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For some reason, the St. John pulp covers have fallen off (other than of course, the first Conan story appearance from Dec. 32), but people understand the significance/ magnificance of his paintings as he is unbelievable! The weird tales golden blood pulp cover has quieted down, but if that cover painting was ever released from the New Britain Museum, where Bob Lesser donated his collection to, it would set a world record for highest sale of a pulp painting for sure

Cool pick up This reminds me of just walking into a secondhand store yesterday and picking up not a pulp but this the first Donald Duck in this run for $10

Agreed there are more things lately, but I think that's because with Galactic Central being looked at more as most of the pulp covers are displayed. It becomes almost like the photo journal guide in comics and more people are coming into the market and seeing covers they really like. I know myself I've gone over every pulp run and kind of picked out a handful of covers that I consider Are they real classic ones in each run. now some of them that we're talking about are in the top 10 of all pulp magazines.

I'm not going to get into what individual collectors think is a classic cover, but more of the collecting community of pulps over long period of time. I think discerning classic covers by chatting with hundreds of collectors and coming to a common understanding of what multiple people think are classic covers in each title, or what covers are high demand in each run consistently overall long period of time. I disagree with the point that there are no classic covered spiders, I think March 34, October 37 and June 1938 are all classic covers for the spider and there could be more, operator 5 from December 1934 is certainly a classic cover No one knows the shadow better than I do, and certainly January 1 1933 Shadow millions is a classic cover. The ultimate cover is January 15, 1933 the creeping death. The ultimate shadow image on the cover is the partners of peril from 1936. Many people like the golden master from 1939 and you can throw in the book of death from the 1940s . I have missed a few more classic covers (voodoo Master, etc. ). However, that goes without saying that one person might think a cover is classic and then another person doesn't which is fine, to each his own.

I have seen a number of slabs that say classic cover on them. That cover is considered a classic cover by most collectors, although the pulp itself is not rare, quite common actually. Heritage sold the painting a few years back

Picked up these books this week. Strasser Copy! Strasser Copy File Copy

I picked these up over the past year. Dr. Death: These were 2 issues from Frank Robinson's collection purchased by myself from Glynn Craine who purchased them directly from Frank before he sold his collection through auction. I also purchased the #1, but it was just a VG/FN Issues 2 and 3 were high grade having a newsstand fresh appearance with bone white paper. The Captain Future is the nicest copy of that book I have. The Thrilling Detective is a File Copy (just picked that up).

The Strasser from December 1933 and 1934 all had Robert Strasser written on them and a code and the Strasser from 1935 to 1941 just had the code on them. I bought some of those weird tales that you were referring to from that collection in 2018. I've seen the other batch of horror stories etc that you had and yeah, they are absolutely stunning. Tim, you are correct about other past groups of books in regards to trying to pedigree them, unless they have a code on them or you can get detailed background information, it is going to be hard to pedigree them. There is one other group of books that may be a pedigree coming up, and possibly file copies as well from the popular files, but you would have to have the lineage, especially if they do not have the stamp on them, which many of them did not.

Tim if we're talking about Tom, I've had multiple detailed discussions with him regarding the Strasser collection as he knew Von quite well. I've taken down the notes in detail and he's explained everything in detail as much as he can remember (as far as the church sale that they were at, and where Von Craybill loaded up the Cadillac with some 1700 to 1800 Strassers lol.) There were some other people in the area and outside of the area that I obtained other detailed information as well, and Todd did research on Robert Strasser himself.

Matt certainly know about the Strassers! As I mentioned, they are "all coded" (A, B, or C Code) w. a fountain pen, as the Mile High's were, it does not get any clearer than this. Myself and Todd Warren have recorded hundreds of codes, and based on this it was pretty simple to discern how many books were in the collection. However you need to put in hundreds of hours of detailed research in it ,as we did. There were between 1700-1800 books in the collection. There were a few types of titles that were not in the collection. I have talked extensively with a mutual friend who knew what titles were in the entire collection. There were NO Spicy's in the Strasser collection. The Strassers were found in the late 70's and emerged for sale (sparsely in the 80's), and then in the 90's and just because they were not promoted as a pedigree when they were sold, or a master list, means nothing, you then just have to do the research!! However, everyone knew how incredible they were at the time, as they were priced double what the other pulps were priced at when they were brought to the Con's (which certainly brought resistance to the pulp community at the time. High end collectors know about he Strassers, just that they have not been promoted to the new collectors, until a few years ago. Collectors are either holding tight to them, as they are so stunning, or trying to accumulate them from old-time collections, as I am. Tim, I have more info., that I can chat with you about via phone. Dwight

Good point about the photocopy of the cert. You could ask Matt and maybe he had allow you to send a photocopy of the certificate when you send it in and keep the original or if you have to send the original certification in, just take a picture of it. If that's the case and they lose the certification, Dave will probably have a master list. As far as file copies go, that's tricky, because if it's a "Popular" file copy and there's no stamp on the outside of the inside. you'll probably have to get as much lineage as possible so it can be traced back to the source of the main people that bought the file copies, or at least back to the people that bought them directly off the original people that got them directly from the Popular warehouse!

Re: Pedigrees. As I mentioned above to Tim.

Re: Pedigrees. They already have put the gold labels on Yakima's as a pedigree and will do the same for Strassers. Just to clarify for people that don't know: So far, I know the Yakima and the Strasser collections are the pedigrees. They might also include file copies, but you'd have to talk to Matt about that . Matt stated the beginning that the Strassers were a pedigree, so I'm not sure where this information is coming from about being only 1 pedigree in pulps. As much as I love the Yakima's (I have close to 60 Yakima Shadows), the Strasser collection is the top pedigree collection in pulps. FYI There were 1800 books in the Strasser collection starting at the end of 1933-1941, all coded, with the majority being in newsstand condition with nice paper. There hasn't been many graded because people with the Strassers have not sent any to be graded yet, as most people are just keeping them in their collection and not reselling them. BTW There is another collection that came out in the 1980s that might also be noted as a pedigree, but Matt is just gathering the information right now.

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