I have previously posted on Robert Weinberg and his several excellent pulp reprint series. There was Pulp Classics, which mainly focused on the hero pulps, and the shorter-lived series Weird Menace, which focused on that genre. Midway in length was Lost Fantasies, focusing on overlooked pulp fantasy.
Now we’ll look at this final, and short-lived, pulp reprint series Incredible Adventures, which lasted only three issues. What is interesting is that the first two weren’t published by Weinberg (though he did print and distribute them, and held the copyrights). I can only assume that the publishers fronted the money for the the first two.
Those first two issues followed the same cover style as used in the earlier Weird Menace series. Adventure stories, whether fantasy or science fiction, were the focus here.
The series consists of:
- Number 1 (1977)
- Number 2 (1977)
- Number 3 (1981)
The first issue had “Wizard’s Isle” by Jack Williamson, “A Madman” by Guy de Maupassant (best known for the short story “The Horla”), “The Goddess of Death” by William Hope Hodgson (best known for Carnacki and “House on the Borderland”), “Desert Blood” by Robert E. Howard, “A Story Told By the Sea” by W.C. Morrow, “Kroom, Son of the Sea” by Valentine Wood, and “Tulsah” by M.P. Shiel. Most of these works are late 19th century, early 20th century. The cover is a montage of covers from Argosy, Blue Book, Weird Tales, and Super Science Stories.
The second issue had “Dusk on the Moon” by Hannes Bok, “The Striding Place” by Gertrude Atherton, “The Curious Experience of Thomas Dunbar” by Francis Stevens, “The House Without a Mirror” a Jules de Grandin story by Seabury Quinn, “The Lame Priest” by S. Carleton, “A Game of Honor” by W.C. Morrow, and “Tumithak of the Towers of Fire” the third in this series by Charles R. Tanner. The first two parts of Tumithak appeared in Before the Golden Age edited by Isaac Asimov. Unlike the previous issue, the cover is an original cover by K. Paul Schmitt.
Interestingly, the 2nd issue promised that the 3rd issue would be an “insect menace” issue. Which clearly didn’t happen.
The third issue, published four years later, featured only “Into the 4th Dimension” by Ray Cummings. The cover is supposedly by Frank R. Paul, and taken from the story’s original appearance in Science and Invention in 1926.
Sadly, that was it for this short-lived series. And this rounds out my overviews of Weinberg’s reprint works.
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