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The Funnies 31 (June 1939)

The Funnies 31 (June 1939)

That's a great painting, Cat!

You will.

Done. (thumbs u

The Funnies 30 (May 1939)

The Funnies 30 (May 1939)

The Funnies 30 (May 1939)

The Funnies 30 (May 1939)

Some of you know that I've been working on scanning the complete GA run of John Carter of Mars that appeared in The Funnies from 1939 to 1941 (in nos. 30-56). With the 100th aniversary of John Carter's first appearance in print approaching and the new John Carter movie from Disney coming out in a little over two months, I thought it would be fun to share my scanning project. I'll post a couple pages every day or two leading up the release of the film, kind of like or own Gold Forum daily strip. Enjoy! Jeff EDIT: Special thanks to Bob (Dell4C) who provided some of the scans for this project and Rich (Yellowkid) who donated an issue to the cause. Thanks guys!

My wife will place a phone call to Kentucky. She'll also need to keep TupennyConan alive some way. My wife also has expilicit intructions to make you and Neil fight over my REH collection.

You could at least let her know I want your Buck Rogers 1.

My wife knows to contact a certain board member who lives nearby. (thumbs u

Nope... I'll seek it out. I'm somewhat surprised that the pulps never mined that event. Maybe it was taboo to go there. Like fiction about 9-11 would be today.

What a cool, crazy cover!

Look at the size of that joint compared to her torso! (Great cover and book....I watched one of those in auction and it went for big bucks.) That's what we folk around here refer to as a "hawg leg."

Thanks for sharing those Todd. We don't get to see enough interior illos in this thread.

Actually, it's more complicated than that. There is no way to way to know if the last three pages or so of the story were rewritten by the editors or by Howard himself. I'd tend to think REH himself did the rewrite, exactly in the same fashion he did for several contemporary stories. I'll email you the details later today. Interesting, because I think the published version is much weaker by hitting the reader over the head definitively with the id of the apparition. I think the original version works better as it's more subtle and keeps a sense of ambiguity (even though it's still clear who the apparition is). It just seems like the kind of change an editor would suggest to sort of "dumb it down." Look forward to that email. Also, I see mentioned that it's in the Best Of collection, but I meant to say the Horror Stories collection.

Beautiful copy BZ! By "splashing" or mixing the genres, Howard was able to increase the number of markets he could sell a particular story to and in doing so created a number of new hybrid genres: sword and sorcery, weird western, etc. But one hybrid that just didn't catch on was "weird boxing." Howard's original title was "The Spirit of Tom Molyneaux" and the editor made several heavy-handed changes prior to publication, imo messing up the reveal at the end. Howard's original version was recently published in the Del Rey Best Of collection (Xaltotun, were you involved in that one?). I've actually got an article on this story coming out shortly in an REH fanzine.

Nice Pat! But you need to work the word "gibbering" in there somewhere.

Great pulps everyone!

I agree, Black God's Kiss is one of her best. Altar of Melek Taos is one of my favorites too.