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I'll pound you to a "Pulp" if you don't show off yours!
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Comics-n-ERB

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So the day has drawn to a close and I didn't get one damn Pulp!!! What in the world, this was a pulp show!!!

 

So I started out Sunday looking for pulps. I went over to Dwight's again and drooled a little more but still didn't get anything.

 

I then came across a pulp I had to have because it was a perfect match to another pulp I had picked up the previous week.

 

So my first pulp at Pulpfest:

 

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and the one from the week before that I wanted to match with:

 

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Detective35DF saw I had a pulp in hand and couldn't stand it wasn't one of his. :insane:

 

Finally Dwight put me into this fine pulp:

 

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So now I have two pulps, yeah!

 

I then ended up eyeballing a couple of paperbacks so I picked them up:

 

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I then ended up at another dealer with some comics. I bought several from him, all silver to bronze.

 

Green Lantern #86 Neal Adams drug issue

Swamp Thing #1

The Defenders #1

Marvel Team-up #1

The Tomb of Dracula #1 (2 copies)

Marvel Spotlight #2 Werewolf by Night

Marvel Feature #11 Classic Hulk/Thing cover

Silver Surfer #4 and #14

All-Star Western #10

 

All in very nice shape.

 

 

I then bought a couple more paperbacks by Philip Jose Farmer; Lord Tyqer and Lord of the Trees. Along with these I bought a slipcover edition of Gods of Riverworld which is signed by Farmer. All three books came from Farmer's estate. Cool uh?

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Time is running out as dealers are starting to pack up early (at 12:00). I go back to the dealer who had lot's of stuff and purchased two very hard to find items in the hopes they may be better than my copies.

 

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My copies ended up being better. :(

 

 

I decided it was time to gather the girls up (they were walking around, Katie bought another autograph pic of I Dream of Jennie.)

 

As I was walking out the door I decided to get two last pulps I had been looking at:

 

This one, I had a copy of, but I knew this one was in better shape:

 

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This one I picked up is just super sweet high grade with WHITE pages and a great cover:

 

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So there you have it. I liked this show as a fan, and I believe I very well may go back next year as a dealer.

 

Oh yeah, when I went back to work this morning this was waiting for me:

 

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I missed Friday so don't know how it was crowd wise, but Sat. had a pretty nice crowd and Sun. wasn't too bad either. I thought it seemed pretty good in comparison to a same size comic show.

 

Dealers over all seemed to be doing okay, some better than others which is to be expected.

 

I would also say even though I got a lot of comics, for the most part they were all over priced compared to dealers that specialize in comics. In other words they knew pulps or paperbacks but not comics.

 

This show was about the same size as the Windy City show. Some of the same dealers but also quite a few different.

 

In talking to some dealers they simply do this one show and that's it. I was a little surprised by this as I would think that with there only being two main shows a year for pulps they would do both.

 

One other thing of note. I did not notice any Big or real important pulps. For example I didn't see a copy of Weird Tales with the first appearance of Conan. I didn't see any big Edgar Rice Burroughs pulps. Kind of strange when compared to a comics show. There you will find SOMETHING big; ie: Spiderman 1 or JIM 83 etc...

 

I was a little disappointed in this as I was hoping of scoring a nice big important pulp for myself.

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great report and thanks for letting me stare at the wonderful Robert Maguire 'Black Opium' cover. never read the book, and haven't really read his acclaimed dystopia either: but I have a cool copy of it. 1926 (Dutton) makes it my oldest DJ ! I plan on reading it...

 

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great report and thanks for letting me stare at the wonderful Robert Maguire 'Black Opium' cover. never read the book, and haven't really read his acclaimed dystopia either: but I have a cool copy of it. 1926 (Dutton) makes it my oldest DJ ! I plan on reading it...

 

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That is very cool!

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cool- that branch must be (or have been) neighbors with Cherokee Book Shop which (from memory) was 6603 or 6613 Hwd Bl. I spent some real quality time there in the mid-1960s... Wonder if ERB shopped there? (Cherokee looked like it had been there a while)

Just ordered a Burt 'Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar' today ! will post when shows...

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great report and thanks for letting me stare at the wonderful Robert Maguire 'Black Opium' cover. never read the book, and haven't really read his acclaimed dystopia either: but I have a cool copy of it. 1926 (Dutton) makes it my oldest DJ ! I plan on reading it...

 

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I'd love to hear your opinion of it after you've read it.

 

I'm not familiar with the book so I googled it and found this intriguing description of it at fantasticfiction.co.uk.

 

Translation of Les Condamnes a Mort (1920). A fine novel of an automated nightmare world of the future. Told on an almost surrealistic level; cerebral, but imaginative; far superior to the similar Metropolis by Thea Von Harbou.

 

 

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Speaking of Pulpfest, I did pick up some neat items.

 

One of the magazines that I knew a person had in his collection was the June 1936 isssue of "The American News Trade Journal", and it surprised me that he let me have it.

 

I bought it strictly for the Back Cover (awesome Shadow image), but when I looked there were a number of great articles and pics inside.

 

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This image of a Pulp magazine rack is unbelievable, showing numerous pulp titles (Spicy Mystery #1 etc.)

 

 

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This back cover Shadow image is one that I have never seen before, and is OUTSTANDING!!

 

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I then ended up at another dealer with some comics. I bought several from him, all silver to bronze.

 

Green Lantern #86 Neal Adams drug issue

Swamp Thing #1

The Defenders #1

Marvel Team-up #1

The Tomb of Dracula #1 (2 copies)

Marvel Spotlight #2 Werewolf by Night

Marvel Feature #11 Classic Hulk/Thing cover

Silver Surfer #4 and #14

All-Star Western #10

 

All in very nice shape.

 

 

I then bought a couple more paperbacks by Philip Jose Farmer; Lord Tyqer and Lord of the Trees. Along with these I bought a slipcover edition of Gods of Riverworld which is signed by Farmer. All three books came from Farmer's estate. Cool uh?

 

Great report :applause: I'm a big PJF fan so those are very cool pick-ups.

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So the day has drawn to a close and I didn't get one damn Pulp!!! What in the world, this was a pulp show!!!

 

So I started out Sunday looking for pulps. I went over to Dwight's again and drooled a little more but still didn't get anything.

 

I then came across a pulp I had to have because it was a perfect match to another pulp I had picked up the previous week.

 

So my first pulp at Pulpfest:

 

PopularDetapr36.jpg

 

and the one from the week before that I wanted to match with:

 

scan0013-3.jpg

 

 

Well now I know the rest of the story........... lol

 

Love these two David, FANTASTIC!!! :cloud9:

 

Been wanting to go to this for years. When is the next one?

 

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