Small Press Cover Ark

[weirdmonger]

THE BASER PULPS

Two by two into the ark...
Pre-2000 mags only, please.
Please add your own pairs.
Most of the covers start on page 2 of this TWENTY PAGE thread.
Any covers posted by 'Weirdmonger' (Nemonymous) are DFL Contributor copies.

... this is not intended to be a systematic, historic document but a vehicle (ark) for wild animals, for a splurge of the baser pulps, a hunger-deck cresting the zinic-routes of black imagination, where the enjoyment is random, browsing the 'orrorfaces of yesteryear, white-water rafting, even wading through unexpected dream zones, a colour symphony of images...
To find some would be to lose others.

Twisted Magazine #1 1996
Tales of Horrific Strangeness
Cover: Chad Savage
Editor: G Keith Burgin (BlackSoul Publishing)
Work by John B Rosenman, Jeff Strand, Michael Huyck, DFL, Dietmar Trommeshauser, Norm Partridge (interview) and others.

Dagon #26 1989
Front Cover: Jeff Salmon (illustration of 'Wall Pack')
Back Cover: Martin McKenna (illustration of 'Etepsed Egnis')
Editor: Carl T Ford (Dagon Press)
Stories by DFL and DFL Bibliography, plus 'Etepsed' by PF Jeffery, 'Brewing up with Des Lewis' by Mark Samuels, a photo in 1967 of DFL and PFJ with 'The Egnisomicon', & a photo in 1989 of DFL, PFJ and MS on cemetery park bench.
Dagon became a long-running, award-winning mag that started life in the mid-eighties as a Call of Cthuhu RPG mag.

[dem]

Beauties all, and a great subject for a thread. As you've maybe noticed, when it comes to my fave vamp-zines the artistic talent is perhaps a little cruder, but I'll have a look see what I can dig up.

I was gonna add ade's cover for the latest PF but once I posted it I noticed your strict pre-2000 stipulation!

[weirdmonger]

I put the pre-2000 stipulation to avoid lots of people purely advertising current mags here - as I have alerted the world to this thread link elsewhere. But if anyone feels strongly that I should remove this stipulation, I shall go back and modify it.

I really intended the thread for any pre-internet good-looking old Small Press mags to preserve them for electronic posterity. But you're the boss here, Demonik.

PS: Hard to be objective, but Dagon #26 is genuinely my all-time favourite cover as a cover!
I intend to bring to this thread more of my own favourite pairs from a huge collection over the next few months or years.

[redbrain]

The Dagon DFL special is a good source for people who would like to put (old photograph) faces to a few posters on this board.

[dem]

weirdmonger said:

I put the pre-2000 stipulation to avoid lots of people purely advertising current mags here .... I really intended the thread for any pre-internet good-looking old Small Press mags to preserve them for electronic posterity.

Very sound reasoning, Des.

But you're the boss here, Demonik.

Not by any stretch of the imagination! We don't really have or need one but I think a number of members have worn the 'leader' hat at different stages of Vault's mutation they probably just didn't realise it at the time. Of course, you're a frightful shower of chaps and chapesses but, apart from zapping some spam, I don't remember one instance of being called upon to do anything as tedious as 'moderate', and that reflects so well on the contributors. That's why I'm still here and still loving it as much as I did when we started.

[Calenture]

admin said:

...I don't remember one instance of being called upon to do anything as tedious as 'moderate', and that reflects so well on the contributors...

You stopped me having a fight with Graham when he said he didn't like Dr Who ages back!

[Steve]

calenture said:

You stopped me having a fight with Graham when he said he didn't like Dr Who ages back!

I hate Dr Who, the Gallifrayan ****!

Right, who's first? Come on, I'll take you all on!

[dem]

I suppose I'll be forced to endure the 'special' on Christmas Day (6.50pm, BBC1) this year.

Still, you don't like to look like the skeleton at the feast and spoil other peoples enjoyment, do you?

[weirdmonger]

Hey, post your pair, everyone!

[redbrain]

weirdmonger said:

Hey, post your pair, everyone!

What??

[weirdmonger]

Pair of Small Press covers for this Ark! ;D

[redbrain]

weirdmonger said:

Pair of Small Press covers for this Ark! ;D

Oh! I don't think I'll be be doing that because:

(a) Finding the covers on the Internet would be difficult - and taking my own photos of the covers wouldn't (I feel) look too good.

and

(b) Posting pictures to this board is (as I discovered when I tried) impossibly difficult.

[weirdmonger]

redbrain said:

(a) Finding the covers on the Internet would be difficult - and taking my own photos of the covers wouldn't (I feel) look too good.

If they are already on the Internet, there would be no point in putting them on this Ark as I feel that his Ark is for putting them on the internet for the first time. There are thousands of old mags - some with just a dozen people who own them! - that need electronic posterity. The Internet can be useful, some times!

(b) Posting pictures to this board is (as I discovered when I tried) impossibly difficult.

If you haven't got a scanner, I agree.
Otherwise it is easy as you simply put the image's URL between [/img] and the picture appears as if by magic. Well, magic to people of our age!

[Steve]

weirdmonger said:

Hey, post your pair, everyone!

I tried to post my pair but botophucket, who were hosting the image, said that it violated their terms of service.

I pointed out to them that I'd never had any complaints before, but I'm still waiting for a reply...

[redbrain]

weirdmonger said:

If you haven't got a scanner, I agree.

Of course I don't have a scanner. Crumbs!

weirdmonger said:

Otherwise it is easy as you simply put the image's URL between

[/img] and the picture appears as if by magic. Well, magic to people of our age! [/quote]

That sounds easy - but I couldn't make it work. I think that I needed help from the Janitor of Lunacy.