As I have been realizing over time, the artists of Adventure magazine are an even more obscure lot than the authors. So I decided to put together an article on them, but realized it was becoming too big. So I broke it into a two part article, with the first part being the top cover… Continue reading Top Artists of Adventure
Category: Pulp Magazines
Commander Edward Ellsberg’s books and auto-biography reissued
Good news. The books of Commander Ellsberg, about whom I wrote earlier in this blog, and his multi-volume auto-biography, have been republished. The story of Commander Ellsberg: part 1, part 2, part 3 The not so good news is that they are available only in ebook format. However, you can read them on your computer,… Continue reading Commander Edward Ellsberg’s books and auto-biography reissued
Windy City Pulp and Paper 2015 – photos
For the second year running, I attended the Windy City Pulp and Paper convention near Chicago. I will post a more detailed report later (probably this weekend), but for now I’ll just share a few of the photos I took. The convention took place at the Westin Hotel in Lombard, the weather was perfect –… Continue reading Windy City Pulp and Paper 2015 – photos
From Murania Press comes The Island, sequel to Barehanded Castaways by J. Allan Dunn
I enjoyed the original novel, which was a very realistic Robinson Crusoe kind of adventure, first published in Adventure magazine. The novel was written by J. Allan Dunn in response to a challenge from Adventure’s editor to write a realistic shipwreck novel of survival, with no “convenient coconuts or self sacrificing fish“ http://muraniapress.com/classic-pulp-reprints/now-available-the-island/ The sequel promises… Continue reading From Murania Press comes The Island, sequel to Barehanded Castaways by J. Allan Dunn
New releases from Black Dog Books
Six new releases from Black Dog Books across the Hardboiled, Spy/Thriller, Classic Detective, and Science Fiction genres. I know what I’m going to get at Windy City, and if you aren’t going there, click on the links below to get the books and go here to read more about them. Update: Added original publication information… Continue reading New releases from Black Dog Books
George Allan England – The Mermaid
I read about this story (or so I thought) in Robert Sampson’s book Deadly Excitements, Shadows and Phantoms. He talks about a story, “Mermaid“, in Sea Stories magazine featuring Captain Leonidas Tripp as a mermaid impersonator and says this story is in the vein of the Jorkens stories by Lord Dunsany. Now I’m a sucker… Continue reading George Allan England – The Mermaid
A muse on a mule
From Short Stories, January 10th, 1946 comes this poem from S. Omar Barker:
Argosy reprints from Altus Press
Lately, it seems like we’ve been getting a lot of reprints from the general fiction pulps Adventure – Talbot Mundy, Arthur O. Friel, Marion Polk Angellotti, Farnham Bishop and Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, H.D. Couzens, Harold Lamb, Captain Dingle, Hugh Pendexter, Gordon MacCreagh, Arthur Howden-Smith etc. Blue Book – H. Bedford-Jones Short Stories – James B. Hendryx, L.… Continue reading Argosy reprints from Altus Press
Top 10 cover themes for Adventure magazine
Sorry for posting so irregularly. Work and life are keeping me busy this year, and looks like I will have to do what I can when I can find the time. Of course, if you want to contribute something, just drop me an email at pulpflakes _AT_ Gmail _DOT_ com. The first thing that made… Continue reading Top 10 cover themes for Adventure magazine
Google Books scans of pulp magazines
Recently, Google Books added a lot of pulp magazine scans from the collection of the Library of Ohio State University. All of these are pre-1923, so out of copyright in the US, and you can view the magazine fully. These are well hidden by Google and pretty hard to find by searching. I’m not sure… Continue reading Google Books scans of pulp magazines