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I'll pound you to a "Pulp" if you don't show off yours!
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"Gretta" is Joseph Clemens Gretter.

Cool. I had never heard of him but he worked on early DC's including New Fun #1 among other things...

https://indianaillustrators.blogspot.com/2011/11/joseph-clemens-gretter-1904-1988.html

"In 1935, a former cavalryman and pulp fiction writer named Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson put together a 36-page, black-and-white, tabloid-sized comic book called New Fun Comics, the first comic book made up of all original material and the second newsstand comic book ever published. New Fun Comics #1 (Feb. 1935) marked several other firsts as well, including the first original science fiction feature for a comic book, "Don Drake on the Planet Saro." The author was Ken Fitch, the artist, Clemens Gretter. "Don Drake," probably inspired by Flash Gordon and Brick Bradford, ran in seventeen issues of New Fun and its successor, More Fun Comics, and even made the cover spot in April 1935. Gretter worked in comic books for many more years. His last known credited work showed up in Fatman, The Human Flying Saucer in 1967."

 

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Here's a recent addition to my Arkham House collection, Something Near by August Derleth, in very high grade and signed by Derleth!  It collects 21 Derleth weird fiction tales mostly from Weird Tales and Fantastic Adventures, and three of which are Cthuhlu mythos stories.  Published in 1945, this is Derleth's second Arkham House collection, and the ninth Arkham House book overall.

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A couple more early 40's Weird Tales. I've been enjoying reading the March 1944 issue with the John Giunta cover this week. I haven't read much horror for many years and it's funny, it's still a pure escape from the workaday world when you delve into them. There's a great fun factor to lower grade books. The May 1943 is Brundage with a Bradbury story. The March 1943 looks like a treasure trove with Kuttner, Bloch and Bradbury. The cover is E. Franklin Wittmack who I learned had a fairly extensive Pulp cover career. The style kind of reminds me of the Giunta cover.

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The 1st issue of Private Detective Stories was one of the first pulps I ever had many years ago. I sold my copy because I didn't have proper storage conditions for it and it was browning badly. Saw a chance to get a copy again so I took it. Great Ward Hatchet Murderer cover...

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The 1st issue of Private Detective Stories was one of the first pulps I ever had many years ago. I sold my copy because I didn't have proper storage conditions for it and it was browning badly. Saw a chance to get a copy again so I took it. Great Ward Hatchet Murderer cover...

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Great H.J. Ward cover!  You can rarely go wrong with him!

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