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

[comicjack]

On 10/16/2022 at 3:26 PM, Pat Calhoun said:

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.

Halloween theme at it's best 

[Book Guy]

On 10/16/2022 at 12:26 PM, Pat Calhoun said:

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.

The cover of DEATH IS THE HOST borders on extreme-certainly for the time! I'm reminded of Jim Jones & Jonestown...The Atlas Digests can be uncommon in my experience.

 

 

[Book Guy]

On 10/15/2022 at 3:32 PM, OtherEric said:

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.

There can never be too many Gorilla Covers!

[OtherEric]

On 10/16/2022 at 1:55 PM, Book Guy said:

There can never be too many Gorilla Covers!

So help me, it didn't even occur to me that they were both Gorilla covers until you pointed it out...

[Surfing Alien]

Those Atlas Digests are fantastic covers and are tough. Although the cardboard covers are thick, they crease easily because they're so stiff. That's quite a run you've rounded up Pat!

[Surfing Alien]

Picked up a few more "...Girls" 😊
Both Venus Books are Rudy Nappi art. This was the first copy of "Honey" I've seen for sale in years.

Call Girl and Overnight Girl artists are not known although Call Girl looks a lot like Bill Randall to me.

Edited October 16, 2022 by Surfing Alien
Nappi

[damonwad]

On 10/16/2022 at 12:26 PM, Pat Calhoun said:

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.

Great books there, Pat. I've never even seen most of those before.

[Surfing Alien]

On 10/16/2022 at 5:43 PM, damonwad said:

Great books there, Pat. I've never even seen most of those before.

My favorite might be "Hush Gabriel"

Never seen it + music themed 

[frozentundraguy]

On 10/16/2022 at 2:26 PM, Pat Calhoun said:

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.

Excellent work on acquiring these books Pat. So many great covers among these Atlas digests!

[FoggyNelson]

This whole page has too many great books keep track of👍❤️

[Surfing Alien]

I have a few others posted already but Pat didn't post these two by Walter Gibson. Like "Murder With Long Hair" posted above, these have the Atlas globe on the front cover, which makes them extra appealing to my eye, as well as Driben art on "Blonde" and creepy Lee Ayres art on "Looks"

[pmpknface]

These just in...

[pmpknface]

I've been meaning to post these. They were my dad's, I've had them for decades. 

[Surfing Alien]

On 10/23/2022 at 11:53 AM, pmpknface said:

I've been meaning to post these. They were my dad's, I've had them for decades. 

A bunch of those have Barye Phillips art in the small vignettes.

[Surfing Alien]

It's always a good day when you add a  Woolrich vintage pb you didn't have to the collection. 

Decent copy that can still be carefully read, which I started doing yesterday 

[Blorgon scum]

A number of titles from Newcastle's Forgotten Fantasy Series.

[Surfing Alien]

On 10/25/2022 at 8:14 AM, Blorgon scum said:

 

Pretty sure this edition of "Food of Death" was the first Dunsany collection I ever bought and read, after reading something in an anthology.

[OtherEric]

Making my annual visit to SF to visit my sister, so today was the KAYO Books pilgrimage, along wit a few items from other stores yesterday:

[OtherEric]

One more.  Low grade, but how often do you see D-2?  No way I wasn’t spending the $3

[Surfing Alien]

On 10/29/2022 at 6:36 PM, OtherEric said:

One more.  Low grade, but how often do you see D-2?  No way I wasn’t spending the $3

how often do you see D-2?

Never...

Nice pickup as well as the smorgasboard above. "Strangler's Serenade" has disappeared from the marketplace. It's the only Popular Library Woolrich title I haven't found a nice copy of in 5 years of looking 😪