Moondog Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 Notice any similarity ... Nice catch, Michael! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacentaur Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 The best I can do is show off my Oriental Stories and Magic Carpet Magazines. October 1930, December 1930, February 1931 Spring 1931, Summer 1931, Fall 1931 Winter 1932, Spring 1932, Summer 1932 Well BZ, the best you can do is one of the best set of pics I've seen. Unbelievable condition! FYI, the last issue displayed (Summer '32) was the one the dealer had for sale, and I'm still thinking about it (it did have a small glue repair inside the spine, but still mid-range w/nice pages) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacentaur Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 January 1933, April 1933, July 1933 The middle one (Apr '33) was the issue I saw for sale for sale yesterday (VG). So a nice 14 issue run that still remains a challenge due to their scarcity? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annihilus Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 January 1933, April 1933, July 1933 The middle one (Apr '33) was the issue I saw for sale for sale yesterday (VG). So a nice 14 issue run that still remains a challenge due to their scarcity? How are the quality of the stories in these two titles (Magic Carpet and Oriental Stories)? Are they mostly action type tales or do they get into mysticism and other stuff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 I really can't attest to the quality of the stories therein but I can attest that from the covers, the list of contributors does have some very nice ones from Bedford-Jones and Kline to Hamilton and Price going through Cave and Quinn. You're looking at a lot of industry stalwarts, guys that editors kept busy by buying their stuff so you will at least get competency from these. Try one story here - http://pulpgen.com/pulp/downloads/getpdf.php?id=390 It's the Face Pidgin from the January 1933 issue by James W. Bennett who I'll admit I am not familiar with unfortunately and you'll notice that his entry does not make the issue's cover either ... which should tell us enough about what to expect out of this short 6-pager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 Here are a few entries from Oriental Stories - The Green Jade God - Dec. 1930 The King of the Jerawahs - Dec. 1930 The Merchant of Basra The Ball of Fire - Summer 1931 The Song of the Cakes - Autumn 1931 The Black Adder - Summer 1932 On these, I'd go with The King of Jerawahs and The Ball of Fire as they feature a recurring character. :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annihilus Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 I really can't attest to the quality of the stories therein but I can attest that from the covers, the list of contributors does have some very nice ones from Bedford-Jones and Kline to Hamilton and Price going through Cave and Quinn. You're looking at a lot of industry stalwarts, guys that editors kept busy by buying their stuff so you will at least get competency from these. Try one story here - http://pulpgen.com/pulp/downloads/getpdf.php?id=390 It's the Face Pidgin from the January 1933 issue by James W. Bennett who I'll admit I am not familiar with unfortunately and you'll notice that his entry does not make the issue's cover either ... which should tell us enough about what to expect out of this short 6-pager. Thanks, I'll definitely check that out, along with the others you just listed (after getting some sleep). Those oriental pulps have always looked interesting to me, but I've never caved on getting any of them. I do love the covers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 No problem. I'll try to read the two stories I pointed out from Oriental Stories as well. I am curious too now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 (edited) January 1933, April 1933, July 1933 October 1933, January 1934. Oh dear. these are simply stunning! I get up 5 hours in advance of you guys in the states, and while I often miss the best of the conversation, it does mean that I do, on some mornings, as today, find my breath simply taken away. Those Magic carpets are staggering. BZ, can you give attributions as to cover artists please? Other than Brundage that is. My only constructive observation is that if based on our respective scans, if one compares the output of Saunders and Gross before and after the war, I'd suggest that they did not put their hearts and souls into their post war work for magazines (and arguably paperbacks) as they had done for the pulps. Just going through the motions. The pulps gave their imaginations free reign. The post war magazines were comparatively formulaic. Edited March 29, 2011 by alanna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theagenes Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 October 1933, January 1934. Wow, these are stunning. I've never seen the one on the right, its amazing. It contains the the REH story "The Shadow of the Vulture" which is the first appearance of Red Sonya. I was the underbidder on a gorgeous copy a couple of months ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 29, 2011 Author Share Posted March 29, 2011 Jungle Stories (Fall 1939) Notice any similarity ... I own that comic and I never noticed that. Great memory, Scrooge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 29, 2011 Author Share Posted March 29, 2011 January 1933, April 1933, July 1933 The middle one (Apr '33) was the issue I saw for sale for sale yesterday (VG). So a nice 14 issue run that still remains a challenge due to their scarcity? I think the challenge might be to find them all in at least VG condition but since I already have a set, I don't pay too much attention to their current availability. Theagenes could probably tell you if they are truly scarce or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 29, 2011 Author Share Posted March 29, 2011 January 1933, April 1933, July 1933 October 1933, January 1934. Those Magic carpets are staggering. BZ, can you give attributions as to cover artists please? Other than Brundage that is. Brundage is the artist for all the covers with the exception of the July 1933 issue which was painted by J. Allen St. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 29, 2011 Author Share Posted March 29, 2011 Cover: J. Allen St. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 29, 2011 Author Share Posted March 29, 2011 Margaret Brundage's first published cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacentaur Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 Margaret Brundage's first published cover. And what a cover it is! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 (edited) Cover: J. Allen St. John This is wonderful! The level of technical accomplishment is extremely high, isnt it? It puts me in mind of the orientalist painters of the nineteenth century, of whom my favourite is John Frederick Lewis, who spent 10 years living and working in Cairo. Like many Victorian genre painters, he was admired during his lifetime but largely forgotten after his death until "rediscovered" in the 1960's. His work now sells for millions of dollars. The coffee bearer: Liliam auratum: Had he lived 70 years later, he would arguably have earned a living painting pulp covers like St John. Conversely had St John lived earlier, he might have been justly celebrated - and Norm Saunders would have been the american counterpart of Delacroix! Life in the harem: An intercepted correspondence: Edited March 29, 2011 by alanna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theagenes Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 So a nice 14 issue run that still remains a challenge due to their scarcity? I think the challenge might be to find them all in at least VG condition but since I already have a set, I don't pay too much attention to their current availability. Theagenes could probably tell you if they are truly scarce or not. They're definately scarcer than their WT counterparts, but they are out there. Better than VG is tough to come by though. I'm fast learning that all of the best pulps are probably locked up in old school collections. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theagenes Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 Since we're showing off paintings of an oriental nature, let me take one more opportunity to plug my favorite modern illustrator again - Gary Gianni. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 wow- any backstory on that awfully nice Gianni ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
