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[wpbooks01]

Oh, and maybe the 8/67 already included an installment of LAF, but in case it didn't you may need to seek out this little tidbit:

 

[Darwination]

On 1/21/2024 at 3:39 PM, wpbooks01 said:

Actually it is the Arthur Szyk illustration on the cover that got me salivating! A major favorite of mine! thanks for that!

I think that's how I ended up looking at that issue, WP.  A gent in an online group had been sharing Szyk illustrations (from mostly religious texts if I recall), and I went looking for magazines.  It's a pity the one of Franco is so out of register, but it's still pretty good.

There's at least one other Reader's Scope with a Szyk cover from later that year but I haven't found it yet:

Both of the Reader's Scope are in line with his caricature work at Collier's, too, which is pretty famous:

I like this one

My guess is that Gleason and Szyk were acquainted through anti-fascist/Jewish cause political associations even before the magazine work.

[OtherEric]

On 1/21/2024 at 1:42 PM, wpbooks01 said:

Congrats on your completion! A major undertaking and no doubt a major amount of space needed to store the 'run' in! Thankfully the two-volume set from Dark Horse put the kibosh on my aim to do the same, and I salute your fortitude!

It's three magazine boxes, roughly.   So not quite crazy space, but definitely not nothing.

The sad thing is, I've got the Dark Horse collections as well. 

My next Kurtzman project is to finish the Humbug run; I've got all of his MAD issues, as well as Trump and Help!

[Darwination]

A couple new beauties, this first one is pretty damn iconic

[ThothAmon]

[ThothAmon]

[Darwination]

On 1/24/2024 at 12:18 PM, ThothAmon said:

Ah, a Fass pub, too, eh,?  That one's been popping up time and again (unsurprisingly) in my eBay searches for 70s punk rock mags.  Haven't seen a cheap-ish + decent condition edition yet.  You have a nice one there

Edited January 24 by Darwination

[wpbooks01]

Have I told you guys my real name? I'll give you a clue....

 

It is referenced at my AbeBooks home page.....

 

https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/StoreFrontDisplay?cid=2945227

 

[Darwination]

Young Goodman Brown?

[wpbooks01]

On 1/24/2024 at 12:34 PM, Darwination said:

Young Goodman Brown?

More tan, actually....and forever young, to be sure!

[Darwination]

A new one, 1940 pub from Dan Gillmor and Lev Gleason naming some big names on the wrong side of history.

[Darwination]

[FoggyNelson]

On 1/27/2024 at 8:10 PM, Darwination said:

A new one, 1940 pub from Dan Gillmor and Lev Gleason naming some big names on the wrong side of history.

25 cents small fortune back then 👍❤️💰☹️

[Darwination]

[The Lions Den]

On 1/24/2024 at 12:47 PM, ThothAmon said:

Ol' Myron Fass at it again...I never knew he was into Zeppelin...  

[Pukie]

Hi - Thanks in advance for any advice and help.

I have an opportunity to buy a Playboy #1.  I do not have the magazine in hand because it is with the original owner who said he bought it when it came out in 1953.  

I don't know anything about Playboy magazines.

I see where there seems to be several original editions.  Then several later reprints.  But the information is not complete and scattered among different websites.  And I don't know how accurate each website is.

I'm using market pricing from GPA, ebay and some auction sites to determine value..

Would anyone have advice on how to determine if the magazine is an original 1953 edition and not a reprint?  Here are 3 images I have:

 

 

 

 

[ThothAmon]

Pretty sure Heritage has sold most every print there is so examine photos there might help.  Has been touched on before. 

I’d be wary …

[Pukie]

Thank you for the Heritage reference where I can see the sales! 

The ebay link does not go to an valid ebay site with any info.

The CGC string doesn't seem to give a definitive answer on 2 or 3 staples?

Further in the CGC string says  "The 2nd reprint has a square box very similar to the original."  So I'm still wondering how to tell the difference between the reprint and well preserved original?

 

 

[Darwination]

https://www.lettieriauction.com/auction-lot/playboy-marilyn-monroe-volume-one-number-one-repr_3FE47CF931

Regarding the staples, this auction says:

Description:

1953 PLAYBOY VOLUME ONE NUMBER ONE REPRINT 2007 very good not graded condition reprint how I know.. 3 staples instead of two and triangle not square in upper right corning 2007 reprints were differentiated from the original by having a black rectangle in the upper right hand corner instead of a square and used three staples in the binding instead of two.

 

[Pukie]

Thank you. 

So to recap, originals have 2 staples, black square. Some originals have page 3 numbered, some originals do not. 

Reprints have 3 staples, black rectangle or black square, and page 3 numbered.. 

So my picture has a black square.  If it has 2 staples, would you say it's original?  That seems to be very easy...

Or is there another check to be made?