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For whatever reason, ronnie bought even more of my krap...and paid for it quickly to boot! Thanks again home-skillet!

Was able to cross another L.B. Cole cover from my want list at a fair price...thanks again Dale!

I have about 150 new (to me) SA DC low/midgrade readers I'll be listing this week on the cheap. All 12/15 centers.

This. Though I think a new section for off-board transactions is a little overkill. Leave the probie/HOS the way it is.

I think we draw the line on a one to one basis as with all other transactions. I think I support adding him to the probation list for this one after hearing all the evidence. I'm certainly glad to know about it.

Love that cover!

I think we should start discussing Astoundings. Just checked the thread. ...Not a bad idea! I see several other have picked up on it for a few posts, so I'll join in. This is the perfect kick-off for my Astounding collection... Ooooh....another one I need to find

Man, looking at your scans make it look like my pulps were stored in a grass hut somewhere in Africa for 80 years by comparison. Maybe I can claim them as the 'Tarzan' pedigree. Awesome stuff, as usual!

Holy cats! I suppose it will be redundant to say 'great work' by this point, but there she is nevertheless.

Just got back from meeting with the guy selling his grandfather's Amazing Stories. He was an interesting person, an unemployed astrophysicist that tutors college students at the University of Arizona here (his grandfather was a chemist). Due to the lack of jobs in his field, he's finding himself having to sell these books, though there are some that he won't part with. A nice guy and fun to chat with about the history of the books. I ended up purchasing three from him today, the two I asked about earlier (Aug and Sep 1926) and the other is March 1928. I'm no expert, but the page quality on these is fantastic, IMO. There are subtle flaws in the examples he brought with him, but overall looked very nice. I do plan on picking up some more from him on a gradual basis since I don't really have the capital to make him an offer on all of them. Here are the three I picked up today. The first one is pretty beat up, but the other two are pretty tight. I loved the cover of the 1928 issue.

Just found a box of bronze Ghost Riders in my closet that I'd like to blow out quickly and cheaply including most of the first 30 and the first half dozen Marvel Spotlight issues (including 5) - most in mid-grade, some better some worse. Coming in the next day or two.

Found a couple of bedsheets in a used bookstore I frequent every couple of weeks and picked up the October 1926 and March 1930 issues of Amazing Stories for $15 a pop. The 1926 issue has some spine issues (the cover is attached, but only by a few threads, about 4" along the spine). The 1930 issue is pretty solid, both issues have pretty good page quality and the 1930 issue has pretty good eye appeal. I probably shouldn't be buying stuff like this until I get a bit more experienced, but figured I couldn't go too wrong here.

I picked up about 150 low/midgrade Silver Age Marvel and DCs this weekend and will be having a sale starting probably sometime this week to sell off what I'm not keeping. I'm in the process of scanning now and trying to think up of a different/interesting way to list...though I may just list as before, I haven't decided yet. Anyhow...for those of you who have perused my SABA threads before, it's the same kind of stuff. Nothing high grade, but some fun stuff just the same for those of you who collect on the lower end of the spectrum.

That is a stunner! Actually, for the life of me when I first looked at that picture, I was trying to figure out what she was doing with a phaser. Definitely awesome work.

Ronnie bought a bunch of crud from me and was a pleasure to deal with. Thanks man!

So I had to get out of Comics General before I'm forced to firebomb the Paypal thread. Anyhoo....I'm proud to show off these 3 new acquisitions to my now 6 issue strong collection of Weird Tales! These came from sacentaur who I'd like to personally thank for letting me peruse his stack and pick a few to become permanent members of my family. I've got my eye on a couple others, but these'll certainly do in a pinch (in fact, I think I'm in love with Ms. August ) . I was saddened to have to sell a couple hundred moderns to pay for these, but hey, we all have to make sacrifices. Without further ado, here are Ms. July, August and December 1939!

Jeepers, they really did throw in everything (including the kitchen sink)! I'm curious as to what was classified as 'Cthulhu Mythos' by the publisher from page 3-600 (I'm assuming it was the publisher) being that the term was coined by Derleth. One would assume from the contents in the way are presented that they are stories by HPL followed by the mythos stories by the other authors on pp 600-999. (I am by no means asking you to look, just thinking out loud ). I think you've done quite enough work already! There is quite a lot of material in the three volumes not actually by HPL, which would explain the surplus of pages (for example, the 600 pages of Derleth collaborations, which were not collaborations at all, but almost entirely written by August Derleth taken from HPL's plot germs listed in his commonplace book). Lots of essays and whatnot too. I've got the Quebec travelogue (published in the 70's published by Donald M. Grant) which was his longest single piece of nonfiction, but haven't yet read it. I might have to pull it out now and see what he has to say. His writings of New England make me wish that I could see the area in his time. Anyhow, thanks for taking the time to list all of that out...that's a crazy collection of stuff!

I'm currently reading 'The Mask of Cthulhu' by August Derleth (Cthulhu Mythos stories, while pale imitations of Lovecraft material, still enjoyable in their own way). I've also been re-reading some old Bantam Doc Savages, just finished 'They Died Twice' and am currently halfway through 'The Munitions Master'. Also about a quarter of the way through 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'. Yeah, I have ADD. I pretty much have a book sitting wherever I might find myself in the house

His entire output of poetry was published in 2001 in a volume by Night Shade Books called 'The Ancient Track'. Unfortunately, it is no longer in print. It could certainly account for another few hundred pages in the french edition.

Yeah, the 2000 pages of Arkham House also include all of his revisions/collaborations - though stuff entirely written by others such as Derleth, etc. are not included in those volumes. Again, pretty impressive collection of stuff to have as a kid. Wish I had access to something like that back in the day. My first exposure to HPL was with the Ballantine releases (covers by Michael Whelan) which came out some time in the 80's. I loved them back then but cringe a bit now when leafing through them.

Wow, that's great...thanks for posting! I have heard of these editions, but have never seen them before. It's curious that they have so many pages, though I guess if they contain a lot of essays and such, they could fill some 4200 pages. I think the 4 combined Arkham House editions of his complete fiction (including revisions) only fill about 2000 pages (max). The Barnes and Noble collection, ghastly as it is with errors, is about 1100 pages. I'd have freaked out at having access to something like you did back when I was a kid

I'm not a huge Price fan, but that is a great book, full of stories of the period. His reminiscences of HPL aren't all that rosey, but hey...it is what it is, I guess. Any fan of pulp fiction should certainly pick it up at some point. Related in an ancillary way (concerning Price), I was lucky enough to attend MythosCon in January, the first ever totally HPL driven convention in Phoenix, and on day 3 attended a panel entitled 'The Arkham Collector' (one of my favorite panels of the week, incidentally). The panel consisted of Alan Dean Foster, Walt Debill, Ramsey Campbell, Donald Sidney-Fryer and W. Paul Ganley. Foster related a short, yet funny anecdote transcribed below: "“The last time I did a purely Lovecraftian panel was 38 years ago and the other panelists, who were all coincidentally seated to the left of me, were L. Sprague DeCamp, Robert Bloch and E. Hoffman Price, and to say that I felt out of place at that time is a massive understatement. I mean, why am I on this panel? I’m sitting here listening to E. Hoffman Price talking about traveling around the country in his Model-T to visit Robert E. Howard and Lovecraft; I wanted to be in the audience and not on the panel, but I contributed what I could at the time.”

I'll surmise from the fact that you haven't posted since Friday and your second post today was a bump of your pet thread that you went on some kind of vacation this past weekend. I bet he was busy shipping his eBay auctions 'immediately upon receipt of payment'

Just got Cthulhu in the mail today, along with another free B&W creature that I didn't even ask for! Nobody will ever have anything cooler done by Matthew. WINNING!

Incredible detail on that cover - is it just me or does that gal look incredibly bored while her guard fights off hoards of the undead? *Yawn* "Zombies again? Why can't it ever be pirates? Or Johnny Depp dressed as a pirate? That would be awesome."