PhantomLadyKiller

Red circles, as promised: Title Month Year Condition Trimming, Tape, Glue, Color Touch Note Marvel Tales December 1939 NM Uncanny Tales April/May 1939 Fine+ Tanned outside edges Complete Detective May 1938 F/VF Dynamic Science Stories February 1939 NM Uncanny Stories April 1941 Good Glue bottom spine Mystery Tales May 1940 Good Glued spine Water damage Mystery Tales February 1939 Fine Possible trimming Mystery Tales June 1938 Good+ Heavy creasing, store stamp front cover Detective Short Stories June 1941 Good Glued spine, tiny tape inside fc Uncanny Tales August 1939 VG Marvel Science Stories August 1939 Fine Glued spine Small water stain inside fc Detective Short Stories April 1941 VG Chip out bottom r fc Detective Short Stories April 1938 Fine White pages Complete Detective February 1939 Fine Tiny worm hole inside Uncanny Stories April 1941 Fine Tanning Marvel Science Stories August 1938 Marvel Science Stories August 1938 Marvel Science Stories November 1938 Marvel Science Stories November 1938 Marvel Science Stories August 1939 Marvel Science Stories April/May 1939 Marvel Science Stories February 1939

I had the same reaction. The claim is that there was a lot of amateur, collector trimming for innocent reasons. But even that is the same thing, to remove something from the book to make it present better. I agree that it is destruction and can be graded as destruction IF noted. I can't figure out the 7 for the trimmed book. Maybe I haven't seen enough cgc grading when a comic looks VF but has a chunk out of the cover? That seems like a cut and dried VG, not a F/VF. ps Tape is resto. I know I wont be backed on that, but also to bring up cgc, splain to me how a taped book gets a higher grade than the same book without tape, AND a blue label?

Trimming never goes purple, but it makes me turn purple, even when I was a kid I hated resto. My father liked to tape pbs, I liked to peel it back off when I lobbied him for the book for my collection. (I may qualify as the youngest vintage pb collector of all time). Resto is resto, grrr. I saw a cgc 7.0 blue label with trimming noted. I dont even trust that all trimming on pulps can be caught with their system. Micro trimming has been applied to pulps just like comics, it slips past the most hardened veterans with gimlet eyes. Unless you truly loathe it, and then it jumps out at you like a hairy bug trying to play dead in the corner...

Title Month Year Condition Trimming, Tape, Glue, Color Touch Note Terror Tales March 1936 VG Trimming, Tape, Glued spine Terror Tales February 1936 VG Glued spine Terror Tales July/August 1936 G/VG Trimming? Terror Tales Nov/Dec 1936 VG Trimming Terror Tales May 1935 VG Trimming Sticker over price Terror Tales September 1935 VG Trimming Water staining 1/2 bc Terror Tales November 1934 Good Trimming? Slightly brittle Terror Tales November 1935 VG Tape on cover, trimming bottom cover? Slightly brittle Terror Tales March 1935 G/VG Trimming? Slightly brittle Terror Tales January 1935 Good Large chew bc into book .5x3" half into book Terror Tales July 1940 G/VG Browning Terror Tales November 1940 Good Piece out top right corner Terror Tales January 1940 VG Aggressive trim, tape Terror Tales January 1936 VG Trimming Terror Tales May/June 1937 VG Trimming Terror Tales Sept/Oct 1939 VG Trimming, tape Terror Tales September 1940 G/VG Trimming Terror Tales Jan/Feb 1937 Fine Trimming, tape, glue Strange Stories February 1939 Good Tiny piece tape top spine Strange Stories April 1939 G/VG Strange Stories October 1939 VG Trimming Water stain bottom fc and bc Strange Stories February 1940 VG Browning Strange Stories April 1940 Good spine tear bc lower half Strange Stories August 1940 VG Strange Stories October 1940 VG Heavy foxing Strange Stories December 1940 VG/Fine Strange Stories February 1941 Good Tape Water staining Dr. Yen Sin Sept/Oct 1936 VF Slight warp/cup -- still VF Thrilling Detective February 1934 Good Piece tape top spine Water damage top 2" book I haven't heard a peep about replicas yet, nobody has extra Girasols? I know I do. I'll keep listing here...

Next up -- Terror Tales, Strange Stories, various Red Circle pulps. I'm going to post all pics and share with anyone coming up with a possible trade, sadly, it seems nearly impossible for me anyway to post a huge load of pics here.

Title Month Year Condition Trimming, Tape, Glue, Color Touch Note French Night Life Stories February 1936 CGC 8.0 OW/W Doc Savage (32 Argentine and Spanish editions) Various Various Average VG Weird Tales January 1954 VG Weird Tales May 1954 VG Weird Tales May 1954 VG Weird Tales September 1954 VG Fantastic Jan/Feb 1954 VG/Fine The Mysterious Traveler Mystery Reader No. 5 1952 VG Amazing Stories March 1952 Good No spine Amazing Stories July 1951 Good Amazing Stories October 1952 Good Amazing Stories July 1950 Good Amazing Stories March 1950 Good Amazing Stories November 1948 Good Amazing Stories August 1948 Good Amazing Stories March 1947 Good Amazing Stories August 1946 Good Amazing Stories December 1945 G/VG Amazing Stories May 1952 G/VG Future Science Fiction July/August 1950 G/VG Amazing Stories January 1953 Good Amazing Stories Quarterly Fall 1950 Fair Tape front cover taped on Future Fiction August 1941 VG Famous Fantastic Mysteries February 1941 Fair Fantastic Adventures January 1948 Good Trimmed cover Fantastic Adventures August 1948 Fair Fantastic Adventures October 1951 Fair Glue, trimmed cover Thrilling Wonder Stories December 1949 VG Thrilling Wonder Stories April 1942 VG Startling Stories April 1952 Fair Startling Stories May 1949 Fair Tape Famous Fantastic Mysteries August 1947 Fine with bug chew bottom cover overhang still Fine Detective Tales August 1936 Good Glued spine Detective Tales October 1936 Good Glued spine, cover trimmed Detective Tales June 1940 Good Glued spine, missing piece back page ads Crack Detective July 1943 Good Exciting Detective Fall 1941 Fine Glue top spine, 25% cover taped back on (looks fine) Exciting Detective Fall 1942 G/VG Glue top spine bc browning Exciting Detective Winter 1942 G/VG water damage The Popular 30-Jun 1928 G/VG Glued spine Dr. Yen Sin Sept/Oct 1936 F/Good Glued spine piece out bc The Angel Detective July 1941 G/VG Glue bottom spine Nick Carter Magazine May 1934 G/VG Glued spine, tape, cover trimmed Ace G-Man Stories April 1942 VG Ace G-Man Stories June 1942 VG Cover trimmed Detective Story Magazine 31-Oct 1931 Fair fragile Detective Story Magazine 3-Sep 1927 VG/Fine Detective Story Magazine 5-Nov 1927 Fine The Skipper December 1937 VG Piece tape bottom inside fc, glue top inside page Soiling, hole punch front cover Spicy Western Stories January 1937 VG/Fine Spicy Detective August 1941 Fine Spicy Detective February 1935 Good piece out front cover Spicy Adventure Stories February 1941 Fair/poor Almost all bc missing, title stripped fc Spicy Adventure Stories January 1938 Fair Taped spine Detective Fiction Weekly 19-Jan 1935 VG/Fine Detective Fiction Weekly 23-May 1936 VG Detective Fiction Weekly 10-Apr 1937 VG Detective Fiction Weekly 7-Aug 1937 VG Detective Fiction Weekly 14-Aug 1937 VG/Fine Detective Fiction Weekly 20-Aug 1938 VG water staining/rippling looks VF Detective Fiction Weekly 31-Dec 1938 VG Detective Fiction Weekly 29-Oct 1938 VG Detective Fiction Weekly 16-Dec 1939 VG Glue? Detective Fiction Weekly 2-Jan 1937 VG Glued spine Detective Fiction Weekly 9-Apr 1938 F Glued spine 1 inch stress tear at spine, looks VF Detective Fiction Weekly 10-Sep 1938 VF Glued spine Detective Fiction Weekly 7-Jan 1939 VF Glued spine Detective Fiction Weekly 6-May 1939 VG/Fine Glued spine Detective Fiction Weekly 20-May 1939 VF Glued spine Detective Fiction Weekly 26-Aug 1939 VF Glued spine Detective Fiction Weekly 27-Jan 1940 Fine Glued spine Detective Fiction Weekly 30-Mar 1940 VG Glued spine Detective Fiction Weekly 29-Jun 1940 Fine/VF Glued spine Flynn's Detective Fiction June 1943 VG Flynn's Detective Fiction December 1943 VG Flynn's Detective Fiction February 1944 VG

Coming soon, along with the photos...

I need to downsize, and it used to be so easy to buy more pulps! I'm turning to you for help. I need my fix, but I need to downsize too... The rules are: I'm not selling anything NOW, trade offers only. I will trade these pulps for Girasol replicas, and other pulps! With the exception of the Girasols, I'm generally looking to trade quantity for quality, and of course I will be considerably more likely, in that case, to be more generous. I will be posting hundreds of pulps for trade, so for now, my stated trading value for each pulp is $10,and it will take time to post all the pics and list the pulps If we start a trade I will provide condition reports and more pics as needed. Reason is, I still work for a living, my time is limited, so please be patient with me, eventually everything will be posted, and I will get back to everyone who messages me. I know your time is valuable too, so I wont waste your time. Also, I'm too old to get angry, but not old enough to be cranky, hopefully you will agree if we get into a trade! Anything traded will be promptly deleted from this topic! I need to find a better way to share hd pics here, hundreds more to post...

A link to a post somewhere else even? youtube video? local news report about hotel vacuum cleaners jammed by pulp flakes, maids not happy?

Since no one else said nuthin, I looked back into this, it is the SIXTH street collection. Some copy from ebay listings where some were sold follows; I know nothing else but I think I got 2 and there are no marking or certificates: "The Sixth Street Collection from Spokane Wa! There is the normal wave from sitting in a basement for 75 years. Another cool Sixth Street Book!A very cool book. This book comes from a collection which started over 75 years ago and has sat in a basement until a few months ago - you will be the 2nd true owner of this book. Most of these are gorgeous books and the Sixth Street Collection will be a mark of distinction and something that you can be proud of owning. When you mention that you own this book, you will say Sixth Street, and they will know what you mean."

Life imitates art -- can't expect people to read (or write) pulp fiction for 50+ years solid and and not get medieval every so often. You know the old story Tim, the first pulp is free but pulps cost money, and then, someone gots to pay...

Here’s a list of excuses for not attending that I hear all the time, and why none of them are good ones: 1–I have no money! Sorry but I’ve attended many a Pulpcon in the 1970’s, 1980’s, and 1990’s and I went with very little money. Are there no credit cards? Are there no credit unions? Are there no non-collecting spouses to borrow money from? Even when I had the money, I often blew it before the convention by visiting local bookstores like Bonnett’s and Dragon’s Lair in Dayton, Ohio. If not in the bookstores, then in the hotel rooms of friends who let me see what they were bringing to sell. I learned to go without much cash but I brought a few boxes of pulps to trade and sell at my table. 2–I’m in poor health and too sick to attend. Sorry again! I had a friend who had a terminal illness and came to Pulpcon anyway. Another friend actually collapsed at the convention and died soon after. I myself once threw my back out three days before the show and my doctor and chiropractor both told me to forget making the long drive to the convention. I felt like I was crippled for life but I managed to squeeze into the car and drive out even though I had to stop numerous times near hotels because I thought I was not going to make it. I could then rent a room and lay there for a couple weeks until I could stand. It took me 16 hours instead of the usual 9 hours but I made it. I spent the entire convention standing because sitting down caused back spasms. 3–I have no space or I live in a small apartment. Collectors always make space for the things they love! When I first met Bob Lesser in the 1970’s he had an apartment full of Disney toys. This was NYC and the apt was tiny. A path from the front door to the bed and another path to the bathroom. Otherwise, every inch was toys, robots, paintings. I once ran out of space and I hunted for over a year until I found a bigger house. I went to dozens of open houses and looked at hundreds of houses. I finally found a big house. Unfortunately I soon filled it up with books and now I need a bigger place! The old story… 4–My wife is a non-collector and forbids me to go. Tell me about it! I’ve been married over 40 years and I’ve heard it all. I still go and I still collect. Once Les Mayer told me in 1990 at Wayne, NJ that his wife thought he was a business meeting. If she knew he was at a Pulpcon she might burn his pulps. Collectors have to become masters of deception and great liars to defeat the non-collector. Many a time I’ve lied and many a time I’ve smuggled books into the house in the dead of night while “she who must be obeyed” slept the innocent sleep of the non-collector. Non-collectors exist to be ignored… 5–I can’t get off from work. Sorry but not a valid reason. My employers always knew I was a rabid book collector who always without exception took off a week during Pulpcon in the summer. I made sure that my vacation request was in as early as I knew the convention dates. Once they sorrowfully told me I couldn’t go because of some work wildly_fanciful_statement. I went anyway and left it to them to ignore my absence without leave or put up with one pissed off book collector. I realize the employment situation is different nowadays but which is more important, your job or your collection, your marriage or your collection? Right, your collection. 6–Who cares about the convention. I can buy my pulps off ebay, etc. Once in the 1920’s and 1930’s the dime novel collectors existed. But they didn’t have a convention and died off. Now I know of only a few in existence and dime novels are just about worthless. If I had a table full of dime novels priced at a buck apiece, most collectors would scurry by in disgust. We have to support the two big pulp conventions: Windy City in Chicago and PulpFest in Columbus. If we don’t, then one day we will wake up and the pulps might be dead. These shows garner a lot of attention and people keep talking about the pulps because of the efforts of Mike Chomko, Jack Cullers, Barry Traylor, Doug Ellis, John Gunnison, and others. 7–And finally the best reason for attending! They are a hell of a lot of fun. Not only do you get to roam around a gigantic dealer’s room full of books and pulps but you get to meet and talk to some of the greatest collectors and dealers. These will lead to future deals and contacts. Plus you can eat and drink with these guys! Though I seem to be one of last of the drinkers. And the panels! All day and all night we will be discussing pulps and books. What’s cooler than that? 8–Walker, it’s too late! Like hell. There are hotels with rooms available nearby. What’s the most important thing in a serious collector’s life? His collection without a doubt. We work, we slave, we march on to the bitter end where we will eat dirt in the boneyard. We live lives of quiet desperation and worry about the afterlife. Go to PulpFest and collect some books and pulps! You only live once… By Walker Martin, apparently the greatest pulp collector of all time!

What about the 5th Street collection? Pedigree, or collection? I think I have 2 of the Spicys, Hakes sold a group and I landed two runts. Really nice condition, matched pics of 5th street available on line.

Reader's League, without seeing the spine (and if memory serves me), has no price. That and the date strongly suggest it was a charitable effort with Pocket to send popular titles to the troops during WWII. Also the first book in the series was "The Pocket Entertainer" according to Jon Warren in The Official Price Guide Paperbacks 1990 (where he lists 24) if there is any doubt about Pocket. The titles seem male and action oriented, with an Abraham Lincoln reprint thrown in which ties in the wartime patriotism angle as well. The borders and the covers sort of have the feel of Armed Services editions, although not yet tear out convenient for use as toilet paper, and sure enough, the Armed Services editions started in 1943 according to Warren. Probably the government decided to take over the book supply to the troops business for complete control of the content. Probably some shady contractors in there made a fortune off the publishing, too...

Hi I'm looking for some interviews of Frazetta that were published in obscure magazines or books. I'm missing 5 or so at this point. If anyone thinks they can help me out please message me with your contact info. Seems I cant reply to messages here anymore due to some kind of account downgrade, hence the contact info request so I can respond. Thanks in advance. ps. I highly recommend his interview in Different Worlds 41 which is available on line for free...