waaaghboss Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 (edited) 8.4k not bad. Book I was trying for went a bit out of my range. 1.5k 2k Edited March 14 by waaaghboss Surfing Alien and Darwination 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnenock Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 8.4 for the Fame and Fortune? What's the significance? Rarity? Author? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waaaghboss Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 (edited) On 3/14/2024 at 4:44 PM, johnenock said: 8.4 for the Fame and Fortune? What's the significance? Rarity? Author? Bookery just notated it having a cool cover, compared to the rest of the magazine's run. The surrounding issues are 300, this one at 600. Edited March 14 by waaaghboss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 Heh heh, don't get me started on this one tonight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 I won one tonight, hell hath frozen over. What a blast to see the Heritage crowd in unfamiliar waters up in my world with all of these very odd non-pulp magazines. I suspect this is where all the oddballs got stuck from the Kump collection and that many wouldn't otherwise be seen at Heritage. But, surprisingly, many of that kind of magazine did very well. I was floored by the prices that some items in my collection fetched that I would not have suspected. I'll cobble together a few faves and a few comments waaaghboss, jimjum12, pmpknface and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Darwination Posted March 15 Popular Post Share Posted March 15 (edited) Alright, as promised, commentary on this funky monkey little auction. Top dog - the Fame and Fortune Magazine above. I'm not surprised and think it's a worthy winner. I think the timing of the magazine with the stock market crash that precipitated The Great Depression makes it a classic. Not to mention the high rollers at Heritage no doubt dig the Wall Street imagery - Second dog: One of three 20s KKK covers that did well. Collectors love them some KKK The best KKK-ish cover/issue in the auction was The McClure's with the black hood cover/Bulldog Drummond story that ended with the relatively low hammer, maybe it's the photo cover: #3 was this one. I'm not familiar with it, but it has importance in comics circles, I'm told. I'm clueless about the contents: Those Fifth Column are intriguing, I'd love to read one and find out. I guess the swastika and tarantula was everybody's fave, but I think the snake ish that was up is KILLER, it gets the biggie size treatment but speaking of Nazis, wtf, put a swastika on a Black Cat and it's worth a mint? O.K. The Black Cat is a charming little magazine, dare I say pulp, that had some very cool fiction and an excellent vibe. Forget the swastika, I like my kitties zen'd out I'm not going hard at a Boys' Friend Library but on the other hand you may never see this again. BAD VIBES, MAN, BAD VIBES, hammer price 660. ONLY BECAUSE YOU COULDNT GO 666 MMkay, the one I let get away. I think this is gorgeous, really cool covers on the title. Not sure who the artist is but some neat early experimentation at Fawcett with this magazine: Hard to find and very hard to find in nice shape like that one, I've got a single ish in my boxes: The June 36 edition with H.J Ward cover of the unique title Easy Money went for a fair price, but this one got slept on imo. I slept on it, too. Tremendous art and design, wonder who it is. I'll stop there, but the pattern continued with newbs in the pulp game of overpaying for more common items but there were also scarcities that went undetected. Granted, I get that the vintage magazine waters are a bit untested at this type of auction... The Sports Story with three REH stories was awesome, but there's still not much love for Sports pulp, kind of on the bottom of the heap. Some really nice mags went unbid or sold for a dollar at the end but I guess that's what happens when you gotta ante up the BP. One last dig, I'm pretty sure that this Esquire barely if at all leaves G area and certainly doesn't touch any part of the F area, and that's before you notice it's fade. It's a straight up key tho when it comes to 20th century magazines. I'll show the one I got when it comes in, a small one but very neat to me. Edited March 15 by Darwination johnenock, Randall Dowling, ThothAmon and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 On 3/14/2024 at 4:44 PM, johnenock said: 8.4 for the Fame and Fortune? What's the significance? Rarity? Author? Shadow precursor. Not saying that's a particularly accurate description... I really don't know... but I do know it's been cited as such. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post GACollectibles Posted March 15 Popular Post Share Posted March 15 On 3/14/2024 at 10:55 PM, Darwination said: but speaking of Nazis, wtf, put a swastika on a Black Cat and it's worth a mint? O.K. In defense of The Black Cat, the swastika did not become what we consider negative until about 1920 when Hitler's Nazi Party adopted it as their symbol. Prior to that it was a symbol of "A sign of good fortune, fertility, happiness, Sun, and it was given spiritual import as well as commercial value when it was used with or as a brand or logo,". I have a home that was built before 1920 and has a tile floor with this and other related (positive) symbols. Randall Dowling, Robot Man, tth2 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ryan. Posted March 15 Popular Post Share Posted March 15 On 3/15/2024 at 8:11 AM, GACollectibles said: In defense of The Black Cat, the swastika did not become what we consider negative until about 1920 when Hitler's Nazi Party adopted it as their symbol. Prior to that it was a symbol of "A sign of good fortune, fertility, happiness, Sun, and it was given spiritual import as well as commercial value when it was used with or as a brand or logo,". I have a home that was built before 1920 and has a tile floor with this and other related (positive) symbols. Walks into GACollectibles compound: "Say, what's with the swastikas everywhere?" GACollectibles: "Uhh, those were already there when I bought the place. Yeah, that's the ticket." SpideyFein, johnenock, ThothAmon and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GACollectibles Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 That's my story am I'm sticking to it. tth2 and Randall Dowling 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 On 3/15/2024 at 7:11 AM, GACollectibles said: In defense of The Black Cat, the swastika did not become what we consider negative until about 1920 when Hitler's Nazi Party adopted it as their symbol. Prior to that it was a symbol of "A sign of good fortune, fertility, happiness, Sun, and it was given spiritual import as well as commercial value when it was used with or as a brand or logo,". I have a home that was built before 1920 and has a tile floor with this and other related (positive) symbols. Oh, totally, I am not smearing The Cat! A very common symbol used in a number of cultures (and sort of a simple pattern to draw). I believe a backwards version is on a lot of the Hersey pulps. I even went back after I wrote that last night to check the cover to see if I was missing fiction of note - not that I could detect - I recognized Dwyer from The Popular but that's it GACollectibles 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tth2 Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 On 3/15/2024 at 10:46 PM, Darwination said: I believe a backwards version is on a lot of the Hersey pulps. A backwards swastika is a common Buddhist symbol. In fact, that's the correct direction, and it's the Nazi swastika that is backwards. jimjum12 and Darwination 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpknface Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 On 3/15/2024 at 11:14 AM, tth2 said: A backwards swastika is a common Buddhist symbol. In fact, that's the correct direction, and it's the Nazi swastika that is backwards. YUP! I first learned this by reading "Blade of the Immortal" where the title character wears a kimono with the symbol on it. There is an explanation of this in every tpb so people don't get ticked off about it. Great read by the way! tth2 and johnenock 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 The swastica was also used by American “Indigious People” as a good luck symbol. I have seen it portrayed on old blankets, beadwork and jewelry. jimjum12 and johnenock 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 On 3/15/2024 at 10:40 AM, pmpknface said: YUP! I first learned this by reading "Blade of the Immortal" where the title character wears a kimono with the symbol on it. There is an explanation of this in every tpb so people don't get ticked off about it. Great read by the way! *Killer* manga - the art is just next level. Takashi Mike's film version is great, too. Was thinking the manga was actually collaborative and studio work under the single pen name, but that's not what I'm seeing at the wiki. pmpknface and jimjum12 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Darwination Posted March 16 Popular Post Share Posted March 16 MMkay, was looking more closely at the Easy Money cover I was praising up there and caught the signature: It's Charles McCann who worked for the Shades and later Harry Donenfeld. The above cover might be his best, but he did this electric chair cover, too, a near-classic: One original painting at Heritage (September 1935 The Gang Magazine) Looks like he mostly did interior illustration, particularly for Spicy Mystery. David Saunders has a short entry at his pulp wiki on McCann with various signatures and examples. For my digging, I was rewarded with the solving of a minor mystery in the my pet area, the girlie pulps, by figuring out who was behind this grotesquerie, his thus far earliest catalogued work (and perhaps only girlie pulp cover appearance): adamstrange, waaaghboss, pmpknface and 7 others 8 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tth2 Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 The CGC 7.0 W October 1933 ("Batgirl") Weird Tales went for $30k. It'd been sitting at $25k pretty much since the first few days of online bidding, so not much movement during the floor auction. A helpful pricing benchmark for one of the first CGC copies of one of the hobby's most iconic books. ThothAmon, jimjum12 and Darwination 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Darwination Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 I didn't watch today (am away from the batcave). Are people seeing a CGC bump as far as books in the box fetching more? I believe it's the first auction that's featured a decent number of graded books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicnoir Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 I think so. jimjum12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
