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Golden Age Collection
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Here's a grouping of my copies of the St. John covers from Nov '32 to May '33. The first four illustrate Kline's Buccaneers of Venus, the last two Williamson's Golden Blood.

 

The May '33 issue is a transitional on from a design perspective. It's the last issue with the red masthead, and the first issue with the new title letter design.

 

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Beautiful copies. :applause:

 

Thanks for posting.

 

Weird Tales had so many spectacular covers. I especially love those St. John covers.

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"Zombie Killer" by George Vandegrift

 

Horror Stories (February 1941)

 

Without the knife, this could easily be a Shadow illo - though the Shadow rarely bothered with hand to hand combat preferring picking off his battles or letting his twin .45's do the work.

 

I do not recall any zombie tales within the Shadow canon.

 

 

He also looks like the Spider. :o

 

The Spider (June 1940)

 

I went with the Shadow b/c of the scarf. The Spider was never shy to show his face to inspire horror unlike the skulking Shadow who prefers to instill fear with his laugh (which is at times hard to stomach but we don't read those for credibility anyway lol )

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Here's a grouping of my copies of the St. John covers from Nov '32 to May '33. The first four illustrate Kline's Buccaneers of Venus, the last two Williamson's Golden Blood.

 

The May '33 issue is a transitional on from a design perspective. It's the last issue with the red masthead, and the first issue with the new title letter design.

 

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Man, those are purty! And your sig line too! When I finish my comic collection, I'm going after more pulps!

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Bat man by Parkhurst...

 

 

I like it. :applause:

 

I didn't realize Parkhurst was capable of such skillful pen and ink work.

 

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He also drew the Black Bat and was probably responsible for some of those costume and emblem changes picked up by various artist of DC's Batman.

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Interesting info.

 

Up to now I knew Parkhurst mainly from the covers he did for the Spicy pulps.

 

I looked him up on GCD and discovered that he also did quite a bit of work in comics. Link

 

Much of Parkhurst's work was for westerns, including: Golden Arrow, Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, Red Ryder, etc.

 

Here are a few random pages from Four Color #230.

 

 

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