[In a recent mail thread with Walker Martin, I was joking about how his set of Black Mask would have kept him safe from the coronavirus, if only he hadn’t sold it. He could have read every issue while saying to his family – “See, a Mask a day keeps you safe.” Because he’s a nice guy,… Continue reading Walker Martin: Collecting and Reading Black Mask
Category: Pulp Magazines
REVIEW: Queen of the Pulps: The Reign of Daisy Bacon and Love Story Magazine
Among the pulp genres, the love pulps had the highest circulations and the least discussion. This has been true for a long time. The early pulp fanzines I’ve seen were from the 1930s, Fantasy Fan and Phantagraph among them, and they focused on science fiction/fantasy. Later pulp fanzines covered the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs,… Continue reading REVIEW: Queen of the Pulps: The Reign of Daisy Bacon and Love Story Magazine
Three interviews with pulpsters – Richard Matheson, Leigh Brackett and Curt Siodmak
Three interviews with pulpsters who would go on to write great movies. These interviews are taken from the University of California Press’ Back Stories series. Leigh Brackett: Journeyman Plumber Interview by Steve Swires She wrote that [The Big Sleep] like a man. She writes good. Howard Hawks, quoted in Hawks on Hawks Leigh Brackett… Continue reading Three interviews with pulpsters – Richard Matheson, Leigh Brackett and Curt Siodmak
Pulp Round-Up May 2020 (Coronavirus edition 1)
Here are a few things to keep your mind off the current circumstances for a while: Ohio man donates a collection of comics, paperbacks, pulps and magazines to University of South Carolina. They needed two 26 foot trucks to move it. https://www.sc.edu/uofsc/posts/2019/05/uofsc_receives_major_comic_book_collection.php Northern Illinois University to digitize ~4000 dime novels and story papers from Street… Continue reading Pulp Round-Up May 2020 (Coronavirus edition 1)
Early SF story: The Human Brick by Mary C. Francis
It’s been a while since i posted some fiction on this blog. So here’s a story i read about when i was glancing through The Moons of Mars: A History and Anthology of The Scientific Romance in the Munsey Magazines 1912 – 1920, by Sam Moskowitz. The author, Mary Cornelia Francis, was born in Ohio,… Continue reading Early SF story: The Human Brick by Mary C. Francis
Photos of Walt Coburn’s house in Tucson, Arizona
Walt Coburn was a famous western author in the pulps. He started his career as a writer when his lifetime goal of being a cowboy was ended after an accident. With a little encouragement from author Robert J. Horton, who had heard Coburn’s stories earlier and realized his talent for storytelling, Coburn parlayed his start… Continue reading Photos of Walt Coburn’s house in Tucson, Arizona
What is a pulp?
Recently had a disagreement about what constitutes a pulp magazine. Thought you might find the discussion interesting. For the canonical definition, I’m going to refer you to David Saunders’ PulpArtists website. Follow this link, and come back once you clicked through all the next links there. Back? All right, keep in mind that i’m not… Continue reading What is a pulp?
The Shadow, The Spider and Doc Savage in a title match
I was looking at some Spider pulps on EBay and ran into three titles with Satan in them. I decided to take a quick look at the most common words in the titles, then went on to do the same with Doc Savage and The Spider. Thought you might like to know the results. The… Continue reading The Shadow, The Spider and Doc Savage in a title match
Happy Thanksgiving everyone
As god is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly! Probably had a cover like this to blame. Alberto Vargas cover for Burten’s Follies, November 1933
New blog for pulp deals
From time to time, I come across cool pulps for sale, that for one reason or another don’t fit into my collection. Maybe it’s a duplicate, maybe it’s something i don’t collect or very rarely it’s a pulp i own and would like to sell. I thought you’d like to see and maybe even buy… Continue reading New blog for pulp deals