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

[damonwad]

On 9/7/2022 at 9:26 AM, Surfing Alien said:

When this came up I had to have it. My final upgrade on the 1st Paperback, 1st Print of "The Hobbit". The Ballantine's file copy. My undercopy is extremely nice, but not unread publishers file copy nice!

What a great book. Congrats.

[Surfing Alien]

A little bump for finding a decent copy of The Weird Shadow Over Innsmouth. This copy has nice color and centering as well as minimal creasing. The spine is faded as usual but that gives me something to hunt for 

The Bart House pair...

The four original 1940's mass market Lovecraft solo paperback set is complete 

[Surfing Alien]

Just finished this reading copy of one of Paul Whelton's Garry Dean mysteries. Yes the cover is a scene from the book - Maida Hazlitt tied up in bed and a burglar running out with her husbands briefcase. It's kind of a fun rollicking ride with lots of 40's wisecracking. 

Garry was a news reporter trying to stay a step ahead of the police and rival papers to figure out the scheme, plus he was fast with the ladies, so it would have made good B movie material.

Kind of surprised it wasn't. I'd read another 👍

[frozentundraguy]

I picked up two PB's recently.

First up is the 'Shrinking Man' (pub. 1956), which became the Incredible Shrinking Man movie in 1957. The book was not quite complete when filming for the movie began.

Next is 'Tough Kid from Brooklyn' (pub. 1951) with a great cover by Raymond Johnson. A nod to S.A. for his article in 'Illustration', which shows this cover.

 

Edited September 20, 2022 by frozentundraguy

[Blorgon scum]

Two Chaosium paperbacks one by Dunsany & the other by Arthur Machen.

[flashlites]

On 9/19/2022 at 9:55 PM, frozentundraguy said:

I picked up two PB's recently.

First up is the 'Shrinking Man' (pub. 1956), which became the Incredible Shrinking Man movie in 1957. The book was not quite complete when filming for the movie began.

Next is 'Tough Kid from Brooklyn' (pub. 1951) with a great cover by Raymond Johnson. A nod to S.A. for his article in 'Illustration', which shows this cover.

 

Matheson was a true master of the genre! One of my all time favorites. Thanks so much for sharing!

[Surfing Alien]

Pat posted his copy recently and it had me realizing I've never owned a copy of one of the most famous and desired Sci Fi digests.

Situation corrected     

It's such a cool piece in many ways. Great Ray Harryhausen monster. Classic cover, movie tie-in with actor bios in the back and even a great back cover advertising Asimovs "The End of Eternity"

[damonwad]

Some random additions to the collection.

I read MacDonald's The End of the Night a few months ago and really liked it.  The feel and pace of it reminded me a lot of Capote's In Cold Blood

[OtherEric]

On 9/28/2022 at 10:03 AM, damonwad said:

Some random additions to the collection.

I read MacDonald's The End of the Night a few months ago and really liked it.  The feel and pace of it reminded me a lot of Capote's In Cold Blood

 

 

The End of the Night is one of the MacDonald's I haven't read yet, I'll need to track it down.  All three books are gorgeous. 

[damonwad]

On 9/28/2022 at 10:06 AM, OtherEric said:

The End of the Night is one of the MacDonald's I haven't read yet, I'll need to track it down.  All three books are gorgeous. 

Thanks and for some reason I thought you read all of his books. I think I've read 13 of his so far and will try to stick to only reading 3 or 4 a year since I know It'll be depressing when I've finished them all. Though I'll be kicking myself if I don't live another 15 years.

[OtherEric]

On 9/28/2022 at 1:00 PM, damonwad said:

Thanks and for some reason I thought you read all of his books. I think I've read 13 of his so far and will try to stick to only reading 3 or 4 a year since I know It'll be depressing when I've finished them all. Though I'll be kicking myself if I don't live another 15 years.

I’ve read all his sf/fantasy stories and all the Travis McGee books.  Like you, I read 2-3 more a year so I don’t run out too soon 

[Pat Calhoun]

I just picked up a companion piece to Damon's nice Pyramid #22 (they started at #11 and skipped #13...)

[BitterOldMan]

Picked up this book to improve my knowledge of Hank Janson UK pulps. 
 

Found the Reginald Heade cover was never used, until recently.  Book on the right was printed on demand on September 27, 2022.

 

[damonwad]

Some redheads.

 

[Surfing Alien]

Love me some redheads 

[pmpknface]

On 10/8/2022 at 12:02 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Love me some redheads 

+1 on that!

[frozentundraguy]

Having recently acquired "Tough Kid From Brooklyn" with cover art by Raymond Johnson I thought to peruse my collection to see what else I might have with cover art by R.J. I found more books than I would have guessed.  After checking my spreadsheet for matches to the R.J. cover checklist in Illustration #77, I found a few more just by checking books with excellent cover art.

 

 

 

Edited October 15, 2022 by frozentundraguy

[comicjack]

The best one for me the greaser days and of course the chick 

[OtherEric]

A couple finds today, a bit more recent than I would normally show here.  But I've never seen any of the Jules de Grandin paperbacks in the wild before, and I've had my eyes open for the Solar Pons for ages as well.  I enjoy the Copper Pons stories enough to grab them cheap, but I've never spotted the last pinnacle Pons cheap enough for me to snag.  And by now I've gotten rid of the pinnacle Derleth Pons I used to have as redundant, because I've got the Mycroft & Moran HC's.

Edited October 15, 2022 by OtherEric
brain fart, put pyramid instead of pinnacle

[Pat Calhoun]

it has been a fabulous collecting jag to round up a batch of Atlas digests in the last few months.  the thick cover stock and colorful images are very PB-like, with Cardwell Higgins and Peter Driben both contributing wonderful work. these are all from 1942-1945.