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Happy Thanksgiving everyone…

Hope you had an easier time getting your turkey than this guy. Happy Thanksgiving Western Story Magazine, November 29 1930 cover by Sidney Riesenberg

Pulp AdventureCon 2018 – photos

The door to paper treasures The dealer’s room Dealer with his collection Some more magazines Adventure House’s wall of pulp Some detective and mystery pulps Art from science fiction digests Stag magazine cover Ken for Men magazine cover More art Frank R. Paul interior illustrations for Famous Fantastic Mysteries Cover for Talbot Mundy paperback “The… Continue reading Pulp AdventureCon 2018 – photos

Review: Art of the pulps

Beautiful art – a retro blast from the past This book takes readers back to an era without television or radio, when magazine covers featured original art designed to lure readers into picking up and buying them. From the early 1900s to the early 1950s, pulp magazines were the popular entertainment media of choice for… Continue reading Review: Art of the pulps

Adventures in Editing – Donald A. Kennicott, article on editing Blue Book magazine for 42 years

On the occasion of the 136th birthday of Donald A. Kennicott, the long-time editor of Blue Book magazine, I’m happy to present to you this article written by him in the November 1954 issue of Blue  Book magazine, 2 years after he had stopped editing the magazine. It’s a great companion to Mike Ashley’s article… Continue reading Adventures in Editing – Donald A. Kennicott, article on editing Blue Book magazine for 42 years

Charles Richard Beeler aka Caddo Cameron – Cowboy, Railroader, Author

Charles Richard Beeler wrote under the pen name Caddo Cameron. He had many novels starring a pair of Texas Rangers – Blizzard Wilson and Badger Coe – in Short Stories, all of which were later issued in hardcovers. This was in addition to a series of stories about a pair of troublesome Texas twins –… Continue reading Charles Richard Beeler aka Caddo Cameron – Cowboy, Railroader, Author

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Pulpfest 2017 – photos

Attended Pulpfest this year and took a few photos which I thought were worth sharing. All thanks to the wonderful work by the organizing committee – Jack Cullers, Barry Traylor, Mike Chomko, Chuck Welch, Sally Cullers and William Lampkin and a supporting cast of thousands :-). This was a tough year, with a changed venue… Continue reading Pulpfest 2017 – photos

Robert H. Leitfred – Author

Robert Leitfred was an author working in many different genres from aviation and war at the beginning of his career (the early 1930s) and moving to detective, speculative/weird fiction and general adventure fiction in the 1940s. He wasn’t a prolific author – close to a hundred stories in the Fictionmags index, and biographical details are… Continue reading Robert H. Leitfred – Author

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