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

[johnenock]

On 3/23/2024 at 7:43 PM, Randall Dowling said:

Nautipuss is an A+ classic paperback cover.  Nice copy, James! 

Added to want list! Great book!

[Randall Dowling]

For anyone interested in a fun site to review covers and a knowledgable discussion on books in general, this site has been a fun follow for a long time.  Warning: large amounts of time can be spent on this site since they've been maintaining this blog for 15 years. 

http://killercoversoftheweek.blogspot.com/

[OtherEric]

On 3/24/2024 at 9:19 AM, Randall Dowling said:

For anyone interested in a fun site to review covers and a knowledgable discussion on books in general, this site has been a fun follow for a long time.  Warning: large amounts of time can be spent on this site since they've been maintaining this blog for 15 years. 

http://killercoversoftheweek.blogspot.com/

And the latest entry, at the very top of the page, is a Nurse novel.  Color me SHOCKED that you would call our attention to this, Randall.

[moonpool]

Here's a good British book blog

https://bearalley.blogspot.com/

[Randall Dowling]

On 3/24/2024 at 11:30 AM, OtherEric said:

And the latest entry, at the very top of the page, is a Nurse novel.  Color me SHOCKED that you would call our attention to this, Randall.

That's a complete coincidence.

[Warlord]

A modest pickup.   Found it on the cheap at an antique shop, so I brought it home.  The Butterfly by James Cain.

[Darwination]

Love it, a slightly more wholesome looking butterfly than the movie tie-in edition

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082122/mediaviewer/rm33266689/?ref_=tt_ov_i

 

Edited March 26 by Darwination

[Hap Hazard]

I knew I had these found them behind some books in one of my bookcases, first publication of Dune World, Analog 12/63 and 1-2/64.

For a short time Analog was printed as a magazine. Here they are:

 

[OtherEric]

On 3/25/2024 at 9:35 PM, Hap Hazard said:

I knew I had these found them behind some books in one of my bookcases, first publication of Dune World, Analog 12/63 and 1-2/64.

For a short time Analog was printed as a magazine. Here they are:

 

Do you have the second part of the story, Prophet of Dune?  That overlapped with the end of the magazine format, so 3 parts are at magazine size and two at digest, if I recall correctly.

I have all 8 issues, but this is the only one I've got scanned.

Edited March 26 by OtherEric

[johnenock]

Need to find those Analogs!

Here's one of my old-time favorites from my youth:

 

Edited March 26 by johnenock

[jimjum12]

On 3/26/2024 at 9:33 AM, johnenock said:

Need to find those Analogs!

Here's one of my old-time favorites from my youth:

 

That immediately brings to mind the "Silver Key" storyline from the Lovecraft mythos. On some days, it's my favorite of all the Lovecrafts, but then, I remember Charles Dexter Ward, or Cthulu, or Dunwich, or Kadath, or ....  GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[jimjum12]

This is a personal favorite, which I imagine is no where near a 1st print, but the cover grabbed me and it was less than a value meal. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[Black Cactus]

A very good mail day today!

[Randall Dowling]

On 3/26/2024 at 5:19 PM, Black Cactus said:

A very good mail day today!

Woah!  That's an impressive haul! 

[Darwination]

Good sir:

Close-ups requested - Different and Professional Favors

[GrasshopperFF]

On 3/26/2024 at 6:19 PM, Black Cactus said:

A very good mail day today!

I can’t stop looking at the fanny on Lesbo Beach! I srsly believe these are smart investments. 

[Darwination]

Working some eBay listings tonight and came across a paperback-related item:

It's a 1951 mob/juvenile delinquency/drug hysteria sort of publication, a one shot mag from Designs Publishing Corporation.  Photos of the Kefauver organized crime hearings, gangland slayings, posed models passed out around drug dens or running from cops, etc.  It's penned entirely by one N.R. De Mexico.

https://archive.org/details/vice-over-america-1951.-designs-publishing-corporation-darwination-mc-coy

https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/2dnn5o5hib3vrgg/Vice_Over_America_%281951.Designs_Publishing_Corporation%29%28Darwination-McCoy%29.cbr/file

 

Anyways, N.R. De Mexico, pseudonym of Greenwich Village writer Robert Campbell Brag, might ring a bell with you pb freaks for these:

You can click that pick to go to mad rocker Mick C*cksidge's Flickr entry, the placard has some neat info on how the paperback was represented in congressional hearings on "low literature."

Or you can read a review of the book here from my man at Pulp International. The date is concurrent with Vice Over America, so it might be the same publisher since a lot of firms were in both rackets.

The later version might be more recognizable to pb collectors?

Bragg also penned these (posting what I think are first printings, there are later printings of the last two as well):

1944 (artist ID?)

1951

1952 (pulpcovers has this ID'd as George Gross, is that right? I see it but don't see it)

More bio at Booktryst (blog of Stephen Gertz who wrote Dope Menace which I'm guessing is an important book in the pb scene):

http://www.booktryst.com/2009/11/will-real-nr-de-mexico-please-stand-up.html

Anyways - back to listing

Edited March 27 by Darwination

[jimjum12]

I was scrolling down a page and found this for a fair ask and didn't even know I wanted it until I saw it. It's got that cool60's prime time look. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[Surfing Alien]

On 3/26/2024 at 1:22 PM, jimjum12 said:

This is a personal favorite, which I imagine is no where near a 1st print, but the cover grabbed me and it was less than a value meal. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

The 1st pb edition in English is the Armed Services Edition (although the original 1895 Heineman edition was released in boards and wraps, I don't consider that a mass market type paperback) in 1945. 

 

Penguin released a paperback edition in 1946 but it is the usual boring Penguin all-type cover (that I have never collected, although there are plenty of enthusiasts, I was never one, I MUST have a pictorial cover, even if it's a picture of the hardcover ) 

The Pan 1953 edition was the first commercially available mass market pb edition with a pictorial cover. I only have the 1954 second print of that one

 

[Surfing Alien]

On 3/26/2024 at 9:06 PM, Darwination said:

Working some eBay listings tonight and came across a paperback-related item:

It's a 1951 mob/juvenile delinquency/drug hysteria sort of publication, a one shot mag from Designs Publishing Corporation.  Photos of the Kefauver organized crime hearings, gangland slayings, posed model passed out around drug dens, etc.  It's penned entirely by one N.R. De Mexico.

https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/2dnn5o5hib3vrgg/Vice_Over_America_%281951.Designs_Publishing_Corporation%29%28Darwination-McCoy%29.cbr/file

(IA link will go here when I get it up in a few)

Anyways, N.R. De Mexico, pseudonym of Greenwich Village writer Robert Campbell Brag, might ring a bell with you pb freaks for these:

You can click that pick to go to mad rocker Mick C*cksidge's Flickr entry, the placard has some neat info on how the paperback was represented in congressional hearings on "low literature."

Or you can read a review of the book here from my man at Pulp International. The date is concurrent with Vice Over America, so it might be the same publisher since a lot of firms were in both rackets.

The later version might be more recognizable to pb collectors?

Bragg also penned (posting first printings, there are later printings of the last two as well:

1944 (artist ID?)

1951

1952 (pulpcovers has this ID'd as George Gross, is that right? I see it but don't see it)

More bio at Booktryst (blog of Stephen Gertz who wrote Dope Menace which I'm guessing is an important book in the pb scene):

http://www.booktryst.com/2009/11/will-real-nr-de-mexico-please-stand-up.html

Anyways - back to listing

 

That's a cool piece. I believe the congressional hearing transcripts are on Google books or somewhere, I remember reading the transcripts when I was researching Raymond Johnson and it was pretty funny reading the interplay between the publishers, who were like nothing to see here, move along.... and the hard liners who were positive that every kid who read "The Amboy Dukes" was going to drop out of school, smoke reefers and murder somebody