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

[MattTheDuck]

On 10/25/2023 at 5:20 PM, Darwination said:

That guy's really gearing up for the grab

Hopefully he's got a signed consent form.

[Surfing Alien]

On 10/25/2023 at 8:20 PM, Darwination said:

That guy's really gearing up for the grab

They're called "Lurid covers" for a reason  This is a good example.

[themagicrobot]

The back cover of the Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition sums up D H Lawrence's life in 35 comic panels.

 

 

Edited October 26, 2023 by themagicrobot

[Surfing Alien]

Some Friday Fun...

Hardman by David Karp   Lion Books 119.    Cover art by Victor Prezio, another excellent painter in Goodman's  artist stable.

This is just about the definition of hard boiled. The back cover blurbs are "intriguing". It's pretty nice but not so nice I won't give it a read.

[Darwination]

On 10/27/2023 at 4:07 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Some Friday Fun...

Hardman by David Karp   Lion Books 119.    Cover art by Victor Prezio, another excellent painter in Goodman's  artist stable.

This is just about the definition of hard boiled. The back cover blurbs are "intriguing". It's pretty nice but not so nice I won't give it a read.

The title is hilarious.  How often did Vic sign?

[Surfing Alien]

On 10/27/2023 at 5:13 PM, Darwination said:

The title is hilarious.  How often did Vic sign?

I don't think very often on paperbacks. I only know of a couple.

[OtherEric]

Lots of great stuff in the Bay Area the last couple days.

[OtherEric]

[OtherEric]

[PopKulture]

On 10/29/2023 at 12:16 AM, OtherEric said:

That Strange Barriers spells it right out. Some interracial offerings of that period were comparatively more subtle: this one veers towards the outright exploitive camp. 

The sub-genres in paperback collecting are fascinating, just as in book collecting in general. I bought some nice hardcovers from a gentleman at a show whose father collected and catalogued many early sci-fi books, including “lost civilizations“ of which I purchased a few. Two main arteries of that lost civilization genre seemed to focus on Meso-American societies and the lost tribes of Africa (think Cecil Rhodes era). As a kid, I thought ERB was sort of the spark that ignited the genre, but it was apparently already well established. 

[Darwination]

What stood out to me on Strange Barriers were the great authors listed.  Race mixing was taboo mid-century but you see a ton of it in the paperbacks, and it gets sensationalized in true crime, sweats and other genres of mags, too.  They use the word "strange" in the south (and I imagine elsewhere, too) when you're with someone besides your spouse, so I guess this is extra strange

 

[OtherEric]

On 10/29/2023 at 4:27 PM, Darwination said:

What stood out to me on Strange Barriers were the great authors listed.  Race mixing was taboo mid-century but you see a ton of it in the paperbacks, and it gets sensationalized in true crime, sweats and other genres of mags, too.  They use the word "strange" in the south (and I imagine elsewhere, too) when you're with someone besides your spouse, so I guess this is extra strange

 

Some more images since people are expressing interest.  @Darwination called it when he mentioned the author list, the “and others” has some pretty heavy hitters as well:

[Surfing Alien]

Just got this recently. Incredible early Ron Lesser cover Ace that I had never seen before...

I love this material and have a large shelf of it. Holloway House is a personal favorite publisher.

[Darwination]

On 10/29/2023 at 6:58 PM, OtherEric said:

Some more images since people are expressing interest.  @Darwination called it when he mentioned the author list, the “and others” has some pretty heavy hitters as well:

I'm assuming that's the Battle Royal scene from Invisible Man, in my opinion one of the funniest pieces in all of American literature.  And the "L" word isn't one I tend to use too much around comics and pulp people, so sue me.  Langston Hughes is also great.  My first public grade school is now named after him in my hometown of Lawrence, Kansas.  And leading off with Faulkner?  What a cool collection.  The back cover is really good, too. 

You can talk about race mixing as lurid subject matter but you also have to give the paperbacks much respect for even printing some of the more controversial black authors who weren't getting hardcover editions.

Edited October 30, 2023 by Darwination

[Surfing Alien]

Two Jonas and one Ziel cover. All classic must haves.

[Darwination]

Not mine but in a large posting by a no doubt well-known eBay seller today of sweats and pbs that I suspect many of us have already come upon in our eBay emails

Always scintillating how the other half lives. There's all these "race" novels, but I've been very curious about what is maybe even a larger segment of the PBs, not even what you'd term it, hillbillysploitation? One I saw in that batch on eBay, but I'll post Flickr images from Steve since they are so good.  The back cover blurb probably gets to the appeal

I see words like "swamp" "hillbilly" "backwoods" etc. with the insinuation that everybody in these realms is always living wild and free.

Maybe the last segment of the population it's still o.k. to stereotype?  (but, you know, not really o.k.)

Edited October 31, 2023 by Darwination

[Sarg]

Strong Jack Davis influence, but not as good as Jack.

[Surfing Alien]

On 10/31/2023 at 12:27 PM, Darwination said:

Not mine but in a large posting by a no doubt well-known eBay seller today of sweats and pbs that I suspect many of us have already come upon in our eBay emails

Always scintillating how the other half lives. There's all these "race" novels, but I've been very curious about what is maybe even a larger segment of the PBs, not even what you'd term it, hillbillysploitation? One I saw in that batch on eBay, but I'll post Flickr images from Steve since they are so good.  The back cover blurb probably gets to the appeal

I see words like "swamp" "hillbilly" "backwoods" etc. with the insinuation that everybody in these realms is always living wild and free.

Maybe the last segment of the population it's still o.k. to stereotype?  (but, you know, not really o.k.)

Oh, yeah, I could fill a box or two with hillbilly exploitation. It was definitely a thing, some of it funny and some of it pretty mean spirited and definitely not ok.

 

[Surfing Alien]

Oh, by the way, Happy Halloween, from the usual fellas....

[PopKulture]

Messing around in the boxes a little…

The first twenty-one Bantam books: