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

[Surfing Alien]

On 6/24/2023 at 8:04 PM, OtherEric said:

It is NOT a wraparound cover.  It's a cover with distinct art on the spine and back as well as the front.

D-194 is a wraparound

This is three separate pieces:

 

I did get you to show three views though 

[OtherEric]

On 6/24/2023 at 5:30 PM, Surfing Alien said:

I did get you to show three views though 

Just because I'm excessively pedantic doesn't mean I won't respond well to a request from a friend for more scans!

[jimjum12]

@GACollectibles

Just got this from Andrew  Judy always speaks highly of this, her Dad read it with her when she was a kid. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[moonpool]

Still slowly rebagging Hank Jansons', and while I'm trying not to flood the thread with Heade covers,   I thought the two different covers for Lillies for my Lovely would be of interest.

[PopKulture]

On 6/25/2023 at 9:40 PM, moonpool said:

 I thought the two different covers for Lillies for my Lovely would be of interest.

Indeed! I can’t decide which I like better. The lingerie cover is very well done, but the other cover is so dramatic.  

[PopKulture]

I finally got around to re-bagging most of the paperbacks from the Windy City show. With the price of pulps these days, I focused more on paperbacks. I needed many of these, with a few that are hopefully upgrades on books I already own but have to dig out. Someday I’ll have these all on shelves…  

 

[PopKulture]

And here are the Dells and Populars - vastly different approaches to cover art design, and it’s a rare, rare day when I could pick my favorite approach.

 

[moonpool]

Awesome.  Maybe I should go to the Windy City show.

[Surfing Alien]

On 6/25/2023 at 10:40 PM, moonpool said:

Still slowly rebagging Hank Jansons', and while I'm trying not to flood the thread with Heade covers,   I thought the two different covers for Lillies for my Lovely would be of interest.

There's no such thing as too much Heade!

My vote for the lingerie cover, besides the beautifully painted full body shot, I've seen the head shot cover many times and not the body shot so pretty sure that's the rare one

[Surfing Alien]

On 6/26/2023 at 1:20 AM, PopKulture said:

With the price of pulps these days, I focused more on paperbacks.

Sweet books. That "Overboard" looks pretty dreamy  

I've noticed a lot more competition for nice pbs online lately, and I quite logically suspect it's for the above quoted reason.

I wish I had more time to box dive at Windy City as there were definitely still relative bargains to be had in the vintage pbs.

[mrwoogieman]

On 6/25/2023 at 1:04 AM, jimjum12 said:

@GACollectibles

Just got this from Andrew  Judy always speaks highly of this, her Dad read it with her when she was a kid. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

I just read this last year for the first time. Jenkins the robot and the doggies. I liked it and I generally like Clifford Simak. 
 

[PopKulture]

On 6/26/2023 at 7:56 AM, moonpool said:

Awesome.  Maybe I should go to the Windy City show.

It’s definitely fun to pick up books in person, but the prices have crept up almost to the point of what they’re asking on the Bay (at least in some cases). The days of rummaging through boxes at $2 to $3 each seem to be well over, except for really marginal readers. 

The benefit of a show for me is meeting and talking to other collectors and dealers, and seeing all the original art in the room. 

[PopKulture]

On 6/26/2023 at 8:25 AM, Surfing Alien said:

Sweet books. That "Overboard" looks pretty dreamy  

I've noticed a lot more competition for nice pbs online lately, and I quite logically suspect it's for the above quoted reason.

I wish I had more time to box dive at Windy City as there were definitely still relative bargains to be had in the vintage pbs.

It’s still not the end-all keeper I crave, as it has some NCB upper-right corner creases and spine fading, but it’s definitely an upgrade to my previous copy. I don’t need to improve my Campus Town or Doll’s Trunk Murder - unless a truly minty one comes along - but I’d like just a bit sharper “Overboard” to complete what I’ve always had as a triumvirate in my mind. Those books just seem to go together.  

[Surfing Alien]

I finally acquired a nice copy of "For Love of Imabelle" a while back but I think the Avons were packed up.  Here she is with the other PBO's of the Coffin Ed & Gravedigger Jones series by Chester Himes. Mitch Hooks cover on Imabelle, George Ziel on the Avons. 

A real nice example of groundbreaking pbo's with great cover art all around. It's so much fun to be able to display these correctly 🤘🥳

[OtherEric]

Today's book.  I think I may have a copy in storage somewhere, but this was cheap and I'm pretty sure it's a much nicer copy anyway.  Although my OCD hates that Avon, not Ace, did the Second Foundation paperback completing the original trilogy:

[OtherEric]

A nice scattering of books from the local store today.  Jones and Steranko are always nice to see:

 

[Surfing Alien]

They're not flashy and didn't feature much GGA until quite a bit later ("Nana" by Emile Zola, being the exception!) But the solid, high quality construction and great classic titles that Pocket Books put out early on ensured the paperback book became a staple of American life from the 1940's on. 

Finally got to my boxes of Pockets that were stored away during the renovation. These earlies are all 1st printings and, I think, all fall into the proto fantasy/sci fi/adventure genre of having fantastical elements, even Sherlock to a degree. They are all 80+ years old now. That's mind boggling.

 

[Sarg]

On 6/30/2023 at 7:43 PM, Surfing Alien said:

They're not flashy and didn't feature much GGA until quite a bit later ("Nana" by Emile Zola, being the exception!) But the solid, high quality construction and great classic titles that Pocket Books put out early on ensured the paperback book became a staple of American life from the 1940's on. 

Finally got to my boxes of Pockets that were stored away during the renovation. These earlies are all 1st printings and, I think, all fall into the proto fantasy/sci fi/adventure genre of having fantastical elements, even Sherlock to a degree. They are all 80+ years old now. That's mind boggling.

 

Great to see these. 

[Surfing Alien]

On 6/30/2023 at 8:51 PM, Sarg said:

Great to see these. 

H.P. Lovecraft was profoundly influenced by Hawthorne's "House of the Seven Gables"

Lovecraft's ideas for several stories of generational curses lurking and ghosting in the walls of an ancient New England house came from Hawthorne, the OG of horror novelists.

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[PopKulture]

On 6/30/2023 at 8:43 PM, Surfing Alien said:

They're not flashy and didn't feature much GGA until quite a bit later ("Nana" by Emile Zola, being the exception!) But the solid, high quality construction and great classic titles that Pocket Books put out early on ensured the paperback book became a staple of American life from the 1940's on. 

Finally got to my boxes of Pockets that were stored away during the renovation. These earlies are all 1st printings and, I think, all fall into the proto fantasy/sci fi/adventure genre of having fantastical elements, even Sherlock to a degree. They are all 80+ years old now. That's mind boggling.

 

I think Pockets are vastly under-rated, especially for their historical import as you note. As comics, pulps and paperbacks have become increasingly cover-centric, I suppose they’ll continue to lose ground on the more lurid digests or Avons and Populars, but astute collectors should always make a little space in their collections for some Pockets.