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Rick Hall
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''Do original stories by famous authors drive up prices?"
Yes. You referred to SF authors.
SF pulps with Asimov, Heinlein, etc stories sell at a premium.
Non-SF pulps with Asimov, Heinlein, etc stories sell at a premium.
[There was a 1950s issue of "Short Stories", I title I collect, that was very hard to find. It has a Robert Heinlein story. It took a few years, but I found a copy, filed, on purpose, in one of a dealer's SF pulp boxes.]
ERB, OAK, REH, etc., big-name SF authors push up the price of the pulps with their stories.
Sometimes the story in the pulp was re-written later on. So you need the pulp to read the original version. SF authors had letters published in SP pulps. Almost none of those letters are collected anywhere. -
There are factors that determine the value/price of a pulp magazine;
Condition,obviously.
Age, the older the pulp, the scarcer it is.
"Classic" Covers, the iconic covers, covers that sell a pulp regardless of the contents or authors
Good Cover Art; not iconic, but attractive, or art by a cover artist whose work is collected.
Contents, THE most important driver; for the majority of pulp collectors. Pulp collectors buy pulps to read!
All Story; the 1912, October issue; the most expensive pulp. Why? #1: Author, Edger Rice Burroughs; #2 "Tarzan of the Apes [the complete novel]".
Any pulp with an ERB story is priced much higher than mundane poulps of that title; and the same holds true for another 50 to 100 authors.
Do original stories by famous authors drive up prices?
in Pulp Magazines
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"I'd add Woolrich & PKD to that, Heinlein as well, at least the earliest couple of stories for Heinlein & PKD."
> Go to a pulp convention and ask that question. You'll gather 50 to 100 names that will bump up the price of a pulp.