Comics, Pulps, and Paperbacks: Why such a discrepancy in values? 26 26

[OtherEric]

[Surfing Alien]

Some nice arrivals:

One of the rarest and most killer of the Monarch Books (and Ray Johnson covers)

A sweet upgrade of the famous "boner" cover, a must for any JD collection

Some nice Irish

A scarce Kenneth Millar a/k/a Ross MacDonald Lion

A Bill Ard Pop with a cool George Rozen cover

and one of the only Barye Phillips Signet Fleming covers that I like. The later ones are pretty much all graphics

 

[frozentundraguy]

Made a small haul from Dreamhaven bookstore today. Ellson was a social worker, who worked with juvenile psychiatric patients. Reportedly much of his writing was described as case studies.

 

[moonpool]

[OtherEric]

Found at the local store today.  I'm slightly annoyed the store owner didn't text me that he had gotten this one in, but he thought I already had it:

[Hap Hazard]

Number four is always harder to find.

[OtherEric]

On 7/30/2021 at 4:18 PM, Hap Hazard said:

Number four is always harder to find.

First time I've seen either of the Bart House Lovecrafts in person.  Very happy with the condition, the creases on the cover are the major flaw.  It's a solid copy, tight spine with no roll, and great pages.

[Surfing Alien]

On 7/30/2021 at 7:27 PM, OtherEric said:

First time I've seen either of the Bart House Lovecrafts in person.  Very happy with the condition, the creases on the cover are the major flaw.  It's a solid copy, tight spine with no roll, and great pages.

They were very well constructed and made with great paper. Surprising for a war time book but most copies I've seen of either one had white or off white pages.

[Hap Hazard]

Here's the other one.

[OtherEric]

On 7/30/2021 at 5:37 PM, Hap Hazard said:

Here's the other one.

That's a beautiful looking copy!

[Hap Hazard]

Found a scan of my 4 not as nice as the 12.

[Surfing Alien]

On 7/30/2021 at 9:03 PM, Hap Hazard said:

Found a scan of my 4 not as nice as the 12.

That's not too hard to look at Both copies are quite pretty! I have 12, it's nice but not as nice as yours. I still need the #4  Thanks for sharing!

[Surfing Alien]

A couple of recent Ace arrivals. The D39 and D439 are the copies Terry's comics posted here a while back. Saunders cover on the 39 and Maguire on 439.

Waltz into Darkness is un-credited anywhere, I'd guess it's Victor Olson but need to do some more comparing before I'd swear to it. Anyway it's great and conveys the central dilemma of the book  (Which I could barely put down. I read it in 2 sittings.)

 

[frozentundraguy]

The rest of my small haul from Dreamhaven book store last week.

I was fortunate to score the first copy of Science Fiction Adventures.  I also scored the second issue. The hidden "bonus" with this pulp is a book review of Simak's novel City by Damon Knight. Finally I found a fairly nice copy of Norton's "Storm Over Warlock", with cover art by EMSH.

 

 

 

[moonpool]

[Surfing Alien]

On 8/3/2021 at 9:35 PM, moonpool said:

Two classic "Rays"... Pease on City Hotel, Johnson on Lost to Desire

Edited August 4, 2021 by Surfing Alien

[Surfing Alien]

Didn't take much digging to confirm that the Waltz Into Darkness cover was indeed painted by Victor Olson. I wouldn't call her smile Mona Lisa but she is enigmatic (and a bad, bad girl!). Fortunately Victor signed most of his illustration work although many of the signatures were cut off in the book design process like this one was. It's remarkable how good you had to be to get these gigs producing covers under tight deadlines for $100-$300 each.

[moonpool]

Heade got 13 pounds plus 2 pounds more if he did the lettering.

On 8/4/2021 at 8:03 AM, Surfing Alien said:

Didn't take much digging to confirm that the Waltz Into Darkness cover was indeed painted by Victor Olson. I wouldn't call her smile Mona Lisa but she is enigmatic (and a bad, bad girl!). Fortunately Victor signed most of his illustration work although many of the signatures were cut off in the book design process like this one was. It's remarkable how good you had to be to get these gigs producing covers under tight deadlines for $100-$300 each.

 

[PopKulture]

Since many of you probably don’t venture into Comics General too often, I figured I’d post these group shots from a recent meet-up with an old collector friend I haven’t seen in some 18 months. Naturally, I’m thrilled with the variety of pulps as well as a smattering of cool old magazines as well. He has a knack for turning up darn cool stuff, and like most guys that have been collecting from the 1960’s on, he has encyclopedic knowledge on a broad swath of collectibles.

Oh, and get this: he still reads most of the pulps he gets! 

 

[Surfing Alien]

On 8/4/2021 at 3:04 PM, PopKulture said:

he still reads most of the pulps he gets! 

Nice selection - and glad you got to meet up again. I really need to get to a show or something soon. I always try to read some of the pulp stories, at least to get a flavor for it. For the paperbacks I'm always trying out new "old" authors if I acquire reader copies. I'll read anything by Woolrich/Irish, haven't been let down yet, and there's something about reading them in a vintage edition with the old paper smell that takes you back to the time. Woolrich isn't dated, but, when reading some of the authors who are dated, the old edition is somewhat of a reminder of the time it was written in and helps me at least understand/accept it better. Just finished reading Bloch's "Scarf of Passion" in the Avon edition, which was neat and a fast page turner and am starting my first Milton Ozaki novel, "The Dummy Murder Case" which I just picked up (you'll always know what I'm reading if it has the plastic sleeve on it)