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

[GACollectibles]

On 8/21/2022 at 2:49 PM, GACollectibles said:

The filter settings have been changed.

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

Someone dicked that up, it got added to the spoon filter again.

[Surfing Alien]

On 8/25/2022 at 3:59 AM, damonwad said:

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.

Yeah, aside from the two pervy Cultists in the foreground, Johnson often painted a figure in the background peeking into the scene like this guy.

This was one that we pointed out has a fantastical back cover too (not my copy, swiped for convenience). It was around this time that Popular started featuring separate back cover paintings and this one had a lot of effort. I've never seen an original painting of any Popular back cover but I'd sure love to if anyone ever gets wind of one.

There is one by Johnson, I forget which, that he actually signed the back cover painting, which is rare because he hardly ever signed the front.

[Surfing Alien]

On 8/25/2022 at 1:28 PM, GACollectibles said:

Someone dicked that up, it got added to the spoon filter again.

I just looked and it still said MR.

[Surfing Alien]

On 8/25/2022 at 2:29 PM, Surfing Alien said:

I just looked and it still said MR.

Haha - you're original post still said the D word when I just looked but my comment just got filtered so I guess the water cooler boys found out and ran wild, prompting the censorship again

[OtherEric]

On 8/25/2022 at 11:31 AM, Surfing Alien said:

Haha - you're original post still said the D word when I just looked but my comment just got filtered so I guess the water cooler boys found out and ran wild, prompting the censorship again

This is why we can’t have nice things…

[GACollectibles]

On 8/25/2022 at 2:31 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Haha - you're original post still said the D word when I just looked but my comment just got filtered so I guess the water cooler boys found out and ran wild, prompting the censorship again

Same thing happened to me, it showed fine then when I posted it changed every tomdickharry to MR.

[Dick Pontoon]

Even MR. Pontoon. Sigh. At least *spoon* was funny.

[Pat Calhoun]

here's one by Philip K Dicked

Edited August 25, 2022 by Pat Calhoun

[Get Marwood & I]

On 8/25/2022 at 8:41 PM, Pat Calhoun said:

here's one by Philip K MR.

 

That's MR. Philip K MR. to you 

[Surfing Alien]

Here's another late number Beacon with great cover art and blurbs.

I posted this on Facebook just because I knew a whole bunch of numb nuts would make stupid jokes that were only funny to themselves. Of course, the Facebook crowd obliged me as usual 

This board is truly one of the most mature places to share our treasures, not that we aren't above the occasional bathroom humor 

[flashlites]

On 8/25/2022 at 2:41 PM, Pat Calhoun said:

here's one by Philip K Dicked

These covers are so cool! I am a huge PKD fan but I have never seen these vintage paperback books! My PKD library consists of modern collected short stories, modern reprints of his novels and one very special Hard Cover 1st edition of The Man in The High Castle. I had no idea so many of his stories were mass published like this! And these painted covers are just amazing! Thank you so much for sharing them!

[OtherEric]

On 8/27/2022 at 10:16 AM, flashlites said:

These covers are so cool! I am a huge PKD fan but I have never seen these vintage paperback books! My PKD library consists of modern collected short stories, modern reprints of his novels and one very special Hard Cover 1st edition of The Man in The High Castle. I had no idea so many of his stories were mass published like this! And these painted covers are just amazing! Thank you so much for sharing them!

I highly recommend seeking out PKD first editions if you like his stuff; they're generally still very affordable.  Expensive compared to lots of vintage SF paperbacks, but vintage SF paperbacks are CHEAP compared to just about any other vintage paper of that era.  I think the most I ever paid for one of my PKD paperback firsts is $25 or so, even adjusted for inflation.  Although my 1st paperback edition of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was a gift, that one would have been pricier.

Would love to see the 1st edition Man in the High Castle, I've got the 80's Book Club hardcover.

[frozentundraguy]

On 8/27/2022 at 12:16 PM, flashlites said:

These covers are so cool! I am a huge PKD fan but I have never seen these vintage paperback books! My PKD library consists of modern collected short stories, modern reprints of his novels and one very special Hard Cover 1st edition of The Man in The High Castle. I had no idea so many of his stories were mass published like this! And these painted covers are just amazing! Thank you so much for sharing them!

I have a group shot of all 6 PKD's from the Ace Double series.

[flashlites]

On 8/27/2022 at 2:02 PM, frozentundraguy said:

I have a group shot of all 6 PKD's from the Ace Double series.

Just love seeing them, thanks so much! It looks like I now have something new to hoard/collect

[flashlites]

On 8/27/2022 at 12:23 PM, OtherEric said:

I highly recommend seeking out PKD first editions if you like his stuff; they're generally still very affordable.  Expensive compared to lots of vintage SF paperbacks, but vintage SF paperbacks are CHEAP compared to just about any other vintage paper of that era.  I think the most I ever paid for one of my PKD paperback firsts is $25 or so, even adjusted for inflation.  Although my 1st paperback edition of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was a gift, that one would have been pricier.

Would love to see the 1st edition Man in the High Castle, I've got the 80's Book Club hardcover.

Here is the crown jewel of my PKD library. From what I understand their were 2 different covers for this book,  published the first year (1962). This one being the second of the 2 so it is not as valuable. But I still consider it a first edition. Maybe you all have more details about this edition?

[Book Guy]

1970's (I think) Book Club reprint. I'll look at my bibliographies and get back.

The original book club edition has the same cover art as the first edition.

PKD was my personal # 1 collecting goal so I got a lot of great things. I'll take some pictures and post them later.

[OtherEric]

Agreed, that's the later Book Club Edition.  ISFDB shows this version was from 1980.

Still a nice edition to have, it's the one I have a copy of.

[OtherEric]

On a totally different note, this is neither vintage, nor a comic or pulp.  In fact, it's a comic that came out this week.

With that said, getting Robert McGinnis to do a comic book cover seems like they're trying to market directly to the regulars in this thread.  I gather there's a couple other covers he's done for Hard Case that I need to track down as well now.

[flashlites]

On 8/27/2022 at 3:17 PM, Book Guy said:

1970's (I think) Book Club reprint. I'll look at my bibliographies and get back.

The original book club edition has the same cover art as the first edition.

PKD was my personal # 1 collecting goal so I got a lot of great things. I'll take some pictures and post them later.

Thanks for checking for me! Here are some inside photos of my copy. It will be interesting to learn that this copy, that I always assumed was from 1962 was printed later? Either way I still love it and cherish it!

[OtherEric]

On 8/27/2022 at 1:59 PM, flashlites said:

Thanks for checking for me! Here are some inside photos of my copy. It will be interesting to learn that this copy, that I always assumed was from 1962 was printed later? Either way I still love it and cherish it!

Book club editions are notorious for not printing an accurate date, unfortunately.