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

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I posted in a different section asking for info about this Dime Western (March 1953) I have, so please see this post if you have any info about this book. :)

 

 

Westerns aren't my specialty but there isn't a huge demand for them. The Elmore Leonard story would certainly make it more desirable than the surrounding issues, but the surrounding issues have little value at all. I suspect that could be fairly scarce as this was toward the end of Dime Detective's run and all the pulps were dying off or converting to digests or men's magazines. It had already gone to bi-monthly by this point and was canceled the following year so the print run was probably much less than it's heydey in the 30s and 40s. I would guess that most copies are probably snatched up by Elmore Leonard fans/collectors rather than pulp collectors.

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Bookery

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I posted in a different section asking for info about this Dime Western (March 1953) I have, so please see this post if you have any info about this book. :)

 

 

In my last pulp guide (2005) I have it listed at $10 in "good", $25 in "very good", and $50 in "fine".

 

Leonard also appeared in that title in the May & Sep 1952 issues, and in the Jan. 1953 issue, though they go for a bit less as the "Three-Ten" story is the most famous amongst them.

 

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I can tell you from personal experience, that that pulp would have a hard time selling on ebay for 5 bucks in even very good. I had a few copies last year (er 2012 now) ranging from vg to f, and when I tried to get rid of them, they stayed on ebay for a year, and then finally I sold them all ending at 99 cents auctions just to be rid of them. While the dime adventure, mystery, and detective are all sought after, the westerns aren't (unlike the spicy runs where all 4 are collected). They only got the one bid.

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Jenna

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Thanks everyone for the comments on the magazine. I have a feeling that yes, as Theagenes pointed out, it would appeal more to Leaonard fans than pulp collectors. I also collect first edition books and only have a few pulps (all with first prints of more well known stories) so I'll hang on to this one as just another first in my collection. :)

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Jenna

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I can tell you from personal experience, that that pulp would have a hard time selling on ebay for 5 bucks in even very good. I had a few copies last year (er 2012 now) ranging from vg to f, and when I tried to get rid of them, they stayed on ebay for a year, and then finally I sold them all ending at 99 cents auctions just to be rid of them. While the dime adventure, mystery, and detective are all sought after, the westerns aren't (unlike the spicy runs where all 4 are collected). They only got the one bid.

 

When you say you had a few copies of this last year, do you mean this particular issue or just Dime Western in general? It's this particular issue that I'm interested in.

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Westerns aren't my specialty but there isn't a huge demand for them.

 

Perhaps it won't be a surprise to those who know my collecting habits, but I'm a collector of all the early western titles. :)

 

Here are Dime Western Magazine issues #'s 1-3.

 

 

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December 1932, January 1933, February 1933

 

 

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