Flex Mentallo Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Flex Mentallo Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 gotta have some Aces...1952 & 1953 Thanks Pat! Gotta have more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 14, 2011 Author Share Posted March 14, 2011 A nice thing about the old classics is that they exist in any number of charming editions: ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ - an 1886 novella by Robert Louis Stevenson - being a perfect example. Here is one from 1930 with decorated boards and endpapers and excellent illustrations… Thanks for the scans. I didn't realize that Beaman had done work of this nature. I was only familiar with his connection to Toytown and Larry the Lamb. According to this blog, Beaman also created a comic strip, "Philip and Phido," that was published in a British periodical in the 1920's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 14, 2011 Author Share Posted March 14, 2011 ... and then the article goes south from there, looking down at the entire thing. Thanks for the link. I never said it had a happy ending. There's been a tremendous amount of progress in the acceptance of science fiction since those early days. Thanks for the link. The "pseudo-fictioneer" and "shamo-scientific writer" comments didn't bother me. I enjoyed the article for what it was; probably a fairly accurate representation of what society at large thought of pulp fiction. I actually take some small amount of pleasure in the knowledge that pulps and comic books were considered lowbrow and appealed to the masses. That's a plus, not a negative, in my book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciorac Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Cover by Norman Saunders At least he was kind enough to preserve her dignity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 14, 2011 Author Share Posted March 14, 2011 Here are a few histories of science fiction fandom that I've read and would recommend to anyone interested in pursuing the subject. A Wealth of Fable All Our Yesterdays and The Immortal Storm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 14, 2011 Author Share Posted March 14, 2011 Cover by Norman Saunders At least he was kind enough to preserve her dignity Any comments about the audacity of "C.M."? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 have 1 thru 3 (thru 1955) of this fun history-anthology combo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 I didn't realize that Beaman had done work of this nature. I was only familiar with his connection to Toytown and Larry the Lamb. According to a blog I read, Beaman also created a comic strip, "Philip and Phido," that was published in a British periodijavascript:%20void(0)cal in the 1920's. When I saw the illo, I gave a start. Until recently I lived in Buxton, Derbyshire a well preserved Edwardian town high in the hills, and there is a street corner to which this illo is identical! Buxton is a spa town and in Beaman's day Buxton was a fashionable destination and people would regularly come up from London to take the waters. I've tried to track down whether he might have gone there but with no success. Of course there might have been a hundred street corners like this in any given town or city at the time - but it was spooky to see it in a horror book! In the process of looking him up I came across an article that claimed he was given the memoirs of Jack the Ripper! Brrr! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/8327573.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Probably worth of a post here. Link was shared on PulpMags. Just finished watching the video and while nothing new is revealed, it's great to be able to see and hear Gibson tell the facts in his own words. 30 Minutes interview with Walter Gibson - Walter Gibson and The Shadow TV Interview That was an excellent link! It was a treat to hear Gibson talking about the Shadow and his work in the pulps. My sister actually got interested in the Shadows first and then got me involved to help hunt down the reprint paperback with the Steranko covers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEyeSees Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Cover by Norman Saunders One of my favorite early Saunders covers, and a killer copy to boot! Nice!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondog Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Here are a few histories of science fiction fandom that I've read and would recommend to anyone interested in pursuing the subject. A Wealth of Fable All Our Yesterdays and The Immortal Storm Here's my copy of the hand-collated special edition (150 copies). It's nearly an inch thick! And another Moskowitz fanzine - New Fandom from 1938. It's a bit washed out, but the images on the cover are all cut and pasted by hand... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theagenes Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Thanks for posting. I'm not familiar with the covers that Saunders produced during the 60's. These 60's men's magazines are something else! Thanks for sharing these great Sauders covers, alanna. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theagenes Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Western pulps need love too! Here's a great Saunders cover with an REH story inside. "The Curly Wolf of Sawtooth" was originally written as one of Howard's Breckinridge Elkins stories, a popular Western humor series that was running in Action Stories. This one was apparently rejected, so he changed the name of the main protagonist to "Bearfield Elston" and sold it to rival Star Western instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEyeSees Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Here's my copy of the hand-collated special edition (150 copies). It's nearly an inch thick! And another Moskowitz fanzine - New Fandom from 1938. It's a bit washed out, but the images on the cover are all cut and pasted by hand... Now those are some rare items!! Very cool, Moondog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 (edited) Thanks for sharing these great Sauders covers, alanna. My pleasure. I'm steadily posting what I have in another thread here: http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=4657844#Post4657844 Edited March 14, 2011 by alanna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
