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

[Surfing Alien]

On 2/3/2023 at 12:35 AM, OtherEric said:

Today's book.  The Murder Mystery Monthly seems to be the more common than the regular paperback, but still not one you see often, I think:

 

I'm kind of proud I just sold this undercopy of the regular pb to a young writer I met on a Facebook group. He's very into vintage pbs and noir and learning the devices they used. I threw him a reader copy of a cool hardboiled Ace I was so happy to see new blood lol.

I think there is hope for the younger generation, I also recently was "whoa! ..."wowed!" by a teen age looking cashier in Hobby Lobby when I was buying some poly sleeves there and told him It was for vintage paperbacks. He told me he loved the covers and knew all about them from youtube videos 

[Surfing Alien]

Here's some friday fun on saturday. A couple of nice digests that came in, both pretty hard to find at all.

Hunted Vol 1 No 1. December 1954  This was edited by L.B.Cole and is a Star Publication

The famously bonkers Web Terror Stories, March 1963

[pmpknface]

On 2/4/2023 at 5:30 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Here's some friday fun on saturday. A couple of nice digests that came in, both pretty hard to find at all.

Hunted Vol 1 No 1. December 1954  This was edited by L.B.Cole and is a Star Publication

The famously bonkers Web Terror Stories, March 1963

Great pickups.  Did Cole do anything inside on that book or just the editing? I have always been curious about that. I know he published another line that, I think called "Persuit" but I don't own either. Oh, so did the cover on Web?

[Surfing Alien]

On 2/4/2023 at 6:11 PM, pmpknface said:

Great pickups.  Did Cole do anything inside on that book or just the editing? I have always been curious about that. I know he published another line that, I think called "Persuit" but I don't own either. Oh, so did the cover on Web?

Thanks. Nothing signed by Cole inside and the cover is uncredited. There are a couple of text illos that look like he possibly could have done them but no sigs or credits anywhere.

[Surfing Alien]

On 2/4/2023 at 6:11 PM, pmpknface said:

Great pickups.  Did Cole do anything inside on that book or just the editing? I have always been curious about that. I know he published another line that, I think called "Persuit" but I don't own either. Oh, so did the cover on Web?

I checked into the Web Terror Stories cover and I see it credited to Charles Frace. Most of what you find of him online is incredibly realistic wildlife paintings for which he became famous later but it appears he was a commercial illustrator from the 50's through the 70's and did paint covers. I saw one really nice good girl painting he did, "Playgirl" for Beacon Books, on Heritage.

[moonpool]

[frozentundraguy]

Picked up a few more PB's in the last couple of weeks.

Pohl's Drunkards Walk, touted to be bitingly funny, but a read of the first few chapters shows it to be written in a sober fashion

Space Station #1, also in the Ace "D" series proved worthy of a re-read.

Currently reading "Return to Tomorrow" (emsh cover), a rare sci-fi space travel novel that pays attention to the time lapse difference on Earth compared to those traveling at near light speed.

Located another of Rohmer's novels, this the first in the series on Doctor Fu-Manchu.

Finally, winter relief, via a murder mystery in Havana with a map back.

 

 

 

[OtherEric]

Today's book.  The Avon digests are really irresistible, aren't they?  No sooner do I finish the Fantasy Reader and Science Fiction Reader runs than I start trying to grab the Murder Mystery Monthlies when I find them affordable...

[Surfing Alien]

I don't specifically go after the Frazetta Ace covers but whenever nice copies cross my path for a few bucks I'm not fool enough to let them go by. Even the later editions are getting on 50 years old now and they're still striking.

[Pat Calhoun]

nice and nice timing: is FF's b-day

[OtherEric]

My inability to resist Ace D-Series books strikes again!  Finds at the Half-Price Books today:

[FoggyNelson]

On 2/10/2023 at 6:23 PM, OtherEric said:

My inability to resist Ace D-Series books strikes again!  Finds at the Half-Price Books today:

Great sci fi coverz 👍‼️

[OtherEric]

A few from Half Price Books today, carefully selected on the basis of "I'll pay $2 each for 25c paperbacks"

 

[OtherEric]

This was more than $2, and to be honest I've already got another edition.  But there was no way I could resist the Bowie cover in such great shape:

 

[Surfing Alien]

On 2/11/2023 at 6:47 PM, OtherEric said:

A few from Half Price Books today, carefully selected on the basis of "I'll pay $2 each for 25c paperbacks"

 

Great deals! Those Barye Phillips Carter Brown covers are calling me badly... must... resist...

[Surfing Alien]

On 2/11/2023 at 6:49 PM, OtherEric said:

This was more than $2, and to be honest I've already got another edition.  But there was no way I could resist the Bowie cover in such great shape:

 

I'd let this fall into my checkout pile for sure even though I have the Gold Medal 1st pb. For the same reasons as you, it's Bowie, Movie Tie-in AND Tevis and getting on in years so nice copies will dry up over time.

[BitterOldMan]

[Sarg]

On 2/11/2023 at 7:21 PM, BitterOldMan said:

What the ---??? What a strange cover and title. 

[Surfing Alien]

Nice and Naughty by Gordon Semple. Love Romance Series No. 1. Picked up this rare (understatement) L.B. Cole cover digest this week. Super stoked as I haven't seen a copy for sale for years and this one is quite nice

It's remarkable to me that the author's name isn't even on the cover, so sales worthy was the cover art lol!

[pmpknface]

On 2/13/2023 at 10:00 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Nice and Naughty by Gordon Semple. Love Romance Series No. 1. Picked up this rare (understatement) L.B. Cole cover digest this week. Super stoked as I haven't seen a copy for sale for years and this one is quite nice

It's remarkable to me that the author's name isn't even on the cover, so sales worthy was the cover art lol!

Where did you find this? I've been looking for it for while! Congrats!