Talk:Flash Gordon Strange Adventure Magazine

GA Review

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Reviewer: J Milburn (talk · contribs) 14:23, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

We can't have many articles about periodicals which published a single issue- happy to offer a review! J Milburn (talk) 14:23, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

• What are all the <span>s for? Do they serve some purpose?

  They must have been added by VE. I've never seen it do that before, but it's still in beta. If I can figure out what caused it I'll report it as a bug. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 14:07, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

• "fiction comic strip, Flash Gordon, appeared in" The link goes to an article about the character. How about something like "fiction comic strip following the adventures of superhero [or whatever] Flash Gordon appeared in"

  Done, though per the dab page it appears that that page is intended to serve as the target for both the comic strip and the character. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 14:07, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

• "Bleiler also comments that of three short stories, one is dated and another third-rate" Which ones is he referring to? Does he say?

  Unfortunately he doesn't. I spent some time trying to figure it out from internal evidence, but couldn't be confident enough to include anything in the article. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 14:07, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

• "Westerns" Link? Also, is the capital necessary? (Also, is the illustrator worth linking?)

  I linked "Westerns" to the article about the genre. I don't think the illustrator is notable. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 14:07, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

• Maybe I'm showing my ignorance here, but you mention both Harold Hersey and C.J.H. Publishing Co. as the publisher; which was it?

  Bleiler gives the publisher as "C.J.H. Publications", with the officers listed as Hersey and Lloyd Jacquet, the assistant editor. I'd guess a third person whose last name began with C was involved, but Hersey was president and Bleiler refers to Hersey rather than C.J.H. when he discusses the magazine's publisher. I interpret this to mean that it was Hersey's company and that C.J.H. and Hersey can be used interchangeably. I only mention C.J.H. in the biblio section, following Bleiler, but I do say there that Hersey was the president. Does this need more clarification? Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 14:07, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

• "facsimile" worth linking? Who was the publisher of the book?

  Linked. I haven't been able to find out who published it; Ashley doesn't give the details in the linked page and my usual sources such as the ISFDB don't seem to have it. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 14:07, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

• Do you have a citation for the claim that the cover artist was "probably" Fred Meagher?

  Added. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 14:07, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

• Category:Flash Gordon?

  Oops; should have thought of that. Done. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 14:07, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

• A couple of potentially useful hits on Google Scholar.
  • First, taken from pp. 87-8 of this book says: The IP I'm currently posting from is blocked from TinyPic...

    "... published one issue of Flash Gordon. The story: "The Master of Mars", written by James Edison Northfield. Illustrated by Fred Meagher. The cover depicts Flash Gordon, Dr. Zarkov, and Dale Arden standing on what appears to be a high rise of ground overlooking a city of the future. // Dale Arden was the young, beautiful, vivacious girl who followed Flash as he searched for adventure. Like many others [end of p. 87] before her, she kept Flash pretty busy watching out for her well being. // The scene depicted in an illustration as taken from the novel has Flash standing alone in the arena facing a strage-looking creature called a Pyehocra. // This issue is considered very rare, highly prized, and expensive. The one issue I happened to see was in the hands of a California collector, a good friend of many years."

    Very nice; thank you. Added something to the caption based on this. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 14:07, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

  • Page 73 of this anthology calls it "extremely rare".

    This is already covered, so I don't think I need to add this as a source. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 14:07, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Good stuff, as ever. Please double-check my small changes. A thought occurs: Perhaps you could organise the pulp fiction navbox based around the decade of original publication? That would stop it being a simple alphabetical list, and allow readers to gain at least some context at a glance. J Milburn (talk) 15:01, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

I've thought about this several times and have not been able to come up with a good organizational scheme. There are a couple of problems with a decade based approach. For one thing, at least one article covers multiple magazines, not all of which began in the same decade -- Wonder Stories is the one I'm thinking of. Then some magazines had their main influence in a decade other than the one they were founded in: Astounding Science Fiction, for example. And when a magazine lasts over eighty years, it seems wrong to categorize it as a 1930s magazine.

I plan to write a Science fiction pulp magazines article as the main topic article for these, in order to create a featured topic. When I do that I will try to find a way to organize the narrative, perhaps with tables of publishers and magazines, that shows the reader the evolution of the genre. Maybe later this year. I still have three more articles to work on before then, though. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 14:07, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Happy to go ahead and promote- nice work, as ever. J Milburn (talk) 12:21, 10 January 2015 (UTC)