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Looks like you got 3 winners there: two nice FH books and one great girl !! ..and I supplied all but the girlfriend!

and you, sir, are a juggerNUT!!!!!!!! and you sir...no I cant say...

Gulp! That was close! Forgot to say it is a Gerber 8!

Well. happy to have picked up these two last night: A modest upgrade here - just a slightly brighter copy but then it is one of my top 20 fave covers: ...and I was delighted to win my first Larson, a pedigree I've always been fascinated by. This is for me one of those covers - you know, when you first opened the photojournal, it went straight onto my "must find a copy" list. IMHO a classic cover. Found a low grade copy on Ebay fairly quickly, then foolishly sold it, thinking I'd get an upgrade without too much trouble...that was about 6 years ago. So here at last, the ultra scarce Sure Fire #3 (#4), back in my hot li'l hands. If there is an Edgar Church copy I imagine it would easily top this, but otherwise, as good as I could possibly hope for (highest of 2 CGC-graded copies)

Well done Billy! Another pedigree in the bag!

Love it! (Of course!)

I find these early covers strikingly beautiful.

Yes, it's just as interesting, if not more so if the "feud" was invented! Cant wait, now, for my WT facsimiles!

I've always loved these interplanetary romances! Thanks so much to the posters for all these wonderful Argosy, Amazing Tales and book covers, few of which I've seen before. I read all the Boroughs Mars books many years ago, but I've never read Otis Adelbert Kline so that is a pleasure that still awaits. Pat, I looked up O.A.K in Wikipedia, and found some interesting remarks regarding the alleged feud with Boroughs, which I dont think has been referenced so far: Kline is best known for an apocryphal literary feud with fellow author Edgar Rice Burroughs, in which he supposedly raised the latter's ire by producing close imitations (Planet of Peril (1929) and two sequels) of Burroughs's Martian novels, though set on Venus; Burroughs, the story goes, then retaliated by writing his own Venus novels, whereupon Kline responded with an even more direct intrusion on Burroughs's territory by boldly setting two novels on Mars. Kline's jungle adventure stories, reminiscent of Burroughs's Tarzan tales, have also been cited as evidence of the conflict.[1] While the two authors did write the works in question, the theory that they did so in contention with each other is supported only circumstantially, by the resemblance and publication dates of the works themselves. The feud theory was originally set forth in a fan press article, "The Kline-Burroughs War," by Donald A. Wollheim (Science Fiction News, November, 1936), and afterward given wider circulation by Sam Moskowitz in his book Explorers of the Infinite. Richard A. Lupoff debunked the case in his book Edgar Rice Burroughs: Master of Adventure. Among the evidence cited by Lupoff discounting the feud: (1) no comment from either writer acknowledging the feud is documented, and (2) family members of the two authors have no recollection of ever hearing them mention it. In response to Lupoff's investigations Moskowitz identified his original source as Wollheim's article, while Wollheim stated, when questioned on the source of his own information: "I made it up!" I was also very interested to learn that Kline became Howard's literary agent and managed his estate after his untimely death - and may even have completed Howard's Almuric for posthumous publication, though this appears to be disputed. I wish I could contribute more directly to the discussion. Girasol has published replicas of the early Weird tales and I have some of those on order, so I will look out for the Kline stories therein. (I would love to have nice copies of the Burroughs Amazing Stories issues and will be looking out for them - there are some lower grade copies on Ebay at what appear highly inflated prices.) The Avon one-shot on Tarrano the Conqueror reminded me that I do have this: It was absolutely my favourite cover when I first perused the photojournal!

yeah, I made that mistake - but I was greeted only by a grim silence from Stonewall Parker here and hastily got out of Dodge! (One measly Allentown..)

You're right as usual G.A.tor - I had to be very patient upgrading that one! [#13 and #14 are almost as scarce as #15 it seems.]

Oh! Stunning!

Delighted to plug some holes in my Planet run at last with some pretty copies! [One day I'm going to start a FH thread where only copies with great colors are allowed in, regardless of technical grade!]

Great stuff Billy! I'm always impressed when I visit this thread - but dont worry, I wont be following your example!

Well, you should know one when you see one, pep 34 boy!

I love these crazy Superior stories.Hard to find these in nice shape - later issues in particular! That's one of my favourites, along with the "peeping tom" skull cover!

That's a geek (thumbs u Always liked me some Valkyrie! (thumbs u Are those common notations for Okajimas?

Fabulous cover!

|Keep it coming Pat - thanks so much for posting! I am learning some fascinating stuff here! The trouble is, the more I learn, the more I want to buy this stuff - so it could end up being a very expensive lesson! Alanna, here is a bigger scan of the cover illustration. Argosy (February 11, 1928) Thanks BZ. I love the retro feel to Argosy sci fi/fantasy covers!