OtherEric

Was scanning some covers for the GCD anyway, might as well post them here too. Some may be repeats, but who cares?

January 1942 Weird Tales, with a reprint of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth". This issue is more famous for the Canadian version, which came out in May 1942 with largely the same contents... but a new cover actually featuring the Lovecraft story, one of only four pulps with the Lovecraft story as the cover.

I never doubted that you knew. I still think getting Frazetta to do the interiors but not the cover was a missed opportunity for DC back then. I still need to track down a copy of Adventure #150, I have the rest of the Frazetta issues...

I've only got 14 pre-code issues of Adventure, my collection doesn't get serious until #247 and still has gaps throughout the 10c era. I've got every issue with a 12c and up price, though! Here's a few covers, if I showed some of them further back in the thread I apologize. I think the Adventure #65 may have been my first big logo DC book.

That's a Shining Knight issue they accidentally stuck Superboy on the cover of. Frazetta art inside!

Jumping past my copy of the July 1941 Weird Tales, since @jimjum12just posted his nice copy. Here's the October 1941 Famous Fantastic Mysteries, with a reprint of "The Colour Out of Space", which at least gets equal billing on the cover even if the gorgeous Finlay art is for the other story.

Today's book:

May 1941 Weird Tales, with part 1 of "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward". I'm always amazed they didn't have the cover reflect the story, given how large they printed Lovecraft's name. My copy of the issue is from Leigh Brackett & Edmond Hamilton's collection. It also wasn't the last of the Lovecrafts, despite what the cover says... although it is the last new Lovecraft story to first appear in Weird Tales, unless you count "The Survivor" with Derleth, which most people don't.

It's almost certainly the original owner annotating when and where they bought it and who it belonged to. I've seen it more commonly in books or pulps than comics. I read it as Mil(smudge) De R(smudge)hs' , certainly not a creator of the book.

I thought your profile pic looked familiar...

My “because I can” group shot:

And thanks to your heads up, I now have a copy:

In today. I somewhat suspect this was one of the Warren file copies, it has obvious flaws related to poor storage (ink transfer on the front and back near the spine, spine stress, bumped corners) but other than those it feels unread. Very happy with this one:

November 1940 Weird Tales, with "The Mound", a revision by Lovecraft for Zealia Bishop. I don't suppose anybody knows how well known it was that Lovecraft did revisions at this point? I suspect the idea was at least somewhat out there after Weird Tales admitted Lovecraft actually wrote the story for Houdini and he had a shared credit with Kenneth Sterling, but I don't know if anybody connected Bishop with Lovecraft until "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" came out in 1943.

I think I misidentified that as the Blazing Combat collection, as I didn't have a good name for it. I'll update the list.

And, of course, to add some images to the thread:

So, was trying to come up with a checklist of the covers Frazetta did for Warren mags, this is what I've gotten. Blazing Combat: 1, 2, 3, 4 Creepy: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 27, 32 Eerie: 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 23, 81 Vampirella: 1, 5, 7, 11, 31 In addition, he did some modifications to the face on Vampirella #6 and had a story in Creepy #1. His covers were reprinted on the following issues: Blazing Combat Special (Blazing Combat 4) Creepy 48 (multiple miniatures), 55 (assorted details); 83 (Creepy 15), 89 (Blazing Combat 1), 91 (Vampirella 11), 92 (Eerie 23), 97 (Eerie 3), 128 (Creepy 10), 131 (Creepy 4), 144 (Creepy 5) Creepy Yearbook 1968, 1970 (Multiple covers in miniature on each) Eerie 51 (multiple miniatures), 84 (Eerie 8), 87 (Vampirella 7), 124 (Creepy 7) Eerie Yearbook 1970 (collage from other covers), Annual 1971 (Miniature of Eerie 23) Vampirella 19 (multiple miniatures) 45 (use of part of Creepy #7 as background), 94 (partial reprint from Vampirella 31) Anybody know of anything I missed?

I wonder if whoever took that photo was thinking of this cover, at least as a starting point. Edit: The quote isn't showing the cover, just the link, so here it is:

Most of the analysis I've seen actually focuses on the ad campaign. It seemed largely based on the idea that everybody knew who the heck John Carter was, and would be excited seeing a movie. But these days most people don't know who John Carter was.

October 1939 Weird Tales, with the first publication of "In the Walls of Eryx". The story was originally written by Kenneth Sterling, who sent a copy to Lovecraft to read and got back a nearly completely rewritten story. Sterling went on to become a medical researcher; his Wikipedia page is actually more about his medical career than his writing.

In the particular context of "will a successful project drive up pulp prices", I'm specifically referring to a commercial success. The pulps had a somewhat different continuity than the radio show. While some of the latter stories- particularly the ones written by Bruce Elliot- don't mention identities other than Cranston, the idea that he was a real person the Shadow borrowed the identity of was never actually removed. On the radio, as far as I know Cranston was always his real ID.

That's why I specified a successful adaptation. Not really sure what the last really successful pulp character adaptation was... maybe the Disney Tarzan? It's been a while, whatever it was.