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RedFury

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  1. RedFury
    Off the top of my head, and in no particular order: Saunders Bergey Baumhofer Brundage Howitt Stein The Rozens St. John Paul Finlay Stoll (Karn) Monahan Anderson Ward Parkhurst De Soto Belarski
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    Ace G-Men Stories, Nov-Dec 1937 and Daring Mystery Comics #1, Jan 1940
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    Popular Detective, Jul 1936 and Thrilling Mystery, Sep 1940
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    Yes, factory trimmed started in late 1930.
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    Weird Tales, Jan 1933 2nd Conan appearance, "The Scarlet Citadel" St. John cover
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    Sky Fighters, Feb 1935 Sky Fighters has a lot of really nice, colorful aviation covers, most by Eugene Frandzen.
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    Wonder Stories, Feb 1935 I love orange covered pulps, and this one by Frank Paul really pops. Early robot cover too.
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    Saucy Stories, Apr 1936 Norman "Blaine" Saunders cover One of my top favorite covers in my collection. It was on my wish-list for a long time before a 4-way trade sent this book my way from Dwight a few months ago.
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    Issue #2 is generally considered to be the rarest Weird Tales. All of the 1923 issues are very scarce. The 5 bedsheets from the first half of 1924 are a slightly more common than the 1923 issues, but still tough. When Weird Tales returned in Nov 1924 after a several month hiatus, the format had changed from bedsheet to pulp size. Those first four pulp sized issued from that point (Nov 1924 to Feb 1925) are very scarce. The rest of 1925 are somewhat scarce but do turn up. And from that point on they get a little more common by year up to about 1930 where it levels off. I'm missing #1, 2, 7, and 8, all from 1923. I've had chances at all of them over the years, but missed out for one reason or another.
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    Weird Tales, May 1923 (#3) My earliest Weird Tales, the 3rd issue. Pretty scarce issue. The cover story is for part 1 of "The Moon Terror" by A.G. Birch. There's also an early work by Vincent Starrett, "Penelope". Both were included in The Moon Terror and Other Stories, a best-of book published by Weird Tales and continuously advertised on their back covers for years. Cover by William F. Heitman, his first of only two covers he did for the magazine.
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    Nah, he just aged. The one with hair is the before pic.
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    Check this out September 1940 above vs. July 1936 below
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    Some really great stuff, @buttock!
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    Amazing Stories, Jul 1942 Cover by J. Allen St. John I use this one as a booster seat for my kids.
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    Popular Sports, Spring 1944 A nice WWII/baseball cover by Earle Bergey
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    They should have called the one "Chin Music"
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    "Pigeons From Hell" is generally considered his best horror story, but my personal favorite is "The Horror From the Mound" (but this one is western horror, perhaps the first). His Sailor Steve Costigan stories are fun, humorous fight stories about a sailor on a tramp steamer fighting his way around the ports of Asia, jumping from one ridiculous predicament to another with his trusty bulldog at his side. His Breckinridge Elkins tales are humorous western tall tales, fun to read. He was a good writer. He's best remembered for sword and sorcery (which he created) but he was very adept at other genres too.
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    Jerome did the Wu Fangs and Dr. Yen Sins as well.
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    The Secret 6 Oct 1934 - Jan 1935 A 4-issue hero title about 6 vigilantes who fight crime. Written by Robert J. Hogan who also wrote G-8 and His Battle Aces and The Mysterious Wu Fang. The leader of the Secret 6, "King", is a WWI ace...was he possibly G-8?
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    Weird Tales, Sep 1934 One of the 9 Conan story covers. I think this is one of Brundage's best. I just love the composition and bright colors, and especially the black, draping cloak. "The People of the Black Circle"
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    Husbands Vol 1, No 1 Jan 1936 This title only lasted two issues, which doesn't surprise me.
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    No, it's not a great cover. It's by Hugh Rankin who, while better than Senf who he succeeded, wasn't great. But it's a Robert E. Howard Solomon Kane cover story in high-grade, and there's a lot of value in that to Howard and Weird Tales collectors. It's not always about the cover. In fact, with pulps it's often not.
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    I agree with you about Brosnatch, Senf (the Lovecraft circle often discussed their dislike of his work), and Coye (although I do like his pen and ink work, I don't like his paintings). But I have to disagree with your assessment of Brundage. I think her work, though amateur and primitive, produced some of the most striking covers not just of Weird Tales, but of all pulps.
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    I have one Action Stories with Howard, but it's earlier than the Breckinridge Elkins tales. This one's from Jan 1932 and features one of his Sailor Steve Costigan stories, "Dark Shanghai".
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    Here's one that's pretty hard-to-find, "Iron Jaw", one of Howard's many boxing stories. Dime Sports Magazine, Apr 1936