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

[Surfing Alien]

On 6/6/2023 at 9:01 PM, Sarg said:

I was curious to see if James Hadley Chase was still being reprinted, and if so, what titles and cover art was used. 

Twelve "Chinamen" and a Woman is still in print, as a two-fer with No Orchids for Miss Blandish. The less said about the cover art, the better. 

Is Chase worth reading? He's got a lot of promising titles. Since he's English, I'm inclined to think he's too polite to be hardboiled. 

Very hard boiled with tons of American slang, although not quite as accurate as the American writers dished out. He was censored and brought to court numerous times in England for lewdness and violence, much like Hank Janson of the Reg Heade cover fame.

[lbcolefan]

These were published in 1969-71 but they were still on the racks at my bookstore in 73-74. 

[Surfing Alien]

On 6/7/2023 at 6:21 PM, Robot Man said:

My favorite digest. This copy has page 3-4 (first two interior pages). A letter from the author to his daughter if I remember right. It was supposedly removed in most copies.

The crown jewel of pbs and so much more visually appealing, imho, than the comic book, which crudely cut out the image and pasted it on that yellow blank background. If your copy has the letters, it's a rare bird indeed, along with my copy, I've seen two others in the last 5 years - one rag of a copy was sold here on the boards a few years ago and there's currently a copy up on the 'bay, listed at 2K. A price it should fetch, but I doubt will.

I posted the letters pages from my copy previously but will re-post here for reference - they're pretty creepy and I don't blame the model, Marty Collins' father for suing Avon, even though Marty was not portraying the girl writing the letters.

 

Edited June 7, 2023 by Surfing Alien

[Robot Man]

On 6/7/2023 at 3:58 PM, Surfing Alien said:

The crown jewel of pbs and so much more visually appealing, imho, than the comic book, which crudely cut out the image and pasted it on that yellow blank background. If your copy has the letters, it's a rare bird indeed, along with my copy, I've seen two others in the last 5 years - one rag of a copy was sold here on the boards a few years ago and there's currently a copy up on the 'bay, listed at 2K. A price it should fetch, but I doubt will.

I posted the letters pages from my copy previously but will re-post here for reference - they're pretty creepy and I don't blame the model, Marty Collins' father for suing Avon, even though Marty was not portraying the girl writing the letters.

 

Thanks. That was my relocation. I heard it was quite scarce complete. 

Here is my Reform School Girl trinity...

[Sarg]

On 6/7/2023 at 5:51 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Very hard boiled with tons of American slang, although not quite as accurate as the American writers dished out. He was censored and brought to court numerous times in England for lewdness and violence, much like Hank Janson of the Reg Heade cover fame.

Thanks, I'll have to check out some of Chase's books. Does anyone know if he wrote for the pulps?

[Sarg]

On 6/7/2023 at 6:07 PM, Robot Man said:

Thanks. That was my relocation. I heard it was quite scarce complete. 

Here is my Reform School Girl trinity...

 

I imagine very, very few people possess the comic and the digest.

[Surfing Alien]

On 6/7/2023 at 7:07 PM, Robot Man said:

Here is my Reform School Girl trinity...

 

This was mine for a moment in time 

[Surfing Alien]

When I first started collecting vintage pbs in the 1980's I was always attracted to Avon Books. I'd buy any Avon, they were so colorful with their comic-book like primary color schemes and so many great Good Girl covers. I could walk into any bookstore and spot an Avon spine on a shelf from across the store. To this day I am, and will probably always be, an Avon guy 

[OtherEric]

So, for the VCC last weekend, @GACollectibles listed a lot of paperbacks.  I may have gone a little overboard on the D-Series Mystery Doubles.

[OtherEric]

[OtherEric]

[OtherEric]

[OtherEric]

There are a lot of covers I like in this batch, but the Maguire cover for The Hot Chariot may be my favorite.  It reminds me a lot of Maguire's cover for April Evil.

[OtherEric]

Then again, The Duchess of Skid Row has a pretty impressive cover as well.

[mrwoogieman]

The battery is low on my mouse after all the scrolling, but I still don't think you went overboard!

 

[OtherEric]

Just comparing the Hot Chariot cover with the April Evil cover, since I was struck by the similarity:

[Book Guy]

Wow!

TWO Scuba Covers!

[Randall Dowling]

On 6/9/2023 at 11:53 AM, OtherEric said:

Just comparing the Hot Chariot cover with the April Evil cover, since I was struck by the similarity:

Both classic Maguire covers!  Somebody on CAF has the original art for Hot Chariot.  It's the sort of thing I'd liquidate a lot of my collection for!

https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=597456

And here's the companion piece from Five Faces of Murder:

https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=167865

 

[Surfing Alien]

On 6/11/2023 at 5:03 PM, Randall Dowling said:

Both classic Maguire covers!  Somebody on CAF has the original art for Hot Chariot.  It's the sort of thing I'd liquidate a lot of my collection for!

https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=597456

And here's the companion piece from Five Faces of Murder:

https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=167865

 

Johnny C. and George Hagenauer, along with Brian Emrich, have or have had, many of the best surviving vintage paperback covers extant. Their galleries are amazing to browse. 

 

[Sarg]

On 6/11/2023 at 4:03 PM, Randall Dowling said:

And here's the companion piece from Five Faces of Murder:

https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=167865

 

Wow. The original makes the printed version look sick by comparison.