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Forte isn't correct. Back to the drawing board.

Oh, John Forte for #7 I knew Sinnott did Arrowhead, but this was a back up story.

7 Joe Sinnott? 6 looks really familiar. Edit: Ah Pat beat me with Colon.

The Funnies 44 (July 1940)

The Funnies 44 (July 1940)

The Funnies 44 (July 1940)

The Funnies 44 (July 1940)

Great book!

The Funnies 44 (July 1940)

The Funnies 44 (July 1940)

Well, the Zodangans are at war with Dejah Thoris's (and Kantos Kan's) people and they did kidnap her and are forcing her into an unwanted marriage---effectively rape. So I don't know if cold-blooded murder is the best way to describe it. I imagine though, that if John Carter had his way he would challenge the other guy to a duel---Southern style. "You have insulted mah honor, sir. Ah demand satisfaction."

Book 2 may be my favorite actually. I started four, but put it down after a couple of chapters. It just didn't pull me in. I give it some time though. Maybe season two of the HBO series will inspire to pick it up again.

Great review Bill. I've read the first three but I'm holding off on committing to any more until it looks like he's really going to finish the series. By the third book I began to get a little frustrated as the larger plot doesn't seem to be moving forward, but instead is beginning to wander aimlessly. Also, his tendency to kill off major characters and replace them with new ones in which the reader has no emotional investment makes it hard to care sometimes. I'm starting to get the impression that GRRM isn't entirely sure where he wants to go or how to get there. Maybe he'll prove me wrong though and bring the whole thing for a more or less satisfying crash landing. I very much enjoyed HBO's treatment. I felt like the cuts they made were appropriate and overall it was a good adaptation. I'm looking to the second season. BTW, Bill the homosexual allusions you noticed are real, but GRRM is more subtle about the subject than HBO.

The Funnies 43 (June 1940)

The Funnies 43 (June 1940)

I think it's the perfect place to post it. That's a great clip. Had this project been successful, this would have been the first full length animated feature film, rather than Snow White.

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It is a cool book. I don't recall seeing a pulp with color illos before. It really does have the look of a comic/pulp hybrid. It's more like the adult pulp equivalent of a big little book. Not that that's a bad thing. Not in theory, but unfortunately the writing is not much above the level of a kid's big little book. Ultimately, the fact that it was a hybrid experiment may be why it failed. Newspaper reprint comic books were taking off by late 36 and this featured one of the most popular strip characters in his own book, several years before FB 25 and FC 10. But on the one hand, it had too little art and too much text to be a successful comic book, and on the other, the writing was too poor and childish to appeal to the SF pulp fans (who had gotten pretty discriminating by then). There is an interior ad for the second one in the series, Flash Gordon and the Sun Men of Saturn, but it was apparently never released.

Wow! That's a gorgeous plate.

I posted it in the pulp thread a few years ago when it was still raw. finally got around to submitting it. It's pretty scarce, but does come up from time to time. HA has sold a couple.

H. Lawrence Hoffman Albert Hoffman I remember something about an interesting bicycle ride. These are some great books covers!

One and the same. (thumbs u The cover is a swipe from a Raymond panel. Total coolness.Who did the writing for this & is it any good? It's credited to James Edison Northford (or Northfield---it's listed both ways), but that may be a pseudonym. I started reading it but didn't finish it. It was pretty pedestrian and probably intended for a younger audience. There were a couple of back up stories as well, but I didn't read them.

The Funnies 43 (June 1940)

The Funnies 43 (June 1940)

The Funnies 43 (June 1940)