Pat Calhoun Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 1959 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 It's completely faded and is a fairly common defect on WTs. Faded spines on WTs are a personal pet peeve of mine though I do have a couple of yellow ones. One of the main things I look for now is to see if it has a nice red spine. It's like finding a Fiction House with true reds instead of oranges. Thnx Jeff, I was unaware a spine could fade like that. More the strange because of the yellow cover, the spine color matches it perfectly. It really sticks out when constrasted with the red spines when I stack the books! I hear you on the Fiction House - my only copy of Planet Stories has a very dull orange spine as well. But for now, it's a defect I can live with as the front covers are strong and present very well. Sounds like the same problem as with the comics...faded reds... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theagenes Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 It's completely faded and is a fairly common defect on WTs. Faded spines on WTs are a personal pet peeve of mine though I do have a couple of yellow ones. One of the main things I look for now is to see if it has a nice red spine. It's like finding a Fiction House with true reds instead of oranges. Thnx Jeff, I was unaware a spine could fade like that. More the strange because of the yellow cover, the spine color matches it perfectly. It really sticks out when constrasted with the red spines when I stack the books! I hear you on the Fiction House - my only copy of Planet Stories has a very dull orange spine as well. But for now, it's a defect I can live with as the front covers are strong and present very well. Sounds like the same problem as with the comics...faded reds... Yep, it's exactly the same. Speaking of pulps, I'm about to be inundated with pulp scholarship today. I'm at the PCA/ACA conference in San Antonio right now to give a paper on REH. There's going to be a whole day of sessions on pulps. Should be fun. There are also sessions on comic books and graphic novels pretty much every day so hopefully I'll get to catch some of those too. THe book vender room looks promising too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 (edited) It's completely faded and is a fairly common defect on WTs. Faded spines on WTs are a personal pet peeve of mine though I do have a couple of yellow ones. One of the main things I look for now is to see if it has a nice red spine. It's like finding a Fiction House with true reds instead of oranges. Thnx Jeff, I was unaware a spine could fade like that. More the strange because of the yellow cover, the spine color matches it perfectly. It really sticks out when constrasted with the red spines when I stack the books! I hear you on the Fiction House - my only copy of Planet Stories has a very dull orange spine as well. But for now, it's a defect I can live with as the front covers are strong and present very well. Sounds like the same problem as with the comics...faded reds... Yep, it's exactly the same. Speaking of pulps, I'm about to be inundated with pulp scholarship today. I'm at the PCA/ACA conference in San Antonio right now to give a paper on REH. There's going to be a whole day of sessions on pulps. Should be fun. There are also sessions on comic books and graphic novels pretty much every day so hopefully I'll get to catch some of those too. THe book vender room looks promising too. We want a full report! (thumbs u I never get to go anywhere interesting Edited April 21, 2011 by alanna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted April 21, 2011 Author Share Posted April 21, 2011 The Daughter of Fu Manchu Avon #189 (1949) Cover by Ann Cantor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 I remember that one. on my first trip to Santa Rosa (where I live) -around 1979- got off the old grayhound and walked across street into goodwill store and picked up a solid lower grade copy for a dime! the bus station is gone as is the store- and the book! but memories remain- thanks! this IW reprint of the Avon comic isn't as good as should be- is verbose with cramped small panels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 I remember that one. on my first trip to Santa Rosa (where I live) -around 1979- got off the old grayhound and walked across street into goodwill store and picked up a solid lower grade copy for a dime! the bus station is gone as is the store- and the book! but memories remain- thanks! this IW reprint of the Avon comic isn't as good as should be- is verbose with cramped small panels. I think there is one nice page with FM's daughter in a veil... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted April 21, 2011 Author Share Posted April 21, 2011 Nice. I recognize Wally Wood's art and I see, according to GCD, that Joe Orlando was the inker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BangZoom Posted April 21, 2011 Author Share Posted April 21, 2011 Cover by John Howitt From the Table of Contents: Kasma, baleful divinity from the wastes of Asia, had laid his blighting curse upon America. All who opposed him came to ghastly ends: amnesia, madness and screaming, agonizing death -- for the cult of Kasma enforced its dread dictate with a new, deadly weapon, unseen, unheard, which razed its mightiest buildings, which lay wide regions barren -- without man or beast! One man, Jimmy Christopher -- known in the Secret Service as Operator 5 -- understood the grim purpose behind that crafty plan. And Operator 5, hampered by a superior's short-sightedness, beset on every side with peril and treachery, takes the greatest gamble in his career to keep an army of religious zealots from delivering America into the bondage of an Asiatic Moloch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annihilus Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 Cover by John Howitt From the Table of Contents: Kasma, baleful divinity from the wastes of Asia, had laid his blighting curse upon America. All who opposed him came to ghastly ends: amnesia, madness and screaming, agonizing death -- for the cult of Kasma enforced its dread dictate with a new, deadly weapon, unseen, unheard, which razed its mightiest buildings, which lay wide regions barren -- without man or beast! One man, Jimmy Christopher -- known in the Secret Service as Operator 5 -- understood the grim purpose behind that crafty plan. And Operator 5, hampered by a superior's short-sightedness, beset on every side with peril and treachery, takes the greatest gamble in his career to keep an army of religious zealots from delivering America into the bondage of an Asiatic Moloch! Love that cover! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 Wings Comics often had oriental femmes fatales... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 she's cool, but if we shift gears only slightly and search for the funniest femme fatale- I have a contender... Eva De Struction, the pneumatic antagonist of 'Gorgonzola, Won't You Please Come Home' by Clyde Ames (aka Allison). she marches upon (tramples upon?) LA while at the controls of a giant robot Godzilla... Yes Allison wrote for the 'adult' market, and if the Inuit have 200 words for snow- Clyde musters quite a few phrases in praise of the female breast. But he's hilarious. This is one of his few published by the mainstream Lancer... 1967 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
detective35 Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 Just picked up the highest grade Shadow #2-5 (1931) that I have ever seen ( I am sure there ae some nicer ones out these somewhere, so I will just have to sniff them out as well). The 1931's are nearly impossible to find in this grade with nice paper. Dwight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedFury Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 Wow, those do look like great copies. Congrats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HouseofComics.Com Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 Great post! she's cool, but if we shift gears only slightly and search for the funniest femme fatale- I have a contender... Eva De Struction, the pneumatic antagonist of 'Gorgonzola, Won't You Please Come Home' by Clyde Ames (aka Allison). she marches upon (tramples upon?) LA while at the controls of a giant robot Godzilla... Yes Allison wrote for the 'adult' market, and if the Inuit have 200 words for snow- Clyde musters quite a few phrases in praise of the female breast. But he's hilarious. This is one of his few published by the mainstream Lancer... 1967 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciorac Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 Beauties Dwight Here are a couple of fun items from the collection I recently picked up First is a sc-fi fanzine from 1963 with illustrations by John Giunta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciorac Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 And this fun little item from 1955 with an intro by Robert Bloch. And addendum is slipped inside and seems to be from 1962 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 mustn't forget to feature femme fatales from the far future- this pub 1948 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBedrock Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 That is so very badass! Congrats Dwight (thumbs u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
