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An interesting issue of Dime Western

I recently got my hands on this issue of Dime Western, at a rather reasonable price too. and was quite happy with that purchase. From the cover, it looks quite ordinary, just like any other issue of Dime Western from the period. After 9 more issues, the magazine would stop publication. There are actually two… Continue reading An interesting issue of Dime Western

The readers of Dime Detective

There has been some research conducted into the readership of the pulps, notably Erin A. Smith’s Hard-Boiled: Working-Class Readers and Pulp Magazines. In that spirit, with tongue firmly in cheek, I offer you this composite portrait of the readership of Dime Detective, based on the ads I saw in the magazine during my review of… Continue reading The readers of Dime Detective

Windy City 2019 – See you there

Register now or you’ll miss out Auction lineup Lots of rare high grade magazines up for auction, including a complete run of Excitement. Full catalog here. More… Movie Lineup Just some of the movies you can see. Full list here. Art show See photos from prior conventions here: 2018, 2015, 2014 I expect this year will… Continue reading Windy City 2019 – See you there

Issue Review – Dime Detective Magazine, August, 1952

The is the last in the series of 3 reviews of Dime Detective from the 1930s, 40s and 50s. Dime Detective, along with the rest of the pulps, was struggling financially in the 50s. You can see this from the absence of big names from the issue and the inclusion of a reprint from 1941.… Continue reading Issue Review – Dime Detective Magazine, August, 1952

Issue Review – Dime Detective Magazine, June 1943

This is the second in a series of three reviews of Dime Detective magazine issues from the 1930s, 40s and 50s. Cover artist uncredited, cover is unsigned. 6 Ready for the Rackets · Anon. · cl Racketeers and swindlers of all sorts are lying in wait for you, eager to rob or cheat you of… Continue reading Issue Review – Dime Detective Magazine, June 1943

Issue Review – Dime Detective Magazine, Jan 15, 1935

This review of a detective pulp has been long pending. I wanted to review three issues of Dime Detective – one each from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s to give a representative look at this great magazine. To kick things off, let’s look at the January 15, 1935 issue. Dime Detective commenced publication in November… Continue reading Issue Review – Dime Detective Magazine, Jan 15, 1935

Richard Dermody – Author, Journalist

Author Richard Dermody (1904-1952) Richard Dermody had, according to the FictionMags Index, almost forty stories published in the pulps from 1942 to 1949. While he wasn’t prolific, he was popular, and had a series of stories about Doc Pierce, a peripatetic conman. The series started in 1942 in Dime Detective, and from then till 1948… Continue reading Richard Dermody – Author, Journalist

Northwest adventure blog – story reviews, author surveys

Just discovered this new blog (started January 2019, I’m guessing maybe a New Year’s resolution 🙂 on Northwestern stories by G.W. Thomas, the author. Go there and leave a comment saying hello. (clicking on the images will take you to the blog posts). Some highlights so far: Tom O’Neill is a writer we know almost… Continue reading Northwest adventure blog – story reviews, author surveys

It’s Great to Be Back – new Robert A. Heinlein book to be published this year

Phoenix Pick recently announced that, working with the Heinlein Prize Trust, they have been able to reconstruct the complete text of an unpublished novel written by Robert A. Heinlein. Heinlein wrote this as an alternate text for THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST. This text of approximately 185,000 words largely mirrors the first third of the published… Continue reading It’s Great to Be Back – new Robert A. Heinlein book to be published this year

Index to the Weird Tales Collector fanzine

Stealing this description from the excellent Tellers of Weird Tales blog: As a writer, editor, publisher, fan, and collector, Mr. Weinberg did more than anyone, I think, to carry Weird Tales from the defunct era of the pulps into the 1970s and beyond. He acquired the Weird Tales property from Leo Margulies in the mid… Continue reading Index to the Weird Tales Collector fanzine