OtherEric

Even less certain on the exact timing of the Deadly Heroes issue; but it was definitely around this point.

It's clearly Stan & Roy on the cover of #3; does anybody recognize the other people getting beaten up by the Sons of the Tiger? I think the Special came out between #3 and #4, but I've never been quite 100% positive.

I decided my fairly new scanner needed a bit of a project to see how it works with more than a single image or two at a time. Like I've said, my collection is purely reader copies; I would love to see better images of the books. There were just some amazing covers throughout the run:

Found in the wild today. All 3 sets, unopened, for under $10 total. Not golden age, but essentially the only Looney Tunes comic stories Chuck Jones ever did. These WILl be getting cracked open very soon so I can enjoy them.

This has always been a deeply odd book; since it's not actually from Marvel/ Timely/ Atlas. I doubt we'll ever find out how it came about, though. It's a pain to find, as well.

Fair enough. I'm just as serious in saying that I don't think it's a swipe. I think they're both borrowing from the same source; be it a real plane or a scene from a movie or something. Given the layout of the plane, there just isn't anywhere else people could be... and that's what pilot's uniforms looked like back then. Lots of little details are more different than I would personally expect in a swipe. With that said, we can certainly agree to disagree with good will. It's a very cool find of two very similar covers, even if not an actual swipe.

It was really good, Pat. And I see why it was in that collection... It's an excellent example of a supernatural romance that was fairly common in Weird Tales, but didn't show up as often from the more famous WT regulars.

I really don't think that's a swipe, or at least not that one of those covers swiped the other... I suppose there is a very slim chance they were both working from the same original photo. The space where you pilot a plane from (not even trying the correct word against the forums automatic censor) is very small and cramped, there's really no other way to set up the shot. And enough small details are different. Definitely an interesting coincidence, however.

Found at a local store today. Gotta love Frazetta!

I'm looking forward to reading it tonight. It probably says something that it's included in a collection like this; Dyalhis isn't one of the Weird Tales legends like the other names on the cover are.

Thanks for the heads up on this book, I'm reading it now on my kindle. There's one error with the digital version I've spotted, though... Chapter 22, instead of being on "Red Nails", is instead a reprint of Chapter 21. Which _almost_ makes sense, since issue #22 was a reprint. But the table of contents says it should be different. A great read, though.

Here's the day's best book. This one has my vote for the most underrated Weird Tales cover by a mile. It seems to get missed since it's Finlay rather than Brundage. But, for me at least, Finlay is far and away the better artist. I love Brundage, but her work is in a very narrow band. So Finlay doing a Brundage-esque cover, like this or Frozen Beauty cover a couple month later, is just stunning. Plus, a poem by Howard and the first pro publication of Polaris by Lovecraft (although it had three non-pro publications before this). And supple pages, to boot. What's not to love about this book?

Brundage! Lovecraft (with Hazel Heald)! Clark Ashton Smith (with a Zothique story)! And not even the day's best book!

And a handful in today. To start, a couple of digests with uncollected Ellison stories. Also, coincidentally, the last two issues of the magazine.

Well, this one is new to my collection, at least. Last issue I needed for my run of 190-235 of the original series. Now I just need to decide how serious I am about trying for 61-189 now that I've got solid runs at both ends.

Just in today. I would describe this one as "small stories by big names". Stories by Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber, Ray Bradbury, Hannes Bok, and H. P. Lovecraft. But all fairly minor works; the Lovecraft story is part four of Herbert West: Reanimator, for example. Which may be one of Lovecraft's better know stories because of the movies, but it's not generally regarded as a highlight of his work.

That is not an easy book to find under that title.

Always liked this cover, for some reason. I feel sorry for Bugs but the close-up is not something you often get on the Looney Tunes covers. And, of course, it's always great to see one of Marty's original owner books

I think your first mistake is assuming there was Quality Control in the first place. Quick weekly reprints for a foreign market like that were probably an afterthought on multiple levels. Cool book, though. Definitely the sort of thing I would snag if I spotted it in the wild.

Comics Dungeon is probably the best store for GA in the Seattle area right now that I know of. I don't often get up there, but I see them at Emerald City and Jet City every year, and they have at least some stuff. Seattle has never really been a great location for GA books, other than perhaps Dells. I don't think the distribution was great up here back in the day; some stores have a box or three but it's been hit or miss all my life. O'Leary's was the best, but even then it was relative rather than absolute, perhaps.

A brace of Amazing Stories from 1957 in today. The March issue features stories by Harlan Ellison, Ellis Hart (a pseudonym for Harlan Ellison), and Lee Archer (a house named being used, in this case, by Harlan Ellison.) Two of the three have never been reprinted. The August issue has one Ellison story that was reprinted once in 1969 but never collected. It may just be me, but these both strike me as very "50's monster movie" covers. Stuff like this is why I love Amazing Stories even when I frequently don't actually like it, if that makes any sense.

No clue. Assuming it's not just random notes, it's a good question.