[I sent Walker a mail after the recent Heritage Auctions. For those who didn’t follow it, the first issue of the Shadow went for $156,000. From there the conversation went, as it usually does when we chat, to Adventure and what issues were the hardest to find when he was collecting. He sent me a… Continue reading Walker Martin: Collecting Adventure(s)
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Frank A. Munsey – An annotated bibliography
Frank A. Munsey was a publisher to be reckoned with. The creator of the pulp all-fiction cheap magazine for the masses, he built his publishing business into a mighty conglomerate with businesses in groceries, real estate, banking and publishing. On his death, he left his fortune to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Wanting to learn… Continue reading Frank A. Munsey – An annotated bibliography
Jaundiced eye by William Campbell Gault
I recently came across this article by pulpster William Campbell Gault, originally published in the Summer 1955 issue of the fanzine Grue. Fanzine scanned at the wonderful Fanac.org JAUNDICED EYEby Wm Gault There is a derogatory phrase used by critics in the more enlightened critical journals. The phrase is “pulp writing” and they use it… Continue reading Jaundiced eye by William Campbell Gault
Georges Surdez – Turnstile (from Everybody’s Magazine, March 1929)
It’s been a while since i posted some action/adventure fiction on this blog. This story originally appeared in the March 1929 issue of Everybody’smagazine. In the last couple of years it was published, Everybody’s became a pulp magazine. This was a bit surprising as the publishers, The Ridgway Company, already had one pulp magazine in… Continue reading Georges Surdez – Turnstile (from Everybody’s Magazine, March 1929)
Ernest Bramah’s Max Carrados
Here we are the end of this series of posts about blind detectives. I’ve already written about Bramah, so this article focuses on Max Carrados. And there is no better way to appreciate Carrados than to sample his stories. I’ve read all three collections of the Carrados stories: Max Carrados, The Eyes of Max Carrados… Continue reading Ernest Bramah’s Max Carrados
A Damon Gaunt mystery – Eyes that saw not
Continued from last week’s post on Isabel Ostrander, the creator of the blind detective Damon Gaunt. Unlike Thornley Colton, who displayed his skills in a number of novella length tales before getting into a novel-length adventure, Damon Gaunt’s first appearance is in a serialized novel. Because of the bigger scope of the novel, he doesn’t… Continue reading A Damon Gaunt mystery – Eyes that saw not
Isabel Ostrander – Author
Isabel Ostrander was a prolific writer in the early twentieth century, contributing more than thirty serials using three pseudonyms, and perhaps more under other names, to the Munsey and Street and Smith pulps in little over a decade before her untimely death. Many of these serials were later reprinted as novels, some with changed titles.… Continue reading Isabel Ostrander – Author
Bibliography of the Thornley Colton stories
Continued from last week’s post on Clinton H. Stagg who the creator of the first blind detective, Thornley Colton.All eight Thornley Colton stories were published in People’s magazine, Street and Smith’s companion to The Popular Magazine , from February 1913 to October 1913. One story per issue except for August 1913. People’s is one of… Continue reading Bibliography of the Thornley Colton stories
Clinton H. Stagg – Author, Script Writer, News Reporter
Continuing from last week’s The first blind detective in modern fiction Clinton Holland Stagg, the creator of the first fictional blind detective, was born on 22 November 1888 in Newark, Essex, New Jersey to William E. Stagg and Annie Stagg (neé Holland). There is no record of his father’s profession at the time of his… Continue reading Clinton H. Stagg – Author, Script Writer, News Reporter
The first blind detective in modern English fiction
October is Blindness Awareness Month when the National Federation for the Blind (NFB), holds outreach activities to create opportunities for people to meet blind people living in their communities and to realize that blind people are vital contributing members of society. My small contribution to this is to get you to meet the earliest blind… Continue reading The first blind detective in modern English fiction