Al Williamson & Frank Frazetta

Space Heroes Portfolio

Published by Earthart Graphics ~ 1976

(Illustrations circa 1950's)

(Cover by unknown artist ~ it's not Alex Schomburg)
Fred Guardineer
1913 ~ 2002

The Moon Man
from
Mystic Comics #5 ~ March/1940
This is the only art I have seen by Guardineer at Timely
During the 1980's I carried on a correspondence with Fred.
He was incredibly nice and took the time to answer all my
questions regarding his career and the early days of the comics.

Chester Gould's

Dick Tracy

Dick Tracy is my favorite continuity strip. Fast moving,

violent, great characters and intense stories!

I highly recommend IDW's reprinting of the complete

Dick Tracy in hardcover...they are up to volume #4.

Here's some early Dick Tracy covers!

Cupples & Leon #1 ~ 1933

Big Little Book #710 ~ 1933

Big Little Book #749 ~ 1933

Big Little Book #1105 ~ 1934

Big Little Book #1420 ~ 1937 Big Little Book #1491 ~ 1938

The Dick Tracy Pop-Up Book ~ 1935

The 3 Pop-Ups
Fast Action Book #nn ~ 1936

Fast Action Book #nn ~ 1939

Fast Action Book Dell #9 ~ 1941

Fast Action Book #nn ~ 1938

Fast Action Book #nn ~ 1938

Big Big Book #4055 ~ 1934

Big Big Book #4071 ~ 1938

Large Feature Book #3 (2nd series) ~ 1942

Feature Book #6 ~ Oct/1937

Large Feature Book #1 ~ 1939
Four Color #1 ~ 1939

Frank Godwin

1889 ~ 1959

Untitled Portfolio of Children's Stories

Folio published by M. A. Donohue ~ mid-1920's

The Lamp Lighter

Alladin

Mother Goose Land Jack the Giant Killer

Snow White

Robinson Crusoe

Ali Baba

Jack Sprat

Alice In Wonderland

The Sand Man

The Return of Hastur by August Derleth ~ 1939

Virgil Finlay

1914 ~ 1971

Between Dec/1935-Sept/1954 Finlay contributed 221

black and white interior illustrations and 23 color covers

to Weird Tales...more than to any other publication.

Weird Tales Portfolio

Published by Gene Nigra ~ 1976

Guardian of the Book by Henry Hasse ~ 1937

The Garden of Adompha by Clark Ashton Smith ~ 1938

The Woman at Loon Point by August Derleth & Mark Schorer ~ 1936

Ho Ho Kam Horror by Bruce Bryan ~ 1937

The Whistling Corpse by G. G. Pendarves ~ 1937

Horns of Elfland by Tennyson ~ 1938

Out of the Sun by Granville S. Hoss ~ 1936

The Garden of Adompha by Clark Ashton Smith ~ 1938

Wine of Wizardry by Sterling ~ 1937

(Finlay's 1st poetry page)

King Henry IV Poetry Page ~ 1939

Fane of the Black Pharaoh by Robert Bloch ~ 1937

Dig Me No Grave by R. E. Howard ~ 1936

(scanned from the original art)

The incredible

Dorothy Lathrop

1891 ~ 1980

The frontispiece illustration for

Down~A~Down~A~Derry,A Book of Fairy Poems

1922

A handful of her illustrations for Walter de la Mare's

The Three Mulla-Mulgars ~ 1919

A few photos, autographs & memories from the

8th World Fantasy Convention

New Haven, Connecticut ~ October 29-31/1982

Of all the shows I've attended this show ranks right up

there with the best of them! The authors, artists and

other personalities were very friendly and accessible.

The big shows have become nothing more than trade shows

(San Diego for instance) and in hindsight it makes the memories

of the Seuling conventions from the late 1960's and the early

World Fantasy shows that much more memorable!

Joseph Payne Brennan ~ 1918-1990

Photo taken on Broadway in front of the York Square Cinema.

Brennan was the last great author to premiere in Weird Tales.

He was one of the guests of honor at this show and he was a

pleasure to meet! For anyone unfamiliar with his work look up

a copy of the paperback The Shapes of Midnight (Berkley 1980)

which reprints some of his best stories, including The Corpse of

Charlie Rull, Dissapearance, House on Hazel Street and Slime!

Signed by J. P. Brennan

Weird Tales March/1953 ~ Cover by Virgil Finlay

A snapshot of Frank Belknap Long (1901~1994)

Of everyone attending this show F.B. Long was the person I most

wanted to meet. As has been well documented Long was one of

Lovecraft's closest friends and added a great deal to The Mythos.

He was the first author other than Lovecraft to contribute a story

to The Mythos (Hounds of the Tindalos 1929) and created one of

my favorite Mythos characters, the elephantine Great Old One

Chaugnar Faun (The Horror of the Hills 1931). He was very frail

and his friends were keeping most people back from him but I ran

into him in the hall and had the opportunity to talk with him for

a short while. A very soft spoken and gracious man!

Signed by F. B. Long ~ Illo by Hugh Rankin

Weird Tales July/1937 ~ Cover by Virgil Finlay

Signed by Manly Wade Wellman ~ Illo by Boris Dolgiv

Weird Tales Nov/1941 ~ Cover by Hannes Bok

Signed by Fritz Leiber ~ Illo by G. Roller

Weird Tales Jan/1942 ~ Cover by John Guinta

The cover to De Camp's biography of Lovecraft signed by

L. Sprague and Catherine De Camp. This was the only time

I met De Camp and after he signed the book I looked over to

Catherine and asked her if she would sign it, adding that I'm sure she

contributed to it. She said she had but L. Sprague gave me a look

that if a look could kill it would have!

Gahan Wilson

Peter Straub center background...

listening to a Lovecraft panel discussion

Stephen King

Title page for the Creepshow graphic novel signed by

Stephen King, Berni & Michele Wrightson

(The ticket stub for the premiere of the film is laid in!)
Stephen King
The Marquee of the York Square Cinema on Broadway New Haven, CT

where Creepshow had its world premiere October 31, 1982.