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

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Robert Lesser’s ‘Pulp Art’ (1997) is a coffee table tour focusing on original cover art.

James Van Hise’s ‘Pulp Heroes of the 1930s’ (1994) has my pal Will Murray covering Doc Savage and the Shadow (and Will ‘knows’).

Lester Del Rey’s ‘Science Fiction Art 1926-1954’ (1975) is a look at pulp sci-fi with many cover repros.

And there are other books – good way to get a feel for the era. Plus here’s a web site run by David Saunders, whose dad (Norman – see below) was one of the greats. http://pulpartists.com/

And philsp’s online http://www.philsp.com/lists/p_magazines.html

is almost a web ‘Gerber’ of pulp covers.

 

 

Great post. Love that cover.

These are the three original Eric John Stark stories. Enchantress of Venus is the longest and best of them; in fact it is one of the all-time greatest fantasy novellas. Stark, an orphaned Earth boy, is raised by the natives on Mercury as N’Chaka, the man without a tribe. As the Mercurians are being slaughtered he is rescued and adopted by an Earth agent who trains him, but when deep in danger he reverts to N’Chaka whose instincts of self-preservation provide primal power.

Queen of the Martian Catacombs (Planet Stories Summer 1949)

Enchantress of Venus (novella; Planet Stories Fall 1949)

Black Amazon of Mars (Planet Stories March 1951) Superb covers by Allen Anderson.

Somebody just beat me out for a nifty Weird Tales on Heritage.

Congrats!

which lot you talking about?

December '32, first Conan.

had brown tape on the spine? I thought about it, but wasn't able to pull the trigger myself.

That's the one. I liked it, just not much $ in the war chest.

These are the three original Eric John Stark stories. Enchantress of Venus is the longest and best of them; in fact it is one of the all-time greatest fantasy novellas. Stark, an orphaned Earth boy, is raised by the natives on Mercury as N’Chaka, the man without a tribe. As the Mercurians are being slaughtered he is rescued and adopted by an Earth agent who trains him, but when deep in danger he reverts to N’Chaka whose instincts of self-preservation provide primal power.

Queen of the Martian Catacombs (Planet Stories Summer 1949)

Enchantress of Venus (novella; Planet Stories Fall 1949)

Black Amazon of Mars (Planet Stories March 1951) Superb covers by Allen Anderson.

Didn't Leigh Brackett write another famous story. At least the robots interaction was inspired by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future series.

the interaction of R2 & C3 prefigured by 2 peasants in Kurosawa film, 'The Hidden Fortress' (1958) where Lucas also picked up story ideas that helped birth Star Wars. (& Leigh scripted many of Howard Hawks' classic westerns)

the interaction of R2 & C3 prefigured by 2 peasants in Kurosawa film, 'The Hidden Fortress' (1958) where Lucas also picked up story ideas that helped birth Star Wars. (& Leigh scripted many of Howard Hawks' classic westerns)

At least she gets co-author credit for writing the screenplay of "The Empire Strikes Back"

what wiki wrote:

Brackett worked on the screenplay for Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. The exact role which Brackett played in writing the -script for Empire is the subject of some dispute. What is agreed on by all is that George Lucas asked Brackett to write the screenplay based on his story outline. It is also known that Brackett wrote a finished first draft which was delivered to Lucas shortly before Brackett's death from cancer on March 18, 1978. Two drafts of a new screenplay were written by Lucas and…turned over to Lawrence Kasdan... Both Brackett and Kasdan (though not Lucas) were given credit for the final -script.

(image -from web- is original art for Ace #D99 1955 by Unknown for Brackett’s ‘The Galactic Breed’)

Rhiannon X 3 with 6/49 mag appearance flanked by US (1953) & UK (1955) editions

I didn't know about Maelo Cintron until his granddaughter told me about him.

Easily my favorite Kurosawa film. Toshiro Mifune is tremendous.

I'd like to put my pulps in a shiny mylite.

What size works best?

Or is there a better pulp storage?

I use Super Gold sized Mylite 2s and Full Backs. They're oversized compared to the pulps, but provide sturdy protection and look nice. I store them in magazine boxes.

Thanks RedFury!

I wish CGC would do pulps.

I asked at the Seattle con and they said there's no plan for pulps.

Many pulps have 'overhang' covers, which would be problematic for putting in a slab.

And the pulp collecting market is much smaller than comics. I don't think they'd get the volume necessary to make it viable.

I would love for them to figure out a way to do it, but I don't think it's going to happen.

Slabbing Pulps with overhangs will probably never happen , and hopefully never does!

Dwight

Bought this today!