OtherEric Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 On 4/19/2024 at 8:33 AM, waaaghboss said: Woken up this morning to a lady from down the street with an open box of some new pulps, and a weird look on her face. The only book whos cover was visible was a film fun annual, but in this area thats basically hardcore porn. Mailman missed my house by a quarter of a mile 😆 With that said, three cheers to your neighbor who took the time to deliver the books to you, rather than just send the box back, or dump it due to objection to the contents. She's one of the good ones! waaaghboss, Surfing Alien and Darwination 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waaaghboss Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 (edited) And of course my first tape tear in a while, I remove the tape before removing the books to rebag but somehow a piece found its way to the cover 😢 Edited April 19 by waaaghboss Yorick and Darwination 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 The girlies might have been less offensive than some of that weird menace you collect Good on your neighbor for walking them down. I'm not hating on the USPS, but I swear there will be periods where I'm delivering something to one of my neighbors that got put in my box every week or two. You must live in a pretty quiet berg for a Film Fun Annual to raise any eyebrows Love both of these books. Bolles has some very refined work on this era of Snappy Stories, and the Driben is one of his best earlier covers. waaaghboss 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post waaaghboss Posted April 19 Popular Post Share Posted April 19 On 4/19/2024 at 10:12 AM, Darwination said: The girlies might have been less offensive than some of that weird menace you collect Good on your neighbor for walking them down. I'm not hating on the USPS, but I swear there will be periods where I'm delivering something to one of my neighbors that got put in my box every week or two. You must live in a pretty quiet berg for a Film Fun Annual to raise any eyebrows Love both of these books. Bolles has some very refined work on this era of Snappy Stories, and the Driben is one of his best earlier covers. I might be exaggerating a bit lol, but there is a mormon temple less than 3 miles from my house 😇 I do live in a nice older neighborhood though. Also got this pair in, love the annual but its as big as those old marvel bicentennial comics! Pat Calhoun, Darwination, comicjack and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 "Well Done" I had no idea the FF annuals are giants, never had one. I love the champagne girlie. I like the Greiner but am not sure I've ever seen a lass wear a cape to the beach before. waaaghboss 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waaaghboss Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 (edited) On 4/19/2024 at 2:54 PM, Darwination said: "Well Done" I had no idea the FF annuals are giants, never had one. I love the champagne girlie. I like the Greiner but am not sure I've ever seen a lass wear a cape to the beach before. $Blonde superman prototype?$ Funnily enough I got in a rough spicy detective with a superman ad on the back. Never knew DC went blue. Edited April 19 by waaaghboss Yorick and pmpknface 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 I love the fact that Superman is around cuz Donenfeld was peddling Pep Stories and Spicy Detective until he could truly get over. Ironically, the success of Superman led to pressure to clean up his act and might have contributed to the demise of the Girlie pulps OtherEric and waaaghboss 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 Real Story Book morphed into Frolics (becoming squarebound somewhere along the way) and then finally into Paris Frolics pmpknface, waaaghboss and johnenock 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pmpknface Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 On 4/26/2024 at 1:36 AM, Darwination said: Love this!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Point Five Posted Monday at 02:05 AM Share Posted Monday at 02:05 AM I had a run of earlyish Pep Stories at one time -- sold them off over time but kept this one. Not as racy as some perhaps, but just a lovely cover IMO. pmpknface, Darwination, waaaghboss and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted Monday at 04:26 AM Share Posted Monday at 04:26 AM (edited) That's fantastic, Point Five. It's innocent and naughty all at the same time. The early ones are so tough, and that one has really vibrant colors. In fact, this image right here is going into my files as the best I've seen. The cover is Jack Greiner. He first went by Otto then Oscar and Jack was a nickname that he shifted to as he was Americanized. His father was a fine artist, Magnus. He might have shifted to Jack not seem so Germanic is my guess, but he'd hardly be the only guy in the pulp/comics biz to shed their ethnic sounding name. I don't know if you'd be willing to take a picture of the contents page for me (no pressure!), but the Fictionmags index is lacking the contents for the issue. I'll make sure it gets up there. In fact, I'm reminded need to index the series for Galactic Central like I have a number of others in the girlies. I've got a couple of other contents pages they need I haven't sent yet, and I haven't proofed this title yet as far as (hopefully) tracking down missing covers or contents and double checking any errors in the volume numbering. As I do a series, I always gather the best possible images available for my own personal files (my one gripe about the index is that thumbnails are OK for identifying issues but nearly worthless for identifying lesser known artists) which is a personal motivator for a somewhat grueling process. Here's the cover index for Pep Stories: http://www.philsp.com/mags/pep_stories.html He's got it at appx. 142 issues. I already indexed Paris Nights (Lacking a possible two cover images! Fifteen years ago it was still a pipe dream to track down all the covers for some of these titles *flex*) which by my rough count has 147 issues. These two titles were the two giants in the genre. Edited Monday at 08:57 AM by Darwination Point Five, Yorick and waaaghboss 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted Tuesday at 09:04 AM Share Posted Tuesday at 09:04 AM (edited) Edited Tuesday at 09:05 AM by Darwination Pat Calhoun, Point Five and pmpknface 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
