Lucian Poll's Collection

[Lucian Poll]

Thanks for the welcome, Terry. You may have seen I've started a NaNoWriMo 2012 thread. I spotted you started one last year. If you are interested this time around do hop in!

[Lucian Poll]

Interesting, Frik. I loved Archie Goodwin's stories in the other two titles, and how the guy seemed to have a bottomless pit of stories. I also like the fact he was warned against using his real name as it had already appeared as a character name elsewhere. I'll have to tell Randy that in the "Cemetery Dance to re-open to submissions later this year" thread!

[TerryE]

I knew Siep would like the Creepy and Eerie collections.

Welcome Lucian!

[frik51]

Hi frik. Great minds think alike!

Vampirella never really reached my darkened corner of the world so I'm not so familiar with the comic. It doesn't stop Amazon recommending the Vampirella Archives to me every time I log in, though! I might have to sample a couple of volumes in the future.

Yes, please do!
The Vampirella series features the same artists/writers as do the Creepy and Eerie books - top notch entertainment!
I'm sure you'd be terribly impressed!

sk

[Lucian Poll]

Another set of covers, this time issues 66 to 74:



And a quick rundown of each one:

Issue 66
Without a trace?
PK for the people
The aliens strike back
Magic of numbers
The Holy Grail
(The image accompanies an account of a close encounter of the third kind that occurred near Anolaima, Cudinamarca, Colombia, on 4th July 1969. In an issue full of arresting images, not least of which a very booby hippy on p1305 (sales must have been dropping), it's disappointing to find what appears to be a badly drawn mini-barbeque set on the cover!)
(This was also the first issue to feature international pricing on the cover, so the magazine must have found some success overseas.)

Issue 67
Saucers of Satan
New angle on the Triangle
Shades of the Ripper
Future lives recalled
Power in numbers
(The image depicts "a demonic-looking flying saucer", though I'm not sure about the "demonic-looking" part. The artist is not credited, which is a shame as the full image looks pretty cool. It looks like it should belong on the cover of a book. Perhaps it does.)

Issue 68
The real King Arthur
UFOs and the Antichrist
Disappearances explained
Howl of the banshee
Mass phantoms
(Sadly another picture by an uncredited artist, and a bit tricky to see what's going on. The image is detail of an army sleeping on the battlefield while armies of phantoms wage war in the skies, a possible sign of things to come.)

Issue 69
UFOs of the Devil
Science, art and numbers
Prisoner without a face
Future memories
Lost and found
(The image shows "the myth of the man in the iron mask - doomed perpetually to wear a heavy helmet and manacles. In reality he was not kept in fetters, and his mask was of velvet with iron clasps.")

Issue 70
The Voynich mystery
Ghosts on the march
The Ripper's shadow
Flight 19 vanishes
The Fox sisters
(The image is "an example of the script in which the Voynich manuscript is written." There's a fair amount online about this, but essentially the manuscript is a mysterious medieval book purchased by a bookseller called Voynich 100 years ago. It contains diagrams of unusual plants, most of which do not match any known species, and is written in an odd script that has defied codebreakers throughout the ages.)

Issue 71
Plagues from space
The uncrackable code
Behind the iron mask
Enter Katie King
Leaving the body
(The image is "an artist's impression of the European Space Agency's probe Giotto which, in 1986, will fly past Halley's comet." The image accompanies the "Plagues from space" article, which seems to ride in on the coat-tails of Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain.)

Issue 72
OOBE experiments
Fox sisters' confessions
Telepathy without tears
UFOs and bent lights
Out of thin air
(The image is detail of a painting inspired by St Augustine's De Civitate Dei. The image shows a Sciopode (a.k.a. Sciapode), a bizarre being that could run very fast despite only having one leg that couldn't bend. And if you thought that was trippy you should see the whole picture:



Issue 73
Prophet by appointment
Standing stones mystery
People from nowhere
Is there life on Mars?
What Katie did
(The image is of Mont de la Ville, "mountain of the town", megaliths that were transported from their original setting in Jersey to Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, in the 18th Century. For more impressive images of standing stones, check out The Devils Arrows in Google images.)

Issue 74
Secrets in stone
The Katie King scandal
The experimenter effect
What did the seer see?
UFO sickness
(The image shows paths of subatomic particles in a bubble chamber. It accompanies an article that discusses whether intense thought by scientists can create self-fulfilling prophecies in their work.)

[Lucian Poll]

Thanks, Martin. I'm glad you're enjoying it! If you want a brief overview of any of the more esoteric article headings found on these covers let me know and I'll post a digested read.

[Martin]

The Unexplained stuff is simply amazing!

[Lucian Poll]

A few more covers:



And here's a run through each issue:

Issue 57
The strange world of twins
Close-up on remote viewing
Creatures from the past
The Dufferin myth
UFOs over water
(The image is taken from The Frost Programme of 17th January 1968, which featured 300 pairs of identical twins. The article focuses on how long-separated twins sometimes find they have lead very similar lives when they meet again. One example quoted is the case of Jim Springer and Jim Lewis who were separated at birth and reared by different families in Ohio. The list of coincidences is just spooky!)

Issue 58
UFOs of the mind
Hitler ands the black arts
Two bodies, one mind
New light on evolution
Incas' hidden city
(The image is supposed to be that of two giant human-like brains sitting on a road, to illustrate an account given by two Californian guys near Palos Verdes in the early 70's. I'm no anatomist, but those don't look like human-like brains to me. They look more like they've been scooped out of Pyramid Head from Silent Hill 2.)

Issue 59
Twin lives
When birdmen swoop
Where did Darwin go wrong?
The PK effect
UFOs land
(The photo is of a two-headed calf. the result of a genetic mutation. It only lived for a few days.)

Issue 60
Psychic UFOs
The vanishing ship
Return of the Tudors
The horror of Glamis
Velikovsky's comet
(The image is of the USS Eldridge, the vanishing ship from the 'Philadelphia Experiment'.)

Issue 61
PK on request
Mapping the heavens
Vanishing ship: the facts
Velikovsky debated
Is man a machine?
The image is a constellation of the southern skies as charted by a Dutch astronomer circa 1700. The image hasn't come out particulary well here. If I've got the link right here's the actual map:



Issue 62
Gods from the stars?
The mind and evolution
Menace of Soviet psi
Velikovsky assessed
Doctor of the dying
(The image is of Vishnu riding on the bird-god Garuda.)

Issue 63
Star mystery
Inside the minilab
The green children
Soviet psi secrets
Mayfair ghosts
(The cover shows a split image to illustrate the effects of psychokinesis on two leather rings that were paranormally linked together outside a minilab, which is a kind of sealed glass chamber in which all kinds of hands-free psychokinetic oddness occurs. Punch "SORRAT" into Google to find out more.)

Issue 64
Psi wars
The Bermuda Triangle
Constellation makers
Von Daniken on trial
Murder by UFO
(The image shows detail from the poster for the 1978 movie 'The Bermuda Triangle'.)

Issue 65
The Ripper murders
The legend of King Arthur
Triangle - the truth
Astronaut ancestors
Stars over Atlantis
(The image is of an illustration by Gustav Dore of Lord Tennyson's epic poem 'Idylls of the King'. Check out some of Dore's work on Google images. Absolutely stunning.)

[Lucian Poll]

Thanks, bookworm. I'm glad you're enjoying the collection so far. Here's another photo, this time covering issues 48 to 56:



Here's a run through the covers and images:

Issue 48
The Elixir of Life
What killed the mammoths?
French timeslips analysed
The case of 'Mary Celeste'
Money pit mystery
(The image depicts the Mary Celeste as painted by an uncredited artist. A shame as I quite like the picture.)

Issue 49
UFO photofile
The healer within
Can animals be kind?
The boy with no past
Mammoth mystery
UFO force fields
(The image depicts a mammoth, again by an uncredited artist. The picture editor must have been going through a bad patch. "The boy with no past" article relates to a boy called Kaspar Hauser who was found in Nuremberg in 1828 carrying two letters, barely able to speak and possessing no memory. I love stories like this. The Piano Man is a recent example of a similar incident that happened here in the UK around six or seven years ago.)

Issue 50
Sex and alchemy
Tesla: unknown genius
Glastonbury scripts
End of the jinx ship
UFOs over Japan
(This is perhaps my favourite cover, with a superb image sadly not done justice by my crappy photo! If I've got the link right here's a better image:



"A discharge of millions of volts at Colorado Springs. It was not Tesla's practice to use these artificial lightning strokes as reading lamps, as this picture suggests: he was photographed with flash powder and then moved to a safe distance while the current flowed and the film was re-exposed." So it's a cheat but still awesome!)

Issue 51
Odd animal senses
Who was Kaspar Houser?
Alchemy's hidden truth
The test of healing
Epidemic of vampires
(The image is a 1916 painting called The Vampire's Kiss by Biegas.)

Issue 52
Tesla's genius
The Dracula legend
Tunguska fireball
A career in ruins
Creating a ghost
(The image is of a regular forest fire, to help illustrate "a huge fireball that 'covered an enormous part of the sky' over Tunguska, Siberia ... for up to 20 miles (30 kilometers) around the site of the explosion, trees were blown down, and the intense heat of the blast set the forest alight.")

Issue 53
Tunguska: the truth
Strange Glastonbury
The curse on Killakee
CIA and the UFO cover up
The journey of the soul
(The image is, of course, the CIA's official seal.)

Issue 54
Sex with an alien
Vampires: the reality
Signals from space
Lost civilisations
Nazi occultism
(The image is one that accompanies Antonio Villas Boas' account of his alien abduction. I wonder if he's related to Tottenham Hotspur's current manager. Love that helmet, man.)

Issue 55
CIA and UFOs
Weird winged creatures
Spirit surgeon extraordinary
What happens after death
Clapham Wood enigma
(The image: "five-year-old Marie Delex was borne away by a large bird in 1838". These kind of stories also interest me. There was one here a couple of years ago about a huge owl stalking a village, posing a threat to family pets.)

Issue 56
Evil of the Nazis
The secret of the rope trick
UFOs: a Federal case
Lost cities of Asia
Remote viewing
(The image is of Mohenjo-Daro in Pakistan, an example of a huge empire that suddenly disappeared.)

[Lucian Poll]

Hi frik. Great minds think alike!

Vampirella never really reached my darkened corner of the world so I'm not so familiar with the comic. It doesn't stop Amazon recommending the Vampirella Archives to me every time I log in, though! I might have to sample a couple of volumes in the future.

[frik51]

Okay, here are a few more snaps.



I've always had a soft spot for horror comics. There were always a couple of ragged copies of Eerie floating around that just so happened to land in the hands of an impressionable pre-teen. I had often seen tatty old magazines for sale via eBay, but when Dark Horse started printing the entire run of both Creepy and Eerie in handsome hardback volumes I was a very happy (old) lad!

Hey, I got those as well!! Great set of books.
But, where are the Vampirella Archives???

sk

[bookworm 1]

like the magazines.keep it coming.

[Lucian Poll]

Thanks for the warm welcome, Pete.

I'll post another set of covers tomorrow. (One of them is perhaps my favourite of the whole collection.)

[peteOcha]

Great stuff! And welcome to the forum!!

[Lucian Poll]

Thanks, Joe. Here's another photo covering issues 39 to 47:



As before here's a quick run through each cover:

Issue 39
Spring-heeled Jack
Lights of inspiration
The history of werewolves
Elusive Irish monsters
Incorruptable corpses
(The image is just your common-or-garden wolf, which is okay as wolves are cool.) (The story of Spring-heeled Jack, by the way, is utterly barmy. Almost a precursor to Batman in some ways.)

Issue 40
The cyborg cover-up
When the Welsh lights faded
The werewolf transformation
Fossils that do not fit
Curse of the boy king
(The image is of "an unmanned probe - not from space but from Westland, a British helicopter manufacturer." The article does have some interesting pictures of weird and wonderful experimental aircraft, including a flying wing, said probe, and a remotely piloted plane - these days all par for the course in a battle arena.) (I'd imagine.)

Issue 41
A shock to science
The 'Welsh triangle'
Secrets of the grave
Man into beast?
Egyptian magic
(The photograph: "A table levitates at a London sitting of Eusapia Palladino in 1903. Careful investigations ascribed some, at least, of her phenomena to 'some supernormal cause'.")

Issue 42
Psi: the Cinderella science
Images that bleed and weep
UFOs at Ripperston Farm
Master builders' secrets
Mystery alchemist
("The shapes, cut out of plywood, are firmly linked, but the question is how this came about. Were they ingeneously made that way or were they linked paranormally?")

Issue 43
Mind over metal
Puzzling over pyramids
The stigmatic phenomenon
The phantom universe
The jumping coffins
("Paperclips dropped into this glass ball were paranormally 'scrunched' into a fantastic shape by one of Professor Hasted's metal bending subjects.")

Issue 44
The Alaise mystery
Who are the stigmatics?
Pyramid power assessed
Welsh triangle - the facts
The legend of Fulcanelli
(The image relates to a spate of UFO sightings in Wales in the late 70's. It is an artists impression of the Coombs family's account of a UFO cirlcing some rocks near Ripperston Farm "then disappear into them as if through sliding doors". This looks like a week where the picture editor was on holiday!)

Issue 45
Secrets of Alaise
Attack by hostile UFOs?
The legendary money pit
The new view of reality
A stroll into the past
(The image is of Oak Island, Nova Scotia. The yellow areas are where the island has been excavated in the search for a fabled money pit, based on a rumour going back to 1795.)

Issue 46
Timeslip at Dieppe
American spook lights
UFO catches fishermen
Hypnosis: does it exist?
Fulcanelli's secret
(The image is an illustration of "spook lights" a.k.a. Will O' The Wisps and Jack O' Lanterns.)

Issue 47
Lead into gold
Disaster at the pit
Mysteries of migration
The healing trance
Key to reality?
(The image shows detail from an 18th century painting by Joesph Wright and fronts an article on alchemy called "The search for the Philosopher's stone".)