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

[Randall Dowling]

On 3/1/2024 at 2:29 PM, mstrange said:

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Lynn Munroe has a nice page dedicated to him and his work for anyone that's interested (Lynn's site may look old but it's got an enormous quantity of information).

http://lynn-munroe-books.com/list61/copeland.htm

[Darwination]

Killer main article there, and I mean to get into the magazine indexes, too, as I'm particularly keen on the mid-50s magazines as an extension of the Timely/Atlas scanning project.

I'd cast an aside, though, and say not to overlook True or Saga (or Cavalier or Cavalcade a rung down) just because the material is a bit staid and hasn't crossed into the Ilsa She Wolf of the SS territories of the later sweats.  Some of the early sweats drew in some bigger names in fiction and journalism (and art for that matter) and are fantastic reading.  For my personal tastes, late 50s is actually the sweet spot.

[Surfing Alien]

On 3/1/2024 at 3:55 PM, Randall Dowling said:

Lynn Munroe has a nice page dedicated to him and his work for anyone that's interested (Lynn's site may look old but it's got an enormous quantity of information).

http://lynn-munroe-books.com/list61/copeland.htm

All of Lynn's checklists and bios are awesome. Well researched to the source wherever he can. Just a wealth and a great asset to the pb community. His Rader and Ziel checklists are primo. I literally shed a few tears reading his Ziel bio the first time through.

[jimjum12]

On 3/1/2024 at 4:29 PM, Darwination said:

Ilsa She Wolf of the SS

I saw that, along with Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Shieks, at the drive in when I was in HS ... can't unsee that stuff. GOD BLESS ... 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[Surfing Alien]

Friday Fun is a few more pretty Ace's I picked up recently.

My favorite might be this minty copy of "Backwater Woman" inscribed by the author. Hillbilly fiction is wild, just read that back cover   I suspect there aren't too many inscribed copies out there. Art looks like Nappi or Barton but not sure

 

One of the toughest things about collecting Ace doubles if you're condition conscious is that both covers have to be real nice, unlike single pbs where you naturally give the back cover some slack cause it doesn't face forward and there's (usually) not art. 

Eric recently posted this Zola. I got a copy in with both sides pretty nice. A sweet looking book

 

Love the Marchetti bondage art on this single. You don't want a copy of this 

 

Marchetti did this killer noir cover as well

Great Whittington yarn on this side makes a great Double 

 

This Bloch double is signed on both sides 

 

There's just something about a square glossy Ace 

[jimjum12]

On 3/1/2024 at 6:08 PM, Surfing Alien said:

I literally shed a few tears reading his Ziel bio the first time through.

[Surfing Alien]

On 3/1/2024 at 7:00 PM, jimjum12 said:

Beauties Jim  I'll take any excuse to post Ziel's covers on the Coffin Ed and Gravedigger Jones Quartet.  Imabelle is by Mitch Hooks

[Randall Dowling]

On 3/1/2024 at 5:59 PM, Surfing Alien said:

This Bloch double is signed on both sides 

 

There's just something about a square glossy Ace 

Woah!  Big book, SA! 

(increasingly, I'm a sucker for signed copies)

Edited March 2 by Randall Dowling
clarification

[Surfing Alien]

On 3/1/2024 at 11:34 PM, Randall Dowling said:

Woah!  Big book, SA! 

(increasingly, I'm a sucker for signed copies)

 

Thanks RD, I've been picking up quite a few lately. I have a lot of the vintage PB's I really want in high grade by now after 7 years back collecting and many of the ones I don't have is because they so rarely come up for sale or I miss them or are outbid when I catch them

Signed copies are kind of the next high after crack doesn't give you a lift anymore

[jimjum12]

On 3/2/2024 at 10:08 AM, Surfing Alien said:

 

Thanks RD, I've been picking up quite a few lately. I have a lot of the vintage PB's I really want in high grade by now after 7 years back collecting and many of the ones I don't have is because they so rarely come up for sale or I miss them or are outbid when I catch them

Signed copies are kind of the next high after crack doesn't give you a lift anymore

I like the signed ones too. I'm lucky to have a few, Sturgeon, Farmer, and Bloch  Sometimes I fantasize about a signed Lovecraft or Howard. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

 

I haven't gotten the nerv up to photo the inside of the Farmer ... the stroke still has my left arm unpredictable. 

I've got a Sturgeon signed More Than Human, but it's so overgraded I don't even like to look at it. 

Edited March 2 by jimjum12

[Randall Dowling]

On 3/2/2024 at 9:50 AM, jimjum12 said:

I like the signed ones too. I'm lucky to have a few, Sturgeon, Farmer, and Bloch  Sometimes I fantasize about a signed Lovecraft or Howard. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

 

I haven't gotten the nerv up to photo the inside of the Farmer ... the stroke still has my left arm unpredictable. 

I've got a Sturgeon signed More Than Human, but it's so overgraded I don't even like to look at it. 

Very Cool!  That Farmer is a real beauty! 

[jimjum12]

On 3/2/2024 at 11:01 AM, Randall Dowling said:

Very Cool!  That Farmer is a real beauty! 

That's why I'm scared of it. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

 

Sometimes I really like a PB cover and don't really know why. This following was so cool that it melted me into the shallow puddle of putrescence that I truly am. I did manage to reconstitute myself after great difficulty.

[jimjum12]

On 3/1/2024 at 3:55 PM, Randall Dowling said:

Lynn Munroe has a nice page dedicated to him and his work for anyone that's interested (Lynn's site may look old but it's got an enormous quantity of information).

http://lynn-munroe-books.com/list61/copeland.htm

Thanks to you I now know that this is also a Copeland  GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[juniperpt]

On 5/26/2023 at 3:50 PM, GACollectibles said:

Couldn't pass this up today, about 400 pieces with many Ace Doubles, Avons, and a box of mostly sci-fi digests with copy of Fate #1

Great find, but how did FDR get in there? 😀

[OtherEric]

On 3/2/2024 at 4:44 PM, juniperpt said:

Great find, but how did FDR get in there? 😀

And is it the Pocket or the Pitman version?

[Surfing Alien]

On 3/2/2024 at 7:56 PM, OtherEric said:

And is it the Pocket or the Pitman version?

You have to be a True Believer to get that

 

[OtherEric]

On 3/2/2024 at 6:10 PM, Surfing Alien said:

You have to be a True Believer to get that

 

Glad we have quite a few of us here, then!

[Surfing Alien]

On 3/2/2024 at 9:18 PM, OtherEric said:

Glad we have quite a few of us here, then!

Only "Run Collectors" know that stuff...

[OtherEric]

On 3/2/2024 at 6:31 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Only "Run Collectors" know that stuff...

As far as I know, that's the one and only "Pitman" book, and it looks identical to the Pocket version.  I'm guessing it was some sort of end run around paper rationing.

[jimjum12]

This is allegedly Robert Maguire's first PB cover. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)