Anyone care to guess what this Hitler pic is from? 1 1

[telerites]

I'll give the answer later if someone doesn't get it.   Hint - it was in something dated November 1943.

 

[Cat-Man_America]

My guess is a science fiction pulp, probably Amazing or bedsheet Astounding since this appears to be a full sized pulp from ‘43.

Edited June 29, 2019 by Cat-Man_America

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

Hitler has been kidnapped by an alien! With something wrong with his eye

[Robot Man]

[OtherEric]

Amazing Stories, November 1943, for a contest to write a short story around the image.  Prize was $1000 in war bonds, double if you were in the military.

(I don't have a copy... I'm just good at research.  I might want a copy now, just for that page.)

[BitterOldMan]

Page 7 and 8 from https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=amazingstories

[N e r V]

3 hours ago, telerites said:

I'll give the answer later if someone doesn't get it.   Hint - it was in something dated November 1943.

 

 

11 minutes ago, BitterOldMan said:

Page 7 and 8 from https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=amazingstories

 

1 hour ago, OtherEric said:

Amazing Stories, November 1943, for a contest to write a short story around the image.  Prize was $1000 in war bonds, double if you were in the military.

(I don't have a copy... I'm just good at research.  I might want a copy now, just for that page.)

Did the story ever get published by the winner?

[BitterOldMan]

12 minutes ago, N e r V said:

 

 

Did the story ever get published by the winner?

According to   http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56497 , the winner was Captain Meyer Friedenson, who wrote the short story "The Superman."

You can find a convoluted form here.

 https://archive.org/stream/TheSuperman/TheSupermanByMeyerFriedensonAmazingStoriesmarch1944_djvu.txt

Correcting numerous typographical errors, here is the winner announcement.

ON page 12 of this issue you will find the results of our amazingly popular Hitler Illustration Contest conducted in the November, 194-3 issue. And on page 14, you will find the winning story. We are proud to announce the name of the winner, Captain Meyer Friedenson, of the Medical Corps of the United

States Army. For writing the best short story of approximately 1000 words, Captain Friedenson has won the double award of a $2000 war bond. Our congratulations to him. He had staggering competition!

YOUR editors were a little bit dazed when faced with the prospect of reading so many stories, but as we read on, our interest in the responses to our contest, and in the people who competed for the big prize, grew so intense that we lost all perspective of the job as a task, but rather, saw it as a privilege!

TO our utter amazement more than half the contestants were women ! All of which tends to prove that science fiction and fantasy is a field of literature that finds a ready market in the female of the species for one very definite reason— the girls have vivid imaginations, and a very

excellently developed fantasy "sense."

WE received a great many entries from soldiers, sailors, marines, even the Seabees. Many of them came from officers. One came from a holder of the Purple Heart, out of the fighting now because of wounds. Another came from a vet in a 1918 war soldier's home. Some even came from children now acting as heads of families in the absence of a fighting daddy.

AS we read, we became conscious of a fact that seems to us to be of prime importance in judging the war and the peace to follow in relation to the opinion of the general public. We learned a great deal about what the American thinks of the war and the peace, and what must be done to bring the first to a conclusion and the latter to permanence. First of all, we found that Hitler is the most hated man in the world, if not in history; and we shudder to think of what his lot would be if these story writers could be judges of his fate! A hundred different tortures were devised, a hundred different ways to make him suffer in some small measure for the pain and

sorrow he has caused.

AS for themes, there were five that predominated.

1. Hitler kidnapped by the Martians.

2. The devil coming to take Hitler to Bell.

3. The laboratory monster created to be a secret weapon

turning on its creator.

4. The god of war taking Hitler on a tour of time to view the failures of

past war-makers

5. Hitler as a reincarnation of previous war-makers, such as Ghengis Khan, Napoleon, Attila, etc. In spite of the terrific competition, many of the stories developed these themes amazingly in so far as originality is concerned.

 

Never in the more than eighteen years of Amazing Stories' existence has a contest proved so popular and been so well entered. Never has a contest developed the interest and spirit of competition until this one has. When we selected a "Hitler" subject for our illustration, we hoped to make the contest a tough one. We did that, the readers said, but it didn't stop them.

They wrote stories, and how! We must give our readers credit for ability — and for plenty of imagination, ingenuity, and constructiveness.

 

FOR those contestants who inquired, in spite of the rules published with the contest illustration, we are unable to enter into any correspondence regarding it; and also, no manuscripts will be returned. It may be that we will publish other stories from among these from time to time, and these will be paid for at our usual rates.

 

[BitterOldMan]

Biography of winner

I was born in Polotsk, Russia, scene of much current war activity, on May 15, 1905, and was 
brought to this country at the age of 18 months. 

I lived in New York City until the age of 14, attending the public schools 
there. My family then moved to Connecticut, first to Ansonia and then to 
New Haven. 

I entered Yale University in 1920 at the age of 15 and received my B. S. 
degree in 1924, and my M. D. in 1927. 

I interned a year in Wilmington, Delaware, and another year in New 
York City, and commenced practice in 1929 in New York, which has been 
my home ever since. 

I am a member of numerous medical societies, am certified as a specialist in internal medicine and cardiology. 
I have had several  hospital appointments and am cardiologist for the New York City Health Department. 

I have published numerous medical articles in a number of scientific journals, but have hitherto never submitted any item of fiction. 

I have been married for 15 years, have a daughter aged 13, who has literary ani&trons?, and a son aged 8, 
who aspires to the practice of medicine. 

I have been reading your magazine intermittently for the past 15 years. — 
M. Friedenson, Capt. M. C. 

[BitterOldMan]

You can read a better formatted version of the story here.

https://books.google.com/books?id=v4bzCtUfx4EC&pg=PP2&lpg=PP2&dq=Capt.+Meyer+Friedenson&source=bl&ots=kVIdF-ZpEs&sig=ACfU3U1H8p6l4zOWPaYKhIdia_O9Dkv3DQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj-iq-tkpDjAhWbK80KHb9fCloQ6AEwAnoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=Capt. Meyer Friedenson&f=false

[N e r V]

Thanks. When I have more time I’ll look into the story.

This caught my eye from the above:

TO our utter amazement more than half the contestants were women ! All of which tends to prove that science fiction and fantasy is a field of literature that finds a ready market in the female of the species for one very definite reason— the girls have vivid imaginations, and a very excellently developed fantasy "sense." 

Interesting for historical reasons but also  noted because you might want to word it slightly different in today’s current atmosphere. 

 

[shadroch]

3 hours ago, OtherEric said:

Amazing Stories, November 1943, for a contest to write a short story around the image.  Prize was $1000 in war bonds, double if you were in the military.

(I don't have a copy... I'm just good at research.  I might want a copy now, just for that page.)

Stan Lee won it, no doubt.

[telerites]

You guys are good.  I have both pulps with the announcement as posted above.  Here is the rest with a pic of the winner.  The story name caught my eye.  The first pic went with the one above.

The rest are the winner announcement with his winning story published.  

 

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

26 minutes ago, telerites said:

 

You guys are good.  I have both pulps with the announcement as posted above.  Here is the rest with a pic of the winner.  The story name caught my eye.  The first pic went with the one above.

 

Wait, where’s the next page? Wait never mind; I see someone posted a print version above.

this guy was a Yale educated doctor? Interesting story

Edited June 30, 2019 by GreatCaesarsGhost

[Cat-Man_America]

Number two on the list of finalists, Eando Binder (Earl and Otto Binder) who wrote the Adam Link series (I Robot, being their most famous story in that series) and whose brother Jack Binder was a classically trained artist who started the Binder art shop and turned out some fabulous comic covers.  Oh, and Otto co-created Supergirl. 

[telerites]

Just now, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

Wait, where’s the next page?

I thought people only bought pulps for the covers just like comics and Playboy  

Covers for these issues