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That is great! I’ve never seen that page that you posted from the interior. Thanks for posting! Thanks

Street in Smith titles start such as the Shadow Doc Savage,The Avenger, along with other street and Smith titles, and some other companies in general, did not start factory trimming until November 1939. The spiders Continued with overhangs into the early 40s but their books went into smaller format. I think a reason with a smaller format was due to the paper shortage in World War II so they were cutting down on the size of the books. It seems like when they went into the smaller format they also started the factory trim them in many cases, but not all. If we’re talking about people that actually trimmed them at home, one reason could be that most of the time pulps were stood upright in shelves and the overhang‘s got tattered or shredded. Therefore they trimmed them to takeoff the overhang damage. A number of people back then even taped the overhangs on the interior side of the cover To protect and reinforce them. Even collectors from the last decade or two that stored their pulps upright using in My-lites with the small backing boards offered very little protection to the overhangs. Using at Gold or Super gold My-lite 2’s with either a silver/gold or gold (thick 42mil) backing board will offer much more protection if you need to stand them up. If you need more protection; use the above, plus put them in a magazine mylar with a magazine backing board as well, for ultimate protection if you need to stand them up.

Just picked this up at auction. I paid too much, but are only a handful that I need in hi-grade to complete the run from 1935-1941 I had to pay for it, as other collectors like them too. (Todd...stop laughing).

Todd, I could do some of these shots of the of the yen sin’s if you want Just let me know! Dwight

Picked this up yesterday!

Well done Rick, beautiful book!!

Here are my two favorite file copies that I own, one Spider and one Terror Tales. About 18 years ago, Ed Hulse had roughly 15 Spider File copies, and I chose this one because of the freakish bright colors on the cover. The Terror Tales file copy came from the late Jerry Weist. Both have off-white interior paper.

Awesome, The Spiders have such great covers! The Spider, Op5, Terror Tales, Horror Stories, etc. all have great John Newton Howitt covers. Too bad only 1 of his original pulp paintings is known to exist, The Terror Tales from November 1934. Researchers have said that Howitt was involved heavily with his church and thus was very religious, and simply didn’t want people to know about the subject matter that he was painting. For this reason he signed all his pulp paintings only with an H on the bottom of the painting, and subsequently burned all of his pulp paintings. The only surviving Howitt pulp painting was obtained by the late Jerry Weist who purchased it from an author that wrote one of the stories in the November 1934 issue of Terror Tales, and then asked how Howitt for the painting . He told Jerry that his wife made him turn the painting around, or simply remove it from the wall whenever company came over. The painting is part of the Robert Lesser collection, which was donated to the New Britain museum by Lesser.

Great covers Rick, and of course the one pulp has the human torch Ad!

I keep the humidity low in the house. The winters are cold and dry and in the summer the air condition runs and it takes to humidity out, so the humidity stays the same the year around. My friend who is a paper conservator, said the environment in the house and safes are OK!

Oh no, that would be in a walk-in vault!!...LOL!

Yes, They do take up alot more room. I put some of my better pulps in safes, and what really works well are the multi drawer filing cabinets that are actually safes. They have multiple levels to them and they hold 36 - 48 pulps per level. You can get two, three, or four drawer ones, depending on what you need and what comes available second hand. They are $3000-$4000 new, but now banks are getting rid of all of them because rather than keeping documents stored in them, they are keeping them online. I find that you can get next to brand new ones for $400 to $500, from local safe & lock companies that acquire them used from Banks, and they are excellent for storing stuff, if you have the room, and the need for them. On top of it they are 1 1/2 hours fireproof, Which is about as good as you can get for any safe. I had a couple people ask me about them and what the brands were, so I attached a picture below. Dwight

Cool book and tough in nice shape!

Beauty Dan!

Besides having a great cover, it has fabulous interior illustrations!

“Happy Easter” everyone! Just took a new picture yesterday of the favorite thing in my collection...Although he doesn’t look much like the Easter Bunny!

That’s it for me, now I want to see Rick’s 160+ Spicy pictures here!

OK here’s one that’s kind of cool!

Rick: 167 ++ Getting a little greedy I aren’t you...LOL!!

Great cover and condition!!

Great cover - - and of course some people recognize it because the late Bob Lesser has the original painting of that one in his collection housed at the New Britain Museum.

Keep posting Rick!!!👍👍

Congratulations Dan, A beautiful book and classic cover. I know you wanted that one badly!! Dwight

Love the old newsstand pictures! The Shadow pulp pictured in it is from May 1, 1940.

Of all of my Shadows, this is my favorite. The Strasser copy of “The Partners of Peril” from Nov. 1/36. In my opinion it is the quintessential image of The Shadow himself (now if I had a Creeping Death in this condition they would be tied dead even as my favorite, as I think The Creeping Death is the overall most popular image). The white is so white on this cover that looks like it’s just been printed! If there’s any yellow tinge in the picture at all in the white, it’s just from the scanner. The paper is white like the Yakima, but I’m not going to risk taking a picture of the paper. BTW: Much of the storyline was swiped by Bob Kane and later used in Detective 27