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[frozentundraguy]

I picked up a few pulps last weekend. The LCS that I visited only had one short box of pulps. That box was nowhere near full. There were perhaps 20 pulps in all, and half of those were reprints. Given that what were the odds of obtaining an issue of Wonder Stories? Or an issue with a story by Weinbaum, and the issue with the "Ideal" story, with.  Van Manderpootz with his all encompassing theories of the smallest components of space, time, atoms, and even thought, in the September 1935 issue.

There  are many pages of letters to the editor. Among those is a notice (page 496) that 3 members have been expelled from the 'science fiction league'. Now for the kicker, those three are Donald Wollheim, John B, Michel, and William Skykora. It turns out that early sci-fi fandom was quite intense with different factions.

The notice in the September 1935 issue of Wonder Stories:

THREE MEMBERS EXPELLED

It grieves us to announce that we have found the first disloyalty in our organization... These members we expelled on June 12th. Their names are Donald A. Wollheim, John B. Michel, and William S. Sykora—three active fans who just got themselves onto the wrong road.

Wollheim of course is widely credited with the development of the science fiction paperback.

 

[frozentundraguy]

I also picked up two issues of Fantastic Adventures from 1949 and 1950 respectively. Pardon the whiplash effect as we move from a cover with some significant conflict depicted to one where you almost expect the song from Sound of Music to accompany it. I had not heard of S.M. Tenneshaw  before. It turns out that was a house name for any of the following authors; Charles Beaumont, Randall Garrett, Edmond Hamilton, John Jakes, Milton Lesser, Frank M. Robinson, and Robert Silverberg.

 

[comicjack]

On 11/18/2022 at 4:26 PM, frozentundraguy said:

I also picked up two issues of Fantastic Adventures from 1949 and 1950 respectively. Pardon the whiplash effect as we move from a cover with some significant conflict depicted to one where you almost expect the song from Sound of Music to accompany it. I had not heard of S.M. Tenneshaw  before. It turns out that was a house name for any of the following authors; Charles Beaumont, Randall Garrett, Edmond Hamilton, John Jakes, Milton Lesser, Frank M. Robinson, and Robert Silverberg.

 

That title doesn't go for your lungs and has so many awesome covers 

[FoggyNelson]

On 11/15/2022 at 7:42 PM, frozentundraguy said:

I picked up a few pulps last weekend. The LCS that I visited only had one short box of pulps. That box was nowhere near full. There were perhaps 20 pulps in all, and half of those were reprints. Given that what were the odds of obtaining an issue of Wonder Stories? Or an issue with a story by Weinbaum, and the issue with the "Ideal" story, with.  Van Manderpootz with his all encompassing theories of the smallest components of space, time, atoms, and even thought, in the September 1935 issue.

There  are many pages of letters to the editor. Among those is a notice (page 496) that 3 members have been expelled from the 'science fiction league'. Now for the kicker, those three are Donald Wollheim, John B, Michel, and William Skykora. It turns out that early sci-fi fandom was quite intense with different factions.

The notice in the September 1935 issue of Wonder Stories:

THREE MEMBERS EXPELLED

It grieves us to announce that we have found the first disloyalty in our organization... These members we expelled on June 12th. Their names are Donald A. Wollheim, John B. Michel, and William S. Sykora—three active fans who just got themselves onto the wrong road.

Wollheim of course is widely credited with the development of the science fiction paperback.

 

15 cents was a lot of money back in 1935

[frozentundraguy]

Just in this 1940 issue of Astounding with stories by some of my favorite sci-fi writers, including L. Sprague De camp, Lester Del Ray, and Clifford Simak.

 

 

[Joshua33]

I already told you once with my mouth. 

[waaaghboss]

On 12/5/2022 at 8:13 AM, Joshua33 said:

I already told you once with my mouth. 

Almost feels like a gag using a crutch their speed line.

[waaaghboss]

Don't you hate when you get a book in the mail and instantly regret buying it?

 

Description listed the book as having cover wear and standard brittleness.  The book actually has severe warping due to moisture damage.

If you've seen the type of pulp I buy, I'm usually fishing in the cheap end of the pulp pond so I'm fine with low grade pulps, but what's frustrating with this book is the warping is so bad that I can't even open the book to read it.  

I've bought from the seller before without issue, but it states no refunds and i don't think it's worth getting into an argument over.  Not that I'm looking forward to grades pulps, but I guess at least you'd know what you're getting. 

Also got this fun little digest in.

Edited December 6, 2022 by waaaghboss

[Surfing Alien]

I know its considered common but who doesn't love a James Bama Avon cover from when he just started and comic book interiors? Haven't picked up many pulps lately but like this one and love the John Giunta "Crom the Barbarian" comic inside

Edited December 13, 2022 by Surfing Alien

[OtherEric]

On 12/12/2022 at 8:04 PM, Surfing Alien said:

I know its considered common but who doesn't love a James Bama Avon cover from when he just started and comic book interiors? Haven't picked up many pulps lately but like this one and love the John Giunta "Crom the Barbarian" comic inside

Like you say, it's pretty common as pulps go.  But it's an awesome 2 issue run to get!

[Pulpvault]

I'm usually not a fan of folks having put stamps on pulp covers, but I think this one is pretty neat. It's on the cover of the December 1928 issue of Amazing Stories, and is a Christmas Greetings stamp dated 1928. But I'm not sure why it's of a galleon.

[Pat Calhoun]

Fun: gem of a Paul cover, and I like the spirit of the stamp: Happy Holidays!

[FoggyNelson]

On 12/6/2022 at 4:40 PM, waaaghboss said:

Don't you hate when you get a book in the mail and instantly regret buying it?

 

Description listed the book as having cover wear and standard brittleness.  The book actually has severe warping due to moisture damage.

If you've seen the type of pulp I buy, I'm usually fishing in the cheap end of the pulp pond so I'm fine with low grade pulps, but what's frustrating with this book is the warping is so bad that I can't even open the book to read it.  

I've bought from the seller before without issue, but it states no refunds and i don't think it's worth getting into an argument over.  Not that I'm looking forward to grades pulps, but I guess at least you'd know what you're getting. 

Also got this fun little digest in.

Pie piper is from 1925 wow almost 100 years old

[Pulpvault]

Once again, Dell decided to put a Merry Christmas message on the cover of a January 1931 issue of one of their pulps. This time it's on that issue of War Stories. And really, what spreads Christmas cheer like a soldier shooting through barbed wire, while the story title on lower right proclaims, "Death to America!" SPOILER ALERT - Pulp fans will be shocked to learn that America does not die, but instead prevails, in this story of the next World War by Major George Fielding Eliot.

[Pulpvault]

Two other pulps with Christmas messages on covers that don't quite scream Merry Christmas.  Both dated January 1931.

[Pulpvault]

Moving away from odd pulp magazine Christmas covers with a war theme, here are two early Christmas covers from the Clayton pulp chain. The Snappy Stories is dated January 4, 1919, while the Telling Tales is actually dated on Christmas Day from 98 years ago, December 25, 1924. The artist on Telling Tales is Otto Greiner, while the signature of the artist on Snappy Stories reads Stoner, but inside appears to be mistakenly credited to Ann Brockman.

[Robot Man]

[Pulpvault]

Many of the spicy pulps ran Christmas covers (though I think even more ran New Year's Eve covers).  Paris Nights ran them regularly; here are two, from 1928 on the right and 1929 on the left.

[waaaghboss]

Not exactly a pulp, but it does have the first published piece by Seabury Quinn in a critique of how innacurate portrayals of law in the movies may be a disservice to the public. 

 

 

Edited December 23, 2022 by waaaghboss

[FoggyNelson]

On 12/22/2022 at 11:14 PM, waaaghboss said:

Not exactly a pulp, but it does have the first published piece by Seabury Quinn in a critique of how innacurate portrayals of law in the movies may be a disservice to the public. 

 

 

Very interesting 🤔🤔