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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……

  • Cartoonist and Illustrator Quin Hall

    This article is a combination of a slightly edited version of an article that appeared in the Miami Herald shortly after the death of Quin Hall in 1968 and an earlier profile in Editor and Publisher, May 31, 1941. Both the above articles cover his newspaper career but omit entirely his work in the 1910s……

  • Henry Bassett Comstock – Author, Editor, Illustrator

    Henry Bassett Comstock (1908 – 2003), the son of illustrator Enos Benjamin Comstock and Christine Frances Bassett, was an illustrator, journalist and editor of Munsey’s Railroad Magazine in the 1940s. This profile of him originally appeared in The Journal News, White Plains, New York, August 6, 1972. Locomotive tootles way into one man’s heartBY VIRGINIA……

  • A magazine editor sees the funny side of his work

    The Humorous Side of an Editor’s Life, an article from The Ladies Home Journal, August 1907 issue, written by an anonymous editor. THE first number of a magazine that I ever edited got me into trouble. This particular issue, my pride because it was my first, had not been issued two days before a man……

  • Off-beat Tales: Western Trails, November 1943

    Last week, we took a look at the May 1938 issue of Western Trails. Let’s now look at the November 1943 issue. Cover by John Krank, which could be a pseudonym. The content structure looks similar to the earlier issue, two novelettes, seven short stories and one fact article. Western Trails [Vol. XXXVII No. 3,……