It would be a Crime not to post your Detective Pulps 6 6

[Robot Man]

I know it is almost blasfamy to post very low grade on the boards but… This was posted here on the boards for $10. I thought about it and passed. It was then discounted to $7.

It really didn’t take me long to come to my senses and grab it. What a cover! I quickly realized, in today’s market how it would probably be out of my range if it were nicer. And if I even saw another one.

Sometimes, the smart thing with pulps is to buy what you can, when you can and just hope for a better one that might never pop up again.

Heck, you probably couldn’t by a couple new comics for $7…

[Darwination]

Dude, it is in no way a crime to post or buy low grade pulps.  In my experience, especially with early and low run titles, there are issues you never even see. And with a ten dollar pulp, you might just feel comfortable reading it on the can or at the pool.

I've let many girlie pulps pass or been a condition snob and NEVER seen em again.  And now that wee price point will have exploded 10 times (at least).  Just this morning I'm crying in my coffee thinking about a pulp somebody listed this weekend as VF or some mess that was more like VG, and I only took a healthy swing and not a ridiculous one on principle.  Now I regret it, as I'd been hunting the issue for 15 years, and it was the first time I've seen it.  A pulp is truly only worth what someone will pay.  I guess the flip side of that is you can sometimes get a rare romance or sport pulp for a dollar because nobody cares...

I don't think G-Men is that scarce, but on the other hand I don't see all that many.  With a unique title like that it may just avoid some of the standard eBay searches, though...

Edited September 25, 2023 by Darwination

[Robot Man]

On 9/25/2023 at 8:40 AM, Darwination said:

Dude, it is in no way a crime to post or buy low grade pulps.  In my experience, especially with early and low run titles, there are issues you never even see. And with a ten dollar pulp, you might just feel comfortable reading it on the can or at the pool.

I've let many girlie pulps pass or been a condition snob and NEVER seen em again.  And now that wee price point will have exploded 10 times (at least).  Just this morning I'm crying in my coffee thinking about a pulp somebody listed this weekend as VF or some mess that was more like VG, and I only took a healthy swing and not a ridiculous one on principle.  Now I regret it, as I'd been hunting the issue for 15 years, and it was the first time I've seen it.  A pulp is truly only worth what someone will pay.  I guess the flip side of that is you can sometimes get a rare romance or sport pulp for a dollar because nobody cares...

I don't think G-Men is that scarce, but on the other hand I don't see all that many.  With a unique title like that it may just avoid some of the standard eBay searches, though...

I was kind of kidding. I have never had a problem buying low grade comics and pulps when I am lucky enough to run into them. Often, I have never found an upgrade and am always happy to have it at all.

I have and always posted any cool book regardless of condition and always will.

I know how many here are grade and price crazy. I encourage folks to post stuff they like regardless of it. 

[Darwination]

[Darwination]

[Ameri]

Not exactly a detective pulp but a December 1935 magazine making fun of the pulps. Magazines like Mad and Cracked would later fine tune this type of satire in the 1960's.  

[Darwination]

On 9/28/2023 at 11:12 PM, Ameri said:

Not exactly a detective pulp but a December 1935 magazine making fun of the pulps. Magazines like Mad and Cracked would later fine tune this type of satire in the 1960's.  

I think yours here is about the nicest copy of that ish I've come across.  Mine has just a *little bit* of spine at the tape and is missing a page

The issue is also notable as possibly the first publishing venture of Adrian Lopez (together with Hugh Layne) who went on to publish quite a few magazines over the years. 

I'd love to find a copy or at least a nice high resolution scan for the cover of the second issue of the magazine which is a similar design to Dizzy Detective but a send-up of Hollywood mags. 

I've never even seen the third (and likely final) issue up for sale.  It smartly drops the confusing (but awesome) parody schtick (how are you going to build a brand like that?!), and the topic is politics.  I'd like to find this one, too, even a beater copy.

https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/y0wk1wlk1ii2isu/Satire_v01n01_1935-12.Satire_%28Dizzy_Detective_Magazine%29_%28missing_pgs_29%2C30%29_%28Darwination%29.cbr/file

https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/9n0x8gt8s3ucol6/Satire_v01n02_1936-01.Satire_%28My_Gawd%21_Another_Movie_Magazine%29_%28-cvrs%29_%28SS-Nation%29.cbr/file

 

Edited September 29, 2023 by Darwination

[OtherEric]

On 9/28/2023 at 10:11 PM, Darwination said:

I've never even seen the third (and likely final) issue up for sale.  It smartly drops the confusing (but awesome) parody schtick (how are you going to build a brand like that?!), and the topic is politics.  I'd like to find this one, too, even a beater copy.

I would argue the first several years of National Lampoon did something very much like that.  You keep the branding of the magazine somewhat consistent, then give every issue a distinct theme.  It's a little less blatant than the Satire covers were doing, but it's a very similar idea.  The separate logos did have to go, though, but each issue built the majority of its content around the selected theme.

 

[Darwination]

On 9/29/2023 at 12:39 AM, OtherEric said:

I would argue the first several years of National Lampoon did something very much like that.  You keep the branding of the magazine somewhat consistent, then give every issue a distinct theme.  It's a little less blatant than the Satire covers were doing, but it's a very similar idea.  The separate logos did have to go, though, but each issue built the majority of its content around the selected theme.

 

 

Omg, this one

[OtherEric]

On 9/28/2023 at 10:47 PM, Darwination said:

Omg, this one

I really should find a somewhat better copy, but it's unsurprisingly a very high demand issue.  It's one of the most famous magazine covers of all time, with good reason.

[Ameri]

On 9/29/2023 at 1:11 AM, Darwination said:

I think yours here is about the nicest copy of that ish I've come across.  Mine has just a *little bit* of spine at the tape and is missing a page

The issue is also notable as possibly the first publishing venture of Adrian Lopez (together with Hugh Layne) who went on to publish quite a few magazines over the years. 

I'd love to find a copy or at least a nice high resolution scan for the cover of the second issue of the magazine which is a similar design to Dizzy Detective but a send-up of Hollywood mags. 

I've never even seen the third (and likely final) issue up for sale.  It smartly drops the confusing (but awesome) parody schtick (how are you going to build a brand like that?!), and the topic is politics.  I'd like to find this one, too, even a beater copy.

https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/y0wk1wlk1ii2isu/Satire_v01n01_1935-12.Satire_%28Dizzy_Detective_Magazine%29_%28missing_pgs_29%2C30%29_%28Darwination%29.cbr/file

https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/9n0x8gt8s3ucol6/Satire_v01n02_1936-01.Satire_%28My_Gawd%21_Another_Movie_Magazine%29_%28-cvrs%29_%28SS-Nation%29.cbr/file

 

Thanks for the information! Here is my 2nd one and some interiors  

[Ameri]

July 15, 1942 issue  

[Darwination]

[Darwination]

 

 

[Darwination]

Coffy kept a razorblade in her afro.  This senorita has a shiv in her do, too.

 

[Sarg]

Those are new to me. Amazing.

[Darwination]

[Darwination]

Sorry if I'm all True Crime up in here, but I imagine it's in the same spirit art-wise -

Even the beaters on these can present nicely, the condition sort of fits the material

Except for the mook who decided to put a 1949 sticker on it.  WTF. Why WHYYYYYY -

[Darwination]

[Sarg]

On 10/8/2023 at 10:44 AM, Darwination said:

Sorry if I'm all True Crime up in here, but I imagine it's in the same spirit art-wise -

Even the beaters on these can present nicely, the condition sort of fits the material

Except for the mook who decided to put a 1949 sticker on it.  WTF. Why WHYYYYYY -

 

Gotta be a George Gross cover, no?