Pulp SW thread

[Little Sally]

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

Agreed. And it's giving him an outlet for his talents.

[Schadenfreude]

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

You'd never know a couple of really good pulp SW stories by the cover art: Amazing Stories, March 1944 (The SW is hiding inside the skull.) and Amazing Stories, September 1952 (The woman has just started shrinking.).

http://vaultofevil.proboards.com/thread ... ple-novels

I scanned both stories and posted them on Giantess City nearly 20 years ago, if anyone wants to try to retrieve them. (Assuming that they're still there.) I also posted "The Girl Who Loved Death" on the final incarnation of Minimizer's board, but I don't know if anyone saved it.

A "so so" pulp SW story that you'd never know by the cover art is Fantastic Adventures, May 1943. (The Lilliputians now have the technology to shrink the "giantess" down to their size.) I never scanned this story, probably because it's eighty-something pages long, vs. 35 pages for both of the other stories.

[Schadenfreude]

What pulp is this from? It looks promising

[ensmallen]

What pulp is this from? It looks promising

It's in the Archive. Over a hundred pages, barely got through a bit of it.

https://archive.org/details/famous-fant ... 9/mode/2up

[Little Sally]

What pulp is this from? It looks promising

It's in the Archive. Over a hundred pages, barely got through a bit of it.

https://archive.org/details/famous-fant ... 9/mode/2up

Great link. Well done ensmallen.

[Schadenfreude]

What pulp is this from? It looks promising

It's in the Archive. Over a hundred pages, barely got through a bit of it.

https://archive.org/details/famous-fant ... 9/mode/2up

Minimal SW content, or a so-so story, like "Return To Lilliput" (which is eighty-something pages)?

[Schadenfreude]

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

http://www.digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=2180

(Warning: Sad ending)

I bought this pulp (Fantastic Adventures, March 1940) and read the cover story. The cover is mostly accurate, except that the SW should be brunette, not blonde. (And the "giant" doesn't have green skin.) It's pretty much a standard "people get shrunk, captured and tormented" story, except that these people are tiny to begin with, a whole race of them. The sequel, "Wanderer of Little Land" (Fantastic Adventures, June 1941), is 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.".)

(This is an early issue of Fantastic Adventures, which was introduced in 1939, so it's slightly larger than later issues.)

[Schadenfreude]

I bought this digest-sized pulp (Amazing Stories, July 1953). There's no story to go with the cover image.

[Schadenfreude]

I bought this digest-sized pulp (Amazing Stories, November 1958) and read the cover story. There is a giant ant in this story, but it's not that big. It's about six feet long. And the scene on the cover isn't in the story.

[Schadenfreude]

I bought this pulp (Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1952). There's no story to go with the cover image.

Here's this comic book, courtesy of the Digital Comic Museum:

http://www.digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=13141

[Schadenfreude]

Here's this comic book, courtesy of the Digital Comic Museum, though the cover story is only a single page:

http://www.digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=7242

(I'm one of the people who bought the Strange Changes #1 CD-ROM while it was available. One of the comics, "Catch of the Day", has a tiny mermaid in it.)

[Schadenfreude]

Back in the early 1990's, I got Sinister Cinema's print catalog. The same misleading description for Girl in His Pocket that was in their print catalog is still being used on their website now:

http://www.sinistercinema.com/product.a ... ific=33909

But what actually happens is that his female assistant is turned into a tiny statue. Clip courtesy of foreverlurk:



So I'm glad that I didn't order the VHS tape, which I think cost $20 (plus shipping and probably sales tax) from Sinister Cinema back then.

[Little Sally]

But what actually happens is that his female assistant is turned into a tiny statue. Clip courtesy of foreverlurk:

(video clip)

So I'm glad that I didn't order the VHS tape, which I think cost $20 (plus shipping and probably sales tax) from Sinister Cinema back then.

Nice ending!

Shame he didn't realise that water was the key earlier!

[ensmallen]

But what actually happens is that his female assistant is turned into a tiny statue. Clip courtesy of foreverlurk:

(video clip)

So I'm glad that I didn't order the VHS tape, which I think cost $20 (plus shipping and probably sales tax) from Sinister Cinema back then.

Nice ending!

Shame he didn't realise that water was the key earlier!

Certainly a better ending than the original. Yikesies!

https://archive.org/details/sciencefict ... 2/mode/2up

I don't know the specifics but they got Playboy to do a spread for the movie. Fun write-up.

https://archive.org/details/playboy_pla ... 2/mode/2up

Also stumbled on this cover, somehow someone used the actress's name for a pen name. Another tease cover unfortunately.

[ensmallen]

Minimal SW content, or a so-so story, like "Return To Lilliput" (which is eighty-something pages)?

Minimal content, and too much politics, got a headache just trying to skim through the high points.

Also found this one in the Archive, it's a "first contact" story about microscopic alien visitors too tiny to communicate with, until they shrink a square-jawed pilot hero down to the alien SW's size. Not too exciting, tons of downloadable books from the series if anyone's interested.
https://archive.org/details/Bolsilibros ... 638_de_746
https://archive.org/details/bolsilibros ... el_espacio

EDIT: Found another one, one of those shrunken apocalypse deals:
https://archive.org/details/La_conquist ... 174_de_746

[Schadenfreude]

But what actually happens is that his female assistant is turned into a tiny statue. Clip courtesy of foreverlurk:

(video clip)

So I'm glad that I didn't order the VHS tape, which I think cost $20 (plus shipping and probably sales tax) from Sinister Cinema back then.

Nice ending!

Shame he didn't realise that water was the key earlier!

Certainly a better ending than the original. Yikesies!

https://archive.org/details/sciencefict ... 2/mode/2up

EC did an "unauthorized" adaptation of "The Diminishing Draft", "Something Missing!", in Weird Science #7, which kept the downbeat ending from the original story. Of course they made changes, like instead of a potion, it was a ray that turned the subject into whatever it was thinking about, like a mouse turning into a piece of cheese. (And they named the scientist's female assistant Sally.) I know that you linked to Weird Science #6 in the "Classic Comics" thread because of "Divide and Conquer", which is a really good story. (I bought an extra copy of the 1990's reprint of that issue to mail to Kajira, but she dropped off the face of the earth before I could mail it to her.) But I can't figure out how to "jump" to issue #7. I keep getting pop-ups. I don't want to give my Mom's Chromebook a virus.

If you're including male giants, there's "I Created a...Gargantua!" in the fourth issue of Weird Science. (The original issue # is 15, even though it's the fourth issue. Just like Tales from the Crypt #20 is the first issue.) Once again, drawn by Jack Kamen.

[Schadenfreude]

Found this one in the Archive, it's a "first contact" story about microscopic alien visitors too tiny to communicate with, until they shrink a square-jawed pilot hero down to the alien SW's size. Not too exciting, tons of downloadable books from the series if anyone's interested.
https://archive.org/details/Bolsilibros ... 638_de_746
https://archive.org/details/bolsilibros ... el_espacio

EDIT: Found another one, one of those shrunken apocalypse deals:
https://archive.org/details/La_conquist ... 174_de_746

Sounds similar to "Return To Lilliput", and also the movie The Phantom Planet (which is in the public domain), except that the person is shrunk much smaller. (And in "Return To Lilliput", a woman gets shrunk. "Well if it isn't Elaine Purwin! MISS Purwin to you, Gregg! Only now all five-and-a-half INCHES of her!")

[Schadenfreude]

Published by EC in the 1940's, before EC published horror (and science fiction and crime and war) comic books. Moon Girl was basically a knockoff of Wonder Woman, probably because Max Gaines, the founder of EC, was involved with the publishing of Wonder Woman. One thing that EC "inherited" from Wonder Woman was the stenciled Leroy lettering, which was used on most EC titles, except the ones edited by Harvey Kurtzman (Two-Fisted Tales, Frontline Combat, MAD). He insisted on hand lettering. The Leroy lettering was even used for the onscreen captions in the 1970's Wonder Woman TV series. When Bill Gaines inherited his father's company, he initially decided to try publishing true crime, Western and romance comic books. Moon Girl became A Moon, a Girl...Romance and the numbering continued in sequence. (Remember that I mentioned EC's numbering being kind of messed-up.) Another EC romance title was Modern Love.

I found out just tonight that Moon Girl was reprinted as a hardcover EC Archive just last month. What's weird is that it was scanned from vintage comic books, even though all of the original art should still be in the EC vaults. Going by the Grand Comics Database, it looks like there actually is a story to go with the cover of issue #4, "The Challenge of the Cyclops".

[Schadenfreude]

This comic book is posted at the Digital Comic Museum. There's no story to go with the cover image.

[Schadenfreude]

I bought this digest-sized pulp {Fantastic Science Fiction, July 1957) and read the cover story. The size of the giant lobster has been exaggerated. They're not THAT big.

This was made into a movie, starring Julie Christie, who somehow gets impregnated by a computer. To paraphrase (the original) Charmed: "How does a computer knock somebody up?"

[Schadenfreude]

I found a really good one on eBay, the front cover and the splash page illustration. But the URL is too long to link to. The title of the auction is "Fantastic Science Fiction August 1956 Ziff-Davis Publications Robert Silverberg". I'll have to try to get this after my bank account is replenished next month.

[ensmallen]

I found a really good one on eBay, the front cover and the splash page illustration. But the URL is too long to link to. The title of the auction is "Fantastic Science Fiction August 1956 Ziff-Davis Publications Robert Silverberg". I'll have to try to get this after my bank account is replenished next month.

That's some cover, and somewhat faithful to the story too:
https://archive.org/details/Fantastic_v ... 8/mode/2up

[Little Sally]

I bought this digest-sized pulp {Fantastic Science Fiction, July 1957) and read the cover story. The size of the giant lobster has been exaggerated. They're not THAT big.

This was made into a movie, starring Julie Christie, who somehow gets impregnated by a computer. To paraphrase (the original) Charmed: "How does a computer knock somebody up?"

Unfortunately the images aren't viewable in my region (UK) it says, but they sound fascinating.

Re the Julie Christie movie which was "Demon Seed", it's well worth the watch. It's really scary and creepy, and yes.. A giant computer really does 'get the girl'!

[Schadenfreude]

The first image is of a woman at the beach being menaced by a giant lobster. (Though only part of the lobster can be seen.) The second image is a silhouette of a SW under a microscope, against a bright green background.

The cover of the August 1956 issue of Fantastic Science Fiction is two SW's in a catfight on top of a perfectly cut diamond, against a black background. The splash page illustration is of a man holding an irregularly shaped gem, which looks slightly larger than a basketball or a bowling ball, with a SW inside. It's implied that the SW is nude, but the man's hands are strategically placed.

[Schadenfreude]

Great art and true to the story:
https://archive.org/details/Imagination ... 8/mode/2up

Same issue, more SW art, true-to-the-story part debatable:
https://archive.org/details/Imagination ... 8/mode/2up

Couple more stories, more true-to-the-story SW art:
https://archive.org/details/Fantastic_S ... 7/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/Fantastic_A ... 5/mode/2up

Re: "Tink Takes A Fling"

I have the issue of Fantastic Adventures with the fanmail for the issue that "Tink Takes A Fling" is in. One letter called the splash page illustration for "Tink Takes A Fling" "as good as Disney".

There were a total of five "Tink" stories. But "Jing" the "music fairy" is in only one other story "Tink Fights the Gremlins" (Fantastic Adventures, October 1943). Only the two leprechauns "Tink" and "Nastee" are in the other three stories.

I scanned the two interior illustrations for "Tink Fights the Gremlins" and posted them on Giantess City nearly twenty years ago, if anyone wants to try to "rescue" them. (Though the artist goofed and had two SW's and one SM in the illustration with the lion, when it should have been two SM's and a SW.) The story isn't that well-written, but it was nice to see a brave, heroic SW, who thinks nothing of fighting a lion. ("That felt wonderful!")


I hadn't heard of the other three stories. I'll have to try to track down the pulps that they're in. (The print in most of the online versions is too small for my bad eyesight. And I prefer physical media, even though my sister doesn't.)