Pat Calhoun

wow- my first thought too, was great sidebar- especially the middle (bottom ain't too bad) Bullseye!

very nice! J Carter & ERB are integral to the development of 20c pop heroes- big time! (acquires super strength on another planet- hhhmmmmmmmmm.....) any artist info? the insides are newspaper strips?- JC by JCB? what do you think of the 3 Dell early '50s Marsh issues?

Good Old Vin!

nice! hey we were def in tune- posted #164 23 secs after you did this! (in MW thread)

yeah- she be one of the Gibson girls- nice!

you're off to a good start: pretty cover plus fun strips inside...

good one! I treasure my little reprint- especially the sentiments inside from a much-missed pal and mentor who lives on in this forum! Cheers!

even though I haven't been buying many books- when a grail comes up at real good price- ah, I could hear you all chanting 'buy it, buy it' like the animals in the field when young Arthur steps up to try his hand at pulling Excalibur from the stone- there can be only one just resolution for such an event, and since it was Christmas (and my wife had just bought herself -another- antique sewing machine) I could snag it with household $ and not deplete my collectibles fund which is the arrow in my quiver waiting for the next big netsuke to streak across the sky. So thanks for the help, team, this was $140 delivered from across pond (is a Brit book) which looks to be just about half FMV -HOOORRAAYYYYY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yeah- #23 is one of my top Atlas faves: Bill Ev cov, Howie Post, Mort Lawrence, Myron Fass, a rare and cool appearance by Reed Crandall, and wrapping it up 'The Thief' penciled by Larry Woromay and inked by the incredible Matt Fox!

Atlas produced some good 'action & adventure'. I remember this ish as being super sweet (thanks GCD as mine's X#%*+GONE) ps- 'rugged' here too...

when I was a kid (a while back) Lanning's Book Shop over in San Diego had a shopping cart at the door filled with coverless precode comics for a penny apiece. the first thing I always did was check the stacks for truevision as the black spines would flash like dark lightning...

Way to go Billy! Way to go Steve!

well a book like that hogs the thread all by itself- gorgeous copy of a superbly high-Quality Fine!

In brightest day, in blackest night, AA 17 is a delight!

#23 = Haunt of Fear #1-/-#15

18 = Green Hornet #1

yes- that one was resonating in the back of my mind too- more possible inspiration from Griffith & Jane... great Ernie Schroeder cover from near the end of the run (third to last ish). Just like us- fans in the 1930s searched far and wide for 'the good stuff'- no doubt many had Brit books...

(thanks for above) After all that turkey is a good time to praise things avian, and the greatest bird of the GA was Birdie, Airboy’s fantastic wing-flapping machine-gun-blasting plane and ‘companion’. Seems I saw something like her in an old book… So rev up the time machine- make sure there’s plenty of gas- and let’s trip back to 1897. There was a fair amount of Victorian SF. George Griffith wrote quite a few novels that were popular in 1890s England (less so in USA- might have gotten cold-shouldered for his socialist views…) including: The Angel of the Revolution (future war- Olga is sequel), Valdar the Oft-Born (reincarnation), The Gold Finder (a magnet that attracts gold!), The Romance of Golden Star (future history), and Captain Ishmael (immortality). Illustrator on this second edition of Olga Romanoff was Fred T Jane who wrote a few ‘scientific romances’ himself including The Incubated Girl, The Violet Flame, and an interplanetary yarn where they travel by ‘Transporter’ (as in ‘beam me up Scotty’) titled to make Verne look like a piker- To Venus in Five Seconds. Jane moved from the art of future warfare to depiction of present-day ships- sea and air- I think ‘Jane’s Defense Weekly’ is still published across the pond… Since I’m big Airboy fan (can you say ‘The Heap’!) page 281 definitely caught my eye…has the prototype look to me. Paging Charles Biro!

Golden Fleece has several claims to fame: perhaps paramount is that they ran more art than most (any?) other pulps. The lead novelette here- by that scribe best known as creator and author of Zorro- is 40-some pages with 5 full page, 4 half page, several quarter page illos- rest of mag similar... Second point- they are the only(?) mag to use M Brundage as interior artist. Here she does the cover and the McCulley plus full page illo for it on inside FC.V2 #6 June 1939- save for the worm hole (which is clean and kinda cool) this would be high grade. Listed as Sun Publications -Chicago- the look and feel of the mag is very WT-like... Despite seeming kinship to Weird Tales my #1 (10/38 only other ish I own) has back cover ad for Amazing- either more incestuous publishing or a novel way to make a buck (running ad for the competition's mag...). Cov on #1 by Harold Delay (+ interiors for the Talbot Mundy novelette) artist on many pulps and GA comics- something of a history specialist...

Whoa, Count- that Weird Chills cover is a hoot! workmanlike style but the fem vs bems is stark and classic- the obelisk grave marker is an over-the-top reminder (did we need one?) of what the winner plans... Good Score!

yes I'm double-posting this in what makes a masterpiece, but belongs here too- Jirel of Joiry 10/34

here's a nice little Dunsany from here

you could read many 1930s Weird Tales cover stories (tuff chore- pretty thick cream already) and not come across a novelette like 'The Sea Witch' by Nictzin Dyalhis - gorgeously romantic S&S one should read every few years... Then throw in 'Pigeons From Hell' under the same cover- possibly the ultimate Howard tale (I know that's redundant- ultimo & REH are synonyms) and you prove the case for anthologies. add on 'The Man Who Returned' (cov) one of Edmond Hamilton's finest- he wasn't long on style or character but his sense of wonder blazed like a supernova... Moody little Lovecraft (The Strange High House in the Mist) for dessert? plus as the one on right- early Conan cov- shows (sorry bout blot) some de old anthologies almost collectable themselves!!??#*+++))

Hey Kids- it's (always) time for women in tubes Schomburg-Style! vol 2 #2 9/39 (my kinda graveyard!!!)