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Thanks Rich! Also, there's the fact that I could never afford the $50K plus for an original Brundage cover - if it even survives. Many of them didn't since they were pastels and done in the days before fixative.

This thread needs more flagellation.

Dark Magic! Mad Passion! Red Carnage!

Harlequin Science-Fiction? I had no idea such a thing even existed! Me neither. Very Cool!

That is really cool! I want my own helicopter.

Sweet!

Yeah, not bad for his first gig.

Very cool! Curt Siodmak's first published story was in the fourth issue of Amazing Stories.

Thanks Rich, And don't worry I'm still keeping my out for one for you. Saw a low grade one recently, but 6 is really tough in midgrade or better.

Very nice!

Thanks Pat!

I personally keep my pulps lying flat on bookcase shelves. I know some people keep theirs standing up in long boxes but I think that just adds unnecessary stress to the cover overhang. I actually do a combination of all that. I use regular size gold 2mm Mylites with a fullback to store them in. I think the fullback is critical with pulps, because the buffer should help with the off-gassing. For my better pulps i put them in the Mylites upside-down, then slide the whole package rightside-up into a 4mm super gold size Archive - that eliminates the need for tape and gives 6mm of protection, almost like a slab. But if you are going to seal them up like that you must use a fullback or microchamber paper because of the offgassing. Then I store them flat like BZ on bookcase shelves. I do this with my best comics now as well, even slabbed ones. After seeing the pics that BZ posted here showing how he stored his collection and doing a little research, I believe this is the best position to store both comics and pulps.

Golden Fleece (November 1938)

Beautiful!

Biddy biddy biddy biddy! Whachoo talkin' 'bout, Twiki!

Well, I've been working on upgrading my Buck Rogers run for several years now and I think I'm finally good. Here's the updated groupshot.

Cool!

Yeah, you'll be broke soon. Truthfully though, collecting pulps is a lot cheaper than comics relatively speaking. To put it in perspective, you can get the first appearance of Conan in the 12/1932 issue of Weird Tales for $1000-2000 in really nice shape. In contrast a CGC 9.8 Conan 1 from 1970 sold for $15,000 last year. Something's out of whack there.

That's a great issue, and one of the one last REH stories to make a pulp cover. Awesome Finlay illustrations on the interior.

Thanks Pat!, Yes, both of them are them are Wesso covers. Nice to see CAS get a cover story too. He only made the cover of WT once.

Thanks Ryan. I also, picked up a low grade copy of the 1925 WT with REH's first published work, "Spear.and Fang."

Some recent pick ups: This last issue has the sort-of Conan-prototype story that was briefly discussed earlier in this thread:

that's what I get for not looking again Oh excellent, thanks for the link and synopsis! I've already added the Horror Stories book to my cart. If I like it well enough, maybe I'll hail you down about Skull Face later if you still have it Are you (or anyone else here) interested in Howard's letters? Hippocampus Press is releasing a paperback version of A Means To Freedom collecting all of the existing Howard/Lovecraft correspondence in 2 volumes for $55 (the hardback was limited to a couple hundred copies and sold out almost instantly a couple of years ago). I'm fascinated by the letters of the Lovecraft circle and judging from the reviews, these would be of much interest to fans of both Lovecraft and Howard. Between this thread and attending MythosCon in Phoenix (an HPL based con held in January) filling me with ideas of things to read, it's going to take me all year to get out from under the books piled on my table. I was fortunate enough to pick up the hardback set (only 300 copies) when they came out and they are an excellent read. Now that they are being released in an affordable paperback version, hopefully more people will get to check it out. It's an absolutely fascinating look into the minds of these two unique individuals. Be prepared for some less-than-PC language, however -- it was a very different time and place. The REH Foundation also offers a three volume set of the complete corpus of REH's letters as well as a number of other collections of material that probably won't make it into the Del Rey volumes. They just released a volume of weird menace stories (including Skull-Face) as well as a collection of detective stories. Both were limted to 150 copies and sold out in preorder, but plans are underway to do a second printing. The Foundation is not-for-profit and the folks that work there are all volunteers trying to help preserve REH's legacy, so there are worse places to spend you money. (thumbs u http://www.rehfoundation.org/

That was actually my undercopy in the VCC. As for Howard's work, I'm obviously biased, but I certainly recommend checking it out - especially his often over-looked non-Conan stuff, some of which is really very good. Delrey has been publishing a great series of collections of Howard's stories edited by two of the top REH scholars Rusty Burke and Patrice Louinet. These are considered to be the most authoritative versions of Howard's work and are beautifully illustrated. The latest volume with his Crusades stories was just released a few weeks ago. REH Del Rey editions on Amazon He wrote in an amazing number of genres other than sword-and-sorcery: horror, historical adventure, oriental adventures, weird menace, hard-boiled detective, western (serious and humorous), boxing (again serious and humorous), sword-and planet, etc. He often mixed genres and in doing so created new ones - S&S (which he is often credited with inventing) is basically historical medieval adventure with a horror or supernatural element thrown in. It's less well-known but he was probably the father of the weird western genre as well. For you or anyone that is curious about checking out Howard's work beyond just Conan I would suggest picking the two Del Rey "Best of REH" volumes for sampling of a stories from a number of different genres. Hope that helps.

Conan That's a great issue, but that story is a real sore spot among modern-day REH purists as it was the Conan story most butchered by de Camp. The ending was completely changed to fit in with what LSdC thought Conan's career should look like. The deCampinated version was published in one of the Gnome collections shortly after as "The Treasure of Tranicos" and that's the only version anyone would see for the next three decades. It was version that ended up in the Lancers and the version Roy Thomas adapted in SSOC. It wasn't until the late 80's that it was finally published in it's original form. When REH failed to sell the original Conan version, he himself had rewritten the story as a pirate yarn, "Black Vulmea's Vengeance," and sold it to Golden Fleece. It was published posthumously in the November 1938 issue.