waaaghboss Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 Surfing Alien, OtherEric, jimjum12 and 1 other 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pmpknface Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 On 1/11/2024 at 4:13 PM, Darwination said: Yeah... I watched that. That's a drop in the bucket to what a few other comics went for. It was an insane auction! Surfing Alien and waaaghboss 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfing Alien Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 On 1/11/2024 at 4:13 PM, Darwination said: Double Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 On 1/11/2024 at 3:22 PM, pmpknface said: Yeah... I watched that. That's a drop in the bucket to what a few other comics went for. It was an insane auction! Crypto is up again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted January 12 Author Share Posted January 12 That's very impressive. But I could also see that looking like an absolute steal a few years from now, as well. jimjum12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N e r V Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 Well it is kind of the Action comics #1 of pulps. jimjum12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waaaghboss Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 Does anyone else have just a nightmare of a time trying to log into adventure house's auction site? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 I wish I was better about checking there, they seem to offer a little different fare. But, yeah, awkward site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Hall Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 Posted August 23, 2021 On 8/23/2021 at 2:58 AM, waaaghboss said: 1600 on ebay recently, listed as fine+ with tan pages. I didn't come close, about 1k short on my last bid This detective mag went for 2175, listed as VG/high grade. Caught me by surprise, but didn't realize it was the first issue when I threw a much lower bid at it. Figured it went high because of the strength of Hubbard's writing. Listed as scarce in Bookery. There is a small pile of mid grade Weird Tales ending on HA tomorrow. I have bids on a few, but pretty sure I won't get them. Be curious to see where mid grade weird tales end up, spans late 20's to early 40's with a couple Brundage covers, and the third printed Conan story. Expand "I’ve been getting into pulps slowly over the last couple of years. Is Hubbard really heavily collected?" > Only by Scientologists. They have pushed up the prices on pulps with L Ron's stories. "For me that cover is the big draw; there are quite a few Popular Detectives with incredible cover art." I have never bought a pulp because of the cover. "I’m curious to see if the pulp market is as cover-driven as comic books (particularly pre-code)." > No. Pulps are collected primarily for the fiction. "I know previous generations collected them for their content, but with CGC slabbing pulps I could see that shifting." Not among pulp collectors. How does one read the fiction in a slabbed pulp? It not as if you can read the stories online. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Darwination Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 (edited) On 2/18/2024 at 11:32 AM, Rick Hall said: "I know previous generations collected them for their content, but with CGC slabbing pulps I could see that shifting." Not among pulp collectors. How does one read the fiction in a slabbed pulp? It not as if you can read the stories online. I buy some pulps for their stories and some pulps for their covers. Most pulps in my collection I've bought to scan. I'd point out that the pulp scanning community has indeed spent countless hours not to mention dollars making cover to cover pulps available online. Thrilling, Amazing, Startling - in fact every single science fiction pulp and digest has been scanned and is available to read. Every single issue of Weird Tales has been scanned and thousands of other pulps as well. We are still working on Adventure, The Popular and many other titles (don't get me wrong, there is still so much work to be done and books to be donated). The neglected genres like romance or sports or the inordinately priced genres like the Spicy/Speed/Saucy or weird menace have fewer representative scanned issues, and, of course, there are plenty of scarce titles from the 20s and 30s we would like to get our hands on, but there are issues of many to sample. All this to say - if anyone out there would like to read some pulp, go to the Internet Archive put a title in the search box and start reading. Edited February 19 by Darwination asimovpulps, waaaghboss, jimjum12 and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnenock Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 "I’m curious to see if the pulp market is as cover-driven as comic books (particularly pre-code)." > No. Pulps are collected primarily for the fiction. "I know previous generations collected them for their content, but with CGC slabbing pulps I could see that shifting." Not among pulp collectors. How does one read the fiction in a slabbed pulp? It not as if you can read the stories online. I'm sure there are some collectors who collect pulps to read, but with almost every story by notable authors reprinted in some form or another, why would someone read a 2-40,000 dollar pulp? Seriously, why would someone shell out 240,000 dollars to read the first Tarzan story other than to own it, when they can read it for free or on the cheap in multiple other forms? People don't own First Editions of the Maltese Falcon, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby or even Harry Potter to read. They own them to collect. From my perspective, I buy for the covers and for particular authors. I have and would assume a lot of pulp collectors have already read most of the notable stories throughout their reading lifetimes. Pretty sure I have read all of Chandler, Heinlein, Asimov, Blish, Lovecraft and lesser authors etc. Bookery and waaaghboss 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jimjum12 Posted February 19 Popular Post Share Posted February 19 On 2/19/2024 at 11:58 AM, johnenock said: Seriously, why would someone shell out 240,000 dollars to read the first Tarzan story other than to own it, when they can read it for free or on the cheap in multiple other forms? This, and if you want to do the Ritz, you can get a 15 dollar Ace paperback with cool cover. GOD BLESS ... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) I bought this for the cover ... I know, I might not want my Mom to know that OtherEric, Pat Calhoun, waaaghboss and 4 others 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post GACollectibles Posted February 19 Popular Post Share Posted February 19 On 2/18/2024 at 12:32 PM, Rick Hall said: "For me that cover is the big draw; there are quite a few Popular Detectives with incredible cover art." I have never bought a pulp because of the cover. There are stories in them??!! frozentundraguy, waaaghboss, Dr. Love and 2 others 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 On 2/19/2024 at 8:58 AM, johnenock said: "I’m curious to see if the pulp market is as cover-driven as comic books (particularly pre-code)." > No. Pulps are collected primarily for the fiction. "I know previous generations collected them for their content, but with CGC slabbing pulps I could see that shifting." Not among pulp collectors. How does one read the fiction in a slabbed pulp? It not as if you can read the stories online. I'm sure there are some collectors who collect pulps to read, but with almost every story by notable authors reprinted in some form or another, why would someone read a 2-40,000 dollar pulp? Seriously, why would someone shell out 240,000 dollars to read the first Tarzan story other than to own it, when they can read it for free or on the cheap in multiple other forms? People don't own First Editions of the Maltese Falcon, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby or even Harry Potter to read. They own them to collect. From my perspective, I buy for the covers and for particular authors. I have and would assume a lot of pulp collectors have already read most of the notable stories throughout their reading lifetimes. Pretty sure I have read all of Chandler, Heinlein, Asimov, Blish, Lovecraft and lesser authors etc. Although I have read a lot of Bradbury, Lovecraft and a few others. Also a lot of shudder pulps especially the Spider, I have always mostly been a cover collector. Unlike comics that I usually crack out of their slabs, slabbed pulps don’t bother me. The only problem would be lack of storage space. johnenock, waaaghboss and jimjum12 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post golden43tiger Posted March 7 Popular Post Share Posted March 7 Just picked up this Cupid Capers #1 1933 . Enoch Bolles. High grade Randall Dowling, waaaghboss, Pat Calhoun and 4 others 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waaaghboss Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 Someone has a fast trigger finger jimjum12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Robot Man Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 On 4/1/2024 at 11:04 AM, Darwination said: That seem like a pretty crazy result for a somewhat common low demand pulp. Is this the now considered “FMV” for this one if I should consider my similar copy? Darwination 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
