Pulp comic books issue 6

Volume 6, Issue 1 - April 1931. Science fiction and adventure stories. This issue features "Monsters of Mars" by Edmond Hamilton. 144 pages, B&W Cover price $0.20.

Volume 6, Issue 2 - May 1931. Science fiction and adventure stories. This issue features "Dark Moon" by Charles W. Diffin. 144 pages, B&W Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart Very Good $77.00 View scans Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.

Volume 6, Issue 3 - June 1931. Science fiction and adventure stories. This issue features "Manape the Mighty" by Arthur J. Burks. 144 pages, B&W Cover price $0.20.

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December, 1955. 5.25-in. x 7.5-in.; black and white; 120 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.35.

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February 1956. Cover by Mel Hunter. Stories: "Avoidance Situation" by James Mc Connell, "Catalysis" by Poul Anderson, "To Pay the Piper" by James Blish, "The Drivers" by Edward W. Ludwig, "Shango" by John Jakes, "The Margenes" by Miriam Allen De Ford, "Jekyll and Hyde Planet" by Jack Lewis. 5.5-in. x 7.5-in.; 120 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

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April 1956. Cover by Kelly Freas. Stories: "Human Error" by Raymond F. Jones, "The Executioner" by Frank Riley, "Life Hutch" by Harlan Ellison, "Atom Drive" by Charles Fontenay, "Chrome Pastures" by Robert F. Young, and "Love Story" by Irving E. Cox. 5.5-in. x 7.5-in.; 120 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

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Vol. 6, No. 4 - June , 1956. 5.25" x 7.5", 120 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

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Add to cart FN 6.0 $12.00 View scans water spot outer edge foxing back exterior small creases Water damage: Slight.

Vol. 6, No. 5 - August , 1956. 5.25" x 7.5", 120 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

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Vol. 6, No. 6 - October , 1956. 5.25" x 7.5", 120 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $32.00 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 30%. Back cover detached 50%. Staple rust: Moderate.

Vol. 6, No. 2 - September, 1934. 7" x 9.75", 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 6, Issue 1 - July, 1953. Cover and art by Kelly Freas. Stories by Gordon Dickson (as Dickson Gordon) and Stanley Mullen. 7-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 112 pages. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Fine $61.00 View scans Paper: Light tan Back cover detached 5%.

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Cover by Kelly Freas. "The Ark of Mars" by Leigh Brackett. Other stories by Charles V. de Vet, Sol Galaxan, R. M. Williams, Hayden Howard, Alfred Copell, Jr., J. W. Groves, and James McKimmey, Jr. 7-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 112 pages. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $250.00 View scans Paper: Light tan Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 5%.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $110.00 View scans Trimmed Paper: Off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Staple rust: Slight.

First appearance of an all time Ray Bradbury classic, "The Golden Apples of the Sun."

Kelly Freas cover. "The Golden Apples of the Sun" by Ray Bradbury, plus other stories by Charles Eric Maine, Stanley Mullen, Jack Lewis, Fox B. Holden, Winston K. Marks, J. W. Groves, and Theodore L. Thomas. Illustrations by Freas, Emsh, Herman Vestal. 7-in. x 9.75-in. 112 pages, black and white (text with illustrations). Cover price $0.25.

Volume 6, Issue 4 - January, 1954. Kelly Freas cover. "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury, "The Crystal Crypt" by Philip K. Dick, plus other stories by Charles A. Stearns, Fox B. Holden, James McKinney Jr, Robert Sampson, Jan Smith, and Leigh Brackett. Illustrations by Emsh, Freas. 6.75" x 9.75", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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"The Galactic Ghost" a short story by Mac Reynolds.

Stories by Mack Reynolds, Fox Holden and Eric Storm, Illustrations by Larry Woromay (Marvel Artist). 7-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 112 pages. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Fine $61.00 View scans Paper: Light tan Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight.

Add to cart Good $8.00 View scans Paper: Cream Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 60%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

Add to cart Fair $7.80 View scans Paper: Light tan Front cover detached 90%. Back cover detached 90%. Front and Back Cover Detached. Water damage: Slight.

Cover by Kelly Freas. Stories by Erik Fennel and Philip K. Dick, Illustrations by Ed Emshwiller (Emsh), Eberle, and Vestal. 7-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 112 pages. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Fine $49.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Staple rust: Slight.

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Volume 6, Issue 7 - Summer, 1954. 6.75" x 9", 100 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $53.00 View scans Paper: Off white Back cover detached 5%. Staple rust: Slight.

Volume 6, Issue 8 - Fall, 1954. Cover by Kelly Freas. "The Time-Techs of Kra" by Max Sheridan. Other stories by Winston Marks, A. L. Haley, Fox B. Holden, James McConnell, Robert Sheckley, Eando Binder, and Charles A. Stearns. 7-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 96 pages. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $87.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white

Winter 1954-55. Cover by Algis Budrys. "Teleportress of Alpha C" by Leigh Brackett. Other stories by Michael Shaara, Charles A. Stearns, Raymond E. Banks, Mike Curry, Fred Freair, and H. Sanford Effron. 7-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 96 pages. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $34.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 10%.

Cover by Kelly Freas. Stories by Stanley Mullen, Alan E. Nourse, Algis Budrys, V. E. Thiessen, A. L. Haley, Robert E. Gilbert. Illustrations by Freas, Emsh, Eberle. 7-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 96 pages. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart VF+ 8.5 $77.00 View scans Paper: Off white Staple rust: Slight.

Volume 6, Issue 11 - Summer, 1955. 6.75" x 9.75", 96 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Volume 6, Issue 3 - July 1, 1933. 7" x 10", 128 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 6, Issue 4 - July 15, 1933. 7" x 10", 128 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 6, Issue 5 - August 1, 1933. Cover by G. Rozen. Stories include "The Black Hush" by Maxwell Grant, "Small-Time Guys" by Allen Westley; "The Devil's Decoy" by Jay J. Kalez; "Flying High" by Harley James' and "The Death Trap" by Robert N. Reeves. 7" x 10", black and white, 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $53.00 View scans Paper: Light tan Back cover detached 50%.

June 1935. Cover by John Howitt. Spider Story by Grant Stockbridge "Hordes of the Red Butcher". Other stories by Emile C. Tepperman and Wyatt Blassingame. Anti-crime article by Inspector Leslie T. White. Illustrations by J. Fleming Gould. 7" x 10", black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 6, Issue 1 - January 2002. By Various. An anthology of manga geared towards a more adult mind set. PULP has sexy, tough, surreal, violent and hilarious manga, plus columns and features written by some of the premier experts in Japanese pop culture. In this issue: Cinderalla's fairy godmother is more of a fairy-in-training in "Cinderalla"! Aya's ex-husband plants seeds of doubt with Suekichi about Aya's promiscuity in "Dance Till Tomorrow"! Kids and salary men deserve comics, too, in "Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga"! Purima tells the police about Renge's plans in "Bakune Young"! Max finds out his friend is the target of a citywide manhunt in "Banana Fish"! And a calm day suddenly turns into a raging typhoon with a murderous mind of its own in "Uzumaki"! Plus: "Short Cuts"! 176 pages, B&W. Mature Readers. Cover price $5.95.

Volume 6, Issue 2 - February 2002. By Various. An anthology of manga geared towards a more adult mind set. PULP has sexy, tough, surreal, violent and hilarious manga, plus columns and features written by some of the premier experts in Japanese pop culture. "Bakune Young": Renge uses a spiral to hypnotize Capt. Mercury Cougar and the two take an inner journey into a giant vagina! "Banana Fish": Fashion alert -- the action lets up some, as Ash Lynx raids the J. Crew catalogue. "Cinderalla": In this installment of the psychedelic fairy tale, the Little Fairy successfully turns Cinderalla into a zombie so she can attend the Prince's concert. "Dance Till Tomorrow": Aya's ex-husband knows her secret life at night and now is stalking her! Is Sue helping him? "Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga": Learn how to draw spectacular mah-jong manga and the secret codes of manga body language. "Short Cuts": Ko-gals take sex education to the next level! "Uzumaki": Japan's most infamous horror series spirals toward its climax as weird calluses start appearing on everybody's skin. Plus: A look at Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis. 128 pages, B&W. Mature Readers. Cover price $5.95.

Volume 6, Issue 3 - March 2002. By Various. An anthology of manga geared towards a more adult mind set. PULP has sexy, tough, surreal, violent and hilarious manga, plus columns and features written by some of the premier experts in Japanese pop culture. "Bakune Young": It takes a big man like Bakune to possess an even bigger man like Purima...but that's what it's going to take to break Bakune's comatose mass out of the Osaka Police Hospital. "Banana Fish": Ash abandons his preppie disguise and descends back into the New York underworld...on a train to Times Square and 42nd, where a knife in the back awaits one of his thousand enemies. "Cinderalla": Cinderalla always believed that some day her Prince would come -- the rotting, fungous artist formerly known as a living being; but she didn't expect him to plummet onto her during his long-awaited stage show! "Dance Till Tomorrow": It won't be two men in a tub, as the relentlessly heterosexual Aya and Suekichi play underwater rhymes in his new pad, while Aya's ex-husband Munakata stalks the lovers in the best slasher-movie manner! "Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga": The Professor dares to suggest that anime characters look alike, even while showing you the true meaning of anthropomorphism and how to draw "funny" animals -- haw! haw! "Short Cuts": What's more bizarre: A Tokyo girl in an Egyptian middle kingdom dress or a Tokyo boy in a waistcoat and plus-fours? Fortunately, this is "Short Cuts," so you can decide for yourself. "Uzumaki": In the wake of the second hurricane, a battered Kurozu-Cho has become cut off from the outside world, and when a TV news reporter drives into the disaster site, what she discovers may make her wish she had never come! 128 pages, B&W. Mature Readers. Cover price $5.95.

Volume 6, Issue 4 - April 2002. By Various. An anthology of manga geared towards a more adult mind set. PULP features sexy, tough, surreal, violent and hilarious manga, plus columns and features written by experts in Japanese pop culture. "Bakune Young": Purima, possessed by Bakune, breaks into the Diet building and prepares to fortify it. "Banana Fish": Ash's spectacular murder of a rival gangster throws fear into Arthur's coalition! "Cinderalla": Midnight strikes for Cinderalla and she must leave the arms of her Prince. As she rushes, she loses her glass...eye. "Dance Till Tomorrow": Munakata shaves, Suekichi and Aya have hijinx in the bathtub, plus Kurt Vonnegut references! "Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga": Lesson-time is over and our erstwhile dreamers embark on a brave new adventure! "Short Cuts": Satanic worship in the world of trendy ko-gals. "Uzumaki": The end is nigh for the beleaguered residents of Kurozu-cho as the social structure breaks down. Plus: A PULP exclusive interview with "Dance Till Tomorrow"'s Naoki Yamamoto! 128 pages, B&W. Mature Readers. Cover price $5.95.

Volume 6, Issue 5 - May 2002. By Various. An anthology of manga geared towards a more adult mind set. PULP features sexy, tough, surreal, violent and hilarious manga, plus columns and features written by experts in Japanese pop culture. "Bakune Young": As U.S. Navy jets begin their final run on the Diet building, Cagney-esque riot cops attempt to dislodge Purima and Yoshio from their stronghold inside. "Banana Fish": Who should get through airport security to wish Papa Dino a bon voyage on his trip to explain the missing 50 million? None but the one responsible -- Ash Lynx! "Cinderalla": It's showtime! One-eyed zombie gals from all around the kingdom line up to match their empty eye sockets with the glass eye in the Prince's possession. But this is Cinderalla's day. "Dance Till Tomorrow": A clean and sober Munakata shows up, reconciles with the family, and after a heartwarming reunion, begins slamming it to Aya. Or is it all just Suekichi's service-industry-induced nightmare? "Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga": Our undaunted duo begins the arduous task of creating their very own manga series! "Short Cuts": More surreal ko-gal madness. "Uzumaki": Return of the snail people! Overcrowded housing conditions! And the entire Japanese Navy gets sucked into a whirlpool. Plus: Mondo Tokyo Guide! 128 pages, B&W. Mature Readers. Cover price $5.95.