Talk:Flash Gordon Strange Adventure Magazine/GA1

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 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)