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Comics, Pulps, and Paperbacks: Why such a discrepancy in values?
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On 3/22/2024 at 11:45 AM, jimjum12 said:

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Wasn't it you who made me want this digest? Oddly enough, the prices become very reasonable when this title switches from Pulp to Digest :whistle: GOD BLESS ...

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Yes, I was the one you grabbed your avatar from when I first posted that.  I was actually planning to sell the book during the fund raiser sale for you, hyping it as being the very copy your avatar came from.  But I couldn't find the box it was in, I finally located it last week.

I actually have two copies now, I had gone as far as getting a replacement assuming I was going to sell "your" copy.

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On 3/22/2024 at 1:53 PM, jimjum12 said:

Last post for a while, I promise. As some of you know, I'm a rabid HP Lovecraft fan and admirer of quality editions. Not on the level of Red Fury or anything, but if I ever win the lotto, one of the first things I'll do for sheer fun is The Outsider And Others :cloud9: Anyhow, anyone who collects Lovecraft will notice how often a cover artist misses the boat. This book is an exception and features one of my top 5 Lovecrafts and just nails it on the cover. To make a long story short, if anyone has an unread flawless copy, I would trade mine, which isn't bad, plus at least $50. I know it's a longshot. GOD BLESS ...

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I love the cross of HPL with the schizo psychedelic colors.

Makes me wonder if the graphics might have influenced the look of this one:

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On 3/22/2024 at 11:53 AM, jimjum12 said:

Last post for a while, I promise. As some of you know, I'm a rabid HP Lovecraft fan and admirer of quality editions. Not on the level of Red Fury or anything, but if I ever win the lotto, one of the first things I'll do for sheer fun is The Outsider And Others :cloud9: Anyhow, anyone who collects Lovecraft will notice how often a cover artist misses the boat. This book is an exception and features one of my top 5 Lovecrafts and just nails it on the cover. To make a long story short, if anyone has an unread flawless copy, I would trade mine, which isn't bad, plus at least $50. I know it's a longshot. GOD BLESS ...

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This is still my favorite HPL cover, for better or worse.  What could be more awesome than mythos monsters who are also librarians?

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On 3/22/2024 at 4:33 PM, OtherEric said:

This is still my favorite HPL cover, for better or worse.  What could be more awesome than mythos monsters who are also librarians?

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This may very well be my favorite HPL cover, and the story is also top shelf. It's well desreving of the premiums it commands. GOD BLESS ...

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On 3/22/2024 at 7:34 PM, The-Collector said:

Lovely. I particularly like books where the PB is the true 1st edition. 

There are more of them than I expected. Many Adult novels, for example, never made it to hardcover. GOD BLESS ...

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Some more Sci Fi for the Friday Fun...

The Ace series were the Heinlein Juvenile editions my sister gave me when I was about 11 that hooked me on Heinlein and Science Fiction as a whole. They are also, for the most part, the first pb editions of his "juveniles". Those copies were read to death and have gone to the great pb graveyard in the sky but these here beauties are going in the cabinet to stay :)

"Rocket Ship Galileo" was the first one she gave me and it was perfect because I was a wise-alecky punk kid and it's about a bunch of wise-alecky punk teens who help build a rocket, go to the moon

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and defeat the Nazi remnants who had a secret base there

This blazing copy let's the Steel Savage artwork shine. His paintings were like good friends to a whole generation of geeky teen age boys. First published in 1947, First PB published in 1970

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As the back cover blurb suggests, Lummox, "The Star Beast" was "just about the most appealing and lovable creature of the kind ever delineated". Steel Savage again with the unforgettable artwork on this blazer. Who could resist Lummox? First published in 1954, First PB published in 1970

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This one here piqued my interest, and I may have to seek out a hardbound at the Library that has print large enough for me to read. Sci Fi and Adventure are my go to books to read, but I did read "The Outsiders" in Jr. High as a school assignment, and I could probably read some of the gang books. GOD BLESS ... 

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I also like the espionage thrillers too...

 

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On 3/23/2024 at 9:54 PM, moonpool said:

Generally my paperback collection doesn't extend past the 1950's.  But this was to nice and cheap to pass up.

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Botchilism peril? That's a new one! Beware 0008!

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