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07 juin 2016

The Futurians




Damon Knight

The Futurians

The story of the great Science Fiction
"Family" of the 30's that produced
today's top SF writers and editors

John Day
New York, U.S.A.
276 pages, 1977
ISBN : 0-831-98288-2




Foreword

1. "Save Humanity with science and sanity"
2. "...it was so heavy he had to spend four cents in mailing it"
3. "If he wants to kill himself..."
4. "Piggish indifference and ingratitude..."
5. "...ears that had long since shrivelled into uselessness"
6. "A country yokel, just what we expected"
7. "That's five cents, Isaac"
8. "My God, ears !"
9. Like the remnants of an exploded planetoid
10. "There she is, the little mother of science fiction"
11. "Let D. and E. be fricasseed and fried !"
12. "...and then, in 1941, I would have been killed in the war"
13. In some underground way I think he did know - had always known

Appendix : Four Futurian songs
Index 




11 mars 2016

Archetypal Magazine



Alberto López Aroca & Co.

Archetypal Magazine

Archie Tippen Omniversewide Publishing Company
c/o Alberto López Aroca
Madrid, Spain
310 pages, 2016




La cápsula  [non-fiction]
by El Editor

Un problema abominable (Nuevas aventuras de Sherlock Holmes) [fiction]
by Vincent Stamford

Algunos monos que usted debería conocer [non-fiction]
by Jane Chase

Retribución [fiction]
by King Parker

Nuestros autores [non-fiction]
by Benny J. Freeborn

Card Nichols : El misterio de la armadura pródiga [fiction]
by Alberto López Aroca

La naturaleza del cazador (una aventura de Hunter) [fiction]
by Peter J. Frigate

Reseñas desde el omniverso [non-fiction]
by A. Geoff Lidenbrock

Ukiah, marinero de la sombra [fiction]
by John C. Williams

Curiosidades de la ciencia omniversal [non-fiction]
by Epiktistes

Las gallinas de Sclater Street (Nuevas aventuras de Sherlock Holmes) [fiction]
by John H. Watson, M.D.

Un secreto [fiction]
by Jakob Schultze

...Y Drox desencadenó el infierno sobre la faz de la Tierra [fiction]
by "Kickaha"

Los Marsh de Innsmouth [non-fiction]
by Redacción Archetypal

Card Nichols : El misterio del pez parlante [fiction]
by Alberto López Aroca

Otra clase de gente [fiction]
by Norm Eldritch

Mobilis in Mobile [non-fiction]
by Redacción Archetypal

La aventura del banco de Niebla (Nuevas aventuras de Sherlock Holmes) [fiction]
by John H. Watson, M.D.

La taberna del viejo Fénix [non-fiction]
by El Editor





03 février 2016

From the pulps into paperbacks



Roy G. James 

From the pulps into paperbacks
A reference document

Gryphon Publications
Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.A.
100 pages, 1994
ISBN : 0-936071-39-7



Introduction

Part 1 : Heroes in series
     The Avenger
     Buck Rogers
     Captain Future
     Conan the Barbarian
     Other R.E.H. heroes
     H.P. Lovecraft's horror
     Doc Savage
     Dr. Death
     Dusty Ayres
     Flash Casey
     Flash Gordon
     G-8 and his Battle Aces
     The Golden Amazon
     Jan of the jungle & O.A. Kline
     Jongor
     Jules de Grandin
     Operator 5
     The Phantom Detective
     Professor Jameson
     Race Williams
     Secret agent X
     The Shadow
     The Spider
     Tarzan of the Apes
     Other E.R.B. heroes

Part 2 : Selected pulp-related Pb's

Part 3 : The "Best of" series

Bibliography


Amazing Pulp Heroes



Frank Hamilton & Link Hullar

Amazing Pulp Heroes

Gryphon Publications
Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.A.
62 pages, 1988
ISBN : 0-936071-09-5



Preface

Short biographies of 61 heroes




Gangland's Doom



Frank Eisgruber Jr.

Gangland's Doom
The Shadow of the pulps

Starmont Pulp and Dime Novel Studies 1
Starmont House
Mercer Island, Washington, U.S.A.
64 pages, 1985
ISBN : 0-930261-74-7



Preface, by Robert Weinberg

Chapters
     1. Identity, true...
     2... and false
     3. Agents and allies
     4. The Sanctum
     5. The villains
     6. Travels

Appendices
     1. An answer to P.J. Farmer's Shadow theory
     2. The raconteurs
     3. The novels

Covers



Dime Detective Index




(compiled and introduced by)
James L. Traylor

Dime Detective Index

Pulp Collector Press
New Carrollton, Maryland, U.S.A.
124 pages, 1986
no ISBN



Introduction : The Dime Detectives
Issue by issue listing
Alphabetical author listing
Author profiles and pictures
Character-Author cross reference list
Appearance ranking
Top ten characters
Crossroads of crime
Ready for the Rackets




From Shadow to Superman



Tom Johnson

From Shadow to Superman

Fading Shadows Inc.
Seymour, Texas, U.S.A.
60 pages, 1991
no ISBN




From Shadow to Superman
     Forward
     "Return of the Shadow"
     "The Shadow strikes"
     "Shadow beware"
     "Cry Shadow"
     "The Shadow's Revenge"
     "Mark of the Shadow"
     "Shadow - Go mad"
     "The night of the Shadow"
     "Destination Moon"
     The Belmont Shadow
     The agent
     Cypher
     A final thought
     Code name : Miriam
     The story of Dennis Lynds
     Bibliography

Fantastic fighting men of fiction
     Forward
     The Swordsmen
     Ju-Jitsu, Karate & Savate
     The Thrill Books



The Green Ghost



Tom Johnson

The Green Ghost

Fading Shadows Inc.
Seymour, Texas, U.S.A.
60 pages, 1991
no ISBN



The Green Ghost, by Tom Johnson
     Forward
     The main characters
     The novels
     Thrilling Mystery
     Thrilling Detective
     Some final thoughts

Zero at midnight, by Ginger Johnson

The Black Hood, by Tom Johnson
     Forward
     The characters
     The vamps
     The novels



The Black Bat




Tom Johnson

The Black Bat

Golden Perils & Fading Shadows Inc.
Scarboro, Maine & Seymour, Texas, U.S.A.
72 pages, 1990
no ISBN



Black Bat novels
1. In the beginning for the bat
2. Of Trojan wars
3. Bat Man, Comics and others
4. A look at the main characters
5. An interview with Norman Daniels
6. The final novels
7. The Black Bat's fighting technique
8. The Bat's death-defying act
9. Carol Baldwin - Profile
10. The letter department



Doc Savage inside & out 1



(anthology of illustrations)

Doc Savage inside and out
Number 1
1933-1937

Flying Tiger Graphics
Morgantown, West Virginia, U.S.A.
68 pages, march 1989
no ISBN


Introduction, by Bobb Cotter

68 pages of Doc Savage illustrations without texts




The history of the Purple Wars



Harrison Stievers
(Tom Johnson)

The history of the Purple Wars

Fading Shadows Inc.
Seymour, Texas, U.S.A.
68 pages, 1991
no ISBN


Forward
Death's ragged army
Patriots' death battalion
The bloody forty-five days
America's plague battalions
Liberty's suicide legions
Siege of the thousand patriots
Patriot's death march
Revolt of the lost legions
Drums of destruction
The army without a country
The bloody frontiers
The coming of the Mongol hordes
The siege that brought the Black Death
Some final notes
Afterward


02 février 2016

Secret Agent - X (1990)



Tom Johnson & Will Murray

Secret Agent - X

Golden Perils Press & Fading Shadows, Inc.
Seymour, Texas & Scarboro, Maine, U.S.A.
92 pages, 1990
no ISBN



Forward

1. The beginning
2. Wade Hammond
3. Weaponry & equipment
4. Fighting ability
5. Training
6. Alter-egos
7. The main characters
8. Supporting characters
9. The novels
10. The villains
11. The deadly females
12. Captain Hazzard
13. The artists
14. The authors
15. The fill-in stories
16. Maska, the greek pulp
17. City of madness
The covers



Secret Agent - X (1980)



Tom Johnson & Will Murray

Secret Agent - X
A history

Pulps Classics # 22
Robert Weinberg Publisher
Oak Forest, Illinnois, U.S.A.
96 pages, 1980
no ISBN



Dedication
Forward

1. The beginning
2. Wade Hammond
3. Weaponry & Equipment
4. Fighting abilities
5. Training
6. Alter-egos
7. The main characters
8. Supporting characters
9. The novels
10. The villains
11. The deadly females
12. Captain Hazzard
13. The artist
14. The authors
15. Fill-in stories
16. Maska


21 avril 2015

Weird Tales in the thirties



Reginald Smith

Weird Tales in the thirties

Privately published by the author
Santa Ana, California, U.S.A.
42 pages, 1966
no ISBN


Weird Tales in the thirties
( no chapters )


The Weird Tales Story



Robert Weinberg & others

The Weird Tales story

Fax Collector's editions
West Linn, Oregon, U.S.A.
X + 134 pages, 1977
ISBN : 0-913960-16-0


Preface

1. A brief history
2. Farnsworth Wright,  by E. Hoffmann Price
3. Why Weird Tales ?
4. The stories
      The Baird issues
      The Wright issues
      The McIlwraith issues
5. Recollections of Weird Tales by :
      Frank Belknap Long 
      Greye La Spina
      H. Warner Munn
      Robert E. Howard
      Edmond Hamilton
      Wallace West
      Manly Wade Wellman
      Carl Jacobi
      Robert Bloch
      Robert Barbour Johnson
      Lee Brown Coye
      Joseph Payne Brennan
6. Cover art
7. Interior art
8. Beginnings and ends
9. Out of the Eyrie
10. Competition
11. A brief resurrection




06 mars 2014

Index to mexican Science Fiction magazines



Moisés Hassón

Index to Mexican
Science Fiction Magazines

Moisés Hassón publications
Santiago, Chile
52 pages, 1991
no ISBN



Preface
Introduction

I. Science-Fiction and Fantasy magazines in spanish
II. Mexican magazines
III. Index by issue
IV. Index by author
V. Checklist of issues and covers
VI. Index by original publications

Want list



02 février 2013

King of the Pulps



Peter Ruber, Darrell C. Richardson & Victor A. Berch
King of the Pulps
The life & writings of H. Bedford-Jones

Battered Silicon Dispatch Box
George A. Vanderburgh
Shelburne, Ontario, Canada
2003, 316 pages
ISBN : 1-55246-464-4


Foreword :
Anatomy of a bibliography, by Peter Ruber

Part I : "King of the Pulps"
Essays by Peter Ruber
"The life and times of H. Bedford-Jones"
"An overview of HB-J's writings"
"Pseudonyms and collaborators, real and fictitious"

Part II : The bibliography of H. Bedford-Jones
Compiled by Peter Ruber, Darrell C. Richardson, and Victor A. Berch

Books by H. Bedford-Jones
  A. Fiction (novels & short stories) as H. Bedford-Jones
  B. Poetry
  C. Non-fiction
  D. Translations
  E. Fiction : writing as "Allan Hawkwood"
  F. Fiction : writing as "Gordon Keyne"
  G. Fiction : writing as "Capt. Bedford Foran"
  H. Fiction : writing as "John Wycliffe"
  I. Fiction : writing as "Montague Brisard"
  J. Fiction : writing as "Donald Bedford"
  K. Fiction : writing as "Emerson Baker"
  L. Fiction - Juvenile : writing as "Margaret Love Sanderson"
  M. Fiction - Juvenile : writing as "Gordon Stuart"
  N. Fiction - Juvenile : writing as "Elliot Whitney"
  O. Ephemera (Misc. leaflets, broadsides)
  P. Anthology appearances
Bibliographic notes & oddities

The magazine writings of H. Bedford-Jones
Part 1 : Fiction published as H. Bedford-Jones
Part 2 : Pseudonyms
  Writing as "Allan Hawkwood"
  Writing as "Gordon Keyne"
  Writing as "Capt. Michael Gallister"
  Writing as "David Seabrooke"
  Writing as "Torquay Trevison"
  Writing as "H.E. Twinells"
  Writing as "Bedford Rohmer"
  Writing as "Rodney Blake"
  Writing as "Capt. L.B. Williams"
  Writing as "H.E. Williamson"
  Writing as "Burt L. Standish"
Part 3 : Articles : non-fiction & misc.
Part 4 : Articles about and obituaries
Part 5 : Radio shows
Part 6 : Film adaptations

Other unidentified tearsheets at University of Texas
 
Preface to Post Mortem by Peter Ruber
 
Part III : Post Mortem, by H. Bedford-Jones
 
Of John Solomon and Sherlock Holmes, by Peter Ruber
 
Part IV : The wisdom of John Solomon
(a newly discovered John Solomon adventure by H. Bedford-Jones)
 The affair of the aluminum crutch
(a new adventure of Sherlock Holmes by H. Bedford-Jones)
 
Part V : A selection of HB-J magazine and book covers



06 janvier 2013

Pulp in de Lage Landen


Rimmer Sterk
Pulp in de Lage Landen
Rimmer Sterk & Lulu.com
2008, 76 pages
ISBN : Ø


Voorwoord

Hoofdstuk 1.  Detective Magazine

1.1 Introductie en algemene informatie
1.2 De schrijvers
      1.2.1 Vertaalde werken
      1.2.2 Oorspronkelijke werken
1.3 De omslagtekenaarsen de illustratoren
      1.3.1 Nederlandse illustratoren
      1.3.2 Buitenlandse illustratoren
      1.3.3 (Omslag)afbeeldingen en de tekenaars / fotografen

Hoofdstuk 2.  'n A-Z Detective

2.1 Introductie en algemene informatie
2.2 De schrijvers
2.3 De tekenaars en de (omslag)afbeeldingen / illustraties

Hoofdstuk 3.  De Cowboy

3.1 Introductie en algemene informatie
3.2 De schrijvers
3.3 De tekenaars en (omslag)afbeeldingen / illustraties


07 novembre 2012

Dime Novel Round-Up 737



Dime Novel Round-Up
Volume 81, n° 5, Whole n° 737
October 2012
Dundas, U.S.A.
ISSN : 0012-2874


Table of contents

J. Randolph Cox : "The editor's remarks"
J. Randolph Cox : "Silvertip : Max Brand's pulp series"
J. Randolph Cox : "Silvertip in the comics"
J. Randolph Cox : "Convention report : Pulpfest 2012"
"The reference shelf"
Joseph Rainone : "New Dime-novel sketches"