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Hey, alot of great, and not so great, imaginary literature got a start in the cheap untrimmed rough wood pages of the Pulp magazine. Pulps were a 10 cent newstand thrill that dates back to the late 1800's and had a great ride until around 1953. Hundreds of titles exploded on the scene, and gave the middle and lower educated classes an affordable means of reading entertainment. Pulps came in all subjects....Westerns, Science Fiction, Mystery, Horror, Love......and the writers! Burroughs, Max Brand, Dashiell Hammett, Ray Bradbury, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, H. P. Lovecraft, H.G. Wells, O. Henry, Rudyard Kipling, Mark Twain and on and on. But for me, the cover art of the Pulp pulled me in! Being a child of the comic book it was only natural to get totally involved with the incredible scenes depicted on pulp covers! I'm betting several of you UMAers can join with me in presenting some of those great Pulp magazines. I'm gonna start off with one of my favorites......Doc Savage Jan. 1934. A rather simple but very powerful cover titled.....Brand of the Werewolf......Buddy
Scan is under mylar.....I know you will appreciate my concern with leaving the pulp in it's sleave for scanning.......hey, it's only 77 years old!
That is a cool Doc pulp, Buddy!!! Sadly I don't own any pulps, but *love*love*love* pulp art!! There was a simplicity and immediacy to them as they were all competing with each other on the newsstand for the customer's attention. And a dime for all that great reading?!? Unbelievable!!
Here are my entries in the pulp sweepstakes:
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I wish I could find more of these men's adventure magazines but they're not widely available. And I don't just collect them for the pictures on the cover. I like the stories too.
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At the NYCC I saw a dealer with a complete set of the Doc Savage pulps! Amazing to see them ALL on a shelf.
QuoteAnd I don't just collect them for the pictures on the cover. I like the stories too.
Sure Hep.......and I use to buy Playboy for the articles. Buddy
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Terry, Seeing all the Docs would be very cool! Here's a pulp with you in mind, Terry. These 2 upstanding citizens are traveling along singing..."Goin' Ta Kansas City, Kansas City Here I Come...." Buddy
Buddy! That's the same artwork used on a book of pulp art I've got!!! ;D Great to see it as it was originally used.
I love pulp fiction. Mostly weird menace/horror and hard boiled detective. I used to have at least a couple dozen issues of Dime Detective ,Thrilling Mystery ,Thrilling Detective, Popular Detective etc. Just like most of my collections I ended up selling them off. I still have a few westerns. This one is from Sept. 1941.
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I have quite a few Weird Menace and HB Detective reprints. I especially like the work of Hugh B. Cave ,Robert Leslie Bellem , Norvell Page (gotta love The Spider) John K. Butler and Wyatt Blassingame just to name a few.
Lester! That's a great Western cover!
Illo, I believe I have that same book you speak of! In fact, I tracked down that issue of Private Detective after I saw that book cover! One of the greatest Pulp covers ever! (In my opinion) Buddy
Quote from: bigbud on June 26, 2011, 12:14:29 PM
Sure Hep.......and I use to buy Playboy for the articles. Buddy
I guess neither of us can resist articles like "The Wanton Women of Wangbu" or "The Torrid Tiger Nymph of Nyasaland".
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Quote from: buddySure Hep.......and I use to buy Playboy for the articles. Buddy
Quote from: Hepcat on June 27, 2011, 09:28:14 AM
I guess neither of us can resist articles like "The Wanton Women of Wangbu" or "The Torrid Tiger Nymph of Nyasaland".
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I thought that men bought Playboy for the jokes, cartoons and Shel Silverstein's poems .. SIGH!
When I was about 12 a friend of mine took me across the railroad tracks into the underbrush that grew on the other side......this was within sight of my house, so we didn't go far. In the weeds he pulled out something rolled in aluminum foil that he had hidden there. It was pages out of Playboy magazine. Man, did we enjoy checking those out. A week later I stood outside on my porch and watched a crew of weed whackers as they progressed along the backside of the railroad tracks swinging their long blades (no tractor mowers then). When they came to the area of my friends hidden treasure all work stopped. Much laughter was heard, and our adolescent fun disappeared.......Buddy
It really amazes me how much some of these issues have gone way high in price the last 5-7 years. Doing research on Ebay there are nice vg/f issues that are SELLING for 2-3X what I paid maybe 7-8 years ago. Mostly Detective/horror etc. The Westerns are still only slightly above but still a good value if you are getting multiple issue lots at 7-8 bucks an issue.
I thought I'd toss in a couple scans of reprints.
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Now the above book in a solid F condition has sold for close to 1/2 a G. $35 reprint makes sense to me.
Never seen one of these show up for real.
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One of the funnest so politically incorrect HB detective reprints and is a MUST own in any collection.
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IMO THE best place to find reprints.
http://www.adventurehouse.com/ (http://www.adventurehouse.com/)
That last cover, Roscoes In the Night, looks like it was originally on a Dan Turner Hollywood Detective. Those covers done by Ward are always fantastic! Here's my Dan Turner Hollywood Detective #1 with Ward cover. This pulp has the distinction of being from the pedigree "comic" collection titled the Kansas City Collection.
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Awesome, Buddy. I love that pulp style art with the loose brushwork and the primary colors. Great, great stuff!
Yea Illo, and the half-naked gal hanging her undies in the kitchen window ain't bad either! Buddy
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Illo my friend, at the cost of seeming extremely ignorant I must ask you to explain your avatar......thanks, Buddy
Buddy
That DT pulp is AWESOME!. Congrats on owning a piece of history! And in such nice condition too.. How long have you had that?
Lester, Just acouple of years. I knew the lady that had owned the Kansas City Comic Collection and had asked her to let me know if and or when she wanted to let go of the pulps associated with that collection. She had the Hollywood Detective and several other pulps since about 1971. Buddy
QuoteThat is a cool Doc pulp, Buddy!!! Sadly I don't own any pulps, but *love*love*love* pulp art!!
Illo, I agree, the art of the pulps is mindbogglingly cool! In fact, when I was collecting big-time I would rather collect the extraordinary cover pulps than worry about filling in any complete runs!
Back in the early 70's I visited an older gentleman's home in KC. He took me into a room in his house that had an original Doc Savage painting over his mantle! I believe it was from Quest of the Magi (or something like that). Doc was tied up in ropes in front of some heathen idol........I was hooked from that day forward! Buddy
Illoman's avatar is the late great "Cool Ghoul", a horror host from the southwestern Ohio area (Cincinnati's WXIX was the station). I spent many MANY a Saturday night watching the Ghoul and his line-up of not-so-classic-films, too!
As pulps go, I always get a charge out of WEIRD TALES, which in its day published H.P.Lovecraft's stories--and even in later years seemed to attract some damn-fine writers--Robert Bloch, August Derleth, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Seabury Quinn, etc are represented in these '40s issues from my collection, for instance.
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I can highly recommend these two books which are stock full of lavish and lurid illustrations by such legendary artists as Norm Saunders and Basil Gogos:
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It was only a few years ago that those Men's Mags were like $10-20. Now people are trying to get $100 for basically an exploitation rag mag. :o
Hep, I'm only giving you half credit for those being pulps. Men's magazines, yes, pulps.......only maybe. I do dig the small frame illo of the babe in tight black being eyed by the sombrero guy...hot.....Buddy
Throwing things around in the basement......came across some pulps. This is one of my all time favorite covers........ the pulp is from 1950... Buddy
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Love it, Buddy!
Quote from: bigbud on June 27, 2011, 11:42:41 AM
When I was about 12 a friend of mine took me across the railroad tracks into the underbrush that grew on the other side......this was within sight of my house, so we didn't go far. In the weeds he pulled out something rolled in aluminum foil that he had hidden there. It was pages out of Playboy magazine. Man, did we enjoy checking those out. A week later I stood outside on my porch and watched a crew of weed whackers as they progressed along the backside of the railroad tracks swinging their long blades (no tractor mowers then). When they came to the area of my friends hidden treasure all work stopped. Much laughter was heard, and our adolescent fun disappeared.......Buddy
HA!! I think every kid has a story like that one!!
Here's a good one...... Wonderful to see a pretty woman enjoying herself.........
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Hot woman..........gun............metallic bra. No further commentary is necessary. I think I'm in love.
Another young lady immensely enjoying herself.......with a mini-me-Scatter on her shoulder. Also, check out the whip.....sure to raise some welts. I'm afraid she is soon to learn that raising welts on a welt-man isn't the most effective way to lay an "ouch!" on a guy. Buddy
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They ran THE WORLD, THE FLESH AND THE DEVIL on TCM not long ago and it made me wonder about the origin of the plot--it has elements that remind one of OMEGA MAN and LAST MAN ON EARTH (both based on Richard Matheson's great story, I AM LEGEND). The origin of TWTFATD is a 1901 story called THE PURPLE CLOUD. I like to search out early printed versions of classic horror/sci-fi and was happy to acquire this 1949 pulp which features THE PURPLE CLOUD.
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Love, love, love that artwork, Robert!!
Yes, that is nice! And I see the dead bodies in the lower dirty fog bank! Neato! Buddy
Here's an old pulp with a cool cover. I always liked the aviation theme pulps. Their covers were wild! G-8 and his Battle Aces lasted 110 issues from 1933-1944. G-8 was a WWI aviator. His identity was never revealed. Buddy
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Ah yes, I have a couple of Famous Fantastic Mysteries books around here somewhere! Sometimes they can be found at reasonable prices on Ebay...I had a nice old Weird Tales that I bought in 1980 (on the same day I met Forry in person!), a 1940 WT issue I think, and it was very crumbly and turning orange, and it lasted until just a short while ago.
Yea, just the name "pulps" lets you know it's cheap paper. The pulp magazines weren't made to last. Buddy
Cool, gonna check out a pile of pulps Sunday
Me too Jimm! I'll be there a half hour before you. Oh.....help a buddy out.......what was that address again? Buddy
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Me too Jimm! I'll be there a half hour before you. Oh.....help a buddy out.......what was that address again? Buddy
First head to airport and fly west 'til you are just about run out of land, will update when u get here :)
Quote from: Hepcat on October 11, 2011, 04:19:47 PM
I can highly recommend these two books which are stock full of lavish and lurid illustrations by such legendary artists as Norm Saunders and Basil Gogos:
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Truely classics........unbelievable artwork.
QuoteFirst head to airport and fly west 'til you are just about run out of land, will update when u get here
Ha! Your're a good sport, Jimm. Please let us know what pulps you run into on Sunday........Buddy
Some decent covers ... VERY ruff shape though, like 4 bucks each, worth it? BTW that skeleton plane cover is the shizzle!
Jimm........ might depend on the titles. Could be some good reading if nothing else. Unless they are so crumbly that they are falling apart. That happens alot. Buddy
In this era of PC policing, most of the old pulp covers wouldn't fly. This is one of the reasons why I love that style of art so much. It's honest.
Yea G. Edward, I know what you are saying. Plus the ladies of the house object to some of those covers. But us guys gotta have some fun. Buddy
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Quote from: bigbud on February 27, 2012, 10:08:24 AM
Yea G. Edward, I know what you are saying. Plus the ladies of the house object to some of those covers. But us guys gotta have some fun. Buddy
There will always be some objection which is good. It means it's doing its job!
Ha! Here's a thread that hasn't surfaced for acouple years. The covers on old pulps are amazing. This is a Spicy Adventure Stories from March of 1937....This pulp is from the pedigree Kansas City Comic collection.....
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Loved it when the Shadow cover did something interesting with.....wait for it.......the shadows in the cover illustration....ha!
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Those are awesome, great shape too.
Thanks jimm...pulps are fun, but fragile...
The women seem to always be getting the bad end of things on these pulp covers....deserving I'm sure....ha!
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Quote from: bigbud on February 27, 2012, 10:08:24 AM
Yea G. Edward, I know what you are saying. Plus the ladies of the house object to some of those covers. But us guys gotta have some fun. Buddy
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Reminds me of Karloff's basement in "The Black Cat".
Nice mags Bud. That Real Mystery is a tough one to find. Weird Menace is my fave genre of pulp fiction. I have a fair amount of reprints.
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Hi ya Wicked! Yep, the weirder the better, right? Mystery, detective, horror, even romance......the weirder the better!
I love pulp art, too! That STARTLING MYSTERY is excellent! "The weirder the better" for me, too! ;D
I think that Scatter posed with the Shadow for this cover just after he had eaten the kids Halloween candy....while the little sweeties were sleeping no less! Ha!
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I love the face on this pulp...so sinister! Also a scan of the back of Mammoth Adventures #!........
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Doc Savage 1937 The Golden Peril. This very pulp got my pulp collection in gear many moons ago. I was walking around downtown LA on a weekend away from my military base and this pulp was on display in the front window of a small bookstore. I went inside....the guy had acouple more Docs and I spent some time thinking them over cause they weren't comics (which I was always into) and the condition wasn't as perfect as I usually wanted. But for as little as the guy wanted, I bought them all. He then says, "I was waiting to see if you were really interested or just a looker...come with me." Took me to the back storeroom where resided a large mound of old pulps. I was in dog heaven.....
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I know this thread is more concerned with the pulp magazines from the 30s and 40s, but if you like men's adventure magazines, pick up a copy of... "Men's Adventure Magazines"! Published by TASCHEN, it has a slew of cover images of magazines from the Rich Oberg collection. It is a heavy, thick book, chock full of illustrations. In fact, you can't take it in one, or even a few sittings. After a while I got tired of the "women in peril" images, and the "men in peril", and the "soldier in peril", and the...
Interesting, albiet limited text. Also interesting is that it's printed in English, German and French.
Very good reference book, highly recommended.
BTW, a pretty good book is "Pulp Art" by Robert Lesser. I've seen it in reduced price areas of book stores.
HepCat, I went through the thread and saw you mentioned the "Men's Adventure" book back in 2011! Funny tho, that the cover you display is different than the one that I have.
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Quote from: ChrisW on March 15, 2014, 01:25:12 PM
I know this thread is more concerned with the pulp magazines from the 30s and 40s, but if you like men's adventure magazines, pick up a copy of... "Men's Adventure Magazines"! Published by TASCHEN, it has a slew of cover images of magazines from the Rich Oberg collection. It is a heavy, thick book, chock full of illustrations. In fact, you can't take it in one, or even a few sittings. After a while I got tired of the "women in peril" images, and the "men in peril", and the "soldier in peril", and the...
Interesting, albiet limited text. Also interesting is that it's printed in English, German and French.
Very good reference book, highly recommended.
BTW, a pretty good book is "Pulp Art" by Robert Lesser. I've seen it in reduced price areas of book stores.
HepCat, I went through the thread and saw you mentioned the "Men's Adventure" book back in 2011! Funny tho, that the cover you display is different than the one that I have.
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Also wanted to mention that I'm a big fan of Edd Cartier.
Now that is one scary cover!
Oh...another of those Bud stories via this cover.....I was talking to a friend about water skiing on one of our Kansas lakes. He said he had been out many times on this one particular lake and had a great time. Then he mentioned the time one of the party he was in let go of the tow rope and came to a stop in the middle of a school of water moccasins (rather deadly snakes). I asked him what happened? he told me the guy died, but the chances of something like that happening are so very small that he didn't consider it to be a consideration. I don't ski Kansas.........
I love "Pulp Art" and this "Men's Adventure" book looks like another good one. Thanks, Chris!
Doc Savage #1, 1933.....with Walter Baumhofer's sig. on title page.......
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Quote from: ChrisW on March 15, 2014, 01:25:12 PMHepCat, I went through the thread and saw you mentioned the "Men's Adventure" book back in 2011! Funny tho, that the cover you display is different than the one that I have.
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I believe that it's the same book, but with a new and different cover. Here's the original cover again:
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Wow... both those covers are pretty gruesome! Ha!
Here's a detective title that lasted only two issues in 1941. The stories were said to be sluggish and written by several different writers. The title then became The Red Hood Detective Stories and lasted only one issue as such.....
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I have the reprint of that. Hearing the stories are sluggish makes me think Ebay here we come.
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Not a bad book. It contains a number of new and reprint articles about the history of the pulps and their authors.
The cover shown was done for this book. The back cover is the iconic image of the Shadow as a skeletal figure reaching out from parted curtains.
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The back cover is the iconic image of the Shadow as a skeletal figure reaching out from parted curtains.
One of my fave Shadow covers!
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Yup, that's the one!
ChrisW...Scott, I agree with ya! That is one of the best Shadow covers ever!
To me, The Black Hush cover is pretty much my favorite. Dig the Shadow Club ink stamp on his cheek....
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To me, The Black Hush cover is pretty much my favorite.
Great close-up image!
Ladies in distress make for great pulp covers too! The whole French Foreign Legion want this gal back! Ha!
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Future Fiction #1 1939.......now why did the aliens have to take the poor lady's clothes off? Naughty space buggers. Our hero is giving them what they deserve!
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An 8 foot hairy monster running all over the World Fair grounds of 1939. It was called Maximus. Doc had to find out who or what was controlling Maximus in order to stop it.......simple but wonderful pulp cover.......April 1939....75 years ago!
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Thrilling Spy Stories #1...introduced international spy The Eagle. Fall of 1939......pretty good time period for a spy title.
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Doc and group battle the Fountain of Youth Inc. before he can get involved in the mystery of Fear Cay island. Cool character in this one is Dan Thunden, who claims to be 130 years old. Dated Sept. 1934.. great Baumhofer cover!
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Uncanny Stories #1 April 1941. This is the only issue published of this title. 4+ illustrations on the interior are by Simon and Kirby, the dynamic comic team that had hit the stands about one month prior to Uncanny Stories with Captain America #1. Issue also has a very nice Alex Shomberg illo inside.
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The Sargasso Ogre
This is the 8th Doc Sabvage novel, and is dated Oct 1933. Doc and crew travel by ship from Egypt headed back to America. But when a week of fog clears they find the ship amid a graveyard of ships in the Sargasso Sea. The nearby island is where the bad guys and those onboard the derelict ships are trapped. The leader of the gang is Bruze who "almost" matches Doc's physical abilities. Doc is slow to defeat Bruze cause he is the only one with the secret of leaving the island..... What a great cover!
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Red Star Adventures lasted 4 issues in 1040-41. Centered around a shipwrecked baby raised by an island tribe (Tarzan like in many ways). He was named Matalaa. Matalaa grows up being raised by a grizzled witch-doctor. He learns his parents were murdered, and spends the four issues tracking down the guilty. This is Red Star Adventures #1....
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Doc Savage July 1938. The Giggling Ghosts. A toxic gas that makes people literally laugh themselves to death! Holy Batman! Where have I seen that happen before!?
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The Ghost Super Detective...#1 jan. 1940. George Chance expert magician decides to turn his talents to fighting crime as the skull-masked Ghost...the series didn't last long.....total of 4 issues as this title. Great cover.
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Good Gosh! My Pulp Magazine thread still exists too! I'd better get some monster pulps up on here quick! Ha!
If people don't mind I can post some of my weird menace reprint covers. Taking a 0 off the price for the same mag is a big deal to me.
Go for it Lester!
A couple WEIRD TALES--1940 and 2012--I don't collect the modern issues, but this one is way too cool not to own!
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And a couple AMAZING STORIES--a 1948 and a 1946--the '48 has a good Robert Bloch story, and the '46 one has a beauty of a Frank R. Paul painting on the back cover.
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Great covers, especially the Paul! :)
Three old pulp magazines from my collection--these belonged to Forry Ackerman and spent many many years on his shelves in the Ackermansion on Glendower. Here are WONDER STORIES Jan. 1933 and WONDER STORIES Aug. 1932, the latter featuring a Clark Ashton Smith tale, "Flight into Super-Time". Another writer of interest in this issue is Richard Tooker (1902-1988). Tooker was first published in pulps at the age of 15 and his talent was so highly appreciated by Henry Kuttner that Kuttner asked him to re-write some of his (Kuttner's) stories--a job Tooker turned down. Kuttner--and wife C.L. Moore--flourished without Tooker's help, in any case! Finally, SCIENCE WONDER QUARTERLY Winter 1930--a Gernsback magazine with a nice Frank R. Paul cover.
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A few Weird Tales from my collection. They are a little the worse for wear, but their contents are just as good as ever. Great reading! Bloch, Bradbury, Derleth, Wellman, Bok and many more...
November 1944:
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I like the Bok cover!
I believe the first cover is by Matt Fox and then there are two Lee Brown Coye covers, plus the Bok! It doesn't get much better than that!
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I believe the first cover is by Matt Fox and then there are two Lee Brown Coye covers, plus the Bok!
Oops! None of the covers are by Bok. The last one is by A.R. Tilburne. I thought the 1st one was the Bok.
Here's the first 3 issues of Fantastic Adventures...a Ziff-Davis publication that began in May 1939. The first several issues were bed-sheet issues, which meant they were of unusually large size for a pulp. The back covers are of interest....illustrator Frank Paul painted a scene from a different planet each issue. Fantastic Adventures lasted till 1953.
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bigbud, thank you very much for sharing those great images. The Paul paintings are especially cool. What a brilliant imagination the man had!
QuoteWhat a brilliant imagination the man had!
Yes he sure did! The art on many old pulps is just superb and fascinating. I just don't run into pulps for sale like I use to. If I do they tend to be Railroad Stories or Pop. Mechanics. But I don't stop looking....always treasures to be found if you keep digging! Ha!
Here,s some more Fantastic Adventures in that series and sequence..... Love the Whispering Gorilla cover!
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Here's a neat oddball pulp...this is Amazing Stories Quarterly for Fall of 1940.....this sucker is 1 1/2 inches thick! A fat boy!
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Amazing Stories Winter 1942.....this sucker is 2 1/2 inches thick!.......
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Quote from: bigbud on November 14, 2014, 06:14:00 PMHere's a neat oddball pulp...this is Amazing Stories Quarterly for Fall of 1940.....this sucker is 1 1/2 inches thick! A fat boy!
Quote from: bigbud on November 17, 2014, 01:26:52 PMAmazing Stories Winter 1942.....this sucker is 2 1/2 inches thick!.......
Yes, people read in those days! And sci-fi was very popular. People fully expected that mankind would have a colony on Luna if not on Mars by century's end.
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Quote from: bigbud on February 27, 2012, 10:08:24 AMYea G. Edward, I know what you are saying. Plus the ladies of the house object to some of those covers. But us guys gotta have some fun.
Well I still don't understand why they'd have a problem.
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