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A Letter fro
One of you Whizzbangers up there in the Great Northern Wilderness has recently done me a great and much appreciated favor, and a disservice, too, at one and the same time.
Many Penny Dreadfuls ago, I wrote to comment on some remarks Pete (I think it was) Harris had made about the old Golden Amazon novels John Russell Fearn used to write, and to correct some of the information he gave, which was a trifle off. I concluded with an unsubtle hint that, if anybody up there in Whizzbangerland wanted to do Lin Carter a favor for any reason, I would love to have one of Fearn's old Star Weekly novels, none of which I had ever seen,
Not too much later, some Kindly Soul shipped off to me the Star Weekly Complete Novel for August 27, 1955, containing Fearn's novel “Parasite Planet, " I devoured it with gusto and enjoyed myself hugely. Thanks, friendly Whizzbanger, whoever you are -
And that's my gripe! The kind-hearted Canuck didn't put his name on the envelope, so I have no idea to whom I am indebted for this swell gift. Authors can pay back favors and Kind Deeds in a unique manner, you know, by Dedicating Novels to good people. But how can I dedicate a book to some lug who remained anonymous?
Some news and notes, and a query: If anybody up there happens to be fond of my three Kenneth-Robesonish thrillers about Zarkon, Lord of the Unknown--"The Nemesis of Evil," "Invisible Death" and “The Volcano Ogre"--all from Doubleday--you'll be happy to learn that I have signed a contract to do a fourth in the series, called "The EarthShaker, "
It will be dedicated to Edmond Hamilton, the creator of Captain Future. But the dedication will be shared: and it will also read, “and to Captain George and all my friends in the Vast Whizzbang Organization, " (That's for you, Anonymous! )
And now for a news update; yes, Virginia, we will soon have some real Sword and Sorcery in the movies. To be precise--for them as likes-Thongor, Milton Subotsky, who didn't exactly lose money on his two recent (and not at all bad) Burroughs flix, “The Land That Time Forgot" and "At the Earth's Core," has at last picked up his option on three movies about my Lemurian swashbucklercumBarbarian,
The last time I had lunch with Subotsky, we discussed casting. He wanted to get Christopher Lee to play Yelim Pelorvis the Yellow Druid,
CAPTAIN GEORGE'S PENNY DREADFUL, a weekly review established in 1968, ispublished by the Vast Whizzbang Organization at Memory Lane, 594 Markham Street, Toronto, Ontario, (canada.