Matthew42383

I'm too lazy to get dates, but here are the issues that are most sought after for whatever reason. Most are pricy. Weird Tales Issue 1 Weird Tales Issue 2 Weird Tales Spear and Fang Weird Tales Ghost Table issue Weird Tales First Conan Weird Tales Batwoman Cover Doc Savage 1 Shadow 1 Shadow 2 Eyes Cover Shadow Creeping Death All Story October 1912 First Tarzan Amazing Stories First Issue New Story Issue First Return Tarzan Amazing Stories First Buck Rogers Amazing Stories Second Buck Rogers Amazing Stories War of the Worlds Cover Amazing Stories 3rd Issue Center of the Earth Cover Fantastic Adventures 2nd Issue ERB written nowhere else Several All Story ERB Covers (Mucker, warlord of mars, etc) Astounding King Kong-ish Cover Astounding 1 Adventure Early POV Cover (Farmer) Argosy issue from 1895 First pulp ever Any WT Bedsheet Astounding 4 HPL Issues from 1936 Zeppelin Gorilla and the Gas Bags First Terror Tales First Horror Stories First Spider First Operator 5 The Four “Spicy” Ashcan’s First Planet Stories First Jungle Stories Lone Ranger Ashcan Lone Ranger First Issue Ghost stories 1 Ghost stories REH issue Weird Tales 1924 Triplesized Houdini Issue Harlem 1 (only black oriented pulp) First G-8, and several early g-8 zombies/werewolves/etc in biplanes covers Oriental Stories Nipple Cover First Captain Future Marvel First Kirby Human Torch interior First Kazar (includes first kazar and first app of some comic that also appeared in action comics) And a bunch of WT REH and BM RC Serials Saucy Romantic ADV 1 First Domino Wu Fang/Yen sin/Doc Death sets New York stories Famous Early motorcycle issue Film Fun Famous Early motorcycle issue Tales of magic and mystery HPL Issue Stage and Screen Bathtub Issue Thrill book shadow cover Saucy Movie Tales Shark Cover Saucy Movie Tales Fireman Cover Magic carpet First Red Sonja Sheena Queen of Jungle First Sheena

Recently added best offer to all the lots. Tons of great rare stuff is available.

There weren't that many in the pulps. But Love story had two more mid march issues from 1940 and 1941 as well that had a Paddy's Cover.

Complete Sets of many different pulp magazines for sale. Such as: The Lone Ranger (All 8 issues in super high grade as well as the only 2 copies of the First Appearance in the world) Weird Tales (Near complete with 277 of the 279 issues, most issues in mid or high grade) Doc Savage & The Avenger (All 205 issues) Amazing Stories & Fantastic Adventures (the first Sci-Fi pulp and it's sister publication; 413 issues total all in high grade) Operator 5 (All 48 issues) The Mysterious Wu Fang & Dr Yen Sin (All 10 issues all in high grade) Oriental Stories & Magic Carpet (All 14 issues of Weird Tales Sister publication all in high grade) Captain Future & Startling Stories (All 117 issues all in high grade recently made popular again by a poster on the wall of the show "Big Bang Theory") Thrilling Wonder Stories (All 112 Issues all in high grade) Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror (All 7 issues all in high grade) Marvel Tales & Stories & Science Stories (All 15 issues all in high grade) Tales of Magic and Mystery (All 5 issues) Planet Stories (All 71 issues all in high grade) Jungle Stories with Ki-Gor and Sheena (All 60 issues all in high grade) Doctor Death (All 3 issues all in high grade) Jack Dempsey's Fight Magazine (All 3 issues all in high grade) Captain Satan (All 5 issues) The Scorpion & The Octopus (Both Issues) Easy Money (All 5 issues all in high grade) Ka-Zar (All 3 issues) all in high grade Pirate Stories & High Seas Adventures (All 10 issues all in high grade) And many many more early pulp magazines. Please check it out in the links in the first post.

Keep showing pictures of pretty girls on pulps and I might have to stop selling my pulp collection. To think 95% of those painting ended up in the trash. So sad.

I'm selling one of the best rare pulp magazine collections, as well as the highest graded, most complete Small Press Sci-Fi Hardcover Collection in the world. The pulps are listed individually by issue or complete set. The Small Press is listed together as its a virtually complete very high grade representation of all Golden Age Sci-Fi Small Press Hardcovers. I'm Matthew42383 on ebay if you want to search by seller. or you can follow this link to the "personal collection" part of my ebay store. http://stores.ebay.com/matthew42383/My-Personal-Collection-/_i.html?_fsub=17300405017&_sid=143577387&_sop=3&_trksid=p4634.c0.m14 Some of the rarest pulps and highest graded pulp magazines sets in the world are available right now. Stuff that may only have a few copies of left in the world. Stuff that shows up for sale once a decade. Stuff that has never been seen publicly for sale before. It's a lifetime collection of a very hard core collector who paid attention to condition, and rarity while collecting. Some of these pulps are so rare they make rare golden age comics look like they fall off trees. Please take a few minutes and check the collection out. There's never been a better time to find some very rare golden age books then there is now.

Ranch Romances August 1958 is probably the last pulp from the pulp era by most metrics.

Unfortunately at a time when the world had a lot more drab colors, putting stuff like that on you pulp was a way to ensure failure. Probably helped it to last for only 3 issues. Further, if you didn't have girls, violence or crazy stuff going on, no one cared. Boys and young men bought most of this stuff. If it didn't quickly grab their attention, it was a doomed title. The first 13 issues of Weird Tales had horrible covers a lot like this. Almost looks like they were drawn by a child. They are probably my favorite pulp covers by far though.

You see it occasionally on pulps that went unsold at the newsstand. They would put that star punch in them and send them back to the distributor to be destroyed. Obviously some never made it. Usually though, they would just send them back untouched or rip off the top couple of inches from their covers and send those. (look up the true gang life pictures on galactic central to get an idea of what that looked like) Further I believe (this isn't provably fact), some sellers would use the stamp to indicate the pulp was sold and not stolen in a large building where shops were located and a person wouldn't leave with their purchase for some time (think a place like a train station or airport). I remember when I was buying books around 1990 from a small time seller that sold through elementary schools they would put a small symbol type ink stamp inside the book at checkout to do the same. Although I was 7, I remember because I threw a fit at the time. "You ruined my book" I believe this was the same sort of behavior they sometimes had 50 years earlier. Basically with just about everything involving pulp magazines it was a sort of fly by the seat of your pants enterprise creating and distributing these.

And I quote "An average copy 300ish."

A mint perfect copy with perfect overhangs and pure white paper 2000. A copy your dog chewed on 100. An average copy 300ish.

Here's the other pics. On a side note, my entire vintage pulp magazine and small press collection is for sale along with my store stock. If you do a search online, it's the big one.

Been busy buying the last three weeks. This is part of what I was up to below. Some long time sets I've been wanting to complete. I bought two of them outright and finally got the missing issues to complete my sets of the other eight below. A couple are rare titles. Most are scarce titles but really rare to see complete sets.

Both. (Useless answer huh?) It's about as "rare" as the others. Try putting a set together like this and youll get 80% of the set together in a year or two assuming you don't give a mess about condition. The last 20% could easily take you 5 or 10 years beyond that. Not because the issues you still need are any rarer, it's just the way it is sometimes. They are only equally as likely to come up for sale over long sample periods, say 100 year time frames. In the mean time, with some scarce issues, you are basically doing the equivalent of rolling a 20 sided die, and not having it come up number 14, 60 times in a row. On a side note, that seems to be a scan of a cover proof, not an actual copy of the pulp. Part of your collection?

maybe snappy tec 1 and snappy romances 1 as well. I had something like 500 1925-1955 girls pulps and slicks all go up for sale at 10 a day for over a month. not exactly sure which ones of these in particular. I remember one of the ones was the actual copy that was pictured in bookery's in the center though. White cover with a star on it.