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Sarg

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  1. Sarg
    I don't think Venus #19 is super rare, is it? It just seems rare because people who have it never want to sell it. It's very hard to part with one of the finest horror covers of the golden age.
  2. Sarg
    Nice! Never saw this before. Who is artist?
  3. Sarg
    In the Top 5 pulp covers! Congrats.
  4. Sarg
    Truly one of the most terrifying covers of all time. I'm afraid to look at it for more than a second.
  5. Sarg
    Some insightful comments from Wertham here on the trendiness and subjectivity of psychiatry vis-a-vis pornography and censorship. What psychiatrists of the 1920s condemned as worthy of censorship, a short generation later, was being shrugged off as irrelevant by the same medical experts. I wonder if anyone's ever written a book on this subject?
  6. Sarg
    Nice. These things are called "off-prints" in the used book trade.
  7. Sarg
    Most of the 1940s covers are an anti-climax after the 1930s ones, but Rozen returned to greatness for this one!
  8. Sarg
    That's a great find. Not all copies were burned, since a few are for sale on the Internet.
  9. Sarg
    How many more untraced/unknown references in SOTI still exist? I'm still amazed that so many were known by 1980.
  10. Sarg
    Poison Peddling -- great discovery. Never heard of it before. Millions of citizens considered these comics lewd and therefore immoral, or, at the very least, inappropriate for children. If anyone wants to feel morally superior to them in 2020, that's their prerogative. I do not. You might have felt differently if you were a parent in the 1950s. History is about trying to understand people, first and foremost, in the context of their time. When/if we can do that, then perhaps we can begin to understand them in our time. We can judge them as long as we understand that we may be similarly judged, and found wanting, in the future.
  11. Sarg
    Nice! Never saw this before...
  12. Sarg
    ^ Might as well just shut the thread down now. That will never be topped!
  13. Sarg
    Did Senf do covers for any other publications?
  14. Sarg
    Great. Never saw this before. Is the artist known?
  15. Sarg
    Does anybody here have copies of The Thrill Book?
  16. Sarg
    Thanks.
  17. Sarg
    Great info, thanks. Forgive my ignorance, but what is Hershey's book?
  18. Sarg
    Did the street vendor pack up all that stuff at day's end? And set up everything again the next day? I presume the unsold daily newspapers were thrown away? If he sold a copy of that month's Shadow, how much of the 10 cent cover price did he keep? There isn't much storage space there. If he sold that copy of Adventure, where did he go to get more copies?
  19. Sarg
    Not a Baker cover.
  20. Sarg
    No. What made you think it was?
  21. Sarg
    ^ Great discovery, I had no idea the WT cover was a reprint.
  22. Sarg
    Fortunately, Hannes Bok's superb interior illustrations made up for the bland, non-HPL cover.
  23. Sarg
    The only cover for WT by Gretta (J. Clemens Gretter), who, seven years earlier, drew the first science-fiction story in comic books (New Fun #1). This was yet another uninspired cover to "The Unique Magazine," and even in death, Lovecraft had to suffer the ignominy of losing the cover illustration to the far inferior hack Seabury Quinn. More on Gretta here: https://tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2011/11/gretta-1904-1988.html
  24. Sarg
    Matt Fox out-weirds them all.
  25. Sarg
    I have this as well. I think it's Fox's best cover.