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

[Surfing Alien]

Some nice digests from the high grade collection:

Murder Vol.1 No.3 Cover art by Oliver Brabbins. Has a Harlan Ellison/Robert Silverberg collaboration "Pay Up Or Else"

Accused Vol.1 No.1 Quite a lineup in this one.

Sins of an Aspiring Actress by Doug Dupperault. Croydon Books #108  The thin paper covers on these are so fragile so I'm always stoked to come across copies like this.

 

Edited March 8, 2023 by Surfing Alien
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[Blorgon scum]

According to Lin Carter, in The Year's Best Fantasy series, this is one of last books to appear in the Adult Fantasy Series.  Nice cover by Gervasio Gallardo.

[pmpknface]

Ok, that's a cover!  And now, one killer avatar.  Love it!

[Surfing Alien]

Stacks of unsorted classics. I wish there was a smell recorder so y'all could smell the paper aroma's around here lately 

[Stevemmg]

I know that smell. Oh yes, I know it well. 

[moonpool]

The used bookstore smell.

[Surfing Alien]

We're taking our daughter on a trip for spring break this week so I'll post a few more goodies to make up for lost time...

Sharing spine shots of these 4 so you can get a better picture of how fresh and square many of these books are

Dell 143. The Dell Hitchcocks were always considered classic by vintage pb collectors 

There are a lot of early Ace singles that look like this

When I started collecting back in the 1980's, Zeniths were not really on the radar but I've learned since then. They're Martin Goodman productions like the Lion Books, with his same stable of MAM artists but probably scarcer than Lions overall. 

I didn't have this PKD edition before. Cover by Freas.  It's a tough copy to beat

Another impossible Harlequin by a top writer. Cover by Paul Anna Soik.The collection only had six or seven Harlequins but they were all sharp copies of highly collected authors. 

I remember these "unauthorized" Barton Werper Tarzans were a big thing back when. Cover art by Jack Endeweldt.

A sweet copy of one of Maguire's best Ace Double covers

There's many doubles of classic covers that I'd always have been happy to find just one! I hope I'm not spoiled now but I know groups like this are far between.

 

Edited March 10, 2023 by Surfing Alien

[moonpool]

On 3/9/2023 at 8:13 PM, Surfing Alien said:

We're taking our daughter on a trip for spring break this week so I'll post a few more goodies to make up for lost time...

Sharing spine shots of these 4 so you can get a better picture of how fresh and square many of these books are

Dell 143. The Dell Hitchcocks were always considered classic by vintage pb collectors 

There are a lot of early Ace singles that look like this

When I started collecting back in the 1980's, Zeniths were not really on the radar but I've learned since then. They're Martin Goodman productions like the Lion Books, with his same stable of MAM artists but probably scarcer than Lions overall. 

I didn't have this PKD edition before. Cover by Freas.  It's a tough copy to beat

Another impossible Harlequin by a top writer. Cover by Paul Anna Soik.The collection only had six or seven Harlequins but they were all sharp copies of highly collected authors. 

I remember these "unauthorized" Barton Werper Tarzans were a big thing back when. Cover art by Jack Endeweldt.

A sweet copy of one of Maguire's best Ace Double covers

There's many doubles of classic covers that I'd always have been happy to find just one! I hope I'm not spoiled now but I know groups like this are far between.

 

A fine array.  Who doesn't like an early Harlequin?

[Surfing Alien]

Gold Medal 101 & 102. Nice copies of the first two Gold Medal anthology books to launch the line. 

I never had these back in my first collection, they were odd and unobtainable since GM quickly went to original novels and I just never saw these but they are so cool in hand now.

 

[TerrysComics]

anyone going to the Paperback show Sunday March 19, 2023
9am to 4pm at the Glendale Civic Auditorium
1401 Verdugo Rd, Glendale, CA

Los Angeles Vintage Paperback Collectors Show

I will be set-up at table 75/76

 

Edited March 17, 2023 by TerrysComics

[Surfing Alien]

On 3/16/2023 at 9:49 PM, TerrysComics said:

anyone going to the Paperback show Sunday March 19, 2023
9am to 4pm at the Glendale Civic Auditorium
1401 Verdugo Rd, Glendale, CA

Los Angeles Vintage Paperback Collectors Show

I will be set-up at table 75/76

 

Looks like some great books there   Man, I wish, for this year not happening but I am going to Windy City. I have to try to make this show next year.

[OtherEric]

Two from the Half Price Books today.  The Signet was just a neat cover impulse grab.  The Ace was $10 and looks unread, I think it's my jackpot paperback find of the month:

[Surfing Alien]

On 3/17/2023 at 9:04 PM, OtherEric said:

Two from the Half Price Books today.  The Signet was just a neat cover impulse grab.  The Ace was $10 and looks unread, I think it's my jackpot paperback find of the month:

Love the Hussar 👍 i've looked at many copies of The King In Yellow and that is top tier. Impossible with those black cardboard covers.

[Surfing Alien]

A real nice copy of Signet 669. Kind of a transition for McCulley away from his Argosy Roots. 1948 so it was before the pulps collapsed.

One of the first 10 Signets in the transition from the Penguin line. Everything about this art expresses the move away from Jonas' symbolic beauty to the new realism in pb cover art.

[frozentundraguy]

On 3/6/2023 at 4:37 PM, Randall Dowling said:

100% this.  There are titles that I've read about but can't find a single image of on the internet.  Perhaps as more demand builds for paperbacks, more material will shake out.  But for the last couple of years, the real problem has just been finding quality material.  Which, frankly, makes collecting them more fun for me. 

I like the challenge and I'm not in a rush to be finished. 

Very true.  Perhaps the PB hobby is in need of a new guide, or something akin to GPA or Go Collect like comic books have, to put more of a real-time pulse in collecting them.

[TerrysComics]

On 3/17/2023 at 7:47 PM, frozentundraguy said:

Very true.  Perhaps the PB hobby is in need of a new guide, or something akin to GPA or Go Collect like comic books have, to put more of a real-time pulse in collecting them.

how about more advertising with Comics, this is how Pulps caught on

         

   

          

 

  

Edited March 18, 2023 by TerrysComics

[Surfing Alien]

On 3/18/2023 at 5:34 PM, TerrysComics said:

how about more advertising with Comics, this is how Pulps caught on

100%. I try to cross promote with comics, pulps and mags as much as I can.

But there is also a lot of resistance from old time vintage pb collectors to any kind of publicity for pricing. I love my fellow collectors but many old timers are the cheapest sumbiches ever. I'm talking about the ones who cried when Hancer lifted the lowest "Fine" price to $5. Everyone wants to hang on to the 1980's and find killer books for a quarter. That still happens but those days are mostly over (but no one told them)  

[moonpool]

On 3/18/2023 at 7:08 PM, Surfing Alien said:

100%. I try to cross promote with comics, pulps and mags as much as I can.

But there is also a lot of resistance from old time vintage pb collectors to any kind of publicity for pricing. I love my fellow collectors but many old timers are the cheapest sumbiches ever. I'm talking about the ones who cried when Hancer lifted the lowest "Fine" price to $5. Everyone wants to hang on to the 1980's and find killer books for a quarter. That still happens but those days are mostly over (but no one told them)  

I don't know who you could be referring to. 

[OtherEric]

On 3/18/2023 at 4:08 PM, Surfing Alien said:

100%. I try to cross promote with comics, pulps and mags as much as I can.

But there is also a lot of resistance from old time vintage pb collectors to any kind of publicity for pricing. I love my fellow collectors but many old timers are the cheapest sumbiches ever. I'm talking about the ones who cried when Hancer lifted the lowest "Fine" price to $5. Everyone wants to hang on to the 1980's and find killer books for a quarter. That still happens but those days are mostly over (but no one told them)  

They're mostly over, but compared to comics they're a lot more frequent.

[Surfing Alien]

A few more random niceties while I'm sorting books out. I'm also putting some things together to maybe try out a small sales thread on the boards since RD seems to have drummed up some decent interest on his. 

This Dell edition of Vertigo is pretty scarce. One of Maguire's tougher covers.

These two Green Dragons are the small paperback sized ones from late in the run. They're all scarce but these little ones are tougher than the digests

I finally landed a copy of this Lionel White Signet. They must all be locked up in collections because they just don't show up. It's a great, fast read (and peculiar!) as usual  and the Avati cover is excellent.

I listed this double of Gardner Fox's classic with the John Floherty bare breasted women cover in my store yesterday.  Let's just say that sex sells because it was snapped up by the end of the day. 

Classic Paul Stahr cover on this vintage Avon Chandler collection. Chandlers get snatched up when I list them.

Just a real interesting overhead perspective on this Clark Hulings cover of Donald Westlake's "The Smashers"

Westlake also wrote as Richard Stark, as in this Gold Medal with a nice McGinnis bondage cover.