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

[OtherEric]

15 minutes ago, Surfing Alien said:

That is beyond awesome that you scored that in one shot 🤘🤘🤘

A well spent $17, I think, even if they're not high grade.

[Surfing Alien]

Unboxing this lot of vintage digests was the most fun I've had in while lol, so I took some shots so ya'll can get in on the fun

 

I'm surprised I won it but it ended at a weird time so that may have contributed to my luck. Not high grade but there are some tough books, 32 in all and 15 Croydons , which I'll take anytime.  Quite a few are decent, in the mid VG range, and at about $5 a pop it was a great deal

 

 

Street of the Blues is tough to find and there were these 2 Whittingtons as well. Lots of Hillbilly love over all in this box

 

 

Love Cult is very tough to find and famous for mistakenly being attributed to Whittington in the 1965 reprint.  Scandalous Nurse is tough and pretty nice. Shameful Love is the "Gem Books" edition of the Croydon Book with the same number.

 

 

Some more pretty decent Croydons. She Lived In Sin is a Lou Marchetti cover.

 

 

Some more sleazy Croydon fun...

 

 

"Farm Hussy" and a couple of nice Venus books.

 

 

Even the scarce Ecstasy Novel and Falcon Books were in here, and a beat up copy of a Ray Johnson cover Carnival!  This box had a little of everything I'm looking for in digests

 

A great way to start the weekend!

 

[frozentundraguy]

On 2/11/2021 at 4:13 PM, OtherEric said:

So, having created the list of stuff to look for, here’s today’s haul from the local store:

@OtherEric

 

Your post motivated me to check on the Schomburg covers I have.

 

I'm sure I have this, but could not locate it for the group shot.

 

I even have a duplicate. My one copy of Time Axis had disappeared for a while, hence the extra copy.

[OtherEric]

Today’s book:

[OtherEric]

And the group shot.  All but The Big Sleep and The Little Sister are stated Pocket firsts.  I definitely want to track down an earlier Big Sleep, but it’s hard to find any paperback earlier than the early 70’s copy I’ve got here:

On the other hand, I actually like the cover of the 4th printing The Little Sister that I have quite a bit better than the one from the first Pocket edition, so I probably won't be switching out on that one.

Edited February 18, 2021 by OtherEric

[Surfing Alien]

21 hours ago, OtherEric said:

earlier Big Sleep

Nice pickup, I need to get that "Long Goodbye" edition. I had a razor sharp copy back when.

I'm blessed with the 1st edition Avon and the classic skull cover 2nd of The Big Sleep, although it's a later print with HRN58. There is a 1950's Pocket edition that can more likely be found cheap although its cover isn't as cool as that Ballantine one you got there.

 

I like that Little Sister cover, Pocket had several cool covers. The 1st has the hypodermic needle ice pick (fixed that!) in the neck by William Shoyer, which is actually pretty classic, and the 2750 edition has a different, Charles Binger, blonde-with-a-gun cover (not my copies)

Edited February 19, 2021 by Surfing Alien
Fixed that

[frozentundraguy]

I have a few vintage PB's on order. In the meantime these four Armchair books which I ordered on January 25th finally arrived a couple of days ago. In some cases the original artwork is reused for covers on these books.

[frozentundraguy]

Now for the sides with barcode. 

[frozentundraguy]

Finally another vintage PB arrived today, my first Cherry Tree book. This 1951 edition still has some gloss left, a rarity for UK books in my collection.

P.S. my scanner no longer has the option to trim excess gray space around the book, it is hit and miss if parts of the book are not included, making it look like a trimmed book.

 

[moonpool]

1 hour ago, frozentundraguy said:

Finally another vintage PB arrived today, my first Cherry Tree book. This 1951 edition still has some gloss left, a rarity for UK books in my collection.

P.S. my scanner no longer has the option to trim excess gray space around the book, it is hit and miss if parts of the book are not included, making it look like a trimmed book.

 

Such an fantastic, interesting cover. 

[Hap Hazard]

On 2/8/2021 at 5:34 PM, OtherEric said:

Love the Steranko Shadow covers.  If I ever get my storage unit sorted I'll scan and post all my Shadow Paperbacks... I've got all 9 of the Belmont originals, the 7 Bantam reprints, and the 27 Pyramid/Jove books with Steranko covers, including the 4 with the variant art reprints.  And the Tempo Grove of Doom.

It's a fun set of mini-runs to put together.  Trying to find the Variant Steranko books is tricky because so many sellers just say Steranko cover and don't show a picture.

My boxed set with Steranko signature.

[frozentundraguy]

12 hours ago, Hap Hazard said:

My boxed set with Steranko signature.

How many books are in the boxed set?

[Surfing Alien]

On 2/19/2021 at 9:41 PM, frozentundraguy said:

Armchair books

I have to say, when these first started showing up on ebay I was faked out until I looked closely at them. Really a nice effort there. On the ones that weren't originally doubles like the Fritz Leiber, it's a nice touch that they used that pulp cover.

[Surfing Alien]

14 hours ago, moonpool said:

Such an fantastic, interesting cover. 

I second that emotion. The Cherry Tree books are very cool.

[Surfing Alien]

Here's a couple of unread Pyramids that came in recently. "Blind Alley" cover is by Frank Cozzarelli, who did a bunch for Pyramid, "For I have Sinned" is uncredited. I have a soft spot for these little books and get them when I can.

Edited February 21, 2021 by Surfing Alien

[frozentundraguy]

6 minutes ago, Surfing Alien said:

Here's a couple of unread Pyramids that came in recently. "Blind Alley" cover is by Frank Cozzarelli, who did a bunch for Pyramid, "For I have Sinned" is uncredited. I have a soft spot for these little books and get them when I can.

 

Blind Alley really has a great cover. I like it when street scenes are used for the cover, not too mention the GGA art.

Edited February 21, 2021 by frozentundraguy

[Hap Hazard]

5 hours ago, frozentundraguy said:

How many books are in the boxed set?

six

[moonpool]

[Surfing Alien]

Picked off this nice copy of Earth's Last Citadel. I think I'm halfway to the full Schomburg vintage PB set.

One of the tougher early Ray Johnson Avon digests. 1949 was the breakout year for Ray at Avon, his art was much more 3 dimensional than anyone else painting for them at the time and it must've sold a lot of books because they gave him more and more to do.

 

Finally a 1957 Popular Library Johnson cover on an international best seller (250 printings! although to be fair it was first printed in 1939 ) with some interesting blurb/imagery going on at the back cover  

 

"He wore brief yellow trunks and I could not take my eyes off him" ... what exactly is she staring at lol?

[frozentundraguy]

Another book just came in. I ordered it two weeks ago. Into Plutonian Depths has another of the great covers for early Avon books. No artist is credited. Does anyone know who the cover artist might have been?