Fiction house anyone? 26 26

[sagii]

7 minutes ago, szavisca said:

Hard to follow up those rare early FH classics but ill try... got this rare in high grade possibly later FH book in the mail today thanks to a super classy boardie...the most classic of all the classic moose getting hit in the head with an oar covers for sure...

WW

Congrats friend!

[comicjack]

9 hours ago, Zolnerowich said:

How do you know she doesn't hurt? Those ropes seem kinda tight!

I think she is having some nap time 

[Zolnerowich]

15 hours ago, szavisca said:

Hard to follow up those rare early FH classics but ill try... got this rare in high grade possibly later FH book in the mail today thanks to a super classy boardie...the most classic of all the classic moose getting hit in the head with an oar covers for sure...

She needs to be written up for an ASPCA violation!

[Robot Man]

Any love for Friction House pulps?

[comicjack]

1 minute ago, Robot Man said:

Any love for Friction House pulps?

Right up Ricksneatstuffs alley

[Robot Man]

Lots of good Jungle pulps. Covers are every bit as great as their comic book counterparts. Many cover swipes between the pulp and comic book covers.

[Robot Man]

Just now, comicjack said:

Right up Ricksneatstuffs alley

I hope he doesn't notice because then, there will go the cheap prices...

[Robot Man]

Here is a classic Wings cover swipe...

[PUNYHUMAN]

Yeah! Fiction House did swipe from there pulps a lot. Great stuff  nonetheless. I first seen it years ago in a issue of Comic Book Marketplace. What a great Fanzine/ Magazine esp. when Gary Carter was the Publisher. I have them all.

[szav]

2 hours ago, Robot Man said:

Here is a classic Wings cover swipe...

I like the pulp version on this one better.

[Zolnerowich]

On 1/13/2019 at 12:36 PM, Robot Man said:

Lots of good Jungle pulps. Covers are every bit as great as their comic book counterparts. Many cover swipes between the pulp and comic book covers.

Those are awesome covers, those pulps o'yours. 

Dare I ask... are the stories any good?

[Sqeggs]

On 1/13/2019 at 1:02 PM, PUNYHUMAN said:

Yeah! Fiction House did swipe from there pulps a lot. Great stuff  nonetheless. I first seen it years ago in a issue of Comic Book Marketplace. What a great Fanzine/ Magazine esp. when Gary Carter was the Publisher. I have them all.

Avon did something similar by recycling some of their paperback covers as comic covers. 

[Sqeggs]

8 hours ago, Zolnerowich said:

Those are awesome covers, those pulps o'yours. 

Dare I ask... are the stories any good?

No one knows.  With most pulps, if you open the book, it disintegrates in your hands. 

I'm kind of joking, but as I remember, a while back someone was selling pulps in the marketplace and his TOS said "No returns if you open the book."  He wasn't joking. 

[Scrooge]

Jon at Adventure House has been reprinting here and there some of the Ki-Gor - Jungle Stories in his High Adventure reprint series.

For example, the one above was reprinted a while ago in High Adventure # 119 - https://adventurehouse.com/shop/product/high-adventure-119/

I have a good number of the issues of High Adventure. I tried ONCE (and only ONCE) to read a Ki-Gor story … it didn't go well and I quit midway … Horrible … still didn't stop me from buying the pulp 

[Scrooge]

FWIW, if you want to sample the level of Jungle Stories, there are a couple of stories at Pulpgen. Here's one from 1945. The pulp above is from 1947 so we're in the same general vintage -

https://pulpgen.com/pulp/downloads/getpdf.php?id=63

These are not collected for their prose ...

[Robot Man]

The stories are pretty marginal just like the comics. I pretty much pick them up for the covers. Contrary to common belief, most pulps have pretty supple pages. They are usually cut a little off though. 

[comicjack]

9 hours ago, Scrooge said:

Jon at Adventure House has been reprinting here and there some of the Ki-Gor - Jungle Stories in his High Adventure reprint series.

For example, the one above was reprinted a while ago in High Adventure # 119 - https://adventurehouse.com/shop/product/high-adventure-119/

I have a good number of the issues of High Adventure. I tried ONCE (and only ONCE) to read a Ki-Gor story … it didn't go well and I quit midway … Horrible … still didn't stop me from buying the pulp 

It's all about the cover 

[Artboy99]

12 hours ago, Sqeggs said:

No one knows.  With most pulps, if you open the book, it disintegrates in your hands. 

I'm kind of joking, but as I remember, a while back someone was selling pulps in the marketplace and his TOS said "No returns if you open the book."  He wasn't joking. 

I was offered a Planet Stories #1 earlier this year and I was considering buying it until I asked if I could have a look inside. As I flipped through it the pages were disintegrating before my eyes. Little pieces of pages flaking off due to brittleness.

[mwotka]

Nice pulps!  Just picked up this Fight 12 last week, really enjoying it.  The monster looks like he just escaped from a Planet cover...

[Artboy99]

20 minutes ago, mwotka said:

Nice pulps!  Just picked up this Fight 12 last week, really enjoying it.  The monster looks like he just escaped from a Planet cover...

I love that cover.