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After dinner we visited the gravesite.

Had the traditional dinner at Humphrey Pete's this time joined by Joe R. Lansdale who showed up unexpectedly (center).

The Howard house and museum.

Rolled into Cross Plains last night where I found a few of my other early bird friends. It didn't talk long for the pulps and Irish whiskey to come out. Al Harron, Howard researcher and blogger from Scotland, with REH poetry expert Barbara Barrett. Bill, "Black Indy" Cavalier, a fixture in REH fandom for decades and the editor of REHupa, spicing it up.

Here's that better pic Rich sent me. I had a great time as always! And Gator, that sounds like a fun road trip.

Once again making the road trip to Cross Plains, TX for Robert E. Howard Days. Last night I had the good fortune to enjoy the hospitality of our own Yellowkid, Rich Olson. We had a great time geeking out over comics as always!

Beautiful Patrice! "A few more..."

The one Conan cover I've never owned. I need to get one.

Great color! So many copies of this one seem to be faded.

Beautiful guys!

Both are great but I really love the Clock!

Another legend gone. Hard to be too sad -- he had a good long run. RIP

Time for a thread bump. Earlier in this thread I posted a few of the pre-Marvel Conan comics that were published in Mexico in the 1950s and 60s. I recently scored a motherload by acquiring a collection of these rare books from a REH collector: I'm posting scans of the individual issues in this thread in Gold so check it out. Many of of these have never been shown publicly before now. http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6736794#Post6736794 I also put up a blog post discussing the slow discovery of these comics by US fandom over the years for those who interested in such things: http://www.anageundreamedof.com/2013/05/la-reina-de-la-costa-negra-mystery-of.html

How were you able to get a look at it? At an SF art exhibit in Orlando. Went with several boardies during Megacon. It was pretty amazing actually. Here's a write up I did about it for The Cimmerian blog: http://www.thecimmerian.com/maidens-and-monsters-masters-of-science-fiction-and-fantasy-art-on-display/

Some of you guys might enjoy my blog post on the rare and enigmatic La Reina de la Costa Negra series. The first appearance of Conan the Cimmerian in a comic book in the 1950s and 60s was in Mexico. http://www.anageundreamedof.com/2013/05/la-reina-de-la-costa-negra-mystery-of.html

Just picked up a collection of uber rare GA Conan comics (there's a few SA ones in there too, but I won't kick 'em out of bed).

Love 'em! Especially the MM 2!

This week in my collection I hit the mother-friggin' load!

The original for that one still survives. I got to see it a few years ago.

Holy carp!

Very nice! You certainly won't find me questioning your collecting focus.

Beautiful Dwight!

For those interested, here's the Table of Contents for the Critical Insights volume. http://salempress.com/Store/pdfs/CI5_PulpFiction_TOC.pdf Contents About This Volume, Gary Hoppenstand On Pulp Fiction and Weird Tales, Gary Hoppenstand Critical Readings History, Horror, and Heroic Fantasy: Robert E. Howard and the Creation of the Sword-and-Sorcery Subgenre, Jeffrey Shanks Cthulhu’s Empire: H. P. Lovecraft’s Influence on His Contemporaries and Successors, S. T. Joshi The Last Musketeer: Clark Ashton Smith and the Weird Marriage of Poetry and Pulp, Andrew J. Wilson Nostalgia in H. P. Lovecraft, Daniel Müller Visionary Star-Treader: The Speculative Writings of Clark Ashton Smith, Richard Bleiler Robert Bloch: O. Henry of Twentieth-Century Pulp Magazines, Garyn G. Roberts Love Is the Most Dangerous Thing: Gender and Genocide in the Weird Fiction of C. L. Moore, Andrew J. Wilson Henry Kuttner: Often-Overlooked Pillar of the Weird Tale and the Pulpwood Magazine, Garyn G. Roberts August Derleth: Odd Man In, Wythe Marschall The Fantastic Pulp Fiction of Frank Belknap Long, Richard Bleiler Seabury Quinn’s Jules de Grandin: The Supernatural Sleuth in Weird Tales, Gary Hoppenstand Archived Material Introduction The Conan Series, David Hinckley “The Dunwich Horror,” James V. Muhleman Hyperborea, Brian Stableford Zothique, Brian Stableford Jirel of Joiry, Anne K. Kaler The Jules de Grandin Series, Robert Weinberg Resources Additional Works on Pulp Fiction Bibliography About the Editor Contributors Index