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They are making a decision on whether or not to delay Windy City. From what I’m reading and it keeps updating every five minutes, almost every sports league and professional and amateur, conventions, concerts are cancelling or postponing, as well as schools in various areas both in the United States and Canada Remember, the average age of pulp collectors is right in the target zone of the virus. If even one person contracts the virus while they are there, can you imagine the fallout and ramifications (negative press, or worse) of this choice. I love the Windy City show and I would be just sick if I wouldn’t go, but the choice of keeping people safe is the most important thing.

Steve, There are plenty of Hubbard collectors and if they really want something they will pay insane prices for the items.

Switching gears: Here are the two ultra rare double-sided cardboard trolly signs with the Shadow image on them from 1941. Both signs are from 1941 - 28” x 6 “ (Double sided high gloss hard cardboard Shadow radio trolley sign). Just got the bottom one framed with museum glass. I acquired a total of 12 blue coal trolly signs from 1941 (one each month), but only two of them had the shadow image or any mention of the radio show on them. The signs were found in the attic of a Coal headquarters building in 2008. The coal company used to be owned by blue coal (upstate NY). They are the only known examples of these signs in existence!

It is a great book, but there are a umber of collectors that are not interested in Terror Tales, Horror Stories, and The Spider unless they are Howitt covers. Maybe that is why he had it in the boxes. I would have had it on the wall.

A fun little book I just picked up, not a big deal, but a cover I’ve always liked. I’ve had it before in high grade, but once again got rid of it, so I decided to pick another one up.

Yes it is. I had a real sharp copy at one time and traded it away (for shadows I’m sure).

Might be selling or trading this group of books.

Nice book Steve, great cover.

Great copy and cover!

Steve, do you still have the same phone number as just tried to b call you and chat and it never rang? Dwight 306-531-2211 (cell)

Nice pulp Steve, and nice pickups by everyone at the show!

You are turning into a pulp collector Steve. Great pickups!

Picked up another super high grade copy of this Weird Tales issue.

As I mentioned above, you would destroy the overhangs. You would basically have to custom design a slab for each pulp. I do not know any seasoned collectors with large high grade pulp collections that want or would have their collections slabbed. I was all for it in comics because of the rampant undisclosed restoration and poor grading, but I am dead against it in pulps. I used to have no problem handling high dollar Church or Riley comics in my collection, but I have to be much more careful just handling one high-grade pulp because of the overhangs. Can you imagine somebody that’s not an expert handling them? They will not slab pulps with overhangs as it would not be Cost effective. **Now pulps with no overhangs (factory trimmed) could be slabbed.** I get it if you do not want the pulps to go by the wayside like dime novels, or if you are looking to maximize your long-time collection, then you might not really care if overhangs are destroyed. However, If you are comic guys that want to jump into the pulp hobby and need constant action in order to get to your fix, and you love slabbing that much, then stay with comics, that way you can buy, press, and flip all day long. I still love golden age comics, especially the pedigrees, but comics are a completely different animal than pulps. Here is my post from before: You would have to custom make a slab for each different size overhang. The overhangs can differ in size from book to book of the same issue. On some books the overhang can be larger on the top or the bottom, on the right side front cover or the back left side. You would not only have to take in account varied sizes of overs on the front cover, but also the back, so be prepared as I stated to make a custom slab for each pulp that has an overhang. Add to this the fact that some overhangs are curled under and just straightening them out would damage them, if there’s any kind of brittleness. Cgc will not slab comics if they have a bad cut to them, so good luck with pulps, as they ALL would infinity have cuts than are 10x worse than the worst comics.

Umm...Kiss of Death....LOL!

The overhang has to be graded. If it has a few straight tears in it caused by the newsstand, not A big deal, they can be high grade, if it is just folded under, not a big deal, but chips out of it certainly detracts from the grade. No, marvel chipping is a manufacturing defect, overhangs with pieces or chips out is not manufacturing, it is wear and tear. The worst thing you can have is people grading too loose. you can still have super high grade copies with straight tears in the overhangs or a couple of minor horizontal creases in the overhang, but not pieces out.

Yes he did, plus a couple of others!

Steve, I agree, it’s a great reference guide as were his other two, However, this one is much more of a highly polished version. Tim is to be commended for all his hard work. With this one is now being distributed through Heritage it will hit alot more people. As for the prices, some of books/runs are maybe a little too low, and some little too high, which is typical of most price guides. Some of the prices on some of the key box in top grade as just hypothetical, and I think a little too high. However this is just a guide and the market will dictate the pricing. I have heard some people say the prices are too low based on the Glynn Crain auction, Tim said he was careful not to base prices on one auction when two people got in a contest and drove the book prices up. If we have learned anything in the past don’t base prices on a one time sale at a big promoted auction ( ie Spicy mystery Fec 35 that sold for 9K). That was also the case with the McLaughlin auction when certain pulps went crazy and a couple years later they went back at auction at heritage and sold for a third of the price. Overall Tim has done a great job. I highly recommend this price guide which is also an outstanding reference guide!

Regardless Tim you put a lot of work in to this, you are to be commended of all your hard work.

Lol, It was grammar and sentence structure at its greatest! How about: You would have to custom make a slab for each different size overhang. The overhangs can differ in size from book to book of the same issue. On some books the overhang can be larger on the top or the bottom, on the right side front cover or the back left side. You would not only have to take in account varied sizes of overs on the front cover, but also the back, so be prepared as I stated to make a custom slab for each pulp that has an overhang. Add to this the fact that some overhangs are curled under and just straightening them out would damage them, if there’s any kind of brittleness. Cgc in the past is not slabbed certain comics if they had a bad cut to them, so good luck with pulps!

Tim, Total agreement with probability of not slabbing, especially with overhangs. However it would not surprise me if they tried to slab a few that are factory trimmed. However, whenever money is at state, there’s always a chance. If slabbing would ever come in, the same thing will happen as in the early 2000s, when at that time the Yakima craze hit for year or two, comic guys jumped in, prices jumped, long time pulp collectors who are the backbone of the hobby..... well some dropped out. Then of course there wasn’t enough supply and demand For the comic collectors, and they got out because they constantly need to feed the habit, Comic collectors went to sell their pulps and couldn’t get close to the price they paid for it, and the market took a hit. I’ve seen it before.

Sorry But I disagree. If pulps are stored in golden age backing boards and super-gold mylite 2’s, then with further protection use magazine backing boards in a magazine Mylar, and in conjunction with storing them in proper climate, the overhangs will stay full and preserved. Forcing them into a slab with an inner and outer chamber....well you will see (especially because many store slabs upright) Certainly storing the books flat will be the easiest on overhangs. You can display them for a short period of time on an upright angle in a double bag system and they should be OK. 99% of the 500+ high grade pulps in my collection have full overhangs, and will remain like that for as long as they are stored properly. in the past overhangs were destroyed as people either stored them upright with no bags or in those cheap regular mylites or polypropylene bags with backing boards the size of the books, will certainly destroy the overhangs. Dwight

The pulps that do not have overhangs certaily could be a slabbed, But the majority of them have large overhangs either on the bottom or the top, or sides. Right now you can’t even slab Comics if they have a bad cut, but every pulp is got a different cut with different size overhangs either the top or the bottom of the right sides. People that I know nothing about pulps and (just slapping or comics) say it can be done, but putting them in a slab is going to destroy these overhangs no matter what you do. You would have to custom make a slab for each different size overhang and custom make them why did the overhang is on the top the right side left side where ever it is a large I have to custom make a slab for each different size overhang and custom make them whether the overhang is on the top the right side left side wherever it is, plus overhang issues on the back covers as well No chance I would put my high-grade pulps with overhangs in a slab.

Just thought I’d post a picture of a stunning copy of WEIRD TALES - December 1932, that I just acquired on a trade! Colours just jump off the page. The wave in the book was simply me laying it on top of a backing board that was curved and wavy.

Here is a picture of the pulp to go along with the shirt.