I'll pound you to a "Pulp" if you don't show off yours! 23 23

[Timely]

 

 

Bare Breasted woman cover by Kelly Freas.

[Bookery]

 

Good pulps have been scarce lately, but I did just pick up this one...

 

 

 

[Scrooge]

 

Who wrote the Ghost?

[RedFury]

Very nice collection, Stephen! We've got quite a few extensive Weird Tales collections here on the boards. Perhaps we should start a dedicated Weird Tales thread?

[RedFury]

Cool books, West. I don't follow the 50's books too much, but they sure had some great covers. Most of those I've never seen before. Thanks for sharing.

[RedFury]

Good pulps have been scarce lately, but I did just pick up this one...

 

 

 

Really nice looking copy you got there, Tim. Cool book. I really like the cover art. (thumbs u

 

 

[Bookery]

 

Who wrote the Ghost?

 

Under a pseudonym, all of the Ghost stories were written by G.T. Fleming-Roberts (even when it becomes "The Green Ghost").

 

[Scrooge]

Thanks :thumbsup:

[comicjack]

That's an amazing two pages of sci-fi and Brundage covers ,by far that Magic Carpet is my favorite I just love the smell and look of pulps as much as old comics.Gentlemen you should be proud of the history you have amassed ,we all know it's not easy with the delicate nature of old pulps.Salute!

[Theagenes]

Incredible books guys!

 

 

This one is lower grade, but it's one of the tougher REH pulps. This is an El Borak story. "El Borak" ("The Swift" in Arabic) was the nickname of Francis Xavier Gordon, one of Howard's earliest creations. He's a Texan adventure gone native in Central Asia during the height of the Great Game. Imagine Lawrence of Arabia as western gunslinger and that's El Borak. Some of Howards best adventure stories, imo.

 

 

 

 

[Comicopolis]

Very nice collection, Stephen! We've got quite a few extensive Weird Tales collections here on the boards. Perhaps we should start a dedicated Weird Tales thread?

 

That's a great idea.

 

Do it

[Theagenes]

So I've finally completed one of my tough collecting goals by acquiring all three parts of REH's essay "The Hyborian Age" in the rare fanzine Phantagraph. This is quest that has taken several years to complete.

 

 

 

 

[BangZoom]

 

Congratulations, Jeff.

 

That's an impressive accomplishment!

 

 

[sacentaur]

Very, very cool Jeff.

 

How difficult would you rate 'The Phantagraph' as compared to 'The Fantasy Fan'?

[RedFury]

Congrats Jeff! Those are awesome.

 

I did pick up that low grade number 1 you pointed me towards. Should be arriving shortly. Thanks!

[Theagenes]

Very cool Todd! Welcome to a very small club.

 

Steve, I would say they're roughly comparable. These early issues are probably a little scarcer, especially the first three issues (the issue above with part one of The Hyborian Age is Phantagraph v4 n3 but is really the third issue---the numbering was continuing from a hectographed sf club newsletter with a different name) These three larger format issues seem to have had a lower paper quality than the later ones and are always brittle are therefore extremely scarce. I'm fairly well tapped in to the REH collecting community and I know of the existence of only 6 copies (with a likely 7th) of the above Phantagraph v4n3 with part one of "The Hyborian Age" (Including the one that Todd just got. Given that nothing seems to be as rare as we used to think I would guess that there are between 10-20 copies that survive. Bowling Green probably has a copy in their collection though I don't know that for sure. Presumably the original print run would have been around 50 copies like Fantasy Fan since the audience was the same. If Xaltotun chimes in he may have a better idea of the scarcity. The later issues, especially the 1940's ones are more common (though still scarce relatively speaking. Of course the early issues of Fantasy Fan are are also much scarcer than the later ones.

 

For those who don't know, Phantagraph was produced by a young Donald Wollheim who went on to become one of great sf and fantasy publishers and editors of the last century.

Edited June 30, 2012 by Theagenes

[sacentaur]

Very interesting info, thnx for sharing your expertise.

[Comicopolis]

Well done Jeff

[Theagenes]

I'd hardly call it expertise. I'm still learning about these myself. There was an index of these 30's zines published in the 1960s and I'd love to pick up a copy. BZ do you the index I'm thinking of?

[BangZoom]

 

I'm not familiar with that index.

 

Do you know who compiled it?