{"id":4676,"date":"2016-05-18T11:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/?p=4676"},"modified":"2022-09-26T19:17:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T23:17:28","slug":"weinbergs-incredible-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2016\/05\/18\/weinbergs-incredible-adventures\/","title":{"rendered":"Weinberg&#8217;s &#8216;Incredible Adventures&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have previously posted on <strong>Robert Weinberg<\/strong> and his several excellent pulp reprint series. There was <em>Pulp Classics<\/em>, which mainly focused on the hero pulps, and the shorter-lived series <em>Weird Menace<\/em>, which focused on that genre. Midway in length was <em>Lost Fantasies<\/em>, focusing on overlooked pulp fantasy.<\/p>\n<p>Now we&#8217;ll look at this final, and short-lived, pulp reprint series <em>Incredible Adventures,<\/em> which lasted only three issues. What is interesting is that the first two weren&#8217;t published by Weinberg (though he did print and distribute them, and held the copyrights).\u00a0 I can only assume that the publishers fronted the money for the the first two.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2016\/06\/into-the-4th-dimension.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[4676]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5298\" src=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2016\/06\/into-the-4th-dimension-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"'Incredible Adventures: Into the 4th Dimension&quot;\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2016\/06\/into-the-4th-dimension-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2016\/06\/into-the-4th-dimension.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a>Those first two issues followed the same cover style as used in the earlier <em>Weird Menace<\/em> series. Adventure stories, whether fantasy or science fiction, were the focus here.<\/p>\n<p>The series consists of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Number 1 (1977)<\/li>\n<li>Number 2 (1977)<\/li>\n<li>Number 3 (1981)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first issue had &#8220;Wizard&#8217;s Isle&#8221; by <strong>Jack Williamson<\/strong>, &#8220;A Madman&#8221; by <strong>Guy de Maupassant<\/strong> (best known for the short story &#8220;The Horla&#8221;), &#8220;The Goddess of Death&#8221; by <strong>William Hope Hodgson<\/strong> (best known for <strong>Carnacki<\/strong> and &#8220;House on the Borderland&#8221;), &#8220;Desert Blood&#8221; by <strong>Robert E. Howard<\/strong>, &#8220;A Story Told By the Sea&#8221; by <strong>W.C. Morrow<\/strong>, &#8220;Kroom, Son of the Sea&#8221; by <strong>Valentine Wood<\/strong>, and &#8220;Tulsah&#8221; by <strong>M.P. Shiel<\/strong>. Most of these works are late 19th century, early 20th century. The cover is a montage of covers from <em>Argosy<\/em>, <em>Blue Book<\/em>, <em>Weird Tales<\/em>, and <em>Super Science Stories<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The second issue had &#8220;Dusk on the Moon&#8221; by <strong>Hannes Bok<\/strong>, &#8220;The Striding Place&#8221; by <strong>Gertrude Atherton<\/strong>, &#8220;The Curious Experience of Thomas Dunbar&#8221; by <strong>Francis Stevens<\/strong>, &#8220;The House Without a Mirror&#8221; a <strong>Jules de Grandin<\/strong> story by <strong>Seabury Quinn<\/strong>, &#8220;The Lame Priest&#8221; by <strong>S. Carleton<\/strong>, &#8220;A Game of Honor&#8221; by W.C. Morrow, and &#8220;Tumithak of the Towers of Fire&#8221; the third in this series by <strong>Charles R. Tanner<\/strong>.\u00a0 The first two parts of Tumithak appeared in <em>Before the Golden Age<\/em> edited by<strong> Isaac Asimov<\/strong>.\u00a0 Unlike the previous issue, the cover is an original cover by <strong>K. Paul Schmitt<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the 2nd issue promised that the 3rd issue would be an &#8220;insect menace&#8221; issue.\u00a0 Which clearly didn&#8217;t happen.<\/p>\n<p>The third issue, published four years later, featured only &#8220;Into the 4th Dimension&#8221; by <strong>Ray Cummings<\/strong>. The cover is supposedly by <strong>Frank R. Paul<\/strong>, and taken from the story&#8217;s original appearance in <em>Science and Invention<\/em> in 1926.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, that was it for this short-lived series. And this rounds out my overviews of Weinberg&#8217;s reprint works.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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