I'll pound you to a "Pulp" if you don't show off yours! 23 23

[*paull*]

That set of WT is one of the coolest things I've ever seen auctioned. I wish I could see the first five years of that series up close.

[detective35]

My friend will probably sell off his undercopies.

 

BTW: The WT, Doc's, Amazings, Adventures, etc. did not hit reserve, and on the website they are no longer showing what the high bid was, it is just blank.

 

I have seen the WT and all of Frank's pulps a number of times, in which Frank always took them out of the Mylite 2's and showed them off.

 

Dwight

Edited February 27, 2012 by detective35DF

[sacentaur]

Apologies in advance if this has been mentioned before, but in August 2012, Vanguard Publishing will be releasing The Alluring Art of Margaret Brundage.

 

Very excited to finally have a book devoted to this exceptionally talented artist!

 

Amazon is currently taking pre-orders on the harcover $39.95 retail ($26.37 through Amazon), fyi.

[RedFury]

Whoa, I had not heard that. Thanks for the tip!

 

I just got the St. John book as a Christmas gift. The Brundage book will go nicely with it.

[Theagenes]

Yeah, I'm really looking forward to it. it's about time.

[TheEyeSees]

Nuts, looks like most of the individual copies in the Richardson auction I was eyeing up were sold as lots... Gernsback Amazings, Wonder Stories, Science Wonders, and some Tales of Wonder. I thought many of these hadn't sold at auction's end, but maybe they were post-auction sales.

 

Oh well, I did manage to win the Richardson set of FANTASY's, a high grade three issue set of British sci fi pulps from the 1930's. I love all the covers, but bought the set mainly for this one:

 

 

Pretty happy to own a piece of this incredible collection for what I would consider a close to bargain price.

[Theagenes]

Nuts, looks like most of the individual copies in the Richardson auction I was eyeing up were sold as lots... Gernsback Amazings, Wonder Stories, Science Wonders, and some Tales of Wonder. I thought many of these hadn't sold at auction's end, but maybe they were post-auction sales.

 

Oh well, I did manage to win the Richardson set of FANTASY's, a high grade three issue set of British sci fi pulps from the 1930's. I love all the covers, but bought the set mainly for this one:

 

 

Pretty happy to own a piece of this incredible collection for what I would consider a close to bargain price.

 

Great cover, Ryan!

[BangZoom]

Nuts, looks like most of the individual copies in the Richardson auction I was eyeing up were sold as lots... Gernsback Amazings, Wonder Stories, Science Wonders, and some Tales of Wonder. I thought many of these hadn't sold at auction's end, but maybe they were post-auction sales.

 

Oh well, I did manage to win the Richardson set of FANTASY's, a high grade three issue set of British sci fi pulps from the 1930's. I love all the covers, but bought the set mainly for this one:

 

 

 

Great cover.

 

Congratulations, Ryan.

 

I think you're the first person on the boards to announce they'd won anything in the Robinson auction.

[TheEyeSees]

Thanks guys!

 

Why do I keep calling it the Richardson auction???

[Xaltotun]

Weird Tales are officially gone, as well as a good chunk of the pulps offered.

The battle for the "leftovers" begins...

[MisterX]

Weird Tales are officially gone, as well as a good chunk of the pulps offered.

The battle for the "leftovers" begins...

 

 

So, is it really a healthy market if one major bidder is responsible for the majority of the lots won and prices realized?

 

 

Edited February 29, 2012 by MisterX

[Comics-n-ERB]

Out of the 200 different lots offered, there were only 18 different winning bidders. Wow!

[Xaltotun]

Sure, but you had to have deep pockets to bid on those. But sure, impossible to compare to the comic collecting fandom. The pulps aficionados number in the hundreds max. Which is why prices are comparatively low. It's apparently a thriving niche market.

[sacentaur]

How did Oriental Stories and Magic Carpet do?

 

I don't own any and was thinking of bidding on the short runs, but realized all too quick they were probably going for out of my league.

[RedFury]

I badly wanted the Magic Carpet run, but my bids were blown out of the water. IIRC, the 5 book run went for about $3500.

[Xaltotun]

Yeah, they seemed cheap for a long while, then, wham!

[TheEyeSees]

REALLY wanted one or two of those STRANGE TALES pulps, but they got swallowed up too. I'm blown away that one person bought so many lots. I guess that really does reflect the size of the pulp market.

 

Of the 30-something individual pulps I was watching, only about five are still available.

 

 

[BangZoom]

 

I wish Adventure House had offered a DVD for sale that had full size scans of all the pulps that were being auctioned.

[Theagenes]

I wish Adventure House had offered a DVD for sale that had full size scans of all the pulps that were being auctioned.

 

Oh, that would be cool. Did you get the color book at least?

[BangZoom]

I wish Adventure House had offered a DVD for sale that had full size scans of all the pulps that were being auctioned.

 

Oh, that would be cool. Did you get the color book at least?

 

I did, but think of how much better it would have been to see full size scans of all those pulps.

 

I don't know why John didn't go that route instead of trying to sell a $65 catalog. I assume the cost of burning the DVDs would have been significantly less than publishing a 526 page book and I think it would have encouraged collectors to make higher bids if they could see large scans that showed off how gorgeous everything, apparently, is.