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Tag Archives: Kevin Cook
Rediscovered: Wings of Danger
Months ago I was emailing back and forth with Kevin Cook and he mentioned that he was thinking about getting rid of a couple of his Lost Race novels, because they were duds and he’d never read them again. Now, … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, REH
Tagged Arthur A. Nelson, Autographs, Kevin Cook, Lost Race, Vikings, Wings of Danger
Rediscovered: Mark Channing White Python Slugfest
Autograph Hound Saturday once more, and it looks as if the theme for the weekend is “Lost Race” John Hancockery. You know the Lost Race genre, where one dude or another — Alan Quartermain or Tarzan, usually the athletic type — often as … Continue reading
Rediscovered: Modern Arkham Ephemera
Autograph Hound Saturday rolls around once again, and What the Hell! Brian Leno is off for the weekend on an expedition into the darkest corners of lowlife gambling dens, and he’s incommunicado. Kevin Cook apparently is digging through all his … Continue reading
Posted in Lit
Tagged Arkham House, August Derleth, Autographs, Brian Leno, Donald Wandrei, John D. Haefele, Kevin Cook, Lin Carter, Roderic Meng
Rediscovered: A. Merritt
For Autograph Hound Super-Sunday (Revisited), Kevin Cook dips into his archival material to do a showcase on another of his favorite authors: Abraham Merritt. If you recall, Kevin got interested in the concept and potential ramifications of the autograph weekends … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, REH
Tagged A. Merritt, Autographs, Frank A. Munsey, Kevin Cook, Robert Davis, Seven Footprints to Satan
Rediscovered: Tod Robbins
And finally for this incarnation of Autograph Hound Saturday Revisited we lay out another signature from Clarence A. Robbins, often billed as C.A. Robbins, but best known as Tod Robbins, who wrote the story that served as the kernel of … Continue reading
Rediscovered: Another Lamb
Back in July we dropped a couple of early signatures by adventure writer Harold Lamb. For Autograph Hound Saturday Revisited how about one from much later in Lamb’s long career, to give you a chance to compare and contrast? Inked into … Continue reading
Rediscovered: E. Charles Vivian
Kevin Cook returns once more to handle the autograph action this weekend, but let’s put some spin on it with the premiere of Autograph Hound Saturday Revisited. An easy concept. You’ve seen signatures by these people before. But you haven’t seen these John … Continue reading
Rediscovered: Hobart Gondor Wagglestaff?
Another Autograph Hound Super-Sunday rolls around, relentlessly, like time itself. I thought Brian Leno might finally have snapped, after the last weekend’s round of superb John Hancockery from Kevin Cook. Brian popped me a note: “Cook’s stuff was fantastic. I almost broke … Continue reading
Rediscovered: Monahan v. Finlay
Kevin Cook adds some thoughts in re: the artist P.J. Monahan, featured in today’s Autograph Hound Super-Sunday Polaris — of the Snows coverage: “Probably best remembered for his later All-Story Weekly cover painting for Edgar Rice Burroughs’ ‘Thuvia, Maid of … Continue reading
Posted in Lit
Tagged All-Story, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Kevin Cook, P. J. Monahan, Polaris of the Snows, Virgil Finlay
Rediscovered: The Munsey Trove
In his coverage of the most recent PulpFest for the Pulp Flakes blog, I noticed Walker Martin make this comment: “Now you might wonder what I bought and sold. As usual my best seller were the cancelled checks that Bob Weinberg … Continue reading
Posted in Dash, Lit, News, REH
Tagged A. Merritt, Autographs, Brian Leno, Frank A. Munsey, Kevin Cook, Popular Publications, Pulp Flakes, PulpFest, Robert Weinberg, Scott Hartshorn, Walker Martin
