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

[OtherEric]

To follow up on the recent discussion of Wraparound covers, I went looking through my Aces to see if I had missed any others.  The best I could find was this one, which I would call a borderline case at best.

 

[Darwination]

wraparound

[OtherEric]

I think I've identified a couple more Ace wraparound covers, I'll probably order them next week.  But I've got enough on the way that I don't want to add to the pile right this second...

[jimjum12]

On 4/8/2024 at 12:12 AM, OtherEric said:

I think I've identified a couple more Ace wraparound covers, I'll probably order them next week.  But I've got enough on the way that I don't want to add to the pile right this second...

You could store some of the cooler stuff at my crib. Anything to help a Brother out, just saying. Hit me up for the deets. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[jimjum12]

You guys were talking about Orrie Hitt, and I've yet to actually read anything. I recently snagged this, as it's in the JD sub-genre. I'm not a pervert, I was actually exposed to these in Junior High, when I was forced to read "The Outsiders" in English class and liked it. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[Darwination]

Sadly, not my copy, Fred Rodewald art.

[Darwination]

On 4/8/2024 at 9:07 AM, jimjum12 said:

.....I'm not a pervert...

I am a pervert, Jim

[BitterOldMan]

On 4/8/2024 at 7:36 AM, Darwination said:

I am a pervert, Jim

Back in the eighties, two of my coworkers and I were walking back from lunch in the North Beach part of San Francisco, as we walk by the topless clubs on Broadway, a barker shouts “Perverts half price, two out of three of youse guys will qualify.”  No work got done that afternoon, since the finger pointing never stopped.  Good times!😂

[OtherEric]

On 4/8/2024 at 6:19 AM, jimjum12 said:

You could store some of the cooler stuff at my crib. Anything to help a Brother out, just saying. Hit me up for the deets. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

I appreciate your generous offer and will consider it, Jimbo.

[jimjum12]

On 4/8/2024 at 10:36 AM, Darwination said:

I am a pervert, Jim

Perhaps, but you're OUR pervert  GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[Pat Calhoun]

borrowed a pic from Red for jimbo: "when I was forced to read 'The Outsider' in English class and liked it"

Edited April 8 by Pat Calhoun

[Surfing Alien]

On 4/8/2024 at 10:07 AM, jimjum12 said:

You guys were talking about Orrie Hitt, and I've yet to actually read anything. I recently snagged this, as it's in the JD sub-genre. I'm not a pervert, I was actually exposed to these in Junior High, when I was forced to read "The Outsiders" in English class and liked it. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

 

I've read quite a few Hitt novels and many of the JD novels I collect. The theme that runs through quite a few of the JD books in particular is a "stand-up" guy, whether a policeman or social worker, who gets caught up trying to save some salvageable soul in the gang, who is usually a beautiful girl, slightly under 18, who they develop a soft spot for and end up falling in love with. I've been surprised at the number of them that end up blatantly sleeping with them as I thought there was a code in place back then where that was a no no.

Most of the Hitt novels I've read have been more of the Horatio Alger type where the protagonists are lower or middle class workers who can never get a break, and the plot of the book involves them having a chance to "make it big" in some way that would compromise them (sleeping with someone, using questionable business tactics, both,  etc.) and how they resolve that dilemma.

[Pat Calhoun]

[Black Cactus]

I think I remember reading somewhere that Orrie Hitt would crank out a book a week, writing them at his kitchen table while chain smoking cigarettes. 

[Surfing Alien]

This article about Hitt is more colorful and entertaining than a dull Wiki...

https://www.criminalelement.com/orrie-hitt-the-shakespeare-of-shabby-street-hall-of-fame-pulp-brian-greene/

[Darwination]

On 4/8/2024 at 2:41 PM, Pat Calhoun said:

See, this is fantastic to me   She's cute and you can see the swish in her walk, and maybe that blouse is down a button too far, but I don't consider it trashy.  The boys are gawking and admirin and smiling but just being boys, not leering.  Even grandma on the stairs ain't judging.  It's a subversion of sleaze and JD hysteria (just like a lot of JD fiction I've read which seems to have its heart in the right place, at least most of the time).

[Surfing Alien]

On 4/8/2024 at 6:51 PM, Darwination said:

See, this is fantastic to me   She's cute and you can see the swish in her walk, and maybe that blouse is down a button too far, but I don't consider it trashy.  The boys are gawking and admirin and smiling but just being boys, not leering.  Even grandma on the stairs ain't judging.  It's a subversion of sleaze and JD hysteria (just like a lot of JD fiction I've read which seems to have its heart in the right place, at least most of the time).

Walter Popp's cover girl is gritty and excellent - and this one is a great read to boot. Calling the dude a "Heel" is kindness, he's a real POS

 

 

[Darwination]

On 4/8/2024 at 4:10 PM, Surfing Alien said:

This article about Hitt is more colorful and entertaining than a dull Wiki...

https://www.criminalelement.com/orrie-hitt-the-shakespeare-of-shabby-street-hall-of-fame-pulp-brian-greene/

Writing at a typewriter in the kitchen all day?  Not a place I can write. Cool article.

Then the bonus of the staunch ownership of the word "pulp" in the comments by a pulp magazine fan, always good for a chuckle.

[OtherEric]

In today.  This gives me the complete run of all 75 1/2 Ace D-Series SF doubles, which is roughly 1/8 of the entire D-S-G run and a definite milestone in my collection.  The Star Guard leaves me 6 short of all the D-S SF books in total, and half of those I've got on order already.  It will be a few days before I do a group shot of the doubles because I've got an upgrade on one book on the way from @Surfing Alien's recent sales thread, but I'll definitely do one soon.

I really do need to figure out what later SF doubles I need, I've got lots but I've never put together an organized list.  Anybody know off the top of their head how many there were total?  (I don't include the very late doubles that only have one cover even if they are two books.)

[jimjum12]

The pretty ones are hard to put in the rear view mirror, especially those that saw screen time. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)