Pat Calhoun Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 (edited) the wonderful 'Canticle' DJ is by George Sottung (2nd 1960) the 'Earth Abides' is the 1969 20th anniversary second print Edited March 19, 2011 by pcalhoun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 19, 2011 Author Share Posted March 19, 2011 here's a couple 20C disasters- 1974 reprint of story that ran in 1911 Munsey- Cavalier It was also reprinted in the November, 1926 Amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annihilus Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 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) I have not read City, but it looks interesting - I'll have to pick it up at the local half priced bookstore this weekend. That's a great cover! Earth Abides was great, though I haven't read it for years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 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 A steampunk Adam Strange. What's not to like! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 this cover for one of the City stories- by Alejandro Canedo- really captures the flavor... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 this cover for one of the City stories- by Alejandro Canedo- really captures the flavor... great stuff! I quite forgot that City is a sequence of interlinked stories rather than a standard novel. In the end the ants take over the earth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duffman_Comics Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 this cover for one of the City stories- by Alejandro Canedo- really captures the flavor... great stuff! I quite forgot that City is a sequence of interlinked stories rather than a standard novel. In the end the ants take over the earth. Dammit!! Spoiler alert, please!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo 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 It was also reprinted in the November, 1926 Amazing. These are very interesting! Here is Ogden Whitney: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 don't have this- my copy is the Perma/Powers/PB- but here's 1952 Gnome first with Freas cover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEyeSees Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 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 A steampunk Adam Strange. What's not to like! Brilliant artwork on this cover! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 From Wikipedia for those too young to remember him: Syd Shores Sydney Shores (September 4, 1913 - June 3, 1973) was an American comic book artist known for his work on Captain America both during the 1940s, in what fans and historians call the Golden Age of comic books, and during the 1960s Silver Age of comic books. You have sharp eyes BZ! Shores is responsible for one of my favourite Timely covers, sadly no longer in my collection: He also did these covers for Lorna the Jungle Girl, - which thankfully I can lay claim to: What I've only just noticed is that the author of The Last G.I. is none other than Lou Cameron, the mainstay of Ace horror comics... ...as well as the illustrator of Classics Illustrated's War of the Wotlds adaptation: and The Time Machine: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 (edited) this cover for one of the City stories- by Alejandro Canedo- really captures the flavor... great stuff! I quite forgot that City is a sequence of interlinked stories rather than a standard novel. In the end the ants take over the earth. Dammit!! Spoiler alert, please!! Apologies, I will be more careful in future. In my old edition the ants were even mentioned on the back cover! It's not a shock or twist ending, and it wont spoil your reading I hope, but is in fact indicative of a grand theme, characteristic of Simak's work, that nature doesnt need humanity, humanity needs nature. He was probably the first ecological sci fi writer, along with J.G Ballard. Speaking of Ballard, any early editions Pat? Greatly enjoying the wonderful dust jackets you've been posting - they are timeless! Edited March 19, 2011 by alanna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBedrock Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 Shores is responsible for one of my favourite Timely covers, sadly no longer in my collection: Kindred spirits... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 yes, 'Second Deluge' made me think of Ballard's 'The Drowned World'. I have beat 1966 book club of this (ps- Shores Hot- thx Richard!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 Shores is responsible for one of my favourite Timely covers, sadly no longer in my collection: Kindred spirits... Killer copy Richard! You know where to park it when you get a really hi grade copy! (thumbs u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 19, 2011 Author Share Posted March 19, 2011 I believe that Young Allies #2 was the first cover that Shores pencilled and inked. Winter 1941 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 I believe that Young Allies #2 was the first cover that Shores pencilled and inked. Competition time and - I win! (Oh - it doesnt work that way?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 19, 2011 Author Share Posted March 19, 2011 Competition time and - I win! (Oh - it doesnt work that way?) I thought of that when I was posting the cover. Here's the real deal. Identify the comic from which this image is taken. Hint: It's a Syd Shores cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 19, 2011 Author Share Posted March 19, 2011 Also, no one has identified mystery comic #22 yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 Not b/c I haven't tried. I don't know which # 1 issue that is!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
