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Fantastic H.J. Ward cover. Great use of color. Click photo for details/to buy.

Though Alice Phillips was listed as the managing editor, the work was done by Lincoln Hoffman. Alice Phillips was his sister-in-law, and the publishing company was a joint venture with Martin Goodman, who would go on to found Marvel Comics. Click photo for details/to buy.

Artist Carl Van Buskirk paints the flapper. Buskirk would do more covers for Photoplay before his untimely death at the age of 43 in 1930. Click photo for details/to buy.

Cover proof for this beautiful Art Deco cover. Click photo for details/to buy.

People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow. Erma Bombeck . Click photo for details/to buy.

Includes a northwestern story by English author Harold Bindloss. Click photo for details/to buy.

Slightly surreal cover there by Enoch Bolles. Click photo for details/to buy.

Has a Talbot Mundy story in this issue. Click photo for details/to buy.

Includes a story by Rex Stout, author of Nero Wolfe stories. Click photo for details/to buy.

Master poster artist Edward Penfield did this cover. If anyone identifies it from the signature, they should be on a museum's staff. Click photo for details/to buy.

Rare to see an issue of this Street and Smith pulp for sale. Cover by H.T. Fisk and stories by Johnston McCulley and Robert Ormond Case among other top-notch western authors. Click photo for details/to buy.

This hard to find teens issue of Adventure has illustrations by illustrator and newspaper cartoonist Will Crawford in addition to stories by Henry Oyen and W.C. Tuttle. Click photo for details/to buy.

First issue of the rare girlie pulp Cupid's Capers . Nearly all covers featured a woman contorting her body in various shapes. Click photo for details/to buy.

Cover by H.J. Ward. Click photo for details/to buy.

Cover by Peter Driben. Click photo for details/to buy.

regulars Erle Stanley Gardner and Earl & Marion Scott show up in this issue of Hersey's Gang World . Click photo for details/to buy.

If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action. Douglas Adams. Earle Bergey cover. Click photo for details/to buy.

I'm sure the placement of that exclamation mark was purely accidental. Nothing Freudian to see there. Click photo for details/to buy.

Kiss and make up-but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss. Mae West. Click photo for details/to buy.

Nice Monahan cover. Click photo for details/to buy.

Cover by Joseph Farrelly, who also did covers for the Saturday Evening Post , Collier's and Liberty . Click photo for details/to buy.

Scandal slabbed. Click photo for details/to buy.

New Yorker cover artist H.O. Hofman did this cover for the Waldorf-Astoria's in-house magazine in 1926. What a time that was, when great illustration was ubiquitously present. Click photo for details/to buy.

Cover by illustrator and photographer Carlo Leonetti . This is a facsimile copy. Click photo for details/to buy.

Last issue of this girlie pulp before they changed to a love/romance pulp. Didn't work, it only lasted 2 more issues before folding. Click photo for details/to buy.

Leslie Thrasher cover. Click photo for details/to buy.

Enoch Bolles cover. Click photo for details/to buy.

The titles on the cover tell a very short story: Full of tricks , Once too often , Oh, Doctor, Doctor! , Cherie gets wise . Click photo for details/to buy.

March 1936 : The skeleton looks quite surprised in this cover by W.F. Soare. Would you expect to be stabbed in the back if you were already dead? September 1935 : Great cover there, makes you want to pick it up and read the stories Click photos for details/to buy.

Johnston McCulley's Death by the alphabet in this issue. Click photo for details/to buy.

This rare girlie pulp is actually two unsold issues rebound as one - the February 1937 issue of Saucy Movie Tales and the April 1937 issue of Saucy Detective Stories , and put back on the newsstand a year later for unsuspecting readers to pick up. Click photo for details/to buy.

Each of us is like a diamond, and each of us has the potential to be brilliant. Simon T. Bailey. Cover by Rafael DeSoto. Click photo for details/to buy.

Norman Saunders did this iconic cover for Dell's attempt to cash in on the FBI/gangster craze. Click photo for details/to buy.

Enoch Bolles cover. Click photo for details/to buy.

Cover by E.K. Bergey, issue in excellent condition. Click photo for details/to buy.

It doesn't look like it, but that's a Tom Lovell cover on this issue of Dime Mystery . Click photo for details/to buy.

Second issue of this girlie pulp. Click photo for details/to buy.

This weird menace cover stresses the weird part quite a bit - bird-headed beast, weird instrument of torture/weapon, misshapen beasts. Click photo for details/to buy.

Another Belarski cover riffing on Shakespeare's Hamlet holding Yorick's skull. Click photo for details/to buy.

Iconic skull cover by Rudolph Belarski on this issue of The Phantom Detective . Click photo for details/to buy.

If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether. Mason Cooley. Click photo for details/to buy.

Very rare illustrations for a Black Mask story by Dwight Babcock. Bowker illustrations never come on the market. Click photo for details/to buy.

Does anyone know who the artist of this striking cover is?. Click photo for details/to buy.

Cover by Frederick Manning. Click photo for details/to buy.

Great cover, and the issue looks to be in near-mint condition. Click photo for details/to buy.

Too hot to handle is the not-so-subtle subtext of this cover by Enoch Bolles. Click photo for details/to buy.

When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money. Susan Heller. Click photo for details/to buy.

Bedsheet sized early issue of this rare Trojan pulp, printed on higher grade paper than the usual pulp. Features a H.J. Ward cover, Parkhurst interior illustrations and comic strip with stories by Margie Harris, Emile C. Tepperman and prolific pulpster Richard B. Sale. Great package, but didn't succeed and would stop publication after 2 more issues. The title was revived in the 1940s as a hero pulp featuring Jim Anthony - scientist, businessman and adventurer. Click photo for details/to buy.

The title story, Murder by Accident , is by Roger Torrey, hard-drinking hard-boiled author. Click photo for details/to buy.