The WEIRD TALES Thread: Collecting The Unique Magazine 5 5

[Primetime]

New arrival. 
Brundage cover. 
June, 1936

🧛🏽‍♂️ 

Edited August 15, 2023 by Primetime

[Primetime]

This came today - January, 1938.

Now I have a Brundage brunette, Brundage blonde, and a Brundage red head❣️

🦇 🧙 🦇 

 

Edited August 15, 2023 by Primetime

[OtherEric]

On 8/14/2023 at 8:17 PM, Primetime said:

This came today - January, 1938.

Now I have a Brundage brunette, Brundage blonde, and a Brundage red head❣️

🦇 🧙 🦇 

 

I think quite a few of us here can play that game:

[OtherEric]

And my actual addition to the collection today, the highlight is a Clark Ashton Smith Zothique story:

[lpsunburst]

Brundage trio you say?

[Darwination]

[Ameri]

Needed to upgrade this one. Previous and current copy

[lpsunburst]

Love that July '48 cover, here is my copy.

[Robot Man]

Lucky flea market pickup last weekend!

[lpsunburst]

I know we have been giving a lot of love to the early issues of WT but later ones still have cool covers, here is the famous Kelly Freas cover for November 1950.

[Darwination]

On 9/19/2023 at 9:47 AM, lpsunburst said:

I know we have been giving a lot of love to the early issues of WT but later ones still have cool covers, here is the famous Kelly Freas cover for November 1950.

Absofrickinlutely.  I adore Brundage, Finlay, and St. John, but the late era covers have a great feel, too.  Freas has some great ones, Coye is a favorite, and that Tilburne RobotMan just posted is amazing.  Additionally, you aren't gonna break the bank picking these up and can read some great fiction without the kids' gloves.

I don't know what flea markets you people go to, but they are far better than mine

[lpsunburst]

I am a huge fan of Hannes Bok and have had the chance to see many of his paintings in person. This is one of my favorite covers of his.

[FoggyNelson]

Above , a Beautiful orange cover👍‼️ you would think this would be worth a small fortune👍

Edited September 24, 2023 by FoggyNelson

[FoggyNelson]

I want all of these on this page now‼️👍

[lpsunburst]

On 9/24/2023 at 9:47 AM, FoggyNelson said:

I want all of these on this page now‼️👍

The good news is that these later Weird Tales are quite affordable, especially when compared to a comic with a cover of any quality.

[lpsunburst]

Here is the July '49 issue

[Primetime]

This came in today…Weird Tales (March, 1938)

[comicjack]

On 10/7/2023 at 4:53 AM, Primetime said:

This came in today…Weird Tales (March, 1938)

Classic skull cover and love the colors she used on this one 

[Book Guy]

Visited a friend last week who is an avid Weird Tales Collector with a second common friend to catch up on things and view his collection. Was served a great spaghetti dinner and was allowed to handle the Mags! Here are some shots of a few mid-30's highlights. These were formerly Frank Robinson's under copies and are very nice indeed. Better than the pictures show. He also had a number of the 'bed sheet' issues and many from the 1920's. It was fascinating to see the evolution of WT through the years through actual copies spread out in front of you. I had not seen many of the bed sheet issues before. Definitely the Brundage era covers are the best, though there are outstanding covers from all eras. WT is something I was interested in collecting, back in the day, but never quite managed to grab more than a couple of copies and now that ship has sailed!

Enjoy!

[Book Guy]

The plastic bag makes the covers somewhat dull. This was a very bright and clean example. A Superior Copy! What has this gone for recently?

The ripples are from the bag. It's a beautiful, flat and bright copy. Great spine etc.

None of these are for sale, BTW/ He'll die with 'em!

 

Edited November 1, 2023 by Book Guy