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

[Bookery]

On 8/20/2022 at 3:26 PM, flashlites said:

Indecently if you are a PKD fan did you ever notice here on the boards it wont let you type out his last name? They censor it for some reason.

You also can't type out the first names of Grayson, Powell, York, Sargent, Van Dyke, Sprang, Miller, Clark, one of my best friends, or even my own father.  It's not only unbelievably childish they would put this into the profanity filter, it's personally rather insulting.

[Pat Calhoun]

I pick up nice UK editions... partly because I have so many of my USA wants/needs and the beast needs to be fed 

[GACollectibles]

On 8/21/2022 at 12:26 PM, Bookery said:

You also can't type out the first names of Grayson, Powell, York, Sargent, Van Dyke, Sprang, Miller, Clark, one of my best friends, or even my own father.  It's not only unbelievably childish they would put this into the profanity filter, it's personally rather insulting.

The filter settings have been changed.

Dick Grayson, Dick Powell, Dick York, Dick Sargent, Dick Van Dyke, Dick Sprang, Dick Miller, Dick Clark, Dick Friend, Dick Bookery Sr

[Pat Calhoun]

'The World Bookery Made' by Philip K Dick

[Pat Calhoun]

doubleplusgood Philip K Dick

[Bookery]

My bad.  Wasn't aware it had changed.  But since I complained, I notice now it keeps coming up *Spoon*'s Guide to the Pulps!!!

[Pat Calhoun]

perhaps you made it change...most probably in my opinion

[Surfing Alien]

On 8/21/2022 at 2:43 PM, Pat Calhoun said:

I pick up nice UK editions... partly because I have so many of my USA wants/needs and the beast needs to be fed 

"the beast needs to be fed "

This will be the new secret saying of the boards

Killer copy of that Pinnacle ERB Pat! When you've been collecting American editions for 40+ years there's still some sense of discovery in these UK editions and that's a sweet one

[OtherEric]

Posting some Philip K. Dick books just for the joy of actually being able to use his name properly.

[Blorgon scum]

I'll have to admit I haven't gotten very far in this 944 page novel.  Maybe someday I'll finish it. First Plume printing 1975

[Bookery]

On 8/22/2022 at 8:58 AM, Blorgon scum said:

I'll have to admit I haven't gotten very far in this 944 page novel.  Maybe someday I'll finish it. First Plume printing 1975

This little hardbound booklet came out in 1942.  Not only is the novel 944 pages... apparently it takes an extra volume to explain it!

 

[BitterOldMan]

Thanks to my erudite and scholarly forum members, I discovered there were variant Jimmy Steranko Shadow covers. I bought the Shadow paperbacks from local book stores, but never realized there were variant covers until I joined the boards.

 

[OtherEric]

On 8/22/2022 at 9:30 AM, BitterOldMan said:

Thanks to my erudite and scholarly forum members, I discovered there were variant Jimmy Steranko Shadow covers. I bought the Shadow paperbacks from local book stores, but never realized there were variant covers until I joined the boards.

 

Very nice additions!  I found those hard to get just because so many dealers didn't bother specifying which of the two covers were used, just that they were by Steranko.

[Surfing Alien]

On 8/22/2022 at 8:58 AM, Blorgon scum said:

I'll have to admit I haven't gotten very far in this 944 page novel.  Maybe someday I'll finish it. First Plume printing 1975

I just can't do 900 page sci-fantasies any more. It would have to be so electrifying to keep my attention and it's tough to feel that when you're a little older and had your fill of Tolkien, Dune and other long epics when you were in High School. 

Reading Woolrich and the whole school of Gold Medal type sub-200 page PBO writers can also galvanize you to the urgency of a well plotted read you can do in a day or two.

[Surfing Alien]

Just in. Murder Will In by Carolyn Wells. Atlas Mystery (NN) Cover art by Peter Driben

I would love to collect the Atlas Digests in VF condition but have been stifled by their seeming lack of existence in the sale market 

 

[OtherEric]

On 8/22/2022 at 7:04 PM, Surfing Alien said:

I would love to collect the Atlas Digests in VF condition but have been stifled by their seeming lack of existence in the sale market

 

Fixed that for you.

[damonwad]

On 8/6/2022 at 6:43 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Just throwing it out there that Illustration #77 with the Raymond Johnson article is finally back from the printer and Dan has it posted for purchase on the website now 

http://www.theillustratedpress.com

I hope dropping a link doesn't get me in jail. This message board is mentioned in the article 

I'd like to post a reminder tomorrow about the Livestream I'm doing with Ruben DaCollector tomorrow evening. I'd love to see any boardies drop by. Ruben is quite entertaining and there will be TONS of paperback art shown!

Congratulations on the article SA. I just finished reading it yesterday and really enjoyed it. With so many great covers, his work really deserves that spotlight.

Looking forward to seeing the replay of the livestream on Youtube.

 

[moonpool]

On 8/24/2022 at 6:37 PM, damonwad said:

Congratulations on the article SA. I just finished reading it yesterday and really enjoyed it. With so many great covers, his work really deserves that spotlight.

Looking forward to seeing the replay of the livestream on Youtube.

 

Looks like something I need to check out.

[Surfing Alien]

On 8/24/2022 at 6:37 PM, damonwad said:

Congratulations on the article SA. I just finished reading it yesterday and really enjoyed it. With so many great covers, his work really deserves that spotlight.

Looking forward to seeing the replay of the livestream on Youtube.

 

Thanks! Seeing it all in one place is eye opening. It was a lot of work but well worth it. The livestream was fun, Ruben is great to banter with about this stuff. He knows so much about art technique.

[damonwad]

On 8/24/2022 at 6:20 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Thanks! Seeing it all in one place is eye opening. It was a lot of work but well worth it. The livestream was fun, Ruben is great to banter with about this stuff. He knows so much about art technique.

Here's a book that I didn't know was a Johnson cover until reading the article. I knew he could paint beautiful women but didn't know he was also a master of the creepy pervert.