about him here.
 

Click on that diagonal arrow up there in the right hand corner of that link box thing...
One of the titles his collection was most "famous" for was his graded Sugar & Spike run 

I have never used WhatNot so I have no opinion.
I will say it is a “mystery” to me why anyone would buy mystery boxes even more bid on them. The whole premise is for dealers to dump junk and to take advantage of those with a gambling problem. I guess someone might “win” something but the odds are very much stacked in the house’s favor.
I prefer to know exactly what I am spending my money on. I avoid sites like this and IG due to lack of information. Too many shifty situations for me. You get what you pay for…

Ha! Indeed, my bad. You are correct. Below are the two passages from POP.
No reholder necessary…

Got an awsome EC today from a great boardie. I never knew there were Al Williamson file copies. I love personal file copies from creators especially EC folks. These boards are the best place around to find books sometimes. 

I just received my Weird Science #17 from the Pacole Collection back from CGC today in an updated holder. When I sent it in, I made a request that they add Used in “Parade Of Pleasure “ on the label and supplied them with several pieces of back-up information. I am happy to share that CGC granted my request. 
I found this issue to be very difficult to find in nice condition. 
There is a 7.0 coming up at auction from Heritage in August from the Roger Hill Collection. Unfortunately, it won’t have the Used in “Parade Of Pleasure” on the label as it was graded previously to my request.

Seems like they are really focused on small overhang tears. Many would actually be considered production faults. If trimming is allowed as blue, I can see some folks trimming their overhangs to avoid the overhang tear stigma…

Seems like they are really focused on small overhang tears. Many would actually be considered production faults. If trimming is allowed as blue, I can see some folks trimming their overhangs to avoid the overhang tear stigma…

Got an awsome EC today from a great boardie. I never knew there were Al Williamson file copies. I love personal file copies from creators especially EC folks. These boards are the best place around to find books sometimes. 

Seems like they are really focused on small overhang tears. Many would actually be considered production faults. If trimming is allowed as blue, I can see some folks trimming their overhangs to avoid the overhang tear stigma…