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 with a vignette in the July 8, 1922 issue of Argosy into  a thirty year, multi-million word career in the pulps.

Author Walt Coburn riding a horse near his house in Tucson, Arizona

Pulpfest 2019 trip report - photos

Lot of the photos i took this year were out of focus, which is why you won't see as many pictures of the artwork as usual. Sorry about that, but enjoy what i do have; there's quite a few rare pulps that I've never seen earlier in person in a decade of collecting...

Dealers room

Artwork

Earle K. Bergey cover for Pep Stories

Sky Fighters cover

Norman Saunders cover for Mrs. Homicide by Day Keene

Harry Kirchner interior for Romantic Range

Charles L. Wrenn illustration

Harry T. Fisk cover for Outdoor Stories

Hamilton Greene cowboy illustration

Cover for Guns in the Valley by Paul Evan Lehman

H.W. McCauley interior for Day Keene story in Imagination

Rawhide Range by Ernest Haycox

Cover for The hinges of Hell by Stewart Sterling

Rare pulps

The Thrill book

Scotland Yard

Thrilling Tales

Nickel Detective

The Gang Magazine

Gang World

Western Adventures

Red Blooded Stories

How

Thrilling Stories

Thrilling Stories

Thrilling Stories

Under Fire

Detective Reporter

Brief Stories

Zoom!

Murder Mysteries

Blue Steel Magazine

Cool stuff around the dealers room

Weird stuff

Necronomicon (Holding this book felt fleshy and squishy)

That's all folks, till next year.

Windy City 2019 - photos

t's always a pleasure to go to Windy City, and love sharing photos with you. This years highlight was the expanded dealers room and the auction, where the action was fast and furious. Walker Martin talks about some of the prices in his report: http://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=60956

Here are some photos from the convention:

The expanded dealer's room, which gave me plenty of exercise as i walked around

The organizers: Doug and Deb Ellis looking dapper in their new Adventure shirts, John Gunnison getting ready for the marathon auction sessions

Great selection of art for sale in the dealers' room:

Frederick Blakeslee cover for one of the aviation pulps

Norman Saunders Northwest Romances cover

Fred Rodewald western cover

A paperback cover

Earle K. Bergey sports pulp cover

Lyman Anderson pulp cover. The odd angle was the only way i could photograph it without glare

Harry Kirchner cover for Clues, i think

Lovely Rolf Armstrong cover, this is the angle with least glare

Outrageosuly insane paperback cover art has everything you need to sell
Hitler, dinosaurs, UFOs and exploding zeppelins all tastefully arranged inside a Swastika 

Don't remember seeing a caption on this nice art

Another great paperback cover - The Ballad of Typhoid Mary

More art in the dealers' room

And now to the auction room:

Friday night auction material

Some beautiful condition issues of Weird Tales, including a few Canadian editions

A rarity - one issue pulp Husbands, what were they thinking?

Excitement at the auction (a complete run of the magazine):

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Jerome Rozen painted most (if not all) of the Excitement covers
Someone found this in the dealers' room (not me)

Walker Martin with a couple of Dime Detective covers for which he owned the original art at one time.

Another rarity (this one sold for 1700 dollars)

Hersey one-shot pulp, Medical Horrors

It's probably the only time I was going to see a copy of this, so i took a few interior photos as well. 

Medical Horrors issue #1, table of contents

The million dollar baby farm, from Medical Horrors #1

Confessions of a nurse, from Medical Horrors #1

The convention suite was great too:

Artist and Zorro fan Pete Poplaski showing a page from his sketchbook
He sketched people in the auction room last year (one of them is me)

A few highlights from the art show (this year's theme was Chicago based artists)

The Art Show room

Jerome Rozen cover for The Popular Magazine

Allen Anderson Planet Stories cover

Donald Von Gelb, Oriental Stories cover

Virgil Finlay cover for Weird Tales

Paul Strayer Western Story cover