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Post by dem on Jul 31, 2021 11:04:47 GMT
Richard Krauss [ed.] - Digest Enthusiast: Book 4 (Larque Press, June 2016) Richard Krauss - Editor's Notes
Joe Wehrle, Jr. - H.G. Wells Society Newsletter #30
Richard Krauss - Digital Digest magazines
Richard Krauss - Suspense magazine
Richard Krauss - Suspense novels
Richard Krauss - Sapper: Bulldog Drummond
Steve Carper - Galaxy SF Novels
Richard Krauss - Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines by Michael L. Cook
Interview with Art Taylor
Gary Lovisi - Galaxy Magabooks
Tom Brinkmann - Criswell Predicts: Fate & Spaceway
Peter Enfantino - Shock Mystery Tales : Overview and synopses
Richard Krauss - Pocket Pin-Ups trading cards
Social Intercourse
Opening Lines
Fiction
Gary Lovisi - A Rat Must Chew
Ron Fortier - The Hideout
Joe Wehrle, Jr. - Strangers in Need
John Kuharik - Wounded Wizard
Artwork
Sean Azzopardi, Joe Wehrle, Jr, Rob Davis, Michael Neno, Brad Foster, Bob Vojtko.150+ b/w pages. Favourite article to date is Tom Brinkman's celebration of Criswell the Psychic's predictions in Fate, Spaceways SF, and Hippies ("Every page is with it! - Criswell predicts bottomless") magazines. Peter Enfantino's examination of Shock Mystery Tales ("Naked women and big ugly men. Sadomasochism. Torture chambers. Whips and chains") not quite as entertaining as the recent companion overview of Web Terror Stories in Bare Bones #6 - he has far less to work with - which is not to say that it is anything less than invaluable to we spawn of the sex & sadism pulps. A feature on Digital Download Magazines provides further evidence that there's a whole raft of intriguing POD pulp-interest digests available, it's just a question of finding - and being able to afford - them.
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Post by jamesdoig on Jul 31, 2021 22:40:47 GMT
Richard Krauss [ed.] - Digest Enthusiast: Book 4 (Larque Press, June 2016) Richard Krauss - Editor's Notes
Joe Wehrle, Jr. - H.G. Wells Society Newsletter #30
Richard Krauss - Digital Digest magazines
Richard Krauss - Suspense magazine
Richard Krauss - Suspense novels
Richard Krauss - Sapper: Bulldog Drummond
Steve Carper - Galaxy SF Novels
Richard Krauss - Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines by Michael L. Cook
Interview with Art Taylor
Gary Lovisi - Galaxy Magabooks
Tom Brinkmann - Criswell Predicts: Fate & Spaceway
Peter Enfantino - Shock Mystery Tales : Overview and synopses
Richard Krauss - Pocket Pin-Ups trading cards
Social Intercourse
Opening Lines
Gee, there's a lot of stuff in this - from Bulldog Drummond to digital digests. Dem, does the article on the Galaxy SF novels just cover the early part of the series which were digests, or also the later paperbacks with the sexy covers? Is the article on trading cards about this sort of thing:   |
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Post by dem on Aug 1, 2021 5:54:02 GMT
Hi James. The articles you mention are among the shortest running to two pages each. The Galaxy megabooks concern numbers 1-3, written by Lester del Rey, Jack Williamson and Theodore Sturgeon, so far too early in scheme of things for sexiness. The trading cards, however, are very much that sort of thing - 36 covers selected by Max Allan Collins, 32 in full colour, and an impressive eight featuring the lady in avatar accompanying this post. Also have a copy of #10. Will try add notes later. Richard Krauss [ed.] - Digest Enthusiast: Book 10 (Larque Press, June 2019) Richard Krauss - News Digest
Interview with James Reasoner
Ward Smith - When is a Digest not a Digest?
Peter Enfantino - Startling Mystery Stories : Series Overview
Richard Krauss - Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, May/ June 2019
Vince Nowell, Sr - How Sol Cohen’s "saved" Amazing Stories
Richard Krauss - Charlie Chan Mystery magazine
Steve Carper - The one and only Bronze books.
Tom Brinkmann - The Creature from the Black Lagoon with the Seven Year Itch
Richard Krauss - Broadswords & Blasters #9
Peter Enfantino - Manhunt 1959: Part II. Synopses
Opening Lines
Index to Digest Enthusiast No 1 — 10
Fiction
Joe Wehrle, Jr. - Kromaflies
Robert Snashall - G Cruise
Clark Dissmeyer - Internet (Verse)
Artwork
Bob Vojtko, Carolyn Cosgriff, Brian Buniak, Pexels. |
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Post by dem on Aug 3, 2021 9:15:36 GMT
"Then suddenly he turned on me, his eyes bulging, frothing at the mouth, just like the Creature from the Black Lagoon ..." - Marilyn Monroe, The Seven Year Itch." Tom Brinkman, whose Criswell retrospective was personal pick of several fine articles in Digest Enthusiast #4, again scores highly with The Creature From The Black Lagoon with the Seven Year Itch. Beginning with above quote, Mr. Brinkmann explores several tenuous but, with each new discovery, increasingly fascinating links between two movies. Article highlights novels, novelisations, reviews and articles pertaining to the movies from a variety of digest publications including SF Digest, Mechanix Illustrated: The How-to-do Magazine, and US Camera. As title suggests, The News Digest is a round up of out now and forthcoming (mostly) POD pulp digests including the announcement of four then-impending Justin Marriott publications ( Paperback Fanatic 41, Men of Violence 12, Hot Lead 3 and the launch of Monster Maniacs). Also due/ received Occult Detective Quarterly #5, the current Weirdbook, Analog, Asimov's SF, Nostalgia Digest, Pulp Literature, and Nigel Taylor's super World of Strangeness #3, among many others! Ward Smith's When is a Digest not a Digest, devotes its four pages to US armed forces editions distributed free to servicemen and women from 1943-47. Peter Enfantiono provides an overview of Startling Mystery Stories (sadly no synopses this time) before giving the July-Dec 1954 issues of Manhunt a thorough seeing to. Steve Carper's The One and Only Bronze Books, celebrates two breakthrough Robert Lucas novels, Hot Chocolate and Harlem Model, (Designs Publishing, 1952), written and packaged for a then wholly neglected audience. "[Arnold] Abramson's companies had plenty of flaws — low payments to authors, misleading covers and blurbs, books re-titled to hide that they were reprints — but his releasing a line of paperbacks aimed at black readers, original novels at that, has to be commended for its courage. No other major paperback company dared to do that in the 1950's. Bronze books were utterly unique, desperately needed, and way ahead of their time." Order via the Am*z*n of your choice. One thing to bear in mind. As is the case with those issues of Phantasmagoria sampled, the Kindle edition is full colour, the print version is monochrome. |
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Post by dem on Jan 22, 2022 18:30:53 GMT
Richard Krauss [ed.] - Digest Enthusiast 11 (Larque Press, Jan 2020) Rick McCollum ( Madame Selina) News Digest
Richard Krauss - Madame Selina: Interview with Janice Law
Gary Lovisi - Joe Barry's Homicide Hotel (review)
Peter Enfantino - Manhunt 1954: synopses part three
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Fiction
Joe Wehrle, Jr. - Zymurgy for Aliens (art by Michael Neno)
Vince Nowell, Sr. - The Good Soldier (collage by Marc Myers)
John Kuharik - Buckthorn Justice (art by Rick McCollum)
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Vince Nowell, Sr. - Beyond Understanding: Beyond Infinity, Dec. 1967
Richard Krauss - Paperback Parade #104 (review)
Richard Krauss - Interview with Paul D. Marks
Richard Krauss - Leo Margulies: Giant of the Digests
Bob Vojtko - Bent Lemons(Comic strip)
Richard Krauss - Tough 2: Crime Stories (review)
Steve Carper - A Classic Error; Hillman Publications Mystery & Western novels.
Richard Krauss - Interview with Jeff Vorzimmer
Ward Smith - When the Butterfly Emerged From the Cocoon; Astounding Stories
EQMM & AHMM at the Expo and Banquet
Opening Lines As with Paperback Fanatic, Bare Bones and, I'm sure, the many titles listed in the News Digest, each issue of Digest Enthusiast is an education in itself. Still have some way to go, but this time out, two articles I particularly like are Richard Krauss on Leo Margulies and Vince Nowell Sr. on the first - and last - issue of SF digest Beyond Infinity, which references an exciting teenybopper idols in peril mystery novel. Perhaps some more on this later ...
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Post by helrunar on Jan 22, 2022 19:06:03 GMT
That sounds quite cool. I'm intrigued by the cover painting; presume it is an illustration from a particular tale, one I might enjoy reading.
Teeny-bopper idols in peril reminds me of the great fun of the Partridge Family tie-in novel threads on here, and a couple of other threads that were quite a gas to read; one involved some 1970s UK mag that covered a lot of the teen idols of the era, but I can no longer recall the name. I remember there were some sexy lads (and, alas, some inarguably naff gits) pictured on the covers. Nature does not distribute Her favors with an impartial hand.
H.
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Post by dem on Jan 22, 2022 19:31:44 GMT
That sounds quite cool. I'm intrigued by the cover painting; presume it is an illustration from a particular tale, one I might enjoy reading. H. The cover painting depicts Janice Law's 'Madame Seline,' a post Civil War spirit medium whose adventures first saw publication in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. As to the popstars in peril, Vince Nowell, Sr. writes; That's not the half of it. A quick g**gle reveals at least five books Debbie Preston mysteries, four written by Sylvia Resnick ( The Partridge Family Cookbook, The Walton Family Cookbook, Burt Reynolds: An Unauthorized Biography, & co.). Sylvia Resnick - Debbie Preston, Teenage Reporter In The Case Of The Gypsy's Warning (Tiger Beat, NAL 1972) " Follow super-Hollywood sleuth Debbie Preston as she meets David Cassidy, and the Osmonds, and solves one of the most suspenseful, exciting mysteries ever written. " Doug Stapleton - Debbie Preston, teenage reporter, in The case of the superstar mystery cruise (Tiger Beat, NAL 1973). A pleasure-filled cruise turns into a terrifying mystery that threatens the Osmonds and a host of other superstars! Follow super-sleuth, teenage reporter Debbie Preston as she battles against time to unravel the mystery before disaster strikes! Sylvia Resnick - Debbie Preston, Teenage Reporter In The Donny Osmond Mystery (Tiger Beat, 1972). The greatest mystery ever! — Donny Osmond disappears! Join Debbie Preston and Jay, Alan, Wayne and Merrill Osmond as they search Hollywood for Donny .... Follow super-sleuth Debbie as she unravels the strange disappearance of Donny Osmond! in the DONNY OSMOND MYSTERY ... Sylvia Resnick - Debbie Preston, teenage reporter; The Hollywood Mystery (Tiger Beat, NAL 1972). Super reporter and detective Debbie Preston is assigned to write about the greatest TV musical ever filmed with the greatest cast ever assembled — DONNY OSMOND, DAVID CASSIDY, MICHAEL GRAY, BOBBY SHERMAN, CHRIS KNIGHT — then mysterious accidents and events begin to happen and Debbie steps in to solve the exciting, suspenseful HOLLYWOOD MYSTERY! Sylvia Resnick - Debbie Preston, teenage reporter; in The Michael Gray Hawaiian Mystery (Tiger Beat/ NAL, 1973). The sunny shores of Honolulu are packed with mystery and danger when Debbie and handsome Tim Grant try to track down four bank robbers who have made off with a huge sum of money and the star of NBC-TV's "Little People" — MICHEAL GRAY! Follow super-sleuth Debbie as she encounters an ancient civilisation and tries to solve the baffling "HAWAIIAN MYSTERY" |
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Post by helrunar on Jan 22, 2022 20:04:56 GMT
Dem, you're marvelous--always know how to bring a smile on the most joyless of days.
Donny Osmond disappears!!!!... Had it ended happily, he would have stayed that way. LOL. I've never heard of Michael Gray or The Little People. Presumably this was one career that sank quickly into oblivion.
Those books sound like quite the hoot. But I imagine that, as usual, they're more fun to read about than actually slog through.
cheers, Hel
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Post by helrunar on Jan 22, 2022 20:09:00 GMT
It would seem that The Little People aired in the US from 1972 to 1974. In its second season, it was re-titled The Brian Keith Show (Keith was the adult lead of something called A Family Affair which was one of the popular sitcoms of the late 60s in the US), and was distinguished by the presence of Nancy Kulp, one of our favorites here. We lost her way too young.
H.
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Post by Swampirella on Jan 22, 2022 20:40:11 GMT
It would seem that The Little People aired in the US from 1972 to 1974. In its second season, it was re-titled The Brian Keith Show (Keith was the adult lead of something called A Family Affair which was one of the popular sitcoms of the late 60s in the US), and was distinguished by the presence of Nancy Kulp, one of our favorites here. We lost her way too young. H. (Edited) I remember enjoying "A Family Affair" starring Brian Keith, but didn't know she was in "The Brian Keith Show". Of course she was marvelous as Miss Jane Hathaway. |
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Post by helrunar on Jan 22, 2022 22:18:03 GMT
Hi Miss Scarlett,
Nancy was in The Brian Keith Show, not Family Affair. Although her accent and Sebastian Cabot's would have played off one another marvelously if she'd ever guested on the latter show. When Family Affair was in production, however, Nancy was busy on The Beverly Hillbillies. Still a fun show to revisit sometimes.
H.
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Post by Swampirella on Jan 22, 2022 22:29:16 GMT
Hi Miss Scarlett, Nancy was in The Brian Keith Show, not Family Affair. Although her accent and Sebastian Cabot's would have played off one another marvelously if she'd ever guested on the latter show. When Family Affair was in production, however, Nancy was busy on The Beverly Hillbillies. Still a fun show to revisit sometimes. H. Sorry, Steve!  I chopped and changed my comment & then didn't notice I'd inadvertantly left it to say she was in Family Affair. I've corrected my quote accordingly. |
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Post by dem on Jan 23, 2022 12:18:27 GMT
I've never heard of Michael Gray or The Little People. Presumably this was one career that sank quickly into oblivion. He was in Shazam. Also Marcia's dishy boyfriend in The Brady Bunch. These are other exciting Michael facts at Micheal Gray TV Com |
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I chopped and changed my comment & then didn't notice I'd inadvertantly left it to say she was in Family Affair. I've corrected my quote accordingly.