THE LONG LOST PULP THAT TIME FORGOT IS NOW AVAILABLE!

SUPERLATIVE TALES

Original publication date July 20, 1947
Magazine redone in paperback October, 2006

$16.00 plus $4.00 shipping and handling

In July of 1947, Superlative Publications, based in Streator, Illinois, released a new pulp magazine by the name of Superlative Tales. Due to unmitigated and coincidential circumstances, the publication was only on newsstands for less than a month. There has been much spectulation as to why it was pulled form the shelves. It's editor, Anton Owens, is quoted in his book, The Attempted Censorship of Comics and Pulps During 1940's-50's, published in the late 1970's, as believing that the lead story, The Wedding of Louis and Chocolate may have been the cause. The story deals with an alien race in the future and the publication just happened to coincide with the incident that supposedly took place at Roswell, New Mexico. To learn more about the crash at Roswell, click HERE for link! Whatever the reason, this publication has not been seen by anyone until it was rediscovered once again in 2004 by Anthony Feinman. Now, for the first time in 60 years, Ink & Feathers Comics is releasing the pulp that time forgot! Complete with original ads, art, and layouts, Superlative Tales is truly a blast from the past!

To obtain your copy, simply click the ADD TO CART button above or for those leary of doing business online, click Order Form to download a PDF order form.(Must have a version of Acrobat Reader) and snail mail us a check or cashiers/money order to: Ink & Feathers Comics, 1214 Orchard Rd #7, Bloomington, IL 61704. This book is also available in a package deal! Click Online Store for more details

160 page book featuring short stories:

The Wedding of Louis and Chocolate by Maxwell Wild
The Man with the Secret Brain by Barky McBarkton
Check, Please! by Arthur Ford
Triers by Thomas Eagan
The Tourist Trap by Judith Blank
The Cell of Mr Grey by Arthur Ford
Blitz Howser, The Last Earthling by Gordon Cabot
The Far Flung Future by Barky McBarkton

Reprinted with permission by their decendents, Myke Feinman, Valerie McCann, Andy Bowers, Andy Hall, Jay E Dickerson, Eric T Gradberg, and Anthony Feinman.

Article published in the HeartBeat October 2006, an in house publication for Heartland Bank & Trust:

Truth or Fiction?

(Illustration to right from short story, The Cell of Mr Grey, by Arthur Ford)

It’s here! Anthony Feinman has finally published his next book, SUPERLATIVE TALES. Or was it already published 59 years ago?

Superlative Tales, a magazine published in late July 1947, was one of the last great pulp magazines of it’s heyday. What is a pulp magazine you may ask? You’ve never heard of them? Pulp magazines spawned a revolution of literary hero’s such as Sam Spade, Buck Rogers, Mike Hammer, The Shadow and Doc Savage just to name of few. They were printed on very cheap paper and generally sold in grocery or drugstores for a mere 10c a copy. They generally go for hundreds of dollars at book conventions due to their scarce existence via poor paper quality. They were first introduced to the American public in the early part of the 20th century. They generally contained short stories along with an illustration for each as well as an occasional cartoon. Some of them featured interesting scientific facts as well as outlandish ads. They were a product of their time and were the precursors to the comic book revolution that helped evolve popular pop culture icons. Two of the more popular ones still running strong today are Superman and Batman.

However, Superlative Tales was one of the more unique magazines. It was the one and only pulp magazine ever to be banned by the US government . During a time when the “Red Scare” or the communist threat was high on the minds of many Americans, a lot of printed material was deemed subversive or un-American. Even though this was NOT the case with Superlative Tales, it was deemed as such to hide the TRUE reason behind it expulsion from the general public: It featured a painting of an ALIEN face on the cover! Oh, horrors of horrors! For those of you too young to know your American history, on July 2, 1947, one of the greatest and most iconic events supposedly took place in Roswell, New Mexico: The crash landing of an ALIEN SPACE CRAFT! When Superlative Tales was released on the shelves, it only lasted two weeks, the government ordered an immediate censorship of the publication and destroyed all the copies they could find. It was never again seen by the general public. Until now.

In 2004, Anthony was able to obtain possibly the only remaining copy of this magazine. He has made it his mission for the past two years to restore and re-release the magazine the government never wanted you to see. You now have a chance to own a piece of American history in the making once again! The book is 160 pages, priced at $16.00 and contains it’s original format, complete with original ads. It also includes research discovered by Anthony and his father surrounding events in the life of the lead author, Maxwell Wild and Superlative Tales‘ editor, Anton Owens.
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In the tradition of Ink and Feathers books, $1 dollar out of every book sold goes to help fund the Art Scholarship at Herscher High located in Herscher, IL as well as The Freedom Journalism Scholarship at Streator/Woodland High located in Streator ,IL. Since the scholarship was established in 1991, Ink and Feathers Comics has given out $5,000 in donations (as of 2006). For more information about the scholarships, click here!