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So where are all the Edgar Church Pulps?

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rjpb

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Thinking of "church" quality pulps reminds me of a collection I saw at a Columbus Ohio comic-con in the early 70s. A dealer had a few hundred pulps in incredible condition - with fantastic page quality, and beautiful spines. They all looked like they had just been picked off the newstand. I looked through them because at the time I bought the occaissonal Shadow pulp, but there weren't any in the collection. I do remember pondering a run of Captain Satan - which were priced at something like $35 each, and thinking about blowing all my comic money on them, but passed. Used to browning pages and ragged overhangs, I was amazed at the quality of these books, and today I wonder where the collection came from.

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I understand there's a new pulp price guide out. Given that these books go back to the 1920's or earlier (depending on one's definition) they should be at least as rare as Golden Age comics. I'm just wondering why they're not as widely collected.

 

There are certainly comic connections, after all. (Ka-Zar first appeared in a pulp magazine, didn't he?)

 

Todd "Considering investing in HG Black Masks " 893scratchchin-thumb.gif Frye

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I understand there's a new pulp price guide out. Given that these books go back to the 1920's or earlier (depending on one's definition) they should be at least as rare as Golden Age comics. I'm just wondering why they're not as widely collected.

 

There are certainly comic connections, after all. (Ka-Zar first appeared in a pulp magazine, didn't he?)

 

Todd "Considering investing in HG Black Masks " 893scratchchin-thumb.gif Frye

 

Good question. Lack of nostalgia? Low quality of the fiction therein (for many series)? Many might think that today's pulp scene is tomorrow's GA comic scene. Let's hope not.

 

Is there an old hand here who might know if the pulp scene was ever vibrant in the first place, let's say pulps have seen their big time in the 60s and 70s and then waned or have they always been the perview (sp?) of the few and the obscure? I know very little of the history of pulp collecting.

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Btw, black masks in any grade will cost you a bunch, generally speaking. I know a guy who was collecting them for work on a history of pulps book that I believe is going to publication soon...he spent a ton of dough on those books on ebay, and he always went for the lowest grade possible.

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I didn't realize a new pulp price guide was out....would be interesting to find out around how much my wife's little collection of black dahlia pulps would fetch... 893scratchchin-thumb.gif

 

Shead, I need an excuse to use my copy of the guide. Reply here with some of your wife's pulp title and issues and I'll get you the price.

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Btw, black masks in any grade will cost you a bunch, generally speaking. I know a guy who was collecting them for work on a history of pulps book that I believe is going to publication soon...he spent a ton of dough on those books on ebay, and he always went for the lowest grade possible.

 

Considering the price of Golden Age comics, the price asked for many pulps is very little. confused-smiley-013.gif

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there are a few pulps I d be interested in buying, but mainly forst appearances, etc. I think they are cool, woth great covers. But, the average low grade of the copies available and the fact that I never experienced them first hand growing up dampens my slight enthusiasm for collecting pulps... I figure there are just a handful of people actively seriouesly interested in them.

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The thing with Pulps is that there are no "Near Mint's",.....there's next to no "Very Fine's",...to find a "Fine" is a treasure. The upper grades are VG/F,....VG's are a little upper-grade. Most nice examples are in the range around $300.00 each.

 

Quite a bargin as opposed to Golden Age comics. thumbsup2.gif

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Thinking of "church" quality pulps reminds me of a collection I saw at a Columbus Ohio comic-con in the early 70s. A dealer had a few hundred pulps in incredible condition - with fantastic page quality, and beautiful spines. They all looked like they had just been picked off the newstand. I looked through them because at the time I bought the occaissonal Shadow pulp, but there weren't any in the collection. I do remember pondering a run of Captain Satan - which were priced at something like $35 each, and thinking about blowing all my comic money on them, but passed. Used to browning pages and ragged overhangs, I was amazed at the quality of these books, and today I wonder where the collection came from.

 

Actually, $35 per issue would have been quite a bit of money back in the early 70's. You have to remember that very early Golden-Age DC and Timely books were guiding for less than $100 in Mint condition then.

 

Of course, it didn't mean that you could necessarily find them at all in the marketplace for anywhere close to those prices, if at all. confused-smiley-013.gif

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Thinking of "church" quality pulps reminds me of a collection I saw at a Columbus Ohio comic-con in the early 70s. A dealer had a few hundred pulps in incredible condition - with fantastic page quality, and beautiful spines. They all looked like they had just been picked off the newstand. I looked through them because at the time I bought the occaissonal Shadow pulp, but there weren't any in the collection. I do remember pondering a run of Captain Satan - which were priced at something like $35 each, and thinking about blowing all my comic money on them, but passed. Used to browning pages and ragged overhangs, I was amazed at the quality of these books, and today I wonder where the collection came from.

 

Actually, $35 per issue would have been quite a bit of money back in the early 70's. You have to remember that very early Golden-Age DC and Timely books were guiding for less than $100 in Mint condition then.

 

Of course, it didn't mean that you could necessarily find them at all in the marketplace for anywhere close to those prices, if at all. confused-smiley-013.gif

 

Robert Bell catalog had AF # 15 ,Spider-man # 1 and FF # 1 for $100.00 each (if I remember correctly). I do remember X-Men # 1 at $ 13.00 each.

 

 

1970 Guide had X-Men # 1 at $8.00 at the time. Christo_pull_hair.gif

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I didn't realize a new pulp price guide was out....would be interesting to find out around how much my wife's little collection of black dahlia pulps would fetch... 893scratchchin-thumb.gif

 

Shead, I need an excuse to use my copy of the guide. Reply here with some of your wife's pulp title and issues and I'll get you the price.

 

Sweet! I will get her to dig some up and get back to ya. yay.gif

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