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

[frozentundraguy]

[OtherEric]

[Randall Dowling]

On 1/22/2024 at 4:26 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Woah!!  One of those books is not like the others.  Great grabs, SA! 

[Randall Dowling]

On 1/22/2024 at 5:51 PM, OtherEric said:

I like the way you Brundage, pal! 

[OtherEric]

On 1/22/2024 at 3:56 PM, Randall Dowling said:

I like the way you Brundage, pal! 

I hadn’t thought of it this way until your comment, but I suppose “I only have two of the Weird Tales Conan covers” is actually a pretty sweet humblebrag, given that most people (these forums excepted) have zero.

[frozentundraguy]

I checked my PB's for other works by Howard and found this hybrid. L. Sprague De Camp and Bjorn Nyberg teamed up to complete an unfinished novel by Howard. In addition there is a short history of the Hyborian Age part 2 written entirely by Howard and first published in 1938.

 

Edited January 24 by frozentundraguy

[alecholland]

On 1/19/2024 at 6:59 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Thanks fellas, it's Lowell

 

All I had to do was double check my previous messages from you. Sorry about that.

[Surfing Alien]

I was fortunate enough to be able to pick up a small collection of very high grade Pyramids recently. All unread with perfect spines and just a dimple here and there. They are pretty stunning in hand. "Love Camp" is the nicest copy I've ever seen, which is why I put my undercopy up in the board sale this week. I may put a few more up. They are such nice little productions with art by the likes of Julian Paul, Victor Olson, Lou Kimmel and Frank Cozzarelli. I know, I know, I always gush about my love affair with Pyramids

Here's a few highlights:

 

 

[Pat Calhoun]

[Randall Dowling]

On 1/27/2024 at 7:40 AM, Surfing Alien said:

I was fortunate enough to be able to pick up a small collection of very high grade Pyramids recently. All unread with perfect spines and just a dimple here and there. They are pretty stunning in hand. "Love Camp" is the nicest copy I've ever seen, which is why I put my undercopy up in the board sale this week. I may put a few more up. They are such nice little productions with art by the likes of Julian Paul, Victor Olson, Lou Kimmel and Frank Cozzarelli. I know, I know, I always gush about my love affair with Pyramids

Here's a few highlights:

 

 

Those are damn pretty copies, pal! 

[Pat Calhoun]

[Randall Dowling]

On 1/29/2024 at 1:56 PM, Pat Calhoun said:

I lika the pyramid!!

[Surfing Alien]

On 1/29/2024 at 8:48 PM, Randall Dowling said:

I lika the pyramid!!

So many excellent titles

[OtherEric]

For reasons unclear to me, Creep, Shadow, Creep is vastly harder to track down than the other Merritt Murder Mystery Monthlies.  Very happy to fill this hole, and it's a pretty copy as MMM's go:

[themagicrobot]

Originally published 30 years ago and I am only getting round to reading it now. I'll give it 4 stars. It would have had 5 stars if only there had been more colour inside. Black and white doesn't do the images justice.

 

[Surfing Alien]

[Surfing Alien]

Since I consider this the main paperback thread, I always try to announce news here first. Some of you know that I am a bit of a Peanuts fanatic and that I've been working quietly behind the scenes to research and publish a guide to the First Edition, First Printings of the early Peanuts digest sized strip reprint books published by Rinehart & Co. and subsequently by Holt, Rinehart and Winston from 1952 through 1974.

For reference, they look like these:

You can work on something forever, tweak endlessly and always wonder if its done and never publish it   Any of you involved with any research probably knows that circle jerk intimately    Well, I promised myself that I would get it online this January and here it is, January 31st and work has been busy and I ran that sale thread and February 1st is looming and it promised to be the day I blew that self-imposed deadline.

So I worked deep into the night a couple nights this week to do some final tweaks and figure out techie things like re-directing domain names and such and conferred with Nat Gertler, the blogger behind Aaugh.com, who provided lots of insight and helpful commentary and promised myself, like Aragorn at the Gates of Mordor, that there might come a day when I blow a self-imposed deadline, but this would not be that day! So yesterday, I sent Nat the link, everything worked and he announced the page on his Aaugh Blog and the site is live

Here's the link:

https://www.peanutsfirsteditions.com/

It is still a work in progress, I do intend to add some more pictures and documentation of the later Rinehart books and the hardcover books on the introduction page, but I was not gonna let that stop me from getting the checklist posted, which is the meat and potatoes of the project. If any of you like this kind of stuff and want to collect it, I hope the site proves useful and at least somewhat clear in the method of presentation.

The first printings of the first three books are rare. It was and still is quite startling to me how much confusion there is in the marketplace about what constitutes first printings of the first editions. Even the Schulz Museum, who I consulted on the project, had no scholarship on the early editions of the publishing empire that Peanuts became. I hope this site provides some navigation for collectors to find their way a bit in the sea of printings spawned from humble beginnings back in 1952

 

[Randall Dowling]

On 1/31/2024 at 4:05 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Since I consider this the main paperback thread, I always try to announce news here first. Some of you know that I am a bit of a Peanuts fanatic and that I've been working quietly behind the scenes to research and publish a guide to the First Edition, First Printings of the early Peanuts digest sized strip reprint books published by Rinehart & Co. and subsequently by Holt, Rinehart and Winston from 1952 through 1974.

For reference, they look like these:

You can work on something forever, tweak endlessly and always wonder if its done and never publish it   Any of you involved with any research probably knows that circle jerk intimately    Well, I promised myself that I would get it online this January and here it is, January 31st and work has been busy and I ran that sale thread and February 1st is looming and it promised to be the day I blew that self-imposed deadline.

So I worked deep into the night a couple nights this week to do some final tweaks and figure out techie things like re-directing domain names and such and conferred with Nat Gertler, the blogger behind Aaugh.com, who provided lots of insight and helpful commentary and promised myself, like Aragorn at the Gates of Mordor, that there might come a day when I blow a self-imposed deadline, but this would not be that day! So yesterday, I sent Nat the link, everything worked and he announced the page on his Aaugh Blog and the site is live

Here's the link:

https://www.peanutsfirsteditions.com/

It is still a work in progress, I do intend to add some more pictures and documentation of the later Rinehart books and the hardcover books on the introduction page, but I was not gonna let that stop me from getting the checklist posted, which is the meat and potatoes of the project. If any of you like this kind of stuff and want to collect it, I hope the site proves useful and at least somewhat clear in the method of presentation.

The first printings of the first three books are rare. It was and still is quite startling to me how much confusion there is in the marketplace about what constitutes first printings of the first editions. Even the Schulz Museum, who I consulted on the project, had no scholarship on the early editions of the publishing empire that Peanuts became. I hope this site provides some navigation for collectors to find their way a bit in the sea of printings spawned from humble beginnings back in 1952

 

Looks great, pal!  Very nice work putting this all together.  I know you've been getting it sorted for awhile now. 

[Randall Dowling]

On 1/31/2024 at 4:05 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Since I consider this the main paperback thread, I always try to announce news here first. Some of you know that I am a bit of a Peanuts fanatic and that I've been working quietly behind the scenes to research and publish a guide to the First Edition, First Printings of the early Peanuts digest sized strip reprint books published by Rinehart & Co. and subsequently by Holt, Rinehart and Winston from 1952 through 1974.

For reference, they look like these:

You can work on something forever, tweak endlessly and always wonder if its done and never publish it   Any of you involved with any research probably knows that circle jerk intimately    Well, I promised myself that I would get it online this January and here it is, January 31st and work has been busy and I ran that sale thread and February 1st is looming and it promised to be the day I blew that self-imposed deadline.

So I worked deep into the night a couple nights this week to do some final tweaks and figure out techie things like re-directing domain names and such and conferred with Nat Gertler, the blogger behind Aaugh.com, who provided lots of insight and helpful commentary and promised myself, like Aragorn at the Gates of Mordor, that there might come a day when I blow a self-imposed deadline, but this would not be that day! So yesterday, I sent Nat the link, everything worked and he announced the page on his Aaugh Blog and the site is live

Here's the link:

https://www.peanutsfirsteditions.com/

It is still a work in progress, I do intend to add some more pictures and documentation of the later Rinehart books and the hardcover books on the introduction page, but I was not gonna let that stop me from getting the checklist posted, which is the meat and potatoes of the project. If any of you like this kind of stuff and want to collect it, I hope the site proves useful and at least somewhat clear in the method of presentation.

The first printings of the first three books are rare. It was and still is quite startling to me how much confusion there is in the marketplace about what constitutes first printings of the first editions. Even the Schulz Museum, who I consulted on the project, had no scholarship on the early editions of the publishing empire that Peanuts became. I hope this site provides some navigation for collectors to find their way a bit in the sea of printings spawned from humble beginnings back in 1952

 

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[jimjum12]

On 1/31/2024 at 6:00 PM, Randall Dowling said:

On 1/31/2024 at 5:05 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Since I consider this the main paperback thread, I always try to announce news here first. Some of you know that I am a bit of a Peanuts fanatic and that I've been working quietly behind the scenes to research and publish a guide to the First Edition, First Printings of the early Peanuts digest sized strip reprint books published by Rinehart & Co. and subsequently by Holt, Rinehart and Winston from 1952 through 1974.

For reference, they look like these:

You can work on something forever, tweak endlessly and always wonder if its done and never publish it   Any of you involved with any research probably knows that circle jerk intimately    Well, I promised myself that I would get it online this January and here it is, January 31st and work has been busy and I ran that sale thread and February 1st is looming and it promised to be the day I blew that self-imposed deadline.

So I worked deep into the night a couple nights this week to do some final tweaks and figure out techie things like re-directing domain names and such and conferred with Nat Gertler, the blogger behind Aaugh.com, who provided lots of insight and helpful commentary and promised myself, like Aragorn at the Gates of Mordor, that there might come a day when I blow a self-imposed deadline, but this would not be that day! So yesterday, I sent Nat the link, everything worked and he announced the page on his Aaugh Blog and the site is live

Here's the link:

https://www.peanutsfirsteditions.com/

It is still a work in progress, I do intend to add some more pictures and documentation of the later Rinehart books and the hardcover books on the introduction page, but I was not gonna let that stop me from getting the checklist posted, which is the meat and potatoes of the project. If any of you like this kind of stuff and want to collect it, I hope the site proves useful and at least somewhat clear in the method of presentation.

The first printings of the first three books are rare. It was and still is quite startling to me how much confusion there is in the marketplace about what constitutes first printings of the first editions. Even the Schulz Museum, who I consulted on the project, had no scholarship on the early editions of the publishing empire that Peanuts became. I hope this site provides some navigation for collectors to find their way a bit in the sea of printings spawned from humble beginnings back in 1952

 

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Looks great, pal!  Very nice work putting this all together.  I know you've been getting it sorted for awhile now. 

I was addicted to these as a preteen, I snapped up any that had the "weird looking" Peanuts, which turned out to be the early 50's strips. Peanuts has always been out of reach as OA, but one of my big regrets was passing on a 1951 Pogo Strip original at a local rare book store. They wanted $750 for it. Hamilton Books was the name and one of his specialties was N.C. Wyeth material... which I love. I also turned up a few GA collections there. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)