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)
AMAZING STORIES (January 1939)
cover by JOSEPH WIRT TILLOTSON
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)
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