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

[RedFury]

Jeez, I never knew that about Howitt.  Such a shame so many great paintings lost. 

The Red Death Rain, another Howitt favorite of mine.  

[detective35]

Here are my two favorite file copies that I own, one Spider and one Terror Tales.

About 18 years ago, Ed Hulse had roughly 15 Spider File copies, and I chose this one because of the freakish bright colors on the cover.  
The Terror Tales file copy came from the late Jerry Weist.

 Both have off-white interior paper.

 

 

[sagii]

@rjpb @detective35 @RedFury

Gentlemen, these are CRAZY   

 

[OtherEric]

34 minutes ago, detective35 said:

Awesome,

The Spiders have such great covers!

The Spider, Op5, Terror Tales, Horror Stories, etc. all have great John Newton Howitt covers.

 

While my copies aren't always in great shape, I should scan and share my Op5 collection here sometime soon.  I'm at 38 of 48 issues, I think...

[Robot Man]

[OtherEric]

And enough people liked my suggestion of posting what I had of Operator #5 that I'll go ahead and do that.  Pulling the books out to scan, I can tell I got a lot of them in my early days of looking for pulps.  Some of them I wouldn't find acceptable now, even by my low standards.  Then again, I probably averaged $25 each for the books, which is not very much for this run.  I've got quite a few decent copies mixed in, as well; starting with the #1.  It's certainly not high grade, but I think it presents decently well despite the creases, and the page quality is nice.

[OtherEric]

Volume 2.  I do have the first 7 issues; all 10 issues I'm missing are then bunched together over the next 17 issues

[OtherEric]

Volumes 3 and 4.  I'll defend the Legion of Starvation issue by saying it's one of the first issues of the title I got, and probably one of my first 20 or so pulps.

[OtherEric]

Volumes 5 and 6.  It figures, The Invasion of the Crimson Death Cult is actually in really nice shape... and printed off register.

[OtherEric]

Volume 7.  Here's where the Purple Invasion begins, and the holes in my collection end.

[OtherEric]

Volume 8.  I think Siege of the Thousand Patriots was the last one I needed to complete the Purple Invasion run.

[OtherEric]

Volume 9.

[OtherEric]

Volume 10.  The Purple Invasion finally wraps up with The Siege that Brought the Black Death.  I love the whole arc, although I think it's one of those creative works that manages to be great without necessarily actually being good in a lot of ways. (Pretty sure I stole that description from Roy Thomas talking about the first 30 or so JSA stories; I find it a very useful description sometimes.)

[OtherEric]

Volume 11.  As far as I can tell The Dawn that Shook the World is a Library of Congress copy; one of these years I'll write and ask them if they need it back.

[OtherEric]

Volume 12.  The Yellow Vulture saga, which ended on a cliffhanger and an atomic bomb story...

[comicjack]

Some great covers on those and thanks for posting 

[Surfing Alien]

8 hours ago, OtherEric said:

Volume 7.  Here's where the Purple Invasion begins, and the holes in my collection end.

Great stuff! You get a flavor from these and other 30's pulps, especially the aviation ones, of life where world war was on the horizon, even though it was not yet on our shores. I remember my father telling me about life in that decade and the sense of foreboding in the air.  

[RedFury]

Dr. Fries, is that you?

[sagii]

12 hours ago, OtherEric said:

Volume 9.

 

These are amazing! 

[sagii]

1 hour ago, RedFury said:

Dr. Fries, is that you?