Theagenes Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 As in Fred Meagher of the 55 issues of Straight Arrow fame? If so, I am flabbergasted as I had no inkling of that ... and :thumbsup: for the pics. One and the same. (thumbs u The cover is a swipe from a Raymond panel. Total coolness.Who did the writing for this & is it any good? It's credited to James Edison Northford (or Northfield---it's listed both ways), but that may be a pseudonym. I started reading it but didn't finish it. It was pretty pedestrian and probably intended for a younger audience. There were a couple of back up stories as well, but I didn't read them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Surfer Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 That is a very cool book, has a copy ever been posted here before? I would buy it just because is so darn cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theagenes Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 That is a very cool book, has a copy ever been posted here before? I would buy it just because is so darn cool. I posted it in the pulp thread a few years ago when it was still raw. finally got around to submitting it. It's pretty scarce, but does come up from time to time. HA has sold a couple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nearmint Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Argh! Just got sniped on a book that I wanted in the Heritage weekly auction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markseifert Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 That is a very cool book, has a copy ever been posted here before? I would buy it just because is so darn cool. It is a cool book. I don't recall seeing a pulp with color illos before. It really does have the look of a comic/pulp hybrid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 That is a very cool book, has a copy ever been posted here before? I would buy it just because is so darn cool. It is a cool book. I don't recall seeing a pulp with color illos before. It really does have the look of a comic/pulp hybrid. It's more like the adult pulp equivalent of a big little book. Not that that's a bad thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theagenes Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 That is a very cool book, has a copy ever been posted here before? I would buy it just because is so darn cool. It is a cool book. I don't recall seeing a pulp with color illos before. It really does have the look of a comic/pulp hybrid. It's more like the adult pulp equivalent of a big little book. Not that that's a bad thing. Not in theory, but unfortunately the writing is not much above the level of a kid's big little book. Ultimately, the fact that it was a hybrid experiment may be why it failed. Newspaper reprint comic books were taking off by late 36 and this featured one of the most popular strip characters in his own book, several years before FB 25 and FC 10. But on the one hand, it had too little art and too much text to be a successful comic book, and on the other, the writing was too poor and childish to appeal to the SF pulp fans (who had gotten pretty discriminating by then). There is an interior ad for the second one in the series, Flash Gordon and the Sun Men of Saturn, but it was apparently never released. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Argh! Just got sniped on a book that I wanted in the Heritage weekly auction. I sympathise - nothing worse than thinking you are home safe only for someone to steal the rug out from under you - though in my case they also tend to steal the furniture, fixtures and fittings, then club me over the head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Surfer Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Argh! Just got sniped on a book that I wanted in the Heritage weekly auction. Me too and I swear it was within the last minute. No bids for two days and then whammo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedFury Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Argh! Just got sniped on a book that I wanted in the Heritage weekly auction. Me too and I swear it was within the last minute. No bids for two days and then whammo. The first 6 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes and 50 seconds are just the advertising portion of the program. The auction happens in the last 10 seconds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheetah Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Heritage's servers can be a bot slow at the end of a Sunday auction so waiting till the last 10 seconds might make some of your bids late. I don't usually push it past 18 seconds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nearmint Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 I just screwed up. I bid with about 20 seconds to go, and I figured that if the screen that confirmed my bid was smart enough to continue counting down the seconds remaining, that it would also show any new bids, which it didn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheetah Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 What did you lose out on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nearmint Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 What did you lose out on? No big deal, but would have looked nice next to the #39 that i picked up a few weeks ago... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Nice! You're getting dangerously close to collecting 50s books! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.A.tor Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Nice! You're getting dangerously close to collecting 50s books! That is all I am collecting these days. 1950-55 dcs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Nice! You're getting dangerously close to collecting 50s books! That is all I am collecting these days. 1950-55 dcs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.A.tor Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Nice! You're getting dangerously close to collecting 50s books! That is all I am collecting these days. 1950-55 dcs! I'm still buying other cool books but workin on completing the entire dc ga superhero from 1950-55 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buttock Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Nice! You're getting dangerously close to collecting 50s books! That is all I am collecting these days. 1950-55 dcs! Sweet. I'll take that MMC 46 off your hands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mutie Fan Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 My first PLOD purchase. I am very happy with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
