Pulpflakes Blog: The Secrets Of The Pulps

For over five decades, the pulp magazines entertained people all over the world. Discover the people behind them; the authors, editors, illustrators and their stories. Look behind the scenes and learn the secrets of storytelling.

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  • Simple, Fast search of the FictionMags Index

    Simple, fast search of the FictionMags Index. It’s finally here. https://pulpflakes.com/fmisearch/ The FictionMags Index (FMI) is the biggest online index of English language fiction published in periodicals. Search the FMI by author or artist name, magazine title or look for a specific issue by date or issue number. Tips and tricks While search tolerates partial……

  • Galen C. Colin: Popular Wild West author from Wichita

    This profile of Galen C. Colin, prolific writer of westerns for Wild West Weekly, appeared in the Wichita Eagle in 1932. Colin started out as an author of weird tales, moved to the western genre soon after and stayed with it for over twenty years. During that time, he published over 350 stories, of which……

  • Russell A. Bankson: The shooting star from Spokane

    This profile of Russell A. Bankson, Spokane author, was originally published in 1935. Russell’s writing career in the pulps started in 1915 and ended in 1957, lasting almost as long as the pulps themselves. One of the authors who helped to fill the pulps, Bankson averaged about 3-5 stories a year, mostly westerns, over that……

  • Secrets of a Fast Fiction Factory from T. T. Flynn

    This article on then Santa-Fe resident author T. T. Flynn appeared in a local newspaper in 1929. Ted Flynn’s fiction factory has taken on new aspects of a prosperous growing industry with the addition of an Ediphone to Ted’s accessories for turning out quick copy to supply the demands of a string of some pulp……

  • Robert O. Erisman, pulp editor: Man of Mystery, Love and many others

    This profile of Robert O. Erisman appeared in 1939, a year after he became a pulp editor at Martin Goodman’s Magazine Management. Erisman, thought to be a Goodman relative, also contributed scripts to Goodman’s early comics: Daring Mystery and Mystic. Editor of 29 pulps prefers melodrama to the correct prose he used to write Robert……