Moving right along… we will be exploring early issues of the weekly Valor magazine before you know it.
This week we plow through a few scattered issues of Over Here for 1959. I’m down to my last half-dozen magazines, but thought I had more. Another box somewhere under the bed or in the attic? Maybe. Scattered issues mailed back to friends in the U.S. while I was eBay shopping from overseas? True.
So, do not despair. Chances are a complete run of digital scans of Over Here may happen one day. Just not this day… or month.
Up for grabs today… June, July, and August of 1959… first email reply to offer $60 US via PayPal or check/m.o. by mail, that includes postage (+$20 intl) these beauties are yours! And they are beauties. Payment arrangements made once claimed.
We moved through some compromised condition issues from ‘58 and found some goodies from another stash. These find us deep into the Famous Voices series, wherein Pelley was allegedly channeling messages from famous historical figures from beyond the grave. Some transcripts are included within these pages, but suggestions of the actual audio recordings of these seances, which I have never heard, are tantalizing. I think I’ve seen evidence that some such reels survive, though.
Also of interest, some political content. I was particularly interested in an editiorial re: The American Mercury magazine. Pelley takes the postwar publication under his wing and goes so far as to say that it is serving the same purpose as Liberation during the ‘30s. Yes, this one is valuable if your focus is on right-wing publishing of the 20th century and how the more far fringe (Pelley) viewed the post-war purveyors (American Mercury).
I am also struck by the quality of the paper and print. Images struck in clean pages of Over Here such as these have hardly yellowed and represent the sharpest captures of some classic Pelley clipart, some blocks dating all the way back to the beginning of The New Liberator circa 1930.
I have finished scanning these as 300dpi PDFs and here is a link where you can download the July and August issues this week: https://we.tl/t-YzPmhPjjAy
Act fast to own the genuine artifacts. None have lingered more than a few minutes thus far… and I thank you good readers for that!