RedFury

Thanks! The pulps really had some great skull covers, didn't they?

Weird Tales, Nov 1942 Hannes Bok cover

Weird Tales, Nov 1933 Brundage cover

The Shadow Magazine, Jan 15 1942 "The Book of Death"

The Shadow Magazine, Jan 15 1933 "The Creeping Death"

Railroad Stories, Jun 1933

Phantom Detective, Aug 1934

Pirate Stories, Nov 1934

Nick Carter Magazine, Nov 1933

Double Detective, Jun 1940 Green Lama story

Complete Detective, May 1938 Saunders cover

10 Story Mystery, Feb 1942

10 Story Mystery, Oct 1942

Strange Stories, Aug 1939 Bergey cover

Detective Action, Aug-Sep 1937

Thanks, I'll check it out. I have quite a few skull/skeleton cover pulps.

Detective Action, Aug-Sep 1937

Argosy All-Story Weekly, Aug 7 1920 I just ticked this one off the long-running wish-list, a nice copy of the first part and cover story of A. Merritt's The Metal Monster.

That photo compared to the cover is really cool. Maybe Stahr was there, or at least saw photos.

Amazing Stories, Nov 1926 Frank Paul cover

Romantic Western, Nov 1938 Cover by Harry Lemon Parkhurst No "spicy" in the name, but Romantic Western was part of the Spicy line. It was published by Trojan, the same publisher, and used the same artists (Parkhurst in this case) and writers (E. Hoffman Price is in this one). Romantic Western is actually a continuation of the cancelled Lone Ranger Magazine title. But I don't think you could call Lone Ranger a Spicy, despite having H.J. Ward covers.

Football Stories, Fall 1938 This was an annual publication that came out every Fall from 1937 to 1953, with 2 Fall issues from 1942 to 1949.

Argosy, October 5, 1918 1st appearance of the early hero character Peter the Brazen. Peter the Brazen was an adventure hero operating in the far east. He was a ship's radio operator by trade, but his adventures took him all over the ports of Asia and put him in opposition to a steady stream of Fu Manchu like villains. George F. Worts wrote the stories under the pseudonym Loring Brent. When the first six adventures were stitched together into a novel in 1919, Worts used his own name on the book. Princess of Static (1918) The City of Stolen Lives (1918) The Bitter Fountain (1918) The Dead Spark (1918) The Golden Paw (1918) The Gray Dragon (1918) There was one further adventure in 1919, so long that was serialized over 6 issues. The Golden Cat (1919) six-part serial And then Worts retired the character and moved on to other ideas. Eleven years later, Argosy editor A.H. Bittner wanted to bring back lost readership and hatched a plan to revive some of the most popular characters from Argosy's past. Worts agreed, and over the next 6 years wrote 13 more Peter the Brazen stories The Sapphire Smile (1930) The Man in the Jade Mask (1930) That Cargo of Opium (1930) two-part serial The Hand of Ung (1930) two-part serial Vampire (1931) two-part serial Chinese for Racket (1931) two-part serial Cave of the Blue Scorpion (1931) Sting of the Blue Scorpion (1932) six-part serial The Master Magician (1933) The Sapphire Death (1933) six-part serial Kingdom of the Lost (1934) five-part serial The Octopus of Hongkong (1934) Over the Dragon Wall (1935) There is speculation among pulp fans the Peter the Brazen was an inspiration to Lester Dent when he was creating Doc Savage. "Brazen", after all means "made of brass", besides its more familiar meaning of "bold".

Great to re-read that one, it's been a while. Thanks Pat! Here the June 1929 Weird Tales it's from.

Happy birthday, Uncle Farnsworth!