Pat Calhoun Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 well I have a couple of Winstons- would like more but kinda steep- all my holdings are representative rather than comprehensive: as HPL repeated endlessly- 'my real enemies are space, time, and $ !!!' (not to mention adage by Ted S- '90% of everything is...'). Authors I'm strong on include: Clark Ashton Smith, Cornell Woolrich, ERB (was my bro John C's fave), Clifford D Simak, the aforementioned Alice Mary Norton, Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner, and the 'bobsey twins' of '50s PB's Day Keene and Harry Whittington... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 (edited) I feel compelled to add REH- here is plate by Marcus Boas from Don Grant's 'Rogues in the House'... Edited February 15, 2011 by pcalhoun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted February 16, 2011 Author Share Posted February 16, 2011 As was reported earlier... Before settling into her career at The Daily Planet, Lois Lane tried her hand at writing for the pulps. Weird Tales (August 1929) The Purple Sedan by Lois Lane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted February 17, 2011 Share Posted February 17, 2011 Weird timing, but RIP and there it is. Note ref “Torchy” (plot thickens!) re: Lola Lane. I think WT story more likely or both. Joanne Siegel, the Model for Lois Lane, Dies at 93 By BRUCE WEBER, The New York Times Joanne Siegel, who as a Cleveland teenager during the Depression hired herself out as a model to an aspiring comic book artist, Joe Shuster, and thus became the first physical incarnation of Lois Lane, Superman's love interest, died on Saturday in Santa Monica, Calif. She was 93. Ms. Siegel was married to Shuster's partner and Superman co-creator, the writer Jerry Siegel. Their daughter, Laura Siegel Larson, confirmed her death. A high school girl with an ambitious nature and stars in her eyes, young Joanne, like teenagers everywhere, was seeking a way to earn some money when she posed for the first time as Lois Lane. It was probably 1935, her daughter said, and "somebody had told her modeling was easy," so she placed a brief ad in the classified section of The Plain Dealer, declaring herself available for modeling work and confessing that she had no experience. Most of the responses to the ad were requests for dates, but one at least seemed serious, and she presented herself to Shuster and Siegel, who were then developing Superman. (The first Superman comic was published in 1938.) By that point the character was well along in Siegel's mind; he knew he wanted her to be a journalist, and his model was a film character, a clever reporter named Torchy Blane who had been featured in a series of B movies, played by Glenda Farrell. (In the 1938 film "Torchy Blane in Panama," the title character was played by Lola Lane, a singer and actress who some sources — including Ms. Larson — say influenced the name of Superman's leading lady.) In any case, during the modeling session Joanne struck various poses — draping herself over the arms of a chair, for example, to show how she might look being carried by Superman in flight — and she and the two men, who were barely in their 20s, became friends. Shuster's drawings reproduced her hairstyle and her facial features, though in the most famous of the original drawings, Lois is considerably more voluptuous than her model was. "Joe might have taken a few liberties," Ms. Larson said with a laugh. She added that her mother's irrepressibility, ambition and spunk informed her father's development of the character: "My dad always said he wrote Lois with my mom's personality in mind." The daughter of Hungarian immigrants, she was born Jolan Kovacs in Cleveland on Dec. 1, 1917; classmates and teachers who couldn't or wouldn't pronounce her name properly — YO-lan — called her Joan or Joanne, and the second name is the one that eventually stuck. After her Lois Lane debut, she was an artist's model in Boston and elsewhere. (For a time she used the name Joanne Carter.) During World War II she worked for a California ship builder, supporting the war effort. Returning to New York, she re-established a connection with Siegel at a fund-raising ball for cartoonists at which, according to family lore, the costumes were judged by Marlon Brando, then in the middle of his Broadway run in "A Streetcar Named Desire." Both had been married; she was divorced and he was soon to be. They married in 1948 and lived in Connecticut and on Long Island before moving to California in the 1960s. In addition to her daughter, who lives in the Los Angeles area, she is survived by a sister, Sophie Halko of Cleveland, and two grandsons. Ms. Siegel worked at a number of jobs during her marriage — as one of California's early car saleswomen, she sold new and used Chevys from a lot in Santa Monica — but much of her life was taken up trying to reclaim the original Superman copyright that Shuster and her husband sold to Detective Comics in 1937 for $130. Of course, since then Superman as a character had become the central figure in comic books, television shows and blockbuster movies, not to mention the progenitor of legions of other superheroes. Ms. Siegel was the first in a long line of Lois Lanes, who have included Phyllis Coates, Noel Neill, Teri Hatcher, and Erica Durance on television and Margot Kidder in the movies. The story of the plight of Shuster and Siegel, whose lives were marked by privation, is one of the cautionary tales in the annals of intellectual property. In a series of legal and public relations battles that began in 1947, the families eventually won some compensation from DC Comics (the successor to Detective Comics), and in 2008 a federal judge restored Siegel's co-authorship share of the original Superman copyrights, though how much money the Siegel family is entitled to is still being adjudicated. "All her life she carried the torch for Jerry and Joe — and other artists," said Marc Toberoff, the lawyer for both the Siegel and Shuster families. "There was a lot of Lois Lane in Joanne Siegel." RIP 2/14/11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted February 17, 2011 Share Posted February 17, 2011 Well here’s a cute if scary anniversary. As I’ve said- a lot of my hardcovers were inherited from my half-brother, John C. He signed and dated them, and this one is the oldest. It had to be WT! (JCC was 23 at the time that was written.) Thanks, JCC! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted February 18, 2011 Author Share Posted February 18, 2011 Well here’s a cute if scary anniversary. As I’ve said- a lot of my hardcovers were inherited from my half-brother, John C. He signed and dated them, and this one is the oldest. It had to be WT! (JCC was 23 at the time that was written.) Thanks, JCC! I think it's neat that you own something so collectible that was actually purchased by a family member back in the 1930's. (Happy anniversary.) Do you happen to know if John purchased the book through a retail shop or did he buy it directly from Weird Tales. I know they advertised the book on the back cover for many years. Initially it was priced at $1.25 and years later they were offering it at 50¢. For a period of time they even offered the book as a free bonus when you subscribed to the magazine. Are you guys any relation to South Carolina's, John Caldwell Calhoun? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted February 18, 2011 Author Share Posted February 18, 2011 Weird Tales (February 1928) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted February 18, 2011 Author Share Posted February 18, 2011 Weird Tales (June 1935) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BangZoom Posted February 18, 2011 Author Share Posted February 18, 2011 What is the story behind the Adventures into Weird Words logo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comicopolis Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 Great books BangZoom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 first let me say I have the Jul 1938 WT as I'm a big fan of Kuttner's Elak of Atlantis. Don't know how JC got 'Moon Terror' he's also famous for having bought (but not kept!) every ish of Astounding from Jan 1930 up through 1960s. yes we're direct to original JCC- went back east in '63 my sis christened the atomic sub- ( I remember riding through NYC in taxi thinking ''let me out- Bookstores!!") even more fun was early-'90s decommissioning (30 yr life span for that $ -what are taxpayers for?) went to San Diego got on a tug pulled out of the bay and the JCC came up out of the water and we boarded! my 2 sons were young teens or justabout- when they showed us the missile launch command the younger climbed into the chair- I smiled at the Cap and he gave his OK... Weird Words was the column I ran for 14 years in Comic Book Marketplace starting in 1991. my main accomplishment was to 'break the lock' EC had on precode horror- mostly by praising Atlas... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted February 18, 2011 Author Share Posted February 18, 2011 Sorry about not recognizing your name. I'm ignorant about large swaths of fan history...especially the 1990's when my passion for comics stagnated and my attention wandered elsewhere. I've only become aware of Comic Book Marketplace since I joined these forums and have yet to see a copy. I'll have to start checking eBay for back issues. Thanks for the family stories. I'm very impressed with the military's thoughtfulness in inviting your family to share in the ceremonies honoring your ancestor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Point Five Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 Weird Tales (June 1935) Always like this cover. (thumbs u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 CBM and the hobby were good partners in the '90s, and one of the things I enjoy about the forum is seeing collectors who have implemented some of the advice we offered... It was probably a good time for you to take a break, but we are glad that you are back and here and sharing with us. below is 1987 Gryphon edition reprinting the 2 yarns from April and Aug 1939 Strange Stories. The second, 'The Citadel of Darkness', is superb... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theagenes Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 Sorry about not recognizing your name. I'm ignorant about large swaths of fan history...especially the 1990's when my passion for comics stagnated and my attention wandered elsewhere. I've only become aware of Comic Book Marketplace since I joined these forums and have yet to see a copy. I'll have to start checking eBay for back issues. Thanks for the family stories. I'm very impressed with the military's thoughtfulness in inviting your family to share in the ceremonies honoring your ancestor. I was out of the hobby during the 90's too and also missed out on CBM during it's intial run. I started picking up back issues a few years ago and I have to say it's got to be one of the best comics related periodicals ever printed. I enjoyed reading your column Pat and I'm very pleased that you've started posting here and sharing your great collection with us! (thumbs u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theagenes Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 Speaking of Weird Tales, I just picked up a couple of the earlier, tough-to-find issues. This is the July 1925 issue and contains "Spear and Fang," a cave-man story which happens to be the first published work by a young 19-year old Robert E. Howard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theagenes Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 Believe or not, that copy was as nice as one of BZ's at one time - unfortunately the giant flea in one of the nearby issues escaped and was very hungry!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 Thanks, Jeff (I believe it is). saw you posted some nice Buck Rogers stuff... the only SF piece JCC had besides the hardbacks is the one shown below... Pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theagenes Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 Thanks, Jeff (I believe it is). saw you posted some nice Buck Rogers stuff... the only SF piece JCC had besides the hardbacks is the one shown below... Pat Wow, very cool! Is that an original Calkins sketch?\ Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
