Theagenes Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Very cool. Does Cross Plains have a different cancellation stamp every year? Yep, new one every year and it's only available at the single Post Office in Cross Plains for one day only, the Friday of the Howard Days weekend. It's always fun to rush over to the post office before they close and send off a few postcards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 (edited) Didn’t put it together till after I’d scanned the duo- billing them (truly- the pb in today, the HB Xmas) as newbies for my ‘serialized in Weird Tales’ collection (the Hall 1923 –early!- & the Munn 1939 no HB so Ace is nice) but both covers are by Jack Gaughan- the Griffin 1948 (JG was 18) the Ace 1966… + Walt’s B-Day !!! (1923-1996) Edited January 24, 2012 by pcalhoun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spiderphill Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Nah, that would be EASY. I'm thinking some Sun Records label Elvis 45s, maybe a couple Warlock albums. Oh, and the original Robert Johnson 78s from 1937. If you do pull those out, btw, I'm going to have a heart attack. If it wasn't so late, I'd be tempted to take a photo of my Blind Lemon Jefferson on Paramount or a group of Sun Records. Instead...this will have to do. The Beatles first recording (promo copy). Flipping through this thread and saw this. Almost all of these were destroyed because nobody purchased them. That's insane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 (edited) the Lawrence interior illo leads me to believe that the Finlay cover (1943) is also for 'Doorway Into Time', but the point of the whole exercise is to say Happy Birthday Catherine !!! (1911-1987) Edited January 25, 2012 by pcalhoun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theagenes Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 HBD C.L. Moore! Here's a fun item (not mine). This is a copy of the L. Sprague de Camp edited anthology Swords and Sorcery from 1963, that de Camp gave to Tolkien. Apparently Tolkien enjoyed the C.L. Moore story "Hellsgarde" as he wrote a full page of comments on it. His handwriting is terrible and I'm going to be working with a Tolkien scholar to try and transcribe it. You can make out Jirel of Jory's name in a couple of places and also Lord Dunsany, but the rest is nearly unintelligible. Hopefully we will get it transcribed and can find out what JRRT thought about C.L. Moore's work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Do you have a larger scan? Not that it would help. As you say, you need an expert on Tolkien to try and decipher this. Heck, his son has poured over countless written pages and is still not able to decipher it all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theagenes Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Do you have a larger scan? Not that it would help. As you say, you need an expert on Tolkien to try and decipher this. Heck, his son has poured over countless written pages and is still not able to decipher it all. I have a tif. Gimma a sec and I'll convert it and post it. Any help would be greatly appreciated, but it's really tough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BangZoom Posted January 25, 2012 Author Share Posted January 25, 2012 C.L. Moore's first Jirel of Joiry story appeared in the October, 1934 issue of Weird Tales. I think it is also Moore's first story to be featured on a cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theagenes Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 French version of Shambleau illustrated by Jean-Claude Forest (creator of Barbarella). Probably not safe for work. http://www.coolfrenchcomics.com/shambleau.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theagenes Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 C.L. Moore's first Jirel of Joiry story appeared in the October, 1934 issue of Weird Tales. I think it is also Moore's first story to be featured on a cover. Such a great cover. Probably one of my top two or three favorite Brundage covers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 (edited) Two-Gun Tribute - 'Round Two' !!! Edited January 26, 2012 by pcalhoun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 (edited) I really like those large Life magazines with comic books characters on the cover. I have loaded up a few. They are hard to take care of but I guess we won't see this type of mag at the newsstand again. Edited January 28, 2012 by BB-Gun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theagenes Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 I really like those large Life magazines with comic books characters on the cover. I have loaded up a few. They are hard to take care of but I guess we won't see this type of mag at the newsstand again. Those are great BB! And Barbarella gets name-checked twice in one week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theagenes Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 (edited) Since we were celebrating both C.L. Moore and REH last week I thought this would be a fun item to share---a letter from Moore to Howard dated 77 years ago tomorrow. Warning: contains a very non-PC quote from Kipling. Edited January 28, 2012 by Theagenes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Second stanza of an old verse. Changed one word (was Beatrice- sorry Dante) to fit the occasion… Words take us away to the cattail marsh Where egrets bare their blinding breasts, away To a tide-pooled shore of kelp and brine Where starfish cling, or into the world Only words can wake, our truest home, A summer afternoon where Catherine waits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theagenes Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 I hereby nominate Pat as the poet laureate of the GA forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 CL praises Chesterton- who in addition to verse wrote this great series nicely packaged by Popular Library (Nedor etc) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 High among Kipling comics adaptations- this classic of the weird novelette with Henry Kiefer art. This superb 1952 issue also features ‘The Curse of Metzengerstein’ a Poe adaptation that looks to be drawn (nicely!) by the same hand as did the cover… Plus a later but also worthwhile (Craig Tennis adapter Johnny Craig art) rendition of Rudyard… (from Warren publications via this 1966 pb reprint with fun Mort Drucker cover). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
