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I am in love more with early Weird Tales, but many pulps have not just good covers, but awesome content… if I scan my Weird Tales I will post it.

This cover is sweet, do you own a copy? If I had to choose an Asimov novel, it’d probably be "Pebble in the sky"… together with the Foundation's Edge (I believe, or maybe "Fountation and Earth") it’s the one which shows mostly his jewish heritage… very fascinating.

White pages…

I totally agree the page is beautiful, I love it. FYI, on page 3 next to the starred sky panel in the text there are the initial lyrics of "Silent Night". The sense of Christmas in this story is evident: Tezuka was always fascinated by elements from christianity, which he often put in the stories. Your wife has excellent taste! (thumbs u

You can always do so, by editing your post…

Exactly what I thought!

I think mine will be sacrificed on the road to buy a Fantastic Four #1… Will let you know if and when I am out, anyway…

Now I am in… Probably the only guy wanting this way more for the Jackal than for Frank Castle.

Thanks! Since BZ loved it, and he is our host, here’s the scans of the first three pages of the Astro Boy supplement. I remembered that I had them somewhere. Compare it with the version published in the Dark Horse edition and you’ll see the differences… It must be the poorest (in terms of paper and inks) edition that I have in my whole collection. Even worse than american pulps of the 1930s… Pictures are clickable to see enlarged versions. Page 1 Page 2 Page 3

Thank you BZ, I must have been sleeping! Are the Amazing Stories with these very expensive? I have very little space, but love Adam Link. So far my pulps collection amounts to two… but one is a 1930s Weird Tales with a great Brundage cover.

Nice… is that color or black and white? Does it reprints the classic Adams stories or just part of them?

Thanks bm (thumbs u – is that a book similar to the Fireside antologies? It does not seem so, as they all had painted covers…

So most (or all?) of the original stories are in Amazing Stories? I ask because the final one ("saves the world") seems to be in the other pulp posted.

I don't think it's Barks. He seldom, if ever, drew the ducks in profile that way. Still a very neat piece. Looks like Kelly to me. The woman's face and the ducks... The Ducks are more in an Al Taliaferro model, but I guess it could have been any artist working at the studio. That is a great piece!

Black and white. I think there might have been some splash page in color in the episodes serialized in Shonen, but this supplement is black and white (actually dark blue and white, but you get the picture… ).

It’s a great story involving counter-culture, but aside from that no "key" of the kind sought after by speculators…

Very nice book. (thumbs u Thanks, I’m very happy with it, and I think I completed the series as I picked a #10 which I was missing – not willing to spend much on the #10 so thanks to 1Cool: Also, I finally got the ASM #129, thanks SpideyFein! and some others…

It might be that after some amount of time passes without edits to the first post, you lose the ability to edit? Just guessing, I know it depends on the forum platforms' settings, but it may be that by updating here and there this won’t happen. Hey, mine is a Restored SS, what about a new category? (Just kidding, I could not care less… )

That's a very cool item! I collect Tezuka's volumes now, but don't have any retro-Japanese stuff. Is this a wraparound cover? Almost looks like it could be.... No, just a regular digest sized book. Most of the Astro Boy stories were originally serialized in the antologic publication Shonen (weekly I believe), but in some cases a story was featured in a supplement: the first episode of this story "Yellow Horse" was serialized deals with a strange drug smuggling gang, then the second episode was published as a supplement (this one) instead of being serialized on Shonen. What is fascinating about it (besides the fact that being a supplement it has a great custom cover) is that it is a story that deals with the nostalgia for parents, which is a central element in Astro Boy as being a robot he did not have actual parents, besides Dr. Tenma. What is fascinating is that in this original version Dr. Tenma is featured, and plays a prominent part, but when Tezuka re-did the story for the 1960s and then 1970s reprints, he is completely omitted, and there is just Ochanomizu. Also, there is a touching opening sequence where, right before Christmas, Astro gifts away his clothes, one by one, to poor and starving people, and as a last gesture, he gives away his synthetic skin to a mother with a small child trembling for the cold. This complex scene is somewhat simplified in the redone version, and he just gives people his clothes.

And with good reason. They rank among the finest stories of the Marvel age. (thumbs u

Thanks Pat, I knew about the comics, three stories adapted in the EC books and then the Creepy ones (which I am collecting), thanks for the list of the stories. Were all these published in that pulp magazine, Fantastic Adventures? Following the reflections upon the robot, here’s a 1957 original supplement of Astro Boy (containing part two of an important two part story) – I already showed it elsewhere but it’s one of the most loved items in my collection… Digest sized, one of the few stories not serialized in Shounen but rather presented as standalone supplements. USA's first (and I believe) only publication of this story should be in the Dark Horse edition of Astro Boy, vol. 13 ("Showdown in the Alps"). But it is the entirely rewritten and redrawn version, as most of the earlier Astro stories were redone, and altered to various degrees, by Tezuka himself, sometimes more than once.

That is awesome… Thanks for posting! – I guess it did not have a comics adaptation later on. Is there a list of all the Adam Link stories published in the pulps? Do you know if they were collected in their completeness in some anthology?

I just hope not to end up the way of Originalissbest…

Heh, Robot Man, in fact Gino went after it when I showed the story after purchasing my copy. Here’s a "wishing well" for him to land a better one if he loves it (and I am sure he will!)