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

[OtherEric]

I don't think I've seen one of these Signet Double Volumes before, with the doubled spine.  First print:

[Surfing Alien]

Some Friday Fun on a Friday for once again

George Ziel cover on this one

A nice copy of one of the Pedigree Hal Ellson JD titles.

I've got 4 of them now, I think there's 6 in all and pretty tough in general

Edited October 13, 2023 by Surfing Alien

[Surfing Alien]

On 10/13/2023 at 6:46 PM, OtherEric said:

I don't think I've seen one of these Signet Double Volumes before, with the doubled spine.  First print:

Just dug this out of my post on here from 4 years ago rather than try to dig it out

A Signet Triple with triple spine. This from when we first posted about fat paperbacks. 

[OtherEric]

On 10/13/2023 at 5:05 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Just dug this out of my post on here from 4 years ago rather than try to dig it out

A Signet Triple with triple spine. This from when we first posted about fat paperbacks. 

I think the only Ayn Rand I have is the last issue of Famous Fantastic Mysteries.

OK, so I've seen the multiple spine on a Signet before... just not in person.

[Darwination]

On 10/13/2023 at 7:05 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Just dug this out of my post on here from 4 years ago rather than try to dig it out

A Signet Triple with triple spine. This from when we first posted about fat paperbacks. 

Lol, do the Ayn Rand fans go after the PB edition?

[Surfing Alien]

On 10/13/2023 at 9:45 PM, Darwination said:

Lol, do the Ayn Rand fans go after the PB edition?

I don't know who is behind the buys of rare paperbacks. But I collect rare paperbacks and this is a rare paperback. Most fat pbs are tough in higher grades.

[Randall Dowling]

On 10/13/2023 at 10:02 PM, Surfing Alien said:

I collect rare paperbacks and this is a rare paperback.  Most fat pbs are tough in higher grades.

No lies detected.

[Darwination]

[Randall Dowling]

On 10/13/2023 at 11:57 PM, Darwination said:

That's a very cool book!  I'm a big Chandler fan. 

[Surfing Alien]

On 10/14/2023 at 12:57 AM, Darwination said:

Great Tom Dunn cleavage cover

[Darwination]

I feel like I've got most of my Chandler and Hammett in mid-century hardcover editions.  There's few names that drive the price of a pulp up like those two :I

[OtherEric]

On 10/14/2023 at 6:41 AM, Randall Dowling said:

That's a very cool book!  I'm a big Chandler fan. 

Not the first time I've shown my set, and probably not the last either:

[Darwination]

On 10/14/2023 at 12:20 PM, OtherEric said:

Not the first time I've shown my set, and probably not the last either:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Love a couple of these, particularly the bottom design, Playback - Raymond Chandler (1960.Cardinal C 375) cover William Rose

[OtherEric]

On 10/14/2023 at 10:31 AM, Darwination said:

Love a couple of these, particularly the bottom design, Playback - Raymond Chandler (1960.Cardinal C 375) cover William Rose

I always have thought the Playback design, with the curtain worked into the design, was a really great one.  So is the Skull cover for Big Sleep, in a very different way.  As far as I know, all of my copies are first edition, first printing paperbacks other than Little Sister, and from what I've seen I like the design on the Pocket 4001 a lot more than the one on the Pocket 750 (which I think is the first, I don't have a copy).

[Darwination]

The ice pick sticking up from the corpse is hardcore

 

[Surfing Alien]

Menace, Vol. 1 No. 1, November 1954. Pretty good lineup. The cover's not bad either. Looks a lot like a Saunders girl but very refined. Neither detail saved it from oblivion after two issues but 

 

 

[Darwination]

Yep, that's Saunders.  He really could be all over the place in terms of attention and detail (a total master, don't get me wrong).

Nice copy!  St. John mag.  Peek in there for me and check for Matt Baker, eh?  I don't think it will have any, but it's possible...

Second issue has a nice cover, too (from a copy on eBay this very moment):

I really like the title font on this final ish.

[Sarg]

On 10/13/2023 at 10:02 PM, Surfing Alien said:

I don't know who is behind the buys of rare paperbacks. But I collect rare paperbacks and this is a rare paperback. Most fat pbs are tough in higher grades.

The Fountainhead Signet PB is "rare"? That's surprising. It was a well-publicized best-seller in hardcover, so you'd normally assume that the paperback would be pretty common. I guess the size and cost (three times more expensive than a regular 25 cent PB) turned buyers off.

[OtherEric]

In this week.  There was not a lot of Doctor Who material released in the US in the 60's.

[Darwination]

My wife says she got Dr. Who in the afternoons on PBS in western Kansas in the 80s.  I got it on Friday nights only from KC, but they were good Friday nights

Giant salt shakers, horrifying.