FREE DIME NOVEL WHEN BUYING THE DIME NOVEL PRICE GUIDE!

storypapers · May 20, 2014

HI ALL :news: doh! I MUST BE NUTS!

LIMITED TIME ONLY!!!! FREE DIME NOVEL OR EARLY REPRINT!! LAST DAY TO ORDER MAY 25, 2014 SUNDAY.

I've been collecting for a long, long time. Some here know my story; discovering the Bethlehem collection...building world class collections, at the time, in GA and SA comic books, then in Pulp Magazines...and since in dime novels and story papers along with collections in other areas, that relate to Popular fiction, such as early comic almanacs and humor periodicals. Others know me here as mostly a serious buyer of GA and SA comics, coming full cycle! :makepoint:

Anyway, for years I have been trying to promote dime novels and nickel weeklies along with the story papers which began in the mid 19th century. I put out my first book in 2005 depicting all the SF Frank Reade Weekly issues and many more images as they relate to the era. Inside I showed illustrations of Steam men, Electric man, flying machines...a Batman-like character as well as a "Super-man."

This GUIDE BOOK is a visual treat! There are over 1700 total images of dime novels and story papers. There is also a rarity factor, value gauge and other information as well as information on 11 major publishers, also the main heroes and villains of the era such as Jesse James and Buffalo Bill. Different genres are covered and a whole lot more! Book is 218 pages, 8.5 X 11. IN COLOR!

In addition the comic book artist Kim Deitch has also created a double spread page humorous image of his design based on the period and of the time.

I offer this book at a SPECIAL PRICE for Forum members...much less than ebay or even Amazon. My price shipped in US is $32 in hopes you will try. (International More) Retail is $45 plus shipping. I ACCEPT PAYPAL.

I have thousands of dime novels and story papers for sale and also look to buy items I need or even ones I do not need in nice shape for upgrades as I have over 40,000 in all!

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A word of note: Nickel Weeky(s) have already been graded by CGC. I am sorry to say (nothing personal) that they really do not know how to grade such items and grade as they would comics. For example; Pages were uncut at printing causing irregular cutting of pages by the buyer which graders deduct heavily for while dime collectors do not care much about. Also it was common to clip corners which made it easier to read...again major deduction by CGC...minor from the standpoint of a collector who knows of such a common practice.

Anyway...here goes! You can see in the background many of the forms of Popular fiction that I collect and sometimes have dupes of...so feel free to ask.

In the mean time, I do hope you will consider adding "dime novels" to you collection...they are fun to collect, most are cheap and deserve there place with other forms of popular fictions, items such as comic books that are treasured by institution, collectors and investors alike.

Here is more information and our (Mike Sanchez-Saavedra co-author) announcement:

"ANNOUNCING:

THE ILLUSTRATED DIME NOVEL PRICE GUIDE COMPANION

Until now, no reference work has even begun to encompass the incredible variety and imagination that anonymous staff illustrators lavished on dime novel covers between 1860 and the 1930s. It is a sensual treat to examine a collection of these ephemeral publications with their eye-popping black-and-white or full-color graphics. The fact that so many surviving specimens are painstakingly patched, taped, stapled, and bound by amateur conservators speaks volumes about their value to a succession of owners over the past century or more.

As J. Randolph Cox points out in his Dime Novel Companion, “In the beginning, the term ‘dime novel’ was a brand name. ‘Beadle’s Dime Novels’ (1860-1874) was a series of paper covered booklets, published at intervals, and numbered in sequence… Each contained a work of fiction, a short novel with a sensational and melodramatic plot that sold for ten cents.” The publisher’s motto was “A Dollar Book for a Dime,” and they sold like hotcakes. Although the original dime booklets were aimed at adult readers, a growing juvenile audience prompted a new emphasis on adolescent action and adventure and a reduction in price. Young boys would feast their eyes on bold woodcuts showing slavering Indians tying captives to torture stakes, square-jawed trappers killing grizzly bears with bowie knives or Revolutionary War heroes sabering British dragoons.

Besides tracing themes such as gender roles, racial stereotypes, labor-management conflicts ethnic humor, and so on, the publication history of dime novels is a microcosm of communication and distribution technology from the 1850s through the 1930s.

The authors hope that this guide will introduce a new audience of dealers, collectors, and scholars to the “wild and wonderful” lost world of nineteenth-century popular literature and graphics to create appreciation for these stalwart ink-and-paper artifacts."

Here is just the book ..back,front, spine...

storypapers · May 20, 2014

HI ALL :news: doh! I MUST BE NUTS

LIMITED TIME ONLY!!!! FREE DIME NOVEL OR EARLY REPRINT!! LAST DAY TO ORDER MAY 25, 2014 SUNDAY.

I've been collecting for a long, long time. \:\) Some here know my story; discovering the Bethlehem collection...building world class collections, at the time, in GA and SA comic books, then in Pulp Magazines...and since in dime novels and story papers along with collections in other areas, that relate to Popular fiction, such as early comic almanacs and humor periodicals. Others know me here as mostly a serious buyer of GA and SA comics, coming full cycle!