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[RedFury]

Here's a recent pick-up, a really nice Earle Bergey baseball cover.

Exciting Sports, Aug 1948

[OtherEric]

A small lot of books in today.  First up, what would normally be the highlight of the lot, but since I've already got the Hamilton- Brackett copy of the issue this one will probably get flipped fairly quickly:

[OtherEric]

Nothing of particular note in this one, but the rebound Amazing Stories Quarterly books are always fun anyway:

[OtherEric]

Also from Summer 1942, the Fantastic Adventures quarterly.  Burroughs might not be as high demand as he used to be, but it's still always a treat to get a pulp with his work in it:

[OtherEric]

And, finally, the pair of books that I was actually mainly grabbing the lot for.  v1 n10 and v1 n 11.  All 5 of the books have spectacular page quality, by the way.  I'm quite happy tonight:

[PopKulture]

13 minutes ago, OtherEric said:

And, finally, the pair of books that I was actually mainly grabbing the lot for.  v1 n10 and v1 n 11.  All 5 of the books have spectacular page quality, by the way.  I'm quite happy tonight:

And a wonderful BEM cover to boot!

[PopKulture]

I picked up this first issue at a vintage record store. Most collectors consider it a pulp, and it's fairly tough to find. It's a bit taller than a "slick" of the day, and was probably tossed into a pile of sheet music for years, so I'm not surprised the top is a little beat up. I was still thrilled to find one in the wild.

[RedFury]

19 hours ago, PopKulture said:

I picked up this first issue at a vintage record store. Most collectors consider it a pulp, and it's fairly tough to find. It's a bit taller than a "slick" of the day, and was probably tossed into a pile of sheet music for years, so I'm not surprised the top is a little beat up. I was still thrilled to find one in the wild.

Nice find!  I'd like to get one of those someday.  Look at that line-up...Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, Gene Autry, and Tim Holt all in one book!

[RedFury]

I bought this issue of Wings solely for the awesome gi-normous bomber on the cover.  But, bonus!  There's a great Lee Elias illustration inside.  Elias began his comic book career at Fiction House in 1943, and this is a Fiction House pulp from that year.  Just last week I read the entire Jack Williamson / Lee Elias newspaper strip Beyond Mars that ran from 1952-55, so this was an especially cool find with Elias already on my mind.

Wings, Winter 1943-44

[comicjack]

Those colors really pop and the insides are a bonus 

[PopKulture]

On ‎6‎/‎20‎/‎2018 at 6:00 PM, RedFury said:

Just last week I read the entire Jack Williamson / Lee Elias newspaper strip Beyond Mars that ran from 1952-55, so this was an especially cool find with Elias already on my mind.

I have a few single Sunday pages of Beyond Mars and I always wondered whether it's a good read or not. Would you recommend tracking it down in collected form?

[PopKulture]

I was bagging some pulps tonight and scanned a few:

[RedFury]

9 hours ago, PopKulture said:

I was bagging some pulps tonight and scanned a few:

Wow, they look great.  What are the years?

[RedFury]

9 hours ago, PopKulture said:

I have a few single Sunday pages of Beyond Mars and I always wondered whether it's a good read or not. Would you recommend tracking it down in collected form?

I'd say the art is top-notch and the story is above average.  It's a little grittier than expected, but also a little disjointed. It ends rather abrubtly (it was canceled).
I read the hardcover IDW collection that was put out a couple of years ago.  It's still available from Diamond.  Cover price is $50, but Amazon and others have it for $34.

[PopKulture]

1 hour ago, RedFury said:

Wow, they look great.  What are the years?

The middle one is 1935, and the other two are from 1934.

[PopKulture]

1 hour ago, RedFury said:

I'd say the art is top-notch and the story is above average.  It's a little grittier than expected, but also a little disjointed. It ends rather abrubtly (it was canceled).
I read the hardcover IDW collection that was put out a couple of years ago.  It's still available from Diamond.  Cover price is $50, but Amazon and others have it for $34.

Thanks, I'll have to grab a copy, seeing that it's a short run and all. The art, as you say, is top notch on the examples I've seen, and the colors totally "pop" on the original Sunday pages, so therein lies the allure for me. 

[lpsunburst]

I picked these up at my local monthly Con here in DC, the condition of these was such that I could not pass them up, these bedsheets are still very supple. I love how they phrase it "Scientific Fiction".

[PopKulture]

3 hours ago, lpsunburst said:

I picked these up at my local monthly Con here in DC, the condition of these was such that I could not pass them up, these bedsheets are still very supple. I love how they phrase it "Scientific Fiction".

Nice pick-ups! I would have succumbed to the siren call of these as well. The early bedsheets are among my favorite pulps. I only wish I had gotten an Amazing Stories 1 and the Buck Rogers issue before the prices crept too high... 

[PopKulture]

Tonight's trio from my haunted chamber include a nice Saunders detective cover, a stereotypical WWII Japanese saboteur, and a prison guard left to defend himself with a dubious weapon:

[lpsunburst]

Here are a couple of the digest sized Amazing's that I picked up, also in wonderful condition.