Point Five

IMO this Nschenks guy is the wave of the future. That Nsschenks guy sucked!!! .... Oh hold on, just read the post above. OK, scratch that.

At the risk of bragging, I'm in the **top slot** of the 28 point club. You came in second.

"It's a bargain!" I think 4.0... great pickup. From my duck collecting days, always really liked this cover.

Agreed. I know I bombed this one so let's pull it off like a bandaid as quickly as possible.

Cool, cool. No hurry.

Man, if this were a precode comic cover we'd be fighting each other to drop four figures on it. Luckily though it's a pulp, and my rather lazy bid was enough to bring it home.

New pickup! Love this awesome cover. The war bonds stamp looks wildly out of place here.... kind of interesting that such a grim cover was on the stands while the war raged on (early 1945). Not exactly the tone that comes to mind when I think of 1945 magazine covers.

...And look at your avatar, Jack. You got in early!

Whoa!

Front cover looks sweet! Back cover appears to have a long staple tear... 4.0 seems right, maybe a shot at 4.5. These are great grades for this book... it sells extremely well in the 2.0-3.0 range.

That's me. Right here. I LOVE the better skull covers on pulps. Absolutely love them.

Good luck all. I'm not saying it's a trap.... But it's a trap.

This.

Hey, come on now. Steve just reads it for the articles.

Try to make it look like a horrible accident and they'll go easy on you. Maybe dab some blood on the edge.

Grades submitted! Thanks Mike for all the hard work.

Scrollin' scrollin' scrollin'.... This round has left a stain on my ego that looks a lot like this.

The comics that terrified me in the early '50's were the ones depicting supernatural creatures, ESP skeletons, overpowering PPL. Atlas and Story Comics come to mind. LB Cole never really did skeletons. Today I find his Frisky Animals covers the most terrifying. Some of those animals are seriously messed up.

^ Looks great!

Great! Nice idea and please do post them up when they roll in. I doubt I'll be buying or submitting any 9.0s of 1930s/1940s books anytime soon, so 5.0-7.0 is exactly the sweet spot I'd like to understand better.

Sure, makes sense.

Awesome pickup on the Diary Secrets BTW. I saw that up on ebay and knew it would go quick. Presents really really well for a 2.0!

So yes, there's that possibility. Intriguing. Then my question is: how do the new grading standards work for pulps? Other than the February press article which discussed a few common pulp flaws (trimming, missing pages, etc), are there any resources for how CGC grades pulps? I'd love to know more. Every concrete bit of info we have is that CGC's standards for vintage pulps are strongly different (some might say "wildly different") than everything we know about their standards for vintage comics. I'd like to know a lot more about how common defects are handled -- things like overhang wear, edge tears, spine splits, spine wrinkling etc etc -- before I consider submitting or buying to submit.

There’s a lesson here. If you’ve ever been tempted to buy a CGC slab WITHOUT looking up the grading notes… maybe an ebay BIN OMG OMG gotta get it before anyone else does! — print up the grading notes to this Secret Wars #8 and post them on your wall. 8.0. Good grief.