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……

  • Whatever happened to the pulps?

    Richard Hill Wilkinson was one of those authors who filled out the pulps. He turned out about a hundred and fifty stories for the pulps under his own name, starting with the Clayton group’s Cowboy Stories and Ace-High, switching horses to Street and Smith’s Love Story and Romantic Range when Clayton shut shop and hopped……

  • Original painting of a magazine cover, absolutely free

    A bit late for those of us born later than 1936, unfortunately. If you were born before then, give a good excuse for why you don’t have one or share a photo of your original cover painting. Excerpted from the January 1936 issue of Gold Seal Detective, which would have been on the newsstands from……

  • Link Roundup: Academics, Collectors, Secrets and Stories

    It’s been a while since I did a link roundup, there should be something interesting for everyone here. From the Groves of Academe Herbert Morton Stoops – Pulp Illustrator, a talk Stoops was an early graduate of Agricultural College of Utah (now Utah State University). During his career, Stoops’ illustrations featured in publications like “Colliers,”……

  • New Detective Magazine, May 1935 – Vicious villains

    This is not the Popular Publications pulp you might be familiar with. It’s an earlier magazine published by Two Books Magazines. Two Books Magazines was a publishing venture of Roy S. de Horn, former editor at Doubleday. Along with New Detective Magazine, Two Books also put out New Western and Big-Book Western. If those names……

  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). 😊