Pat Calhoun

I second the thanks. Even though James the J might have gotten a wee bit carried away with his own gift- it gives us 'comic geeks' a few highbrow points to make such a 'sophisticated' score while huntin' funny books. Plus, Chupp- you seem to have a knack for turning up treasure at auctions...my advice: Keep it Up!!

nice on the #20- was my first Xela and still a tip-top fave! hard to believe this would be the last ish, it being so wonderful etc........................

swelegant Planets. I particularly like the tonality of the #45 cover (GCD says Joe Doolin?) the bottom half almost looks like the Xela airbrush greats of Wonder and Startling...

I told her that I was a flop with chicks, I been that way since 1956, She looked at my palm and made a magic sign, And said what you need boy, Love Potion #9 !!!

Nice! Haven't seen that one in a while- 'more fun' than a can o' worms!

wanted to post this to go with the Wolverton cov on previous page. Different 'monster', similar staging...from his 'Revelations' end of world sequence. scanned off copy of page from old Graphic Story Illustrated as I only have vol 1 of bible...

very sweet- kinda reminds me of the end of the world scenes in Basil's Bible!

good bump, Scroogie- I missed the Astonishing the other day and must say the cover has an astonishingly nice tonality with 'thick' feathering that really changes the colors (which have a lot of overlay themselves). Artist? GCD says Ev but I think I see 'the hand' of big Joe... Help!

Yeah, she's pretty- 'maybe' my old copy! but the label should say Rockman... there must be a story behind Wolverton's creation of the character since the 'Underground Secret Agent ' angle seemed tailored to the title...

re: 'Earle' of Bergey - sounds great!

good move, Scrooge! lower-grade copies of the classic early hero books are a smart buy, and yours does have super colors- hoooooraaayyy!!!!!

Henry Kuttner's Prince Raynor debuts in 'Cursed be the City' in #2 Apr, with the even better second yarn appearing in the August ish, 'The Citadel of Darkness' (seen in group shot). This was the second of his sword & sorcery characters- helping fill the gap after Conan creator, Robert E. Howard committed suicide (the other being Elak of Atlantis in Weird Tales). Great Stories!

wow Christian- a nicely produced event! won't comment on choices till 1-5 are up, but on 6-10 let me just say I'm happy to see 3 titles using my favorite word for this glorious genre! Pat

City of Mummies is a super St J cover and your copy quite nice, just wanted to add that that back cover is also sweet, part of an interplanetary series by the great Frank R. Paul, the cover artist of the 1920s 'bedsheet' issues of Amazing that pioneered American SF.

2 comments: Mystic 2 - one of the all-time-great 'second banana' anthologies. I still remember Rob Goulart's succinct description of Dynamic Man as 'anything but'... of course this copy is very clean and bright and the cover is superb GA! great MM cover debate: I go with Primetime that the 7 is special- even the goofy sidebar that many no doubt downgrade it for ain't so bad. Good things: nice mini-dress, helmet, tinted legs etc; hypo (??!!@#$%&*); nice Torch pose (echoing the #1 cov) with melting metal and rising water- this one seems to throw in the narrative hook that it's an elaborate trap...

bravo Scroogester- two sweeties! pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty

Fast Fiction is a nice little run and old Henry Kiefer made pretty covers. The Captain Blood works up the wraparound effect... Your copy of She (who must be obeyed) is of course extra pretty!

hey- I was just talking up Sheena in the 'great reading' thread. Fiction House is more fun to read than their reputation would make you think. Fun to look at too of course as yours show.....!

well done, Shiv- a very nice and (heretofore!) obscure 'collecting' cover. Plus it's always fun to hear a tale of a found grail that has big personal importance- because we know the feeling and how rare and wonderful it is!

4/44- big fat wartime ish. Lancer reprinted the first two Jongors in mid-1960s when they were issuing the Conan series and other fantasy classics like Jack Vance's 'The Dying Earth' and L. Ron Hubbard's 'Slaves of Sleep'.

Fun St J story- legend has it that the below was to be the last ish of Fantastic Adventures but the St J dino cover coupled with a rousing caveman tale inside sold so well the mag continued for 12 more years, and if you consider the digest 'Fantastic' a rebirth (I do) tack on another dozen. is Oct 1940- the 'Return of Jongor' has a super St J cov that I'll scan tomorrow...

oh I could find it- isn't it "The Jewel of Assurbanipal" (SP!) or something...?

But the other WT 1/33 is Conan too, I think: Scarlet Citadel or Tower of Elephant. Buccaneers of Venus by the way got at least 3 great St John covs. My latest pickup, Tarzan the Untamed has St J cov + 4 inside plates & I scanned Port of Peril- the renamed OAK novel- which reprints one of the WT Buccaneers covers.

Ol' Space Ranger (aka Rick Starr) posted some nice Avons a few pages back. The Hollingsworth cover on Eerie 10 reminded me of this Avon Fantasy Reader from 1947. Editor Donald A Wollheim was a key figure in SFantasy for decades and his reprinting of classic earlier work inspired collectors to delve back to the originals... As for the cov- even this version might be by way of 'borrifying' (ie: swiping). It IS a fun one... i borrified below from GCD to make comparison easy...

don't know if this is the best place to announce this- but here's horror for sale. my forum skills are less than zilch and my old computer and dial-up don't help so any interest best contact the email address below- thanks -Pat Pat Calhoun phone-707-573-9643 fax-707-573-0345 114 W 8th Santa Rosa CA 95401 pcalhoun@sonic.net please email pcalhoun@sonic.net for a copy of this list with images of the books Frankenstein 18 Mar 1952 origin and relaunch issue (#1-#17 humor series ended in 1949) high-impact Briefer cover and bright VG+ with light crease upper right and mini-chip bottom right $90 Frankenstein 19 Sum 1952 classic Briefer cover on this second horror issue in 'flawless' FN- $70 Adventures Into The Unknown #51 Jan 1954 solid VG even wear with spine edge a little rough but not split- white is pretty clean- respectable copy of a tough somewhat fragile book with high-impact Harry Lazarus cov and interior $75 Jumbo #159 May 1952 nice VG+ black is clean- classic Maurice Whitman cov- penultimate Sheena cov as Ghost Gallery took over also by MW with #161 $45 Adventures Into Weird Worlds #26 Feb 1954 VG+ solid, clean, bright, tight with light even wear- a reasonable sample of Joe Maneely's vivid work $45 Spellbound #17 Sept 1953 spine stresses, slight offset at bottom spine, long very light (no break) crease FC- still- almost VG+ (that's VG) with classic Bill Everett cov and Krigstein inside on a solid, bright, complete (no chipping) copy $45 Mystery #4 1944 VGF a little light wear, no real flaws $140 Wonder #14 Oct 1947 VGF (minimum!) very minor dampstain back cov- notable absence of wear $160 Captain Flight 11 Feb-Mar 1947 light name in 'H', slight tears both staples but both sound enough, little crease/tear on leaf on right edge, crease at bottom right,hint of spine roll. A long enough list but up close in all the little flaws fade in the face of a moderately clean and flat book that's solid and square and complete (edges etc) and bright with nice pages. Pages are in well, back cover is clean and complete VG $220 Mystic 9 June 1952 another nice Maneely- some spine roll but still clean, flat, square even on 'fanning' edge- vivid VG+ $65 Forbidden Worlds 12 Dec 1952 Ken Bald's art is good enough to let the bright colors (pink!) and clean condition make this a winner- would be fine but for minor edge chipping back cov so VG+ or VGF (priced at the former...) $50 Rocket Ship X 1 Sep 1951 the one and only- not really a classic cov but crudely appealing...(Foxy!?) light crease upper right FC, few small interior page edge chips well away from panels- acceptable VG with low price $90 Mystic 7 Mar 1952 (big Joe) minimum FVF even with micro-chip lower left $120 Web of Mystery 17 Feb 1953 one of the few covers by Ace's star Lou Cameron- a beaut! Sharp VG+ $55 Beware Terror Tales 4 sharp VGF with under-rated Bernard Bailey classic horror cov (+ incredible interiors!) $75 Astonishing 30 Feb 1954The clarity of the image makes comment that it has spine stress/very light reading crease and light crease top right redundant- they don't much get in the way of the lurid lovliness of Joe's 'vision'. SVG (s is for 'solid') $65 Planet 70 respectable VG presents well and would grade higher but for bit of 'typical' Fiction House fragility (image shows light crease upper right plus slight wave there- not bad and mollified by mylar)- super Whitman cov and great insides $95 Men's Adventures 21 May 1953 with a winner Bill Everett cov- despite creasing at bottom and microchips at both lower corners- rich colors and generally sound VG+ $50