Sarg

Never saw that one before and it's brilliant.

This cover strays about as far as one could imagine from its 1930s roots.

I don't know about you, but I'm definitely not going into that house.

Blue Book, April, 1937 (Volume 64!!!). Flanagan was a regular contributor to this magazine, but this is my only issue (so far).

Adventure 38 was credited to Flessel for a long time.

It looks like the same cover, but partially repainted it to make it more titillating.

That's great. I didn't know that Flanagan was preceded in illustrating Sax Rohmer by the equally great Joseph Clement Coll. A large book featuring all the Coll and Flanagan illustrations of Rohmer would be outstanding. it won't happen, but I can dream.

This is the first time I've seen CGC credit Flanagan on their labels.

Lou Fine leaving comics after only a couple of years must be considered one of the greatest losses in comic book history.

Are you writing a book? Have you written a book? i wish these images were preserved in high quality book form.

Great! I had no idea that the Flanagan illustrations from Collier's were reprinted in the hardcovers.

Very nice! John Richard Flanagan interior art (unsigned).

I'm not a heavy pulp collector, but when I do buy them, I don't care if the cover was trimmed. A great cover is a great cover. I don't understand why it should affect value that much, but there's a lot about the rules of collecting that I've always found mystifying and arbitrary.

I was trying to locate the original source for Flanagan's "White Princess of Africa" (my title). After doing some Internet research, I discovered that it was printed in Arthur L. Guptill's book Drawing with Pen and Ink (1930). Then I realized that I had this book. D'oh! This was originally printed in Collier's. His signature says "20," so I assume this means it was drawn in 1920 and presumably printed that year. I'd love to find the original source. It also reprints a JRF drawing from Cosmopolitan. Drawing with Pen and Ink is a very good instruction book. It has drawing exercises by Guptill, supplemented by many finished examples by the leading illustrators of the day. The fact that Flanagan submitted the then 10-year-old "White Queen" piece shows that he was very proud of it, I assume. This book has been reprinted several times, but the 1930 original is printed on high quality glossy paper -- the later reprints are probably on uncoated stock.

I have the June, 1936 Astounding Stories. It is also factory-trimmed, but under-trimmed .125" on the right side. A letter from a reader says, "The trimmed edges sure make Astounding look swell."

Why are some pulp covers trimmed? Who did the trimming? I've never been clear on this.

As good as can be expected, considering they are scanned from the pulp. At least they're printed on better paper now.

Without Flessel's memory, the unsigned DC covers by Flanagan would probably be forever unknown. Nobody associated his name with comics.

The paperbacks are being sold on Amazon. They let you preview the insides. I confirmed that the interiors for #2 and #3 are also by Flanagan.

I was reading Windy City Pulp Stories #11 last night when I came across this nugget of information: "Popular Publications even went so far in its imitation of Fu Manchu as to hiring John Richard Flanagan, artist for the original Fu Manchu stories appearing during the 1920s in Collier's, to illustrate its pulp stories of Wu Fang." Altus Press (now called Steeger Books) has recently reprinted the Wu Fang pulps in paperback size with the original cover art and interior illustrations. Neither the cover artist (Jerome Rozen) or interior artist is credited. I have two of these reprints. #1 (Case of the Six Coffins) is definitely Flanagan, which I was delighted to discover. The other one I have, #4, is a different, inferior artist. Does anyone have #2 or #3? Do they have Flanagan interiors?

Nothing against the Blonde Phantom, but this cover is quite a letdown after the run of Schomburg masterpieces.

I hope this isn't off-topic ... but does anyone know what happened to Girasol pulp reprints? They were selling on ebay until last year, then poof they were gone. Did they go out of business?

I enjoy these late period Iger Shop books. Though the main star artists (Baker, Kamen, Blum) had left, there were still some decent guys churning stuff out. Whoever illustrated the woman on the cover was definitely influenced by Kamen.

Ashcan, from the collection of Fu Manchu's daughter.

I was thinking the same thing. Flessel is great, but Flangan is the man when it comes to Fu Manchu.