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

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The Spider #1, Oct 1933

The Phantom Detective #1, Feb 1933

Doc Savage #1, Mar 1933

By Crom! a mighty stack, Barbarian!

Since everyone is showing their Howards, my two latest REH acquisitions:

"Everyone is showing their Howards." Like everybody even has Howards to show in the first place!

OK, I've gotten one in the past few months. Just verse, though:

Sweet copies both!

I am a sucker for Brundage

Eric, Eric, Eric - 'just verse' here 'tis

Recompense by Robert E Howard

I have not heard lutes beckon me, nor the brazen bugles call,

But once in the dim of a haunted lea I heard the silence fall.

I have not heard the regal drum, nor seen the flags unfurled,

But I have watched the dragons come, fire-eyed, across the world.

I have not seen the horsemen fall before the hurtling host,

But I have paced a silent hall where each step waked a ghost.

I have not kissed the tiger-feet of a strange-eyed golden god,

But I have walked a city's street where no man else had trod.

I have not raised the canopies that shelter revelling kings,

But I have fled from crimson eyes and black unearthly wings.

I have not knelt outside the door to kiss a pallid queen,

But I have seen a ghostly shore that no man else has seen.

I have not seen the standards sweep from keep and castle wall,

But I have seen a woman leap from a dragon's crimson stall,

And I have heard strange surges boom that no man heard before,

And seen a strange black city loom on a mystic night-black shore.

And I have felt the sudden blow of a nameless wind's cold breath,

And watched the grisly pilgrims go that walk the roads of Death,

And I have seen black valleys gape, abysses in the gloom,

And I have fought the deathless Ape that guards the Doors of Doom.

I have not seen the face of Pan, nor mocked the Dryad's haste,

But I have trailed a dark-eyed Man across a windy waste.

I have not died as men may die, nor sin as men have sinned,

But I have reached a misty sky upon a granite wind.

Wonderful poem, and of course a classy Keegan(s) illo!

thanks !

And here's one edition of "The Tempter" that I am pretty sure nobody has ever seen: a clipping from Its very first appearance in The Cross Plains Review, 18 June 1937, one year after Howard's death.

Zowie - that's our Two-Gun !

Eric, Eric, Eric - 'just verse'

I meant 'just' in that it wasn't a story, not trying to downplay the actual poem.

I actually just ordered a couple more Weird Tales from 1939, one of which has another Howard poem. Looking forward to seeing those.

Funning with you, Sir. I know you're a true believer...

And here's one edition of "The Tempter" that I am pretty sure nobody has ever seen: a clipping from Its very first appearance in The Cross Plains Review, 18 June 1937, one year after Howard's death.

 

Wow, that's so sad.

Weird Tales, Aug 1934

 

Brundage cover on the Howard Conan story "The Devil in Iron"

 

One of my two favorite Brundage covers (along with Magic Carpet, Oct 1933), so I just buy every nice copy I can find.

 

 

Magic Carpet, Oct 1933

 

One of my favorite Brundage covers!

 

Amazing