Annihilus

Well, I can't compete with a Batman pedigree sale, but DO have a long box of DC modern Moderns that I'll be listing starting sometime today if you only feel like spending a dollar a book

*Just saying. Nice book, and yet another I need. Sigh. Ah, thanks for the clarification - I obviously still have a lot to learn. I really do like the way that WT mixes its content with new stories, verse, text illos, a "classic" story (in which section the "Houdini" was), and even the comments on letters pages are fun to read. Add in of course the Brundage (and Finlay) covers, and like Pat C. says, these are just "Super Pulps"! I've probably got way more to learn about pulps than you do, I'm just semi-learned in Lovecraft. The story kernel for Imprisoned with the Pharaohs was Houdini's, but Lovecraft wrote the whole thing (wrote it twice, actually - after losing the first copy at Union Station, he and his wife spent much of their honeymoon re-writing it to get it submitted before deadline). Sometimes I wonder if HPL lost it on purpose so he didn't have to mess around with his wife after getting married. I agree with you that the letters pages are fun to read - sometimes better than some of the stories! I don't have a ton of pulps yet, but I love reading them knowing that some kid probably was doing the same thing 75 years ago.

*Just saying. Nice book, and yet another I need. Sigh.

I'm wondering how many Action 1'sTec 27's, and Spawn 1's are in that pile!!!! Spawn 1 You laugh, but if those were all X-Force or Youngblood, we'd be giving those old pepper pots medals of honor. If only

I will be listing around 200 cheap low & midgrade DC SA/BA readers starting sometime today. This will be similar in style to the Marvel sale I had a couple of weeks ago, though fewer books this time around. There is some fun stuff in here, most of them are strictly readers though. Includes lots of 12¢ books, hero & horror, etc. Atom, Superboy, Superman, War titles, HOM, Ghosts, etc. I'll be having a much larger modern DC sale after this one, but am still in the process of imaging (scans & pictures) for that one, so am not ready to get moving on that yet.

Thanks, I'll definitely check that out, along with the others you just listed (after getting some sleep). Those oriental pulps have always looked interesting to me, but I've never caved on getting any of them. I do love the covers!

The middle one (Apr '33) was the issue I saw for sale for sale yesterday (VG). So a nice 14 issue run that still remains a challenge due to their scarcity? How are the quality of the stories in these two titles (Magic Carpet and Oriental Stories)? Are they mostly action type tales or do they get into mysticism and other stuff?

Definitely interested since I couldn't go - 6 hours was just too far to drive, unfortunately. Maybe next year I can co-ordinate it with a mini-vacation of some sort. They do have it every year, right?

Great cover!

This is spectacularly cool!

Matt's great to deal with and his art is even better. Buy with confidence!

Well, the one in the link I included above is illustrated (and freaking expensive) but I don't see any reference to the sources as being the Joshi-edited texts, so I'm a bit doubtful that it is based upon the corrected texts - though it certainly could be. Girasol issued a two volume facsimile version of Lovecraft's stuff, but that's not what I'm remembering either. I'll have to dig around and see if I can find the volumes that I'm thinking of. I remember finding the link on a weird fiction based forum, but there are a few of those I need to scour through to see if I can track it down (I evidently didn't save the link ).

I really love Gianni's art. There'a a lot of Wyeth in his his paintings. His pen and ink is superb as well. In addition to the SK volume, he also did the illustrations for the Bran Mak Morn one and the second of the three Conan volumes. Wandering Star had some very ambitious plans - they wanted to publish the complete works of REH, with the purest texts, in these deluxe limited editons. Unfortunately, they ran out of steam (and money) and had to give it up after a handful of volumes. The biggest complaint was that they had only done two of the three Conan volumes and so once again it looked like we would never get all the Conan stories in a nice hb set (Donald Grant's 1970's series was also left unfinished). Finally last year they completed the third Conan, much to everyone's relief, though it took some financial backing from a UK bookseller. Subterranean Press has taken over and are continuing the series of illustrated limited editons and what they aren't publishing, the REH Foundation will. Annihilus, the Del Rey tpbs that I linked you to earlier are the mass market version of these limited editions. The whole story behind the publication of these volumes is an interesting saga in it's own right. Here a piece I did about it when Conan vol. 3 finally came out: A Book Too Far: The Savage Tale of the Wandering Star Limited Editions They are nice looking volumes! I did pick up the Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard trade that you linked to and have only started reading it (I just finished the first Kane story 'Rattle of Bones'). His is a style I'm not all that familiar with (a bit 'swashbuckley'), totally different from the other weird fiction I'm well versed in, though I am warming up to it. I also picked up the Tales of Weird Menace from the REH site that you (or someone here) hipped me to, but haven't started in on that one yet - it's got a sweet cover tho! I also got the collected letters they put out and will enjoy digging into those one day once my 'to read' pile dwindles a bit. There is a Lovecraft version much like the REH books you showed us (maybe by the same company, I'm not sure) that I'd like to get someday, though it's a bit spendy for me at the moment. Centipede Press also puts out some nice books in the genre like the lovecraft in the link (along with newer authors).

Wow, that is freaking cool! I love the headless skeleton running off

- that's an awesome cover! Thanks for the wikipaste, pcalhoun. I might have to keep an eye out for this series, though there are still plenty of things I need to get first.

That's a title I've never seen before...is it basically a science-fiction/fantasy-ish based publication or do they span the horror/weird fiction genre too? Dude with the fork looks like he might've been born and raised in Innsmouth!

Nice group shot of the Shadows! On an unrelated note, I just finished reading the initial installment of 'the sinister and mysterious Doctor Satan' by Paul Erst in the Aug 1935 issue of Weird Tales. At least the cover displays well on the custom shelf my Dad made me (thumbs u

If you haven't yet, you should see him paint!

You want to know what's really funny? My Dad thought AD&D was a 'bad influence' on me and bought my first comic for me back in 1980 (ASM 200) in an effort to get me interested in something else and away from D&D. About ten years later I asked him if he realized that instead of weening me off of D&D, he started me on a several thousand dollar a year habit that now takes up an entire room of my house. He just shook his head and said that as a parent, some decisions work out better than others. Of course, I think his decision was perfect!

There is the definite possibility that this thread could win the internets.

Sweet - I've never seen this one before! (The floating wizard head, or whatever it is)

Here is a site that lists scarcity and values of vintage D & D modules, books and boxed sets. Most are common and can be found of eBay regularly for $5-$20, even the non-first printings of the original core books from the late 70s and early 80s. Most of the 1st printings of the books or rule-sets can be valuable as you would expect. There is an early version of the Deities & Demigods book that has stats for the H.P. Lovecraft Cthulhu mythos. TSR used that stuff without permission and were forced to remove them from subsequent printings. That book is worth probably 10 times a regular version. Dungeons and Dragons Scarcity and Value Ok, now I'll really geek out... TSR actually retroactively got permission from Chaosium to use the Cthulhu Mythos in subsequent printings of Deities and Demigods providing they cited Chaosium as being the copyright holders in the later printings of the book (they believed it to be in the public domain when including it in the 1st printing). TSR decided it wasn't a good idea for them to be crediting a competitor in one of their rulebooks and voluntarily removed the reference to the Cthulhu Mythos (as well as the Melnibonian Mythos) rather than credit them for its use. /geekspeak

How 'bout a Kirscht-style Beholder at some point? I was gonna say that... you beat me by four minutes!

Thank God I wrote that letter to TSR so I know that I can add that +10 to my comic dork level for a total of +20 on the dork scale. Now I just need to find a way to increase my hitpoints.

Nice! I had to laugh (sardonically) at the seller...the package it came in was insured for $200. The 'packaging' consisted of the book between two comic book backing boards inside a manila envelope.... what the hell? Fortunately, the envelope still looked brand new and the book none the worse for wear.