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Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series comic books 1948

  • Vol. 40 #2
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    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 30%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 30%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • 2.5" Spine split from bottom. Glue on spine.
    • Paper: Light tan to Cream
    • Front cover detached 20%. Back cover detached 30%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 40%. Back cover detached 20%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • 2 1/4" Cumulative spine split.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 30%. Back cover detached 50%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Light tan to Cream
    • Front cover detached 60%. Cover Wrap Detached. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Extensive.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 60%. Back cover detached 60%. Cover Wrap Detached.

    Volume 40, Issue 2 - January, 1948. Cover by Boris Dolgov. Horror and supernatural stories by Edmond Hamilton, Theodore Sturgeon, Allison V. Harding, Seabury Quinn, Maria Moravsky, Stephen Grendon, Roger S. Vreeland, and Carl Jacobi. 6 3/4-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 100 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.20.

  • Vol. 40 #3
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 40 #3


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    Auction opens July 6
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 20%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • 1" Cumulative spine split. Water damage.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 30%. Water damage: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 60%. Back cover detached 50%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 20%. No Back Cover. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

    Volume 40, Issue 3 - March, 1948. 25th Anniversary Issue. Cover by Lee Brown Coye. Horror and supernatural stories by Edmond Hamilton "The Might-Have-Been", Allison V. Harding, H. Russell Wakefield, Manly Wade Wellman, Carl Jacobi, August Derleth "The La Prello Paper", Ray Bradbury "The October Game", Robert Bloch "Catnip", Clark Ashton Smith, Theodore Sturgeon "The Professor's Tidy Bear", Seabury Quinn, Algernon Blackwood, and H. P. Lovecraft (verse). Illustrations by Lee Brown Coye, E. J. Beaumont, Boris Dolgov, and John Guinta. 6 3/4-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 96 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.20.

  • Vol. 40 #4
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 40 #4


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    Auction opens July 6
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Book length crease on back cover. Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    May 1948. Cover by Matt Fox. Horror and supernatural stories by Allison V. Harding "City of Lost People", Harold Lawlor, C. Hall Thompson, August Derleth "Saunder's Little Friend", Ray Bradbury "Black Ferris", Roger S. Vreeland, Stanton A. Coblentz, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Peter Phillips, and Davis Grubbs -as (Dave Grubbs) "One Foot in the Grave". Illustrations by John Giunta, Lee Brown Coye, Boris Dolgov, and Fred Humiston. 6 3/4-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 96 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.20.

  • Vol. 40 #5
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 40 #5


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Back cover detached 30%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back Cover Detached. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

    July 1948. Cover by Matt Fox. Horror and supernatural stories by Edmond Hamilton "Twilight of the Gods", Allison V. Harding. Harold Lawlor, Stephen Grendon, Theodore Sturgeon "Abreaction", Malcolm M. Ferguson, Manly Wade Wellman, and E. Everett Evans. Illustrations by Fred Humiston, Vincent Napoli, John Giunta, Lee Brown Coye, and Boris Dolgov. 6 3/4-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 96 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.20.

  • Vol. 40 #6
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 40 #6


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    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • 2 1/2" Cumulative spine split.
    • 4" Cumulative spine split.

    Sept 1948. Cover by Lee Brown Coye. Horror and supernatural stories by Ray Bradbury ("Fever Dream"), August Derleth, Allison V. Harding, Dorothy Quick, Harold Lawlor, Stanton A. Coblentz, Snowden T. Herrick, Edmond Hamilton, Eric Frank Russell, Peter Phillips, and Mary Elizabeth Counselman. 6 3/4-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 96 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.20.

  • Vol. 41 #1
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 41 #1


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    • Paper: Off white
    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Spine stress. Corner Damage. Denting. Edge damage. Scuffing. Soiling.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 20%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

    Volume 41, Issue 1 - November, 1948. Cover by John Giunta. Horror and supernatural stories by Theodore Sturgeon "The Perfect Host", Allison V. Harding, Robert Bloch "The Indian Spirit Guide", Stephen Grendon, Carl Jacobi, Malcolm Kenneth Murchie, Seabury Quinn, and Eric Frank Russell. Illustrations by Lee Brown Coye, John N. Anderson, Vincent Napoli, John Giunta, Fred Humiston, and Boris Dolgov. 6 3/4-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 96 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.20.