(Continued from
Poe 1948, Pt. 8)
SUNDAY PIX
"THE GOLD BUG"
SUNDAY PIX was a long-running weekly newspaper-style comics section published by
David C. Cook
for churches and Sunday schools. It was available by subscriptions,
but was not usually sold on newsstands or at comic-book shops.
For decades, its cover-feature was various stories from
The Bible. However, early in its run, the covers features "
Classic" stories. And the very first of these was...
"
THE GOLD BUG"
...one of
Edgar Allan Poe's most popular stories, perhaps because rather than horror, it was a combination mystery-adventure.
It was some time into this project before I even became aware of this
version, and it's been some challenge tracking down scans of it. As it
happens, so far, the ONLY scans I've been able to find were the usual
small ones posted at the
Grand Comics Database site (
GCD),
and that's only because of the luck that the story was serialized on
the front pages! So far, my attempts to track down the person who had
their hands on these to scan them, any editor at the
GCD who might have access to larger scans, or the actual magazines themselves so
I could do my own scans, have met with nothing but dead ends. MANY issues of
SUNDAY PIX can be found for sale at
Ebay... but so far, none this early in the run.
Only a week after promoting this page (
7-12-2018), I was contacted by
Keith Morgan (alias "
Super Scrounge"), who told me how I could access the full-size scans at the
GCD. Strangely, I was unable to do this... but
Keith did, and e-mailed me the
12 (of
13) he was able to grab. I've now (
7-20-18) upgraded the images for #
3-14, so people (including me) can actually read this thing.
I'd still like to put out a request for help to find
#1 (completely missing) and
#2 (which I only have the small image of). I never know what may turn up when.
The artist here is
Joseph Wirt Tillotson, who also went by the name of "
Robert Fuqua". In addition to
SUNDAY PIX, he also did quite a lot of illustrations for various pulp magazines.
(Originally set up on Sunday,
May 20, 2018)
ENJOY!
SUNDAY PIX 1
(David C. Cook / May 1, 1949)
"THE GOLD BUG" /
Version 2
Adaptation by David S. Piper (?) / Art by JOSEPH WIRT TILLOTSON
(
currently missing)
SUNDAY PIX 2 (May 8, 1949)
SUNDAY PIX 3 (May 15, 1949)
SUNDAY PIX 4 (May 22, 1949)
SUNDAY PIX 5 (May 29, 1949)
SUNDAY PIX 6 (June 5, 1949)
SUNDAY PIX 7 (June 12, 1949)
SUNDAY PIX 8 (June 19, 1949)
SUNDAY PIX 9 (June 26, 1949)
SUNDAY PIX 10 (July 3, 1949)
SUNDAY PIX 11 (July 10, 1949)
SUNDAY PIX 12 (July 17, 1949)
SUNDAY PIX 13 (July 24, 1949)
SUNDAY PIX 14 (July 31, 1949)
Copyright (
C)
Sunday Pix &
Joseph Wirt Tillotson.
AMAZING STORIES (January 1939)
cover by JOSEPH WIRT TILLOTSON
Joesph Wirt Tillotson ("
Robert Fuqua")
Scan of SUNDAY PIX #2 (1949) from the GCD site.
Scans of SUNDAY PIX #3-14 (1949) from the GCD site,
supplied by
Keith Morgan (alias "
Super Scrounge") with
special thanks!
Scan of AMAZING STORIES (January 1939) from the Tumblr site.
Photo of Joseph Wirt Tillotson from the Pulp Artists.com site.
Restorations by Henry R. Kujawa
For more: Read about Edgar Allan Poe at The Poe Museum site.
Read about Edgar Allan Poe at the Biography site.
Read about
Joseph Wirt Tillotson at the
Pulp Artists site.
Read about
Joseph Wirt Tillotson at the
SF Encyclopedia site.
See more art by
Joseph Wirt Tillotson at
Google Images.
Read about
THE GOLD BUG at the
Bookriot site.
Read the complete story at the
Poe Stories site.
See the
GOLD BUG Gallery of Illustrations.
Audio:
Hear the
Vincent Price GOLD BUG recording!
Hear the
FAMILY THEATER episode!
Comics:
Read the Amadio GOLD BUG adaptation! (coming soon)
Read the Joseph Wirt Tillotson GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Alex A. Blum GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Henry Sharp GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Fernando Bento GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Editorial Sea/Novaro GOLD BUG adaptation!
RRead the Mick Anglo GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Alexis-Thomas Hinsberger GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Dino Battaglia GOLD BUG adaptation! (coming soon)
Read the Antonio Calmerio Tomas GOLD BUG adaptation!
(Coming soon:)
Read the Alfonso Font GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Guido Del Carpio Rivera GOLD BUG illustrated story!
Read the Arturo Arnau GOLD BUG illustrated story!
Read the Pablo Marcos GOLD BUG illustrated story!
Read the Novedades Editores GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Silvio Camboni GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Jorge Hardmeier GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Niesa Editores GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Jean-Louis Thouard GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Miguel Serratosa GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the NBM / Papercutz GOLD BUG adaptation!
See the
CHRONOLOGICAL list of
Edgar Allan Poe stories!
See the
ALPHABETICAL list of
Edgar Allan Poe stories!
Don't miss the BONUS GALLERY of ILLUSTRATIONS up next!
(Continued in
Poe 1949, Pt. 2)
