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by Godforgives,Idon't » Wed Sep 03, 2025 10:30 am
The first thread is all comics. The second thread seems to mostly be more recent books and magazines. The third thread is also all comics. I also checked the "Pulp SW Thread". I only found one story that I've read, "Tink Takes A Fling" by William P. McGivern (Fantastic Adventures, June 1942), plus a few interior illustrations and a lot of covers.
Go to the "Seriously?" thread in the Introductions sub-forum and click on the link that Elana made. (The link that I made doesn't work.) It's a thread titled "Tiny little people novels!" on a message board that I'm a member of, Vault of Evil. (Though I haven't't posted there in years.) I listed some shrinking-themed pulp stories, plus I linked to the cover art. (Though "Drummers of Daugavo" by Dwight V. Swain is SM, and you all already know about "Bottle Baby" by Henry Slesar.) In "Return To Lilliput" by William Brengle, the Lilliputians can now shrink invaders down to their size...and their "guinea pig" is a woman. (Though the cover image and the splash page illustration show her as a "giantess" with the Lilliputians, before she's shrunk.) It looks like I didn't give a plot summary for the WWII-themed story "Laboratory of the Mighty Mites" by Gilbert Rae Sonbergh. There's a new government job that involves working on bombsights that pays very well. The workers are knocked out, I think with gas, and wake up nude. They put on their work clothes and work on the bombsights. At the end of the day, they're knocked out again, wake up nude again, put on their regular clothes, and go home. Of course, when they're knocked out, they get shrunk and restored to normal size. (Tiny people are needed to do the precision work on the bombsights.) Apparently repeatedly being shrunk and restored to normal size eventually is fatal. That's why the job pays so well. One of the workers finds out the truth, and stages a revolt.(I actually bought this pulp for the second half of the previous issue's cover story, "Priestess of the Floating Skull", which turned out to be a "letdown".)
More pulp stories:
"The Little People" by Eando Binder (Fantastic Adventures, March 1940): Pretty much a standard "people get shrunk, captured, and tormented, until they escape" story, except that these people are already tiny. The front cover image is mostly accurate, except that the SW should be a brunette, not a blonde. The follow-up story, "Wanderer of Little Land" (Fantastic Adventures, June 1941) is actually a better story, but the SW content is minimal. (Though it does include the line "He held his wife and gazed into her azure eyes.".)
"Tink Fights the Gremlins" by William P. McGivern (Fantastic Adventures, October 1943): Not that well-written, but it was nice to see a brave, heroic SW. (In one of the interior illustrations, she's helping to fight a lion. The artist goofed; there are two SW's and a SM fighting the lion, when it should be two SM's and one SW.)
Science Island by Eando Binder (Startling Stories, January 1939): A "land of the giants" story that includes KoPilot's favorite, giant robots. But we don't find this out until the near the end of the story. ("We're little pygmies now!" "No you're not. You've always been your normal size. Everything here is big.")
"Freddie Funk's Flippant Fairies" (Fantastic Adventures, September 1948): This pulp was taken away from me and put in the storage facility before I could unpack it. So this story, which was part of a series, may or may not have SW content.