Pat Calhoun

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