Pat Calhoun

some ASF at top... on left red Galaxys (& my sons Crane left, Theo right- Theo was named after another fave, Sturgeon (whose 'The Dreaming Jewels' -GREAT book!!!- is four in just under Theo's head) ps- young Pat just to left of duck............

this one's a good read...

I have bound volumes of Astounding 1947-1959 & Galaxy 1950(#1)-1959 and many hardcovers with DJ's etc...

Scrooge- Astounding is the ONE! when Amazing & Wonder paled in early 1930s Astounding took over in the story department with writers like John W Campbell (who would become editor and launch 'modern SF'), Stanley Weinbaum, Jack Williamson, and Clifford D Simak producing great stuff. When Campbell took over editor in '39 we start to get Heinlein, Sturgeon, Asimov, Van Vogt, etc. I love Simak- his 'Cosmic Engineers' is a 1939 classic, as is his 1964 Hugo winner 'Way Station'. perhaps the short stories of the era are even better: Simak's 1944 'Desertion' at 10 pages or so is a KEY to 'Avatar'. been avid fan 50 yrs let me know if you need author suggestions.

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...