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

[Surfing Alien]

On 11/17/2023 at 9:12 PM, Darwination said:

I know I've seen Alan Hynd before (and likely numerous times if I remember the name).  I don't know if it's from slicks or what, though. 

I'm sure you have, he was a prolific true crime writer who appeared in many slicks as well as the top selling Crime mags like True Police Cases, and a bunch of pbs, including the first numbered Gold Medal book

Edited November 18, 2023 by Surfing Alien

[Darwination]

I came across this in my image files but don't have a copy on my shelves, so I may have given it to a younger brother.   The blurb sounds very unlike the book I remember

Edited November 21, 2023 by Darwination

[OtherEric]

Today's book.  Thanks to @Surfing Alien for encouraging me to grab it despite a back cover stain, it presents beautifully:

 

[Surfing Alien]

On 11/20/2023 at 6:38 PM, Darwination said:

I came across this in my image files but don't have a copy on my shelves, so I may have given it to a younger brother.   The blurb sounds very unlike the book I remember

 

My copy of the 1st Edition, with the gorgeous George Ziel cover and a much more appropriate blurb

[Surfing Alien]

On 11/21/2023 at 12:11 AM, OtherEric said:

Today's book.  Thanks to @Surfing Alien for encouraging me to grab it despite a back cover stain, it presents beautifully:

 

 

Yeah, that looks real nice, classic Paul Stahr

Today's book here is one I've lost out on a couple of times over the years but finally reeled one in. Not high grade but high demand in any condition and this one's quite presentable. The last 3 MMM's are just tough to find at all (and give me a red-headed dame with a pistol any day of the week )

 

[OtherEric]

On 11/21/2023 at 1:19 PM, Surfing Alien said:

 

Yeah, that looks real nice, classic Paul Stahr

Today's book here is one I've lost out on a couple of times over the years but finally reeled one in. Not high grade but high demand in any condition and this one's quite presentable. The last 3 MMM's are just tough to find at all (and give me a red-headed dame with a pistol any day of the week )

 

Wish I had known ahead of time you were the other bidder, I would have stood aside.  I’m never willing to go that high on international delivery.

[Surfing Alien]

On 11/21/2023 at 5:32 PM, OtherEric said:

Wish I had known ahead of time you were the other bidder, I would have stood aside.  I’m never willing to go that high on international delivery.

I bought several others to spread the cost out. Pretty much the only strategy that works on international except if it's a crazy deal

[Surfing Alien]

 Sinners' Game by Linton Baldwin. Lion Books No. 227 1954 Some Lion's are so tough and I really like reading many of them when I can get them.

Started this yesterday and finished it this morning. If you like boxing and fast, hard boiled excellence, read this book (if you can find a copy, it was reprinted in the 1990's as The Big Round) A real page turner that took some nice unexpected twists (probably because I'm noir-jaded and always figure the spiral goes one way only, down lol) I did not want to put it down.

 

From what I read afterwards, Baldwin was an accomplished sportsman and sports writer so it figures he had the chops to make the bouts that pepper the story come alive, but his characters and the seedy New York backdrop hit the bag just right for me. It's too bad he only wrote this one book, but like another Lion one-hit wonder The Sin Pit by Paul Meskil, well worth digging up and reading.

 

The fantastic cover art is the icing on the cake, it is uncredited but looks a lot like Lou Marchetti's or Clark Hulings folks to me

 

 

[Darwination]

On 11/22/2023 at 3:25 PM, Surfing Alien said:

 Sinners' Game by Linton Baldwin. Lion Books No. 227 1954 Some Lion's are so tough and I really like reading many of them when I can get them.

Started this yesterday and finished it this morning. If you like boxing and fast, hard boiled excellence, read this book (if you can find a copy, it was reprinted in the 1990's as The Big Round) A real page turner that took some nice unexpected twists (probably because I'm noir-jaded and always figure the spiral goes one way only, down lol) I did not want to put it down.

 

From what I read afterwards, Baldwin was an accomplished sportsman and sports writer so it figures he had the chops to make the bouts that pepper the story come alive, but his characters and the seedy New York backdrop hit the bag just right for me. It's too bad he only wrote this one book, but like another Lion one-hit wonder The Sin Pit by Paul Meskil, well worth digging up and reading.

 

The fantastic cover art is the icing on the cake, it is uncredited but looks a lot like Lou Marchetti's or Clark Hulings folks to me

 

 

On 11/21/2023 at 4:32 PM, OtherEric said:

Wish I had known ahead of time you were the other bidder, I would have stood aside.  I’m never willing to go that high on international delivery.

Great blurb and tagline on the front, I'm sold!

[jimjum12]

For anyone who may be interested, I have some pulps and paperbacks sprinkled into my MIXED AGES sales thread. Everything is 35% off. Thanks. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[Surfing Alien]

Picked up this Pyramid edition of "Hungry Men" by Edward Anderson, (on the far right in the pic) this week. Cover art by Mort Kunstler. It got me to thinking so I dug around and pulled out my other two editions. This book is one of those rare ones to get three covers by three different outstanding Golden Age artists, Harry Schaare on the Lion Books first PB edition, Charles Copeland on the Lion Library second edition, and Kunstler on the third edition. Hungry men indeed!

[Darwination]

Woof, Mort did the best one, for suresies.

[themagicrobot]

Written/drawn by Bob Rite whoever he may have been. Issued in 1966 to cash in on the craze for all Bat-related stuff at that time. 

 

 

Talking of cashing in on the Bat-craze of 1966 I purchased this cardboard "mask" back then. If it hadn't said "Batman" on the front I don't think anyone would have known what it was meant to be.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 26, 2023 by themagicrobot

[Pat Calhoun]

1966

[Surfing Alien]

On 11/26/2023 at 2:18 PM, Darwination said:

Woof, Mort did the best one, for suresies.

It is quite a confection ain't it 

[ThothAmon]

No discrepancy in value on this one. Truthfully I have no idea how it would grade. Rick would know. 

 

Edited November 27, 2023 by ThothAmon

[Surfing Alien]

A Woman A Day by Philip Jose Farmer. Beacon Books No. 291. Cover art by Gerald McConnell.

I love getting a real nice copy of a classic pb in and finding an unadvertised signature inside 🥰

 

A few more recent pickups...

Finally got a nice copy of this one. Just need the last one to complete the mini set.

Killer upgrade of the hardest hard boiled title ever

Tokey Wedge baybeeee... a great campy, sexy title

Classic Monarch JD with Rafael DeSoto art

Minty Belarski classic cover

 

[OtherEric]

@Surfing Alien had another book sale a couple weeks ago.  As I believe has been clearly established, I have zero willpower when it comes to Avons unless there are Ace D/S/G to grab instead.  Here's the Avons I grabbed, images of the other books will show up once I get a chance to scan them.

[OtherEric]

[OtherEric]