A dramatic cover by Rudolph Belarski graces this issue of ARGOSY. I may be wrong about this, but it seems to me that snakes show up fairly often in Belarski's covers. I may have to investigate this. As always, there are some excellent writers in this issue: Theodore Roscoe, Charles Marquis Warren, Jack Byrne, Chandler Whipple, Kenneth Perkins, and one I'm not familiar with, Robert W. Cochran. Although the serials can drive a reader crazy, ARGOSY was certainly one of the great pulps.
You ain’t kiddin’ about those ARGOSY serials! It took me years to acquire all the installments of Lester Dent’s GENIUS JONES. And even though I already had the FAMOUS FANTASTIC MYSTERY reprint of Kuttner and Moore’s EARTH’S LAST CITADEL (and the Ace paperback too), I found one of the original ARGOSY installments in a used bookstore and it had a swell Finlay illustration I’d never seen before, so I decided I needed all six of those, too. If it wasn’t for eBay, that could easily have taken decades.
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With me, it was trying to find all the installments of BOWIE KNIFE, TEXAS SHALL BE FREE, and RIVER DEVIL by H. Bedford-Jones. I managed to get them, but it took a while. I think the first ARGOSY serial I deliberately collected was CARNIVAL QUEEN by Richard Wormser.
ReplyDeleteIs the Charles Marquis Warren in Argosy the same guy who created the TV series Rawhide.
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