The cover for THE DREAM MASTER was done by KELLY FREAS, who did a lot of ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION covers, and the cover for QUEEN'S NEWS OF THE WORLD with the giant robot.

You would make a great English Lit professor, Mike.

I love "the large ant" as a title. Just puts the premise right out there .

Oh I'm so glad you did a Paperback Parade! Thanks for the mention Michael ❤. I LOVE the giant ant cover. I've been kind of obsessed with ants ever since I read Empire Of The Ants by H.G. Wells. I'm also kind of obsessed with Groff Conklin 😂. I have that very edition of Dream Master. I love all the Roger Zelazny books in those editions actually. Oh The Ship Of Ishtar cover is great. I love that one! Really enjoyed this Michael! ❤

@Yesica1993

4 ай бұрын

I am generally very bug-phobic. But I do love watching ants. They are amazing little critters, with how they work together and are able to carry things so much bigger than they are. I try to avoid harming them, if at all possible. I'm glad God made them tiny. Otherwise they probably could take over the world!

@TheBookclectic

4 ай бұрын

@@Yesica1993 Totally agree. If they weren't small, they'd dominate the Earth! 🐜

Sad to hear Brian Lumley recently passed away.

The John Campbell collection contained a story “Twilight” - and The Pocket Book of Science Fiction contained a story “Twilight” credited to Don A. Stuart. Same story - DAS was a pseudonym used often by Campbell.

Not every day I come across a Frazetta painting/cover I’ve never seen. Thanks for that. Will need to seek the Solar Invasion out.

Michael, great video, love all these vintage sf pbs. Thanks for the mention of my magazine Paperback Parade, issue #120 out soon and i will send you a copy. This is my 38th year of publishing the magazine. I read Hellstrom’s Hive and liked it. The Pocket Book of Science Fiction is the first ever paperback to use the term science fiction. It is weird that Popular Library did not mention that The Solar Invasion by Wellman is a Captain Future novel. At the same time 1969-1970 they published Captain Future pbs in similar format, and some even had Frazetta covers. A lot of great old classic sf pbs, much enjoyable reading.

Vintage gold!

Thanks for the fun video. Shores of Space cover artist is the great Mitchell Hooks. Hellstrom's Hive is R. Shore. Dream Master: Kelly Freas. Ship of Ishtar is said to be one of Merritt's best books (some say THE best). Cover artist is Douglas Rosa. Rosa did the orange cover for Island of Dr. Moreau from the Magnum (easy-eye) edition. Great cover. Titus Crow was listed in the article "The Fantasy Five-Foot Bookshelf" published in Twilight Zone Magazine in 1983. R. S. Hadji (editor of Borderlands Magazine) wrote a list called "13 Worst Stinkers of the Weird." His comment on Crow "Doe not calle up Any wordes that you cannot put downe in readable prose, lest Yogge-Sothoth drye yr ink in the pen, and eate yr face." -- Claus Vomitus Don't let that stop you from reading it. A friend gave me a copy because she loved it. I haven't read it yet. I believe it might have been Gary Lovisi who said that The Pocket Book of Science-Fiction was the first ever appearance of the term "science-fiction" on a book cover. One of my friends (I watched football with him for 6 hours last Sunday) worked for Wollheim as a cover illustrator. He said Don was a crusty, salty old codger (and all business), but ultimately a good guy. Another illustrator friend studied for a time under Michael Whelan. He mostly talks about how hot Whelan's wife was. I've gotten pretty good at looking up cover artists. It helps sell the stuff in my online book store.

I had forgotten that Wellman had done a Captain Future novel. I've read a number of CF over the years, although not recently. They are fun reads if you can overlook the obvious errors in what the solar system should actually be like. Very pulpish although that's expected as they were from the pulps!😁😁😁

I have now officially watched your complete backlog of videos (even the comic book ones). You sir have have put out a prodigious amount...and I have enjoyed most of them, even though about the only thing we have in common is liking our coffee black! You still haven't sold me on HP Lovecraft or that Steve guy....but you have introduced me to a lot of fantastic books and authors...and rekindled my fire for certain genres! Stay well my friend!!

The ISFDB states R. Shore for Hellstrom’s Hive.

(I LOVE that tie and vest!) Well, since we apparently just missed your birthday, I hope you had a fun one and that your year is really good. I suppose Roger quit counting his, or is he upset because you don't use his calendar? Fun show!

The artist for Hellstrom's Hive is only credited on ISFDB as "R. Shore" (apparently that's the signature on the cover). He or she has only two other credits, apparently. Also, RIP Brian Lumley, who passed on the 2nd of January. His Lovecraftian stuff is... not my favourite, for the most part, I think he was more in the August Derleth tradition.

Any friend of Shawn Steadfast is a friend of mine !

Another great video, Michael. What a phenomenal collection. I especially love that last one, The Pocket Book of Science Fiction. Very cool indeed! 😊

I read Invaders of Earth a few months back. Its a journeyman collection of fine stories and contains one of my favorite Sturgeons: Tiny and the Monster, and a memorable oddity from Edgar Pangborn about an angel born from a chicken's egg. However, none of the stories in the book contains any scene like that painted by Morton Roberts on the cover. I suspect it could have been used for anything in the Pocket Books inventory. I've seen generic paintings like that on other paperbacks.

I read Hellstrom's Hive way back when. I presume the fact that I remember it is proof that it is decent. It has some scenes that I would describe as horror. Women's bodies used as baby making machines. But it did not qualify as great in my memory.

Excellent video. Thanks from your friend in Iraq

Hellstrom's Hive; read it once, wont be doing so again. Some interesting concepts but also some genuinely disturbing passages.

1970s and 80s SF and Fantasy paperbacks are where my heart still lies. 70s UK editions (because here in Australia we couldn't buy US editions retail until late last century) with covers by Chris Foss, Chris Achilleos, Peter Jones. US editions which I bought myself from American dealers with Michael Whelan covers especially. These are the pillars on which my collection is built.

I do love the art of vintage bookcovers, especially the dream master. However, when it comes to reading a vunch of books, I'd say make a list of the books you REALLY want to read and go from there. 🙂❤📚

Mmmm .. Gil Kane. I forgot everything apart from that glorious giant ant cover .. after that my thoughts were Gil Kane. Gil Kane. Gil Kane.

You should do this once a week! I would love a coffee table book of the best sci-fi fantasy original cover art from 1950- 1980.

These old mass market paperbacks are my meat. Maybe not these specific ones -- although I think I have all of Matheson's short stories -- but this is the right period for me. Love those Richard Powers covers on Berkley and Ballantine Books, and the Dillons on Ace and Pyramid. I started picking them up in 1968 and I really miss them.

Hellstrom's Hive is great -- weird, creepy, kind of skeevy. Inspired by an equally weird movie called The Hellstrom Chronicle that shows up on late-night antenna TV every once in a while and always gets a watch until at least the next commercial break. 🐜

@michaelk.vaughan8617

4 ай бұрын

I just watched The Hellstrom Chronicle on KZread because of this comment. What a weird movie!

I liked this so much I did a reaction video of original cover art from your chosen books.

Brian Lumley just died actually. I’m an evangelist for his short story “Fruiting Bodies”. It’s simply brilliant horror.

@michaelk.vaughan8617

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, that was a really good story.

Cool bunch of books. More my speed. I'm a fan of Captain Future but I've never seen a copy of Solar invasion. Will keep an eye out for it.

Some challenges! Others beat me to a couple: "Hellstrom's Hive" and "The Dream Master". R. Stone seems to have done only three covers, all published in 1974. Kelly Freas did a gazillion. "The Edge of Tomorrow" seems to be completely uncredited. If I had to take a total shot in the dark, I might take a dubious swing at Paul Lehr. "The Shores of Space" has a cover by Mitchell Hooks, who did most of those great Lew Archer covers, as well as for James Blish's "Star Trek 5." Not that you asked, but "Invaders of Earth" art is by another obscure cover artist, Morton Roberts. He seems to have done this one-and-only book cover. He was primarily a fine artist. "The Ship of Ishtar" cover is by Douglas Rosa, who seems to only done maybe a dozen covers, mostly by A. Merritt, Talbot Mundy, and a few Doc Savage covers. I'm glad you didn't ask about "The Pocketbook of Science-Fiction" - I don't have a clue on that one.

@michaelk.vaughan8617

4 ай бұрын

Thanks, as always, for your tremendously helpful expertise!

@jscottphillips503

4 ай бұрын

@@michaelk.vaughan8617 You're welcome! I wouldn't really call it expertise, though. It's more of a persistent and enthusiastic interest. I always love it when the artists get their day in the sun.

Wow that you could forward a science fiction paperback to the frontline for 3c is a crazy thing to see 😮

Really enjoyable. I'd love more parades, even other genres or by year or publisher.

Oh wow, I JUST bought one of those WWII era pocketbooks the other day(The Thin Man from Dashiell Hammett), from the same year as yours. I love the info about sending your used copy to the troops, such a time capsule!

Seeing you talk about vintage SF paperbacks is one of my favorite things. 😁Reminds me of my own creaking backlog of vintage F/SF I need to get to. 🤣 FYI, according to the ISFDB, the cover art for "Hellstrom's Hive" is by an artist named R. Shore. Can't find out much about them, but they also did a cover for J.G. Ballard's "Crash". 😛Unfortunately, they don't have a name for "The Edge of Tomorrow" either, but I *love* that cover! Giant ants are always a good time. I've actually never heard of Captain Future before! He sounds like a ton of fun, though. Edmond Hamilton, again, is a name I've seen around but don't know a whole lot about. I might keep an eye out for some of his adventures next time I'm out in the wild. Haven't read Zelazny's "Dream Master," but I own that same copy. I also know that it was the (very loose) basis for the movie "Dreamscape," which is a campy favorite of mine, so I'll have to read it sometime.

@michaelk.vaughan8617

4 ай бұрын

Wow! I remember that movie!

Blackmark is awesome! Probably my favourite comic of all time, I think it was also printed as a b feature in savage sword of conan, and now you can get the two books in an omnibus. It’s a shame the rest wasn’t made!

Is that Doc Savage on the cover of ‘The Ship of Ishtar’? Cool, fun episode.

A lot of the old Zelazny covers are amazing. Awesome video.

The M.K.V. Paperback Parade!

ja the resemblance is stunning!

The thickness of the books then and now... is so different haha.

Who Goes There? Was the basis for The Thing from Another Planet and its John Carpenter remake, The Thing.

As bug-phobic as I usually am, I love that ant book cover!

My dad had _Hellstrom's Hive._ I remember finding it disturbingly sexy.

A. Merritt is a writer who I owe it to myself to read. Sounds like he was an early fantasy adventure writer a la Burroughs.

Brian Lumley passed away just recently. And yes, he was a big admirer of Lovecraft!

instead of reading all frank herberts novels, read all james herberts novels, probably be more fun

Nice video. Those look like some interesting reads, I will check them out. I really enjoyed ‘I, Robot’ by Isaac Asimov. Also, ‘A Spell for Chameleon’ by Piers Anthony, though its fantasy and not Sci-fi. ‘Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy’ by Douglas Adams but probably most know about this. If you can overlook 3 years (its published in 1983), then i also like For Love of Mother Not by Alan Dean Foster.

Mike I just read Hellstrom's Hive a couple weeks ago and thought it was quite good, although absurd

Aww man! New Jersey can't get a break from the Martians.

Who Goes There, the source material for the movies The Thing From Another World and John Carpenter's The Thing.

The thing about Blackmark is that Neal Adams does the art on 14 pages, which you can have fun trying to find (it ain't that hard).

@michaelk.vaughan8617

4 ай бұрын

Interesting! I didn’t know that.

@davebrzeski

4 ай бұрын

@@michaelk.vaughan8617 If you go through it page by page, several of the pages Adams worked on are immediately obvious

Thanks Michael. Helstrom's Hive is odd but well written. I need to reread more Herbert myself.

I think if they leave those cages they have to read poetry. 🤭 Herbert without the sand is pretty good,, I have a lot of his Duneless books. An interesting selection there.

I have the same copy of Hellstrom's Hive and it appears the artist for this, the 1978 cover, is R. Shore.

@michaelk.vaughan8617

4 ай бұрын

Thanks!

I love those old edition paperbacks. You know why? _Because they don't have those ugly barcodes on the back._

I’ve read The Dream Master. It’s good. You should read it.

Fabulous covers on those books. They don't seem to bother as much these days. I think Roger needs a little more sunscreen.

You think you're old? I was born when the guy who won WWII was president