tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40998270808546905882024-03-14T01:23:27.140-07:00Pulp FlakesPulp magazines, authors and their stories. Adventure and Detective pulps.Sai Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14480681895921130917noreply@blogger.comBlogger384125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-69121215832407926232022-12-16T18:48:00.003-08:002022-12-17T05:11:45.208-08:00This blog has moved to https://pulpflakes.com/blogThis blog now has a new home: <!--<style>
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Kendall on becoming a writer</a></h2></div><div><h2 class="wp-block-post-title"><a href="https://pulpflakes.com/british-pulps-ads/" target="_self">British pulps – ads</a></h2></div><div><h2 class="wp-block-post-title"><a href="https://pulpflakes.com/know-their-policy-insure-against-rejection/" target="_self">Know their policy, insure against rejection</a></h2></div><div><h2 class="wp-block-post-title"><a href="https://pulpflakes.com/double-booked-identity-theft-among-authors/" target="_self">Double booked: Identity theft among authors</a></h2></div><div><h2 class="wp-block-post-title"><a href="https://pulpflakes.com/meeting-the-editors-butterick-hersey/" target="_self">Meeting the editors – Butterick & Hersey</a></h2></div><div><h2 class="wp-block-post-title"><a href="https://pulpflakes.com/meeting-the-editors-munsey-fiction-house/" target="_self">Meeting the editors – Munsey & Fiction House</a></h2></div><div><h2 class="wp-block-post-title"><a href="https://pulpflakes.com/meeting-the-editors-doubleday/" target="_self">Meeting the editors – Doubleday</a></h2></div><div><h2 class="wp-block-post-title"><a href="https://pulpflakes.com/meeting-editors-in-person-street-smith/" target="_self">Meeting the editors – Street & Smith</a></h2></div><div><h2 class="wp-block-post-title"><a href="https://pulpflakes.com/crime-contagion-wiles-hallock/" target="_self">Crime Poetry</a></h2></div><div><h2 class="wp-block-post-title"><a href="https://pulpflakes.com/harold-q-masur-newspaper-profile/" target="_self">Harold Q. Masur – Newspaper profile</a></h2></div><div><h2 class="wp-block-post-title"><a href="https://pulpflakes.com/from-breaking-hearts-to-broken-hearted-ethel-rosemons-story/" target="_self">From Breaking Hearts to Broken Hearted: Ethel Rosemon’s story</a></h2></div><div><h2 class="wp-block-post-title"><a href="https://pulpflakes.com/point-counterpoint-contemporary-opinions-of-the-pulps-from-1940/" target="_self">Point, Counterpoint: Contemporary opinions of the pulps from 1940</a></h2></div><div><h2 class="wp-block-post-title"><a href="https://pulpflakes.com/ham-eggs-the-successful-pulp-recipe-of-alfred-l-gehri/" target="_self">Ham & Eggs: The successful pulp recipe of Alfred L. Gehri</a></h2></div><div><h2 class="wp-block-post-title"><a href="https://pulpflakes.com/reckless-ralph-cummings-newspaper-profile-of-a-dime-novel-collector/" target="_self">“Reckless Ralph” Cummings: Newspaper profile of a dime novel collector</a></h2></div><div><h2 class="wp-block-post-title"><a href="https://pulpflakes.com/allen-anderson-frontier-stories-summer-1950/" target="_self">Allen Anderson – Frontier Stories, Summer 1950</a></h2></div><div><h2 class="wp-block-post-title"><a href="https://pulpflakes.com/good-griff-british-paperbacks-of-the-1950s/" target="_self">Good Griff! British paperbacks of the 1950s</a></h2></div><div><h2 class="wp-block-post-title"><a href="https://pulpflakes.com/stereotyping-in-the-pulps/" target="_self">Stereotyping in the pulps</a></h2></div><div><h2 class="wp-block-post-title"><a href="https://pulpflakes.com/pulp-art-wings-december-1932-by-rudy-belarski/" target="_self">Pulp Art: Wings, December 1932 by Rudy Belarski</a></h2><h2 class="wp-block-post-title"><a href="https://pulpflakes.com/the-woman-behind-munseys-science-fiction-fantasy-pulps/" target="_self">The woman behind Munsey’s science fiction/fantasy pulps</a></h2></div><div><br /></div><div>Update your links and join us there. For those of you using RSS:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://pulpflakes.com/?feed=rss"><b>https://pulpflakes.com/?feed=rss</b></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Sai Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14480681895921130917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-78458203302282381362021-11-06T00:00:00.003-07:002021-11-06T00:00:00.191-07:00Inside look: How Street & Smith handled manuscripts in the early 1920s<div style="text-align: justify;">AFTER the author has hopefully dropped his manuscript in the mail-box, what happens when it reaches the offices of the Street & Smith Corporation, the largest publishers of fiction periodicals in the world? We will assume that your story has been addressed to one of the nine magazines—<i>Popular, Ainslee’s, People’s, Top Notch, Love Stories, Detective Story, Western Story, Picture Play, Sea Stories</i>—published monthly, fortnightly or weekly as the case may be.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div>
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<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Sai Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14480681895921130917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-80124592448567102652021-10-09T00:00:00.002-07:002021-10-09T00:00:00.256-07:00Issue Review: The Story-Teller, October 1924<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i>The Story-Teller</i> is a
British pulp, described by Mike Ashley as "the best all-round all-fiction
magazine of its day" in <i><a href="https://amzn.to/3mmapGw">The age of
the story-tellers</a></i>, his survey of British fiction magazines. This issue,
from 1924, is from around the middle of the magazine's run from 1907 to 1936.
The editor was <a href="https://www.fontmellmagna.net/2006/10/sir-walter-newman-flower/">Newman
Flower</a> of Cassell and Co., the publishers.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">There are big names in this issue - G.K. Chesterton with an instalment of <i>Tales
of the Long Bow</i> and Sax Rohmer is represented by his occult detective Paul
Harley while Frank Shaw (the British equivalent of the prodigious H.
Bedford-Jones) contributes three stories under different names. The other
stories are by authors less well-known today. There are no story illustrations
and only a few pages of advertisements. Two of the stories were from American authors, only one of which was a reprint. A few poems and fillers complete the
magazine. The issue I read was coverless, from a bound volume.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://bn3pap090files.storage.live.com/y4m3sP_nwGBMHgBO0T4EwJIp9IIR-nbWPlVveEeVi8ZwZyI_c4AethNyhAJs4ZNeZBai4qsMRkzamUaFy0y5nGj1-BML2kCWLVbfj1tPYHIKxLLq8pI-mYkTpLw_ELXYMD53wgVJBDSRtf3GnjHR1Kqre82Z3lfK4DUZgfMb6SYkZ6_K5IELzyfkV63DugRB0cq?width=953&height=1024&cropmode=none" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The Story-Teller, October 1924" border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="745" height="400" src="https://bn3pap090files.storage.live.com/y4m3sP_nwGBMHgBO0T4EwJIp9IIR-nbWPlVveEeVi8ZwZyI_c4AethNyhAJs4ZNeZBai4qsMRkzamUaFy0y5nGj1-BML2kCWLVbfj1tPYHIKxLLq8pI-mYkTpLw_ELXYMD53wgVJBDSRtf3GnjHR1Kqre82Z3lfK4DUZgfMb6SYkZ6_K5IELzyfkV63DugRB0cq?width=953&height=1024&cropmode=none" title="The Story-Teller, October 1924" width="373"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Story-Teller</i>, October 1924</td></tr></tbody></table><br><span></span><a href="https://pulpflakes.blogspot.com/2021/10/issue-review-story-teller-october-1924.html#more">Read more »</a>Sai Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14480681895921130917noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-23612960413797546812021-10-07T22:33:00.004-07:002021-10-07T22:40:26.040-07:00Further Notes on James Corbett: a tribute to William Deeck<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">James Corbett fans, rejoice. <a href="https://ebay.us/P37rbj">A cornucopia of Corbett's books are now listed on
EBay</a> and an autographed copy of <i>The Merrivale Mystery</i> sold yesterday for $261. They were the pride and joy of someone's collection; and if you
aren't careful that someone could soon be you.<o:p></o:p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://bn3pap090files.storage.live.com/y4mUTMn4T55wxq0Eg86doE_b_kKQv3uTpWv7V4G_6WtRRoyGf6YLVL_EF2zdAyAhsosOnqYDqkGPsQxcn-vS5a_66z3Gmu3bQWkIBkmkdixV4eukLCVT8cwx6TchwfaNxdWGotfZ_-QD3AsiYCM31wILdQJUCOMFjr0MZ3OEzhDOBTbfykr0hEAbwJmkQZleRhP?width=958&height=1024&cropmode=none" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="748" height="640" src="https://bn3pap090files.storage.live.com/y4mUTMn4T55wxq0Eg86doE_b_kKQv3uTpWv7V4G_6WtRRoyGf6YLVL_EF2zdAyAhsosOnqYDqkGPsQxcn-vS5a_66z3Gmu3bQWkIBkmkdixV4eukLCVT8cwx6TchwfaNxdWGotfZ_-QD3AsiYCM31wILdQJUCOMFjr0MZ3OEzhDOBTbfykr0hEAbwJmkQZleRhP?width=958&height=1024&cropmode=none" width="598"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://ebay.us/P37rbj" target="_blank">Books by James Corbett listed on EBay</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br><span></span><a href="https://pulpflakes.blogspot.com/2021/10/further-notes-on-james-corbett-tribute.html#more">Read more »</a>Sai Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14480681895921130917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-64883517242405751282021-10-02T06:45:00.002-07:002021-10-02T06:45:34.492-07:00Review: The Railroad Man's Magazine, June 1916<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="text-align: justify;">I’ve always wanted to read one of the Munsey-era </span><i style="text-align: justify;">Railroad
Man</i><span style="text-align: justify;"> issues. In its first incarnation it lasted 13 years before Frank Munsey
decided to merge it into the </span><i style="text-align: justify;">Argosy</i><span style="text-align: justify;"> in 1919. </span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">Like most pre-world war 1 magazines, early
issues are quite hard to find. So I was happy to get my hands on a scanned copy
of the June 1916 issue. Even if you aren’t a fan of railroad fiction, read on.
Something may pique your interest.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://bn3pap090files.storage.live.com/y4mXTdjSpNJhvyrFbz_Hl3Ucet5NBic2LC2thbOB1smioi8BvwNSK0MN6cRhNpZ2PW6pDHNdQIssyTmNIc9Mtf3yMtqNEVV8svaUekOnV7FYQBN4tUjWJcLGf1C36QoPDw8eLP9qWHTyJLzOF4gEKZsH4nzc4wUGOXm9Ztn88SzRqzcPUl8F2aEDTxwbpv1cKkH?width=773&height=1024&cropmode=none" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The Railroad Man's Magazine, June 1916" border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="603" height="640" src="https://bn3pap090files.storage.live.com/y4mXTdjSpNJhvyrFbz_Hl3Ucet5NBic2LC2thbOB1smioi8BvwNSK0MN6cRhNpZ2PW6pDHNdQIssyTmNIc9Mtf3yMtqNEVV8svaUekOnV7FYQBN4tUjWJcLGf1C36QoPDw8eLP9qWHTyJLzOF4gEKZsH4nzc4wUGOXm9Ztn88SzRqzcPUl8F2aEDTxwbpv1cKkH?width=773&height=1024&cropmode=none" title="The Railroad Man's Magazine, June 1916" width="482"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Railroad Man's Magazine</i>, June 1916</td></tr></tbody></table><br></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span></span></p><a href="https://pulpflakes.blogspot.com/2021/10/review-railroad-mans-magazine-june-1916.html#more">Read more »</a>Sai Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14480681895921130917noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-41178724638077032742021-09-11T00:00:00.009-07:002021-09-11T00:00:00.170-07:00Book Review: G.K. Chesterton - Tales of the Long Bow<!--<style>
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which collects stories that had previously appeared in <i>Pearson's</i>, <i>McClure's</i>
and the <i>Strand</i>. It was considerably easier to find than the Adrian
collection. Jim Maitland is a monocle wearing <i>pukka sahib</i>. Possessing private means, he chooses to roam the world in search of
adventure. Fair enough, I might choose to do the same if I had the private means. At
least the roaming the world part.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://bn3pap090files.storage.live.com/y4mvPzcM7Qgklyba8ICtBQ_jA0IX1677JZjQ3pATZMMHBC33MLkOH-gT-rxjk8UzYZyU5gGrC_ZI4v-oSJHKsn1fbL0QlydvHjr7kCC1nTeC0IFmZJ3ASYGmkJ1_rjK8s0mYsZxQyfl-bBtrZIVEW0wqnZyL3aQaIFGgTQI-7NVKDLk_UthVwp479EmCmGNbriO?width=969&height=699&cropmode=none" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="H.C. McNeile aka Sapper c. 1924" border="0" data-original-height="577" data-original-width="800" height="462" src="https://bn3pap090files.storage.live.com/y4mvPzcM7Qgklyba8ICtBQ_jA0IX1677JZjQ3pATZMMHBC33MLkOH-gT-rxjk8UzYZyU5gGrC_ZI4v-oSJHKsn1fbL0QlydvHjr7kCC1nTeC0IFmZJ3ASYGmkJ1_rjK8s0mYsZxQyfl-bBtrZIVEW0wqnZyL3aQaIFGgTQI-7NVKDLk_UthVwp479EmCmGNbriO?width=969&height=699&cropmode=none" title="H.C. McNeile aka Sapper c. 1924" width="640"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">H.C. McNeile aka Sapper c. 1924</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://bn3pap090files.storage.live.com/y4m4QtsBiG4CH4oUqeScl7PRe234AY6YjL-7SPYq6GJOYaYl98y3h2Mi4T0ZXYd2cmq4ncarIjK2lrVJMe6NvngwvP4_49XUWngPz0ip6tAgZsvEJH9GGCbMPlWgWs93sbvu2wKJrJbN5LiTxRV5yJFI0ZQvcBAAjVcqrwzo3uU_2eClzHE2iNq4m0rKGj9M1mH?width=944&height=1438&cropmode=none" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Jim Maitland by "Sapper" (H. C. McNeile)" border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="525" height="640" src="https://bn3pap090files.storage.live.com/y4m4QtsBiG4CH4oUqeScl7PRe234AY6YjL-7SPYq6GJOYaYl98y3h2Mi4T0ZXYd2cmq4ncarIjK2lrVJMe6NvngwvP4_49XUWngPz0ip6tAgZsvEJH9GGCbMPlWgWs93sbvu2wKJrJbN5LiTxRV5yJFI0ZQvcBAAjVcqrwzo3uU_2eClzHE2iNq4m0rKGj9M1mH?width=944&height=1438&cropmode=none" title="Jim Maitland by "Sapper" (H. C. McNeile)" width="420"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jim Maitland by "Sapper" (H. C. McNeile)</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><span></span></p><a href="https://pulpflakes.blogspot.com/2021/06/jim-maitland-by-sapper-ewview.html#more">Read more »</a>Sai Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14480681895921130917noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-60836607656765478332021-05-29T00:00:00.022-07:002021-05-29T07:23:58.354-07:00Walker Martin: Collecting Adventure(s)<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> [I sent Walker a mail after the recent Heritage Auctions. For those who didn't follow it, the first issue of the Shadow went for $156,000. From there the conversation went, as it usually does when we chat, to <i>Adventure </i>and what issues were the hardest to find when he was collecting. He sent me a long reply that really made sense as a blog. Enjoy!]</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Your question about what years of <i>Adventure</i>
did I have the most trouble collecting made me think all the way back to 1972,
almost 50 years ago. When I attended the first Pulpcon in 1972, my main
collecting interest was <i>Black Mask</i> and <i>Weird Tales</i>, both of which
I was just about finishing up complete sets. I had started collecting them back
in 1968 after being discharged from the army. My main goal back then was
not to find a job and start a career, not to get married and raise a family,
not to buy a car. Not any normal goal most men in their twenties would
have after the two year disruption in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">their lives caused by the draft.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">No, my main goal was to compile
complete sets of </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Black Mask</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> and </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Weird Tales</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> along with other
detective magazines like </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dime Detective</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> and </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Detective Fiction Weekly</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">.
Also I was on my way to completing sets of all the weird menace pulps like </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Horror
Stories</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">, </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Terror Tales</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">, </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dime Mystery, Thrilling Mystery</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">, and
all the Red Circle titles. True, somehow, along the way, I picked up a wife, a
family, a job, and a car. I also got a house but I saw it as a place to
store my pulps and hang my original pulp cover paintings.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">I had been collecting SF magazines
since 1956 when I discovered and bought my first magazine off the
newsstand. It was as if blinders had been lifted off my eyes and at the
age of 13 I saw what I thought was the most beautiful thing, the February 1956
issue of </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Galaxy SF</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">. I quickly started collecting the other SF titles and
eventually ended up with almost all the back issues of the old
magazines. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lxbqh0q6GZ8/YLG0sabfUwI/AAAAAAAACcU/W70zyvTTYFIfsuhsM-iCY69SQiaZCrSHACNcBGAsYHQ/s1077/Galaxy%2B195602.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1077" data-original-width="799" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lxbqh0q6GZ8/YLG0sabfUwI/AAAAAAAACcU/W70zyvTTYFIfsuhsM-iCY69SQiaZCrSHACNcBGAsYHQ/s320/Galaxy%2B195602.png" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fast forward 10 years to 1966 and
I'm in the army, away from my collection of SF. But then a life changing
event happened. Sometimes you hear about books changing your life.
Well it's true. I bought the paperback collection edited by Ron Goulart called </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">THE
HARDBOILED DICKS</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> at the army post exchange. I had stupidly thought
that the other adult pulps like the detective titles had not survived. I
figured the SF pulps survived because teenage boys and young men had saved them
but that grown men had read and thrown away the other genre titles. Goulart's
book proved me wrong. I wrote Ron and he sold me all his copies of the
detective pulps for $2 or $3 each. I was off and running on a lifetime
pulp quest of reading and collecting these great old magazines.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qucNOh5Ap8k/T77jpq9rcxI/AAAAAAAAALU/ZZMloc2JxA4OurTc1IJ2lU8zRX9pRfMQACPcBGAYYCw/s2000/PulpSpines.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1433" data-original-width="2000" height="458" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qucNOh5Ap8k/T77jpq9rcxI/AAAAAAAAALU/ZZMloc2JxA4OurTc1IJ2lU8zRX9pRfMQACPcBGAYYCw/w640-h458/PulpSpines.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">By the time the first Pulpcon was
held in 1972, I really knew nothing about </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Adventure</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> magazine but the
convention had stacks of the magazine for sale for around a dollar each.
Nils Harden had all ten years of the forties, each year tied up with
string. He wanted $100 but was reserving them for a customer named Harry
Noble. I asked Harry if I could have the set and he said yes because he
had been buying pulps for a quarter or 50 cents and didn't want to pay a dollar
each. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EBHSn1K4TTg/YLG1UsDEPhI/AAAAAAAACcc/LEBpy0TFAG0F9EoSk_FlxN2F7H3h7ka6gCNcBGAsYHQ/s2225/Nils%2BHardin%2Bediting%2Ban%2Bissue%2Bof%2BXenophile%2B%2528pulp%2Bcollection%2Bin%2Bbackground%2529.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2225" data-original-width="593" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EBHSn1K4TTg/YLG1UsDEPhI/AAAAAAAACcc/LEBpy0TFAG0F9EoSk_FlxN2F7H3h7ka6gCNcBGAsYHQ/w106-h400/Nils%2BHardin%2Bediting%2Ban%2Bissue%2Bof%2BXenophile%2B%2528pulp%2Bcollection%2Bin%2Bbackground%2529.png" width="106" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nils Hardin editing an issue of <i>Xenophile</i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After the convention, I drove to
Harry's place in Morristown, NJ to buy more back issues of <i>Adventure</i>. He
lived in a converted army barracks on the grounds of Greystone hospital.
For $30 a month the hospital let employees live in these shacks. Harry had a
two bedroom tiny apartment full of books and pulps. He also had 4
children and a wife. Decades later, at his funeral, I asked one of his
daughters how Harry managed to fit everyone in such a small space. The
two girls had one bedroom, the two boys had the other, and Harry and his wife slept
on the sofa bed in the living room. I remember seeing the bed which was covered
in pulp shreds. Even the kitchen table was covered in pulp flakes.
When Harry put some chocolate chip cookies on the table you ended up eating
cookie crumbs and pulp shreds, a healthy diet that no doubt contributed to his
long life. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.dronestagr.am/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/birdseye.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="http://www.dronestagr.am/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/birdseye.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A drone shot of Greystone Hospital. A suitable residence for a <i>Weird Tales</i> collector.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">He had a complete set of </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Adventure</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">,
all 753 pulp issues, 1910-1953. He also had a couple hundred duplicates
which he agreed to sell me at $2 each. Most were in the 1920's and
1930's. I still remember Harry slapping down each issue on the table,
raising clouds of crumbs and pulp chips, as he chanted $2, $4, $6, etc. I
was in heaven. Right then </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Adventure</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> became my favorite magazine
and I could hardly drive home in my hurry to read them and find more back
issues.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">So to answer your question, what
years did I have the most trouble collecting? Hell, none of them.
Back then they did not seem rare at all. I quickly completed my </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Adventure</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">
set in a couple years, even the harder to find issues in the teens. In
fact, several years later, Harry sold me a complete duplicate set of all the
753 issues and I kept the better condition copies and sold the others through
the mail and at Pulpcon.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lFEQUdwq47E/YLJNWuf_HcI/AAAAAAAACdA/nMM2RS4-lUYisclRl1SC1GvTGWdwNqaOwCNcBGAsYHQ/s2970/Dick%2BWald%2Bad%2Bin%2BXenophile%2Bfor%2BAdventures.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1059" data-original-width="2970" height="228" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lFEQUdwq47E/YLJNWuf_HcI/AAAAAAAACdA/nMM2RS4-lUYisclRl1SC1GvTGWdwNqaOwCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h228/Dick%2BWald%2Bad%2Bin%2BXenophile%2Bfor%2BAdventures.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ad in Xenophile for <i>Adventure</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;">Though the teen issues(1910-1919) were harder to find, in
the 1970's they were still inexpensive. I don't remember paying more
than $2 to $5 each. The only exception being the first issue which I
managed to find for $10. The first few issues in 1910-1911 were
published with sturdy book paper which is still white more than a
hundred years later.</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z0MxPceLt8E/YLJOP-YskrI/AAAAAAAACdI/XCbLGgKJL9UJwJS2zuaZEaFCNqNAeOvfwCNcBGAsYHQ/s576/adventure_191011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="400" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z0MxPceLt8E/YLJOP-YskrI/AAAAAAAACdI/XCbLGgKJL9UJwJS2zuaZEaFCNqNAeOvfwCNcBGAsYHQ/w278-h400/adventure_191011.jpg" width="278" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adventure issue #1, November 1910</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">In the 1970's and even the 1980's
there were not a lot of people collecting </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Adventure</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">. I had very little
competition while collecting the magazine. In fact most collectors were
interested in the SF pulps and the hero pulps like </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Doc Savage, The Shadow,
The Spider</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">, etc. At first I also collected the hero pulps and soon had
almost all of them. There were some exceptions. I never bothered with </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Doc
Savage</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> because the issues were reprinted in paperback. I stopped at
150 issues for </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Shadow</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> because I tried a dozen times to read the pulp
but Walter Gibson's style was just too turgid and long winded. I found all the
hero pulps, except maybe </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Spider</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> and </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Secret Agent X</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">, to be not
as interesting as the adult pulps like </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Black Mask, Blue Book, Short Stories</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">,
etc. I soon got rid of them and had to laugh when Harry Noble called them
"unreadable crap". My feeling now is that they were aimed at
the teenage boy market.</span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">My favorite years are 1918-1927 when Arthur Sullivant
Hoffman was editor. I've read most of the stories and made notes of my
comments, grade, and date read. All the issues have pieces of paper
with my comments in them. Now of course the early issues are the hardest
to get but it is still possible to put together a complete set of </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Adventure</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">.
It just takes longer and costs more money. For instance Ed Hulse, in a few
years, has managed to find almost all the issues. Just recently, a few
years ago, I was reading a listing of pulp related books for sale from Mike
Chomko. At the very end of a long listing he casually mentioned that he
was thinking of selling his Adventures, over 200 issues, all in the
1920's. I quickly wrote Mike and offered to buy all he had even though I
had the issues already. I was interested in buying them in order to
upgrade my copies. For the next few years I kept asking Mike about them
and finally one year he brought the issues to Pulpfest for me to look at.
I spent a few hours looking at them and we completed the sale. I now had over
200 duplicates and Sai was first in line to buy all of them.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i>(Sai: I was going to buy those but Walker got in ahead of me. Never gives up collecting, and never sells anything, much to my regret.)</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I've had a lot of fun reading and
collecting <i>Adventure</i> these past 50 years and I miss talking about the
magazine with Harry Noble. I wish I could do it all over again. I'm
getting older now and it's hard to imagine an afterlife without <i>Adventure</i>
magazine. Harry told me if there was an afterlife for book and pulp
collectors, he would find a way to let me know. He died at the age of 88 in
2006 but so far there has been nothing but silence.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i>(Sai: I hope the ghosts of the books we love stay with us in the afterlife.)</i></p><!--<style>
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Sai Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14480681895921130917noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-71452897564133289372021-04-10T00:00:00.019-07:002021-04-10T00:00:00.211-07:00Frank A. Munsey - An annotated bibliographyFrank A. Munsey was a publisher to be reckoned with. The creator of the pulp all-fiction cheap magazine for the masses, he built his publishing business into a mighty conglomerate with businesses in groceries, real estate, banking and publishing. On his death, he left his fortune to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. <div><br></div><div>Wanting to learn about him, I started reading one book and hoping to review it - <i>Forty years, forty millions</i>, a biography of Munsey by a newspaper man. I enjoyed it but wanted to verify some of the facts for myself. Searching around, I found a number of articles on and by Munsey and here we are. Tell me of any sources i may have missed in the comments section (you don't need a Google account to comment).<div><br></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eEzXyFds6_I/UATpCLuM7SI/AAAAAAAAARQ/YPB9BwKMens69OYhmGap-bINXOjpBP9hACPcBGAYYCw/s362/image001.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="362" data-original-width="237" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eEzXyFds6_I/UATpCLuM7SI/AAAAAAAAARQ/YPB9BwKMens69OYhmGap-bINXOjpBP9hACPcBGAYYCw/s320/image001.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Frank A. Munsey<br></td></tr></tbody></table><br></div><span></span></div><a href="https://pulpflakes.blogspot.com/2021/04/frank-munsey-annotated-bibliography.html#more">Read more »</a>Sai Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14480681895921130917noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-20212173585392148302021-01-23T00:00:00.030-08:002021-01-24T05:22:31.676-08:00Jaundiced eye by William Campbell Gault<div>I recently came across this article by pulpster <a href="https://www.mysteryscenemag.com/blog-article/3595-william-campbell-gault" target="_blank">William Campbell Gault</a>, originally published in the Summer 1955 issue of the fanzine <i>Grue</i>. Fanzine scanned at the wonderful <a href="http://Fanac.org">Fanac.org</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><h1 style="text-align: center;">JAUNDICED EYE<br />by Wm Gault</h1></blockquote><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There is a derogatory phrase used by critics in the more enlightened critical journals. The phrase is "<i>pulp writing</i>" and they use it whenever they want to deprecate a man’s technique. What they mean is the kind of writing that used to prevail in the magazines (now mostly dead) that were termed ''pulp" because that was the kind of cheap paper on which the mags were printed. Actually, "action" writing would be more nearly accurate.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Well, the field produced mystery men like Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett and Frederick Haslitt Brennan and the prolific E. S. Gardner. Magazines like the old <i>Argosy, Adventure, Blue Book, Black Mask, Detective Fiction Weekly </i>would be included in the term.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">And these magazines produced some fine stories by some exceptionally gifted men. Any critic who took the trouble to read them would be bound to find a few stories he liked. Unfortunately, very few critics can read and oven fewer can think. I imagine what they do is have someone run old tape recordings of Edmund Wilson’s opinions and from them they get certain critic’s phrases and certain blind prejudices. Mr. Wilson was beautifully acid but not always discerning and he had a great lust for the obscure.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Believe me, there is nothing personal in this diatribe; I have enjoyed about an 85 percent favorable critical reception on every book I ever turned out. If this is immodest, it is also statistical and I have clippings to prove it. Besides, I am a hack and know it. And am proud of it, in a way.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">My beef is concerned with the readers who might be frightened away from the print market by these hair-splitters. I love the printed medium because no time clock is involved and I hate time clocks. I want to survive in this medium, and quite possibly prevail. And we have such awesome competition, TV and the silver screen and a thousand other entertaining distractions.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I want people to read and I would rather have them read Drano ads than read nothing. And the great scorn of the critics could conceivably put them out of business eventually, a very chilly commercial attitude. But they go blindly on, losing readers and alienating customers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A man like Truman Capote is searched minutely for symbolisms that give his lavender words a deeper meaning. I respectfully insist that this kind of search would find even deeper meanings in Max Brand. Because even critics can see that Hemingway is great, it distresses them that he has hair on his chest. So he is also searched for symbolism, in order that the critics may safely acclaim him, Mr. Hemingway is about as symbolic as a poke in the nose, but lucidity is a crime to critics and they must have a different reason for liking him. They don’t want to be associated with the people, those horrid things who want to buy books.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Don’t listen to ’em. You go out and buy a book. If you don’t want to strain the budget, buy a two-bit book. You will find one to suit any taste, from Joyce to Spillane. But decide for yourself if you like to read. And if you do, buy some more books and get that library card. You can buy half a dozen for the price of one drink at Ciro's.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Who knows, you might even enjoy reading.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;">—William Gault</div></blockquote></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Some things never change. </span></div><!--<style>
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Sai Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14480681895921130917noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-71551339522372395552020-11-14T00:00:00.005-08:002020-11-14T00:00:00.182-08:00Georges Surdez - Turnstile (from Everybody's Magazine, March 1929)<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Heading2SmallCaps"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt;">I</span></span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">t's been a while since i posted some action/adventure fiction on this blog. This story originally appeared in the March 1929 issue of <i>Everybody’s</i>
magazine. In the last couple of years it was published, <i>Everybody’s</i> became
a pulp magazine. This was a bit
surprising as the publishers, The Ridgway Company, already had one pulp
magazine in their stable – <i>Adventure</i>. <i>Everybody’s</i> was in the same
genre (general action/adventure), used the same authors and illustrators and
even the same editor, <a href="https://pulpflakes.blogspot.com/2015/04/william-corcoran-editor-author.html">William
Corcoran</a> – the designated successor to <i>Adventure</i>’s <a href="https://pulpflakes.blogspot.com/2012/05/arthur-s-hoffman-biography-of-editor-of.html">Arthur
S. Hoffman</a>. So why not just put out more issues of <i>Adventure</i> every
month? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://ht94oq.bn.files.1drv.com/y4m_nGi3RBTwnuyKvMzstMUbdeg3GOF1z04e-xaLZFlcS3IXZy0jufr1Y-1bCVemAqy1uGZpGe1mg5kYur_u0YyvQCTUJPhxHsUEZYWbX8Z9BIDiTS-lRInKtqWGEqZEiC6VRXkJr7y1PpgDvGdDRKHrwDayh28gJkrn4y6KA3zaT-5kKpLW8GQ-hHS7DRI9XfV2Q9N2HQJCXs4Czsai86u8Q?width=1743&height=963&cropmode=none" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="442" data-original-width="800" height="354" src="https://ht94oq.bn.files.1drv.com/y4m_nGi3RBTwnuyKvMzstMUbdeg3GOF1z04e-xaLZFlcS3IXZy0jufr1Y-1bCVemAqy1uGZpGe1mg5kYur_u0YyvQCTUJPhxHsUEZYWbX8Z9BIDiTS-lRInKtqWGEqZEiC6VRXkJr7y1PpgDvGdDRKHrwDayh28gJkrn4y6KA3zaT-5kKpLW8GQ-hHS7DRI9XfV2Q9N2HQJCXs4Czsai86u8Q?width=1743&height=963&cropmode=none" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Maybe they wanted to clear inventory. At the time, </span><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Adventure</i><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">
was being revamped into a more slick-ish magazine of the outdoors. The fiction had
to be slanted differently, and finding their inventory of pulp stories surplus to
their needs, they recycled it in </span><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Everybody’s</i><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">No
matter why it happened, I am glad of that policy as it resulted in more quality
action/adventure fiction to read. And here is a cracking example from Surdez,
one of </span><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Adventure</i><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">’s most prolific authors. He specialized in French
Foreign Legion stories, a genre that has died out today. Most of these involved
tough men in tough situations, facing moral choices that resonate even today.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">I
won’t spoil the story by telling you more. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><br /></span>
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Sai Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14480681895921130917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-53527169279779435982020-11-07T00:00:00.004-08:002020-11-07T00:00:00.972-08:00Ernest Bramah's Max Carrados<p class="MsoNormal">Here we are the end of this series of posts about blind
detectives. I’ve already written about <a href="https://pulpflakes.blogspot.com/2012/07/ernest-bramah-humorist-detective.html">Bramah</a>,
so this article focuses on Max Carrados. And there is no better way to
appreciate Carrados than to sample his stories. I’ve read all three collections
of the Carrados stories: <i>Max Carrados, The Eyes of Max Carrados</i> and <i>Max
Carrados Mysteries</i>. </p><p class="MsoNormal">From these, I've picked my favorites and added a quote so
that you can get a flavor of Bramah’s writing. All these stories and a few
others are collected in the Dover reprint, <a href="https://amzn.to/3lqsmBR">The
best Max Carrados mystery stories</a>, which includes a great introduction by
E.F. Bleiler.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3lqsmBR" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The best Max Carrados detective stories" border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="518" height="640" src="https://lztacq.bn.files.1drv.com/y4mpNawwMak6nVFrz89e_6qPoXzsHfYdLY835UcEDVLWo5-LZ28oEW4D0hJE83GiodbvTaQLqeio2gZCe1Akgkm0mb6d1ciN0Pp8PqfCPvjPd9UJkW2kYpn3Yi07LOD6bFk_hxP4ForSMIpjsB4b_Hhyr514fSGBalFRrGizYYqRCQHgDbdgz9a1qJZe_4svndLKBHukszxSONPDigtN7UvSA?width=600&height=926&cropmode=none" title="The best Max Carrados detective stories" width="415"></a></div>
<span></span><a href="https://pulpflakes.blogspot.com/2020/11/ernest-bramahs-max-carrados.html#more">Read more »</a>Sai Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14480681895921130917noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-6775573021533271802020-10-31T00:00:00.001-07:002020-10-31T00:00:01.151-07:00A Damon Gaunt mystery - Eyes that saw not<div>Continued from last week's post on <a href="https://pulpflakes.blogspot.com/2020/10/isabel-ostrander-author.html" target="_blank">Isabel Ostrander</a>, the creator of the blind detective Damon Gaunt</div><div><br></div><div>Unlike Thornley Colton, who displayed his skills in a number of novella length tales before getting into a novel-length adventure, Damon Gaunt's first appearance is in a serialized novel. Because of the bigger scope of the novel, he doesn't have to show off his skills till about thirty paragraphs in. His first deduction is that the person who has brought him the case of Garrett Appleton, murdered at his home, is a cocaine addict. He bases this on the constant sniffing and rubbing of his nose.</div><div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://xd1kiq.bn.files.1drv.com/y4mOvOWliMEBWLyTuAWLqvZNa1uqf9-eJEpPqt8i2stenRpvSbhX-d8kK0rplD31vt7derr9nqqTHkBaMCVBLklLHfuV3R1nCxFY3bSKorMlHj2_Mv3BvqFIthmACGaMCFl8eMHbtq6ynIIDi41chS-1CNH5h-dTK_OuOf1gICrBSKd_aOr23fRPcy2m8gBgOR13lzoDeLnDNtS3DNdRz1uyg?width=328&height=473&cropmode=none" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="473" data-original-width="328" height="640" src="https://xd1kiq.bn.files.1drv.com/y4mOvOWliMEBWLyTuAWLqvZNa1uqf9-eJEpPqt8i2stenRpvSbhX-d8kK0rplD31vt7derr9nqqTHkBaMCVBLklLHfuV3R1nCxFY3bSKorMlHj2_Mv3BvqFIthmACGaMCFl8eMHbtq6ynIIDi41chS-1CNH5h-dTK_OuOf1gICrBSKd_aOr23fRPcy2m8gBgOR13lzoDeLnDNtS3DNdRz1uyg?width=328&height=473&cropmode=none" width="444"></a></div><br><span></span><a href="https://pulpflakes.blogspot.com/2020/10/a-damon-gaunt-mystery-eyes-that-saw-not.html#more">Read more »</a>Sai Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14480681895921130917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-7843182572290663462020-10-24T00:00:00.198-07:002021-10-25T22:59:25.306-07:00Isabel Ostrander - Author<!--<style>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Isabel Ostrander was a prolific writer in the early twentieth century, contributing more than thirty serials using three pseudonyms, and perhaps more under other names, to the Munsey and Street and Smith pulps in little over a decade before her untimely death. Many of these serials were later reprinted as novels, some with changed titles. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Her inclusion in this series of articles is due to her
creation of Damon Gaunt, the second blind detective to feature in American
fiction. The first was Thornley Colton, created by Clinton H. Stagg. Damon
Gaunt is however, closer to the British school of detective fiction epitomized
by Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot. How? We’ll see later. <o:p></o:p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://nzthaq.bn.files.1drv.com/y4mQ4Tn7C3-v0zJ2mHe8VPD-sRf9YjikxeAW_XBerQ9cMuF4-cu3cv3QENwBDbMXgYmHe8V3ms3foygt2vUHKvTtyhKkQ3SeXrStEl2jAuPf33jAsTggR2JftepNTehMBdcOUiiuxdFcocW8R_xAAt93h4dC4ydjK0odC8KYgzhQ3n9tANUkYz7O4jCZrGubamYupuHwzAzULJFXrBlwNKX3g?width=386&height=910&cropmode=none" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Isabel Ostrander c. 1907" border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="339" height="640" src="https://nzthaq.bn.files.1drv.com/y4mQ4Tn7C3-v0zJ2mHe8VPD-sRf9YjikxeAW_XBerQ9cMuF4-cu3cv3QENwBDbMXgYmHe8V3ms3foygt2vUHKvTtyhKkQ3SeXrStEl2jAuPf33jAsTggR2JftepNTehMBdcOUiiuxdFcocW8R_xAAt93h4dC4ydjK0odC8KYgzhQ3n9tANUkYz7O4jCZrGubamYupuHwzAzULJFXrBlwNKX3g?width=386&height=910&cropmode=none" title="Isabel Ostrander c. 1907" width="271"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Isabel Ostrander c. 1907</td></tr></tbody></table><span></span><a href="https://pulpflakes.blogspot.com/2020/10/isabel-ostrander-author.html#more">Read more »</a>Sai Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14480681895921130917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-75492895656260758942020-10-17T04:23:00.014-07:002020-10-17T04:23:01.238-07:00Bibliography of the Thornley Colton stories<!--<style>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Continued from <a href="https://pulpflakes.blogspot.com/2020/10/ClintonStagg.html" target="_blank">last week's post on Clinton H. Stagg</a> who the creator of the first blind detective, Thornley Colton.All eight Thornley Colton stories were
published in <i>People’s</i> magazine, Street and Smith’s companion to <i>The
Popular Magazine</i> , from February 1913 to October 1913. One story per issue
except for August 1913. <i>People’s</i> is one of those ultra-rare pulps you
don’t hear much about, because most people haven’t seen a copy, let alone read
an issue.</div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
Which is why it is fortunate that a<a href="https://amzn.to/3iLkIkA" target="_blank">ll the Colton stories and the novel were recently reprinted by Coachwhip Publications</a>. Coachwhip is a small print-on-demand
publisher that publishes an eclectic mix of titles on crypto-zoology, mysteries,
history and business. Their mystery lineup is worth checking out.<div><br></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3iLkIkA"><img alt="Clinton Stagg's Thornley Colton, the first fictional blind detective" border="0" data-original-height="354" data-original-width="259" height="400" src="https://njtpaq.bn.files.1drv.com/y4mqxgVic2Mw3bfaA0zxzH7QcFyNdXdAdjEVCs-giWU7fmjpPpFmT2mOUl8bUMyd2mEVhFYor75El2tloIFOryNedJ7_lgKlK1OUB81UDb1jx-5fJFab-Wm4bH2qUrGlV6y9ALfmB_Xldc8z2_vf7pMjUd5hYiajsO44Qq7LuGSMLVxk5tkMiGF115XjOYMWVFcDesWvlj8MLShjmWZbgX9Vw?width=259&height=354&cropmode=none" title="Clinton Stagg's Thornley Colton, the first fictional blind detective" width="293"></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3iLkIkA">Clinton Stagg's Thornley Colton, the first fictional blind detective</a><br><br></td></tr></tbody></table><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span></span></p></div></div><a href="https://pulpflakes.blogspot.com/2020/10/bibliography-of-thornley-colton-stories.html#more">Read more »</a>Sai Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14480681895921130917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-60373571840434101902020-10-10T00:00:00.017-07:002020-10-10T00:00:00.332-07:00Clinton H. Stagg - Author, Script Writer, News Reporter<div class="separator">Continuing from last week's <a href="https://pulpflakes.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-first-blind-detective-in-modern.html" target="_blank">The first blind detective in modern fiction</a></div><div class="separator"><br></div><div class="separator">Clinton Holland Stagg, the creator of the first fictional blind detective, was born on 22 November 1888 in Newark,
Essex, New Jersey to William E. Stagg and Annie Stagg (neé Holland). There is
no record of his father’s profession at the time of his birth. In the 1900
census, Clinton is listed as “At School”, and his father’s occupation is
“Machinist”. The family had moved to Bloomfield, less than 10 miles distant from Newark. A younger brother, Horace was
9 years old and attending school.</div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span></span></p><a href="https://pulpflakes.blogspot.com/2020/10/ClintonStagg.html#more">Read more »</a>Sai Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14480681895921130917noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-23593848950906973832020-10-03T00:00:00.049-07:002020-10-03T00:00:01.381-07:00The first blind detective in modern English fiction<style>
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<p class="MsoNormal">October is Blindness Awareness Month when the National
Federation for the Blind (NFB), holds outreach activities to create
opportunities for people to meet blind people living in their communities and
to realize that blind people are vital contributing members of society.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My small contribution to this is to get you to meet the
earliest blind detectives and their authors. Three of them in fact:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<div>Clinton H. Stagg’s Thornley Colton appeared in a series of stories in Street & Smith’s People’s Ideal Fiction Magazine starting in February 1913</div>
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<div>Ernest Bramah’s Max Carrados made his debut in the British tabloid, The News of the World on August 17, 1913 and made one appearance in Flynn’s Detective Fiction</div>
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<div>Isabel Ostrander’s Damon Gaunt appeared in the Munsey pulps - The Cavalier, The Argosy, first appearance not known to be earlier than February 1914</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thornley Colton appeared in eight stories in <i>People’s
Ideal Fiction Magazine </i>from February to October 1913, beating Ernest
Bramah’s Max Carrados (first appearance in <i>The Coin of Dionysus</i>,
published in <i>News of the World</i>, August 17, 1913) by six months, and
Isabel Ostrander’s Damon Gaunt by over a year (first appearance in <i>Eyes that
see not</i>,<i> </i>published in <i>The Cavalier</i>, Feb 14, 1914). It’s
possible that there could be an even earlier story, yet undiscovered, but until
then Stagg and Colton have first place in the pantheon of blind detectives.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Why did so many blind detectives appear at around the same
time? I think it had to do with Helen Keller. Born in 1880, she overcame many
obstacles to become the first deaf-blind graduate of Radcliffe College for
women. She graduated summa-cum-laude, and published her autobiography in 1902. <i>The
Story of My Life</i> was a best-seller, and by 1913, Keller was on a lecture
tour around the United States, going from city to city and giving talks on her
experience as a blind person. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">By 1913 the world had seen blind people match their sighted
brethren in skills and accomplishments. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had been writing
Sherlock Holmes’ stories for over a quarter century, and detective stories were
a staple of popular fiction in the all-fiction rough paper magazines and their
more sophisticated counterparts. Then, as now, an author of detective fiction needed
something different –the setting, the crime, the detective or the criminal - to
differentiate his story from the crowd. While Stagg wasn’t unique in picking blindness
as his detective’s distinguishing characteristic, he was the first to be
published.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal">Next week: Clinton Stagg and Thornley Colton<o:p></o:p></p><!--<style>
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thinking about how I collected the set and then read most of it. In fact,
I've often said once you complete a set and then read much of it, the next step
in the collecting process is to sell it.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I may have told you this story before and some of it I wrote online for Mystery File back when I started the Collecting Pulps: A Memoir series but it all started when I was drafted into the army in 1966. The Vietnam war was heating up and I was headed for an infantry company when the army discovered I knew how to type thus possibly saving my life. I now had plenty of time to read and while in the PX I noticed Ron Goulart's <a href="https://amzn.to/3iKYxdN"><i>The Hardboiled Dicks</i></a>.<o:p></o:p></p><div><br></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://x4s5rg.bn.files.1drv.com/y4mt2hdbDJCnvYStyErDW4ICYpXpFxRGCW32VRgo9GtfnK--kRLIV4Fc72m-X3G8GZN-G4XjeTNKWMMxSKm_w6j4E-b9nHZG4zZ-EcAuNydQe05AhwZ1Ud07lvRo_qRmZXMuIP5gjD8GCzwC5GgC-xtx4WjanlhmnOabeiuu4eFFshHBKt7zRZG2yGGK1OB-JEa-NOpCWpmIRiSwum-sqK1WQ?width=766&height=617&cropmode=none" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="US Army PX - inset image of Ron Goulart's The Hardboiled Dicks" border="0" data-original-height="617" data-original-width="766" height="516" src="https://x4s5rg.bn.files.1drv.com/y4mt2hdbDJCnvYStyErDW4ICYpXpFxRGCW32VRgo9GtfnK--kRLIV4Fc72m-X3G8GZN-G4XjeTNKWMMxSKm_w6j4E-b9nHZG4zZ-EcAuNydQe05AhwZ1Ud07lvRo_qRmZXMuIP5gjD8GCzwC5GgC-xtx4WjanlhmnOabeiuu4eFFshHBKt7zRZG2yGGK1OB-JEa-NOpCWpmIRiSwum-sqK1WQ?width=766&height=617&cropmode=none" title="US Army PX - inset image of Ron Goulart's The Hardboiled Dicks" width="640"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">US Army PX - inset image of Ron Goulart's <i>The Hardboiled Dicks</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br><br></div><span></span></div></div><a href="https://pulpflakes.blogspot.com/2020/08/walker-martin-collecting-and-reading.html#more">Read more »</a>Sai Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14480681895921130917noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-75472619654410957612020-07-18T00:00:00.000-07:002020-07-18T00:00:04.076-07:00REVIEW: Queen of the Pulps: The Reign of Daisy Bacon and Love Story Magazine<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="md-plain" md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Among the pulp genres, the love pulps are the ones with 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, </span><span class="md-pair-s " md-inline="em" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fantasy Fan</em></span><span class="md-plain" md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and </span><span class="md-pair-s " md-inline="em" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Phantagraph</em></span><span class="md-plain" md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> among them, and they focused on science fiction/fantasy. Later pulp fanzines covered the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs</span><span class="md-pair-s " md-inline="em" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">, The Burroughs Bulletin</em></span><span class="md-plain" md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> being the most prominent among them; the hero pulps, of which </span><span class="md-pair-s " md-inline="em" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Bronze Shadows</em></span><span class="md-plain" md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> might have been the first; and a few focused on Frederick Faust/Max Brand. In the 1970s and 1980s</span><span class="md-pair-s " md-inline="em" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Pulp Era</em></span><span class="md-plain" md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span class="md-pair-s " md-inline="em" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Xenophile</em></span><span class="md-plain" md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and </span><span class="md-pair-s " md-inline="em" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Echoes</em></span><span class="md-plain" md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> were also slanted toward science fiction/fantasy and the hero pulps. Detective and mystery fandom had their own zines, but discussion of the pulp era stories was limited. Very few people actively collected, and even fewer read the pulps - </span><span class="md-pair-s " md-inline="em" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Black Mask, Dime Detective, Clues</em></span><span class="md-plain" md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> - that we now collect avidly.</span></div>
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<span class="md-plain" md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Love, adventure, westerns, sports, aviation - the pulps that actually sold the most, were the least discussed. And while the rest had at least some discussion, there was nothing I'm aware of written on the love pulps other than Daisy Bacon's guide to writing for the love pulps - </span><span class="md-pair-s " md-inline="em" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Love Story Writer</em></span><span class="md-plain" md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">. When i read it a few years ago, I was struck by how similar her guidelines were to those I've seen for the other pulps targeted at adults, regardless of genre. But enough of my musings. Why should you read this book? Laurie tells it better than i could:</span></div>
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<span class="md-plain" md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Because the woman in question, Daisy Sarah Bacon, was an editor whose magazine, Love Story Magazine, probably touched more women during her twenty-year career than any other woman of her generation. Her influence was felt far and wide by a group of readers who suffered silently through the Great Depression, who had very little leisure time on their hands, and whose only source of entertainment was the family radio, an occasional movie, and reading pulp fiction magazines that sold for a dime or fifteen cents.</span></div>
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<span class="md-plain" md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Daisy was the defender of the "modern girl." She told them it was okay to work and be married. She presented the possibility that they could even make more money than their husband. She told them that they could have it all but, in no uncertain words, they needed to buck up and not wait for a man to hand it to them. She was what one journalist called a "violent, vociferous feminist," decades before the term "feminist" even became part of the common lexicon.</span></div>
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<span class="md-plain" md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Queen of the Pulps: The Reign of Daisy Bacon and Love Story Magazine is the story of Daisy as the editor of that magazine from 1928 until 1947. Under her management, Love Story Magazine hit a rumored circulation of 600,000 copies a week in the late 1920S and early 193os, a record never surpassed by any other pulp fiction magazine. Under her guidance, Love Story became the go-to magazine for hundreds of thousands of readers every single week for almost twenty years. Love Story's success ushered in a wave of imitators that fueled the red-hot romance magazine industry that began in the 192os and didn't die away until the 195os.</span></div>
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<span class="md-plain" md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Daisy wasn't the editor of just Love Story Magazine. Over her twenty-three career at Street & Smith, she was manager of seven other periodicals, some of which were the most storied icons to emerge from the pulp fiction phenomenon. Some were under her management for their entire runs: Real Love, Ainslee's Smart Love Stories, and Pocket Love. For others, she replaced their previous editors: Romantic Range, Detective Story Magazine, The Shadow, and Doc Savage magazines during their last years as pulp fiction magazines. </span></div>
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<span class="md-plain" md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">In telling Daisy's story, Laurie has done a superb job. I am in awe of how much research must have gone into this book. Lucid writing and excellent photos tell a family history that's funny and poignant by turns. With the contextualization of place and time (Street and Smith's offices, the linotype machines) it all comes together into a beautiful journey through a successful and eventually embittered, semi-monastic life.</span></div>
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<span class="md-plain" md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Don't run out and buy this book; it's much easier and safer to order it online from </span><span class="md-meta-i-c md-link" md-inline="link" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3h4UIiT" spellcheck="false" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #463f5c; cursor: pointer;"><span class="md-plain" md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Amazon</span></a></span><span class="md-plain" md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> or </span><span class="md-meta-i-c md-link" md-inline="link" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/queen-of-the-pulps-laurie-powers/1132506379?ean=9781476636948" spellcheck="false" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #463f5c; cursor: pointer;"><span class="md-plain" md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Barnes and Noble</span></a></span><span class="md-plain md-expand" md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">. And while i enjoyed the book, it didn't turn me into a love pulp collector. But it did turn me into a Laurie Powers collector. We will have our own convention someday :-)</span></div>
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Three interviews with pulpsters who would go on to write great movies. These interviews are taken from the University of California Press' <i>Back Stories </i>series.</div>
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She wrote that [<i>The Big Sleep</i>] like a man. She writes good.</div>
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Howard Hawks, quoted in <i>Hawks on Hawks</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Leigh Brackett wrote scripts
for Hawks' <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2YwjmCN" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Big Sleep</span></a> </i>(1946), <i><a href="https://amzn.to/3fhIkMb" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Rio
Bravo</span></a> </i>(1959), <i><a href="https://amzn.to/35rPn0k" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Hatari!</span></a> </i>(1962), <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2WsRfBV" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">El
Dorado</span></a> </i>(1967), and <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2Sv6uZO" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Rio Lobo</span></a> </i>(1970),
as well as for Robert Altman's <i><a href="https://amzn.to/35tf7JG" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Long Goodbye</span></a> </i>(1973).
Besides being one of the few successful women screenwriters, she was one of the
earliest successful women science-fiction writers, having entered the field
professionally in 1939. Her best-known character is the larger-than-life
swashbuckling hero Eric John Stark, who first appeared in the pages of <i>Planet
Stories </i>in the 1940s and who returned in a series of novels she wrote
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and the posthumous release of </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://amzn.to/2Syuqvf" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Empire Strikes Back</span></a></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">,
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few things to keep your mind off the current circumstances for a while:</span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Illinois University to digitize ~4000 dime novels and story papers from Street
and Smith. The project will provide images and full texts of the works, catalog
records for the volumes and indexed entries for every story, series and author,
to augment an existing online bibliography of dime novels that can be found at </span></span><span md-inline="link" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="md-link"><span style="color: #1f0909;"><a href="http://www.dimenovels.org/" spellcheck="false" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer;"><span class="md-plain"><span style="color: #065588; text-decoration-line: none;"><span md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">dimenovels.org</span></span></span></a></span></span></span><span md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="md-plain"><span style="color: #1f0909;">. NIU will partner with academic libraries at Villanova
University, Stanford University, Bowling Green State University and Oberlin
College on this effort.</span></span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="md-plain"><span style="color: #1f0909;">Here's a recent profile of </span><i><span md-inline="em" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Black Mask</span></span></i></span><span md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> writer Fred Nebel. Altus Press has reprinted quite a few volumes of his stories from Black Mask. </span></span><span md-inline="link" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://amzn.to/35soNnI" spellcheck="false" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer;"><span class="md-plain"><span style="color: #065588; text-decoration-line: none;"><span md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Street Wolf</span></span></span></a></span><span md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="md-plain"><span style="color: #1f0909;">, which collects most of his non-series stories, is a good introduction to his style with a mix of different types of stories. </span></span></span><span md-inline="link" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3ddaQg3" spellcheck="false" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer;"><span class="md-plain"><span style="color: #065588; text-decoration-line: none;"><span md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tough As Nails</span></span></span></a></span><span md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="md-plain"><span style="color: #1f0909;"> is a great introduction to the hard-boiled school of <i>Black Mask </i>fiction, as written by Nebel. And if you like that, you have to get the four volumes of his MacBride and Kennedy stories: </span></span></span><span md-inline="link" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://amzn.to/35sZq5j" spellcheck="false" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer;"><span class="md-plain"><span style="color: #065588; text-decoration-line: none;"><span md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Raw Law</span></span></span></a></span><span md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="md-plain"><span style="color: #1f0909;">, </span></span></span><span md-inline="link" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://amzn.to/2Yvvmo4" spellcheck="false" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer;"><span class="md-plain"><span style="color: #065588; text-decoration-line: none;"><span md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Shake-down</span></span></span></a></span><span md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="md-plain"><span style="color: #1f0909;">, </span></span></span><span md-inline="link" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="md-link"><span style="color: #1f0909;"><a href="https://amzn.to/35sZxhf" spellcheck="false" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer;"><span class="md-plain"><span style="color: #065588; text-decoration-line: none;"><span md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Too Young to Die</span></span></span></a></span></span></span><span md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="md-plain"><span style="color: #1f0909;"> and </span></span></span><span md-inline="link" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3b1rcH5" spellcheck="false" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer;"><span class="md-plain"><span style="color: #065588; text-decoration-line: none;"><span md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Winter Kill</span></span></span></a></span><span md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="md-plain"><span style="color: #1f0909;">.</span></span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #1f0909;">Something I've long been irritated by is the dismissal of genre writing as unworthy of critical appraisal. Here's someone with a background in movies, talking about this </span></div>
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<span md-inline="plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="md-plain"><span style="color: #1f0909;">No time to read at home? Busy with chores? Let HorrorBabble do the reading for you. They produce professionally read short weird stories from a variety of authors including H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Allison V. Harding, Manly Wade Wellman, Clark Ashton Smith, Henry Kuttner and many other excellent authors and stories. </span></span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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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 <a href="https://amzn.to/2WbHE20"><span style="color: #065588; text-decoration-line: none;">The Moons of Mars: A History and Anthology of The Scientific Romance in the Munsey Magazines 1912 - 1920</span></a>, by Sam Moskowitz. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The author, Mary Cornelia Francis, was born in Ohio, started a career in journalism in the Cincinatti newspapers in 1889 and moved to New York by 1895. She visited Cuba, carrying the American flag 400 miles on horseback to present it to Bartolomé Masó, then the Cuban president. She was also an active suffragist and a supporter of William Taft. She worked on his re-election campaign. Taft lost to Woodrow Wilson.<o:p></o:p></div>
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During this active life, she also found time to write 10 stories for magazines (9 appeared in the Munsey magazines - All-Story, Cavalier, The Scrap Book and Munsey's Magazine) and four novels. This may have been her only speculative fiction story.<br>
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THE HUMAN BRICK BY MARY C. FRANCIS.</h2>
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JAMES RANDALL'S UNUSUAL BARGAIN WITH CALVIN VAN AUKEN, AND THE ODD FATE THAT BEFELL HIS ASHES.</h3>
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My name is James Randall, and I am the “Human Brick." I am a man built into a wall in a house in New York City, where I have been for the past ten years, and I know all that goes on about me, for, with brief exceptions, I have never lost consciousness.<o:p></o:p></div>
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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 <a href="http://pulpflakes.blogspot.com/2018/02/robert-j-horton-western-author.html" target="_blank">Robert J. Horton</a>, who had heard Coburn's stories earlier and realized his talent for storytelling, Coburn parlayed his start with a vignette in the July 8, 1922 issue of <i>Argosy </i>into a thirty year, multi-million word career in the pulps.<br>
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