Doc Savage and Weird Tales Lead Major Pulps Auction

Heritage Auctions' June 5–6 Pulp Magazines sale will feature an exceptionally rare color variant of Weird Tales No. 1 from March 1923, and a Doc Savage No. 1 from March 1933.

Other highlights include:

• rare US and UK copies of All-Story No. 94 from October 1912 which introduces Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan of the Apes
• All Detective Magazine No. 12 featuring the first pulp cover by Norman Saunders, known for his 1960s Mars Attacks and Batman TV series trading cards
• Ace Mystery No. 1 from May 1936
• Movie Humor V4 No. 2 from September 1937
• Weird Tales No. 173 from June 1938

There are more than 20 consigners to the auction.

“This many consigners coming together for a sale like this is really important, because the pulp market is smaller than the comic book market,” said Sasha Fraze, Heritage Auctions Comics & Comic Art Consignment Director for Pulp Magazines. “It represents big growth from the last pulp Signature auction which was a single consigner.

“This sale has a really wide variety of lots, a good variety of genres, title, artists and authors. It runs the gamut of every kind of cool pulp you could want, classic covers, important stories, ultra-rare pulps. Overall, there are tons of cool books that should go for the $2,000 to $5,000 range. It’s a great sale for someone who wants to enter pulp collecting.”