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

[Darwination]

On 3/9/2024 at 6:17 AM, jimjum12 said:

When I was attending the Kubert School when I was younger, I saw the Dead Kennedy's and The Damned at a local venue. My first experience with a mosh pit. A mosh pit would finish me off now. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

I'm afraid we're likely to derail our thread topic here but why not

The Damned have been an absolute revelation to me as of late.  Album after album of varied and amazing material - I've been listening for weeks and weeks over and over to a number of their albums.

On 3/9/2024 at 8:06 AM, Surfing Alien said:

Cool, did you ever get to doing illustration?

In the 80's I was pretty well entrenched in the New York City Death Metal/Hardcore punk scene. Played at CBGB's & L'Amours and quite a few other legendary local spots. I was in mosh pits that would disintegrate me now

Was listening to the Cro-Mags just this week!  I'll be honest and say a lot of the NYHC and hardcore in general doesn't appeal to me anymore (even if I was all in as a teen), but the the metal side still does.  I grew up in Lawrence, KS, and attended likely hundreds of shows starting in junior high at The Outhouse, a legendary venue in a cornfield outside of town.  Shows were all ages, averaged 5 bucks or less (on a local bill at least), no straight adults (or cops) in sight. Saw 'famous' acts there like Bad Brains, Rollins, Descendents, Fugazi, Tool, Green Day and lots of other bands of equal quality that never quite achieved fame.  Nirvana did play there for Bleach, but I didn't go to that one (and didn't like them til later, a pal played Bleach so much I wanted break it).  I suppose everybody has a particular fondness for their teen era, but boy am I happy I came up in the day of the all ages show.  Outside of a brawl or few, we took pretty good care of each other no matter how wild things got.  Never did play The Outhouse but was inspired to pick up a guitar and join a band in the early years (played venues a bit in Lawrence/KC then more later on in Athens, GA though I'd moved on to jazz by then.)  I still make music, but mostly in my own den. I like to share this one from a while back when I was messing with computers, as it relates to scannerly activities.

 

Bass is the new thing for me. You'd think it wouldn't be so different from the guitar (my main instrument, piano being the second), but it is. My axes! (those girlie weights must belong to someone else)

Somehow I have the feeling that my two guitars pale in comparison to the number of guitars that someone like Lowell might acquire

On 3/9/2024 at 6:30 AM, jimjum12 said:

This one seems to have a little bit of icon status, by a young Harlan Ellison, in his formative JD period. GOD BLESS ... 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

 

... not my copy.

Oh, my, I want this.  There's a bunch of Harlan books I'd like.  It's funny how Ellison has ties to the paperback scene with all the rockabilly/punkers showing high interest.  I sold Miriam Linna a prized juvenile delinquent pocket magazine once for a pittance just because she was so endearing in her request (even though I didn't realize who she was at the time).  I later found another copy

https://archive.org/details/teen-age-gangsters-1957.-hillman-darwin-ia

Speaking of old rockers, I get a huge kick out Mick ****Sedge over at Flickr sharing tour stuff mixed in with paperback/comics materials on his stream there.  No way would I ever want to go on the road these days, and I'm *much* younger than you dinosaurs.

A long self-indulgent post, I apologize.  Can't think of any music pbs I have but lord help me if we get into my music mags. OK, I'll share just one blog post from last year

https://darwinscans.blogspot.com/2023/03/rip-v01n01-december-1986.html

On the subject of punk rock mags (which have been a buy/scan target as of late, ridiculously expensive for modern magazines, we must be hitting that age of peak nostalgia) this site has some great shares including a full run of Slash, an L.A. magazine I've been digging around in:

https://www.circulationzero.com/

 

Edited March 9 by Darwination

[alecholland]

Been on a book buying tear the last couple months. I think I've added about 50 new books.

Didn't take October Country out of the bag because it's pretty snug in there. I don't have any of the larger sleeves, so waiting until I get some to move that one into a new sleeve.

 

[Randall Dowling]

On 3/9/2024 at 9:55 AM, alecholland said:

Been on a book buying tear the last couple months. I think I've added about 50 new books.

Didn't take October Country out of the bag because it's pretty snug in there. I don't have any of the larger sleeves, so waiting until I get some to move that one into a new sleeve.

 

Nice books!  The Incomplete Enchanter is new to me so on the list it goes.  Thanks for sharing!

[Darwination]

That was the one that caught my eye, too, great colors.  I didn't look closely, though, and thought Frazetta, and it's Jeff Jones.

How about the HC cover, though

[OtherEric]

On 3/9/2024 at 6:19 AM, jimjum12 said:

I worked on a few B&W Indy published books. I did some penciling, co-writing, inking and lettering. I could do very good work without a deadline, but with one, I finally had to admit I was just painfully mediocre. I didn't want to be a hack, so I moved on to printing, ad work, and sign painting. Money wasn't that good there either and I then found my way to forklifts and manufacturing, Didn't look back, except, of course, when I don't want to back over someone. My stroke put me out of work a little earlier than I wanted. GOD BLESS ... 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

If you don't mind us asking, how is the recovery going, Jimbo?

[jimjum12]

On 3/9/2024 at 12:31 PM, OtherEric said:

If you don't mind us asking, how is the recovery going, Jimbo?

I went from being unable to stand, have a bowel movement, dress myself, or hardly feel my left side to being able to do some cooking and limited packaging. I was unable to walk and then moved to a walker for a couple of months, then a cane for a couple months, now I can limp and shuffle around like a zombie ... very jerky and off balance, but at least not bed ridden. I drop things from my left hand, can't pick up change or small things with it. I don't think I'll ever be back to work full time. Maybe part time. I was forced to apply early for SS to survive ... like they say, it's no country for old men. I still have some inventory I need to sell off, but no one's buying much. Probably going to consign it somewhere. I'm still kicking though. I definitely won't be doing the bi-weekly sales threads anymore, it just takes too long to do large scale shipping. I have taxes coming up and may try to do one small thread, depending on what I owe. Having the stroke in December caused me to miss most of one of the better months in the year. The boards have helped keep me from spiraling into the abyss of madness and boredom.  GOD BLESS ... 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[Randall Dowling]

On 3/9/2024 at 12:18 PM, jimjum12 said:

I went from being unable to stand, have a bowel movement, dress myself, or hardly feel my left side to being able to do some cooking and limited packaging. I was unable to walk and then moved to a walker for a couple of months, then a cane for a couple months, now I can limp and shuffle around like a zombie ... very jerky and off balance, but at least not bed ridden. I drop things from my left hand, can't pick up change or small things with it. I don't think I'll ever be back to work full time. Maybe part time. I was forced to apply early for SS to survive ... like they say, it's no country for old men. I still have some inventory I need to sell off, but no one's buying much. Probably going to consign it somewhere. I'm still kicking though. I definitely won't be doing the bi-weekly sales threads anymore, it just takes too long to do large scale shipping. I have taxes coming up and may try to do one small thread, depending on what I owe. Having the stroke in December caused me to miss most of one of the better months in the year. The boards have helped keep me from spiraling into the abyss of madness and boredom.  GOD BLESS ... 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

Can't keep a good man down, James!  Nice work on the recovery.  I know it's frustrating and really challenging but keep up the fight.  I know I'm not the only one that appreciates you here. 

[OtherEric]

On 3/9/2024 at 10:18 AM, jimjum12 said:

I went from being unable to stand, have a bowel movement, dress myself, or hardly feel my left side to being able to do some cooking and limited packaging. I was unable to walk and then moved to a walker for a couple of months, then a cane for a couple months, now I can limp and shuffle around like a zombie ... very jerky and off balance, but at least not bed ridden. I drop things from my left hand, can't pick up change or small things with it. I don't think I'll ever be back to work full time. Maybe part time. I was forced to apply early for SS to survive ... like they say, it's no country for old men. I still have some inventory I need to sell off, but no one's buying much. Probably going to consign it somewhere. I'm still kicking though. I definitely won't be doing the bi-weekly sales threads anymore, it just takes too long to do large scale shipping. I have taxes coming up and may try to do one small thread, depending on what I owe. Having the stroke in December caused me to miss most of one of the better months in the year. The boards have helped keep me from spiraling into the abyss of madness and boredom.  GOD BLESS ... 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

It sounds like you're doing well in relative terms, compared to many other people I've known who had strokes.  But that's not meant to diminish the lousy bits.  Good luck, we're all still rooting for you, and thank you for the update.

[jimjum12]

On 3/9/2024 at 1:26 PM, Randall Dowling said:

Can't keep a good man down, James!  Nice work on the recovery.  I know it's frustrating and really challenging but keep up the fight.  I know I'm not the only one that appreciates you here. 

I was dropping Judy off at the Y a while back and noticed an older guy staggering towards the entrance and I could tell immediately, just by watching, that he had had a stroke. Takes one to know one. I was still barely making it on a walker and honestly didn't think I'd ever get to the mobility that old guy had. What seemed to work best was deep knee bends, and tons of them. Every time I got up, I did 30 of them. Actually, they were combination deep knee bends and trunk rotations, done at the same time. Next thing I knew, I was doing the Karloff shuffle, without a cane, and people were looking at me funny. GOD BLESS.. 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

Edited March 9 by jimjum12

[OtherEric]

So, I got a box of books in from @PopKulture's recent sale.  Those are going to be popping up all over the forums for the next hour, since I discovered that PopKulture's idea of packing material is to throw in more books.

The Woolrich is a stated 2nd Pocket edition.

[OtherEric]

And some Avons.  The 269 was, incredibly, thrown in as a bonus.

[OtherEric]

As was this, after PopKulture asked if it was one of the ones I still needed.  Which is was, I'm at 45 of 49 on the MMM's now.  Thank you again!

(The catch being, three of the four I need are probably in the top 5 hardest issues to get...)

[Darwination]

The thrill of the hunt

Anybody know what the print run was on the early Avons?  Any resources out there as far as that sort of info goes for pbs?

[OtherEric]

On 3/9/2024 at 1:00 PM, Darwination said:

The thrill of the hunt

Anybody know what the print run was on the early Avons?  Any resources out there as far as that sort of info goes for pbs?

I have no hard info.  I can say that, at least on the Murder Mystery Monthlies, the earlier volumes are generally easier, with the last three being famously hard to find.  It seems to me that issues 7-11 are a bit harder than the surrounding issues, as well, but that could be wartime paper rationing, or just that there are several popular titles in that range.

[GrasshopperFF]

On 3/8/2024 at 6:32 PM, OtherEric said:

 

I’ve been humming this tune ever since I listened to this yesterday. I can’t get it out of my head!

[OtherEric]

On 3/9/2024 at 2:03 PM, GrasshopperFF said:

I’ve been humming this tune ever since I listened to this yesterday. I can’t get it out of my head!

Good news!  I have a cure for earworms like that, and purely coincidentally it involves a Beatles song as well.

Any time you get a song lodged in your head like that, start singing "Strawberry Fields Forever" to yourself.  This will instantly overwrite any other song you've got stuck in your ear at the moment.  But it will also disappear within about five minutes, leaving you free of earworms until you catch your next one.

A friend taught me that trick about 15 years ago now.  I thought it was a joke at first, but it really does work.

 

[Pat Calhoun]

that Avon Aphrodite is lush; the Berkley edition is also a sweetie...

[moonpool]

On 3/9/2024 at 10:55 AM, alecholland said:

Been on a book buying tear the last couple months. I think I've added about 50 new books.

Didn't take October Country out of the bag because it's pretty snug in there. I don't have any of the larger sleeves, so waiting until I get some to move that one into a new sleeve.

 

Fantastic lot

[Surfing Alien]

On 3/9/2024 at 4:00 PM, Darwination said:

The thrill of the hunt

Anybody know what the print run was on the early Avons?  Any resources out there as far as that sort of info goes for pbs?

Anywhere from 50-200k by the late 1940's. Most second and later printings of "Round Circle Avons" had printing information inside. Incredibly, "Neon Wilderness" by Algren, with the famous Ray Johnson prostitute in red dress cover, sold a million copies in its various printings, but it's very hard to find today.

[jimjum12]

Want some whiskey in your water?
Sugar in your tea?
What's all these crazy questions you're askin' me?
This is the craziest party that could ever be
Don't turn on the lights 'cause I don't wanna see

Mama told me not to come
Mama told me not to come
"That ain't the way to have fun, no" (uh-uh!)

Open up your window, let some air into this room
I think I'm almost chokin' from the smell of stale perfume
And that cigarette you're smokin' 'bout scare me half to death
Open up the window, sucker, let me catch my breath

Mama told me not to come
Mama told me not to come
"That ain't the way to have fun, son"
"That ain't the way to have fun, son" she said

The radio is blastin', someone's knockin' at the door
I'm lookin' at my girlfriend, she's passed out on the floor
I seen so many things I ain't never seen before
I don't know what it is, I don't wanna see no more

Mama told me not to come
Mama told me not to come
She said, "That ain't the way to have fun, son"
"That ain't the way to have fun, no"

Mama told me, mama told me
Mama told me, told me, told me
Mama told me, told me, ooh, yeah, yeah
Mama told me not to go
Mama told me, mama told me
Ain't that the truth

"That ain't the way to have fun, no"
"That ain't the way to have fun, son"
"That ain't the way to have fun, no"
"That ain't the way to have fun, son"

"That ain't the way to have fun, no"
"That ain't the way to have fun, son"
"That ain't the way to have fun, no"
"That ain't the way to have fun, son"

 

GOD BLESS ... 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)