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

[Randall Dowling]

On 10/4/2023 at 7:39 PM, moonpool said:

Well, after many years searching, I find one of my big Heades

Wow!  That's really saying something given your collection!  Very cool book!

[frozentundraguy]

It took me a while to get around to this but I finally secured a copy of A. Merritt's 'Seven Footprints to Satan'. It's one of the earlier Avon books with number 26. I also assembled my other PB's by Merritt, all published by Avon.

Next up is the 1949 version of 'The Fox Woman'

I was fortunate to obtain 'The Ships of Ishtar' and 'The Moon Pool' in fine condition.

Tough to pick a favorite cover among these books, but "Moon Pool" just might just eke out "Dwellers in the Mirage".

Rounding out my collection is "The Metal Monster" (1957)

 

[moonpool]

The Moonpool, huh

[frozentundraguy]

On 10/4/2023 at 10:50 PM, moonpool said:

The Moonpool, huh

I would be remiss in not mentioning that it was our own Pat Calhoun who first shared his Merritt books with me.

[OtherEric]

An earlier Metal Monster cover, and a couple other Merritt books.  I still don't have any copy of "Creep, Shadow"

[frozentundraguy]

On 10/4/2023 at 11:09 PM, OtherEric said:

An earlier Metal Monster cover, and a couple other Merritt books.  I still don't have any copy of "Creep, Shadow"

The earlier Metal Monster cover is pretty iconic, as Avon's artists were on a roll in the early 50's. I also have the Dwellers book from the Murders Mystery Monthly series.

 

[OtherEric]

On 10/4/2023 at 9:13 PM, frozentundraguy said:

The earlier Metal Monster cover is pretty iconic, as Avon's artists were on a roll in the early 50's. I also have the Dwellers book from the Murders Mystery Monthly series.

 

And here's the even earlier Metal Monster cover from the MMM series.  And, for @moonpool, the Moon Pool cover as well:

[themagicrobot]

Does anyone else collect this short-lived pulp-sized early 1990s UK magazine?

 

 

[OtherEric]

Today's additions to the MMM collection, 12 to go still.  I think the seller mishandled the Nobody Lives Forever, it was part of a two book lot with Cain's The Embezzler.  They focused on that one, with several pictures, and it was a fairly trashed copy, to the point where I'm genuinely thinking of just throwing it in the garbage because the pages are so brittle.  But the Nobody Lives Forever only got one picture, and is in much better shape.  My guess is they felt the Cain was the one with the bigger name writer, but in my experience The Embezzler is one of the most common MMM's, while the Burnett doesn't turn up that often.

[Darwination]

New addition:

 

 

a brilliant and blistering expose of TEEN-AGE VICE...photo posed by professional models -

 

[Darwination]

A cool thing I noticed for paperback fans.  Doc Love alerted me to the illustration auction going down at HA today.  This piece of original art for Male Ward by Belarski sold (for 1,625).

C

Check out the neat reference in the hands of the dude in the wheel chair, another Belarski paperback

(linking Mick Sidge at Flickr here on the bottom.  Flickr's really a great place to do any paperback title search to find images, dates, artists, series numbers, etc).

Edited October 7, 2023 by Darwination

[Surfing Alien]

On 10/6/2023 at 10:12 PM, Darwination said:

A cool thing I noticed for paperback fans.  Doc Love alerted me to the illustration auction going down at HA today.  This piece of original art for Male Ward by Belarski sold (for 1,625).

C

Check out the neat reference in the hands of the dude in the wheel chair, another Belarski paperback

(linking Mick Sidge at Flickr here on the bottom.  Flickr's really a great place to do any paperback title search to find images, dates, artists, series numbers, etc).

Was tracking a bunch of these. That's a pretty nice and affordable top tier painting for a Nurse Book fan   I'm surprised you didn't post the pretty Howell Dodd painting for Venus Books "No Time For Sleep" that sold for $5,125. That one is a beaut I'd love to have but am tapped out at that level so have to be happy with a nice copy of the digest

There were a few other nice covers but the one I wish I owned the most, the cover to Uni-Books #26 "The Fiend" went fairly cheap at $1,250, largely because it remains uncredited, although the skill level is undeniable and the cover a headlights classic in my estimation. I probably should have bid on it but you never know what the other guy is willing to go to and didn't want to get caught in a fever.

 

[Surfing Alien]

More upping the game on the Shirley Jackson collection. If you've seen me post this book before, it's because it's about my 5th gradual upgrade and it's a cornerstone book in my collection for all the reasons of 

a)  all time classic short story in a 1st pb collection by a noted author who has become a major literary figure

b) tough early Lion Books edition (#14, which is the 5th Lion Book), which are all tough, especially in grade. This is a fat volume for a Lion, which makes it even tougher.

c) incredible Herman Bischoff cover that manages to incorporate cleavage into the harrowing image of Tessie Hutchison's final moments.

This one has a touch of foxing at the top and a couple of light finger bends, but is square and sharp with great color and very little wear. Easily the best I've seen since pursuing it for the last 6 or 7 years.

[Darwination]

Wild cover!  I like the little figurines and flying rocks

There's no doubt that story is one of the most read and remembered stories in American Lit (guessing middle schoolers still read it).

I did enjoy the recent movie with Elizabeth Moss and have seen some of the Netflix adaptation stuff, but I can't recall reading her outside of a few stories during schooling.

 

 

 

[Darwination]

On 10/7/2023 at 9:10 AM, Surfing Alien said:

Was tracking a bunch of these. That's a pretty nice and affordable top tier painting for a Nurse Book fan   I'm surprised you didn't post the pretty Howell Dodd painting for Venus Books "No Time For Sleep" that sold for $5,125. That one is a beaut I'd love to have but am tapped out at that level so have to be happy with a nice copy of the digest

There were a few other nice covers but the one I wish I owned the most, the cover to Uni-Books #26 "The Fiend" went fairly cheap at $1,250, largely because it remains uncredited, although the skill level is undeniable and the cover a headlights classic in my estimation. I probably should have bid on it but you never know what the other guy is willing to go to and didn't want to get caught in a fever.

 

I did almost post the Dodd!  for the fiends.  I like the sunset colors in that one a lot.

I already put up my fave of the auction in the digests thread which probably was hanging over a bar somewhere

I bookmarked some and quickly grabbed the images just now.  This one's killer.  I need to check out Cassell's, that's a mag I haven't looked into that ran for a long time.  A lot of the artists in those brit mags are really good and don't necessarily show up in the mags over here, Arthur Cadwgan Michael

 

 

 

some others I liked, none of which would break the bank.  I really like the last one, but there's some unfortunate stains on the skin tones.

 

Edited October 7, 2023 by Darwination

[Surfing Alien]

On 10/7/2023 at 10:34 AM, Darwination said:

Wild cover!  I like the little figurines and flying rocks

There's no doubt that story is one of the most read and remembered stories in American Lit (guessing middle schoolers still read it).

I did enjoy the recent movie with Elizabeth Moss and have seen some of the Netflix adaptation stuff, but I can't recall reading her outside of a few stories during schooling.

 

 

 

Yeah, I think what Bischoff achieved here is much better than if he tried to paint the whole scene realistically. The detached, almost primitive, ferocity of the crowd amplifies her isolation and terror in the face of human savagery, turned so casually on her.

My daughter just read it in middle school a few years ago, so it is still widely read. Her other most read book is probably the Haunting of Hill House. I've said before I consider her similar to Walter Tevis, authors who didn't write a whole lot, but nearly everything they wrote is infused with wisdom and sadness.

[Surfing Alien]

On 10/7/2023 at 10:53 AM, Darwination said:

I did almost post the Dodd!  for the fiends.  I like the sunset colors in that one a lot.

I already put up my fave of the auction in the digests thread which probably was hanging over a bar somewhere

I bookmarked some and quickly grabbed the images just now.  This one's killer.  I need to check out Cassell's, that's a mag I haven't looked into that ran for a long time.  A lot of the artists in those brit mags are really good and don't necessarily show up in the mags over here, Arthur Cadwgan Michael

 

 

 

some others I liked, none of which would break the bank.  I really like the last one, but there's some unfortunate stains on the skin tones.

 

Yeah, these are all neat. I don't generally like the spare/modern style of the Sarnoff painting but that one I like. The last one by Victor Olson looks a lot like a 1960's Beacon Books cover to me, definitely his later period.  The British one is very cool, much in that softly shaded style so popular in the 20's & 30's. I'm very tempted to buy more original art but they're so large and individualized, I despair of being able to dispose of them properly when the time comes

 

[Sarg]

On 10/7/2023 at 9:27 AM, Surfing Alien said:

More upping the game on the Shirley Jackson collection. If you've seen me post this book before, it's because it's about my 5th gradual upgrade and it's a cornerstone book in my collection for all the reasons of 

a)  all time classic short story in a 1st pb collection by a noted author who has become a major literary figure

b) tough early Lion Books edition (#14, which is the 5th Lion Book), which are all tough, especially in grade. This is a fat volume for a Lion, which makes it even tougher.

c) incredible Herman Bischoff cover that manages to incorporate cleavage into the harrowing image of Tessie Hutchison's final moments.

This one has a touch of foxing at the top and a couple of light finger bends, but is square and sharp with great color and very little wear. Easily the best I've seen since pursuing it for the last 6 or 7 years.

 

That cover is so ludicrously inappropriate for the story that it's hilarious. A greatly missed opportunity, IMO...if someone like say James Avati had been given the assignment, it may have been one of the classic paperback covers.

[Darwination]

Was just looking at this one, forgot it was a paperback, I'm wondering if any other undergrounds made it to pb -

 

[OtherEric]

On 10/7/2023 at 9:25 AM, Darwination said:

Was just looking at this one, forgot it was a paperback, I'm wondering if any other undergrounds made it to pb -