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Dating outside your religion - once taboo enough to merit you a sleazy novel cover blurb par excellence! Popular Library No. 251 - Eagle At My Eyes by Norman Katkov, 1950.

This is one of a trio of pulp magazines I bought at the recent Windy City show for the princely sum of... well, cover price. Yes, it cost me a whole ten cents! p.s. Thanks Randy! Fantastic Novels Magazine - April 1941 issue. Beautiful cover art by Virgil Finlay.

This is one of a trio of pulp magazines I bought at the recent Windy City show for the princely sum of, well... cover price. Yes, this classic cost me a whole fifteen cents! p.s. Thanks Randy! Thrilling Wonder Stories - Fall 1944 issue. Cover art by Rudolph Belarski, who excelled, in my opinion, more in the detective and mystery genres than his science fiction tableau - just sayin.'

This is third in a trio of pulp magazines that I was lucky enough to purchase at the recent Windy City paper show for the ridiculously low cover price - in this case, a whole 25 cents. One of the exhibitors had a spinner rack full of similar magazines from the 1930's thru the 50's. A sign atop the rack read something to the effect: "Old pulps - cover price. Limit 3. No dealers please." Well, my friend Larry and I walked past it several times, as did so many others, all of us who noticed the sign thinking it had to be a joke. An aisle or two removed, we looked at each other and wondered if he was serious, so we decided to go back and check. When we got back there, one browser was putting back a really nice issue of Planet Stories, which Larry quickly snatched up along with two copies of Argosy. I found five sci-fi pulps and stressed for about five minutes which ones would comprise my final trio. The exhibitor was even adamant about making change for a dollar, digging in his pocket for fifty cents in change. I think he just wanted to have a little fun with it all and wanted to get the magazines into the hands of the collectors who would enjoy them most. All I can say is thanks, Randy. It was a generous experiment and great fun. Famous Fantastic Mysteries - June 1950 issue. A fantastically-terrifying science-fiction classic of a cover by Norman Saunders.

Marvel Tales - December 1939 issue. Cover art by Norman Saunders.

Unknown - October 1939 issue. Cover art by Modest Stein.

Fantastic Novels - July 1949 issue. Cover art by Lawrence Sterne Stevens.

"Every man in town wanted her kisses." Popular Library No. 457 - The Boy Came Back by Charles H. Knickerbocker, 1952.

Popular Library No. 419 - Lower Than Angels by Walter Karig, 1952. Great cover art by Rafael DeSoto.

Just another hell-cat courtesy of Reginald Heade and brought to you from the good folks at Leisure Library. Cover art by Reginald Heade.

"The lusty saga of a half-breed romeo." Popular Giant G541 - Stay Away, Joe by Dan Cushman, 1961. Cover art by Rafael DeSoto.

Signet Books No. 627 - Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell, 1956. 28th printing! Cover art by James Avati.

Pocket Books No. 253 - Alien Land by Willard Savoy, 1950. Cover art by James Avati.

"She posed for one private showing too many." Avon Books No. 733 - Who Killed Sweet Sue by Henry Kane, 1956.

"She was a pretty front for the vice syndicate." Avon Books No. 570 - Devil's Daughter by Floyd Shaw, 1954. Cover by Michael.

Signet Books No. 820 - Shriek With Pleasure by Toni Howard, 1950. Cover art by Mitchell Hooks.