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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……
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Pulp ad: Just wait a cotton-picking minute
This has to be the most innovative ad for a pulp magazine. If you send a dime, they’ll send you a free issue of the magazine and spend the dime on buying cotton to help the south. Any other wacky pulp ads you can remember? Leave a note in the comments. PS: If you want……
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Last Wish: Argosy
Asks for Copies of Argosy Magazine to Finish Serial Story Who in Livingston has copies of the Argosy magazine for August 17 and 24? The Enterprise wants one copy of each. The request is made in order that Rollin Davisson, condemned to die Oct. 30. may be able to complete a continued story which he……
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Look inside: Producing magazines at Street & Smith
Earlier we saw what happened to manuscripts when they arrived at Street & Smith. Now let’s see what happened when producing the physical magazine. Pictures taken from the December 1904 issue of The Popular Magazine, which included a self-congratulatory section on the magazine’s success. Typing it out These are linotype machines; the user types out……
my maiden name is Gulick and was raised around Springfield MO. I found the book Bend of the Snake and…
Hope to read your review of the stories
Fascinating. I have all the West, Frontier, and Short Stories and will have to read a couple of the “Black…
Walker is it true that a portion of the entertainment program at Windy City this year will include a ritual…
Thanks for this article, Sai. Western pulps usually don’t interest me all that much but in this case it does.…