PULP MAGAZINES....Monsters...Murder....Mystery!

[bigbud]

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!

[bigbud]

 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!

[bigbud]

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.

[bigbud]

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!

[bigbud]

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....

[bigbud]

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.

[bigbud]

Good Gosh! My Pulp Magazine thread still exists too! I'd better get some monster pulps up on here quick! Ha!

[Wicked Lester]

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.

[bigbud]

Go for it Lester!

[typhooforme]

A couple WEIRD TALES--1940 and 2012--I don't collect the modern issues, but this one is way too cool not to own!


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.

[Mike Scott]

Great covers, especially the Paul! 

[typhooforme]

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.