Had the good luck recently to acquire a complete run of the fanzine Xenophile. Have been reading a few issues, shocked by the low prices and high dudgeon evinced by subscribers at price increases of pulps to as much as $3 for a late 1930s Black Mask issue. Didn’t find it indexed, so this is my take on the index, which i plan to submit to FictionMags once it’s done. Will post a few articles from it once I’m done indexing.
Suggestions for articles to post welcome, leave a comment.
If you find a mistake, leave a comment and I’ll fix it.
Part 1 covers the first 22 issues. Part 2 covers the last 22 issues.
Xenophile [Vol 2 No 10(should be 11), #23, May 1976] (48pp, 8.5 x 11 in)
3 · Editorial · Nils Hardin · ed
Xenophile [Vol 2 No 11(should be 12), #24, July 1976] (52pp, 8.5 x 11 in)
1 · Editorial · Nils Hardin · ed
2 · Editorial · Nils Hardin · ed (not a mistake, there are 2 editorials)
5 · Pulp Collecting — For Fun or Fortune · Rusty Hevelin · ar (reprint from April, 1974 issue)
6 · The 50 rarest and most uniquest pulps in the whole wide world · Karl Edward Wagner · hu
11 · Minter speaks up! · Richard Minter · ar
12 · Letters · lc
37 · Pulp Information Center· Nils Hardin · cl
40 · A partial history of pulp prices 1946-1973 · Nils Hardin · ar
43 · Review of Jim Steranko’s article in Mediascene, 1976 · Don Hutchison · ar
44 · Letters · lc
Xenophile [Vol 2 No 12(should be 13), #25, August 1976] (50pp, 8.5 x 11 in)
1 · Editorial · Nils Hardin · ed
Xenophile [Vol 3 No 1, #26, September 1976] (84pp, 8.5 x 11 in)
1 · Editorial · Nils Hardin · ed
3 · Why Viking-lander? Why the planet Mars? · Ray Bradbury · pm
4 · Ray Bradbury ….index continued [Part 2 of 3] · Donn Albright · bi
11 · A review: Long after midnight · · br
12 · Long after Martian Chronicles · Nik Grant · br
12 · Long after midnight: Review #2 · Bruce Francis · br
13 · An index to Planet Stories [Part 4 of 4] · Robert O’Malley · bi
14 · An explanation of sorts or Why your universe really will not come to an end · Mike Resnick · ar
68 · Pulp Information Center· Nils Hardin · cl
70 · How to make your pulps last forever, sell your valuable pulps at top dollar and still have them, and acquire all rare pulps cheap, or Wow!!! · Bill Blackbeard and Richard Register · ar
72 · Letters · lc
Xenophile [Vol 3 No 3, #27, October 1976] (64pp, 8.5 x 11 in)
2 · Editorial · Nils Hardin · ed
Xenophile [Vol 3 No 4, #28, November/December 1976] (84pp, 8.5 x 11 in)
1 · Editorial · Nils Hardin · ed
2 · Casandra · Kucile Coleman · pm
3 · The pseudonymous Lovecraft · George Wetzel · ar
5 · Hot story · Basil Wells · bg
6 · Mss. found in the bottles, vintage wine department · Michael Avallone · bg
7 · A review from the microcosm: Michael Resnick’s price guide , or A Perilous Pilgrimage to Cincinatti · Marvin Morrison · br
11 · Sunday supplements in retrospect or I remember the American Weekly, weakly… · Dean Grennell · ar
12 · Checklists, books by Frank Owen and Eric Frank Russell · Lemuel Nash · bi
71 · Pulp Information Center· Nils Hardin · cl
72 · The Shadower by “David Fox” (Isabel Ostrander) · William J. Clark · ar
77 · What was that zine again? Problems and solutions in upgrading your pulp texts · Bill Blackbeard · ar
78 · Letters · lc
Xenophile [Vol 3 No 5, #29, February 1977] (64pp, 8.5 x 11 in)
1 · Editorial · Nils Hardin · ed
Xenophile [Vol 3 No 6, #30, March 1977] (156pp, 8.5 x 11 in)
1 · Editorial · Nils Hardin · ed
3 · Fantasy Collector · Winston Dawson; Richard Minter · cl
4 · The Thrill Book · Bob Jones · ar
9 · Index to The Thrill Book · Nils Hardin · bi
11 · Space project Valerian · Walter Shedlofsky · ss
12 · Classics of Science Fiction, Series II · Marvin Morrison · br
13 · Edmond Hamilton eulogy · Forrest Ackerman · ar
14 · Fiction by Edmond Hamilton · Joseph Kankowski · bi
17 · Jumping Jimmy Christopher (Operator #5) · Dean A. Grennell · ar
21 · The pulp library · Bob Sampson · cl
22 · New Books · David Turner · br
131 · Incident at the Grand Canyon · Nick Carr · ar
133 · The Thinking Machine · Link Hullar · ar
134 · To a scholar · Lucile Coleman · pm
135 · Murder multiplied, detection detained: A Survey of Garland’s Fifty Crime Classics ed. Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor · Michael Murphy · br
136 · Group controlling pulp prices arrested! · Victor Dricks · ar
137 · Pulp Information Center· Nils Hardin · cl
140 · Photo essay of Popular Publications · pi
146 · Index to New Mystery Adventures/Mystery Adventure Magazine/Mystery Adventures Magazine [Part 2 of 2] · Fred Cook and Gordon Huber · bi
148 · Letters of lucubration · lc
147 · H. Bedford-Jones in People’s · William J. Clark · bi
Xenophile combined with the Fantasy Collector [Vol 3 No 7, #31, April 1977] (32pp, 8.5 x 11 in)
3 · Editorial · Nils Hardin · ed
Xenophile combined with the Fantasy Collector [Vol 3 No 8, #32, May/June 1977] (68pp, 8.5 x 11 in)
1 · Editorial · Nils Hardin · ed
2 · Max Brand – pulp king · William F. Nolan · ar
10 · Max Brand’s pulp characters · William F. Nolan · ar
13 · Confessions of a pulp western hack · Walker Tompkins · bg
14 · New Books · David Turner · br
15 · About the author: William Francis Nolan · · bg
Xenophile combined with the Fantasy Collector [Vol 3 No 9, #33, May/June 1977] (124pp, 8.5 x 11 in)
1 · Editorial · Nils Hardin · ed
2 · Popular Publications, a brief analysis · Nils Hardin · ar
3 · An interview with Harry Steeger · Nils Hardin · iv
20 · Mrs. Steeger recalls · Shirley Steeger · bg
21 · A checklist of Popular Publications titles 1930-1955 · Nils Hardin and George Hocutt · bi
25 · A pictorial history · · pi
38 · The old pulp writers · Will Murray · ar
87 · John Newton Howitt: American Artist/Illustrator · William Papalia · bg
108 · The pulps: day dreams for the masses · Marcus Duffield · ar
111 · The pulp library · Bob Sampson · cl
113 · Letters of lucubration · lc
116 · Pulp Artist Norman Saunders · Norman Saunders · bg
118 · Pulp Information Center· Nils Hardin · cl
Xenophile combined with the Fantasy Collector [Vol 3 No 10, #34, August/September 1977] (84pp, 8.5 x 11 in)
1 · Editorial · Nils Hardin · ed
Xenophile combined with the Fantasy Collector [Vol 3 No 10 (should have been 11), #35, October 1977] (92pp, 8.5 x 11 in)
1 · Editorial · Nils Hardin · ed
Xenophile combined with the Fantasy Collector [Vol 3 No 11 (should have been 12), #36, November 1977] (116pp, 8.5 x 11 in)
1 · Editorial · Nils Hardin · ed
R1 · Ray Bradbury: Fantasist, Visionary, Moralist · Nils Hardin · ar
R2 · Ray Bradbury Index [Part 3 of 3] · Donn Albright · bi
R8 · Bradbury’s first book appearances · William F. Nolan · bi
R13 · The Trip · Donn Albright · ar
R15 · Hark! Is that you, Donn? … All cloaked in Glendale dark? · William F. Nolan · pm
R16 · Burns and Allen, Fourth Spot · Ray Bradbury · hu
R19 · The chronicles on stage: A review · Bruce Francis · th
R21 · Bradbury in the pulps · William F. Nolan · bi
R25 · Lights! Camera! — Inaction: Unfilmed film scripts of Ray Bradbury · Ben P. Indick · ar
R28 · Bradbury’s textbook appearance 1955-1972· William F. Nolan · bi (reprinted from Presenting Moonshine, August 1974)
R30 · Uncle Ray · Philip A. Shreffler · ar
R32 · Third World Fantasycon L.A. 1977 · · pi
69 · Pulp Information Center· Nils Hardin · cl
70 · Letters of lucubration · lc
Xenophile combined with the Fantasy Collector [un-numbered issue, #37, December 1977] (72pp, 8.5 x 11 in)
1 · Editorial · Nils Hardin · ed
Xenophile combined with the Fantasy Collector [un-numbered issue, #38, March-April 1978] (156pp, 8.5 x 11 in)
1 · Editorial · Nils Hardin · ed
3 · Leigh Brackett · · ob (reprinted from the Youngstown Vindicator, Youngstown, Ohio, March 19, 1978)
5 · Hammett the writer · Joe Gores · ar
11 · Private eye in an evil time: Mark Sadler’s Paul Shaw · Francis M. Nevins Jr. · ar
13 · Portrait of a tough guy (Raymond Chandler) · William F. Nolan · ar
19 · The not so literary digests · Robert Turner · ar
21 · Sam Spade: Lover · Peter Wolfe · ar
130 · The 11 best crime novels of them all · Michael Avallone · ar
131 · The pulp library · Bob Sampson · cl
134 · The Crimebusters/Mystery Magazine Index · Bob Sampson · bi
138 · The further adventures of Robert Leslie Bellem, or the Bellem-Adams connection · Stephen Mertz · ar
139 · Ed Noon’s quickest caper, or Revenge: Italian style · R.T. Karlinchak · ar
139 · It was never that much fun · Hal Murray Bonnett · ar
142 · Pulp Information Center· Nils Hardin · cl
143 · Letters of lucubration · lc
Xenophile combined with the Fantasy Collector [un-numbered issue, #39, June 1978] (52pp, 8.5 x 11 in)
1 · Editorial · Nils Hardin · ed
Xenophile combined with the Fantasy Collector [un-numbered issue, #40, July 1978] (124pp, 8.5 x 11 in)
1 · Editorial · Nils Hardin · ed
2 · A remembrance of early pulp collecting and fandom: 1938-1943 · Virginia Combs (Nanek) Anderson; William Papalia · ar
85 · Letters of lucubration · lc
86 · Letters to Virginia Combs · ar
118 · Nanek today · Virginia Combs · ar
Xenophile combined with the Fantasy Collector [un-numbered issue, #41, January 1979] (64pp, 8.5 x 11 in)
1 · Editorial · Nils Hardin · ed
54 · Letters of lucubration · lc
Xenophile combined with the Fantasy Collector [un-numbered issue, #42, September-October 1979] (156pp, 8.5 x 11 in)
1 · Editorial · Nils Hardin · ed
5 · Nostalgia and the pulp collector · James W. Thompson · ar
7 · An interview with Phillip Jose Farmer · Philip A. Shreffler · iv
9 · How are the fallen mighty Dept,: Captain Satan · Dean A. Grennell · ar
11 · The Unknown Unknown · Will Murray · bi
17 · The Up-Dated Farmer or What you never knew about Richard Wentworth’s genealogy and never thought to ask · These Ven · bi
23 · Walter Baumhofer – Artist: A pulp cover gallery · · pi
27 · Leigh Brackett · James Ellis · ar
126 · The pulp villains: Dr. Fuji (The Spider) · Nick Carr · ar
127 · Strange Tales: Masterpieces of the macabre · Bob Jones · ar
131 · The Pulp Library · Bob Sampson · cl
133 · L. Ron Hubbard, a living legend · Virgil Wilhite and Patricia Barnes Mintz · ar
137 · The Masked Rider · Tom Land · bi
139 · Solution for “X” (Secret Agent X)· These Ven · ar
147 · The “Common Practice” in Science Fiction: Aspect on the writing of Henry Juttner · Leon James · ar
Xenophile combined with the Fantasy Collector [un-numbered issue, #43, January 1980] (24pp, 8.5 x 11 in)
3 · Editorial · Nils Hardin · ed
5 · Letters of lucubration · lc
Xenophile combined with the Fantasy Collector [un-numbered issue, #44, March 1980] (36pp, 8.5 x 11 in)
1 · Editorial · Nils Hardin · ed
2 · Arkham House: the unpublished volumes · Gunter E. Swain · bi
31 · Nostalgia and the pulp collector · James W. Thompson · ar (reprint from Xenophile #42)
Hi–
I'm working on a research project about The Shadow and I've been trying to track down a copy of some Xenophile articles. Is there any chance you could send me a pdf or pic of some of these articles? Please email me at amparkerDC AT Gmail dot com