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

[Darwination]

This one's my ID but unconfirmed, my copy

Line-Up Detective 1953-06 v06n06 cover Howell Dodd

I love these juvenile delinquency covers that seem to be on the side of the kids.

[Randall Dowling]

On 9/13/2023 at 9:30 PM, Darwination said:

This one's my ID but unconfirmed, my copy

Line-Up Detective 1953-06 v06n06 cover Howell Dodd

I love these juvenile delinquency covers that seem to be on the side of the kids.

I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more Howell Dodd.

[Surfing Alien]

On 9/13/2023 at 10:15 PM, Darwination said:

It's not my ID, but that's how I have it indexed.  I got the ID from Steve at the link below. I'd certainly agree it's more polished or shiny may be the better word than most images I have from Dodd in my files:

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/56781833@N06/52800854395

 

I'll have to bust Steve's chops on that one lol. He got lazy on this one.

As you noted, more polished, far more polished. Dodd never painted slick details like that. Dodd, like Barye Phillips only painted enough to make the sale, great artist for sure but very spare.

Popp painted lots of fine detail like this, plus I knew instantly because it's the same red headed woman/face with very thin eyebrows and fine features that he painted dozens of times, likely his wife.

Like most artists, Popp rarely painted a cover with the model in side view, so it''s unusual. Can't find another side view cover but look at two of the side view women on this page (and the women's faces, hair and eyebrows in general in all his commercial work) and it's pretty obvious painted who this.

https://www.americanartarchives.com/popp.htm

Look at the face of the middle woman in the shower in   "For Men Only, "The American Prisoner In Russia's Female Convict Colony" (1960) Popp - 012"

and the woman on the far left toasting with the flagon in "Stag, "Last 10 Days In the Führer Private Underground Bunker" (1960) Popp - 017"

It's the same woman in the same side face pose with the mouth open. He literally paints her multiple times in the same paintings all the time, with different hairdos. (I'm not complaining, he probably got paid $100 a "pop" who could afford multiple models!)

 

 

 

 

[Surfing Alien]

On 9/13/2023 at 10:30 PM, Darwination said:

This one's my ID but unconfirmed, my copy

Line-Up Detective 1953-06 v06n06 cover Howell Dodd

I love these juvenile delinquency covers that seem to be on the side of the kids.

That's Dodd

[Darwination]

Respect.  Changing the ID for that Smash Detective.  I'm not super familiar with Popp but have worked on some of his images.  There's a lot of really good images in that gallery.  I see he got some help from heirs there, I love that.

I really like the Amazing from that gallery:

There may be some perspective issues (the mad scientist is too big compared to the redhead in distress) but that could be somewhat intentional composition-wise (or she could be some sort of alien or something lol).

I worked this one for a fellow pulp scanner way back when, another redhead (pinkhead?):

 

Edited September 14, 2023 by Darwination

[Randall Dowling]

On 9/13/2023 at 9:43 PM, Surfing Alien said:

That's Dodd

So is this.

[Darwination]

On 9/13/2023 at 10:24 PM, Randall Dowling said:

So is this.

Lookout!!!

EDIT: This one is now on my want list.  For what that's worth

Edited September 14, 2023 by Darwination

[Darwination]

I've got this Dodd on eBay right now, probably not a collector's copy since the cover is loose but complete and nice.  On the other hand, most of us hunt these for the covers, so...

I don't what the etiquette is as far as mentioning something like that is here.  It's mercenary intent but not exactly.

Best True Fact Detective v06n03 (1950-01.Newsbook) cover Howell Dodd (McCoy Edit)

Scan:
https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/jujufxy278tqrli/Best_True_Fact_Detective_v06n03_%281950-01.Newsbook%29%28D%26M%29.cbr/file

at the IA (still populating my bookshelf there, gonna take a long, long time to get em all up there):

https://archive.org/details/best-true-fact-detective-v-06n-03-1950-01.-newsbook-d-m-ia

The cover restore and edit is from a long lost collaborator, McCoy.

 

Some splashes from the ish while I'm at it
https://www.flickr.com/photos/197841258@N07/53148387118

https://www.flickr.com/photos/197841258@N07/53148325365

https://www.flickr.com/photos/197841258@N07/53148387118

[Darwination]

I worked this one last night while chattering about all the fun threads here (I am like a kid in the candy store right now on this forum).

My copy, a nice one which makes for "light work" on the restore -

Vic Prezio, Real Men v03n06 (1958-12)

[Surfing Alien]

On 9/14/2023 at 3:33 PM, Darwination said:

which makes for "light work" on the restore

So you touch up scans of mags to have perfect scans for posting online? Or in publications? I'm interested because I did a lot of that for an article I wrote for Illustration.

[Darwination]

Yeah, the cover work tends to be just the cherry on the pie for a full cover to cover scan.  I started in the comic scanning scene with underground comix and migrated to the goldenage from there.  I consider myself a digital preservationist, archivist, and amateur historian.  These days I do a little more cover-only work at Flickr but still probably spend 90% of my hobby time on entire edition scans.  Mostly pulps, a wide, wide variety of magazines, and some comics (it used to be mostly comics).  The Prezio above is just a cover.

It can get grisly.  You prefer to work with the best copies for ease and color, but you also take what you can get when it means completing a cover to cover scan:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/197841258@N07/albums/72177720306637108

I've helped authors with touch up a time or two or often just give free use.  If someone needs something I've done for a history, I'm always happy to send the edited uncut .tifs (usually 400 dpi, 600 for covers these days, they say you need 600 dpi for print but digital is the medium I work in and 600 dpi would really really slow me down when you're talking 200 plus page pulps) or simply the raw scans if they prefer to process the images themselves. 

This is my blog if I haven't pimped it out on this thread already which is pretty much the tip of the iceberg of what goes on in various scanning scenes but kind of the heart of what I'm about:
http://darwinscans.blogspot.com/

What article did you do for Illustration, if you don't mind saying?

Edited September 14, 2023 by Darwination

[Surfing Alien]

On 9/14/2023 at 7:51 PM, Darwination said:

Yeah, the cover work tends to be just the cherry on the pie for a full cover to cover scan.  I started in the comic scanning scene with underground comix and migrated to the goldenage from there.  I consider myself a digital preservationist, archivist, and amateur historian.  These days I do a little more cover-only work at Flickr but still probably spend 90% of my hobby time on entire edition scans.  Mostly pulps, a wide, wide variety of magazines, and some comics (it used to be mostly comics).  The Prezio above is just a cover.

It can get grisly.  You prefer to work with the best copies for ease and color, but you also take what you can get when it means completing a cover to cover scan:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/197841258@N07/albums/72177720306637108

I've helped authors with touch up a time or two or often just give free use.  If someone needs something I've done for a history, I'm always happy to send the edited uncut .tifs (usually 400 dpi, 600 for covers these days, they say you need 600 dpi for print but digital is the medium I work in and 600 dpi would really really slow me down when you're talking 200 plus page pulps) or simply the raw scans if they prefer to process the images themselves. 

This is my blog if I haven't pimped it out on this thread already which is pretty much the tip of the iceberg of what goes on in various scanning scenes but kind of the heart of what I'm about:
http://darwinscans.blogspot.com/

What article did you do for Illustration, if you don't mind saying?

I took a look at your Flickr and blog and have to say, very nice, I appreciate what you do. It's pretty apparent that you love old smelly paper (or moreso, turning old smelly paper into digital copies for posterity ) I'd never have the patience myself, it's an excellent quality volume of painstaking work and looks like you're into a very broad range of stuff

I wrote a biography and co-authored a checklist of paperback/MAM GGA artist Raymond Johnson for Illustration #77, the seeds of which actually arose out of conversations between and among the members of this very vintage paperback thread.

Here's a link:

http://www.theillustratedpress.com/77.html

I just checked and am proud but a bit disappointed to see it has sold out because I'm almost out of copies

 

 

[Darwination]

It's nice to be in print and to have a hot issue

I'm interested and will see if I can't track one down. Seems like they'd have a digital option for OOP issues, though...

 

[OtherEric]

Darwin is one of the go to experts for the Digital Comic Museum when we have a book needing particularly good digital restoration, as well.  He helped out on a Peter Wheat News I scanned and shared recently, for example:

[jimjum12]

A few upgrades to my meager Frazetta collection ... I'm focusing on the early work where he was still looking for his style. GOD BLESS ... 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[mrwoogieman]

Damnation! What great work people are doing out there. Thanks for the edification, darwination!

 

 

[Surfing Alien]

On 9/14/2023 at 11:13 PM, Darwination said:

It's nice to be in print and to have a hot issue

I'm interested and will see if I can't track one down. Seems like they'd have a digital option for OOP issues, though...

 

Thanks. I believe it's available at Magzter, preview here:

https://www.magzter.com/stories/art/Illustration/THE-ART-OF-RAYMOND-JOHNSON

and you can flip through the pics, but not be able to read the text at issuu

https://issuu.com/illomag/docs/illustration77small

 

[Surfing Alien]

On 9/15/2023 at 12:07 AM, OtherEric said:

Darwin is one of the go to experts for the Digital Comic Museum when we have a book needing particularly good digital restoration, as well.  He helped out on a Peter Wheat News I scanned and shared recently, for example:

Great to see

[Darwination]

I don't want to derail the paperback art with the true crime (pbs are the main focus of this thread, eh?), but it seems a lot of these pulp threads are kind of a mixed lot (which is just fine by me).

Smoke em if you got em.  I'm going to stop posting dates (but maybe still artists) on these.  I'm an indexer at heart but also kind of like the practice here of just covers.  If you need to DM for specifics, tis ok.

P.S.  I'm noticing some moire in some of my images (like I see it in the preview of this very post on the top image).  It bugs me!  I guess it's part of the way images are presented here (which is generally very well) but I wonder if others have noticed this as well.

[jimjum12]

On 9/15/2023 at 10:18 AM, Darwination said:

I don't want to derail the paperback art with the true crime (pbs are the main focus of this thread, eh?), but it seems a lot of these pulp threads are kind of a mixed lot (which is just fine by me).

While I'm sure we all have our favorites, most of us have an interest and appreciation for all of it. Especially nice to have someone who can answer some of our many  questions. GOD BLESS...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)