Comics, Pulps, and Paperbacks: Why such a discrepancy in values? 26 26

[Black Cactus]

Wow. Seeing what the Connor Brothers did to Maguire's legacy is beyond rage inducing. Take it from someone who works in the arts. Maddox is an absolute garbage gallery with no real respect or influence in the art world. It's just some super rich individual_without_enough_empathy who flips expensive art.

[Darwination]

Not my usual area, but I couldn't pass up some 2 dollar brown paper pbs today at Burke's Books in Memphis

And off topic, but my get of the day (and props to the Mrs. for bearing with during a visit to Burke's as well as Shangri La Records during a day off field trip).  Signed HC copy:

Gordon's It Came from Memphis is tremendous.

[johnenock]

First 2 are true unread and unblemished copies(I might have been the first to open them). I am not sure what the last one is a mix between digest and paperback. A diback?:

[Darwination]

On 5/29/2024 at 2:20 PM, johnenock said:

First 2 are true unread and unblemished copies(I might have been the first to open them). I am not sure what the last one is a mix between digest and paperback. A diback?:

 

I had a nice copy at a nice price in my eBay watching that I was too slow on pulling the trigger on last week.  Wonder who got it

Edited May 29 by Darwination

[OtherEric]

On 5/29/2024 at 12:20 PM, johnenock said:

First 2 are true unread and unblemished copies(I might have been the first to open them). I am not sure what the last one is a mix between digest and paperback. A diback?:

It’s a Dell 10c, they’re generally classed as paperbacks.  A popular little series that’s hard to find in decent shape 

[Darwination]

I saw a full set on eBay yesterday (at what I assumed was a high full set premium).

[jimjum12]

Here's a recent PB, coveted thanks to direct exposure on this Forum. It would probably be fairly cool if not for the ho-hum Maguire cover.  GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[Darwination]

Sometimes I like to show some of the books and magazines I buy to my wife.  Sometimes because they are good.  Other times to get an opinion.  Maybe just to get a rise out of her.

I think I'll skip facing the eyeroll on this one I think it's kind of romantic...

Depravity - Francis Carco (1957.Berkley Books G-81) cover

A *bit* different quality of yellow than the auction photo All good, though, cheap, and I knew there was creasing and the like. A soiled mattress, a soiled copy, heh heh

Artist unknown.  A translation (first translation?) of Francis Carco's 1917 Les Innocents.  Carco had an affair with the writer Katherine Mansfield (friends with D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolfe) shortly before he wrote the book.  Carco is still liked by the French, and Ford Madox Ford calls this novel "a second Madame Bovary." We'll see about that (I actually love that book and as soon as I post this will probably go look for sleazy paperback editions).

[Darwination]

On 5/29/2024 at 6:31 PM, jimjum12 said:

Here's a recent PB, coveted thanks to direct exposure on this Forum. It would probably be fairly cool if not for the ho-hum Maguire cover.  GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

I bid on that.

[jimjum12]

On 5/29/2024 at 7:47 PM, Darwination said:

I bid on that.

I didn't expect to win, actually. And here I thought I was catching a break from beans and spam next week. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[Darwination]

I was gonna tease about being the underbidder, but I believe I was 3rd.

Tonight in my household we are having GOURMET black beans, Rancho Gordo "Midnight Black"

[Darwination]

PSA

auction image (so I knew this was at least a little jacked)           raw scan (which isn't exactly kind to the yellows, but still):

[jimjum12]

On 5/29/2024 at 8:05 PM, Darwination said:

I was gonna tease about being the underbidder, but I believe I was 3rd.

Tonight in my household we are having GOURMET black beans, Rancho Gordo "Midnight Black"

"Beans, the other white meat"

... the choice of collectors everywhere. GOD BLESS ... 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[Darwination]

The Out is Death - Peter Rabe (1957.Gold Medal Book 667) cover Mitchell Hooks PBO

Such a skinny pb, and I love that about the skinny ones, inviting to sit down and read and just as inviting to keep on to the end.

[Darwination]

Death Is No Lady - M.E. Corne (1945.Black Knight Mysteries 26) cover

Defo not the best copy color-wise, but I noticed this cover in one of SA's sales and picked up a cheap copy.  I can't find anything on the author (outside of another 1943 mystery paperback).

An interesting run with no real powerhouse authors but with some interesting cover designs.

Warren has #15 through #34 running 1946-1948, and the late ones seem pretty scarce according to Worthpoint. 

Publisher listed Ideal Publishing Company in NY, 480 Lexington which was Grand Central Palace and housed National (D.C.) on the 9th floor and many below. Hard to get a feel for what comics and magazine publishers were responsible for some of these lines, but I'll figure it out sooner or later.

Examples of some other covers in the first part of the series:

 

 

Edited May 30 by Darwination

[Darwination]

Backtracking to Barye since I came across a neat one of his Master Detectives this morning and noticed a continuity

@Surfing Alien happen to have a nice high grade copy of the Master Detective?

 

[waaaghboss]

Just picked these up. 

[OtherEric]

On 5/30/2024 at 3:56 PM, waaaghboss said:

Just picked these up. 

I think I've asked this before:  How can the Grand Eunuch have a son?

[Surfing Alien]

On 5/30/2024 at 7:11 PM, OtherEric said:

I think I've asked this before:  How can the Grand Eunuch have a son?

Everything the gubmint tells you is a lie 

[Darwination]

On 5/30/2024 at 5:56 PM, waaaghboss said:

Just picked these up. 

The Rudy Nappi OA for Illicit Pleasure just sold this April in the big HA illustration art auction ($2500):

I asked my wife if she thought it would work in the foyer, but no