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

[mstrange]

New pickup

 

[Randall Dowling]

It's an all time classic!  

10 hours ago, mstrange said:

New pickup

 

 

[Westy Steve]

On ‎5‎/‎20‎/‎2020 at 1:34 PM, Westy Steve said:

Not sure I may have overpaid a tad for this but it’s just so cool.  Now I have to sneak it past my wife. 

Hey, I was reading an online article about this book.  And it pointed out that Belarski did a similar cover to a pulp magazine seen here:

http://piercespicturepalace.blogspot.com/2009/02/detective-novels-magazine-december-1943.html

After tooling around the internet, I found another example where Belarski borrowed from his previous pulp work to do book covers.  Unfortunately I can't show it to you because that particular pulp sold on ebay.  Anyone have other examples of this kind of thing?

[Surfing Alien]

3 hours ago, Westy Steve said:

Hey, I was reading an online article about this book.  And it pointed out that Belarski did a similar cover to a pulp magazine seen here:

http://piercespicturepalace.blogspot.com/2009/02/detective-novels-magazine-december-1943.html

After tooling around the internet, I found another example where Belarski borrowed from his previous pulp work to do book covers.  Unfortunately I can't show it to you because that particular pulp sold on ebay.  Anyone have other examples of this kind of thing?

I posted a link a few pages back to a thread with loads of swipes between the paperbacks and comics but the link is busted now. As to Belarski specifically, i've seen a bunch of  Popular Library covers that started as pulp covers. I wouldn't know if he owned the rights and it was him re-working them or the publisher re-using and re-touching them.

[Westy Steve]

8 minutes ago, Surfing Alien said:

I posted a link a few pages back to a thread with loads of swipes between the paperbacks and comics but the link is busted now. As to Belarski specifically, i've seen a bunch of  Popular Library covers that started as pulp covers. I wouldn't know if he owned the rights and it was him re-working them or the publisher re-using and re-touching them.

 Thanks. Things that didn’t seem important to me several pages back are becoming more important as my education continues. :-) I’m definitely interested in obtaining matched sets of some of these examples. If anybody cares to show theirs I’d love to see them. 

Edited May 22, 2020 by Westy Steve

[OtherEric]

http://bookscans.com/Publishers/twins/twins.htm

I'm not even slightly a fan of the layout of that site, and the images are frequently tiny.  But in terms of sheer numbers of covers, it's one of the best out there.

[jimjum12]

3 hours ago, Surfing Alien said:

I posted a link a few pages back to a thread with loads of swipes between the paperbacks and comics but the link is busted now. As to Belarski specifically, i've seen a bunch of  Popular Library covers that started as pulp covers. I wouldn't know if he owned the rights and it was him re-working them or the publisher re-using and re-touching them.

There are quite a few Pulp covers that were used on more than one title and also a handful that are re-used but slightly modified... I really should take notes when I see one. GOD BLESS....

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[comicjack]

22 hours ago, mstrange said:

New pickup

 

Suspense 3 of paperbacks 

[mstrange]

Schomburg cover

 

[mstrange]

Picked this up for the classic Rober E Howard skullface story and Thoedore Sturgeon Killdozer story.  

 

[Surfing Alien]

 

I think she means business. Too risky to find out for sure. She appeared on the cover of the paperback "Don't Ever Love Me." by Octavus Roy Cohen. It was also used on a cover of an issue of Mystery Book Magazine.

 

Edited May 23, 2020 by Surfing Alien

[Randall Dowling]

I have a large bunch of books coming but these little guys trickled in so I thought I'd share them.  A little smattering of this and that. My favorite of the bunch is Female Convict.  It's a whole sub-genre of "women behaving badly" that was thematic through the 50s.  It's no "Reform School Girl", but interesting all the same!   

[Surfing Alien]

Bad Girls, Bad Girls, what ya gonna do?

[Surfing Alien]

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun...

[Randall Dowling]

40 minutes ago, Surfing Alien said:

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun...

I love Farm Girl!  "In the city- they would have called here a juvenile delinquent!"  But apparently on the farm, it's just business as usual??!!  

 

[Pat Calhoun]

and fun to see some early Pyramids in the spotlight

[Sarg]

On 5/22/2020 at 8:32 AM, Westy Steve said:

Hey, I was reading an online article about this book.  And it pointed out that Belarski did a similar cover to a pulp magazine seen here:

http://piercespicturepalace.blogspot.com/2009/02/detective-novels-magazine-december-1943.html

After tooling around the internet, I found another example where Belarski borrowed from his previous pulp work to do book covers.  Unfortunately I can't show it to you because that particular pulp sold on ebay.  Anyone have other examples of this kind of thing?

It looks like the same cover, but partially repainted it to make it more titillating. 

[Surfing Alien]

@Westy Steve I found the thread with the comics & paperbacks covers again - let me see if the link will work again. It's fun stuff. I don't think anyone has compiled the pulp/paperbacks covers like this. The paperbacks start on the bottom of page 8.

 

Edited May 23, 2020 by Surfing Alien

[Surfing Alien]

I took a quick look on the interwebs for some of those Belarski re-uses. There are a ton of them actually.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was 5 minutes of searching Google for Belarski pulp covers - it helps that i've seen so many Pop Libs in my time so when I see a pulp cover that looks familiar I know there's a Pop with it

[Surfing Alien]

Here's a few more: