Jan 12
Ken R. Comments: This beauty is from 1945, Duchess Publishing, Canada. It is infamous for it’s ugliness as well as crediting the editor, John W. Campbell, as the author. Ray Cummings sued to have it removed from the shelves, thus it’s scarcity.
You might remember this from here.
Published 1945
January 12th, 2021 at 9:51 am
“Oh, we are the lads from Country Life and you’ll never put a better bit of butter on your knife!”
January 12th, 2021 at 1:49 pm
The moons largest export is the balaclava. 80% of GDP, 40% of galactic market share.
January 12th, 2021 at 3:58 pm
The Moon’s inhabitants took Covid precautions to extremes, insisting everyone wear full-body PPE and carry a 2 metre long social distancing stick at all times.
January 12th, 2021 at 4:55 pm
Ba-na-na!
January 12th, 2021 at 5:04 pm
Deserves a font problems special achievement award for that “of”.
January 12th, 2021 at 5:38 pm
The first live-action “Gumby” movie had a limited budget.
January 12th, 2021 at 5:44 pm
Huh, so this isn’t “Tintin vs the Cheese Men of Mushroomia”?
January 12th, 2021 at 7:24 pm
The letter G is upstaging the others and S is trying hitch a ride on the tiny spaceship.
January 12th, 2021 at 7:28 pm
1942 pulp reprint cover for Brigands. Bottom one. Click cover to enlarge. The other 3 are ….interesting.
https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?minyr=1942&maxyr=1942&TID=23984907
January 12th, 2021 at 8:25 pm
One for the Great White North—
“Hey, who’re you calling a tête carrée ?”
January 13th, 2021 at 2:22 am
Lego Minifigs of the Moon.
I can’t blame Cummings for suing to get this off shelves. If I’d been alive at the time, I certainly would have supported him.
Why are there so many Saturns? Is it a mushroom cloud, or a closeup of a knife (with a rocket engraving) chopping mushrooms? Sous-Chefs of the Moon?
Another work that never got a good cover.
@Tat: GSS.
PS Mr. XN says “carved from erasers” — both the humanoids and the mushrooms
January 13th, 2021 at 2:49 am
@Fred – why do the first two of these Science Fiction Quarterly issues indicate that the main feature is a “book-length novel”?
Is there another kind of NON-book-length novel?
January 13th, 2021 at 5:49 am
@Ryan: well, some writers improperly constrained by editors do write novels far too long to be books (although certainly effective as door stops, roach crushers, and exercise equipment).
January 19th, 2021 at 12:14 pm
Now we know where Stephen Hillenburg got the idea for Spongebob Squarepants.
January 22nd, 2021 at 2:09 am
Either a pair of happy robots or the oddest-looking welding helmets ever….
April 20th, 2021 at 5:34 am
I guess they’re Green Bay Packer fans on the Moon.