Redfury's Weird Tales pulp collection

[RedFury]

NEW ADDITION

 

This completes the 5 issue Magic Carpet run for me!

 

MAGIC CARPET

Volume 3, Number 1

January, 1933

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage.

 

 

UPGRADED

 

[RedFury]

MAGIC CARPET

Volume 3, Number 2 (Issue #2)

April, 1933

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage.

 

 

UPGRADED

 

[RedFury]

MAGIC CARPET

Volume 3, Number 4 (Issue #4)

October, 1933

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage. Logo by J. Allen St. John. Two of the best pulp cover artists combine for one beautiful cover!

 

 

UPGRADED

 

[Weird Paper]

Wow!

[RedFury]

MAGIC CARPET

Volume 4, Number 1 (Issue #5)

January, 1934

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage. Logo by J. Allen St. John.

 

Includes the story The Shadow of the Vulture by Robert E. Howard, notable for the only pulp appearance of Howard's character Red Sonya. However, this is not a sword and sworcery Conan-esque epic. It's actually set during the Siege of Vienna (1529) by the Ottoman Empire. It wasn't until Roy Thomas was writing the Conan comic books in the early 70s that he re-imagined the Red Sonya character and changed one letter in her name to create Red Sonja, the She-Devil With a Sword.

 

 

UPGRADED

 

[RedFury]

NEW ADDITION

 

ORIENTAL STORIES

Volume 2, Number 3 (#9)

Summer, 1932

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage.

 

This is the last issue of Oriental Stories. With the next issue it became Magic Carpet. The cover art is very early work by Margaret Brundage. I believe it's just the second cover she ever did (the previous issue of Oriental Stories being her first).

 

[RedFury]

Got a few new additions and upgrades to share.

 

NEW ADDITION

 

WEIRD TALES

Volume 24, Number 5

November, 1934

 

Contains the Conan story "The People of the Black Circle" (Part 3 of 3) by Robert E. Howard.

 

Also contains the short story "The Music of Erich Zann" by H.P. Lovecraft.

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage.

 

[RedFury]

NEW ADDITION

 

WEIRD TALES

Volume 24, Number 6

December, 1934

 

Contains the Conan story "A Witch Shall Be Born" by Robert E. Howard.

 

Also contains the Jirel of Joiry story "Black God's Shadow" by C.L. Moore.

 

Also includes "Xeethra" by Clark Ashton Smith.

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage.

 

[comicjack]

Brundage covers oh my

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 12, Number 2

August, 1928

 

Cover by C.C. Senf.

 

This is one of my favorites! The cover story, Red Shadows by Robert E Howard, features the 1st appearance of Solomon Kane. Of Howard's four best known characters (Solomon Kane, Kull of Atlantis, Conan the Barbarian, and Bran Mak Morn), Solomon Kane was the earliest.

 

It also contains the first published work of Tennessee Williams, The Vengeance of Nitocris, who was written when he was 16 years old.

 

 

UPGRADED

 

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 24, Number 3

September, 1934

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage.

 

This great Brundage cover is the 5th Conan story cover for Weird Tales.

 

Begins the Conan epic The People of the Black Circle (Part 1 of 3) by Robert E. Howard.

 

 

UPGRADED

 

[RedFury]

WEIRD TALES

Volume 27, Number 1

January, 1936

 

Cover by Margaret Brundage.

 

Features The Hour of the Dragon (Part 2 of 5), a Conan story by Robert E. Howard.

 

Also features the short story Dagon by H. P. Lovecraft. It was originally written in 1917 and first published in 1919.

 

Also contains The Dark Land by C. L. Moore, the 4th Jirel of Joiry story.

 

There's also Horror Insured, the 5th Doctor Satan story by Paul Ernst.

 

 

UPGRADED

 

[comicjack]

Your making me ill upgraded Satan's Garden maybe!

[Pat Calhoun]

very nice, Todd. some of the bestiest issues- the lineup on 12/34 incredible, featuring one of the finest Conan yarns, Jirel, CAS, the great Bassett Morgan (she named her pseudo after her dog), Frank Owen -WOWSERS

[RedFury]

Your making me ill upgraded Satan's Garden maybe!

Same copy still. It's not too bad, though.

 

 

[RedFury]

very nice, Todd. some of the bestiest issues- the lineup on 12/34 incredible, featuring one of the finest Conan yarns, Jirel, CAS, the great Bassett Morgan (she named her pseudo after her dog), Frank Owen -WOWSERS

Thanks Pat. I actually had a pretty tough time finding ANY copy of the 12/34 issue for the longest time.

[Larryw7]

I saw the upgraded copies last night. A couple of them look like they were just purchased from the newstand. Awesome!

[BangZoom]

Got a few new additions and upgrades to share.

 

 

Congratulations on all the new upgrades.

 

Your collection looks beautiful.

 

Are there any pulps you're looking for in particular now?

[GACollectibles]

Beautiful upgrades of some great pulps!

[RedFury]

Got a few new additions and upgrades to share.

 

 

Congratulations on all the new upgrades.

 

Your collection looks beautiful.

 

Are you looking for anything now in particular in the way of pulps?

 

Thanks BZ!

 

Top of my wishlist for Weird Tales are the Jan and Mar 1933 issues which would complete my Conan set (I currently have 24 of the 26 issues). Those two along with the Jan 1932 issue would also complete my 1932-38 run of 83 issues.

 

Other pulps high on my wishlist are Oriental Stories from Sep 1932 and the first issue of Doc Savage.