Redfury's Weird Tales pulp collection

[Theagenes]

I'd like to share my growing Weird Tales collection and didn't want to clog up the "I'll Pound You to a Pulp" thread, so I'm starting this new thread. I hope you enjoy it.

 

 

Very nice!

 

Did you win any of Frank Robinsons pulps at auction?

 

The Weird Tales entire group sold as one lot in the Robinson auction unfortunately.

 

I was hoping they wouldn't meet reserve and then be auctioned in smaller or even individual lots, but alas no. I bid on the Magic Carpets but came up short.

 

With the WTs out of play everybody had plenty of money to go big on everything else. No real bargains in that auctions.

But these were the Mile High of pulps,right?

 

Sort of. They weren't original owner pulps but he assembled one of the highest grade collections in existence.

[detective35]

Remember,

 

Frank I'd not buy any of his collection off the newsstand, he just accumulated them over the past 40 years.

 

Dwight

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 29, Number 2

February, 1937

 

Cover by Virgil Finlay.

 

Contains the Cthulhu mythos story Dig Me No Grave by Robert E. Howard.

 

Also contains the poem Song of the Necromancer by Clark Ashton Smith.

 

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 29, Number 3

March, 1937

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage.

 

Features two Cthulhu mythos stories:

- The Brood of Bubastis by Robert Bloch

- The Guardians of the Book by Henry Hasse

 

Also contains a reprint of an old H. P. Lovecraft tale, The Picture in the House.

 

There's also an Eando Binder story, The Elixir of Death.

 

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 29, Number 4

April, 1937

 

Cover by Virgil Finlay.

 

Robert Bloch contributes a Cthulhu mythos tale, The Mannikin.

 

[TheShadowKnows]

So how close are you to completing your collection?

[RedFury]

So how close are you to completing your collection?

 

Getting there. I've been focusing on the era I consider to be the sweet spot, 1927-1938. I'll probably fill in 1925-26 and 1939-41 too, but they're lower priority. 1923-24 would be nice, eventually, but they're really tough.

 

The 1927-38 range has 140 issues. I have 108 of them, or 77%. Hard to believe I'm more than 3/4 of the way there.

[Comics-n-ERB]

So how close are you to completing your collection?

 

Getting there. I've been focusing on the era I consider to be the sweet spot, 1927-1938. I'll probably fill in 1925-26 and 1939-41 too, but they're lower priority. 1923-24 would be nice, eventually, but they're really tough.

 

The 1927-38 range has 140 issues. I have 108 of them, or 77%. Hard to believe I'm more than 3/4 of the way there.

 

Way to go Todd! Some nice looking copies you have too.

[Larryw7]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 29, Number 4

April, 1937

 

Cover by Virgil Finlay.

 

Robert Bloch contributes a Cthulhu mythos tale, The Mannikin.

 

 

That is an awesome cover.

[RedFury]

So how close are you to completing your collection?

 

Getting there. I've been focusing on the era I consider to be the sweet spot, 1927-1938. I'll probably fill in 1925-26 and 1939-41 too, but they're lower priority. 1923-24 would be nice, eventually, but they're really tough.

 

The 1927-38 range has 140 issues. I have 108 of them, or 77%. Hard to believe I'm more than 3/4 of the way there.

 

Way to go Todd! Some nice looking copies you have too.

 

Thanks David! (thumbs u

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 29, Number 5

May, 1937

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage.

 

Features the Cthulhu mythos story The Salem Horror by Henry Kuttner.

 

Also features a H.P. Lovecraft story, The Horror in the Burying-Ground.

 

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 29, Number 6

June, 1937

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage.

 

Includes a Cthulhu mythos story, The Black Kiss, by Henry Kuttner and Robert Bloch.

 

[Theagenes]

These are really gorgeous copies Todd.

[TheShadowKnows]

So how close are you to completing your collection?

 

Getting there. I've been focusing on the era I consider to be the sweet spot, 1927-1938. I'll probably fill in 1925-26 and 1939-41 too, but they're lower priority. 1923-24 would be nice, eventually, but they're really tough.

 

The 1927-38 range has 140 issues. I have 108 of them, or 77%. Hard to believe I'm more than 3/4 of the way there.

Im impressed by your collection its nice to see those old books.

 

Ive seen a lot of the old weird tales when my friends Bill Trojan and Larry Woodside would open their ebay packages in my shop.Those were always fun days.

[RedFury]

These are really gorgeous copies Todd.

 

Thanks Jeff. I try for nice copies whenever I can, but sometimes I take what I can get and hope to upgrade later. For instance, the one I'm about to post has a big chunk missing from the cover.

[RedFury]

So how close are you to completing your collection?

 

Getting there. I've been focusing on the era I consider to be the sweet spot, 1927-1938. I'll probably fill in 1925-26 and 1939-41 too, but they're lower priority. 1923-24 would be nice, eventually, but they're really tough.

 

The 1927-38 range has 140 issues. I have 108 of them, or 77%. Hard to believe I'm more than 3/4 of the way there.

Im impressed by your collection its nice to see those old books.

Thanks Dennis. Glad you're enjoying them.

 

Ive seen a lot of the old weird tales when my friends Bill Trojan and Larry Woodside would open their ebay packages in my shop.Those were always fun days.

I imagine it was like Christmas morning!

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 30, Number 1

July, 1937

 

Cover by Virgil Finlay.

 

Robert Bloch contributes a Cthulhu mythos story, The Creeper in the Crypt.

 

Also contains two interesting poems:

- To Virgil Finlay by H. P. Lovecraft. (Verse, written on seeing Mr. Finlay's illustration for "The Faceless God.")

- To Howard Phillips Lovecraft by Clark Ashton Smith. Lovecraft had passed away from cancer on March 15, 1937, aged 46.

 

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 30, Number 2

August, 1937

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage.

 

Contains a reprint of The Statement of Randolph Carter by H. P. Lovecraft. The story was first published in 1920 and is part of Lovecraft's Dream Cycle.

 

Also contains the Cthulhu mythos story, The Terrible Parchment, by Manly Wade Wellman. This somewhat humorous story presents Lovecraft's Necronomicon book as the antagonist, a plot device later used in Sam Raimi films. Also, Weird Tales magazine itself appears in the story.

 

There's also a Robert E. Howard poem, The Soul-Eater.

 

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 30, Number 3

September, 1937

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage.

 

Features the story The Death of Ilalotha by Clark Ashton Smith.

 

Also has a poem, The Dream and the Shadow, by Robert E. Howard.

 

And there's also a poem, Psychopompos, by H. P. Lovecraft.

 

There's also a tribute to H.P. Lovecraft, H.P.L, by Henry Kuttner.

 

[BB-Gun]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 30, Number 2

August, 1937

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage.

 

Contains a reprint of The Statement of Randolph Carter by H. P. Lovecraft. The story was first published in 1920 and is part of Lovecraft's Dream Cycle.

 

Also contains the Cthulhu mythos story, The Terrible Parchment, by Manly Wade Wellman. This somewhat humorous story presents Lovecraft's Necronomicon book as the antagonist, a plot device later used in Sam Raimi films. Also, Weird Tales magazine itself appears in the story.

 

There's also a Robert E. Howard poem, The Soul-Eater.

 

 

And what was the dark Thing??