Show off your Weekly Finds.

[TheHoldingCoat]

Monolith:  Yes, I paid 65 cents for it the first time I bought it about 50 years ago. This time, it cost me $3.95. Worth every penny. And no - I'm not selling it again!   MonstersFor Sale: Interesting thing is that the owner of the store said he got the book about 2 months ago. So, it had been sitting quietly on his jam-packed shelf, only its spine showing, waiting for me to show up.

[bigbud]

What a great story, HoldingCoat! I'll never have the same thrill. I could never bring myself to put my name in any book or comic I ever owned. Been a condition freak my entire life...ha!

[TheHoldingCoat]

There was a period of a few years when I wrote my name and address in small letters along the vertical outer edge of the inside back cover of most of my paperback books. If I hadn't done that, I never would have known that the book I bought a couple of days ago was the exact same copy I bought 50 years ago!

[Mike Scott]

MonstersFor Sale: Interesting thing is that the owner of the store said he got the book about 2 months ago.

Did you tell him it was your old book? What was his reaction?

[TheHoldingCoat]

He was almost as amazed as I was.

[Scary Terry]

That's a great story about getting your book back. Had a similar thing happen to me. At a fund-raising book sale at the high school in my Iowa hometown, I found my childhood copy of the Ace paperback edition of Tarzan and the Lion Man (Frazetta cover) -- my name written on the inside. It was a little beat up -- but I was glad to have it back. Now if I only knew where all my Doc Savage paperbacks went....

[Mike Scott]

At a fund-raising book sale at the high school in my Iowa hometown, I found my childhood copy of the Ace paperback edition of Tarzan and the Lion Man (Frazetta cover) -- my name written on the inside.

Wow! Do you have any idea how it got there? Did you donate some old paperbacks at some point?

[Scary Terry]

I'm sure we sold it at a yard sale years prior. Who knows how many other owners had it before being donated to the school's sale.

[Mike Scott]

I'm sure we sold it at a yard sale years prior. Who knows how many other owners had it before being donated to the school's sale.

Wild!

[CreepyJeff]

FINALLY completed my 1960s monster flicker ring set.  Also picked up these really cool pewter monster rings molded after the Aurora models.  Very heavy and deluxe and an excellent price for all seven rings ($75 plus shipping off ebay).  Bought the ring display at Michaels today.  Very happy monster camper!

[marsattacks666]

FINALLY completed my 1960s monster flicker ring set.  Also picked up these really cool pewter monster rings molded after the Aurora models.  Very heavy and deluxe and an excellent price for all seven rings ($75 plus shipping off ebay).  Bought the ring display at Michaels today.  Very happy monster camper!

Very cool.

[Monster Bob]

Love the rings and the way they are displayed~!

[Illoman]

Then, today, I was browsing in the "Outer Limits" comics store in Waltham, MA and I found it! Not only did I find the edition I was looking for - I found the very copy I owned over 40 years ago! My name and address is written on the inside back cover. Wonder where that book has been since 1972?

Don't know what it is about this book, but I have a similar story as well, but not as amazing as the other two. When I lived at home I bought the Bantam edition of Frankenstein with the Bama cover. I moved out in 1982. Years later, in the late 1990's I wondered whatever became of that book. Most of my stuff like this made the journey wth me, but somehow this did not.

I emailed my brother in Washington to see if perchance he accidentally took it at some point. He and I were voracious readers in our teens. He devoured all the Burroughs' stuff while I feasted on Robert E Howard's works. He told me he had a bunch of stuff in storage at his father in law's, and it was being mailed to him to get it out of their basement. The first box that arrived, there's my Franky sitting on top!! He quickly sent it to me and we were reunited.

[CreepyJeff]

Love the rings and the way they are displayed~!

Thanks, Bob!  I'm very okay with ending up with three red and three green versions of the flickers (just by happenstance).   Never planned on owning all of all three colors of them.  Note I placed them in order from when each matching Universal movie premiered.  Just because.   

[Monsters For Sale]

Thanks, Bob!  I'm very okay with ending up with three red and three green versions of the flickers (just by happenstance).   Never planned on owning all of all three colors of them.  Note I placed them in order from when each matching Universal movie premiered.  Just because.   

I have my Universal Monsters Collection VHS tapes in chronological order on the shelf - at least by year.