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[Bookery]

Even after 40 years, I still discover things in the pulps.  I'm processing a small run of bedsheet-size Wonder Tales.  The early issues are quite thick, and have heavy pulp paper that is easily tanned.  Then in October 1930 the issues are printed on much thinner, but better-grade paper, that is often still blazing white.  But then I get to the May 1932 issue... and discover I have one of each type... in the same issue!  The one copy is literally twice as thick as the other, and on heavy lower-quality paper.  I wonder if this was done through this whole period (something you wouldn't notice unless you have two varied copies in hand), or if it's just this issue?

 

[waaaghboss]

Leafing through a reader I just got, and saw a house ad for a comic that's been hunting my ebay saved search list for years 😄

 

For the wonder stories, the thinner issue has a star stamp.  Many decades later comics sold in military exchanges had star stamps, but 32 is pretty early for that kind of distribution.   The Nex started after  ww2, and the army knock off a few years prior.  Cool books either way. 

Edited September 4, 2021 by waaaghboss

[waaaghboss]

Looks like it might be the case.  Pulled some pics from ebay, and the spine on the first image has that extra white space below the title.

 

[OtherEric]

Found at a local store today.  The spine is just amazing for the age, and the book overall isn't bad either:

[sagii]

I picked up a British edition of this one 

[Robot Man]

Was in my wife’s collection room yesterday and spotted this on the wall. She collects (among other things) very old pre-1930’s Steiff teddy bears. I think she said this was from 1912. 

[Surfing Alien]

A modest pickup but I really like these wartime Argosys. They have some pretty cool war prop interiors like these couple about Hitler not expecting to get hit back hard after the Blitzgrieg and allied traitors assisting Goebbels. A nice Sci-Fi reprint of "Fishhead" illustrated by Virgil Finlay rounds it out.

[waaaghboss]

Got the bewitched cover of startling stories a bit ago and liked it so much I'm working on the run.  Picked up around 30 reader copies recently.  

Spoiler

 

[OtherEric]

On 9/14/2021 at 4:05 PM, waaaghboss said:

Got the bewitched cover of startling stories a bit ago and liked it so much I'm working on the run.  Picked up around 30 reader copies recently.  

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Good luck on the search!  Do you have the January 1950 issue yet?  It’s not terribly rare but it’s almost too hot to touch these days.

[waaaghboss]

On 9/14/2021 at 4:55 PM, OtherEric said:

Good luck on the search!  Do you have the January 1950 issue yet?  It’s not terribly rare but it’s almost too hot to touch these days.

I recognize the cover but just searched my books and I'm missing it   Is it the cover or the hubbrd story thts making it hot?

[OtherEric]

On 9/14/2021 at 5:55 PM, waaaghboss said:

I recognize the cover but just searched my books and I'm missing it   Is it the cover or the hubbrd story thts making it hot?

At this point, it’s the cover, I believe.  The Hubbard story doesn’t hurt.  I originally tracked it down for the John D. MacDonald story.

[Bookery]

On 9/14/2021 at 9:04 PM, OtherEric said:

At this point, it’s the cover, I believe.  The Hubbard story doesn’t hurt.  I originally tracked it down for the John D. MacDonald story.

Unless things have changed in the past year's pulp run-up, Hubbard appears often enough in science-fiction pulps that his work there has traditionally not added significant premiums to the issues.  He commands larger premiums when he pops up in other genres... adventure pulps, westerns, etc., where both his appearances, and the pulps themselves, tend to be harder to track down.

[OtherEric]

On 9/15/2021 at 6:15 AM, Bookery said:

Unless things have changed in the past year's pulp run-up, Hubbard appears often enough in science-fiction pulps that his work there has traditionally not added significant premiums to the issues.  He commands larger premiums when he pops up in other genres... adventure pulps, westerns, etc., where both his appearances, and the pulps themselves, tend to be harder to track down.

I think that depends on what you consider significant; as a percentage the bump was fairly noticeable.  But, given how cheap most of the SF pulps were, it wasn't much in actual dollars.  And there were at least a few ringers even in the SF books.  (Thinking of the 1st Dianetics issue of Astounding in particular, here; and a couple of his more famous stories in Unknown.)

[Robot Man]

Had a fun day today. Flea market find. First stash of pulps I’ve found since covid closed down all the shows. 

Walked up a lady with 3 boxes of comics. Of course some young flipper was looking them up on his phone in front of her. Moderns... But, the center box was full of these. He wasn’t interested so I hit them. 

I rarely buy this title but when I saw the were 1920’s-mid 1930’s and all ERB, I grabbed these. I really don’t know much about them. Just bought what I liked and were in nice shape. A lot looked pretty brittle, pieces off cover, taped. 

I left a bunch of ‘30’s era in pretty low grade. Probably should have bought them too because on my 2nd trip by, some guy was buying the rest of the box. 

Will be fun to go through these. 

[jimjum12]

On 9/19/2021 at 8:13 PM, Robot Man said:

Had a fun day today. Flea market find. First stash of pulps I’ve found since covid closed down all the shows. 

Walked up a lady with 3 boxes of comics. Of course some young flipper was looking them up on his phone in front of her. Moderns... But, the center box was full of these. He wasn’t interested so I hit them. 

I rarely buy this title but when I saw the were 1920’s-mid 1930’s and all ERB, I grabbed these. I really don’t know much about them. Just bought what I liked and were in nice shape. A lot looked pretty brittle, pieces off cover, taped. 

I left a bunch of ‘30’s era in pretty low grade. Probably should have bought them too because on my 2nd trip by, some guy was buying the rest of the box. 

Will be fun to go through these. 

I always loved the covers on these. GOD BLESS...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[waaaghboss]

On 9/19/2021 at 5:13 PM, Robot Man said:

Had a fun day today. Flea market find. First stash of pulps I’ve found since covid closed down all the shows. 

Walked up a lady with 3 boxes of comics. Of course some young flipper was looking them up on his phone in front of her. Moderns... But, the center box was full of these. He wasn’t interested so I hit them. 

I rarely buy this title but when I saw the were 1920’s-mid 1930’s and all ERB, I grabbed these. I really don’t know much about them. Just bought what I liked and were in nice shape. A lot looked pretty brittle, pieces off cover, taped. 

I left a bunch of ‘30’s era in pretty low grade. Probably should have bought them too because on my 2nd trip by, some guy was buying the rest of the box. 

Will be fun to go through these. 

Some great pick ups, love any tarzan cover and that March issue is neat for other reasons.  And that Amazing Stories annual is thiiiic!

[Sarg]

On 9/20/2021 at 4:41 AM, waaaghboss said:

Some great pick ups, love any tarzan cover and that March issue is neat for other reasons.  And that Amazing Stories annual is thiiiic!

[FoggyNelson]

Never heard of Blue Book , wow 15 cents was lots of money back then‼️👍😷

[waaaghboss]

Got some time off finally so doing my thing and digging around ebay pestering some of the big pulp sellers with lowball best offers, and came across this book which seemed really familiar. 

Took a bit of digging, but I think it reminds me of a Rangers comic. 

 

Swipe?  Homage?  Or something obvious a newbie like me missed?

[waaaghboss]

Couple recent pick-ups from Fantasy Illustrsted.  First time buying from him and I'm pretty impressed.   Best packing I've gotten for pulps through the mail bar none, even came in mylar.