Brad Tabar

Wow! I love the cover of the reissue! Not to mention the awesome interior work. Of course, the original is pretty good as well.

I'm going to have to read this story. It's a Ray Bradbury tale with which I am completely unfamiliar. What a backstory, too. I wonder if Leigh suspected just how gifted Bradbury was? Thanks for this post!

Thanks Brad!!!

 

Lorelei of the Red Mist by Leigh Brackett and Ray Bradbury is a story with a lot of backstory. In the mid ‘40s Hollywood was filming ‘The Big Sleep’ and discovered that scriptwriter William Faulkner’s tough-guy dialog was not working. Howard Hawks had just read Brackett’s ‘No Good From a Corpse’ and- struck by her command of the hardboiled style and lingo- suggested they hire this guy to help…

 

Lorelei was then half-written. Leigh was also coaching a young Ray Bradbury, and when called to tinseltown she gave the draft to Ray to complete. It was something of a homage to Robert E. Howard, with a main character named Conan and a key location in the yarn is the city of Crom Dhu…

 

Ray wrote the second half, and the story was cover-feature for the Summer 1946 Planet. Amazingly enough, that issue also debuted one of Ray’s classic Mars tales, ‘The Million Year Picnic’.

 

Although Ruben Moreira’s illustrations are memorable, it was in a 1953 reprint that artist Frank Kelly Freas really knocked Lorelei out of the park, with a super cover (& logo!) and interiors in a uniquely romantic style. I don’t own the reprint, but Freas fan Thom Buchanan was nice enough to post cover and illos on his site http://mydelineatedlife.blogspot.com/2010/04/lorelei-of-red-mist.html

 

 

From Beyond the Unknown-that's a new one to me. Was this a comic that only did reprints or just on occasion?

 

 

New pick up.

 

Got the reprint of it from the 1970's too as a companion piece.

 

 

 

A very nice Nick Cardy cover on the reprint, From Beyond The Unknown #24.

Very nice! I especially like that July '40 cover.

Here are several more Astoundings from my collection...

 

 

 

This is an incredible copy! How old is this book? It looks like you bought it off the rack yesterday! Is that really Frazetta?

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That's in great shape. Congratulations!

Absolutely never thought I would own this book. A bit of patience and saving goes a long way.

 

Just arrived today from a fellow boardie.

 

Terrific cover!

AWESOME! I've always loved that Black Destroyer cover!

...It also gives me an excuse for slipping in several more Campbell era Astoundings!

 

 

 

I don't blame you. I'd have bought it too. But just looking at it makes me afraid of my basement....

Atmospheric and spooky!

 

Thank you! (thumbs u

 

I really liked this one when it came up in the last Clink auction and managed to win it.

Awesome! Great title for a horror comic, too.

Recent slight upgrade on Beware 10.

 

Have an undercopy if anyone's interested!

I loved this issue!

Hey thanks for the information!

That's news to me. I don't even remember Skywald. What did he do for Warren?

 

Sutton also did a bunch of stuff for the Warren and Skywald mags.

 

Vampirella #1 (plus various stories in Creepy and Eerie)

As far as Skywald, one of my favorite stories is "Hag of the Blood Basket" from Nightmare #4.

But this isn't the magazine forum.

Great copy!

Courtesy of the blazing one.

 

Love this cover!

Uncanny Tales looks like a pretty cool book. I will have to check it out.

Thanks for the information guys!

Wow! Awesome!

Those Heaps are great Jayman. I've always like the one with the crab.

How are the insides?

Great cover! It's in good shape for only being rated 6.

Here's an upgrade from the last CC auction

 

Thanks for posting this, too! Awesome! I've been fascinated by this guy since I was a little kid.

So the Heap says "Wake Up!"

 

Great cover! Thanks for posting this, Jayman!

I'm on my way! (thumbs u

 

Anyone know when Hawkman got his new look? When he got rid of the bird head and wings and donned a simple yellow mask? I seem to remember it being rather late in the Golden Age

Agreed!

Always liked that cover

Awesome Cover on that one.

Another pick up tonight.

 

 

That's news to me. I don't even remember Skywald. What did he do for Warren?

Sutton also did a bunch of stuff for the Warren and Skywald mags.

So do I!

Treasuries rule!

Some pages from the 1975 calendar.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some classic art...

 

oh, childhood nostalgia. loved this stuff and those giant treasuries!

Great copy!

I've heard many different opinions about the beginning of the Silver Age. So was it this comic or Fantastic Four number one? What do you guys think?

A buddy here on the boards passed this not to me - this should be interesting

 

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