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Comics, Pulps, and Paperbacks: Why such a discrepancy in values?
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Some friday fun. Picked up a bunch of nice Berkleys recently. They must've had much smaller print runs than the big publishers because I have alerts on and look for them all the time but only a trickle show up. Some great art by Johnson, Nappi and Copeland here as well as some cool photo covers.

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On 11/4/2022 at 3:03 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Some friday fun. Picked up a bunch of nice Berkleys recently. They must've had much smaller print runs than the big publishers because I have alerts on and look for them all the time but only a trickle show up. Some great art by Johnson, Nappi and Copeland here as well as some cool photo covers.

 

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I find it hilarious that they had to rename Wicked Woman as A Woman Called Desire because 51 books earlier they had renamed End of the Road as Wicked Woman.

A quick glance at bookscans doesn't show an earlier End of the Road, but G-114 was "The End of the Track", so maybe they were trying to avoid confusion with that one.

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On 11/4/2022 at 6:13 PM, OtherEric said:

I find it hilarious that they had to rename Wicked Woman as A Woman Called Desire because 51 books earlier they had renamed End of the Road as Wicked Woman.

A quick glance at bookscans doesn't show an earlier End of the Road, but G-114 was "The End of the Track", so maybe they were trying to avoid confusion with that one.

Good eye! I didn't even notice that. It's highly likely that they were on the stands at the same time so they probably did change it to avoid confusion.

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On 11/4/2022 at 3:22 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Good eye! I didn't even notice that. It's highly likely that they were on the stands at the same time so they probably did change it to avoid confusion.

I would be tempted to give you grief for not noticing that about two books side by side, but two pages ago I didn't notice I had posted two gorilla covers back to back until somebody pointed it out to me, so I've got exactly zero room to talk. :nyah:

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On another note, here are better scans of some of my books from last week, specifically the Avons.  I think the Avons are my second favorite paperbacks after the Ace D & S series books.

One detail I didn't notice when I grabbed it:  The Ship of Ishtar is a Canadian edition, with no number.  It's Avon 324 in the US version, I believe.

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On 11/6/2022 at 6:40 PM, frozentundraguy said:

It's been a while since I added any PB's to my collection. Found two pretty nice copies of Bantam books. I noticed the Argosy book of Adventure Stories due to Heinlein being one of the authors.

 

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Nice!  I think I was aware Heinlein had a couple stories in Argosy, but I didn't know they were reprinted in that collection.

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On 11/5/2022 at 2:57 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Some nice Ace mystery doubles in the mail today.

I noticed they have a "light side"...

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Odds Against Linda is one of my favorite later doubles.  It's just really grim with that cover artwork.  I feel like the alternative title could have been "I Don't Like Her Chances".

Great looking copies, SA!

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On 11/4/2022 at 7:35 PM, Pat Calhoun said:

bright spines are divine. I've just picked up a couple of Dells and Pop Libs that testify to the worthiness of their publications...

 

 

 

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The way her hand was painted bothers me. The rest of it is fine, however. Women in the '50s, of course, often wore blouses unbuttoned at the top and no bra. Belarski?

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On 11/7/2022 at 6:03 PM, Sarg said:

The way her hand was painted bothers me. The rest of it is fine, however. Women in the '50s, of course, often wore blouses unbuttoned at the top and no bra. Belarski?

One of the things we notice/remember when looking at zillions of vintage pbs is that these artists were working under deadline for low pay. That is not the best hand position lol! But the Art Director likely got him paid because the other "elements" were superb 😁

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The Screaming Mimi by Fredric Brown. Stoked to find this incredible copy of Bantam 831. Always found trashed, this copy has a teeny tiny left lower corner impact but unread and glossy. Just never see this one unread. Everyone I know loves the Hound! 🥳

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On 11/7/2022 at 3:54 PM, Randall Dowling said:

Odds Against Linda is one of my favorite later doubles.  It's just really grim with that cover artwork.  I feel like the alternative title could have been "I Don't Like Her Chances".

Great looking copies, SA!

Lou Marchetti masterpiece right there my friend. He needs a shrine somewhere. Another incredibly versatile artist!

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Picked up a few sci-fi reading grade books a few days ago from Uncle Hugo's science fiction bookstore. You may recall this store was burned down in early 2000, and that there was a crowd funding page that to date has raised just over $200,000.

 

I finally was able to visit the new store, met the store dog and even talked briefly to Don Blyly. There are still piles of books and boxes of books to be placed on the shelves.

 I found several books of interest, at very reasonable prices.

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One of the few novels written by Piper and with a Valigursky cover.

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Donald Wollheim who wrote the forward for this book thought this was Well's finest novel.

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Another time machine yarn in a Macfadden book.

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One of several books by Leinster featuring  Calhoun his medical serviceman

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Finally another novel by Van Vogt, apparently unread and containing the receipt from 51 years ago.

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