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

[Surfing Alien]

Well, since we're flooding the thread with True Crime, I'll post this recent pickup. I have a real soft spot for the 1930's & 40's mags with soft palette paint techniques of guys like Stockton Mulford, who painted this half nekkid gun toting moll for the cover of the November 1939 Startling Detective Adventures.

[Surfing Alien]

Now back to our regularly scheduled programing... It wouldn't be Friday without some Friday Fun.

This came in today, I really like the early Other Worlds with the original banner logo and especially the Harold McCauley covers (ok, the Bok covers as well ) There's something about the thick, square digest format that is very appealing to me. Nekkid wimmen in floating spheres are appealing as well

 

Also got in an upgrade of Rex Stout's "Door To Death" Dell dimer. Always looking for nice dimers since the flimsy little things are so tough without creases.

 

[OtherEric]

Some grabs from the local bookstore today:

[OtherEric]

[Darwination]

That bottom one is freaky deaky :O

[OtherEric]

On 9/15/2023 at 3:59 PM, Darwination said:

That bottom one is freaky deaky :O

I think Morrow is seriously underrated, personally.

[Randall Dowling]

On 9/15/2023 at 5:02 PM, OtherEric said:

I wonder how many of us started our collecting of paperbacks with the Frazetta/Burroughs books in the Ace F series.  I know it was the beginning of my interest 30 years ago.

Great books, OE!  Keep 'em coming! 

[Randall Dowling]

On 9/15/2023 at 3:52 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Now back to our regularly scheduled programing... It wouldn't be Friday without some Friday Fun.

This came in today, I really like the early Other Worlds with the original banner logo and especially the Harold McCauley covers (ok, the Bok covers as well ) There's something about the thick, square digest format that is very appealing to me. Nekkid wimmen in floating spheres are appealing as well

 

I've always loved this cover.  Harold McCauley is one of my favorite illustrators of the pulp era.  So many beautiful covers for Amazing Stories and many other publications.  I first found him by his covers for Imaginative Tales.

[Surfing Alien]

On 9/15/2023 at 7:14 PM, Randall Dowling said:

So many beautiful covers

Even his sleaze was gorgeous. Too bad the photo and font covers of the 60's chased these great artists into sleaze and then finally out of their paychecks altogether. Damn cheap publishers

 

 

[Robot Man]

Was digging in the PB boxes today. Love me some Avons…

[Robot Man]

Some pretty “girlies” from the collection boxes.

[Robot Man]

And speaking about girls, This is one I recently picked up. In her day, Bardot was one of the most beautiful women in the public eye..,

[Darwination]

On 9/16/2023 at 10:03 AM, Robot Man said:

And speaking about girls, This is one I recently picked up. In her day, Bardot was one of the most beautiful women in the public eye..,

LMAO, love it

That Helen of Troy is notorious, seem to recall it causing a censorship ruckus.  It's kind of wild to see a Belarski with the blatant nips, his pulp work tends to be on the more modest side.

Now that Overboard, that's a Belarski I can get behind -

[Darwination]

Pete Morisi. I think I prefer Honey Seems Bitter as the more fetching title

[Randall Dowling]

On 9/16/2023 at 12:08 PM, Darwination said:

Pete Morisi. I think I prefer Honey Seems Bitter as the more fetching title

I've never seen this before.  Very cool!

[OtherEric]

Stopped by Half Price Books today, they've been getting in better stock than usual recently, it seems:

[OtherEric]

Particularly chuffed with the Stainless Steel Rat, it's the 1st.

[Surfing Alien]

Most of my surfing time yesterday got took up with my $10 sale thread but I was delighted to find that the postman dropped this in the box. 

I've been looking for a high grade copy of this pre-Atlas digest since finding (and posting here) a good copy a couple of years ago. A rare book. It speaks (screams? chokes?) for itself but I think it's one of Saunders sickest covers. Color strike & gloss is... er.. killer 

[Darwination]

On 9/17/2023 at 7:13 AM, Surfing Alien said:

Most of my surfing time yesterday got took up with my $10 sale thread but I was delighted to find that the postman dropped this in the box. 

I've been looking for a high grade copy of this pre-Atlas digest since finding (and posting here) a good copy a couple of years ago. A rare book. It speaks (screams? chokes?) for itself but I think it's one of Saunders sickest covers. Color strike & gloss is... er.. killer 

I swear this was also used as a pulp cover. It's just *killing* me I can't figure out which.

A very ineffective approach towards strangulation, by the way, but one that lends to an energetic expression -

[Darwination]

I hate to backtrack a bit, but I wanted to return to Howell Dodd for a second and post some images from a friend's recent scan (and there's one illo from this issue back a couple pages anyways).  The splashes are great but there are a number of spot illustrations as well in modes we don't think of Dodd in that I noticed immediately.

From Cavalcade September 1959

An overlooked but favorite era of the sweats (men's adventure mags, whatever we want to call them).

The cover to cover issue is here or at the IA here. Thanks to the excellent scanner as well as the donator of the magazine (and those of you not in the io pulpscans group - once the old yahoo pulpscans group are missing out).

The splash to open the issue

Love the way the two tone color is used here.  I think it's fantastic.  The gentleman in the sombrero seems a bit mesmerized.

Also note the alternate signature DuBose.  The lettering in the sig looks like Dodd.  The painting looks like and is credited to Dodd. So this is not a misattribution but an alternate signature (maybe he went with it because there are so many other illos  by him in the issue, the old pulp trick of using different author pseudonyms when one author had too many entries in a single issue).

Further substantiation, a DUBOSE at Heritage (the only entry they have there, date/location unknown)

And the other splash, though I'd already posted it

But check the spot illustrations in the issue as well, Dodd in an alternate mode

 

Neat-o!

Also of note to illustration fans in this issue is a very neat expose on Jon Whitcomb's WWII art.

 

Edited September 17, 2023 by Darwination