Redfury's Weird Tales pulp collection

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WEIRD TALES

Volume 22, Number 5

November, 1933

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage.

 

It's thought that Margaret Brundage's daughter was the model for this issue's cover.

 

Features the Cthulhu mythos story The Holiness of Azédarac by Clark Ashton Smith.

 

 

I've been LOVING this thread, and this may be my favorite cover yet.

 

Keep 'em coming!

[Theagenes]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 24, Number 4

October, 1934

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage.

 

Continues the Conan epic The People of the Black Circle (Part 2 of 3) by Robert E. Howard.

 

Contains The Seven Geases, a Cthulhu mythos story by Clark Ashton Smith.

 

The cover story is The Black God's Kiss by C.L. Moore, one of the pioneering female writers of the speculative fiction genre (C.L. stood for Catherine Lucille). The Black God's Kiss was the first of her series of sword and sorcery adventures starring Jirel of Joiry, the first female protagonist in these kinds of stories.

 

 

One of my favorite covers and a groundbreaking story. I have a colleague who just finished his masters thesis on Moore looking at her work from a feminist perspective. She's someone whose importance as a pioneer of SF&F is often overlooked, but that is changing.

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 25, Number 3

March, 1935

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage

 

Features the Conan story Jewels of Gwahlur by Robert E. Howard.

 

Also contains a Cthulhu mythos story, The Sealed Casket by Richard F. Searight.

 

And there's also the fifth Northwest Smith story, Julhi, by C.L. Moore.

 

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 25, Number 4

April, 1935

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage

 

Features the Cthulhu mythos story Out of the Eons by Hazel Heald (H.P. Lovecraft).

 

Also has the story The Last Hieroglyph by Clark Ashton Smith.

 

Also contains a very early tale by Eando Binder, Shadows of Blood. Eando Binder was the pen name of brothers Earl and Otto Binder (E and O). Their most famous sci-fi creation, the robot Adam Link, first appeared in 1939 in Amazing Stories. Eventually Otto took over all the writing chores and Earl became his literary agent.

 

In 1941, Otto Binder began writing for comics and had a legendary career. In the interest of brevity, I'll just list some highlights:

• For Fawcett, he co-created Mary Marvel, Black Adam, Mr. Tawny, Uncle Dudley and Mr. Mind. Out of 1,743 Captain Marvel stories, Binder wrote 986 of them.
  
• For Quality he co-created Kid Eternity with Sheldon Moldoff and wrote Blackhawk, Doll Man, Uncle Sam and Black Condor stories.
  
• For Timely he co-created Young Allies and Miss America, and wrote Captain American, Human Torch, and Sub-Mariner, the Destroyer, the Whizzer, and the All-Winners Squad stories.
  
• For EC, he wrote several science fiction stories.
  
• For MLJ (Archie) he wrote stories starring Steel Sterling, the Shield, the Hangman, and the Black Hood.
  
• For Gold Key, he co-created Mighty Samson.
  
• For DC, he co-created the Legion of Super-heroes, Supergirl, Brainiac, the Phantom Zone, Bizarro, and Krypto. He made Jimmy Olsen's secret identity as Elastic Lad. He wrote the first 'imaginary' Superman story.
  
• It's estimated his comic book writing totaled more than 50,000 pages of output.
  

 

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 25, Number 5

May, 1935

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage

 

Features the classic Conan story Beyond the Black River (Part 1 of 2) by Robert E. Howard.

 

There's also an H.P. Lovecraft story, The White Ape. Lovecraft disliked this title and the story is now known as Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family.

 

Also contains the Cthulhu mythos story The Secret of the Tomb by Robert Bloch.

 

And there's a Clark Ashton Smith story, The Flower-Women.

 

[Theagenes]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 25, Number 4

April, 1935

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage

 

Features the Cthulhu mythos story Out of the Eons by Hazel Heald (H.P. Lovecraft).

 

Also has the story The Last Hieroglyph by Clark Ashton Smith.

 

Also contains a very early tale by Eando Binder, Shadows of Blood. Eando Binder was the pen name of brothers Earl and Otto Binder (E and O). Their most famous sci-fi creation, the robot Adam Link, first appeared in 1939 in Amazing Stories. Eventually Otto took over all the writing chores and Earl became his literary agent.

 

In 1941, Otto Binder began writing for comics and had a legendary career. In the interest of brevity, I'll just list some highlights:

• For Fawcett, he co-created Mary Marvel, Black Adam, Mr. Tawny, Uncle Dudley and Mr. Mind. Out of 1,743 Captain Marvel stories, Binder wrote 986 of them.
  
• For Quality he co-created Kid Eternity with Sheldon Moldoff and wrote Blackhawk, Doll Man, Uncle Sam and Black Condor stories.
  
• For Timely he co-created Young Allies and Miss America, and wrote Captain American, Human Torch, and Sub-Mariner, the Destroyer, the Whizzer, and the All-Winners Squad stories.
  
• For EC, he wrote several science fiction stories.
  
• For MLJ (Archie) he wrote stories starring Steel Sterling, the Shield, the Hangman, and the Black Hood.
  
• For Gold Key, he co-created Mighty Samson.
  
• For DC, he co-created the Legion of Super-heroes, Supergirl, Brainiac, the Phantom Zone, Bizarro, and Krypto. He made Jimmy Olsen's secret identity as Elastic Lad. He wrote the first 'imaginary' Superman story.
  
• It's estimated his comic book writing totaled more than 50,000 pages of output.
  

 

 

Binder is also the current leading contender for the unknown posthumous collaborater that completed REH's sword and planet novel Amulric.

[Point Five]

In 1941, Otto Binder began writing for comics and had a legendary career. In the interest of brevity, I'll just list some highlights:

• For Fawcett, he co-created Mary Marvel, Black Adam, Mr. Tawny, Uncle Dudley and Mr. Mind. Out of 1,743 Captain Marvel stories, Binder wrote 986 of them.
  
• For Quality he co-created Kid Eternity with Sheldon Moldoff and wrote Blackhawk, Doll Man, Uncle Sam and Black Condor stories.
  
• For Timely he co-created Young Allies and Miss America, and wrote Captain American, Human Torch, and Sub-Mariner, the Destroyer, the Whizzer, and the All-Winners Squad stories.
  
• For EC, he wrote several science fiction stories.
  
• For MLJ (Archie) he wrote stories starring Steel Sterling, the Shield, the Hangman, and the Black Hood.
  
• For Gold Key, he co-created Mighty Samson.
  
• For DC, he co-created the Legion of Super-heroes, Supergirl, Brainiac, the Phantom Zone, Bizarro, and Krypto. He made Jimmy Olsen's secret identity as Elastic Lad. He wrote the first 'imaginary' Superman story.
  
• It's estimated his comic book writing totaled more than 50,000 pages of output.
  

That's amazing! Never knew all that.

 

 

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 25, Number 4

April, 1935

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage

 

Features the Cthulhu mythos story Out of the Eons by Hazel Heald (H.P. Lovecraft).

 

Also has the story The Last Hieroglyph by Clark Ashton Smith.

 

Also contains a very early tale by Eando Binder, Shadows of Blood. Eando Binder was the pen name of brothers Earl and Otto Binder (E and O). Their most famous sci-fi creation, the robot Adam Link, first appeared in 1939 in Amazing Stories. Eventually Otto took over all the writing chores and Earl became his literary agent.

 

In 1941, Otto Binder began writing for comics and had a legendary career. In the interest of brevity, I'll just list some highlights:

• For Fawcett, he co-created Mary Marvel, Black Adam, Mr. Tawny, Uncle Dudley and Mr. Mind. Out of 1,743 Captain Marvel stories, Binder wrote 986 of them.
  
• For Quality he co-created Kid Eternity with Sheldon Moldoff and wrote Blackhawk, Doll Man, Uncle Sam and Black Condor stories.
  
• For Timely he co-created Young Allies and Miss America, and wrote Captain American, Human Torch, and Sub-Mariner, the Destroyer, the Whizzer, and the All-Winners Squad stories.
  
• For EC, he wrote several science fiction stories.
  
• For MLJ (Archie) he wrote stories starring Steel Sterling, the Shield, the Hangman, and the Black Hood.
  
• For Gold Key, he co-created Mighty Samson.
  
• For DC, he co-created the Legion of Super-heroes, Supergirl, Brainiac, the Phantom Zone, Bizarro, and Krypto. He made Jimmy Olsen's secret identity as Elastic Lad. He wrote the first 'imaginary' Superman story.
  
• It's estimated his comic book writing totaled more than 50,000 pages of output.
  

 

 

Binder is also the current leading contender for the unknown posthumous collaborater that completed REH's sword and planet novel Amulric.

 

Interesting, Jeff. I had heard it may have been Kline.

[Theagenes]

 

Binder is also the current leading contender for the unknown posthumous collaborater that completed REH's sword and planet novel Amulric.

 

Interesting, Jeff. I had heard it may have been Kline.

 

For many years Kilne was suspected, since he had written a lot of sword and planet and he was the agent for the Howard estate at the time (Kuttner has also been suggested). But Otto was working for the Kline agency at the time and there are a number of stylistic similarities between his work and the Almuric collaborator. Morgan Holmes had a good article about it in the Cimmerian a few years ago. I'd love to see a stylometric analysis done to compare all of the most likely candidates.

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 25, Number 6

June, 1935

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage

 

Completes the Conan story Beyond the Black River (Part 2 of 2) by Robert E. Howard.

 

Features a Cthulhu mythos story, The Suicide in the Study by Robert Bloch.

 

[pmpknface]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 25, Number 4

April, 1935

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage

 

Features the Cthulhu mythos story Out of the Eons by Hazel Heald (H.P. Lovecraft).

 

Also has the story The Last Hieroglyph by Clark Ashton Smith.

 

Also contains a very early tale by Eando Binder, Shadows of Blood. Eando Binder was the pen name of brothers Earl and Otto Binder (E and O). Their most famous sci-fi creation, the robot Adam Link, first appeared in 1939 in Amazing Stories. Eventually Otto took over all the writing chores and Earl became his literary agent.

 

In 1941, Otto Binder began writing for comics and had a legendary career. In the interest of brevity, I'll just list some highlights:

• For Fawcett, he co-created Mary Marvel, Black Adam, Mr. Tawny, Uncle Dudley and Mr. Mind. Out of 1,743 Captain Marvel stories, Binder wrote 986 of them.
  
• For Quality he co-created Kid Eternity with Sheldon Moldoff and wrote Blackhawk, Doll Man, Uncle Sam and Black Condor stories.
  
• For Timely he co-created Young Allies and Miss America, and wrote Captain American, Human Torch, and Sub-Mariner, the Destroyer, the Whizzer, and the All-Winners Squad stories.
  
• For EC, he wrote several science fiction stories.
  
• For MLJ (Archie) he wrote stories starring Steel Sterling, the Shield, the Hangman, and the Black Hood.
  
• For Gold Key, he co-created Mighty Samson.
  
• For DC, he co-created the Legion of Super-heroes, Supergirl, Brainiac, the Phantom Zone, Bizarro, and Krypto. He made Jimmy Olsen's secret identity as Elastic Lad. He wrote the first 'imaginary' Superman story.
  
• It's estimated his comic book writing totaled more than 50,000 pages of output.
  

 

 

Not only is that great info, but look at the quality of a 77 + YEAR OLD book! Fantastic!

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 26, Number 1

July, 1935

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage

 

Features the 3rd Jirel of Joiry story, Jirel Meets Magic, by C.L. Moore.

 

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 26, Number 2

August, 1935

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage.

 

Cover story is Doctor Satan by Paul Ernst, the first in a series of Doctor Satan stories he did for Weird Tales. Doctor Satan was Weird Tales' response to increased competition from the shudder pulps, using a formula that blended a hint of sex with sadism, but the experiment was not successful and was abandoned after 8 stories.

 

Also contains The Treader of the Dust by Clark Ashton Smith.

 

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 26, Number 3

September, 1935

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage.

 

Great Brundage nude cover for the story The Blue Woman by John Scott Douglas.

 

Contains two Cthulhu mythos stories:

- Vulthoom by Clark Ashton Smith.

- The Shambler from the Stars by Robert Bloch

 

Also contains the second Doctor Satan story, The Man Who Chained the Lightning by Paul Ernst.

 

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 26, Number 4

October, 1935

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage.

 

Features In a Graveyard by Eando (Earl and Otto) Binder.

 

Also features the sixth Northwest Smith story, The Cold Gray God by C. L. Moore.

 

Includes The Hollywood Horror, the third Doctor Satan story by Paul Ernst.

 

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 26, Number 5

November, 1935

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage.

 

Great Brundage cover for the Conan story Shadows in Zamboula by Robert E. Howard. This was the 15th Conan story in Weird Tales.

 

Contains the fourth Doctor Satan story, The Consuming Flame, by Paul Ernst.

 

Also contains a poem, In Thessaly, by Clark Ashton Smith.

 

[capt_comics]

Fantastic thread!!!

 

Especially like seeing some of the earlier issues.......

 

 

[Weird Paper]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 26, Number 5

November, 1935

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage.

 

Great Brundage cover for the Conan story Shadows in Zamboula by Robert E. Howard. This was the 15th Conan story in Weird Tales.

 

Contains the fourth Doctor Satan story, The Consuming Flame, by Paul Ernst.

 

Also contains a poem, In Thessaly, by Clark Ashton Smith.

 

That was sure a pretty one. It couldn't have ended up in a better place.

[RedFury]

Fantastic thread!!!

 

Especially like seeing some of the earlier issues.......

 

 

Thanks (thumbs u

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 26, Number 5

November, 1935

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage.

 

Great Brundage cover for the Conan story Shadows in Zamboula by Robert E. Howard. This was the 15th Conan story in Weird Tales.

 

Contains the fourth Doctor Satan story, The Consuming Flame, by Paul Ernst.

 

Also contains a poem, In Thessaly, by Clark Ashton Smith.

 

That was sure a pretty one. It couldn't have ended up in a better place.

Thanks Roger. This book is well-loved, that's for sure.