ARE THERE ANY PULP COLLECTORS IN THE HOUSE ?

[rjpb]

Sorry about the moire pattern on the scan - I tried to rescan it - but Adobe Photodeluxe keeps telling me I have no scanner installed - probably something to do with the scanner driver being only good for mac os 9.06

and I'm running os X with classic 9.2 - It worked for 3 scans and then decided it was done I guess - I hate computers

[Forbush-Man]

Hey, it's still a nice looking pulp with a great cover,....pixels and all.

[precodekeith]

Hey! What Conan tale is in that one!!!

[rjpb]

"Rogues in the House" the 7th Conan story published in Weird Tales. interestingly the character himself was evidently not recognized as being a selling point yet - as nowhere on the cover, in the table of contents, or in the introductory paragraph before the actual story is the name "Conan" mentioned.

[precodekeith]

"Rogues in the House" is a gem! Love that one!

[ft88]

I have a chance to purchase these five pulps. From what I can tell they are

 

Spider #1

Doc Savage 3 and 7

2 Shadows from 1932-3

 

Knowing little about them but sales from ebay, what kind of value would you experts place on these. My guess is about $1000 - $1500 in grade, is that about right?

 

I appreciate any input from you, these will be put up for sale here first if I do wind up buying them.

 

[Forbush-Man]

If you know the grades and the exact dates for the two Shadow Pulps, I'll look up the value from my Bookery Fantasy Ultimate Guide to the Pulps.

[ft88]

So far this is all I have but the Shadows are from 1933, is there much of a price difference within the issues put ou that year. One of the Shadows on ebay went for about $150 "shadow 1933" search.

"Savage 1933" search yielded two pulps at over $500 each. That seemed high to me so I wondered what other pulp collectors thought.

Spider #1??? not sure at all.

[rjpb]

A VG copy of the first Spider pulp sold for $540 including premium at a Heritage auction a couple of years ago - which sounds cheap as I thought I recalled a far lower grade copy selling for $500 or so on ebay a few years back. The Spider is probably the 3rd most popular pulp hero for collectors - can you imagine the 1st appearance of any top tier GA character selling for only $500 in VG?

[Paris_Fred]

Love all these pulps, here is the last Doc Savage pulp, Summer 1949.

 

 

It's on Ebay now with a few other goodies including some "Shadows"

 

Ebay link

[ft88]

Finally did acquire these, best condition copy is the Spider 1

 

[ArAich]

i can smell them from here...

[ft88]

Page quality was surprisingly good. Some slight tanning at the edges but cream colored on the interior. These things make comic books look like production masterpieces.

[Forbush-Man]

Forgot to mention that the new Pulp Guide is out now. You can order it from Bookery Fantasy.

 

Linkage!

 

[Scrooge]

Forgot to mention that the new Pulp Guide is out now. You can order it from Bookery Fantasy.

 

Linkage!

 

 

Fuelie, I wouldn't until it is in your hands

 

Answering from the other thread. I haven't had the chance to look at the guide that closely and I don't have the first edition.

 

One of the statements by Cottrill I did notice was his admitting that the pricing for the Spicys were worthless in the first edition as their prices upped by 50% to 100% within months of the publication of the first edition. So look for quite a bit of updating there.

 

More once I get around to looking deeper and I hope you can share your comments as well (as I expect the book is sitting in your Box).

 

Scrooge

[Scrooge]

To make good use of the guide, here's for ft88's books:

 

Spider #1 350 in G, 875 in VG and 1,750 in Fine

Doc Savage 3 - Quest of the Spider is 320 in G 800 in VG 1,600 in Fine

Doc Savage 7 - is 100 in G 250 in VG 500 in Fine

 

and for the Shadows from 1932-3 it would depend on which they are but general guidelines for these years are:

1932 is 140 in G 350 in VG 700 in Fine

1933 is 70 in G 175 in VG 350 in Fine

 

I like this guide already

 

Scrooge

[ft88]

Thank you Scrooge, that helps a lot.

 

The DS #3 sold for $250 and the front cover was detached so a G at best.

The DS 7 with a spine roll but other wise pretty nice about a VG sold for 200. Two had sold in that last 6 months before that so demand may have been weak bot both sold in the 200-300 range.

The Spider #1 did not sell for $900. It has the 1/2 inch corner piece dog ear came off but it is still with the book. Otherwise its in great shape. The Heritage Spider #1 sold for $550 plus juice and it had general wear with a bad water stain on half the back cover.

The Shadows seem about right in the $100 to $150 range as long as they are complete and not completely rough.

[Forbush-Man]

Scrooge, you are A-Okay by me !!!

 

As for the ,....that's my "River-Dance",...works for before & after I have my own guide.

 

Comments I've heard were that the new guide gives values for VG, F & VF,...but much information was compromised to allow space.

 

I had no problem whatsoever with the first guide, as it was one hell of a resource tool, and prices could be assumed for different grades: Good= 1/2 of VG,

VG/F = 1.5 of VG and Fine= 2X guide. Forget VF,...you'll likely not see a true VF,...at least not on eBay !!!

[ArAich]

Scrooge...in your opinion...is the guide worth the $40 price tag???...

[Scrooge]

Scrooge...in your opinion...is the guide worth the $40 price tag???...

 

In all honesty, it's not worth that much to me.

 

I am not actively buying pulps so I don't really need this price guide + as Fuelman mentioned, to make room for more series, it seems that more detailed information which I was looking forward to was left off to add marginal and low-interest run-of-the-mill pulp series (Fuelman can better comment on this as he has both editions and I cannot say how much was truly sacrificed).

 

If I was to start actively collecting, I would certainly need the guide. Looking over the book a little more, the end result does not know if it wants to be a price guide or a reference guide / index. It is successful as a price guide (as we quickly confirmed with ft88's books on which I found the guide to do decent price-point-wise) but falls a little short on being a thorough index.

 

Personnally, I am a sucker for reference books and found it indispensible in my bookshelves so I jumped on it; all the more so since I had been looking for a first edition for about 10 months to no avail. That said, it is a handsome volume with heft in your hands. The inside is bare text but more readable than the OSPG. Hope this helps.

 

Scrooge