Fiction Collection (page 13)

Black Magic
US comic cited as an example of the need to prevent the sale of unsuitable comics to children, 1954-1955 Date: 1954-1955

Frankenstein Comic
US comic cited as an example of the need to prevent the sale of unsuitable comics to children, 1954-1955 Date: 1954-1955

Amorous Confessions front cover
Front cover of a pulp fiction paperback featuring a blonde woman posing in seductively in a blue dress to reveal her stockings. Date: 1950s

The Copy Cat Killings - front cover by David Wright
Front cover of a pulp fiction paperback, The Copy-Cat Killings by Martin Thomas, with a vampish femme fatale painted by David Wright. Date: 1950

Book cover by David Wright You Can Call It a Day by Peter Ch
Book jacket designed by David Wright for the title, You Can Call it a Day by Peter Cheney featuring a red-haired woman wearing an alluringly, transparent black dress

Book cover by David Wright Ladies Won t Wait by Peter Cheney
Book jacket designed by David Wright for the title, Ladies Won t Wait by Peter Cheney featuring a a woman seductively revealing an elegant shoulder as her red dress falls down. Date: c.1950

Poster advertising The Sorrows of Satan

Giant Cabbages
A bumper crop of giant cabbages, long before the days of genetic modification. Date: early 1930s

G-Man vs The Red X book back cover
Back cover of a pulp fiction thriller called G-Man vs the Red X showing a sinister shadowy figure looking through a window at a riverside scene bathed in red. Date: 1936

Robert Graves, English poet, translator and novelist
Robert (von) Ranke Graves (1895-1985), English poet, translator and novelist. His autobiography covering his experiences of the First World War, Goodbye To All That (published 1929)

Hypnotic Ball
BARTONs ISLAND (Harl Vincent) The electric long-distance hypnotic ball is sent to incapacitate a member of the Secret Council, just in time Date: 1929

THE RADIUM MASTER (Jim Vanny) Earth explorers on Urania are prisoners of a robot controlled by the masked Emperor Date: 1930

Ghost of Mars / Fuqua
Ghost of Mars (Festus Pragnell) An encounter with the Martian giant Date: 1938

Rehabilitating Earth
EARTH REHABILITATORS CONSOLIDATED (Henry J Kostkos) Earth descendants on Saturn plan to restore abandoned Earth to its former glory Date: 1935

TWIN WORLDS (Neil R Jones) The machine-men of Zor explore another new world... Date: 1937

THE MUSIC MONSTERS (Neil R Jones) The machine-men of Zorome are not robots, but artificial creatures with living organic brains to control them Date: 1938

Zagribud Meets Earthling
Zagribud (John Russell Fearn) Rath Granod, Master of Zagribud, confronts the earthlings. Date: 1938

THE BEETLE EXPERIMENT (Russell Hays) The reckless scientist, pursuing knowledge regardless of the consequences, confronts his unintended creation Date: 1929

Atom Smasher, Astounding Stories Scifi Magazine Cover
The Atom Smasher. Travelling through space and time. Date: May 1930

Moon of Arcturus
MOON OF ARCTURUS (Richard Tooker) The Terran rescue team practise for their mission to retrieve a girl marooned on a satellite of Arcturus Date: 1935

The Inner World
THE INNER WORLD (A Hyatt Verrill) A traveller to the Inner Earth encounters its alarming fauna Date: 1935

Insect God, Wonder Stories Scifi Magazine Cover
THE MOON MISTRESS - the insect god prepares to give his hungry followers a tasty dinner of raw Earthman. Date: 1932

The Red Peril
Soviet Russia perceived as a threat in American science - fiction : in Captain Macks The Red Peril Russian craft, protected by force fields, defy the U.S. defences Date: 1929

A Giant Amoeba
CAPTAIN BRINK OF THE SPACE MARINES (Bob Olsen) The Space Marines face the threat of giant amoebas on Titan - highly intelligent amoebas they are, moreover. Date: 1932

Explorers of Calisto, Amazing Stories Scifi Magazine Cover
EXPLORERS OF CALLISTO - Earthmen encounter the evil Lunarians as they pursue the Princess Date: 1930

Book / Time Device
ZAGRIBUD (John Russell Fearn) The Time Device allows the hero and heroine - but also the villain ! - to move in a fourth dimension... Date: 1937

Space Marines & Slavers
THE SPACE MARINES AND THE SLAVERS (Bob Olsen) Captain Brink watches on his teleview slaver Zureks last stand, vainly wielding his electrolysis guns. Date: 1936

City Beneath Pacific
THe Green Girl (Jack Williamson) - reaching the city beneath the Pacific Ocean. Date: 1930

The 35th Millennium
THE 35TH MILLENNIUM (Arthur G Stangland) War in space : the merciless Kulons (bad) seek to destroy the last of the Futurans (good). Date: 1931

RETURN OF SATAN (Robert Moore Williams) Fighting desperately against the super-brain... Date: 1939

GOD-BRAIN
AVENGERS OF SPACE (Henry Kuttner) The captive travellers from Earth are dragged before the God-Brain of Kathor. Date: 1938

Micro-Men Invasion 1946
Invasion of the Micro-Men (Richard Shaver) Date: 1946

Eastwood, to be Worthy
TO BE WORTHY OF SHADOWS (Helen Eastwood) She stands beside her husband - drunk or asleep ? - while out on the river the shadow of another man appears... Date: 1930s

IN THE SPACESPHERE (Charles Cloukey) The Earthman hi-jacks the spaceship, using his useful slug-gun Date: 1931

Secret of the Pyramid
SECRET OF THE PYRAMID (Robert Moore Williams) The hero battles with the monstrous Zorlings in the interior of the Great Pyramid Date: 1939

Don Quixote on horseback
A scene from Cervantes novel Don Quixote -- the hero of the title makes his way across the countryside on horseback, dreaming of adventures. Date: First published: 1605-15

Wonder Stories Scifi Magazine Cover, Red April
Red April, 1965 - A ray from a spinning ball, created by three enemy ships, destroys an American spaceship. Date: 1932

FLIGHT OF THE MERCURY
THE FLIGHT OF THE MERCURY (Charles R Tanner) The space travellers from Earth make their escape from Mars in their ether-propelled spacecraft Date: 1930

Return of the Tripeds
THE RETURN OF THE TRIPEDS (Neil R Jones) The Professor (as a metal man) fights the flying beings until his rescue ship arrives. Date: 1932

SECRET OF BURIED CITY
SECRET OF THE BURIED CITY (John Russell Fearn) The Earth is destroyed to make way for a better civilisation Date: 1939

BEAM TRANSMISSION (George H Scheer, junior) Earthmen encounter bizarre (by our standards) aliens, on an unknown world Date: 1934

SKYLARK THREE (Dr Edward E Smith) The spaceship from Earth slices through the hostile craft from the planet Fenechrone Date: 1930

DIMENSIONAL FATE (A L Burkholder) Earthmen explore the Fouth Dimension Date: 1934

LAND WHALE
THE STEAM GOD (Walter Kateley) The lost aviator, in the hidden valley, is shown the land whales Date: 1929

Masterminds of Venus, Amazing Stories Scifi Magazine Cover
MASTER MINDS OF VENUS - Friendly Venerians [sic] come to help Earthfolk Date: 1934

Masefield / John / Photo
JOHN MASEFIELD English poet, playwriter and fiction writer in old age Date: 1878 - 1967

Death in Stratosphere
DEATH IN THE STRATOSPHERE (Henry J Kostkos) Explorers encounter alarming wildlife up there : the heroine, dressed for golf, defends her spacecraft Date: 1937

A BABY ON NEPTUNE (Harris and Breuer) Safe (they trust !) inside their pressurised capsule, visitors from Earth arouse the curiosity of Neptunes fauna Date: 1929

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