Monday, December 13, 2010

The Spider: Pulp to Paperback

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1969

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1969

These pbs are mine, but the great pulp covers (dang, dang, dang, I wish I owned 'em) are borrowed from the gallery at Galactic Central.

9 comments:

Deka Black said...

To the queue, Evan ;D First to get the pulp covers is me. No, seriously, great covers. The pulp ones. The original stories by R. T. M. Scott are more detective than pulp hero, but still good.

Randy Johnson said...

I have those paperbacks myself. They were where I first discovered the Spider. I'd been buying the Docs and Shadows and these looked interesting.

I was disappointed when they stopped issuing them. And let's not talk about those abominable updated books. Wanting a Spider fix, I picked them up and was really mad when I read them.

Charles Gramlich said...

I've got a cover that looks a lot like the #2 but isn't. May have been a kind of standard cover for one of the series.

Evan Lewis said...

I think that painting from #2 was used on the back of all four books in this series.

I too have unfond memories of the updates.

Richard Prosch said...

Comics were unkind to The Spider as well --I recall a bad run from...hmm...Eclipse maybe (?) back in the late '80s. Don't know if they've tried anything since then...

Richard R. said...

I'm hoping to soon get back to the set of Spider doubles I bought early this year...

Deka Black said...

I envy you guys. All i have is the first 5 novels got in PDF's (some archive in the net). But i really want/need some reprint. Fan thing, you know. But the money..

Anyway. Updates? I hope is not what i think.

Randy Johnson said...

Deka, they updated four of the Spider novels, bringin him into the present. The covers were leftovers from Operator 5 I believe(could be wrong), all blond and wearing white sweaters.

Complete junk.

Deka Black said...

AGH! Then is not a joke? My god... there is better fanfiction than that! I know it. I have readed alot of fanfiction.