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

[OtherEric]

On 10/22/2023 at 9:20 PM, Darwination said:

What's the flipside on that bottom one, OE?

That's only two books there, the bottom two images are both D-182

[Darwination]

On 10/22/2023 at 11:42 PM, OtherEric said:

That's only two books there, the bottom two images are both D-182

Gotcha, I didn't see the second image was the flipside but that makes sense for a double dose Zola

[Surfing Alien]

I'm pretty sure the reason many of the early pb publishers produced many Eurpoean "classics" was due to them being out of copyright, or cheap to get the rights to, and were kind of guaranteed product/sales since they were well known as classic literature to the generation consuming them.  I like Zola.... it seems to me every French classic is imbued with fate, impossible coincidence and vengeance

 

 

[Surfing Alien]

On 10/22/2023 at 3:53 PM, Pat Calhoun said:

the first: my favorite Thompson novel and a sweet Lion PBO package, the second: while the Lions are roaring, and the third: classique...

 

I do like the second Lion Edition of Candide, may have to re-acquire it at some point. Here's a close up of the first. The cover art is un-credited but the girls face looks a LOT like a Rafael DeSoto girl. I read this in high school too and loved it, since half the book was chasing maidens around in the bushes, which was always a fun, irreverent  thing to actually be able to talk about in class

 

 

[Darwination]

The classic tale that makes a mockery of morals

[Pat Calhoun]

[OtherEric]

[OtherEric]

[Darwination]

@Surfing Alien  Do you know what the pay rate tended to be per cover for paperbacks?  I'd guess it varied from the "high end" to the "low end," but I can tell some of these great artists were working pretty damn fast on these.

The rates I've heard on the girlie pulps (and this is probably mid 30s rates) would be like $100 for the big names and lines and $50 on the low end.  

[Surfing Alien]

On 10/23/2023 at 3:41 PM, Darwination said:

@Surfing Alien  Do you know what the pay rate tended to be per cover for paperbacks?  I'd guess it varied from the "high end" to the "low end," but I can tell some of these great artists were working pretty damn fast on these.

The rates I've heard on the girlie pulps (and this is probably mid 30s rates) would be like $100 for the big names and lines and $50 on the low end.  

In the 50's by most accounts that I recall, $200-300 was an average for well known guys, cheap was $100-150.

[moonpool]

[Darwination]

Lordy!

[MattTheDuck]

On 10/23/2023 at 6:16 PM, moonpool said:

So the author is paying for the cover art??

[Pat Calhoun]

Frances is author and publisher

[Darwination]

Intriguing, I have a Janson or few (picked up for the Heade covers), but I don't think I've actually read one.

Not a particularly informative wiki but interesting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Janson

Didn't find much on the web, though Steve Holland has a book:

https://www.amazon.com/Trials-Hank-Janson-Steve-Holland/dp/B0CHGH2BHJ

Seems we have some on this thread who are collectors of said materials

 

[Pat Calhoun]

Frances didn't publish much SF, but he did produce this 1949 John Russell Fearn novel, one of the first 'mushroom jungle' SFs.

Edited October 24, 2023 by Pat Calhoun

[Surfing Alien]

There's so much crazy variety of vintage pb's to collect, but sometimes all it takes is a couple of nice copies of pbs from the classic publishers that you never had before to be the chicken soup for your soul

Blood on the Forge, cover art by Owen Kampen (I love any vintage pb with guitars/musical reference to it)

Love Among The Haystacks, cover art by Bill Randall

After letting so many nice books go this week, it's very satisfying to get a couple of boxes incoming

[Pat Calhoun]

here's another nicely packaged DH Lawrence collection

[Surfing Alien]

On 10/25/2023 at 4:52 PM, Pat Calhoun said:

here's another nicely packaged DH Lawrence collection

 

Very nice Maguire. I'll follow on with another D. H. Lawrence from Avon, this one nicely packaged with a RayJo cover

 

 

[Darwination]

On 10/25/2023 at 7:12 PM, Surfing Alien said:

 

Very nice Maguire. I'll follow on with another D. H. Lawrence from Avon, this one nicely packaged with a RayJo cover

 

 

That guy's really gearing up for the grab