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Stunning copy! This one helps me to imagine what the newsstands and drugstores must have looked like circa. 1930, with stacks of pristine pulps on display! Fabulous!

|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!

If Ryan doesnt need it I'll be your huckleberry!

Beautiful copies Richard! I especially like the colors on ths one! And the Whitman cover! Ne plus ultra!

A classy lady and a heck of an actress! That's a wonderful movie to have a poster from. (thumbs u She really smouldered in that movie! I also loved her performance in The Bitter Tea of General Yen! (Anderson cover, Alan?)

Hey. I'll take one of those 34's. Nice. one of my pep34's now resides with a fellow boardie, the other 2 are staying put for a while...just hate to part with them ...no wonder I cant find a copy - you have them all! Great picture!

Good Gawd!!!! They match up pretty well, dont they? I have the Rockford copy of #5 and yours simply blows it away. I just cant help thinking it has to be an unnamed pedigree....it's entirely possible.

Fabulous copy! I'm never going to find one of these so I will have to settle for the replica!

Beautiful copies Richard! I especially like the colors on ths one!

Just bought The Red Peri off of Ebay! (thumbs u Any more femmes you can "sell" me Pat?

Thanks for the additional scan. Tachyon Publications had this interesting bit of info about The Black Flame manuscript. When The Black Flame was first published in 1939, Stanley G. Weinbaum had already been dead for three years. By that time, over 18,000 words had been excised or edited from the original manuscript. The intact manuscript, held by Sam Moskowitz, was auctioned off to Forrest J. Ackerman at the First World Science Fiction Convention in 1939. It was subsequently stolen from his collection and never recovered. The publication of this edition was made possible by the discovery of a carbon copy of the manuscript in a trunk of Weinbaum's papers found in the basement of his grandson's house in Denver, Colorado. This is not the first time you and I have pursued parallel tracks of investigation at the same time! Fascinating info!

Look what I just found on Ebay! Issued in 1995 by Tachyon Publishing after a copy of the original manuscript was found in the basement of Weinbaum`s grandson the previous year! Including 18,000 additional words previously edited out by editors of the original edition (Published in 1939), this was a remarkable find

Ah me, that was so tragic! He was set fair to be a giant...

This is fabulous Pat. Which issue is it from? Oh - and, please sir, may I have some more?

Thanks for posting the scan of the book jacket. I always enjoy seeing things like that. Here's the cover to "The Black Flame" pulp appearance. Startling Stories v1 #1 (January 1939) That's a Weinbaum of which I was unaware - thanks guys. I'll see if I can find one. I love the book cover in particular - but would never have figured out the link with Startling, which helps me understand why the book is such a late publication. Weinbaum is a wonderful writer, whose A Martian Odyssey is a classic of the genre. Is my recollection correct that he died while still young? And is A Martian Odyssey also contained in a pulp somewhere? As always, thanks for the combined erudition!

Wings Comics often had oriental femmes fatales...

I think there is one nice page with FM's daughter in a veil...

Thnx Jeff, I was unaware a spine could fade like that. More the strange because of the yellow cover, the spine color matches it perfectly. It really sticks out when constrasted with the red spines when I stack the books! I hear you on the Fiction House - my only copy of Planet Stories has a very dull orange spine as well. But for now, it's a defect I can live with as the front covers are strong and present very well. Sounds like the same problem as with the comics...faded reds... Yep, it's exactly the same. Speaking of pulps, I'm about to be inundated with pulp scholarship today. I'm at the PCA/ACA conference in San Antonio right now to give a paper on REH. There's going to be a whole day of sessions on pulps. Should be fun. There are also sessions on comic books and graphic novels pretty much every day so hopefully I'll get to catch some of those too. THe book vender room looks promising too. We want a full report! (thumbs u I never get to go anywhere interesting

I've always thought that the only thing missing from this cover is dialogue.

You have waves?

Which ones are the forgotten keys? All of them Thank god, Bill! I was beginning to think no-one round here gets my sense of humor (but then Billy would tell you that's because I'm not very funny.) Is that Merryweather's couch?

Thnx Jeff, I was unaware a spine could fade like that. More the strange because of the yellow cover, the spine color matches it perfectly. It really sticks out when constrasted with the red spines when I stack the books! I hear you on the Fiction House - my only copy of Planet Stories has a very dull orange spine as well. But for now, it's a defect I can live with as the front covers are strong and present very well. Sounds like the same problem as with the comics...faded reds...

Which ones are the forgotten keys?

Return of Sumuru seems to turn up frequently on ebay - are they a good read? And can we please have more femmes fatales please? I mean, please!

That is a really cool looking book (thumbs u Tough to find with brilliant reds! A pity the cover has nothing to do with the interiors - that's my kind of woman!