Robot Man

I don’t know about comic prices but Pulp prices are exploding…

Awsome. Just make sure to cut the lawn and clip the bushes to keep the little woman happy…

In addition to a collection of about any genre of GA comic, I have many shorter complete runs. I would just get bored collecting full runs of Superman, Batman or Spiderman. I just go for the ones I really want. I do have a complete collection of EC new trends and many of the pre trend ones. At this stage I am just upgrading.

Yeah, in the LA area, vinyl is very hot. Classic rock and Punk rock rule the roost. Jazz and Blues stuff is also very hot. Every garage or estate sale I go to with records are packed with hunters. There is also a local flea market that has a very large record section packed with buyers and sellers. Lots of audiofiles as well as young hipsters who pay up for it. As Hepcat stated, there is a warm feel as well as a long bandwith of sound offered by analog recordings that is missing in modern digital recording. A lot of the young folks also like the experience in spinning vinyl. I play mine all the time. But I have also recorded much digitally in Wave files to reproduce the original sound. I bought a 160 gig IPod to store them on and can take it everywhere. Kind of marrying the past with the present. I also have a couple of ‘50’s/‘60’s tube amps I play my guitars through. You just can’t get that sound through a modern solid state amp. And, I won’t get started on carburetors…

Paging @Ryan.

Nice! My favorite in the run and in my top 10 Baker favorites. Ironically, I had a solid copy for sale at what I thought was a reasonable price that just sat for quite a while. Seems like the Baker folks just wanted the romance ones. Obviously, not anymore…

Wow, that Strange Stories 3 blows me away. A couple days before Covid shutdown in 2020, I picked up a decent copy for $150. At a local show. Was happy to find it but it wasn’t a super key at the time I don’t think. Somebody else put it back and I snatched it. The Saucys don’t suprise me because I never see them for sale around here. Same show I got this Stage and Screen for around the same price. I knew at the time it was probably a steal. Here was my haul that day from the same guy. I paid about $800. for the group. My, how things have changed…

I’m pretty sure I sold it to someone here on the boards who asked me about it.

Any idea on the final hammer on this one? I can’t seem to bring up the results.

I had some luck in the flea markets in Paris. Mostly French and British stuff.

The only reason I have copies of both is because I discovered them before the Gerber books. But, as iconic as they both are, high prices seem to keep drawing them out into the market. I really wouldn’t call either “rare” just very desirable.

Not surprising to me. That is a super rarity. The kind of book that I chase with futility. I have only seen just a few of those for sale ever. The extreme scarcity of available copies of this and many other similar books keep prices strong on this as well as many other GA books.

WOW! That is a LOAD! A lot of work not to mention a lot of money. Makes a lot of sense though. Mailing them would have been even more expensive and risky. I only submitted 4 pulps. My first submission even though I only have maybe one box of slabs in my collection. I am a reader and collector and don’t see much use in something I can’t read or handle carefully. It certainly wasn’t cheap and I just don’t have the space to store many slabs anyway. Since I am not selling, I have always felt I’d rather spend my money on more books than slabs I don’t have space for. But that’s just me. Nice load by the way. Some great pulps in those piles! I hope the “grading Gods” smile down upon us both.

Here is a map of the floor of the show. The “Gold/Silver Pavillion” (comic book dealing area) is shown in the lower right corner in yellow. It shows 5 short isles with probably 5 dealers on each side. There are a few spillovers in the back and maybe a couple fill overs to the left around the large CGC booth. A fraction of what it used to be. Now, a lot of folks are mostly “wall gazers”. If so, one could probably get through in an hour or less. But, if you are a real digger, you have to hit the boxes. I only hit the GA ones mostly. This is where the deals usually are. Between that and asking for stuff maybe out of sight, it took me a little over 3 hours. I would say, there were quite a few dealers I rarely buy from. Either they don’t have what I want, have crazy prices or just don’t care for. I usually hit the folks I like or the smaller ones or ones I have never seen before first. Then another trip through just to see if I missed anything. The rest of the time is spent socializing or submitting books to CGC. I covered it easily in one day. To me a con is a wonderful way to spend a day. A day, you forget all the messes of just every day life.

I have been known to have “car trouble” or not “feel well” from time to time… Although that picture might not movtivate me much to get up in the dark and wait in line for hours though. Hopefully someone who did will score something in those piles.

Enjoying your remberances and collecting history. We are about the same age. I really started seeking them out with the large 10 cent boxes. And to my horror the large 12 cent boxes popped up one day. Had to cut one out of my weekly allowance take. But I would pick up a pack of Civil War or Mars Attack cards instead. My first Marvel was ASM 3. Blew my mind and I was a Marvel fan which cut back on my DCs a bit. Then I discovered MAD… about that time I had to scrounge pop bottles, start cutting lawns and eventually get a paper route to supplement my growing addiction. A great time to be a kid.

I have always been primarily a comic collector. But, I have always bought cool pulps when I ran into them. Just not my major focus. In collecting comics, I often feel like I’ve seen them all. Not much left to discover. But when I come here, I find so many pulps I’ve never seen before. This has really revitalized my collecting. A new discovery every day.

Indeed. In this cover driven hobby it is nice to be able to still find nice FH pulps for a fraction of comic prices. Even Planet Stories. I even like much of their Western titles.

Just hitting Catrick’s booth might be reason enough to go. I have heard nothing but glowing revues of this show for years. If I lived anywhere even remotely close, I would be there with bells on. I hope to see a couple of revues with pictures.

As many of you know, not only am I into comics primarily, but all forms of vintage paper in general as well as toys and other stuff. I usually mix a little of everything in my sales threads. It kind of breaks it up and offers a variety. I have never had a complaint but instead, have people tell me it makes the thread more fun. I might not do them at all if it was so compartmented.

All great ones. Congrats. That Wings 94 might be my favorite in the run. Mine is a little lower grade but has blinding color.

Wow, that suks especially in the rain. They probably didn’t want to pay the parking guys holiday pay. Good to hear the dealers were busy on Sunday. I want them to do well so they come back next year. I can’t imagine walking around that postage stamp on the floor map for 3 days. I easily did the show for what I went for in one day. Just great to have live comic shows.

I think “profit motive” has diminished quite a bit for con promoters at least on the West Coast. Even small shows. Real sad and I sure not a sign of things to come. I really look forward to shows. MUCH better than simply buying “on line”. I think the Torpedo show in LA in July will be a strong indicator.

I think I missed my “window of opportunity” for this show. Should have gone a few years ago. With plane tickets, hotel and food costs and the current “fever pitch” pulp prices, it most certainly wouldn’t be worth a trip from the West Coast.

I can’t imagine. I lived through a couple of brutal winters there. Ironically, we got a DELUGE of rain at CalCon a couple months ago and another ton of rain at WonderCon last weekend. Just on con weekends… stay warm gang!