Yikes! This great cover by Laurence Herndon illustrates the first installment of the serialized novel "The Land of Hidden Men" by Edgar Rice Burroughs, which just happens to be one of the Burroughs novels I've never read. I have to get busy and catch up on some of this stuff. This issue isn't top-heavy with big-name authors, but there are still some very good pulpsters on hand including Seven Anderton, Clarence Herbert New (with a Freelances of Diplomacy story), Rollin Brown, Armand Brigaud (a JUNGLE STORIES stalwart later in his career), and Conrad Richter, whose work appeared in the pulps occasionally even though he was better known for his stories in the slicks and, later on, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels. Also on hand were some writers unknown to me: Ewing Walker, William F. Sturm, Henry LaCossitt, Albert Dorrington, Wilbur Hall, and Arthur K. Akers. What's this, an issue of BLUE BOOK without a single H. Bedford-Jones story, let alone two or three under his various pseudonyms? I thought that was against the law!
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LAND OF HIDDEN MEN/THE JUNGLE GIRL is pretty cool, in my opinion. It's from ERB's first decade of writing and has that fire that kind of dimmed a little later. I think some of his most poetic passages are in there.
Fun fact/speculation: I'm convinced that Frazetta's '70s painting for ESCAPE ON VENUS was originally painted/intended for this book and then Frank (very slightly) changed the tiger into some Venusian critter.
Thanks, Deuce. I have two different editions of this, one an Ace short edition with a Krenkel cover (I think), and a later one with a cover by someone I can't recall at the moment. Plus I have the e-book on my Kindle! So I really have no excuse for not reading it soon.
Hi...always enjoy your posts...you mention Arthur Akers in this one; I wrote a blog post on him in October 2020:
https://alabamayesterdays.blogspot.com/2020/10/alabama-author-arthur-k-akers.html
Many thanks for that link. You did an excellent job of research on Akers. It's always odd to me how some prolific authors just stop writing (for the most part) and live for several decades after that.
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