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

[Surfing Alien]

4 hours ago, PopKulture said:

Pockets get a little overshadowed by the competition, I believe, but there's something so old, so visually appealing about them to me.

It's amazing that Pocket was at number 180 in 1942 when there was almost no competition. Avon was still in the early no numbers and there was no one else other than the crude early Penguins.

[Hap Hazard]

EMSH preliminary, any ideas if it was used in a finished cover?

 

[Surfing Alien]

3 hours ago, Hap Hazard said:

EMSH preliminary, any ideas if it was used in a finished cover?

 

Not off the top of my head but you can try searching here:

http://www.bookscans.com/Database.htm

I'd start with Ace as it's a likely suspect

 

 

 

[Hap Hazard]

3 hours ago, Surfing Alien said:

Not off the top of my head but you can try searching here:

http://www.bookscans.com/Database.htm

I'd start with Ace as it's a likely suspect

 

 

 

I've searched through all the Ace paperback doubles  and sci fi  digests but no luck.

[Randall Dowling]

1 minute ago, Hap Hazard said:

I've searched through all the Ace paperback doubles  and sci fi  digests but no luck.

It's a pretty tough find as the territory is quite large.  As I'm sure you know, it could be a magazine cover or illustration, pulp cover, paperback cover, digest cover or none of the above, just an unpublished prelim.  Having said that, none of it diminishes what a cool piece it is.  

I'd post it in either the OA forum or the pulp forum as well, you never know and a few of those guys are real experts on Emsh.  I'll keep my eye out as I'm also a fan of his work also.

[Hap Hazard]

26 minutes ago, Randall Dowling said:

It's a pretty tough find as the territory is quite large.  As I'm sure you know, it could be a magazine cover or illustration, pulp cover, paperback cover, digest cover or none of the above, just an unpublished prelim.  Having said that, none of it diminishes what a cool piece it is.  

I'd post it in either the OA forum or the pulp forum as well, you never know and a few of those guys are real experts on Emsh.  I'll keep my eye out as I'm also a fan of his work also.

Thanks and yes there are so many EMSH covers to search through. I've posted it in several sites over the years but no luck in IDing the art.

[Surfing Alien]

This just in... with all due respect to the Pocket 1st paperback edition, i'll take this Pyramid edition with the Clarence Doore blonde with stogie and opera gloves all day long  Just a killer cover and it's tough to find in any condition.

 

[Electricmastro]

The days back when Dell showed more blood on their paperbacks than on their comics.

[damonwad]

44 minutes ago, Surfing Alien said:

This just in... with all due respect to the Pocket 1st paperback edition, i'll take this Pyramid edition with the Clarence Doore blonde with stogie and opera gloves all day long  Just a killer cover and it's tough to find in any condition.

 

I haven't seen that one before. What a beaut. 

[Pat Calhoun]

great book either way - maybe his leanest and meanest... Plus: Happy Birthday Cornell Woolrich !!

[Surfing Alien]

9 minutes ago, Pat Calhoun said:

Happy Birthday Cornell Woolrich !!

I didn't know that... eerie!

[Surfing Alien]

1 hour ago, Electricmastro said:

The days back when Dell showed more blood on their paperbacks than on their comics.

I love the "big eyeball" early Dells. That's a pretty nice copy for that title. 

[frozentundraguy]

I picked up this 53 \copy of Imagination stories of science and fantasy a couple of weeks back. The cover and the interior art for the enchanted crusade story are by W. E. Terry, an artist I had not run across before.

 

[damonwad]

Some random books. Maguire on the Obit cover.

[damonwad]

These covers aren't completely false advertising, but it would have matched the story better if the guys were staring at a bowl of soup instead of a hot babe. I'm sure it was just an oversight.

[Surfing Alien]

Sweet books as usual damonwad!

Been working with some veteran vintage pb and art collectors on the Ray Johnson story, and quite a story it is rounding out to be. 

Here's a couple of arrivals from his later period.

Kevin Matthews is one of many Gardner Fox pseudonyms...

I suspect Ray started painting more for Popular because the multiple vignettes got him paid more.

This 1961 Pyramid is by another Gardner Fox pseudonym, has a rare cover credit (back cover) and shows a familiar Ray Johnson female face but somewhat slenderized and painted in a far more classical/realistic style than his pulpy early Avon days.

[Randall Dowling]

Great books, SA!  This research into Ray Johnson is interesting to follow.  

Here's a small sampling of books that I've added recently.  A little of this and a little of that.  Some big, some small.  I'll let you, the viewer, be the judge of which is which...

[Bookery]

The above post reminded me of this item I've had tucked away in my personal vault forever...

It's a copy of "Orgy of the Dead" plus the pre-publishing coverless review copy plus two stages of the edited original galleys plus, of course, the original manuscript from Mr. Wood himself, all compiled by the Greenleaf  editors.

[Surfing Alien]

9 hours ago, Randall Dowling said:

 Some big, some small.  I'll let you, the viewer, be the judge of which is which...

You've been busy my friend  I don't collect the edgier sleaze but I know "Orgy of the Dead" and "The Day the Universe Came" are two of the most sought after of that ilk and command buckos. The Maguire collection is moving along nicely, and you've added to your Ray Johnson collection with that copy of the wonderfully pulpy looking "The Chinese Parrot "

[Surfing Alien]

1 hour ago, Bookery said:

The above post reminded me of this item I've had tucked away in my personal vault forever...

It's a copy of "Orgy of the Dead" plus the pre-publishing coverless review copy plus two stages of the edited original galleys plus, of course, the original manuscript from Mr. Wood himself, all compiled by the Greenleaf  editors.

That is just... wow! Definitely vault material!