The Old Book Shop in Morristown NJ I've picked a number of 'Astounding Science Fiction" and "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction" with stories by James Blish and Alfred Bester (1950's). "Amazing Stories" August 1939 with a Robert Bloch tale. Great content.
Gary, this segment really turned back the clock for me-superlative expose of what it must have felt like to be a kid in the 40s with countless pennies jingling in one’s sagging pockets, heading in unbridled haste to the nearest newsstand to hunt down the latest issue of “Weird Tales”….! Yes there was now Stalin and the looming “Berlin Blockade” and even a burgeoning “Red China” to worry about under the iron fisted regime of Mao Zedong…but for a 12 year old, stories of the bizarre and fantastic is what beheld a young boy’s fancy (!) So cool to see the “Ripley’s Believe it or Not” stylized page at 21:15 (“Superstitions and Taboos”) and as a huge fan of Fredric Brown how awesome to witness the original publication of his “Come and Go Mad”, one of his more famous stories that helped pioneer the notion that aliens could be more than just a military threat-but also a cosmic force beyond our scope of comprehension. Even features a depiction of a dashing Napoleon Bonaparte, who figures prominently in Brown’s story-marvelous! So cool too to see Gardner F. Fox’s name, the man who would go on to write thousands of comic book stories, and along with Gil Kane created “The Flash”, “Hawkman”, “Sandman” and notable others. Please deliver more from the Gary Lovisi’s “vault of yesteryear”!
Michael, i very much appreciate your comments, thank you my friend. Those old Weird Tales pulps amazed me with all the great authors they published, and not just
Woops, i hit send by mistake, fat fingers texting! So many great authors in these issues and i love the great black and white illustrations. You are right, a lit of wonderful memories in those old pulp pages!
I remember watching a video page-by-page walkthrough of startling stories issue 1, I really enjoyed that- but sadly the video is lost to time. These are very cool
Cool collection. Wish we had a similar format around today.
Very cool!
The Old Book Shop in Morristown NJ I've picked a number of 'Astounding Science Fiction" and "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction" with stories by James Blish and Alfred Bester (1950's).
"Amazing Stories" August 1939 with a Robert Bloch tale.
Great content.
Thank you, and it is a great store.
Gary, this segment really turned back the clock for me-superlative expose of what it must have felt like to be a kid in the 40s with countless pennies jingling in one’s sagging pockets, heading in unbridled haste to the nearest newsstand to hunt down the latest issue of “Weird Tales”….!
Yes there was now Stalin and the looming “Berlin Blockade” and even a burgeoning “Red China” to worry about under the iron fisted regime of Mao Zedong…but for a 12 year old, stories of the bizarre and fantastic is what beheld a young boy’s fancy (!)
So cool to see the “Ripley’s Believe it or Not” stylized page at 21:15 (“Superstitions and Taboos”) and as a huge fan of Fredric Brown how awesome to witness the original publication of his “Come and Go Mad”, one of his more famous stories that helped pioneer the notion that aliens could be more than just a military threat-but also a cosmic force beyond our scope of comprehension. Even features a depiction of a dashing Napoleon Bonaparte, who figures prominently in Brown’s story-marvelous!
So cool too to see Gardner F. Fox’s name, the man who would go on to write thousands of comic book stories, and along with Gil Kane created “The Flash”, “Hawkman”, “Sandman” and notable others.
Please deliver more from the Gary Lovisi’s “vault of yesteryear”!
Michael, i very much appreciate your comments, thank you my friend. Those old Weird Tales pulps amazed me with all the great authors they published, and not just
Woops, i hit send by mistake, fat fingers texting! So many great authors in these issues and i love the great black and white illustrations. You are right, a lit of wonderful memories in those old pulp pages!
You are holding a piece of antique there, i was so afraid of a tear that it looked fragile
Yes, they are fragile, but they were meant to be read. Thanks for the comment.
I remember watching a video page-by-page walkthrough of startling stories issue 1, I really enjoyed that- but sadly the video is lost to time. These are very cool
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