AtlasFan Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 WOW. What a story. Was there ever such a writer as Ray Bradbury? Was there ever such an artist as Wally Wood? No people in the story, but the narrative and illustrations are riveting. Will we ever see the likes of these giants again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwog Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Here is one of Ray Bradbury's stories that was adapted by Al Feldstein for EC comics back in the 1950's. Weird Fantasy #17 Nice, thanks for posting this. Thank you Mr. Bradbury. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondog Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 A few Bradbury items from my collection: Dark Carnival. Arkham House 1947. Ray's first book - a collection of short stories. Weird Science 18. Mars is Heaven. Autographed by Ray, Gaines, Feldstein and Woody. Wastebasket Vol. 1 No. 3 - 1950. Obscure fanzine with an early bio of Ray. Sweetness and Light Vol. 2 No. 1. Spring 1940. Rare fanzine with a short story by a 19-year-old Ray Bradbury. Please note the covers are by GA artist Jim Mooney. Polaris Vol 1 No. 3. June 1940. Another rare fanzine with Ray's very early work, and an article by Forrey Ackerman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacentaur Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Gary, those fanzines are fantastic - I can only imagine how rare they are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat-Man_America Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 A few Bradbury items from my collection: Dark Carnival. Arkham House 1947. Ray's first book - a collection of short stories. Weird Science 18. Mars is Heaven. Autographed by Ray, Gaines, Feldstein and Woody. Wastebasket Vol. 1 No. 3 - 1950. Obscure fanzine with an early bio of Ray. Sweetness and Light Vol. 2 No. 1. Spring 1940. Rare fanzine with a short story by a 19-year-old Ray Bradbury. Please note the covers are by GA artist Jim Mooney. Polaris Vol 1 No. 3. June 1940. Another rare fanzine with Ray's very early work, and an article by Forrey Ackerman. ...and an article by my friend who passed away a few years ago, author and first fandom great Wilson Bob Tucker! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theagenes Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Awesome Gary! Thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted June 8, 2012 Author Share Posted June 8, 2012 A few Bradbury items from my collection: Dark Carnival. Arkham House 1947. Ray's first book - a collection of short stories. Weird Science 18. Mars is Heaven. Autographed by Ray, Gaines, Feldstein and Woody. Wastebasket Vol. 1 No. 3 - 1950. Obscure fanzine with an early bio of Ray. Sweetness and Light Vol. 2 No. 1. Spring 1940. Rare fanzine with a short story by a 19-year-old Ray Bradbury. Please note the covers are by GA artist Jim Mooney. Polaris Vol 1 No. 3. June 1940. Another rare fanzine with Ray's very early work, and an article by Forrey Ackerman. Wonderful items, Gary. I've never owned a copy of Dark Carnival. The fanzines and the EC comic are incredible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted June 8, 2012 Author Share Posted June 8, 2012 The last article from Ray Bradbury http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/06/04/120604fa_fact_bradbury When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents’ boarding house, in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing Amazing Stories, with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination. Soon after, the creative beast in me grew when Buck Rogers appeared, in 1928, and I think I went a trifle mad that autumn. It’s the only way to describe the intensity with which I devoured the stories. You rarely have such fevers later in life that fill your entire day with emotion. Thanks for the link. (thumbs u Here is another of Bradbury's reminiscences from the article: My next madness happened in 1931, when Harold Foster’s first series of Sunday color panels based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’s “Tarzan” appeared, and I simultaneously discovered, next door at my uncle Bion’s house, the “John Carter of Mars” books. I know that “The Martian Chronicles” would never have happened if Burroughs hadn’t had an impact on my life at that time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted June 8, 2012 Author Share Posted June 8, 2012 Here is another Ray Bradbury and Wally Wood story. It originally was printed in Weird Science #18. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Et-Es-Go Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Just discovered this thread a week or so ago. Very impressive stuff you have BangZoom. Very much enjoy your sharing it with folks. An esoteric title folks might get a kick out of is Blazing Comics. The heroe in that title is the Green Turtle. The covers are fairly plain, but the splash page in issue #1 is a golden age goodie. Thanks again for such an entertaining thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 Just discovered this thread a week or so ago. Very impressive stuff you have BangZoom. Very much enjoy your sharing it with folks. An esoteric title folks might get a kick out of is Blazing Comics. The heroe in that title is the Green Turtle. The covers are fairly plain, but the splash page in issue #1 is a golden age goodie. Thanks again for such an entertaining thread. I like the Green Turtle covers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted June 10, 2012 Author Share Posted June 10, 2012 Just discovered this thread a week or so ago. Very impressive stuff you have BangZoom. Very much enjoy your sharing it with folks. An esoteric title folks might get a kick out of is Blazing Comics. The heroe in that title is the Green Turtle. The covers are fairly plain, but the splash page in issue #1 is a golden age goodie. Thanks again for such an entertaining thread. Thanks, Et-Es-Go. I don't have any Blazing Comics in my collection but as the owner of a couple of pet turtles, I am inclined to think that any character with the name Green Turtle has got to be good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted June 10, 2012 Author Share Posted June 10, 2012 I like the Green Turtle covers. Very nice. Am I remembering correctly that you posted a couple of pages from a Green Turtle story a couple of years ago? I recall a cool splash that is likely the one Et-Es-Go said was in issue #1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
