Another in the series of posts on O’Henry award winning stories from pulp magazines. This is the one that started me thinking about doing the series. John D. Swain’s One Head, Well Done in the , November 1, 1930 issue of Top-Notch Magazine won the O’Henry award in 1931. It was a lucky win, since… Continue reading O’Henry award winning stories – One Head, Well Done by John D. Swain
Category: Pulp Magazines
O’Henry award winning stories – Home is the Sailor by Bill Adams
[I recently read a story from Top-Notch magazine, John D. Swain’s One head, well done in a short story collection of O’Henry prize winning stories from 1931. I decided to take a look at all the stories i had in my collection that had won this prize.] This story was published in Blue Book magazine,… Continue reading O’Henry award winning stories – Home is the Sailor by Bill Adams
Pulp Proverbs #2 – A stitch in time saves nine
Message brought to you by Adventure, March 3, 1919 cover by Will Crawford. Adventure, March 3, 1919 cover by Will Crawford
Frontier – September, 1925 issue review
Walker Martin has a high opinion of this magazine when it was published by Doubleday. I was curious to find an issue to review, never got one till recently, when I managed to snag a readable copy of the September 1925 issue at the Pulp AdventureCon in November 2017, and this review is the belated… Continue reading Frontier – September, 1925 issue review
Pulp Proverbs #1 – Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth
Merry Christmas everyone, be sure to appreciate gift-givers. Message brought to you by Street and Smith’s Western Story Magazine, September 21, 1935. Cover by Sidney Riesenberg Cover for Western Story magazine. September 21, 1935 by Sidney Riesenberg
Pulp News Roundup – Pulp Art Exhibitions, Santa Claus , Book recommendations from Michael Dirda
Pulp Art Exhibitions The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA is exhibiting some of the work of pulp artist Gloria Stoll Karn on February 10, 2018 from 5:30 to 7:30 PM. More information here: https://www.nrm.org/event/gloria-stoll-karn-pulp-romance/ Santa Claus in Science Fiction Tor.com has an article about Santa Claus in the comics and science fiction digests: https://www.tor.com/2017/12/19/depictions-of-santa-claus-in-science-fiction-magazines-and-superhero-comic-book-covers/ Book… Continue reading Pulp News Roundup – Pulp Art Exhibitions, Santa Claus , Book recommendations from Michael Dirda
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
Swipe or inspiration – you decide
I saw a post on a Facebook group about an artist copying (swiping) a cover from a previous issue of another magazine, and i also heard that it was done many times. I decided to take a deeper look into this, you decide if it’s swipe or inspiration. Leave comments with your thoughts. Shadows at… Continue reading Swipe or inspiration – you decide
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