OtherEric

It looks like these had been posted much earlier in the thread, but are gone now. So, let's have the set:

I'm not sure why Daffy got short changed in the Looney Tunes issues and the giants, but Mr. Duck sure did. Daffy didn't even have his own feature in LT/MM for ages, even when they were going so far as to invent new series such as Pat, Patsy, and Pete or Kandi the Cave Kid to fill pages in the early issues.

And let's get 5 and 6 up as well, 7 was in the original batch I posted. 8, 9, and the Winter Fun issue will go up in another day or so.

Thank you! Here's the back cover to go with it:

OK, let's show off a few more: My copy of #3 is missing a chunk off the front cover, I really should upgrade it. If anybody has a copy handy, please post it! I'll work my way a little further down the run in a day or two.

Pretty sure that's the first pure SF double; with D-13 "Cry Plague" is considered SF but the other half isn't. (I think that's the number and title...)

Nice snag on the Omar Super-Book! I've posted these before, but they seem seasonally appropriate at the moment:

And, for variety, a couple SF books with Cordwainer Smith stories- including his first one: And, slightly later date than I would normally post here, but it's an amazing cover even by Finlay standards:

My first- and probably close to last- western pulps. Grabbed these because they each have a story by John D. MacDonald, 2 of the only 3 westerns he did: I find the 15c price on Dime Western hilarious. That's the problem when you outlast your projected end date, I guess. (See also: 2000 AD)

I don't know if I've ever posted in here before, I don't have many Fox books. But I just got one today, so might as well share it: Not a Fox book, you say? But it is, as the first page shows: The interesting thing is what the interior ISN'T... which is Dorothy Lamour 2 or 3, or even Jungle Lil 1. It's clearly an issue of the Fox series, but it wasn't actually ever published by Fox. Nobody's quite sure if all copies were remaindered without being released, or if whoever had the Red Circle covers got plates to an issue somehow.

Very, very happy to finally get this one. This is one of the issues with a Scribbly story by Mayer; and unlike the 32, 33, and 39, this one just never seems to show up. I suspect the only reason I actually won this one is the seller listed it as brittle pages- looking at the photos, I was pretty sure they didn't know what they were talking about and I was right. They're slightly tanned but extremely supple. Now I just need 3 actual issues of Scribbly for the whole late 40's-early 50's run; this was the last of the 5 books with backup stories I needed.

Sadly, I've only got one Baker Romance book. On the plus side, it's all Baker:

A very nice couple of books!

I miss O'Leary's horribly, one of the two best comic shops I've ever been to. Got my first true GA book there (Fawcett's Funny Animals #10), one of the only issues of All-Star I've ever had (All-Star #20, sadly sold on now), my first precode Super-Hero books (a handful of beat up Marvel Family books), my first issue of Scribbly (#9, $9); the first Platinum age book I've ever had (The Funnies #13). And that's just the Precode stuff that comes quickly to mind... First pre-Adv 300 Legion appearance I ever got (Action #287). First Steranko art I ever saw (X-Men #50). First Neal Adams art I ever saw (GL/ GA #87). Got my GL/ GA #76 there, as well. I want to say I paid $14 for it at the time, the most expensive book I had ever bought up until then. One year for my birthday, my parents got me the GL/GA #85 they had in the case up front; signed by Neal Adams and Gil Kane both. (I got Denny O'Neil to add his signature to it a couple years ago, finally.) Pogo Books. Sugar & Spike. Bantam Doc Savages. Dell Looney Tunes. An issue of Goofy Comics with Frazetta text illos. For Legion fans, That Damned Tabloid. Half a dozen Harlan Ellison 1st editions as a lot for 75c each, as I recall. Always something good there, even when my budget was next to nil. It was only a couple miles from my high school, so sometimes I went without lunch and went there instead. I miss O'Leary's horribly. And I'm far, far from the only person in the area who does.

And, just some low grade copies, but always nice to have. Up to 20 Planet Stories now... I think I've passed the point of no return on the title. Should be some interesting reading in that one. B. Curtis is Maggie Thompson's mother; and it also has an early Philip. K. Name-I-can't-use-here story. Brackett is always good, as well. And wrap it up with an issue with Bradbury, Brackett, and PKD. All good stuff, even if the Bradbury story is actually a reprint.

Would love to put together that run, or at least the revival half of it. Great set, Hap!

Clearly, just a reader copy. But for $20, I couldn't resist it at my LCS today.

Those are some beauties, Hap! The late pulp-format issues of both Doc and the Shadow seem to be, if not scarce, at least high demand, the Docs in particular.

Been too quiet in here for a while... So here's a late Doc Savage I just got. It's the last digest issue, with the last 3 issues of the series returning to the pulp format. It's also got John D. MacDonald's last work in the title, with a story that's actually longer than the lead Doc 'novel'. They were also clearly squeezed for space getting ready for the format change- there's only 1 1/2 ad pages in whole issue, and the Doc story doesn't even get an illustration.

For no clear reason that Science Fiction Plus brought to mind another book with a somewhat odd appearance by a creator not often seen in the pulps. This issue features the only story one writer ever did for the pulps. But us comic fans know him better as an artist... I know, given the nature of the pulps, that it wasn't unusual for an artist not to illustrate a story they wrote- Hanes Bok comes to mind as somebody who both wrote and drew, but not necessarily the same story. But wouldn't it have been amazing to see C. C. Beck draw for the pulps?

I've heard it failed pretty badly, despite a few good authors in the mix. The most interesting in that issue is the winner of that month's Short-Short+ story contest. It's Anne McCaffrey's first published story, and one of only two she had published in the 50's.

Gerber has this as a 7, I think it might actually qualify but if it does it's a lot closer to 50 than 20. Still not an easy book to locate:

I can respect that position. Like I said, I don't have any Zorro appearances. I do have an appearance of one of McCulley's other continuing characters... That one showed up in here: Not a very impressive copy, but it was the first hero pulp (and one of the first 3 or so pulps as opposed to digests) I ever got so I'm fond of it anyway.

Like Tarzan or Conan, Zorro didn't have his own series as such; just various appearances. Mind you, I would love to get at least one Tarzan and Conan and Zorro story into my collection. But that's a separate goal from one issue of each of the long-running hero pulp series, as I defined it up there. (Trying not to get too crazy on projects.) What issue was that Zorro page you just posted from?