Comics, Pulps, and Paperbacks: Why such a discrepancy in values? 25 25

[OtherEric]

"Macabre Reader" has three Lovecraft stories (two of them revisions) and some poems, it's the only Lovecraft I'm aware in the early Aces.

[OtherEric]

The Queen's Awards is the only time John D. MacDonald turned up at Ace that I'm aware of:

[Surfing Alien]

On 5/17/2023 at 5:00 PM, OtherEric said:

Today I learned the very early D-Series singles had spines that resembled the doubles:

Interesting, I don't have those two but D-43 Salome with the beautiful George Geygan wraparound cover, lands between them and has an integrated spine.

Since there wasn't much art on those covers they probably used templates from doubles to save money.

[OtherEric]

On 5/17/2023 at 3:35 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Interesting, I don't have those two but D-43 Salome with the beautiful George Geygan wraparound cover, lands between them and has an integrated spine.

Since there wasn't much art on those covers they probably used templates from doubles to save money.

Interesting.  I don't have that one yet, but I ordered a copy (from a different seller) the same time I ordered the others that showed up today.

You're probably right on the templates.  The cookbook, in particular, just seems like an incredibly weird choice as the first non-double book...

[Surfing Alien]

On 5/17/2023 at 6:43 PM, OtherEric said:

Interesting.  I don't have that one yet, but I ordered a copy (from a different seller) the same time I ordered the others that showed up today.

You're probably right on the templates.  The cookbook, in particular, just seems like an incredibly weird choice as the first non-double book...

Low cost entre to the Women's market, (or for men to gift their brides) I guess.

BTW...nice haul!

[Surfing Alien]

A couple of arrivals

The Hustler by Walter Tevis Dell D434. Movie tie-in cover. The 1st PB Edition 1st printing. I've had a 2nd print and a 2nd Edition so glad to finally get this one. The Tevis output is small but powerful so I really want nice copies of all of the 1sts.

A Swell-Looking Babe by Jim Thompson. Lion Books #212. Classic cover on a key Thompson title. Slowly but surely filling out the Thompson 1sts.

[davet75]

A few of my pickups from Windy City Pulp Con!

Barbarians of Mars and Warriors of Mars by Michael Moorcock (under pseudonym Ed Bradbury)  Lancer 1st Ed - signed by Michael Moorcock!

Ace Double H77 The Singing Stones / Derai - signed by cover artist Kelly Freas (one of my favorite artists)!   ...and also signed by authors EC Tubbs and Juanita Coulson

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[davet75]

More Archer Press books

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[Randall Dowling]

Very cool books, Dave! 

[OtherEric]

Today's Mail Call.  Unlike some of the assorted Aces I've gotten recently, these three are all going fairly high on the reading pile.  I've enjoyed a lot of comics Arnold Drake wrote, so I'm looking forward to see how he does with prose.  Red Alert was the basis for Dr. Strangelove.  And More Macabre has a PKD story I don't think I've read before:

 

[OtherEric]

And then Half Price books was very good to me as well.  The D-568 is the last D-Series SF book.  The others mostly speak for themselves:

 

[Surfing Alien]

On 5/19/2023 at 4:46 PM, OtherEric said:

I've enjoyed a lot of comics Arnold Drake wrote, so I'm looking forward to see how he does with prose.

I read "The Steel Noose" this year. A pretty good noir. Not the best ever but I kept turning those pages and well worth it.

[Surfing Alien]

My Friday Fun...

Still re-evaluating the 60's & 70's pbs and boy, this one has become impossible to find in this 1st pb 1st printing. This was the edition I remember reading as a teenager and it  hooked me on Roger Zelazny for a while. The Jeff Jones cover is awesome and takes me back 45 years...

This is one of Raymond Johnson's early breakout covers for Avon, full of leg-art motion in that cinematic back camera angle that he pretty much pioneered.

It's one of his only Digests I didn't manage to acquire during the time I was writing his bio, probably because they get snapped up by hard-boiled James Hadley Chase collectors.

 

[Sarg]

On 5/19/2023 at 3:46 PM, OtherEric said:

 

 

 

 

What a great cover. Artist unknown?

[OtherEric]

On 5/19/2023 at 6:29 PM, Sarg said:

What a great cover. Artist unknown?

Ace Doubles image library doesn't have a credit.

[Surfing Alien]

On 5/19/2023 at 9:32 PM, OtherEric said:

Ace Doubles image library doesn't have a credit.

There's a credit to Harry Barton on PulpCovers but i'm agnostic on that. Her face is too angled for me to opine if I think it's one of his girls 

[Randall Dowling]

On 5/19/2023 at 3:46 PM, OtherEric said:

I've enjoyed a lot of comics Arnold Drake wrote, so I'm looking forward to see how he does with prose. 

 

I didn't realize he was co-creator of Deadman and the Doom Patrol. 

[Surfing Alien]

A nice twin that I managed to pick up both ends of.

"Convention Girl" is about 10 years after the True Police, which no doubt provided an inexpensive model and pose for the painter of the Beacon.

[davet75]

Brief interlude: Pulp market is officially bonkers.  Granted the ebay copy had a detached cover... but still...

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[Warlord]

I've started checking out this thread lately, seeing lots of great books, many of which I'd like to have but they seem very hard to find in the wild.  I'll have to share a few that I have.  Most are in the SF genre, but I've dabbled much more widely when I found the right book at the right price. 

Here's a recent pickup.