Comics, Pulps, and Paperbacks: Why such a discrepancy in values? 25 25

[Surfing Alien]

Love it! Love me some Charltons too. But much prettier covers on the pbs other than Staton and Ditko on the comics.

[Surfing Alien]

@OtherEric

I've picked up a ton of books on the holidays.. here's one I know you'll dig...

[mstrange]

1 hour ago, OtherEric said:

Nothing else I have ever heard explained so much in so few words as “Monarch was Charlton’s book 

 

Edited January 15, 2020 by mstrange

[mstrange]

14 hours ago, Surfing Alien said:

Been working on the Monarch run lately, lots of incredible GGA covers by Maguire, Barton & Schaare. Crisp draughtsmanship, nice composition, colors that pop and many of them are PBO's.

 

 

Wow love the cover art on this.  

[OtherEric]

A couple finds today.  First one, nothing special other than it's a Mapback found in the wild, which is always fun:

[OtherEric]

And the second one may or may not be rare, but it's very unusual for me to run across a book by Michael M. that I don't already have.

[pmpknface]

2 pickups that are en route...

 

[Surfing Alien]

I picked off a few unread Dells recently too. The romance & mystery I grabbed because they are newstand fresh. Jokes is tough unread like this but has a little lamination wear. Hopley is, well, Irish. I had a perfect copy back in the day but this one is pretty good.

[Pat Calhoun]

here's a Hopley...

[Surfing Alien]

I'll follow Belarski with an L.B.Cole Croydon I dug up. There are 4 regular size paperback Croydons, all with Cole "romance" covers. I used to have all 4. This is my only one now, I think I'm gonna have to keep my eye out for the others again...

 

[OtherEric]

Normally I would put this in the pulp thread.  But since the point of getting this one is the Dell 10c reprint of the story is so expensive, I thought I would post it here instead.  (This is a reprint as well.)

[Surfing Alien]

14 minutes ago, OtherEric said:

Normally I would put this in the pulp thread.  But since the point of getting this one is the Dell 10c reprint of the story is so expensive, I thought I would post it here instead.  (This is a reprint as well.)

Is this the first app of the story or is the 10 cent the first? I really like this image for the story even though the Dell is iconic.

[OtherEric]

6 minutes ago, Surfing Alien said:

Is this the first app of the story or is the 10 cent the first? I really like this image for the story even though the Dell is iconic.

Neither.  It first appeared in Mystery Book Magazine in Summer 1950, then the Dell 10c in 1951, then in the Triple Detective in 1955.  I gather there have been a couple later reprintings, but none of them are terribly affordable.

[Hap Hazard]

1 hour ago, OtherEric said:

Neither.  It first appeared in Mystery Book Magazine in Summer 1950, then the Dell 10c in 1951, then in the Triple Detective in 1955.  I gather there have been a couple later reprintings, but none of them are terribly affordable.

Here's the Dell edition.

[Pat Calhoun]

along those lines 'Six Times Death' will get you 'Marihuana' a lot cheaper than the Dell Dimer. Plus you get 'The Night Reveals' (one of his best), 'Rear Window' (the one Hitch filmed), and three others...

[Westy Steve]

On 1/17/2020 at 9:18 PM, Surfing Alien said:

I picked off a few unread Dells recently too. The romance & mystery I grabbed because they are newstand fresh. Jokes is tough unread like this but has a little lamination wear. Hopley is, well, Irish. I had a perfect copy back in the day but this one is pretty good.

I need to pay more attention to condition and snag books like these. They’re beautiful!  

[Westy Steve]

I’m still going 12 different directions with collecting paperbacks...probably not paying enough attention to condition.  As a major classic car buff, I find I’m drawn to car covers.  I plan to pick up more. But coincidentally I also like references to the devil and the occult. So this one spoke to me and I picked it up today.  I’m chasing books that tick a lot of boxes like this one. You guys have any car covers or devil covers you care to share?

Edited January 19, 2020 by Westy Steve

[Surfing Alien]

That one's a favorite, here's mine.

[Surfing Alien]

I think I posted this one way back but it's a must have for a car buff...

[Westy Steve]

30 minutes ago, Surfing Alien said:

I think I posted this one way back but it's a must have for a car buff...

Yes, very high on my want list.  Kind of expensive for its genre too.  Even the next version has a good cover and is collectible.  Felsen did other car books that are on my want list and look like great reads.  He alsowrote some books that were very unrelated to the car culture. Looking forward to reading his stuff!

 

Speaking of authors,  I was looking at your copy  of the Night has 1000 eyes and I was intrigued by the fact that they used an asterisk to reveal that George Hopley was William Irish. Of course I knew this already but it’s not clear who’s persona they are revealing there with the asterisk . So I looked it up. The original Night has 1000 eyes  hardback was done by Hopley. This implies that the Irish pen name was more well respected than that Hopley in that time period...otherwise they wouldn’t have revealed it as such. I doubt the Irish pen name was  more respected than Woolrich’s true name. So my guess is he took on Pen names to go after smaller jobs to pay the bills in between larger book deals under his more respected and valuable names...Sort of like when a big actor does a television commercial to tide themselves over until they get another big role.  Of course they are all great stuff.