New on Archive.org, Weird Tales, February 1928. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu”, and “The Dream Snake” by Robert E. Howard. The .CBZ (‘Comic Book Zip’) is the best option re: quality, rather than the over-compressed PDF. It can be opened with any Comic Book Reader software or a PDF reader software that supports the format (such as SumatraPDF).
The following issue had no reader response, with the Eyrie covering the January issue. This includes a letter from Lovecraft…
The issue in which readers first responded to “Cthulhu”, presumably April 1928, is not yet online. [Update: it now is but proves to have only the most vapid and very slight mentions of “Cthulhu”]. But May 1928 is, with responses from R.E. Howard and others.
For Wright to follow this with the cheap shocker “The Lurking Fear” might seem something of a clunky editorial decision. But probably he feared an adverse reader reaction among the bulk of his readers, and thus thought that a more conventional “shocker” might restore Lovecraft to good standing with them.
“Cthulhu” had also been trailed in the January 1928 issue, thus…
