I'll pound you to a "Pulp" if you don't show off yours! 23 23

[OtherEric]

3 hours ago, RedFury said:

Happy 128th birthday to H.P. Lovecraft!

 

Indeed!

[Pat Calhoun]

[OtherEric]

Two books in today. I wouldn't quite call either of them a grail; but they're both in whatever category is just shy of full grail status.

First up:  The August 1939 issue of Unknown.  Forget the cover story; I wanted this for Fritz Leiber's "Two Sought Adventure".  First appearance of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser!

[OtherEric]

And, secondly:  The November 1940 issue of Marvel Stories.  This is the one with Simon & Kirby illustrations and a one-page comic format ad for Marvel Mystery with the Human Torch by Carl Burgos.  I'm going to cross-post this one over in the Timely thread with some photos of interior pages shortly:

[Hap Hazard]

On 8/20/2018 at 10:18 AM, Pat Calhoun said:

Two more Lovecraft books

[jimjum12]

I noticed that someone has listed some sharp Weird Tales on Comiclink's fixed price exchange …. GOD BLESS...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[mstrange]

Picked up a collecton of weird tales in nice shape with the following stamps located on the first page of the books. Hamilton-Brackett and Williamson.  Does anyone have information on if these have any significance or not.  I was told that they are from collections of the Authors of the Weird Tales series but have no actual proof on this other than the word of the individual who sold it to me. Any information would be appreciated.  I did have some of these listed in a FS thread but didn't seem to garner that much interest.   

 

[adamstrange]

This same question was posted earlier this year -- probably in this thread.  Those are probably copies from the library of Brackett and Hamilton.

Leigh Brackett was the wife of Edmond Hamilton and both authored stories for Weird Tales.  Brackett also had a side career writing screen plays for Howard Hawks and lastly for George Lucas (first draft of The Empire Strikes Back).  Julie Schwartz brought Hamilton in to write stories for DC in Strange Adventures and Mystery In Space.

I've not seen the Williamson stamp before but it is possible that it refers to Al Williamson as he was dedicated collector from a very early age.

[mstrange]

15 minutes ago, adamstrange said:

This same question was posted earlier this year -- probably in this thread.  Those are probably copies from the library of Brackett and Hamilton.

Leigh Brackett was the wife of Edmond Hamilton and both authored stories for Weird Tales.  Brackett also had a side career writing screen plays for Howard Hawks and lastly for George Lucas (first draft of The Empire Strikes Back).  Julie Schwartz brought Hamilton in to write stories for DC in Strange Adventures and Mystery In Space.

I've not seen the Williamson stamp before but it is possible that it refers to Al Williamson as he was dedicated collector from a very early age.

Thanks for the information.   That was me that posted earlier this year.  Wanted to see if I could garner more information.  In regards to the Willimason is this the renowned GA artist you are referring too?

[adamstrange]

10 minutes ago, mstrange said:

In regards to the Willimason is this the renowned GA artist you are referring too? 

Yes.  Heritage sold a sliver of his art collection a couple years ago.

Edited August 24, 2018 by adamstrange

[RedFury]

On 8/24/2018 at 6:40 PM, adamstrange said:

Yes.  Heritage sold a sliver of his art collection a couple years ago.

I suspect the Williamson stamp is from Jack Williamson, not Al.  Jack was a longtime sci-fi writer, who was in lots of early pulps.  His first published work appeared in the December 1928 Amazing Stories, and he published his last novel in 2005.

[adamstrange]

1 hour ago, RedFury said:

I suspect the Williamson stamp is from Jack Williamson, not Al.  Jack was a longtime sci-fi writer, who was in lots of early pulps.  His first published work appeared in the December 1928 Amazing Stories, and he published his last novel in 2005.

I know that Al W. collected comics but have no clue as to pulps.  I defer to your suggestion of the more likely Williamson being Jack.

[OtherEric]

1 hour ago, RedFury said:

I suspect the Williamson stamp is from Jack Williamson, not Al.  Jack was a longtime sci-fi writer, who was in lots of early pulps.  His first published work appeared in the December 1928 Amazing Stories, and he published his last novel in 2005.

Seconding this.  Given the similarity of the stamps, they may have been stamped before going out as comp copies to contributors to the title.  Although the one book I have with the Hamilton-Brackett stamp doesn't have a story by them

 

[mstrange]

30 minutes ago, OtherEric said:

Seconding this.  Given the similarity of the stamps, they may have been stamped before going out as comp copies to contributors to the title.  Although the one book I have with the Hamilton-Brackett stamp doesn't have a story by them

 

If anyone is interested I have sent a good portion of the collection off to comicconnect for there winter auction.  I sent them what I knew about the stamps in the books.  Hopefully they'll mention it when they list them.

[RedFury]

Anyone going to the upcoming Adventure House Pulp and Collectibles Show?  Sunday September 9 near Baltimore, MD.  I'll be setting up a table of pulp goodies and hunting for stuff for the collection.

[RedFury]

Jungle Stories, Vol 1 No 1, Winter 1938

1st appearance of Ki-Gor.

There was an earlier Jungle Stories title published by Clayton in 1931.  That one only ran 3 issues, but this later one published by Fiction House ran 59 issues (1938-1954).

Cover by Norman Saunders.

[OtherEric]

Almost missed it, but wanted to repost it for the anniversary.  90 years ago this month:

[Hap Hazard]

Amazing Stories August 1928

[OtherEric]

In today.  First publication of Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space". 

Crazy happy to have a copy of this one.

[N e r V]

On 8/22/2018 at 2:11 PM, OtherEric said:

And, secondly:  The November 1940 issue of Marvel Stories.  This is the one with Simon & Kirby illustrations and a one-page comic format ad for Marvel Mystery with the Human Torch by Carl Burgos.  I'm going to cross-post this one over in the Timely thread with some photos of interior pages shortly:

I need to get another one of these.

 

Which has this in it.