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Yah I'd be curious what you're able to dig up about it. My thought was, as othereric pointed out, the GA books were possibly a kid having fun with a stamp, where there seems to be a lot of bronze and modern examples where the stamp coincides with a mark jeweler insert. The existence on girlie mags though makes me think that maybe it's not a kid with stamps? I was looking up the dates of the NEX to see how prevalent they would have been prior to ww2, and it looks like they didn't really take off until 1946, although they existed in some form since ww1. The army version had the same trajectory, existing in some form since ww1, but formally coming into being in 41. I would imagine if you find the stamp on a book prior to 41, it would make it less likely to have been due to being sold by a military exchange. My guess would be like was suggested in the other thread possibly a store stamp, or a stamp from a 2nd hand shop.

Yes it's quite an interesting feature on the books. A while back I was looking at an old buck rogers book on ebay and found this topic on star stamps. Lot of modern books, but also a few golden age examples.

That prince valiant

Did the pulp equivalent of a dollar bin dive. Most of these were under 5 bucks on mcs.

Yup it's on my want list

Buddy told me about these and I thought they looked neat. Magic, a trading card game, is releasing some cards with a pulp novel art treatment.

Yah, there were several Hersey's, which was fun to see. The one I wanted/was rooting for didn't break the 4 figures. If it goes beyond my range, I at least want it to go for a crazy high amount 🙂

Auction ongoing at HA right now. First issue of Detective Story just went for a solid price!

To expand a bit, I believe they said they'd look at the quality of the trimming (amateur/professional) and factor that in as well. I thought they also said that if trimmed, the highest grade they'll give is a 4.0, but I can't find that source now that I'm looking for it. Also keep in mind some pulps came trimmed from the factory.

I love that star stamp, I feel like I've seen it on a number of comics and pulps. Just got this in today.

Picked this up today, trimmed but the price was right.

Just found this today at a bookstore, not a shark but close?

I was watching a modern tv show where a character gets sent back to 1943, and noticed a legit pulp being read by a salior. Can't quite make out the title but thought it was a cool touch.

That gay Parisienne is one of my favorite girlie covers 😍

First modern book I picked up in a minute.

Does anyone else have just a nightmare of a time trying to log into adventure house's auction site?

I took a stab at that auction 🙂 Ended up with this book.

Googled around a bit and found these.

An all story Oct 1912 is coming up in seven days from HA. Complete unrestored in VG, be interesting to see how it fares. Already at 39k. More in my wheelhouse is a bound copy with the mars trilogy. Looks tempting but not sure how the covers are. And of course a couple shudder pulps im gunning for but based on HA price histories I'm not holding my breath

Yah, which is kind of strange once you think about it. Found this interesting, from Wikipedia. Time to hunt down a copy of Sqlmagundi 😀 In Jim Steranko's History of the Comics, writer Bill Finger, on the naming of the city, said, "Originally I was going to call Gotham City 'Civic City.' Then I tried 'Capital City,' then 'Coast City.' Then I flipped through the New York City phone book and spotted the name 'Gotham Jewelers' and said, 'That's it,' Gotham City. We didn't call it New York because we wanted anybody in any city to identify with it."[9][21] "Gotham" has been a nickname for New York City that first became popular in the 19th century; Washington Irving had first attached it to New York in the November 11, 1807, edition of his Salmagundi,[22] a periodical which lampooned New York culture and politics. Irving took the name from the village of Gotham, Nottinghamshire, England: a place inhabited, according to folklore, by fools.[23][24]"

Normally don't care for store exclusives but really tempted to pick one of these up.

So tec 48 is a cameo and Batman 4 the first full apperance? 😉