Pat Calhoun Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 those are also the years that S&S-/-Campbell published sister mag Unknown. they ran a bunch a fine fantasy. don't have any to show but these two classics ran in early '40s ishes. the Elron is exquisite fun- as the hero swordfights on deck of pirate ship he can hear the typewriter in the sky as the author writes the scene. The VanV also killer- hero has amnesia pg 1 and is a superman by pg 6 -go Alfie!! both these are UK eds... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 interesting footnote- AE helped Elron in early days of scientology...which premiered in Astounding!!!... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted November 21, 2010 Author Share Posted November 21, 2010 interesting footnote- AE helped Elron in early days of scientology...which premiered in Astounding!!!... Several years ago a bunch of books from William Lindsay Gresham's personal library came up for auction. I bought a couple of them but the one I really wish I had bid more aggressively on was his copy of Dianetics. The margins were filled with Gresham's annotations of the text. Both he and wife, Joy Davidman were early followers of the philosophy. She later married C.S. Lewis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted November 21, 2010 Author Share Posted November 21, 2010 I read many of those Ballantine books when I was around 10 or 11. Your pics brings back lots of memories of those days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted November 21, 2010 Author Share Posted November 21, 2010 I have 5 other great carny novels lined up (Nightmare Alley by William Gresham is one)! Nightmare Alley is a classic. I have several different hardback and paperback editions of it. What are the other carny novels you have in your collection? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 getting late but here's these- note first 2 are F Brown (is BC of Dead Ringer). Carny Kill later, lighter, more derivative- still fun! more to come? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 I know we've posted fanzines in this thread before, so I wanted to share this one with you all. I've been after this one a long while. It includes a Detective Comics index! Congratulations, Bill. I love those early fanzines. I don't think their entertainment value has diminished through the years. I'm surprised in reading them today how much great research was actually done so long ago. I remember enjoying Michael Friedrich's article about selling his first pro -script in that issue of Bat-Mania. And I don't want to forget to wish you a ... HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Index was by Raymond Miller obviously. Can he ever get enough credit from fandom? I am still reading back issues of RBCC and amazed by all of his contributions. I suspect he was a one man show that built an amazing collection and data which is still being used today. Oh, he was also very good at writing up the stories in text form and making them entertaining. bb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 Carny books part 2: tho BZ has thought I'd show the folks first pb Nightmare Alley since such super example of James Avati's work... World of Wonders cover not much but what a book! last of trilogy (only one I read) a little literary but very approachable and entertaining- so phantasmagorical it's hard to remember what happened other than that it was sensational!!!! (read long time ago...) I also thought it proper to show my first ed of Something Wicked in case Ray is a 'lurker' on the boards! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GACollectibles Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 Had to share this pulp/paperback related item. Yesterday I somehow got tricked into going to a department store by my wife, while rifling through the t-shirt rack I found this- I wasn't even aware the line existed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted November 23, 2010 Author Share Posted November 23, 2010 Thanks for the photos. I have read and enjoyed both of the Fredric Brown books. The other two, I'll have to track down...maybe I can get them through interlibrary loan. Have you read them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted November 23, 2010 Author Share Posted November 23, 2010 I also thought it proper to show my first ed of Something Wicked in case Ray is a 'lurker' on the boards! Well, I know he is a comic fan. From NPR website: "Ray Bradbury, an avid fan of graphic novels and comics." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 oh yeah- Lao is unique and the Alter (says copyright 1966 Fawcett inside) is one of many early-mid '60s books that almost pastiches the fifties but still packs a good wallop taken straight... The R Davies would not disappoint. Plus wanted to post this while Elron, and Fantastic Adventures are still hot topics and Robert Gibson Jones artist of both the Sturgeon ish and this. will post my Shasta 'Slaves of Sleep' DJ later- my copy has a great story goes with it... plus request for big fat scan of Dreaming Jewels cover- backgrounds full of monsters each with charming monsternalities are up there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 Some of you have probably seen these pics ... but for those who haven't ... guess who this man is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted November 23, 2010 Author Share Posted November 23, 2010 Some of you have probably seen these pics ... but for those who haven't ... guess who this man is? Stan Lee? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ft88 Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 No doubt. Love the Terry Toons on the desk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 ok- am third gen SF fan- my dad read books like The Messiah of the Cylinder back when they came out in the 19-teens (watch BZ have first- i have the Hyperion reprint with Coll illos), my half-bro boasted of buying every ish of Astounding off the stands from #1 (1930) up. too bad he didn't save um till I wised him up in early '60s and started going over to San Diego and buying back issues for a nickel filling '47-'59. the Slaves of Sleep was a Xmas gift from dad to bro in 1956. the inscription reads (remember the title) 'From one of the slaves to the Champ! Much Love - Yuletide 1956'. have read 'Slaves' fun (Typewriter In the Sky is better) but not 'Masters'. Am concerned that it wasn't reprinted. Scrooge please note- while reading raw (original 'pulp' pub) is great the hardback and PB reprint process has also served as a filter to hopefully separate wheat from chaff- remember Sturgeon's Law. So reading some authors in 'reprint' then going out to get originals of one's you like may be another avenue... as to when the head of main character got torn off DJ I could swear I remember it whole from childhood... at any rate thanks to Bob Madle for color copy behind it... + Elron wrote a SF novel in 1939 (Astounding) Final Blackout- that had the USA as techno bad guy while the rest of the world lived in a depressed and 'backward' future. seems like a gutsy thought for during the run-up to WW2... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 Yup. Not too tough to guess, eh. Here are a couple more pics of the Man. One more Army days and one circa 1954 in color - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 Oopps, almost forgot these two in the '40's at the Timely offices - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 Scrooge please note- while reading raw (original 'pulp' pub) is great the hardback and PB reprint process has also served as a filter to hopefully separate wheat from chaff- remember Sturgeon's Law. So reading some authors in 'reprint' then going out to get originals of one's you like may be another avenue... No doubt ... but then it would force me to determine who my faves are, wouldn't it? Of course, names are now famous so my opinion would sadly be biased but we do determine the best from sifting through the rest of the pack. Might still be fun to go raw just for that experience. Plus, everything will be new to me. Thanks for the reminiscence, Sir. Made you sound older than you are though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 my dad was pretty old when I was born. and with you since you're interested as much in the pulps themselves as the stories it's a win-win. the one good thing about 'pure' story is it takes it for the most part out of the economic arena as much of the best writing is available in inexpensive formats. But I'm all for having pretty pictures to go along (this is a comics forum), plus the history you get with old mags and books- not to mention the aroma... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
