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Theagenes

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  1. Theagenes
    That's funny - seeing you and BZ posting all your 1st editions is making me want to start collecting the books.
  2. Theagenes
    Very cool!
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    Nice! (thumbs u
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    Awesome groupshot Sharon! I've been tracking some of those you put on ebay. I was very tempted to bid on the 17, but I'm pretty broke at the moment.
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    Congrats Bill! Two killer books!
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    Man, I spend a few days digging holes in the woods and miss these these great books! Awesome Tip Tops fellas!
  7. Theagenes
    You almost made me drop my coffee!
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    Wonderful pulps BB!
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    Love the Swordsman of Mars cover!
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    One of my favorite Flessel covers! Gorgeous!
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    L.B. Cole Electric chair cover! Cool! And I've never seen the Space Adventures before - Great books!
  12. Theagenes
    What a groupshot!
  13. Theagenes
    One of Gernsback's early non-fiction(?) science mags with a Paul cover - very cool! (thumbs u The ERB Argosy dates are: "Pirates of Venus" - 1932 "Lost on Venus" - 1933 "Carson of Venus" 1938
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    Very cool! Where do you find all these wonderful books!
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    Thanks Guys! Here are my other two Carson of Venus pulps. They've been posted elsewhere, but not in this thread yet. The first is another Stahr cover.
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    Got a new pulp today!
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    Gorgeous!
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    Amazing run!! And the 27 is unrestored! (worship)
  19. Theagenes
    Nice! I gave up after Funnyman too.
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    Great article on Anderson, Scrooge! Thanks for posting this. I have to disagree, however, with Foster's assertion that Anderson avoided the typical negative black stereotypes - all I see in the examples he has provided are the typical stereotypes of the period. While there are no witch doctors or cannibals, you have an "Aunt Jemima" type maid, a cook, "pickininny" children, a mahmout elephant driver, the "black minstral" ("the blak hed is musekal"), watermelon, etc. I will agree, however, that Anderson's depictions of black people do not seem to be particularly mean-spirited - certainly not as mean-spirited as other works from the period. He also seems to be focusing on the similarities between the races, rather than the perceived differences - the fact that kids are kids regardless of their "color." In fact he seems to play with the concept of "racial role-reversal" in one strip where the black kids are being turned white and another in which Henry is turned black. Whether this was a conscious thing on Anderson's part is impossible to say, but it seems the message he is sending is that "race" is only skin-deep. This would certainly set him apart from many of his contemporaries and it is probably this distinction that has set him apart in Foster's mind. Great food for thought! (thumbs u
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    Amazing stuff! The greytone is blowing me away!!
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    Nice! I need to start working on this run at some point - I only have 209 so far.
  23. Theagenes
    Cool! So does Flexo predate Police Comics 1 and Plastic Man? Is he the first "stretching" superhero?
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    Great Centaurs, BZ!!! Several of those I've never seen before.
  25. Theagenes
    Stunning copy! Your friend has some great books!