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

[Surfing Alien]

While we're still on the re-use subject, I dug back once again to the legendary Doohickamabob thread where he posted literally every Avon/Realistic comic/paperback re-use (starting on page 8) so no one has to go looking or wondering what there was...

 

A fun thread and a great effort on the original poster's part

 

 

[Darwination]

Awesome!

[Darwination]

That doubles thread is so good.  I know where I'm going from now on when I need to find the source of Avon re-uses.  Cheap bastards.

A new one discovered just this morning as I was looking back at a pulp auction post at MCS I did last night.  The Avenger cover was new to me, but The Perfect Crime issue is one I scanned way back when, and my copy had been languishing at eBay for a few months until somebody picked it up last week (happened to be a few copies up at the same time, kind of weird for a htf title).  I'd been looking at that cover so long as I relisted the sucker over and over it was seared into my brain (not to mention the hours spent on the original cover restoration for the scan), and I had that aha moment after a little deja vu.

[jimjum12]

By one of Robert E Howard's two sons, Fritz Leiber. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[johnenock]

On 4/16/2024 at 10:48 AM, jimjum12 said:

By one of Robert E Howard's two sons, Fritz Leiber. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

Been on a roll lately, Jim. Some pristine looking books!

[jimjum12]

On 4/16/2024 at 1:16 PM, johnenock said:

Been on a roll lately, Jim. Some pristine looking books!

Coming from you, that's high praise. You've been making me jealous for weeks now.  GOD BLESS ....

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[Surfing Alien]

Swamp Hoyden by Jack Woodford and John B. Thompson Uni Book No. 71. Cover art by Saul Levine (Re-used on Whittington's "Cracker Girl")

Once you start collecting digests, especially Uni Books and the others with thin cover paper, it becomes a tough itch to scratch

This one has it all, high grade, swamps & cleavage. What more could a man ask for ?

 

[Surfing Alien]

She Lived In Sin (The Sins of Donna Kenyon)   Croydon No. 101R   1954    Cover art by Lou Marchetti

Some of these late number Croydons you just never see, this one is a first for me.  The story is a reprint of Stork Books No. 6, which may account for the "R" in the numbering

This incredible copy is one of my pickups from the LA show that I'm finally getting to re-bagging and cataloguing. I am definitely going to have to do another sale because I can't get my overflow boxes to fit back in the closet anymore

 

[johnenock]

On 4/16/2024 at 3:30 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Swamp Hoyden by Jack Woodford and John B. Thompson Uni Book No. 71. Cover art by Saul Levine (Re-used on Whittington's "Cracker Girl")

Once you start collecting digests, especially Uni Books and the others with thin cover paper, it becomes a tough itch to scratch

This one has it all, high grade, swamps & cleavage. What more could a man ask for ?

 

I love swamps!

[Darwination]

I'm still a little confused by the term digest.  We started a thread for em with some discussion, and I thought I had a grasp of it, but it seems like it's used a little differently in the paperbacks.  I was thinking digest means saddle-stitched, but these unibooks aren't quite that.  Is it cause they are still bound in signatures (thick though they may be) and not perfectly squarebound? I know I've been confused when Eric calls some of the Avon's digests...

some randomish auction images -

I see some of the uni-books had the saddle-stitching, too (this is what I think of as a pb digest):

I've been surprised at how strong the font strike is on the digests that I've gotten, very good compared to the pulps.  I'm sure it varies, though.  Love the cover gloss on them, but they do seem *just a wee bit delicate* when it comes to scratching and tearing.

I'm seeing some of the names from the romance pulps on these "sleaze" items like Peggy Gaddis and tons of Woodford from the girlie pulps.  See plenty of names I'm totally unfamiliar with, too.

 

Edited April 17 by Darwination

[OtherEric]

Digest generally refers to trim size in this context.  So the Dell 10c books are a rare example of saddle stitched paperbacks rather than digests.  Otherwise, most saddle stitched books are digest size but not all (or even most) digests are saddle stitched.

I’ll try to get a picture to compare sizes when I get home if nobody beats me to it.

[Surfing Alien]

On 4/16/2024 at 7:56 PM, OtherEric said:

Digest generally refers to trim size in this context.

This 

[Darwination]

I do believe I understand now

[johnenock]

A few new ones:

I go back and forth on wether I like Dell's, Avon's or Ace cover artists the best:

 

An all-time favorite:

And bought this for the synopsis alone:

Edited April 17 by johnenock

[OtherEric]

On 4/16/2024 at 7:56 PM, johnenock said:

A few new ones:

I go back and forth on wether I like Dell's, Avon's or Ace cover artists the best:

 

An all-time favorite:

And bought this for the synopsis alone:

That’s why I love this forum.  Most of us never make it past the Frazetta art to go “there’s a synopsis?”

[OtherEric]

On 4/16/2024 at 6:37 PM, Darwination said:

I do believe I understand now

It sounds like you do, but since I promised an image when I got home, here's a digest by a paperback anyway:

[Darwination]

 

[OtherEric]

On 4/16/2024 at 9:58 PM, Darwination said:

 

You've got it!

[Sarg]

On 4/16/2024 at 6:45 PM, Darwination said:

I'm still a little confused by the term digest.  We started a thread for em with some discussion, and I thought I had a grasp of it, but it seems like it's used a little differently in the paperbacks.  I was thinking digest means saddle-stitched, but these unibooks aren't quite that.  Is it cause they are still bound in signatures (thick though they may be) and not perfectly squarebound? I know I've been confused when Eric calls some of the Avon's digests...

some randomish auction images -

 

"Digest" has two applications, I think:

1. Size: digests are wider than typical paperbacks (4.25" x 6.375"). Digests are 5" wide or more. 

2. Publication Status. "Digest" most commonly refers to periodicals, whereas "paperbacks" are books, not periodicals. 

 

Edited April 17 by Sarg
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[Robot Man]

Digests are a little wider and taller than paperbacks. Also, less pages and saddle stitched.