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

[jimjum12]

It seems that Maguire has his following. I like the style and he was prolific for sure. This one was a little pricey, but It's kind of cool. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[Surfing Alien]

On 3/4/2024 at 6:43 PM, jimjum12 said:

It seems that Maguire has his following. I like the style and he was prolific for sure. This one was a little pricey, but It's kind of cool. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

Yeah, he did quite a few of what I call these "full-length good girls"   Pretty things they are

[Surfing Alien]

Based on a few of Pat's recent posts I took down these two beauties...

 

Tony Varady cover on this one.

It's just worn enough that I'll carefully read this copy as I just finished another book and need my next fix.

 

This one fills one of the few holes in my early Pyramid run. It is mint like the day it was printed 

Cover artist unknown but it's a beauty.

[GACollectibles]

On 3/2/2024 at 7:44 PM, juniperpt said:

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

Why, classic cover of course!

[Randall Dowling]

On 3/4/2024 at 5:43 PM, jimjum12 said:

It seems that Maguire has his following. I like the style and he was prolific for sure. This one was a little pricey, but It's kind of cool. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

That's a great book, James.  Nice grab!  I love Maguire's work.  It's almost all paperback covers that he did (very little, else- off the top of my head, I can only think of a few digests and that's it).  But he did a lot of work in his career.  I think SA had a number, somewhere in the 800 range of different paperback covers.  At one point, I was seriously thinking I might acquire all of them but after all these years, I keep finding new titles I didn't know about.  800 is a shockingly large number of books.  I think I only have a couple hundred, at best.  Maybe not even that.

Stag Stripper is a great title.  It has a lot going for it- Maguire cover, earlyish Midwood title, and as SA said, a great full female figure rendering. 

This is a great site for exploring cover art for this kind of thing.  Be warned, though.  A person can lose a lot of time looking through this site.  Maguire is only the beginning...

https://pulpcovers.com/?s=Maguire

Edit:

I just went through a few of the first pages and they have some new things since I last went through their Maguire posts.  Including a few magazine covers and pulps.  My error.

Edited March 5 by Randall Dowling
Correction

[alecholland]

On 2/11/2024 at 1:39 PM, Pat Calhoun said:

well, that said, if you get hold of one of these that you think is too pretty to read make sure you get a reader copy too because the upper right BC blurb is severe understatement. this is not just a book, but a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hang out with a wise and wonderful voice that will help you to the end of your days: may you live long and prosper.

I had the day off today and finished it this evening. Definitely a classic in every sense of the word and one that will stick with me. Thanks for the recommendation!! 

[johnenock]

One of my favorite sci-fi books...pretty sure I was the first person to ever open the covers on this one:

 

And just a weird cover. Book appears unread but I might have to read it!

Edited March 5 by johnenock

[Surfing Alien]

On 3/4/2024 at 7:01 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Tony Varady cover on this one.

It's just worn enough that I'll carefully read this copy as I just finished another book and need my next fix.

I finished this in a sitting and a half last night and this morning. A pretty beautiful work. Terse is the word, rather than short. A real quick grimoire on human nature. I've seen the awesome movie a couple of times but the book is even bleaker in a good way. 

[johnenock]

Scanning books for the comics purge and got these unread books in today:

Since everyone else seems to have one:

Really like Shell Scott:

Too pretty to pass up:

Awesome cover:

Don't usually go for the sleaze books unless they are thinly veiled with a detective yarn but...

Edited March 6 by johnenock

[Darwination]

Love those bottom two.  (even shot an offer out for a reader/display copy of the Flora)

[jimjum12]

On 3/6/2024 at 6:24 PM, johnenock said:

Don't usually go for the sleaze books unless they are thinly veiled with a detective yarn but...

Some refer to them as "Social Relevance" topics, an easy way to dodge the occasional stigma  GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[Surfing Alien]

On 3/6/2024 at 6:24 PM, johnenock said:

Scanning books for the comics purge and got these unread books in today:

Since everyone else seems to have one:

Really like Shell Scott:

Too pretty to pass up:

Awesome cover:

Don't usually go for the sleaze books unless they are thinly veiled with a detective yarn but...

Beautiful books  I don't think most vintage pb collectors really consider Monarchs as sleaze. Definitely not Popular Library, which was a very  mainstream publisher. They did have a lot of sexy covers though.

 

This is sleaze 🙂

Bill Ward cover art 

 

[jimjum12]

This one comes from that rare genre, loosely referred to as "Bio-Horror Smut", and it's a doozy. What a cult classic film THIS would make, if someone would only ... GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[jimjum12]

This is the popular Smut sub-genre known as "Back seat boogie", or "Riding with boys in cars.". GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

 

... If it has a Bonfils cover, it might be smut.

[Surfing Alien]

On 3/6/2024 at 7:53 PM, jimjum12 said:

Some refer to them as "Social Relevance" topics, an easy way to dodge the occasional stigma  GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

Love Johnson's sense of humor on that one. 

On this one, not so much humorous but his cartooning background comes out a bit, like on "Suburbia"

[GrasshopperFF]

On 3/6/2024 at 8:39 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Love Johnson's sense of humor on that one. 

On this one, not so much humorous but his cartooning background comes out a bit, like on "Suburbia"

That bare fanny in the background sure was easy to pick up on. Watched a good deal of the long YouTube you compiled — nice work!

[OtherEric]

On 3/6/2024 at 5:04 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Beautiful books  I don't think most vintage pb collectors really consider Monarchs as sleaze.

Monarch books are essentially the book division of Charlton.  To this day, I don't think I've ever had one simple fact explain so much in so few words.

[Darwination]

On 3/6/2024 at 7:18 PM, jimjum12 said:

 

 

Man, what color, purple passion

[Surfing Alien]

On 3/6/2024 at 8:51 PM, GrasshopperFF said:

That bare fanny in the background sure was easy to pick up on. Watched a good deal of the long YouTube you compiled — nice work!

Thanks Jeff, you've landed in the right place to see cool vintage pb's talked about  

[Surfing Alien]

On 3/6/2024 at 8:53 PM, OtherEric said:

Monarch books are essentially the book division of Charlton.  To this day, I don't think I've ever had one simple fact explain so much in so few words.

More like a marriage between Popular Library and Charlton, as their execs combined forces to start the line.

However, unlike Charlton, they hired some of the best Golden Age PB artists, Maguire, DeSoto, Johnson, Marchetti etc. to paint big Good Girl covers.

They also hired quite a few good writers like Gil Brewer, William Ard, Robert Silverberg, Marion Zimmer Bradley to write original material.