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I like the Frazetta version. Awesome!

That illustration is one of my favorites by Crandall. Mine too. That is just stunning.

Great book, Bill! And an even better collecting theme - forgotten grails rule!

Interestingly, Russ Manning was going to take over the Four Color John Carter series with Chessmen, but it got canceled. Here's the art for what would have been FC 528.

The painted cover for 488 isn't so bad.

Reed Crandall's John Carter work is some of the best. Jesse Marsh on the other hand, not so much. . . .

Wow, very cool and tough to come by.

Sweet!

Those are really cool! Never seen them before.

My all time favorite John Carter cover is this classic by Paul.

Very nice David! I love the St. John covers.

Since we're on Sword-and-Planet now, here are some John Carter covers that don't get posted much:

Will do! Thanks, Scrooge. I've got about a third of them. If I ever get it finished I will gladly share the files with any of you guys that want it.

That's a nice collectible. Is that the House of Greystoke edition that was published in the early 1970's? Why yes it is BZ That's very cool Bill!. I still need one of those and also the similar House of Greystoke volume that reprints the JCB Pelucidar story from Hi-Spot 2. One of the long term projects I'm working on is scanning the John Carter run in The Funnies. If anyone has some beater copies of Funnies 30-56 that they want to sell or even loan please let me know. This run has never been reprinted and it would be nice to read them all in order.

This issue also has REH's first appearance in Argosy with "Crowd Horror." And worth noting: I think it may be the only story that Howard had published in Argosy during his lifetime. That's right, after this early story he tried for years to get back in (and also to break into Adventure). The last year of his life he had great success with his humorous Breckinridge Elkins tales at Action Stories and editor Jack Byrne was apparently a big fan of them. When Byrne left Fiction House to go to Argosy in early 1936 he asked REH to create a similar character. Howard quickly whipped out some stories with Breck knock-offs like "Pike Bearfield" and Byrne bought three of them. He also bought a straight western, "Vulture's Sanctuary" and a weird western, "The Dead Remember." Unfortunately, they didn't see print until fall of '36, several months after REH killed himself.

Here's another Carson issue.

This issue also has REH's first appearance in Argosy with "Crowd Horror."

I think I'm blind! My god those colors are bright. Beautiful book Dwight.

Beautiful copy! I was actually the underbidder - glad it went to a boadie. (thumbs u