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      CommentAuthorDoc
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2008
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    Most of these are new to my eyes and a wonder to look at indeed.
    Many thanks for sharing them with us.

    Regards,
    Doc
    • CommentAuthordkostis
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2008 edited
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    @jzellis

    Is James Bama still wih us?

    I was a Doc Savage fanatic (along with many other things) and I'm sure Bama's art drew me in initially. Those covers were stepping stones to the painted "adult" comics that my friends could not see the appeal of, at least until puberty started to rear it's ugly head.
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    More!
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    I love how idealistic some of these are, like this one. Mind you if this is a solar sail is way too small and is gaudy as carrier-based aircraft at the time, along with the military emblems. For all the other faults of the time period though at least there was far more of a curiosity and romanticism about the frontier that is space. I vaguely remember it now...
    • CommentAuthorStefanJ
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2008
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    @Val A Lindsay:

    That under-sized solar sail and the Vance byline reminded me of an introduction he wrote in "The Best of Jack Vance." I just looked it up, and he was writing about this cover!

    The editor bought a bunch of art, cheap, and asked some authors to come up with stories based on them. Vance got the cover above. He wrote "Sail 25" which I guess was renamed for initial publication. In the intro Vance objects to the size and color of the sail . . . he knew way back when that the said would have to be a way-thin silvery thing.
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    @StefanJ

    Wow, that's rather incredible!
    • CommentAuthorjzellis
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2008
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    @dkostis: far as i know, he is. He was last I heard. Blind in one eye, but he's a tough old motherfucker.
    • CommentAuthorpi8you
    • CommentTimeJun 8th 2008
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    @Val - Any chance we could get a peek at the (presumed) ad inside the cover of The Final Figure up there? Man in Hamster Wheel has me intrigued.
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    Ok, got an actual scanner now! It seems to get a more uniform color then the camera. This one should be easily recognizable...


    @pi8you

    I've set them back in the box at the moment. I'll pull them out some point soon after I get the material I plan to store them in. So yes, but not for the next couple of weeks.
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    • CommentAuthorStefanJ
    • CommentTimeJun 8th 2008
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    I'm not sure if the guy who fell off that ladder is in horrible agony or if he's laughing about the expression on the other guy's face.
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    Moar scanz? Sure!

    Remember this kind of Mars, with the canals and roads?
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    It actually sort of surprised me there were so few flying saucers on the covers. Perhaps it was a matter of logic?
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    Lastly this evening, although not a short story pulp, it was in the box and not only grabbing because of the title but also the art.
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      CommentAuthorBen
    • CommentTimeJun 9th 2008
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    These things are like eyeball candy. Thanks so much for sharing!
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    The daily dose, it seems...
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