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

[frozentundraguy]

5 minutes ago, Surfing Alien said:

Haha you caught it before I could delete those extra pics. I hate this forum's phone performance  The lag makes it tough to be precise with, or to delete, pics you've  uploaded but didn't post yet. That said, I don't know of a single soul in the world who would pay that ask but it's a rare and super cool book...

There are 2 recent editions (2011) One had 750 copies, the asking price is $50, the other was limited to 1500 copies, the asking price is $20.  Dreamhaven books has both.

[frozentundraguy]

Speaking of Dreamhaven books, I acquired these two westerns there last weekend, including Ace double D-2.

 

Edited October 29, 2020 by frozentundraguy

[Surfing Alien]

21 minutes ago, frozentundraguy said:

Speaking of Dreamhaven books, I acquired these two westerns there last weekend, including Ace double D-2.

 

Beautiful.. 

I'm sure D-2 is scarcer than 1,13 or 15, just not as collected. I'd make space for it in my carton 😁

[frozentundraguy]

11 minutes ago, Surfing Alien said:

Beautiful.. 

I'm sure D-2 is scarcer than 1,13 or 15, just not as collected. I'd make space for it in my Canyon carton 😁

Fixed that for you.

[frozentundraguy]

2 hours ago, Surfing Alien said:

 

Just going back a little through this thread and realized that i'm not sure who knows that the 1st PB Digest of this story by Vargo Statten is one of the great rarities of the entire hobby...

 

 

 

 

I would not be too surprised if  @Pat Calhoun

[frozentundraguy]

2 hours ago, Surfing Alien said:

 

Just going back a little through this thread and realized that i'm not sure who knows that the 1st PB Digest of this story by Vargo Statten is one of the great rarities of the entire hobby...

 

 

 

 

I would not be too surprised if  @Pat Calhoun

[frozentundraguy]

has a copy.

[Pat Calhoun]

well I don't have a Fearn 'Black Lagoon' yet, but did just pick up this 1954 hardback

[OtherEric]

A couple pickups today.  The Avon lists 12 books both on the inside and the back cover and has globe endpapers, so should be a first based on what we've discussed here.  The Lancer is a bit outside my normal collecting goals, but looked interesting for four bucks:

[damonwad]

1 hour ago, OtherEric said:

A couple pickups today.  The Avon lists 12 books both on the inside and the back cover and has globe endpapers, so should be a first based on what we've discussed here.  The Lancer is a bit outside my normal collecting goals, but looked interesting for four bucks:

 

Nice one.

I'd agree it's a first and any of the first 12 books with Globe ep's, 12 titles inside and 12 on back cover should be firsts unless new info comes out. The only slight question would be that laminated Big Four copy you pointed out earlier but I'd go with your prototype theory on that one.

 

[damonwad]

Some Ace Double's. 

[Pat Calhoun]

'The Mechanical Monarch' is a great science fiction novel. My copy, with the blurb from 'British SF PBs' by Harbottle and Holland, shows both the funkiness and glory of the mushroom jungle. One of my fave books under the wrong title... I like the way Ace worked 'Extra Man' in there, and suspect that Tubb was inspired by the original 1953 appearance of the title yarn of this PKD collection which has some similar themes...

[frozentundraguy]

3 hours ago, damonwad said:

Some Ace Double's. 

Those Ace "D" doubles look to be nearly flawless!

Thanks for sharing the Ace "F" doubles. It looks like I have a few more titles to add to my want list!

[Surfing Alien]

6 hours ago, OtherEric said:

A couple pickups today.  The Avon lists 12 books both on the inside and the back cover and has globe endpapers, so should be a first based on what we've discussed here.  The Lancer is a bit outside my normal collecting goals, but looked interesting for four bucks:

Definite 1st Avon. Well.. this says "5th big printing" right up top, so at least we got that 😅 Nice book!

Edited October 30, 2020 by Surfing Alien

[Surfing Alien]

12 minutes ago, frozentundraguy said:

Thanks for sharing the Ace "F" doubles. It looks like I have a few more titles to add to my want list!

"a few" 😆

[damonwad]

4 hours ago, Pat Calhoun said:

'The Mechanical Monarch' is a great science fiction novel. My copy, with the blurb from 'British SF PBs' by Harbottle and Holland, shows both the funkiness and glory of the mushroom jungle. One of my fave books under the wrong title... I like the way Ace worked 'Extra Man' in there, and suspect that Tubb was inspired by the original 1953 appearance of the title yarn of this PKD collection which has some similar themes...

Nice books and thanks for the interesting info, Pat.  I'll be sure to read this one soon.

[damonwad]

2 hours ago, frozentundraguy said:

Those Ace "D" doubles look to be nearly flawless!

Thanks for sharing the Ace "F" doubles. It looks like I have a few more titles to add to my want list!

Thanks.

My Ace Double D and F want list is pretty simple. I just need all but 12 of them.

[Surfing Alien]

On 10/28/2020 at 11:54 PM, Pat Calhoun said:

well I don't have a Fearn 'Black Lagoon' yet, but did just pick up this 1954 hardback

That's a nice jacket illo. I'd love to re-acquire a copy of the Harlequin pb edition of "The Golden Amazon", alas it's tough to find a copy in any condition let alone like the one I had I'll keep looking though ...

[Surfing Alien]

20 hours ago, Pat Calhoun said:

glory of the mushroom jungle.

Now that i'm back home i'll post some of the glory. I never get tired of looking at these, or showing them. The Ron Turner covers on the Scion books are just glorious futuristic art deco fantasies and the Ray Theobald covers for Curtis Warren range from straight space opera to the hideously bizarre  "Humanoid Puppets"

[OtherEric]

Found this today for a couple bucks.  It's interesting how they tried to present it as one of the official series and got an A-list writer to do it; not something you normally see for a movie tie-in book: