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Not sure if mine is representative of the pedigree as a whole, this book sat in a yakima book store for 20 years after the bulk of the collection went off to the west.

Problem with the Yakima pedigree is we (to the best of my knowledge) don't know who the original owner was. Story I got from the original purchaser of the collection was that a couple of guys showed up with milk crates of the pulps they pulled from a storage locker, which he then sold to the guy from Seattle.

Yah, came across it randomly on ebay and couldn't decide if I should buy it now or make an offer. Luckily they accepted my offer.

I once dated a girl for a week and couldn't remember her name, but if I see someone yalking about a scarce comic on here I'll remember it years later 🙃 Recent ebay pick up.

1 in the census.

Iconic and affordable.

Guilty Just got this in from the recent auction.

Im not in tune with GA pricing, but does the brittle pages kind of tank the value?

Love ancient city comics. Best 25 cent boxes in the country.

Will they be recognizing the Yakima pedigree?

Yah sorry I didn't mean to make a knock on the guide, it has a permanent place on my bookshelf and it's an invaluable reference. I suspect I'll be flipping through it for many years

This is the one in Pikes Market? I made a stop there a few years ago for work and didn't have a great experience.

I just add books I'm interested in to my watch list, then I can see how they went for. Like this doc savage. Figured it would end around 75, sold for 431, which is impressive. This hitler cover went for an impressive 1437.

the Clink pulp auction started, if anyone was interested. Some really cool books First time I've followed a clink auction, I really like bidding pushing back the timer 2 minutes, since I lose most of my ebay auctions to bid snipers. Auction seems to have a good number amount of interest, as I'm watching books like this dime detective shot to 7x what (in my eyes) a similar copy sold for on ebay recently.

Fun little mag with some naughty photos.

I know, I thought pulps were supposed to be cheap compared to comics 🙃 I'm guessing this one went to high because it was an l Ron Hubbard, the best fiction writer of the Era. The other issue from that run I lost went for 300ish. Still more than I was expecting a defective pulp to go for. My pulp price guide is already out of date 😀

Ever anything like this up in Seattle? Tried my hand at getting a couple pulps on ebay again and I'm getting trounced. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Popular-Detective-Pulp-Magazine-11-1934-L-Ron-Hubbard-/234108208699

I'm not your buddy, guy! I think they'll keep going up a bit, since people paying a premium for graded copper books aren't on the same wavelength as me. I've always preferred direct copies, and if speculators want to help keep their price down I'm all for it.

Shatner reading an old pulp set to music like his rocket man cover would be epic 😀

I like pulps, but do they have a real untapped market? I grew up reading comics in the 8ps/90s, so GA comics were a natural progression. I don't know anyone who grew up reading pulps.

Yup. I only bought a few comics a month, but as a kid I sat at the grocery store newsstand with my sister and read every single comic on the rack as my mom stopped 😀

Honestly if I were to collect asm, 375 is where I'd cut off as well. The title got really bad past that point.

So basically, as a collector not an investor, my hobby is going to get more expensive?

Might try Google. I was able to dig up cgc topics on pl17 as far back as 2013, but not the one you're talking about.

Did this actually happen? I feel like I've heard this story for decades, and a little digging seems to turn up a case of some teens stealing skylights from a school, suing, and losing.