Redfury's Weird Tales pulp collection

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 33, Number 5

May, 1939

 

Cover by Harold S. De Lay.

 

This particular copy was once owned by science fiction writer couple Edmund Hamilton and Leigh Brackett, and has their stamp inside.

 

This is the first of four covers Harold De Lay did for Weird Tales. De Lay also worked in comics on such titles as Blue Bolt, Fantoman, Funny Pages, The Human Torch, Mystic Comics, Target Comics, and True Comics.

 

Features the posthumous Robert E. Howard epic, Almuric (Part 1 of 3).

 

Also contains the story The Dark Isle by Robert Bloch.

 

Lester Del Rey (later editor of Del Rey Books) contributes an early work, Cross of Fire.

 

And there's a poem by H.P. Lovecraft, Harbor Whistles.

 

[Comics-n-ERB]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 33, Number 5

May, 1939

 

Cover by Harold S. De Lay.

 

This particular copy was once owned by science fiction writer couple Edmund Hamilton and Leigh Brackett, and has their stamp inside.

 

This is the first of four covers Harold De Lay did for Weird Tales. De Lay also worked in comics on such titles as Blue Bolt, Fantoman, Funny Pages, The Human Torch, Mystic Comics, Target Comics, and True Comics.

 

Features the posthumous Robert E. Howard epic, Almuric (Part 1 of 3).

 

Also contains the story The Dark Isle by Robert Bloch.

 

Lester Del Rey (later editor of Del Rey Books) contributes an early work, Cross of Fire.

 

And there's a poem by H.P. Lovecraft, Harbor Whistles.

 

 

Very nice Todd!

[Theagenes]

Brackett and Hamilton's copy! That is really cool.

[RedFury]

Brackett and Hamilton's copy! That is really cool.

I thought so. It's cool to think it was in their library for all those years. The next one I'm about to post was theirs too.

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 34, Number 2

August, 1939

 

Cover by Virgil Finlay.

 

This particular copy was also once owned by science fiction writer couple Edmund Hamilton and Leigh Brackett, and has their stamp inside.

 

Contains the novel Almuric (Part 3 of 3) by Robert E. Howard.

 

Also contains the story The Totem-Pole by Robert Bloch.

 

There's also a poem by H.P. Lovecraft, The Gardens of Yin.

 

[Comicopolis]

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 34, Number 4

October, 1939

 

Cover by Harold S. De Lay.

 

Features the story In the Walls of Eryx by Kenneth Sterling and H. P. Lovecraft. Sterling was a Providence high school student who had befriended Lovecraft. Sterling wrote the first draft of the story, which Lovecraft then heavily revised. It was initially rejected by several publications before it was re-submitted and accepted to Weird Tales after Lovecraft's death.

 

Also features a reprint of one of Robert E. Howard's best tales, The Worms of the Earth.

 

Interestingly, this issue also includes a very old story, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, which written by Lucian around 150 A.D.

 

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 35, Number 10

July, 1941

 

Cover by Hannes Bok.

 

Features the story The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (Part 2 of 2) by H. P. Lovecraft.

 

Cover story is The Robot God by Ray Cummings.

 

Also contains a Clark Ashton Smith story, The Enchantress of Sylaire.

 

And there's a story called I Killed Hitler by Ralph Milne Farley.

 

[ciorac]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 35, Number 10

July, 1941

 

Cover by Hannes Bok.

 

Features the story The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (Part 2 of 2) by H. P. Lovecraft.

 

Cover story is The Robot God by Ray Cummings.

 

Also contains a Clark Ashton Smith story, The Enchantress of Sylaire.

 

And there's a story called I Killed Hitler by Ralph Milne Farley.

 

 

Looks brand freaking new!

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 35, Number 10

July, 1941

 

Cover by Hannes Bok.

 

Features the story The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (Part 2 of 2) by H. P. Lovecraft.

 

Cover story is The Robot God by Ray Cummings.

 

Also contains a Clark Ashton Smith story, The Enchantress of Sylaire.

 

And there's a story called I Killed Hitler by Ralph Milne Farley.

 

 

Looks brand freaking new!

In hand, this one weakens the knees.

[ciorac]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 35, Number 10

July, 1941

 

Cover by Hannes Bok.

 

Features the story The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (Part 2 of 2) by H. P. Lovecraft.

 

Cover story is The Robot God by Ray Cummings.

 

Also contains a Clark Ashton Smith story, The Enchantress of Sylaire.

 

And there's a story called I Killed Hitler by Ralph Milne Farley.

 

 

Looks brand freaking new!

In hand, this one weakens the knees.

 

Heck, online it made my tiddly wink

[Comics-n-ERB]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 35, Number 10

July, 1941

 

Cover by Hannes Bok.

 

Features the story The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (Part 2 of 2) by H. P. Lovecraft.

 

Cover story is The Robot God by Ray Cummings.

 

Also contains a Clark Ashton Smith story, The Enchantress of Sylaire.

 

And there's a story called I Killed Hitler by Ralph Milne Farley.

 

 

Looks brand freaking new!

In hand, this one weakens the knees.

 

Heck, online it made my tiddly wink

 

[pmpknface]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 35, Number 10

July, 1941

 

Cover by Hannes Bok.

 

Features the story The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (Part 2 of 2) by H. P. Lovecraft.

 

Cover story is The Robot God by Ray Cummings.

 

Also contains a Clark Ashton Smith story, The Enchantress of Sylaire.

 

And there's a story called I Killed Hitler by Ralph Milne Farley.

 

 

Completely stunning!!!

[adamstrange]

I think it was swiped for HOM 1, though they at least used a mirror image to disguise it. It was later swiped for a Superboy cover.

 

 

WEIRD TALES

Volume 32, Number 2

August, 1938

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage.

 

The cover story, The Wolf-Girl of Josselin, by Arlton Eadie is about a female werewolf. I wonder if this cover inspired the similar cover of House of Mystery #1 (1951)?

 

Features a reprint of a 1921 H.P. Lovecraft story, The Tree.

 

Also contains the poem Lines Written in the Realization that I Must Die by Robert E. Howard.

 

[adamstrange]

Brackett and Hamilton's copy! That is really cool.

I thought so. It's cool to think it was in their library for all those years. The next one I'm about to post was theirs too.

 

Neat!

 

Leigh Brackett was Howard Hawks favorite screenwriter.

[RedFury]

Brackett and Hamilton's copy! That is really cool.

I thought so. It's cool to think it was in their library for all those years. The next one I'm about to post was theirs too.

 

Neat!

 

Leigh Brackett was Howard Hawks favorite screenwriter.

 

And she wrote the first draft of The Empire Strikes Back

[RedFury]

I think it was swiped for HOM 1, though they at least used a mirror image to disguise it. It was later swiped for a Superboy cover.

 

 

WEIRD TALES

Volume 32, Number 2

August, 1938

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage.

 

The cover story, The Wolf-Girl of Josselin, by Arlton Eadie is about a female werewolf. I wonder if this cover inspired the similar cover of House of Mystery #1 (1951)?

 

Features a reprint of a 1921 H.P. Lovecraft story, The Tree.

 

Also contains the poem Lines Written in the Realization that I Must Die by Robert E. Howard.

 

 

Cool. I didn't know about the Superboy cover.

[adamstrange]

Brackett and Hamilton's copy! That is really cool.

I thought so. It's cool to think it was in their library for all those years. The next one I'm about to post was theirs too.

 

Neat!

 

Leigh Brackett was Howard Hawks favorite screenwriter.

 

And she wrote the first draft of The Empire Strikes Back

That gets my vote for best Star Wars pic but I'm not sure how much she actually contributed as I'm not sure she was in good health. There's no question that the Han/Leaia relationship dynamics were very similar to the that used in any number of Hawks films (e.g. To Have and Have Not, Rio Bravo etc.)

[RedFury]

Brackett and Hamilton's copy! That is really cool.

I thought so. It's cool to think it was in their library for all those years. The next one I'm about to post was theirs too.

 

Neat!

 

Leigh Brackett was Howard Hawks favorite screenwriter.

 

And she wrote the first draft of The Empire Strikes Back

That gets my vote for best Star Wars pic but I'm not sure how much she actually contributed as I'm not sure she was in good health. There's no question that the Han/Leaia relationship dynamics were very similar to the that used in any number of Hawks films (e.g. To Have and Have Not, Rio Bravo etc.)

 

The way I understand it is Lucas gave Brackett the story idea or maybe an outline. Then she wrote a draft of the screenplay, and died soon after. Then Lawrence Kasdan was brought in to write the second draft that was used for filming. I've heard that very little of Brackett's work was used, but who knows for sure because her draft has never been published (to the best of my knowledge). Would love to see that someday!

 

I give the slight edge to Star Wars over Empire, mostly because Star Wars has a complete story arc with an ending. But they're both great, great movies.

[adamstrange]

I think it was swiped for HOM 1, though they at least used a mirror image to disguise it. It was later swiped for a Superboy cover.

 

 

WEIRD TALES

Volume 32, Number 2

August, 1938

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage.

 

The cover story, The Wolf-Girl of Josselin, by Arlton Eadie is about a female werewolf. I wonder if this cover inspired the similar cover of House of Mystery #1 (1951)?

 

Features a reprint of a 1921 H.P. Lovecraft story, The Tree.

 

Also contains the poem Lines Written in the Realization that I Must Die by Robert E. Howard.

 

 

Cool. I didn't know about the Superboy cover.