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Whoa, Congrats Todd!

Nice pick ups Eric! I've recently discovered a masked hero from the early 30s that seems to have flown under the radar as he never had his own title and was mostly a back up feature in a general interest pulp. I hope to put a reprint collection together if can acquire all of his 13 appearances. About half way there now.

I figured it was high time I joined the club.

New pulp grail for me.

....this one doesn't get the notoriety that some Lou Fine covers get, but it's EASILY one of my top 5 favorites by him. GOD BLESS... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u Agreed -- an underated cover for sure!

Newly arrived!

It's also a REH mini-grail as the first appearance of Solomon Kane.

So good to hear. We're thinking about him and hoping for a speedy and full recovery!

GReat pinpacks!

Very cool.

Very nice! Bob, I've been catching up on your posts and you have awesome collection! Jeff

And first John Carter of Mars cover.

And while we're on early sf heroes, first and only Flash Gordon pulp cover.

What's the first cover to have Buck Rogers? Do you think they'll ever reboot the character? I believe this cover from '29 to be the first. Both of Nowlan's Amazing Stories pulp stories predate the newspaper comic and other work derived from the comic strip's popularity. Reboot? Probably, revisionists are always looking for fodder to reinterpret. They most recently tried in 2009, Dynamite Entertainment: http://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C725130119872 I only read the $.25 issue. Wasn't a bad start... Also, there's a new movie in the works that will adapt Nowlan's original story from Amazing. And along those lines, first Buck Rogers cover in Famous Funnies. Many years before the Frazetta ones.

"Justin Case" on the cover story is Hugh Cave, btw. Here's my copy, so won't have to worry about competition from me. Some nice Gnomes too, Matthew.

It was actually their only publication together. Wollheim had the Hyborian Age essay as he had already run part of it his fanzine Phantagraph in 1936. And Miller was part of the west coast scene and had written his Probable Outline essay after corresponding with Howard right before his death. So I think they all just decided to combine all their material into a tribute zine.

It's good to be back! Here's another pulp-related project I completed this spring. It's a facsimile edition of one the rarest and most sought after REH-collectibes: the Hyborian Age fanzine published by LANY Cooperative in 1938. LANY stands for NY and LA and was a group of east coast and west coast fans, including Forrie Ackerman and Donald Wollheim. It contains the first full publication of Howard's Hyborian Age essay, the first published map of the Hyborian Age, and the first apeparance of the famous essay by John D. Clark and P. Schuyler MIller, "A Probable Outline of Conan's Career." And I wrote a new introductory essay on its history and background. This was a labor of love putting this together. It took scans from three different copies to put this together, Glenn Lord's copy, Rusty Hevelin's copy, and the copy that belonged to early fan Jack Darrow. http://www.amazon.com/The-Hyborian-Age-Facsimile-Edition/dp/069244758X

Brutal! Bane prototype?!

Just scored a rare pulp grail from 1914.

But here's my new baby. Nuff said.

And of course this is also an REH story. Sam Walser was the pseudnym Howard used when writing for the spicies.

Hi guys! Haven't been on the boards much in a while. Things have been crazy the last six months or so -- much of it pulp-related (Pat, I know I need to get up with you now that I'm coming up for air). I just finished editing a collection of academic essays on Weird Tales that will be out in October from Rowman and Littlefield. I was hired as the REH technical adviser and art director for the new Conan RPG from Modiphius Games, and that's been a lot of work. I had the Pulp Studies symposium at the PCA/ACA conference in New Orleans in April and of course Howard Days in June. And I'll be a guest at Necronomicon in Providence later this month. Phew! I'm getting caught up on posts and seeing some new faces and some sweet books! Steve, congrats on the HPL postcard -- that is very cool! I have managed to pick up a few cool books lately. This is a really tough one in any grade despite being a Street & Smith title. The cover is from the REH El Borak story "Country of the Knife."

For you guys in South Florida, there's a new pulp show today. I'll be setting up, David Alexander, Heartwood, Hoohah, and others we be there so come on by!

I do agree. The main character's death in GoT is what helps kick off the entire war of kings. You can't keep him around just because you like the way the actor delivers. Yeah, what this quote does is confirm what my eyes were all ready telling me -- that this show is all about style and no substance. The creators are clueless about storytelling and have no real coherent vision. They're just making it up as they go along, throwing stuff up on the wall to see what sticks. But mostly what they're throwing up is smoke and mirrors.