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

[Hap Hazard]

27 minutes ago, Robot Man said:

Are you pretty close on that run Hap?

Yes, Have 4 out of 7 so of course looking for the rest.

 

[RedFury]

10 hours ago, Hap Hazard said:

Yes, Have 4 out of 7 so of course looking for the rest.

 

I've got extras of #1 and #7 if you need them.

[RedFury]

17 hours ago, sagii said:

I'm on the board! 

Mailman just dropped this off. Was part of the collection HA is auctioning off still as of now. What a cover image 

...and so it begins 

One of us!  One of us!  

[sagii]

Thanks guys 

@Robot Man will do.

New to 'handling' these. Any suggestions for how to when reading? Lay flat, or hold in hands (carefully) and thumb through ?

[RedFury]

1 minute ago, sagii said:

Thanks guys 

@Robot Man will do.

New to 'handling' these. Any suggestions for how to when reading? Lay flat, or hold in hands (carefully) and thumb through ?

I hold them in my hands and handle carefully.  Make sure your hands are clean and dry.  Don't use gloves, you need to be able to feel the pages to turn them.

I don't lay them flat because I don't want to put too much stress on the spine.  When holding them, I try not to open them too far, depending on how flexible it feels.  Usually about a 120 degree angle is good.

[Robot Man]

39 minutes ago, RedFury said:

I hold them in my hands and handle carefully.  Make sure your hands are clean and dry.  Don't use gloves, you need to be able to feel the pages to turn them.

I don't lay them flat because I don't want to put too much stress on the spine.  When holding them, I try not to open them too far, depending on how flexible it feels.  Usually about a 120 degree angle is good.

Perfect advice. Exactly what I do. I am mostly a “cover” guy but have read all my Spiders and a good majority of my horror ones. I do a page count, look at interior art and ads on all them at least. Just buy copies with supple pages. They don’t have to be white but never dark tan or brown. Be careful of the spines especially when you open the first few pages. 

[Yorick]

4 hours ago, RedFury said:

I hold them in my hands and handle carefully.  Make sure your hands are clean and dry.  Don't use gloves, you need to be able to feel the pages to turn them.

I don't lay them flat because I don't want to put too much stress on the spine.  When holding them, I try not to open them too far, depending on how flexible it feels.  Usually about a 120 degree angle is good.

Good points, but I might add that wearing a glove on one hand to hold the spine would be good.  My pulps are pretty thick, so it takes me a while to get through one.  As the excitement builds, I don't want my sweaty hands ruining the spine.

[KirbyJack]

1 hour ago, Yorick said:

Good points, but I might add that wearing a glove on one hand to hold the spine 

My wife looks at me funny when I read wearing one glove.

Edited May 8, 2020 by KirbyJack

[Surfing Alien]

I use a folded Mylar sleeve, you can hold the spine in your hand and flip through easily without your sweaty little palm laying a glove on that cover, or lay it on a surface to read - same concept as a book jacket.

[Robot Man]

45 minutes ago, Surfing Alien said:

I use a folded Mylar sleeve, you can hold the spine in your hand and flip through easily without your sweaty little palm laying a glove on that cover, or lay it on a surface to read - same concept as a book jacket.

"Pandamic" Style...

[Robot Man]

22 hours ago, Hap Hazard said:

The mailman dropped these off today, nice copies with white pages.

Strange Tales 11/32 and 1/33, the latter with Jack Williamson's Wolves of Darkness.

I think, this might be my only one of those. Luck find at a "high end" antique show with about a half dozen other pulps. Was there helping my wife and she ended up helping ME out!

[Surfing Alien]

12 hours ago, Robot Man said:

"Pandamic" Style...

Welcome to ComicCondom

[Robot Man]

Here are a few more Spiders to get sagii hooked...

[sagii]

24 minutes ago, Robot Man said:

Here are a few more Spiders to get sagii hooked...

 

 

Those are SICK, RM! 

Just about all of the covers of the series i have seen are knockouts. 

...and i do have my eye on one (or two) coming up to auction soon 

[rjpb]

57 minutes ago, sagii said:

Those are SICK, RM! 

Just about all of the covers of the series i have seen are knockouts. 

...and i do have my eye on one (or two) coming up to auction soon 

Some of the Spider pulp covers compete with Horror Stories, Terror Tales, Thrilling Mystery and some of the other titles known for gory/sadistic covers, though the women tend to have a little more clothing on. 

[RedFury]

Here's my Strange Tales run.  The "Wolves of Darkness" issue is signed by Williamson.

[RedFury]

The first Spider

[sagii]

26 minutes ago, RedFury said:

The first Spider

Wowzers! Nice copy (and colors) !

[rjpb]

These just arrived today, unfortunately the two nicer ones at bottom have somewhat faded spines, but all four have at least cream pages. I've owned a few Spider pulps over the years, but have never read any in pulp form.I read the first few stories in paperback form back in the 70s, and found them to be not quite as engaging as the early Shadow novels, but maybe I'll give one of these a shot. Whoever the brunette in a red dress is, she gets into a lot of trouble.

 

 

[detective35]

Awesome,

The Spiders have such great covers!

The Spider, Op5, Terror Tales, Horror Stories, etc. all have great John Newton Howitt covers.

Too bad only 1 of his original pulp paintings is known to exist, The Terror Tales from November 1934.

Researchers have said that Howitt was involved heavily with his church and thus was very religious, and simply didn’t want people to know about the subject matter that he was painting.  For this reason he signed all his pulp paintings only with an H on the bottom of the painting, and subsequently burned all of his pulp paintings.

The only surviving Howitt pulp painting was obtained by the late Jerry Weist who purchased it from an author that wrote one of the stories in the November 1934 issue of Terror Tales, and then asked how Howitt for the painting .  He told Jerry that his wife made him turn the painting around, or simply remove it from the wall whenever company came over.

The painting is part of the Robert Lesser collection, which was donated to the New Britain museum by Lesser.

Edited May 9, 2020 by detective35DF