Theagenes

Thanks for sharing that BZ. Bradbury was a true titan.

Since threads are useless without pics and I won't have any HDs ones until tomorrow, here's a recent pick up to tide everyone over. Few people know that REH also wrotea few naughty stories for the Spicies under the pen name "Sam Walser." These pulps are tough to come by and rarely come up for sale:

You really need to sell this one to me.

Your son picked a good one! I didn't see anything like that on Saturday! Unfortunately he got a really bad rash afterwards.

Goodness gracious. Conventions weren't like this when I was a kid. That's not what I've heard!

Here's some info: http://rehtwogunraconteur.com/?p=18482 And here's my trip report from last year: http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=4847587&fpart=1420

It's time for Howard Days again and I'm flying out to Cross Plains first thing in the morning. I'm going to do a ongoing trip report in GA pulp thread: http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Board=15&Number=5748543&Searchpage=1&Main=115083&Words=+Theagenes&topic=0&Search=true#Post5748543

How about a cool REH related item mailed from Cross Plains with the special Howard Days postmark?

In the meantime here's my favorite vacation photo so far. We hit WW Philly on the way up and it was my son's first show.

Well, it's time for Robert E. Howard Days 2012 and as it's becoming a bit of tradition, I'll be posting an ongoing trip report here. Some of you know I'm in the middle of a family vacation in Maine right now, but I'll be taking a few days off to fly down to Texas first thing in the morning. This year I'll be a participant as well as an attendee as I'm supposed to be on a panel Saturday---that may have changed though as I haven't heard anything in a while. There is also a rumor that I'm going to be refereeing a boxing match Friday night between Howard biographer and comic book writer Mark Finn and his opponent Chris Gruber, the editor of several volumes of Howard's boxing stories. The fight will take place at the old ice house in Cross Plains where Two Gun Bob himself used to box and drink beer with the roughnecks back in the day. Stay tuned!

RIP

Mary Ann or Ginger? Both

Mary Ann or Ginger? Mary Ann.

Thanks for posting the photos. It's neat that you've hung on to them all these years. A while back I was going through some boxes of childhood stuff that I had taken from my parents home many years ago and found a diary I had kept in 1963. That was along about when I acquired my first few Golden Age comics and my later contacting Jerry Bails. I have no idea if I bothered to write down my impressions of discovering fandom and reading my first fanzines, but now I'm curious. The diary has a lock on it and I didn't want to break it so that has prevented me from reading it up to now. Yesterday I noticed a locksmith has opened up locally so maybe I'll bring the journal over there later this week and see if they can pop open the lock for me. If I find anything relevant to our discussions here, I'll share it.

Holly Freaking Bill!!!!!! Yeah that's an amazing book!

Love that cover!

Great book Todd!

Great book! I really need to get that set one of these days.

After 25 plus years of looking, I only found three and they were all poor condition. Then this came up! Very very happy to add it to my ERB and pulp collection! (thumbs u Ditto. (thumbs u

That's actually a Hal Foster cover (blown up panel). That's awesome!! I had no idea Yeah, that's a nice find. What a sweet copy!!! (thumbs u Thanks Owl (thumbs u I was probably the only person who looked at it A few of us still appreciate the pre-superhero stuff.

That's actually a Hal Foster cover (blown up panel).

Wow! Those are magnificent!

Not a comic, but I have to share this. Picked it up in an antique store yesterday. It's a jointed 13" wooden doll produced by the Ideal toy company circa 1939-40. It's the first superhero action figure and possibly the first licensed Superman product.

Sweet!