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9 hours ago, Scrooge said:

No images in the Bookery Guide apart from 10 pages of 9 images each in the middle of the book.

The Adventure House Checklist by Ellis, Locke and Gunnison has sample images at the top of the page, OSPG-style but the format is small.

The easiest resource to use is Galactic Central - Fiction Mags; here for pulps http://philsp.com/lists/p_magazines.html

and specifically here for Jungle Stories - http://philsp.com/mags/jungle_stories.html

Time permitting, I'll take a stab at a pulp - comic covers concordance. I don't recall seeing one. The article in CBM, # 57 IIRC, on FH pulps shows some of these covers but no checklist. This should be a small fun project.

I'll second this.  Phil Stephenson-Payne's site (Galactic Central) is the single greatest pulp reference ever assembled.  Contents lists and images of thousands of pulps, digests, and early girly magazines.  In regards to my own far humbler reference guide, after 14 years I am finally nearing completion of the 3rd (and likely final) edition of the Bookery pulp guide.  The question is this time... are there any reference publishers left to produce it?  Many of the old companies that specialized in this sort of thing are long out of business.  I'm not keen to self-publish again, even though there's more money to be had in doing so... but profits, if any, on reference books are minimal at best, and I don't look forward to packing up and mailing out 1,000 volumes as I did in the past.  So we'll see... if all else fails, I may simply upload it to the internet in some manner, though I'm old-fashioned and prefer a book format personally.

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2 hours ago, Bookery said:

I'll second this.  Phil Stephenson-Payne's site (Galactic Central) is the single greatest pulp reference ever assembled.  Contents lists and images of thousands of pulps, digests, and early girly magazines.  In regards to my own far humbler reference guide, after 14 years I am finally nearing completion of the 3rd (and likely final) edition of the Bookery pulp guide.  The question is this time... are there any reference publishers left to produce it?  Many of the old companies that specialized in this sort of thing are long out of business.  I'm not keen to self-publish again, even though there's more money to be had in doing so... but profits, if any, on reference books are minimal at best, and I don't look forward to packing up and mailing out 1,000 volumes as I did in the past.  So we'll see... if all else fails, I may simply upload it to the internet in some manner, though I'm old-fashioned and prefer a book format personally.

I'd contribute some $$ to seeing that guide of yours in good old-fashioned book form...

 

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3 hours ago, Scrooge said:

Here's a ricochet (as far as I could track it within FH) -

We start in 1942 in comics: Jumbo -

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detour in 1946 in pulps: Jungle Stories -

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and return to the comics in 1948 in Planet -

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I tend to think Lou Fine was responsible for launching (pun intended) this whole "spear-in-motion" motif.

From Oct/Nov. 1939:

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I realize I never posted the results of my quick research.

Swipes from the PULPS to the COMICS -

Pulp Title Month Year Comics Title Issue # Month Year
Jungle Stories 9 1939 Jungle 140 8 1951
Jungle Stories 6 1942 Jungle 75 5 1946
Planet Stories 6 1942 Planet 45 11 1946
Action Stories 12 1942 Cowgirl Romances 5 - 1951
Jungle Stories 1 1943 Jungle 120 12 1949
Planet Stories 1 1943 Planet 36 5 1945
Planet Stories 3 1943 Planet 40 1 1946
Jungle Stories 4 1943 Fight 40 10 1945
Planet Stories 5 1943 Planet 62 9 1949
Jungle Stories 1 1944 Jumbo 77 7 1945
Action Stories 3 1944 Rangers 32 12 1946
Jungle Stories 6 1944 Jungle 69 9 1945
Wings 3 1945 Rangers 26 12 1945
Jungle Stories 9 1946 Rangers 34 4 1947
Wings 9 1946 Wings 84 8 1947
Wings 3 1948 Wings 99 11 1948
Action Stories 6 1948 Planet 53 3 1948
Frontier Stories 1 1950 Firehair 2 1 1950
Jungle Stories 1 1951 Jumbo 133 3 1950

 

Here's another example not as yet posted. These were possibly on the stands at the same time! -

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Swipes from the COMICS to the PULPS -

Pulp Title Month Year Comics Title Issue # Month Year
Jungle Stories 1 1942 Jungle 5 5 1940
Jungle Stories 2 1943 Jungle 27 3 1942
Jungle Stories 1 1946 Jumbo 40 6 1942
Jungle Stories 6 1949 Jungle 33 9 1942
Jungle Stories 1 1945 Jumbo 53 7 1943
Wings 1 1953 Wings 41 1 1944
Lariat 5 1948 Fight 45 8 1946
Jungle Stories 3 1946 Jungle 81 9 1946
Wings 9 1948 Wings 86 10 1947
Jungle Stories 9 1948 Jungle 96 12 1947
Wings 6 1948 Wings 91 3 1948
North West Romances 1 1949 Rangers 40 4 1948
Wings 1 1949 Wings 93 5 1948

 

Note that the Rangers # 40 cover was also reused for Planet # 55. Also, I had a separate post re: Jungle Stories 3/46 and Jungle 81 with Jumbo 33, 121, 159 and Jungle Stories Spring 1949.

Here's the earliest example -

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:):):):):) 

Thanks to an awesome boardie...so this one was done right as FH seemed to transition to Maurice Whitman as their featured/exclusive cover artist.  Curious on the experts opinions as to who you think drew it,  I see some elements of Whitman in it, but Firehair herself looks more like the waifish Robert Webb version than the thicker Whitman version that's more easily identifiable in Rangers 60+..

 

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On 1/25/2019 at 10:09 PM, Scrooge said:

Swipes from the COMICS to the PULPS -

Pulp Title Month Year Comics Title Issue # Month Year
Jungle Stories 1 1942 Jungle 5 5 1940
Jungle Stories 2 1943 Jungle 27 3 1942
Jungle Stories 1 1946 Jumbo 40 6 1942
Jungle Stories 6 1949 Jungle 33 9 1942
Jungle Stories 1 1945 Jumbo 53 7 1943
Wings 1 1953 Wings 41 1 1944
Lariat 5 1948 Fight 45 8 1946
Jungle Stories 3 1946 Jungle 81 9 1946
Wings 9 1948 Wings 86 10 1947
Jungle Stories 9 1948 Jungle 96 12 1947
Wings 6 1948 Wings 91 3 1948
North West Romances 1 1949 Rangers 40 4 1948
Wings 1 1949 Wings 93 5 1948

 

Note that the Rangers # 40 cover was also reused for Planet # 55. Also, I had a separate post re: Jungle Stories 3/46 and Jungle 81 with Jumbo 33, 121, 159 and Jungle Stories Spring 1949.

Here's the earliest example -

216743649_JungleComics5.jpg.c33892a443b53f76aa9e09de8c773afa.jpg

jungle_stories_1941win.jpg.6f1b132ca39e10d2d9e3823e645c5b07.jpg

 

Thanks for the awesome in-depth analysis!! A great way to highlight the two-way influence of the pulps and the comics.

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