Flex Mentallo Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 He did so many great Jumbo and Jungle covers as well - but we really need cheetah to do full justice to those! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ft88 Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 I enjoy his composition and willingness to push the subject matter boundaries. His line work is a little weak and his characters have little depth. That's my judgemental editorial. Still, much better than average Fiction Houses cover art, those are many a classic cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikephoen Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 Wow, without even knowing it I have been putting together a run of his work. Thanks BZ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 22, 2011 Author Share Posted March 22, 2011 Thanks for posting all of those terrific cover scans. I took a look over at Heritage and found quite a few Doolin originals that they have sold in past auctions, including a complete 12 page story from Rangers #1. Here are a few samples: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciorac Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 Wish they had sold to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 22, 2011 Author Share Posted March 22, 2011 This is the second of the two covers Joe Doolin painted for Weird Tales. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Point Five Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Wow, without even knowing it I have been putting together a run of his work. Thanks BZ! +1 I didn't even know a lot of these were by the same guy! Rangers #26 in particular is one of my favorite covers of the GA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEyeSees Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 This is the second of the two covers Joe Doolin painted for Weird Tales. Don't recall ever seeing this one, but it just shot to the top of my wantlist!!! Fantastic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 To say that Edmond Hamilton started off with a bang is understatement. His first story, 'The Monster-God of Mamurth' ran in the August issue, his 3-part SF 'Across Space' ran Sept-Oct-Nov, and he had novelettes in the February and March 1927 issues, etc!. A WT wizard, to be sure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Maybe Super Brain just needed a nice peach- here’s the ‘bighead’ brother John C brought back as a souvenir from Shanghai when he went there with my Dad (Navy) in 1932 (JCC was 16). It made enough of an impression on me that when I bought my first netsuke I chose a bighead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 23, 2011 Author Share Posted March 23, 2011 I wonder if the cantankerous Super Baby that appeared in Superman #224 grew up to be Super-Mind? Not only do they look alike, they both have the same winsome personality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 24, 2011 Author Share Posted March 24, 2011 To say that Edmond Hamilton started off with a bang is understatement. His first story, 'The Monster-God of Mamurth' ran in the August issue... Interesting that Hamilton's story rated a mention on the cover and big name authors, like Lovecraft, who were published in that issue, were ignored. Cover: C. Barker Petrie, Jr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 'The Woman of the Wood' is classic Merritt... nice cover too + re bigheads- this from the TZ adaptation of Damon Knight's 'To Serve Man' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 I think WT editor Farnsworth Wright appreciated the clarity and cosmic imagination of Hamilton's writing. (you could also argue they’re pushing the TITLE not the AUTHOR) The HPL does seem to be a 'vignette'... Aug 1926 also reprints Guy de Maupassant's masterful 1887 story of demonic possession, 'The Horla'. Here’s an image gleaned from web… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 there were a host of cool Horla images online... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 24, 2011 Author Share Posted March 24, 2011 I think WT editor Farnsworth Wright appreciated the clarity and cosmic imagination of Hamilton's writing. The story is online if anyone wants to read it: Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 24, 2011 Author Share Posted March 24, 2011 Aug 1926 also reprints Guy de Maupassant's masterful 1887 story of demonic possession, 'The Horla'. Here’s an image gleaned from web… I'll take another look at the August 1926 issue tomorrow and see if Weird Tales published an illustration for The Horla that's worth posting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 well that worked out- the link BZ gave led to a Paul 'bighead' cover for a Edmond Hamilton story- image from site... "The Man Who Evolved" by Edmond Hamilton in the April, 1931 issue of Wonder Stories Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 24, 2011 Author Share Posted March 24, 2011 The same website also has Hamilton's biography: Link It notes that Hamilton's first comic book credit was a story in Batman #11. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 wow! Bat #11 was the first GA book I bought back in early '60s. price was $3. here's Bighead 'in situ'... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
