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

[OtherEric]

On 11/10/2021 at 2:41 PM, Surfing Alien said:

It's amazing how many copies of this book have that kind of creasing on the lower right corner (and the ubiquitous spine crease). Look at this copy on the Ace site at UNCW

http://people.uncw.edu/smithms/dD-series/dD-059a.jpg

 

You're surely on a good start with these since you got the most costly one (if not the rarest as you've noted! I think D-7 is tougher to find for sure, although if it regularly sold for $500, more copies might surface)

 

Maybe you already noticed this and that's why you were laughing... I'm about 98% certain the copy at the UNCW site IS my copy!  I picked it up at KAYO books in SF in July, but beyond that I have no idea how it made its way to me...

The UNCW image and a new scan of my copy, showing the edges more clearly:

[Randall Dowling]

Here’s my copy.  It’s pretty fresh.

[Randall Dowling]

On 11/11/2021 at 12:04 AM, OtherEric said:

Maybe you already noticed this and that's why you were laughing... I'm about 98% certain the copy at the UNCW site IS my copy!  I picked it up at KAYO books in SF in July, but beyond that I have no idea how it made its way to me...

The UNCW image and a new scan of my copy, showing the edges more clearly:

These are definitely the same book.  Interesting to see how copies move around.  

[Surfing Alien]

On 11/11/2021 at 2:28 AM, Randall Dowling said:

These are definitely the same book.  Interesting to see how copies move around.  

Agree - definitely the same copy!

[Surfing Alien]

On 11/11/2021 at 2:12 AM, Randall Dowling said:

Here’s my copy.  It’s pretty fresh.

Congrats! That's the nicest copy I've ever seen!

[Surfing Alien]

Some Friday fun...

Ben Kerr is a pseudonym for thriller writer William Ard. Cover by Rafael DeSoto

 

An Edward Aarons' Graphic Original with a cover picture of my wife when I come home with another sack of vintage paperbacks

 

A Lionel White Monarch Original thriller that I never knew existed until I saw it. Cover by Harry Schaare.

 

A minty copy of this F.B. Long classic - uncredited cover.

 

And I sourced a copy of this insane covered title that @Book Guy posted. I've looked around a bit and it's not in any of the old price guides. It's possible that it was only regionally released and not a true mass-market paperback since it was printed in 1942, before the Digest movement began post-WWII and has the Chicago Sun marking on the cover, although it was printed by David McKay in Philadelphia. Regardless, it is a striking propaganda cover and I agree it would be worth a ton if it was on a comic book. I wonder who "Weber" was?

 

 

 

 

[fett]

something a little different-picked this up on a whim when I was finishing my Mopsy run 

[Comics-n-ERB]

[OtherEric]

Today's pickups at the local store.  To answer a question somebody asked earlier, I've decided I'm NOT going to try for a complete run of Ace D-Series books, if for no reason that I have no interest in trying to track down the 40 or so Nurse novels that comprise half of the last 80 books in the run.  (I wouldn't mind one or two as samples, but I don't want or need the overall headache.)  I am gunning for a full set of the SF doubles, at the very least, though.  Anyway, 3 more D-Series and a Dell with a stunning cover:

[Randall Dowling]

On 11/13/2021 at 5:07 PM, OtherEric said:

I have no interest in trying to track down the 40 or so Nurse novels that comprise half of the last 80 books in the run.  

Not a word, @Surfing Alien!  Not.  A.  Word.  

[PopKulture]

On 11/12/2021 at 12:50 PM, Surfing Alien said:

I wonder who "Weber" was?

I bet he was a political cartoonist. The illustration definitely has that "feel." 

[frozentundraguy]

On 11/13/2021 at 5:07 PM, OtherEric said:

Today's pickups at the local store.  To answer a question somebody asked earlier, I've decided I'm NOT going to try for a complete run of Ace D-Series books, if for no reason that I have no interest in trying to track down the 40 or so Nurse novels that comprise half of the last 80 books in the run.  (I wouldn't mind one or two as samples, but I don't want or need the overall headache.)  I am gunning for a full set of the SF doubles, at the very least, though.  Anyway, 3 more D-Series and a Dell with a stunning cover:

You have some excellent reading material in that batch of books.  I had not noticed the cover for D-233 before, the "Robinson Crusoe" cover, it has a bit of the "Road Warrior" look to it. 

[Surfing Alien]

On 11/13/2021 at 8:58 PM, frozentundraguy said:

I had not noticed the cover for D-233 before, the "Robinson Crusoe" cover, it has a bit of the "Road Warrior" look to it. 

I hadn't either - don't think I've ever seen it up close. Somehow I don't think the gear chains that are turning on the ground under that contraption would function smoothly for long in the Martian sand

[Pat Calhoun]

Murder in a haunted house: calling Dr Fell !

[Pat Calhoun]

This one could come in handy if you get lost on the moon...

[OtherEric]

On 11/18/2021 at 3:28 PM, Pat Calhoun said:

This one could come in handy if you get lost on the moon...

Yet another reason I love mapbacks. I need to find a copy of this one, I think

[Surfing Alien]

On 11/18/2021 at 6:26 PM, Pat Calhoun said:

Murder in a haunted house: calling Dr Fell !

Cover art by Gilbert Fullington - the artist most likely to be confused with Ray Johnson imho - his women AND his men are very similar + I suspect Ray may have borrowed this pose for his Avon Little Caesar cover! Fullington was an art professor at a mid-western college who only did a handful of covers but he was very good.

[Book Guy]

Here are some Raymond Chandlers. Covers by Tom Adams who also did a ton of covers of Agatha Christie Books. Chandler has lots of great cover interpretations, but this series might be my favorites. Inside one of these 10 titles are listed, but these are all that I have. I'm not sure if all 10 had Adams covers. These are from the early 1970's, hardly Vintage to some people but they are now 50 years old. When I started collecting in the mid-late 1970's 50 years prior was certainly 'Vintage'! Post any others from this series if you got them.

[Book Guy]

Some more and a Book of Tom Adams covers of the Christie paperbacks. I didn't check ABE today, but the Adams book used to be cheap.

I'll try and post some ACE P K D+ck Books over the weekend.

[OtherEric]

On 11/19/2021 at 4:44 PM, Book Guy said:

Here are some Raymond Chandlers. Covers by Tom Adams who also did a ton of covers of Agatha Christie Books. Chandler has lots of great cover interpretations, but this series might be my favorites. Inside one of these 10 titles are listed, but these are all that I have. I'm not sure if all 10 had Adams covers. These are from the early 1970's, hardly Vintage to some people but they are now 50 years old. When I started collecting in the mid-late 1970's 50 years prior was certainly 'Vintage'! Post any others from this series if you got them.

 

Big Sleep is the only one from that era I have.  I swear, I'm going to sit down and start reading these some day very soon now...