Pat Calhoun

don't know 'bout covs but Dold did many interiors for Astounding. first 4/35 for 'The Lotus Eaters' by the great (short-lived) Stanley G Weinbaum, second 1/35 story by the future ed JWC.

re: Stirring Science - both of the main-blurb authors, S.D. Gottesman & Cecil Corwin are pseudos for the great C. M. Kornbluth. Bok is the real deal and his novel- from 1942 Unknown- is colorful S&S (cover by Ray Cruz)

particular great sequence Wilma kidnapped by Tiger Men from Mars 1929-1930 from 1968 Aprill reprint

thanks- looks more like orange and is big- so JCC was 14 or 15- still the golden age!

found this archived in Scoop with same image I posted above... It seems highly likely that this 1929 newspaper premium picture of Buck Rogers by illustrator Calkins was influenced by a famous photo of real life aviation hero Charles Lindberg.

no- is print- says copyright John Dille of 'Telephoto by Calkins'- I think it might be a newspaper premium from before the radio show...

Thanks, Jeff (I believe it is). saw you posted some nice Buck Rogers stuff... the only SF piece JCC had besides the hardbacks is the one shown below... Pat

CBM and the hobby were good partners in the '90s, and one of the things I enjoy about the forum is seeing collectors who have implemented some of the advice we offered... It was probably a good time for you to take a break, but we are glad that you are back and here and sharing with us. below is 1987 Gryphon edition reprinting the 2 yarns from April and Aug 1939 Strange Stories. The second, 'The Citadel of Darkness', is superb...

first let me say I have the Jul 1938 WT as I'm a big fan of Kuttner's Elak of Atlantis. Don't know how JC got 'Moon Terror' he's also famous for having bought (but not kept!) every ish of Astounding from Jan 1930 up through 1960s. yes we're direct to original JCC- went back east in '63 my sis christened the atomic sub- ( I remember riding through NYC in taxi thinking ''let me out- Bookstores!!") even more fun was early-'90s decommissioning (30 yr life span for that $ -what are taxpayers for?) went to San Diego got on a tug pulled out of the bay and the JCC came up out of the water and we boarded! my 2 sons were young teens or justabout- when they showed us the missile launch command the younger climbed into the chair- I smiled at the Cap and he gave his OK... Weird Words was the column I ran for 14 years in Comic Book Marketplace starting in 1991. my main accomplishment was to 'break the lock' EC had on precode horror- mostly by praising Atlas...

Well here’s a cute if scary anniversary. As I’ve said- a lot of my hardcovers were inherited from my half-brother, John C. He signed and dated them, and this one is the oldest. It had to be WT! (JCC was 23 at the time that was written.) Thanks, JCC!

Weird timing, but RIP and there it is. Note ref “Torchy” (plot thickens!) re: Lola Lane. I think WT story more likely or both. Joanne Siegel, the Model for Lois Lane, Dies at 93 By BRUCE WEBER, The New York Times Joanne Siegel, who as a Cleveland teenager during the Depression hired herself out as a model to an aspiring comic book artist, Joe Shuster, and thus became the first physical incarnation of Lois Lane, Superman's love interest, died on Saturday in Santa Monica, Calif. She was 93. Ms. Siegel was married to Shuster's partner and Superman co-creator, the writer Jerry Siegel. Their daughter, Laura Siegel Larson, confirmed her death. A high school girl with an ambitious nature and stars in her eyes, young Joanne, like teenagers everywhere, was seeking a way to earn some money when she posed for the first time as Lois Lane. It was probably 1935, her daughter said, and "somebody had told her modeling was easy," so she placed a brief ad in the classified section of The Plain Dealer, declaring herself available for modeling work and confessing that she had no experience. Most of the responses to the ad were requests for dates, but one at least seemed serious, and she presented herself to Shuster and Siegel, who were then developing Superman. (The first Superman comic was published in 1938.) By that point the character was well along in Siegel's mind; he knew he wanted her to be a journalist, and his model was a film character, a clever reporter named Torchy Blane who had been featured in a series of B movies, played by Glenda Farrell. (In the 1938 film "Torchy Blane in Panama," the title character was played by Lola Lane, a singer and actress who some sources — including Ms. Larson — say influenced the name of Superman's leading lady.) In any case, during the modeling session Joanne struck various poses — draping herself over the arms of a chair, for example, to show how she might look being carried by Superman in flight — and she and the two men, who were barely in their 20s, became friends. Shuster's drawings reproduced her hairstyle and her facial features, though in the most famous of the original drawings, Lois is considerably more voluptuous than her model was. "Joe might have taken a few liberties," Ms. Larson said with a laugh. She added that her mother's irrepressibility, ambition and spunk informed her father's development of the character: "My dad always said he wrote Lois with my mom's personality in mind." The daughter of Hungarian immigrants, she was born Jolan Kovacs in Cleveland on Dec. 1, 1917; classmates and teachers who couldn't or wouldn't pronounce her name properly — YO-lan — called her Joan or Joanne, and the second name is the one that eventually stuck. After her Lois Lane debut, she was an artist's model in Boston and elsewhere. (For a time she used the name Joanne Carter.) During World War II she worked for a California ship builder, supporting the war effort. Returning to New York, she re-established a connection with Siegel at a fund-raising ball for cartoonists at which, according to family lore, the costumes were judged by Marlon Brando, then in the middle of his Broadway run in "A Streetcar Named Desire." Both had been married; she was divorced and he was soon to be. They married in 1948 and lived in Connecticut and on Long Island before moving to California in the 1960s. In addition to her daughter, who lives in the Los Angeles area, she is survived by a sister, Sophie Halko of Cleveland, and two grandsons. Ms. Siegel worked at a number of jobs during her marriage — as one of California's early car saleswomen, she sold new and used Chevys from a lot in Santa Monica — but much of her life was taken up trying to reclaim the original Superman copyright that Shuster and her husband sold to Detective Comics in 1937 for $130. Of course, since then Superman as a character had become the central figure in comic books, television shows and blockbuster movies, not to mention the progenitor of legions of other superheroes. Ms. Siegel was the first in a long line of Lois Lanes, who have included Phyllis Coates, Noel Neill, Teri Hatcher, and Erica Durance on television and Margot Kidder in the movies. The story of the plight of Shuster and Siegel, whose lives were marked by privation, is one of the cautionary tales in the annals of intellectual property. In a series of legal and public relations battles that began in 1947, the families eventually won some compensation from DC Comics (the successor to Detective Comics), and in 2008 a federal judge restored Siegel's co-authorship share of the original Superman copyrights, though how much money the Siegel family is entitled to is still being adjudicated. "All her life she carried the torch for Jerry and Joe — and other artists," said Marc Toberoff, the lawyer for both the Siegel and Shuster families. "There was a lot of Lois Lane in Joanne Siegel." RIP 2/14/11

caught my eye too- here's a guess FLASH Newspicture Magazine from 1938-1939. Flash Publ Co: Washington DC 1938-39. Photos, ads, each 12 x 9, pict stapled wraps, 26 pp each, all worn, soiled, vertical crease, some with address label excised from front cover, one issue with half of back cover gone, one issue with half a page gone, else a very interesting lot. FLASH was a magazine for African-Americans; it was published biweekly, held photo contests and kept up with famous African-Americans like Joe Louis, Cab Calloway and Hazel Scott, who is pictured on the cover of the Oct. 15, 1938 issue

I feel compelled to add REH- here is plate by Marcus Boas from Don Grant's 'Rogues in the House'...

well I have a couple of Winstons- would like more but kinda steep- all my holdings are representative rather than comprehensive: as HPL repeated endlessly- 'my real enemies are space, time, and $ !!!' (not to mention adage by Ted S- '90% of everything is...'). Authors I'm strong on include: Clark Ashton Smith, Cornell Woolrich, ERB (was my bro John C's fave), Clifford D Simak, the aforementioned Alice Mary Norton, Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner, and the 'bobsey twins' of '50s PB's Day Keene and Harry Whittington...

Thanks, BZ. Plenty Arkham, Gnome, Fantasy, a ton of Avalon (like Buck below) but kind of author-driven too with Andre Norton a fave (the below early '60s 2nd, World Publishing). I think my bro bought a lot of the Avalons new as book says 1962 and JCC dated it August 1, 1962. So that one's been knocking around for a while... Cover artist on both Ed Emshwiller whose work I enjoyed then and still do. Pat

In 1970 when I got back from my Europe-Africa-Asia trip funded by selling my GA collection I started collecting SF paperback anthologies as there was no real economic factor involved and much great reading… I bought this old Pocket PB (image from web) thinking it would be my first venture outside FSF. Wrong. The opener by Theophile Gautier was one of his great succubi stories and in the middle (if I recall) was ‘The Legend of St. Julian’ by Gustave Flaubert. It’s at least one of the half dozen top weird fantasy novelettes, right up with ‘Pigeons From Hell’ and ‘The Sea Witch’. I have reproduced the plate in my 1923 Chatto and Windus ‘Three Tales’ (with the color maybe toned down due to not wanting to bend book) where the great hunter Prince Julian is confronted by the giant stag. Oh Baby! This is the story that led me to the WT index when BZ posted 1928 issues as the April ish runs St. Julian… So to answer BZ’s question of ‘why I’ve got a lot of Blaineing to do’: I collect weird literature with an emphasis on stories that appeared in WT, Astounding, etc- with illustrated a big plus- though I certainly also enjoy pushing the envelope back to (1786 Vathek) etc. BB mentioned Aubrey Beardsley- well some of his most famous art was for Oscar Wilde’s Salome. Can’t find my copy so (images from web). Of course I prefer Flaubert’s ‘Herodias’ and have from my ‘Three Tales’ copied the penultimate plate- (a little crooked but full color) art by Robert Diaz De Soria. Everyone thinks Flaubert so stuffy but Three Tales is his major collection of short fiction and 2 of them are weirdies! (‘A Simple Heart’ is also a very beautiful story.) WT ran a lot of verse. One of the things I love most about comics is the super-speed at which they move, and the only thing faster than a comic is a poem. I’m running one that I wrote back when I was buying and reading Salome and Three Tales. Not perfect but FAST!

well as a footnote to my 'Blaine Binge' since BZ followed up with Weird Tales, I can't resist pointing out that this Dumas ran as a serial in WT 1931-1932... (I was reminded as I continued through online WT index- got up to 12/31 with no further sign of Lois Lane...)

can't forget Lori Lemaris

well- Jerry was reading these and we all know 'LL' is running theme in Supes: Lois Lane Lana Lang Lex Luthor Kal-El Smallville (double double L) Daily Planet (a stretch) could not this obscure author be the seed source for such?

I used an online index to check the contents to get the REH info re 6/29 and was most intrigued to see that August 1929 offered a short story by an author whose name I've seen somewhere... The Purple Sedan..........Lois Lane

Another great thing about the June '29 is it features a superb Solomon Kane short story by Robert E. Howard, 'Rattle of Bones', chronicling a night spent in the Cleft Skull Tavern... 'Landlord, ho!'

here's a nice little Blaine 'sleeper'- makes up for small size by giving each of the seven voyages a double spread

BB said US 5 the '1916 Quarter' tale- is classic, but the 'Bottle Cap' one is an equally astounding extrapolation of money matters. I also recall a fondness for 'Land of the Pygmy Indians'...

Vathek is a very early (1786) weird fantasy novel...

Hey BB- congrats on g-kid & pop quiz hat trick! here is another 'Blaine' for your collection. scan quality reduced due to DJ being in frame & endpapers tuff... Salammbo (image is of the princess of the title) by Flaubert is the most opulent historical romance of all- a tremendous read!