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

[PopKulture]

15 hours ago, Surfing Alien said:

Great selection - there's something for everyone in there! Love the JD stuff - Gang Girl is classic!

Yeah, there's sci-fi, horror, romance, humor, mystery - so many of the same genres as in comics, except superheroes. And there's GGA aplenty! The big difference being the classic covers are still affordable!  

[PopKulture]

Here are a few more group shots:

A lot of smaller publishers in this shot like Bart, Pony, Lion:

A couple of my favorite Pockets in this shot - Red Harvest and Farewell My Lovely:

[moonpool]

My favorite thread.    Here's a few Dell mapbacks, with their back covers.

[PopKulture]

On ‎12‎/‎11‎/‎2017 at 9:39 AM, moonpool said:

My favorite thread.    Here's a few Dell mapbacks, with their back covers.

 

All great covers. The early Dell mapbacks are in a league of their own.

Of course it depends on which day of the week it is as to which publisher is my favorite: it might be Dell, Avon, or Popular depending on when you ask me, and I love Bantam, Pocket, Ace and all the rest too!

[PopKulture]

Here are the last of the cel pics I shot when re-bagging some stuff this past year (and I have more stuff to bag soon - a great way to beat the winter doldrums!):

[Surfing Alien]

You have a dizzying array of books there - this time when you're bagging them, take some closeups to highlight individual books - loving "Rumble on the Docks" and "Play it Cool"!

 

[Surfing Alien]

Avon Books #305... Move Along... Nothing to See Here...

Look closely at it... Mainstream publisher paperback on the newsstand next to the Chiclets in 1950...

 

[Surfing Alien]

Holden Caulfield with his amazing red cap... how bout that!!!???

[Pat Calhoun]

James Avati was Signet's 'go to' artist on 'literary' material, and he was excellent.

[Surfing Alien]

Avati was a master painter... Signet published so much "real literature" with provocative covers... not sure many people know that Penguin ran its numbering into Signet ... The early Penguin art covers...as opposed to years of "Title Only" covers, were mostly very simple, but great nonetheless - especially historically important writers like Richard Wright....

[Pat Calhoun]

670 from May 1948 transitions with both Penguin and Signet - this is a great American novel.

 

Edited December 19, 2017 by Pat Calhoun

[Surfing Alien]

Great example...

 

[Surfing Alien]

They ran that double imprint at least until 671, perhaps THE great cautionary tale against the evils of socialism and correctness...

[Pat Calhoun]

Darkness at Noon is classic. By 699 was pure Signet...

[PopKulture]

23 hours ago, Surfing Alien said:

They ran that double imprint at least until 671, perhaps THE great cautionary tale against the evils of socialism and correctness...

It sounds like you guys actually read them! You mean you don't collect them just for the cover art? 

[PopKulture]

[OtherEric]

Just a couple John D. MacDonald books; as far as I can figure they're both true firsts.

[Pat Calhoun]

[Arkadin]

I'm reading my first John D. MacDonald book at the moment - Death Trap (1956).

So far, so good. Those other MacDonald's posted look interesting too.

[Surfing Alien]

17 hours ago, PopKulture said:

It sounds like you guys actually read them! You mean you don't collect them just for the cover art? 

 - I've read the classics at least! I thought everyone read "Catcher in the Rye" at some point. My daughter just did in 8th Grade so they're still teaching them in some places! 

But in that vein - they did manage to attach provocative covers to some classics and more mainstream authors