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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……

  • Saddle Up for Love: Ranch Romances, Sep 21, 1956

    Ranch Romances was Harold Hersey’s biggest success, started in 1924. A title so profitable it lasted nearly fifty years. The issue I;m reviewing is from September 21 1956. But before we take a look inside this issue, let’s look around. 1956 is a bad time in the pulp market. From 65 issues a month just……

  • Million word man: Utah writer Frank C. Robertson

    Frank C. Robertson, of Springville, prolific western writer who is now hard at work on a new book, says he’ll be glad when the European war is over and the Britishers get back to their reading again. This Utah writer has had about 65 novels appear in book form in Great Britain, of which about……

  • Thirteen Pulp Tales – Secrets of Robert A. W. Lowndes, pulp juggler

    This profile of Robert A. W. Lowndes appeared in a 1956 newspaper. WHIRL-A-JIGBY IRVING L. JOFFEE.NEW YORK. Sept. 23 (NANA).—A man who has never lived west of the Hudson and has always been a law-abiding citizen is sole editor of a baker’s dozen true life Western and mystery magazines. He is mild-mannered bespectacled Robert W……

  • Lon T. Williams : Weird writings of a Law Clerk

    Lon T. Williams followed Robert E. Howard in writing weird westerns. Rather obscure, he was first republished by Larry Estep at pulpgen.com (which has now vanished into the aether). Williams’ stories of deputy sheriff Lee Winters, most of which appeared in Real Western Stories, are formulaic, with the hero encountering weirdness as he returns from……

  2. The George Gross painting behind Digges La Touche also ended up in my collection (MAN’S ILLUSTRATED – Nov. 1955; SHOWDOWN…

  3. The Rafael De Soto Basketball Pulp Cover Painting found its way into my collection (FIFTEEN SPORTS STORIES – Jan. 1949).…

  4. The nice original Earle K. Bergey Football Cover Painting now sits in my collection (EXCITING SPORTS – Winter 1950). 😊