ft88 Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 Seems like the pulp forum would be the place for BLBs. OtherEric 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
htp Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 There might be some overlap in subject matter/stories/authors between books and pulps, but pulps are periodicals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ft88 Posted December 7, 2021 Author Share Posted December 7, 2021 I think of them both as comic related reading with cool cover but stories inside. Both were cheaply produced, cheap to buy and tough to find in higher grade. And not a quality location to post in the threads. IngelsFan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 I can definitely see the case for this as the best subforum for BLBs, but I also think they should move the paperback thread here as well. I’ll post a pic or two when I get home tonight unless the majority votes down posting this thread here. My collection is very small but has at least a couple nice items. IngelsFan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ft88 Posted December 7, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 7, 2021 I do have a ulterior motive. Just picked up a BLB collection of six boxes. Over 450 of them. Sarg, OtherEric, IngelsFan and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarg Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 Off topic, but I love them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OtherEric Posted December 8, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted December 8, 2021 My small collection. At least I've got a decent copy of Laughing Dragon for my Oz book collection: juniperpt, Scrooge, FoggyNelson and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoggyNelson Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 Those are so cool above ‼️‼️I like the Scarlett O,Hare the best of the bunch😷👍 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aardvark88 Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 I like the non-DC/National 'Superman' BLB oddity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ft88 Posted December 8, 2021 Author Share Posted December 8, 2021 Some westerns I took. It’d be cool to see which of these are copied from a pulp or vice versa. Same with comic covers. BLBs often came first. OtherEric, juniperpt and Robot Man 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastballspecial Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 (edited) On 12/7/2021 at 12:53 PM, ft88 said: I think of them both as comic related reading with cool cover but stories inside. Both were cheaply produced, cheap to buy and tough to find in higher grade. And not a quality location to post in the threads. About 12 years ago a local collector passed away and his family auctioned off his storage barns. He had 8 storage barns full of antiquescollected over 50 years. The auction house took 10 days to auction off all the items and rented out an old License branch to bring it all in. I went every day I could after work just to see all the items. 100s of lunch boxes, neon signs, baseball cards, playboys/undergrounds, toys, and so on.Tons of Dell comics and probably 500 BLBs. I had collectors from 7 states there with me. It was a tour thru the last 50 years of collectibles. Edited December 9, 2021 by fastballspecial Sarg, juniperpt and waaaghboss 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfing Alien Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 Seems like every collectible has taken off since Covid except these. They're still deader than a doornail even with Overstreets effort at putting them in the price guide years ago. I bought quite a few at the onset of the ebay era because they were so cool and old and cheap, including a very nice Laughing Dragon. I've seen so many rare ones go for a song on the bay, even rare Disney ones so it's not just all the dead characters that no one knows. Sad but true waaaghboss, juniperpt, Sarg and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 My primary collecting focus has always been comic books. Along the way, I discovered Pulps and BLBs. I enjoy both. I don't actively seek out many of each but grab cool ones when they present themselves in nice shape at decent prices. BLBs are a logical extension of comic books. Like mini one paneled comics. Some are actually directly comic book related. Fun to read, hold and display. Sad to see they have slipped down the food chain so much but like many things of the past, are a bit irrelevant now. That being said, grab a few cool ones since they are so cheap. Classic Americana. Sarg, juniperpt and Surfing Alien 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 juniperpt, OtherEric, FoggyNelson and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 juniperpt, OtherEric, Sarg and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BB-Gun Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 On 12/11/2021 at 1:43 PM, Robot Man said: I really wanted all of those Disney BLBs but my interest in other titles has distracted me. Surfing Alien, waaaghboss, OtherEric and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 I get that. But they have for the most part always been pretty cheap compared to comics. Most of mine were chance purchases in the wild. Just accumulated when I came across them. Like a lot of things I collect, they complement my comic books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoggyNelson Posted February 13, 2022 Share Posted February 13, 2022 On 12/11/2021 at 1:46 PM, Robot Man said: You have nice big little book collection Me Robot👍‼️😷 1950's war comics and Robot Man 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoggyNelson Posted February 13, 2022 Share Posted February 13, 2022 Here I a good book title the big little book of the little big horn river🤪🤪 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
