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I think it fills in the story pretty well of the small era of San Francisco history between the Beats and The Hippies! I enjoyed it and agree with your assessment of Carol's path!

Another shot from the same film, but edited because I've been previously warned about such behavior....

Carol Doda Topless At The Condor (2024) d. McKenzie/Parker (w/ Jay Kinney?)

That is Stan Shnooter, if memory serves......and his lady friend! Thus the Fanboy shout-out!

On 4/5/2024 at 9:31 PM, Randall Dowling said:

Male Annual 3 is punishing to find any copy at all.  I think yours is a little nicer than my copy. 

I had 2 copies, but a friend who works for an auction house, guilted me into sharing the wealth, so to speak, so I consigned my lesser copy to him and was quite pleased with the results, even though it took a toll on my OCD!!!!

On 3/1/2024 at 5:39 PM, OtherEric said:

Can anybody tell me what I've got here?  I'm 95% sure that it's a reprint... the ISBN on the back cover doesn't seem to be on the original... but I also can't find anything indicating where the book was reprinted like this, rather than with the new cover.

Interesting that when the ISBN is searched, nothing seems to be attached to it! Could it have been part of the box set that FBI released recently as some sort of premium? I've never really examined the first print of L&R, though I read that the first may have not been stapled? Very curious why that number is there.

On 1/24/2024 at 12:34 PM, Darwination said:

Young Goodman Brown?

More tan, actually....and forever young, to be sure!

Have I told you guys my real name? I'll give you a clue....

It is referenced at my AbeBooks home page.....

https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/StoreFrontDisplay?cid=2945227

Oh, and maybe the 8/67 already included an installment of LAF, but in case it didn't you may need to seek out this little tidbit:

On 1/20/2024 at 5:02 PM, OtherEric said:

In today,completing my run of Kurzman's Little Annie Fannie.  Which is an interesting cross section of the magazine from 1962 to 1988 in general.  The highlight for me is the mid 60's to early 70's, when Hefner actually started to believe people were reading it just for the articles.  When you've got Robert Anton Wilson and Harold Ramis on your editorial team you wind up with some very interesting stuff.

 

Congrats on your completion! A major undertaking and no doubt a major amount of space needed to store the 'run' in! Thankfully the two-volume set from Dark Horse put the kibosh on my aim to do the same, and I salute your fortitude!

On 1/20/2024 at 11:29 AM, Darwination said:

Love, love, love magazines with their original inserts be they subscription cards, giveaways, etc.  I always scan them if available when digitally archiving a magazine.

I came across this neat subscription card in a Reader's Scope recently.  Reader's Scope was Lev Gleason's take on the Reader's Digest that also included a good amount of original material and was profusely illustrated and executed in a variety of colors of ink.  Comics fans here will know Gleason from Daredevil Battles Hitler or one of my own favorites Crime Does Not Pay.

I'm not sure whether the WW2 paper rationing meant the subscription cards were operationally helpful to publishers, or if Lev is using it as a sales tactic here, but it's neato how it all folds up nice and was kind of stickied to the back cover.

Bought (for .99 plus shipping), scanned, resold on eBay within a week, heh heh.  Not every treasure costs thousands of dollars or is kept in a plastic box.

https://archive.org/details/readers-scope-v-02n-04-1944-09.-picture-scoop-darwin-ia

Actually it is the Arthur Szyk illustration on the cover that got me salivating! A major favorite of mine! thanks for that!

On 1/13/2024 at 4:54 PM, OtherEric said:

I'm getting a strong Jeff Jones vibe but that's purely a guess.

It is! And it's even pictured on the rear cover of the Definitive Reference book from Vanguard, 2013.

On 1/4/2024 at 7:26 PM, wpbooks01 said:

NOW IT CAN BE TOLD DEPT: (Mainly because I finally found one) Re: Thrilling Murder

 

Many years ago I asked Gary Arlington about the identification points for a true 1st print of TM. The issue with the cover stock was well known, but he told me that a REAL 1st could be identified by the blood color that had been added to the interiors.

 

Apparently the printer did not mix the ink well at first, and the original batch came out with purple colored blood/juices! This made S. Clay Wilson angry and he attempted to get ugly with the printer. He felt the purple color made his centerspread look stupid, so most of that run was supposed to have been destroyed, but like everything, there are always some that get out.

 

The ink was corrected quickly and the large percentage of issues do sport the bright red coloring. Tonight I finally stumbled onto one of the purple issues and could not have been more thrilled! This 'point' was backed up in a post on the Fogel Underground Facebook page when either Ron Turner or his son Colin posted about this rarity and basically told a similar story to the one Gary had told me, but with a little more details...names of the printer, or locations or both....I forget.

 

But anyways, here are a couple of photos I took in my crappy lit living room with an old tablet camera. I still think you can see the difference....In the first scan, the cover on the left is the first print. You can even see a discrepancy there, as well, but I'm pretty sure the one on the right is also a confirmed second print with the more matte cover! Hopefully one can discern the top specimen has the purple coloring in the two following pics.

Though his son Colin refers to it as a 'magenta' sort of variant, here is the tale, cut and pasted from a Facebook post by Ron Turner (6/21/23), by way of Colin in the previously mentioned Fogel UG group. Pretty much the same way Gary told it to me at his home, probably while we were watching the bootleg copy of The Jolson Story (1946) that I had just laid on him!

The Holdovers (2023) d. Payne

Aside from the first 30 issues and some random single issues from the 'numbered' run that have special meaning to me, my interest in MAD are the odd collections. I don't want everything MAD but there are subsets that interest me.

Sadly, just as I was getting ready to do a volume 2 with some more assorted strays, my local bindery decided to call it quits.....now I have this forlorn pile collecting dust as I ponder it's eventual outcome....alas.....

So what is one way the MAD Annual obsessive can deal with all the excess issues with no inserts or partial inserts present? Why custom binding perhaps? Here's an example now!!!

On 11/19/2023 at 9:55 PM, Tri-ColorBrian said:

Here's Mad's first record bonus (from Worst of #2)...My copy doesn't have it.

 

The copy in the closet has it attached, but here's my dupe with record unattached, and the 6 complete copies of Ridiculously Expensive MAD I own with record attached!