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[Robot Man]

2 hours ago, Kihei Comics said:

Hey everyone! My name is Nathan and I am mostly active on Instagram @kiheicollectibles I am making an effort to be more active on here because I want to meet more pulp collectors!!! I have been heavily pursuing pulps for 2 years now and I look forward to sharing with you guys and hopefully doing some deals! Here are some of my favorites in the stash. 

Howdy Nathan. I believe we have met a few times. You are from Hawaii I believe?

Any way, welcome to the GA boards. Much more fun and educational than IG. 

[Surfing Alien]

1 hour ago, Robot Man said:

I believe all July 1942 magazine covers used this image or a similar one.

So you got me researching. Here's a link to a virtual exhibit about the "United We Stand" campaign at the National Museum of Natural History website  that is well worth clicking through.

https://amhistory.si.edu/1942/introduction.html

It's a fascinating look back at a tough time, just after Pearl Harbor, and we were losing battles in the Pacific. The publishers organization got together with the Dept of Treasury and created a campaign to get the flag on the covers of over 500 magazines so they would be on the stands on July 4th, 1942 in order to rally the citizens morale and promote war bonds.

Here's an amazing pic I cribbed off the site:

 

I see True Comics, Magic Comics, Ranch Romances and Calling All Girls in the group

[OtherEric]

Need to bump the thread back to page 1.  Another $10 LCS pickup; sadly there's only  3 Argosies left in that box I've been working through, and one I already have.  We'll see if any are left next week.  This issue has part 5 of Burroughs' "The War Chief"

[jpepx78]

On 7/7/2020 at 11:41 AM, Surfing Alien said:

So you got me researching. Here's a link to a virtual exhibit about the "United We Stand" campaign at the National Museum of Natural History website  that is well worth clicking through.

https://amhistory.si.edu/1942/introduction.html

It's a fascinating look back at a tough time, just after Pearl Harbor, and we were losing battles in the Pacific. The publishers organization got together with the Dept of Treasury and created a campaign to get the flag on the covers of over 500 magazines so they would be on the stands on July 4th, 1942 in order to rally the citizens morale and promote war bonds.

Here's an amazing pic I cribbed off the site:

 

I see True Comics, Magic Comics, Ranch Romances and Calling All Girls in the group

It’s always interesting to see collections of other fanatical collectors. A neurologist Dr Steve Lomazow started collecting all the July 1942 “United We Stand” magazines with flag covers in the 1970s. He said 838 magazines participated and I think he has all of them. I think he is a completist.

Check out the video of his “United We Stand” collection and check out all the comics.

https://www.americanmagazinecollection.com/videos/

Take a guess which magazine he believes is the most valuable.

Hint: it’s a comic

He has a pulp collection too.

 

[Scrooge]

12 hours ago, jpepx78 said:

It’s always interesting to see collections of other fanatical collectors.

You know I've known about this initiative for years. I ran into it when I was deciding if I wanted to collect all pulps on my dad's birthday month - July 1942 and stumbled on the program … and quickly backed away, having most covers be the flag was not why I wanted to start that collection. Today, watching the video, my eyes have been opened to the series of comics cover with the flag prominently on display, never did I dream it was part of the same effort and seeing them side-by-side is eye opening. The comics did a much better job of variation than magazines did for their covers. I guess it never also occurred it when looking at the Newsstands at Mike's DC Indexes b/c it simply does not jump out - http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/newsstand.php?publisher=all&type=cover&month=7&year=1942&sort=alpha

Thanks for the link to the videos.

[Robot Man]

I have collected comics with American flag covers. The bigger the better. Pretty sure I have all the ones in the video plus a whole lot more. Most seem to be in the 1942-1943 era. 

[Surfing Alien]

2 hours ago, Scrooge said:

You know I've known about this initiative for years. I ran into it when I was deciding if I wanted to collect all pulps on my dad's birthday month - July 1942 and stumbled on the program … and quickly backed away, having most covers be the flag was not why I wanted to start that collection. Today, watching the video, my eyes have been opened to the series of comics cover with the flag prominently on display, never did I dream it was part of the same effort and seeing them side-by-side is eye opening. The comics did a much better job of variation than magazines did for their covers. I guess it never also occurred it when looking at the Newsstands at Mike's DC Indexes b/c it simply does not jump out - http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/newsstand.php?publisher=all&type=cover&month=7&year=1942&sort=alpha

Thanks for the link to the videos.

Thanks for that link - It took me a minute to realize that it probably doesn't stand out as much because of the variety you mentioned and you really have to look at July, August and even September to see all the Flags, "Buy War Stamps" stickers, Red White and Blue Logo's (Mutt & Jeff #5 ) and other Patriotic Motifs (The V for Victory on All Star 12 etc.) because of the various titles staggering between cover date and distribution date. It is an amazing and inspiring effort.

[Robot Man]

Anybody notice the new category here? (Other than the Poke Man / Magic card category). 

Was only a matter of time...

[RedFury]

13 minutes ago, Robot Man said:

Anybody notice the new category here? (Other than the Poke Man / Magic card category). 

Was only a matter of time...

Oh good, it's active!  

[Robot Man]

Hey! Where did everybody go? 

[RedFury]

Just now, Robot Man said:

Hey! Where did everybody go? 

And so endeth the thread.  12 years.  A good run!

[Surfing Alien]

17 hours ago, RedFury said:

And so endeth the thread.  12 years.  A good run!

Maybe they could move it to the pulp section and pin to the top of the page. It is the legacy no?

[RedFury]

Just now, Surfing Alien said:

Maybe they could move it to the pulp section and pin to the top of the page. It is the legacy no?

It's being looked into. 

[detective35]

Just now, RedFury said:

It's being looked into. 

That is what I was thinking, we should have this thread pinned there on the top.  

[OtherEric]

2 hours ago, detective35 said:

That is what I was thinking, we should have this thread pinned there on the top.  

We really should, partly for historical reasons, and partly to keep using it as our "This week in your pulp collection" thread.

[asimovpulps]

Hi everyone, first time posting pictures so I'll start relatively small and happy to share more if there's any interest! I recently started collecting sci fi pulps of my favorite stories - my goal was to collect all of the original Astounding issues with Asimov's Foundation stories (11 in total from May 1942 - January 1950) after I realized a first edition novel was way out of my price range. Finally completed the set - here are some scans of my favorites and some other interesting issues I've started picking up with Asimov, Heinlein, etc. Collection is growing slowly, but I'm already hooked.

Thanks @thunsicker for the suggestion to post here

Edited October 30, 2020 by asimovpulps
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[Pat Calhoun]

Great - here's some additional for everyone on that Mar 1939 Amazing - Cheers - Pat

[RedFury]

FYI everyone, there's now a whole forum for Pulps!  This thread will be moving there.

https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/forum/98-pulp-magazines/

[Frisco Larson]

Opened a box and found pulps! Nothing great, just some old pulps. Got lazy after taking the 1st one out of the sleeve. Sorry for the glare. 

Edited July 13, 2020 by Frisco Larson

[Frisco Larson]