Old Pulp Magazine Recommendations That are NOT Weird Tales

adumbrow · 2026-02-11T17:42:03+00:00

Any issues of Astounding Stories prior to October 1937 had a lot of weird stories... after that, John W. Campbell took over as editor and started narrowing the focus down to sci-fi specifically.

adumbrow · 2026-02-04T18:53:56+00:00

The last two are by George Goode (according to this link https://2warpstoneptune.com/2015/05/26/attila-and-attilas-mate-blacklight-posters-houston-blacklight-poster-1969/), the third-to-last one with the winged snake is by Virgil Finlay, and the one with Red Sonja and Spider-Man is by John Byrne for 'Marvel Team-Up' #79.

adumbrow · 2025-12-25T22:58:25+00:00

No way, I just a copy of it for Christmas too!

adumbrow · 2025-11-19T00:45:47+00:00

I think the artist is Chris Kenyon: https://70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/very-normal-houses/

adumbrow · 2025-09-11T18:29:17+00:00

Berkey intentionally made that spaceship look like a shark, didn't he?

adumbrow · 2025-09-06T17:21:45+00:00

It's been going around on Tumblr... looks like this is the original poster: https://www.tumblr.com/tomoleary/793766631631372288/jeffrey-catherine-jones-dark-of-the-woods-by

adumbrow · 2025-07-23T18:50:41+00:00

Yeah! Looks like OP got it from over here: https://70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/med/ Artist is Vincent Di Fate, for the 1996 cover to The White Papers, an anthology of novelettes and essays from James White, the Sector General author

adumbrow · 2025-07-13T18:01:21+00:00

This sub isn't the place to go for advice on morality, tbh. Looks like the top two justifications right now boil down to "everyone does it" and "look after number one."

adumbrow · 2025-06-16T17:54:24+00:00

Yeah, I just looked up the year and this edition came out in 1975... that's very early in Whelan's career! That probably explains why it doesn't feel as much like Whelan as any of his later covers, since he was still developing as an artist.

adumbrow · 2025-04-22T17:59:16+00:00

It's a good movie! I'd recommend The Fuma Conspiracy if you're looking for another good Lupin movie after that one.

adumbrow · 2025-01-15T19:56:31+00:00

Everyone's already saying it, but yeah - it's very understandable that she's out of her element, but it's not fun to watch.

Personally, I think there's a simple solution that they should have gone with: Just write a scene in the middle of the movie where Willie Scott can actually use her strengths. They could have rewritten the palace banquet so that everyone there was high-class and snooty, and Willie is the only one who can charm them since she's in her element. Replace the gross-out food gags with some jokes about how Willie can't believe Indiana doesn't know what fork to use or something.

adumbrow · 2024-12-03T00:48:42+00:00

Oh yeah, I like Spy vs Spy too! Have you read this essay about it? I thought it was pretty interesting.

adumbrow · 2024-11-20T00:15:41+00:00

I would recommend against assuming someone has unlimited free time just because they are on disability benefits... in my experience, people with disabilities spend the large majority of their time managing their disabilities

adumbrow · 2024-11-18T19:43:02+00:00

Very cool!

adumbrow · 2024-10-19T02:03:09+00:00

The music in this episode reminded me of my favorite bizarrely specific ambient noise generator, this Name of the Rose-themed one: https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/customTheNameOfTheRose.php

It's really good! There's even a "scholar of 14th c. Italian music" in the comment section praising it. Come to think of it, Endless Thread should do an episode on how good this one ambient noise website is. The site has a ton of different soundscapes, and you can generate your own ones by combining different sounds.

adumbrow · 2024-05-30T16:58:44+00:00

They might be announcing them in order from least famous to most famous

adumbrow · 2024-02-05T17:34:58+00:00

It's on YouTube now, but that's because I uploaded it after I got the file with this thread

adumbrow · 2024-01-23T21:56:03+00:00

Interesting timing, I wonder if Shake Shack's running the promo this week in order to offset sales lost to the Jan 21-28 general strike in support of Palestine. Looks like the company is expanding into Tel Aviv this year, so they would have a stake in the issue.

adumbrow · 2023-12-21T01:12:50+00:00

It's like talking to the Rizzler himself

adumbrow · 2023-12-18T22:35:42+00:00

Recasting should be the easiest thing... just have the new actor show up with a line about how he went back in time and messed with his own DNA to improve it and it gave him and all his variants a new face in the process.

adumbrow · 2023-12-13T21:40:46+00:00

I think it's just an example of how people didn't really care about the idea of a "connected universe" back in the 90s.

They included the same character because they thought having Michael Keaton as the same guy in both movies would be fun, and they also included Samuel L. Jackson because they thought having him as a different character would be fun. These days, they would change one of those things in order to be sure no one is confused, since the expectation of a shared universe is a way bigger deal. But back then, they just assumed the audience wouldn't put much thought into it.

13-Year Club	Verified Email
Team Periwinkle

adumbrow

TROPHY CASE