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

[moonpool]

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...

So I bought it and went back to my apartment to browse through it (late 80s).  I had been collecting comics to do something with my brothers, but I wasn't into it all that much.  This price guide opened up a whole new venue for me in several ways.  First, the amount of American paperbacks available was huge.  There was a list of paperback dealers to contact.  And, through a few pictures, my first exposure to Heade and British paperbacks in general.

Edited December 7, 2021 by moonpool
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[damonwad]

I think a couple of Ray Johnson's.  I couldn't find the Six Angels listed in any books but did see it noted as one on a pulp cover website.

The only Ray Johnson I'm really familiar with is from the old "You can call me Ray" beer commercials I watched as a kid.

 

 

[Surfing Alien]

On 12/7/2021 at 6:38 PM, damonwad said:

I think a couple of Ray Johnson's.  I couldn't find the Six Angels listed in any books but did see it noted as one on a pulp cover website.

The only Ray Johnson I'm really familiar with is from the old "You can call me Ray" beer commercials I watched as a kid.

 

 

Sweet copies! Both 100% Ray Johnson - "Jailbait Street" is credited inside. The cover model was certainly fallen 50's bombshell Diana Dors, who Ray used either live or from tear-sheets (more likely) on this and several other covers like "Convention Queen"

 

The expressions on "Six Angels at My Back" are awesome! He uses 3 of the models from "Along the Broadway Beat", albeit in the much more impressionistic style he developed while at Popular Library - note the old lady in the hat, the man in the bowler and the man in the Fedora hat in the foreground on the Avon cover. One thing that happens when you look at hundreds of covers, along with other collectors who are working on attributions for un-credited work is you get familiar with the cast of characters they used as models and subjects in their paintings. While models alone can't be the arbiter, taken along with the artists stylistic cues you can get very strong correlation.

 

BTW,  The "You can call me Ray" Ray Johnson probably comes up second in internet searches for the name, only after Ray Johnson the Pop Artist, which makes it very difficult to zero in on Raymond Sven Johnson, the commercial illustrator who painted these covers.

 

[damonwad]

Thanks SA and, as always, more great information (and cool books).

Hopefully you won't hear "you can call me Ray or you can call me Jay" every time you look at your new painting .

 

[Surfing Alien]

On 12/8/2021 at 6:00 PM, damonwad said:

every time you look at your new painting .

The only thing I hear when I look at that is my checkbook opening and closing while my wife balances her spending upwards in retaliation  

[damonwad]

A couple Avon's.

 

[Surfing Alien]

Some nice Good Girls

This one probably by "Darcy" (Ernest Chiriaka)

A Tom Miller beauty

And Rafael DeSoto on one of the last (and seldom seen) of the Monarch run 

Edited December 11, 2021 by Surfing Alien

[damonwad]

Some rough scenes in both these books, but especially in Keene's (Daniel White) Southern Daughter.

A young woman is brutally attacked by her brother but is "saved" just in time by her father.   

 

 

 

 

[Surfing Alien]

On 12/12/2021 at 2:51 PM, damonwad said:

Some rough scenes in both these books, but especially in Keene's (Daniel White) Southern Daughter.

A young woman is brutally attacked by her brother but is "saved" just in time by her father.   

 

 

 

 

The cover for "Southern Daughter" is over-the-top "hillbilly"  The artist is unknown but was a skilled painter who just made those faces so kind-of-inbred looking.

Your copy of "Violent Night" is a beautiful specimen of those early Ace singles that are very compact and full of pulp goodness!

Edited December 13, 2021 by Surfing Alien

[Surfing Alien]

Just got in a nice copy of #26 so I now have all 4 of the "Must Haves" from the 10 centers, although there's one or two others I'll add if the right opportunity comes around. I had them all in my original collection in the 1980's but don't feel that need any more.

[OtherEric]

On 12/12/2021 at 5:43 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Just got in a nice copy of #26 so I now have all 4 of the "Must Haves" from the 10 centers, although there's one or two others I'll add if the right opportunity comes around. I had them all in my original collection in the 1980's but don't feel that need any more.

As I've said before, I'll make due with this in lieu of the #33.  For the #36, I've got both the 10c Dell and the pulp.  Need to track down at least reprints on the Woolrich stories one of these days:

[moonpool]

[Pat Calhoun]

This one's got 'Marihauna' in it, as well as 'Rear Window', and his supernal classic 'The Night Reveals'.

[Surfing Alien]

On 12/12/2021 at 10:32 PM, Pat Calhoun said:

This one's got 'Marihauna' in it, as well as 'Rear Window', and his supernal classic 'The Night Reveals'.

 

"The Night Reveals" is one of my favorites, and of course, the subject of that haunting Popular Library cover

@OtherEric These stories are also in "After Dinner Story", by which name the collection was first published and is available as an ASE (which I recently posted). So you have two more reasonably available vintage paperback avenues by which to grab a "Marihuana" pb appearance

 

[OtherEric]

On 12/13/2021 at 9:40 AM, Surfing Alien said:

 

"The Night Reveals" is one of my favorites, and of course, the subject of that haunting Popular Library cover

@OtherEric These stories are also in "After Dinner Story", by which name the collection was first published and is available as an ASE (which I recently posted). So you have two more reasonably available vintage paperback avenues by which to grab a "Marihuana" pb appearance

 

Thank you for the heads up, I've got a copy of "The Best of William Irish" on order from ABE books, which includes the After-Dinner Story collection.  It also has Phantom Lady (which I have) and Deadline at Dawn (which I don't).

[damonwad]

This was a good read. A Sherlock Holmes type story with Mr. Mycroft as one of the main characters. I couldn't tell if he was supposed to be Mycroft Holmes or an old Sherlock Holmes with a fake name.

 

[frozentundraguy]

Time for a look back at some paperback books I have collected with GGA covers over the last few years.

Danger Trail, loosely based on a 7 year period in Florida where mail was delivered on foot along the coast.

 

 

 

My lone book with a cover by Heade.

 

 

Last but not least Werewolf of Paris.

Edited December 18, 2021 by frozentundraguy

[Surfing Alien]

On 12/16/2021 at 2:20 PM, damonwad said:

This was a good read. A Sherlock Holmes type story with Mr. Mycroft as one of the main characters. I couldn't tell if he was supposed to be Mycroft Holmes or an old Sherlock Holmes with a fake name.

 

This cover always makes me think of "The Fly"

It was pretty bizarre and incredible for its time.

[Hap Hazard]

On 12/12/2021 at 6:22 PM, OtherEric said:

As I've said before, I'll make due with this in lieu of the #33.  For the #36, I've got both the 10c Dell and the pulp.  Need to track down at least reprints on the Woolrich stories one of these days:

 

[Surfing Alien]

On 12/17/2021 at 9:30 PM, frozentundraguy said:

Time for a look back at some paperback books I have collected with GGA covers over the last few years.

Danger Trail, loosely based on a 7 year period in Florida where mail was delivered on foot along the coast.

 

 

 

My lone book with a cover by Heade.

 

 

Last but not least Werewolf of Paris.

I'm still in awe of your copy of "Werewolf" I  haven't found the one for me yet, they just don't show up lately. 

That one is Bill Randall and your other artists are Bergey, Belarski, Johnson and Heade so i'd say you have fine taste in GGA 🙂 (don't know who it is on Danger Trail, should be inside the book, most Bantams from this period have art credits inside)