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Post by kooshmeister on Apr 4, 2020 21:07:10 GMT
Absolute last paperback I get this month... Lost it in the move in 2014 and so needed a replacement.
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Post by andydecker on Apr 4, 2020 21:34:34 GMT
Absolute last paperback I get this month... You really believe that?
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Post by kooshmeister on Apr 4, 2020 22:43:34 GMT
I have to!
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Post by kooshmeister on Apr 6, 2020 20:18:16 GMT
Welp... here I am, eying The Intruders by Boner Fan--I mean Bron Fane--I mean Lionel Fanthorpe, and Edward Jarvis' Maggots (for the comparatively reasonable price of $38-some). Like The Brain Eaters, Maggots is one I lost in the move, and need to replace. I haven't bought either book yet, mind. I'm still waiting on the remaining four of the eight or so I already ordered to come in the mail, but, dang it... I'm weak... I must stay strong... must... resist... the urge to buy cheesy horror and sci-fi paperbacks. The main reason I'm holding off is because I want them, but not that badly; The Intruders looks like it's kind of a riff on Bert I. Gordon's King Dinosaur, a movie I didn't particularly care for, and while I never finished Maggots, what little I did read didn't really leave much of an impression on me - maybe Jarvis' Pestilence is better, but I can't find that for anything resembling a good price.
One book I do really wanna get again (another victim of the move) is E.B. Stambaugh's Mantis (I never really did get to read it), but like Pestilence, everywhere I see it being sold it's ridiculously expensive. An eBay seller is offering it for the low, low price of $247 (!), while the two cheapest copies on Amazon are $81 apiece. What the heck happened? Like with William Essex's Slime, it seems Mantis has just shot up in value recently. I originally got the copy I lost off of eBay for pretty much nothing! Same with Slime! Grrr.
So for right now, it seems Mantis is a pipe dream. But The Intruders and Maggots might be a go. We'll see. But for now, as noted, I haven't made my move. I dare not prove Andy's prediction correct! I mustn't give in to weakness!
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Post by kooshmeister on Apr 7, 2020 18:41:58 GMT
Didn't know where else to put this. Threw this together really quick in XnView. My collection! Quality reading material, sez I! And I actually ran out of room halfway through.
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Post by Swampirella on Apr 7, 2020 19:10:37 GMT
It's very impressive, thanks for sharing!
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Post by kooshmeister on Apr 10, 2020 13:27:22 GMT
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Post by kooshmeister on Apr 11, 2020 0:47:22 GMT
$10 on eBay. Interested in seeing what else the Reverend Fanthorpe can throw at my besides killer beavers and evil robots.
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Post by kooshmeister on Apr 21, 2020 22:18:51 GMT
This lot of Badger Books, including, finally, thank God, Night of the Black Horror! And while I haven't purchased them yet, I'm also eying Reverend Fanthorpe's The Alien Ones and Fiends, the latter because, hey, giant ants. Seriously, did this guy write everything Badger published...?
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Post by kooshmeister on Apr 22, 2020 4:11:00 GMT
And now Fiends. Yay for aliens using giant ants to soften humanity up for the invasion! Somehow, I doubt my copy will look that good.
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Post by kooshmeister on Apr 24, 2020 10:17:56 GMT
Yet another Badger "classic." Apparently it involves some colonists going to the alien planet of Orkol, where a mineral called Orkolite can be found. Orkolite can "destroy a planet" or "shatter a human brain." Meanwhile, a guy named Gray Hawkins has got hold of a test tube full of a chemical that can destroy entire galaxies. Swiping it from a laboratory, he intends to keep it for himself rather than turn it over to the Interplanetary Federation. Methinks he's our villain (maybe that's him on the cover, looking like the love child of David Suchet and Robert Picardo). The confusingly contradictory summaries (this one was reprinted several times) suggest that what Hawkins has gotten hold of isn't dangerous without certain ingredients mixed in precisely the right way. How much you wanna bet it's Orkolite he needs to render the test tube's inert contents dangerous? If so, this means he's along on the mission to Orkol or will soon encounter our heroic colonists who will of course attempt to stop his diabolical plans. Assuming he is in fact the villain, anyway.
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Post by andydecker on Apr 24, 2020 20:03:29 GMT
Nobody should mess with Orkolite.
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Post by kooshmeister on Apr 24, 2020 21:01:53 GMT
Its name sounds like a dietary supplement/appetite suppressant He-Man's friend Orko would sell.
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Post by kooshmeister on Apr 27, 2020 0:48:11 GMT
God help me, Badger is slowly sucking me in. I just got The Synthetic Ones (how could I say no to a tiny woman in a flask while a disinterested-looking Lenin-esque scientist looks on?) and Day of the Beasts (yay for giant googly-eyed spiders attacking tiny men in jodhpurs!). Dr. Vladimir Lenin is unimpressed by tiny people in flasks. What could they contribute to the people's revolution? Notice the flask is made of red glass, too, haha. Day of the Beasts is the John E. Muller version - apparently there's also a John Glasby version with the same "giant red spiders" cover art published by Gateway, though I assume those are both pseudonyms for your friend and mine, Reverend Fanthorpe. Looking at Google, it appears the book was published a few times over the years, by Badger and by others, and that Fanthorpe used the Muller name more than the Glasby one. Another Badger book published by Gateway under the Glasby pseudonym which I'm also eyeing is Alien (nothing to do with the movie). It also uses the same cover art as its Badger counterpart. Go figure. Of course, I could be wrong and Glasby is a real person who also used the Muller pseudonym just like Fanthorpe did. Sorta like how multiple authors used the Carl Dreadstone name while writing for the Universal Horror Library. After all, Fanthorpe didn't write everything Badger published. Just a lot of it. Also, have we got a thread or section on here for discussing Badger's output? They can't all go in Rivals of the Rats like Rodent Mutation, Fiends and now, I guess, Day of the Beasts.
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Post by humgoo on Apr 27, 2020 4:14:14 GMT
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