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Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series comic books 1948-1950

  • 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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    • 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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    • 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.

  • Vol. 41 #2
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 41 #2


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    • Paper: Off white
    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

    Jan 1949. Cover by Lee Brown Coye. Horror and supernatural stories by Allison V. Harding "Four From Jehlam", Robert A. Heinlein "Our Fair City", E. Everett Jones, Frank Gruber, Snowden T. Herrick, John D. MacDonald "The Great Stone Death", Harold Lawlor, Robert Bloch "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", Eric Frank Russell, Stephen Grendon, and Mary Elizabeth Counselman. Illustrations by Lee Brown Coye, John Guinta, Boris Dolgov, and Vincent Napoli. 6 3/4-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 96 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.20.

  • Vol. 41 #3
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 41 #3


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    Auction opens July 6
    • 3" cumulative spine split.

    March 1949. Cover by Matt Fox. Horror and supernatural stories by August Derleth "The Testament of Claiborne Boyd", Theodore Sturgeon "The Martian and the Moron", Robert Bloch "The Strange Island of Dr. Nork", Allison V. Harding, Arthur J. Burks, Stanton A. Coblentz, and Thorp McClusky. Illustrations by Fred Humiston, Vincent Napoli, Boris Dolgov, and Lee Brown Coye. 6 3/4-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 96 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.20.

  • Vol. 41 #4
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 41 #4


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Paper: Off white
    • TRIMMED at margin. Oxidation.
    • Water damage.
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Extensive.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 20%. Back cover detached 25%. Water damage: Slight.

    Volume 41, Issue 4 - May, 1949. 1st 25 cent cover price. Cover by John Giunta. Horror and supernatural stories by Allison V. Harding "The Damp Man Again", Arthur J. Burks, Seabury Quinn, Carl Jacobi, Harold Lawlor, Anthony Boucher, Malcolm Kenneth Murchie, Greye La Spina, John D. MacDonald "But Not to Dream", and August Derleth "Kingsridge 214". Illustrations by John Giunta, Fred Humiston, Vincent Napoli, Matt Fox, and Lee Brown Coye. 6.5" x 9.75", 96 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 41 #5
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 41 #5


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    Auction opens July 6
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 20%. Back cover detached 25%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Water damage.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    July 1949. Cover by Matt Fox. Horror and supernatural stories by Fredric Brown "Come and Go Mad", Ewen Whyte, H. Russell Wakefield, Stephen Grendon, Russell Branch, Stanton A. Coblentz, Frietz Lieber "In the X-Ray", Harold Lawlor, Robert Bloch "Floral Tribute", and Seabury Quinn. Illustrations by Boris Dolgov, John Giunta, Vincent Napoli, and Matt Fox. 6 3/4-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 96 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

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    $165 Weird Tales Pulp 1st Series Jul 1949 Vol. 41 #5 VG- Cream/Off-White Pages

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  • Vol. 41 #6
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 41 #6


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    Auction opens July 6
    • 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: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

    Sept 1949. Cover by Michael Lebonski. Horror and supernatural stories by Theodore Sturgeon "One Foot and the Grave", Allison V. Harding, Gardner F. Fox, Ewen Whyte, August Derleth "The Slayers and the Slain", Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Seabury Quinn, Malcolm Kenneth Murchie, and Dorothy Quick. Illustrations by Lee Brown Coye, Vincent Napoli, and John Giunta. 6 3/4-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 96 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 42 #1
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 42 #1


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    Auction opens July 6
    • Cover detached, tape stains.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 20%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 30%. Back cover detached 30%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • 1/2" Spine split from bottom.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Volume 42, Issue 1 - November, 1949. Cover by Matt Fox. Horror and supernatural stories by Allison V. Harding "The Underbody", Arthur J. Burks, Seabury Quinn, H. Russell Wakefield, Ewen Whyte, August Derleth "Twilight Play", Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Malcolm Kenneth Murchie, Yves Theriault, Emil Petaja, and Malcolm M. Ferguson. Illustrations by Vincent Napoli, lee Brown Coye, Boris Dolgov, and Fred Humiston. 6 3/4-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 100 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

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    $600 Weird Tales Pulp 1st Series Nov 1949 Vol. 42 #1 5.0 Off White Pages CGC

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  • Vol. 42 #2
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 42 #2


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    • 1" Cumulative spine split. Water damage.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Staple rust: Slight.
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 20%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Tape on interior cover.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Jan 1950. Cover by Matt Fox. Horror and supernatural stories by Arthur J. Burks "Black Harvest of Moraine", August Derleth "The Ormulu Clock", Manly Wade Wellman, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Ewen Whyte, Stanton A. Coblentz, Fredric Brown "The Last Train", Mal Bissell, Carroll John Daly "Outside of Time", Margaret St. Clair, Mildred Johnson, and Seabury Quinn. Illustrations by Vincent Napoli, Matt Fox, Lee Brown Coye, Fred Humiston, Boris Dolgov, and John Guinta. 6 3/4" x 10"; black and white; 96 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 42 #3
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 42 #3


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 15%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Extensive.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight.

    Volume 42, Issue 3 - March, 1950. Cover by Lee Brown Coye. Novellettes include Home to Mother by Manly Wade Wellman, and the Short Stories The Corn Dance by Margaret St. Clair, Dead Man's Shoes by Day Keene, The Hungry Ghost by Emil Petaja, The Shadow of Saturn by E. Hoffmann Price, Stay with Me by Shelby Steger, Take the Z-Train by Allison V. Harding, The Tree's Wife by Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Two Face by Frank Belknap Long. Also features the poem Do You Forget, Enchantress? by Clark Ashton Smith. Softcover, 100 pages, Text (with B&W illustrations) Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 42 #4
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 42 #4


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%.
    • Tape on interior of cover.
    • 2" cumulative spine split.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Table of contents page detached, but still present.

    May, 1950. Cover by Boris Dolgov. Horror and supernatural stories by Robert Bloch, Harold Lawlor, Stanton A. Coblentz, Seabury Quinn, William F. Temple, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Margaret St. Clair, Evangeline Walton, Stephen Grendon, and Malcolm M. Ferguson . 6 3/4-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 100 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 42 #5
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 42 #5


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    Auction opens July 6
    • Paper: Cream
    • Water damage: 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.

    July 1950. Cover by Matt Fox. Horror and supernatural stories by Arthur J. Burks "Shallajai", Robert Bloch "The Weird Tailor", Eric Frank Russell, Seabury Quinn, H. Russell Wakefield, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, August Derleth "The Closing Door", Margaret St. Clair, and Cleve Cartmill. Illustrations by Charles A. Kennedy, Vincent Napoli, Matt Fox, Fred Humiston, and John N. Anderson. 6 3/4-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 96 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 42 #6
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 42 #6


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Water damage: Extensive.

    Sept 1950. Cover by Bill Wayne. Horror and supernatural stories by Isaac Asimov & James MacCreagh "Legal Rites", Manly Wade Wellman, Robert Bloch "The Shadow from the Steeple", Mildred Johnson, Harold Lawlor, August Derleth "Pott's Triumph", Carl Jacobi, Frank Owen, and Emil Petaja. Illustrations by Fred Humiston, Vincent Napoli, Charles A. Kennedy, and Boris Dolgov. 6 3/4-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 96 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 43 #1
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 43 #1


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

    Nov 1950. Cover by Frank Kelly Freas. Horror and supernatural stories by Fritz Lieber "The Dead Man", H. Russell Wakefield, Seabury Quinn, Harold Lawlor, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Margaret St. Clair, Murray Sanford, and H. S. W. Chibbet. Illustrations by Charles A. Kennedy, Lee Brown Coye, Vincent Napoli, Matt Fox, and Joseph R. Eberle. 6 3/4-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 100 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.