Flex Mentallo Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Real War again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Going "english" again. Rick Random was a sci fi character who appeared in about a dozen issues of Super Detective Library, a british digest-sized comic book of the 1950's. Art is by Bill Lacey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 Alanna's 'Shot in the Dark' Bantam PB on previous page is (doesn't say on cov) an anthology edited by Judith Merril and reminded me that one of my faves is too. Lion #205 April 1954- has some good stories as well as a super great one: 'Crucifixus Etiam' by Walter M Miller Jr - the brilliant author of 'A Canticle for Leibowitz'. This hard hitting yarn from Astounding is about the colonization of Mars and the heroes who make the planet humanly habitable... The protagonist is shown (in a lighter vein) leading the parade on the cover- all characters from the stories inside... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 18, 2011 Author Share Posted March 18, 2011 Going "english" again. Rick Random was a sci fi character who appeared in about a dozen issues of Super Detective Library, a british digest-sized comic book of the 1950's. You and pcalhoun frequently have such unique items, of which I have so little knowledge, that I am compelled to do some further reading to satisfy my curiosity about the subject. In the case of Rick Random, I found lots of info at the following blog: Link Interestingly, this is the same blog I recommended the other day when Pat posted some illustrations by Hulme Beaman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 18, 2011 Author Share Posted March 18, 2011 Alanna's 'Shot in the Dark' Bantam PB on previous page is (doesn't say on cov) an anthology edited by Judith Merril and reminded me that one of my faves is too. Lion #205 April 1954- has some good stories as well as a super great one: 'Crucifixus Etiam' by Walter M Miller Jr - the brilliant author of 'A Canticle for Leibowitz'. This hard hitting yarn from Astounding is about the colonization of Mars and the heroes who make the planet humanly habitable... The protagonist is shown (in a lighter vein) leading the parade on the cover- all characters from the stories inside... I'd never heard of Miller. Thanks for the info. Further reading at Wikipedia: Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 18, 2011 Author Share Posted March 18, 2011 This is one of my favorite covers of the 1930's. Terence X. O'Leary's War Birds (April 1935). Cover by Rudolph Belarski Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GACollectibles Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 Is that bottom row 1st fully shown cover all the way to the right the Oct 1940 issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 Yes, October 1940 - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GACollectibles Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 Thanks, I might be able to get a copy of that next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 This is one of my favorite covers of the 1930's. Terence X. O'Leary's War Birds (April 1934). Cover by Rudolph Belarski Great cover! Quuite surprised it is that early! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 18, 2011 Author Share Posted March 18, 2011 Terence X. O'Leary's War Birds (April 1934). Great cover! Quuite surprised it is that early! Oops, I made a typo...it's from 1935, not 1934. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 (edited) Terence X. O'Leary's War Birds (April 1934). Great cover! Quuite surprised it is that early! Oops, I made a typo...it's from 1935, not 1934. Even so - the style could easily be from several decades later! On Walter M Miller... Pat, are we going to talk great science fiction? ACFL was one of the seminal reading experiences of my youth. It's arguably the greatest post-apocalyptic novel, along with Earth Abides and City but Pat will know whether or not it was the first. (These are not my copies) Edited March 18, 2011 by alanna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 those 3 all great- will post my St L & Stewart later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 Ahoy- pulp art loving mate! Belarski was a piece of eight! His work leaves us all agog In any genre. Pass the Grog! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theagenes Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 Terence X. O'Leary's War Birds (April 1934). Great cover! Quuite surprised it is that early! Oops, I made a typo...it's from 1935, not 1934. Even so - the style could easily be from several decades later! On Walter M Miller... Pat, are we going to talk great science fiction? ACFL was one of the seminal reading experiences of my youth. It's arguably the greatest post-apocalyptic novel, along with Earth Abides and City but Pat will know whether or not it was the first. (These are not my copies) Cool books! I would say the earliest post-apocalyptic novel that I know of would be Mary Shelly's The Last Man (1826). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GACollectibles Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 More Belarski Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 (edited) Occasionally the men's sweat mags of the 50's and 60's threw up a stand out illustration.This is Mort Kunstler, taken from a 1956 issue of Male magazine. Would have made a great cover! Edited March 18, 2011 by alanna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 18, 2011 Author Share Posted March 18, 2011 One of my teachers played us an audio tape of Earth Abides when I was in junior high school. I think it may have been the 1950 adaptation from the radio show Escape: Old Time Radio Library Part 1 Part 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 Cool books! I would say the earliest post-apocalyptic novel that I know of would be Mary Shelly's The Last Man (1826). Thanks Theagenes -- I havent read it but The Last Man is about a plague, like Earth Abides . The first apocalyptic story would arguably be the Epic of Gilgamesh, which first mentions the Flood -probably a reference to the flooding of the vast asian littoral that is now the Black Sea! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 here's a couple 20C disasters- 1974 reprint of story that ran in 1911 Munsey- Cavalier & 1946 reprint of 1930 classic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
