Pulp SW thread

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From the series "Contes Satyriques", "Ma Sorciere Balayez" (sadly the cover has nothing to do with the actual story)

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From French editor Elvifrance, Satires #26 - Le nain de ma sœur (from GTS to SW)

Translated from original Italian (Maghella)













For the full comic:
https://e-hentai.org/g/2237763/418d593c97/

[foreverlurk]

Request : I'm looking for the comic Auranella #11 (or Uranella in original Italian), called "L'ombre de la mort"... the cover IS relevant in this case, as she shrinks because of a flower named "Mikroflor".

It's a long shot but some of you people are really good at hunting down those hard to find comics...

[Hand-Holder]

Request : I'm looking for the comic Auranella #11 (or Uranella in original Italian), called "L'ombre de la mort"... the cover IS relevant in this case, as she shrinks because of a flower named "Mikroflor".

It's a long shot but some of you people are really good at hunting down those hard to find comics...

This is the best I can do - https://www.bedetheque.com/BD-Auranella ... 03104.html

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[Womenshrinker]

[JOE66]

A great poster. But the movie has no shrinking. It was a straight to video..... movie. Low budget and probably awful.

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[JOE66]

Such classics! Thanks for sharing

[ensmallen]

Anyone ever read this story? I vaguely remember someone telling me about a movie or TV episode about astronauts returning to Earth and finding everything gigantic. Just like the blurb here says?

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The Theory of Relativity has many weird applications. Just suppose that everything around you – including your own body – grew to a thousand times its size…. would you know? There is no such thing as absolute size. There is no such thing as absolute measurement. You can only comprehend magnitude in relation to other magnitudes.

The same would hold true for contraction…. If it took place universally.

But what happens when relativity misses a beat? If one section of the galaxy — one corner of the cosmos expanded or contracted out of proportion to another?

The first experimental hyper-drive ship blasted off into Deep Space. Time got out of gear. So did the dimensional correlates. So did the relative proportions of the ship, the crew, and their home world.

What would they find when they returned? Would they be dwarfs or giants? Or so completely out of proportion that they would never fit in again….?

Above all — could the effect be reversed?

https://pulpcovers.com/the-cosmic-puppets/#3

[foreverlurk]

Anyone ever read this story? I vaguely remember someone telling me about a movie or TV episode about astronauts returning to Earth and finding everything gigantic. Just like the blurb here says?

Oh I have a very vague memory of reading a sci-fi book about a hyperdrive tech that ended up shrinking a ship to the size of a football, along with the crew. It was a French translation, and the crew was all-male (a detail I still remember because, well, you know). I think some of the crew might have been prisoners?!

For the TV show, it could be the Twilight Zone? There's an episode called "The Little People", but it's actually them who are gigantic while the inhabitants are ant-sized.

Rings a bell either way.

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[anaio10]

[Schadenfreude]

Let's put the little dames here, shall we? I'll start Note a few Ant themed pictures, I swear it's just a Coincidence

I bought this pulp (Amazing Stories, December 1949) and read the cover story. There is no such scene in the story.

I bought this pulp (Amazing Stories, July 1946) and read the cover story. That's a scene from a play, with a normal-sized woman in a fairy costume and a mechanical giant spider. (Though I seem to recall the mechanical giant spider malfunctioning and almost harming the woman.)

[Hand-Holder]

They really had no solution for the cylops eye and nose there huh

By the way, here is that full Cyclop´s comic, you will like it - https://e-hentai.org/g/1275108/2e70935e45/

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I bought this pulp (Startling Stories, January 1939) and read the cover story. It's a "land of the giants" story (with KoPilot's favorite, giant robots). The title of the story is "Science Island" (by Eando Binder). Here's the splash page illustration, which was posted elsewhere in this thread:



(This is the very first issue of Startling Stories. So the only way that I could get one was to buy one that was literally falling apart. It's the oldest pulp in my collection.)

[Little Sally]

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I bought the first pulp and read the cover story. There is no such scene in the story.

I also bought the second pulp and read the cover story. That's a scene from a play, with a normal-sized woman in a fairy costume and a mechanical giant spider. (Though I seem to recall the mechanical giant spider malfunctioning and almost harming the woman.)

Good to see this thread resurrected again, and get this info behind the artwork. Which as you're telling us, isn't always representing the contents within. Fascinating stuff!

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I bought this pulp and read the cover story. It's a "land of the giants" story (with KoPilot's favorite, giant robots). The title of the story is "Science Island" (by Eando Binder). The interior illustration for it is elsewhere in this thread, if anyone here wants to "reunite" the two images.

Interesting. Personally I don't mind a "Land of The Giants" themed story, as the protagonists are still small in relation to the threat they face (be they giant humans, or even giant robots!). I think it works just as well as a shrinking themed idea.

[Hand-Holder]

Grok did a good job bringing two of this covers alive

- https://sendvid.com/si1bn295

- https://sendvid.com/6bsswd41

[Schadenfreude]

I bought this pulp (Amazing Stories, November 1946) and read the cover story. Lady Arl the faun should be the same size as Sathanas, somewhere between 50 and 60 feet tall. The appearance of Sathanas is also off. He's supposed to have curly black fur from the waist down, and cloven hooves. He doesn't have horns (or a forked tail, which is shown in the splash page illustration). And he's described as "dusky-skinned", not red.

I bought this pulp (Thrilling Wonder Stories, August 1949) and read the cover story. (I also scanned the front cover and both interior illustrations and posted them on Giantess City nearly 20 years ago, if anyone wants to try to retrieve them.) This is a shrinking story, but as I mentioned on the Vault of Evil message board back in 2015, the story keeps dragging to a screeching halt providing detailed scientific explanations for, for instance, the effects of gravity having a different effect on shrunken people. (And I'm sure that the SW does not look like she's having an orgasm when she's grabbed.) The premise is clever, though. The rival scientist disguises the shrinking device to look like a TV set, then sends it to the scientists (male and female) that he wants to get rid of while they're staying on an island, telling them that now they won't have to miss any professional wrestling matches on TV. And he turns a bunch of starved stray cats loose on the island to do away with the shrunken people.

This is a comic book. And here it is, courtesy of the Digital Comic Museum:

http://www.digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=1121

I bought this digest-sized pulp (Amazing Stories, July 1954) and read the cover story. The scene on the cover is just a brief dream sequence in an otherwise "normal" story.

I bought this pulp (Fantastic Adventures, July 1950) and read the cover story ("You're All Alone" by Fritz Leiber). There is no such scene in the story. (And the splash page illustration is of a giant dog walking through the city. That isn't in the story either.)

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This story was adapted into the French movie Girl in His Pocket (1957). The scientist's female assistant turns into a tiny statue. EC did an "unauthorized" adaptation of "The Diminishing Draft", "Something Missing!", in Weird Science #7 (May/June 1951).

This is the cover artwork from the December 1946 issue of Famous Fantastic Mysteries. It also was used as the cover artwork for the anthology Famous Fantastic Mysteries, which was one of the two books in my very first order from the Edward R. Hamilton "Bargain Books" catalog in the spring of 1993. (The other book was the sequel to Who Framed Roger Rabbit with Jessica's sister Joellyn who's only a few inches tall.)

http://www.abebooks.com/FAMOUS-FANTASTI ... 8109302/bd

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I bought this pulp (Startling Stories, February 1952) and read the cover story. "Vulcan's Dolls" are just that, inanimate dolls. (Except when one of them briefly comes to life after its long-lost wings are reattached.)

I bought this pulp (Startling Stories, May 1948) and read "The Mask of Circe". That's a statue in the background.

[Schadenfreude]

I bought this pulp (Dynamic Science Fiction, December 1952, the first issue) and read the cover story. That's a normal-sized woman making her way through alien vegetation, not a SW using a feather like a quill pen to write a message, which is what I hoped it would be.

[Hand-Holder]

Your accounts are very interesting and complete, a precious fountain of tips and enlighten infos about COVERS vs Reality, many thanks for all of this