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

[Surfing Alien]

On 11/27/2021 at 10:36 AM, moonpool said:

Once upon a time there was a Warren's paperback price guide hanging out at a Waldens...

do continue 

[comicjack]

 

 

[Surfing Alien]

Out of Ray Johnson's many insane-for-this-period "Headlights" covers, this is one of the front runners for his most iconic Good Girl Art covers. The "Avon Circle Logo" is considered the Golden Age by us old time Avon collectors.

[Comics-n-ERB]

On 11/22/2021 at 9:18 PM, Surfing Alien said:

+1 Do post more when you get 'em! 

Thanks everyone for the likes.  There are some truly great looking paperbacks in this thread!

Here are a few more.  The Rage is a fairly recent pick up that I'm very happy with.  The others are just some laying around.

 

 

Edited December 1, 2021 by Comics-n-ERB

[frozentundraguy]

Last weekend I was going to venture to Dreamwork's to check out some PB's. First I ventured to the Nostalgia Zone to check out some comic books. There is a small shop that sells a mishmash of vintage goods next to the Nostalgia Zone. I stopped in there first and found a few PB's. Then I found a couple more in the Nostalgia Zone in addition to several comics.

First up Red Sky at Midnight, and judging by the cover, love at first daylight.

 

Next the Hollow Needle by Coxe, who is touted by Earle Stanley Gardner on the back cover.

Also found this huge Popular Giant, The Forest Cavalier, that weighs in at a hefty 382 pages. I suspect her kisses were so good the tattered dress hardly mattered.

My favorite cover of this lot is The Stone of Chastity.  She proved a redhead on the rocks is better than a blonde on the shore.

Rounding thing out, to get to the point, is Passport to Peril, a Dell map back book.

 

The story.

A man fresh from the sea is setup on a date with a sultry brunette.
Sadly it was a real setup and he is drugged and robbed.
The next morning he staggers away into a nearby forest and finds a friendly lady by a fire.
Alas that was short lived and he soon encounters an even more attractive red head sitting in a stream.
He falls in love, she dies her hair, and he plans a trip abroad, but this time he has the needle.

 

[Surfing Alien]

Picked up another one of these. Yes I have a problem    My problem is that I still haven't managed to pick up one of the pink color covers, which are probably the scarcest of this original Signet 798 edition with the classic Alan Harmon cover illustration

 

[Randall Dowling]

On 12/2/2021 at 5:20 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Picked up another one of these. Yes I have a problem    My problem is that I still haven't managed to pick up one of the pink color covers, which are probably the scarcest of this original Signet 798 edition with the classic Alan Harmon cover illustration

 

I like the cut of your jib, sir.

[Surfing Alien]

You know there's never a bad time to be humbled, it's good for the soul. Due to my somewhat irrational obsession with Superman #1, I was wandering around the old BangZoom thread last night, marveling again at the breadth of his collections. I had forgotten just how many hundreds of pages were spent on there not devoted to comics, but showcasing his amazing pulp collection and had almost completely forgotten how many vintage paperbacks were shown and discussed. BangZoom had commented that, back in the 60's & 70's, when he was accumulating his comics, dealers gave him boxes and boxes of paperbacks. He mentioned he had lots of duplicates and casually posted this picture:

 

Then BB-Gun asked him how many paperbacks he had and he casually dropped this comment

 

 

30,000! I mean that might be Lance Casebeer territory. I wasn't back into paperbacks at the time of those comments (I was on the boards back then too but lost my password at some point and reinstated my account in 2014) so I probably didn't notice it at the time but wowza, that's a lot of paperbacks and they're obviously all vintage since he stopped collecting in the 1970's

[Pat Calhoun]

Happy Birthday Cornell Woolrich. I ordered a copy of this edition (stock image) to celebrate. Mag version was Argosy 1939: 'The Eye of Doom'.

[Randall Dowling]

On 12/3/2021 at 8:36 AM, Surfing Alien said:

You know there's never a bad time to be humbled, it's good for the soul. Due to my somewhat irrational obsession with Superman #1, I was wandering around the old BangZoom thread last night, marveling again at the breadth of his collections. I had forgotten just how many hundreds of pages were spent on there not devoted to comics, but showcasing his amazing pulp collection and had almost completely forgotten how many vintage paperbacks were shown and discussed. BangZoom had commented that, back in the 60's & 70's, when he was accumulating his comics, dealers gave him boxes and boxes of paperbacks. He mentioned he had lots of duplicates and casually posted this picture:

 

Then BB-Gun asked him how many paperbacks he had and he casually dropped this comment

 

 

30,000! I mean that might be Lance Casebeer territory. I wasn't back into paperbacks at the time of those comments (I was on the boards back then too but lost my password at some point and reinstated my account in 2014) so I probably didn't notice it at the time but wowza, that's a lot of paperbacks and they're obviously all vintage since he stopped collecting in the 1970's

Yeah, I miss @BangZoom  

[Artifiction]

My one and only pulp. Wouldn't mind running across some more, though.

 

Edited December 4, 2021 by Artifiction
New scan.

[OtherEric]

On 12/4/2021 at 11:40 AM, Pat Calhoun said:

Happy Birthday Cornell Woolrich. I ordered a copy of this edition (stock image) to celebrate. Mag version was Argosy 1939: 'The Eye of Doom'.

Parts 3 & 4 of the story above, it's actually four connected stories, each set in a different time.

[Surfing Alien]

Not by design, but by fate, I got a Woolrich mail call today on his birthday. It's a great collection at that.

[Surfing Alien]

The Woolrich was one of several out of a nice collection of Armed Services Editions I bought. This Lovecraft "The Dunwich Horror" is a better than usual copy of one that has always eluded me and am joyful to have.

 

[Randall Dowling]

Cross posting from the magazine section.  Figured you guys would appreciate these.  A couple of awesome magazines from the early 50s.  

[Surfing Alien]

On 12/6/2021 at 7:01 PM, Randall Dowling said:

Cross posting from the magazine section.  Figured you guys would appreciate these.  A couple of awesome magazines from the early 50s.  

Wow, that Line-Up Detective cover looks startlingly like a Ray Johnson, the first one of these True Detectives i've ever seen that triggered my RayJo antennae. Can you give the date and does it have any info on the inside? 

[Randall Dowling]

On 12/6/2021 at 7:07 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Wow, that Line-Up Detective cover looks startlingly like a Ray Johnson, the first one of these True Detectives i've ever seen that triggered my RayJo antennae. Can you give the date and does it have any info on the inside? 

Interesting!  It's December 1950.  There's no attribution inside.  I have several others that I'm pretty sure are by the same artist but I haven't been able to place it.  Have to keep a look out for more information.  

[Surfing Alien]

On 12/6/2021 at 8:51 PM, Randall Dowling said:

Interesting!  It's December 1950.  There's no attribution inside.  I have several others that I'm pretty sure are by the same artist but I haven't been able to place it.  Have to keep a look out for more information.  

I'm 99% sure that's Ray and am forwarding the image to my buddies who are working on the checklist for cross verification.  The high pudgy cheekbones, thick eyelashes, the hair curled under, the brushstrokes and shading, the rear view of the dude - all scream Ray. He used the same model in this time period for Flame Vine, God Wears a Bowtie and Along the Broadway Beat and some others. I knew he did some work for the True Crime mags because there is an incredibly detailed signed Duotone interior from a 1948 True Police Cases on ComicArtFans but I haven't seen any covers. Of course there is so much of this "True" stuff out there un-catalogued but am happy to pick one up from a buddy on this thread! Please post or PM the others you suspect are by this artist. The only other artists whose women look like Ray's are Gilbert Fullington, who this is definitely not, and Charles Copeland, who this is way too early for.

 

 

 

Edited December 7, 2021 by Surfing Alien

[Surfing Alien]

The verdict is in. That Line-Up Detective is an obvious Raymond Johnson cover and the team members collectively said the same thing...  "Great Find" ... No one has ever seen a Johnson "True" cover before and we have about 120 years combined trying to figure him out!

[Randall Dowling]

On 12/6/2021 at 10:28 PM, Surfing Alien said:

The verdict is in. That Line-Up Detective is an obvious Raymond Johnson cover and the team members collectively said the same thing...  "Great Find" ... No one has ever seen a Johnson "True" cover before and we have about 120 years combined trying to figure him out!

I'll dig out some others and send them your way.