In sort of a backwards move, fictioneer Laurence Donovan’s first known piece of fiction appeared in a “slick” magazine about three years before his next known fiction work was published in a pulp.
A short–short by Donovan, “The Old Copy Desk,” was published in the “Short Turns and Encores” page of the Oct. 17, 1925, issue of The Saturday Evening Post. It’s a vignette drawn from Donovan’s experiences as a newspaper editor. (And even – maybe, especially – today, it still rings true for copy editors.)
I’ve mentioned it before, but the past few years I’ve really focused my collecting efforts more on pulp fanzines and reference books than actual pulps (though that doesn’t mean I haven’t been buying pulps, too).
My filing cabinet is filled with zines and I have others stuffed in spaces on my bookcase. (Then there are several boxes of duplicates in the closet. I’ll try to remember to bring them to Doc Con again, if anyone is interested.)
Besides storage space, the real trouble with zines is tracking down which pulp zine that article about such–and–such appeared in. I remember reading it, and it was on the left–hand page, but which issue was it in?
The Doc Con XIII schedule is coming together nicely. The con is just under three months away.
This year’s con will be held Saturday, Nov. 13, at Jay Ryan’s house in Peoria, Ariz. While Jay is hosting the con, I’ve taken over the role of this year’s program coordinator. That’s a change from previous years, where the host did double-duty and really didn’t get to enjoy the con.
We’re celebrating the 70th anniversary of Doc Savage in comics and the 75th anniversary of the first appearance of Chemistry the ape in the novels.
I posted this over at ThePulp.Net’s Facebook page a week or so ago, while Yellowed Perils was undergoing its reconstruction. Since I wasn’t able to post it here at the time, I thought: better late than never.
The Brothers Grim and Grimy have compressed H.P. Lovecraft’s Call of Cthulhu into a two-minute animation. Enjoy.
Thanks to Tim Knight over at HeroPress for initially posting this on Facebook.
Like many of you, I discovered in the inexpensive paperbacks of the ’70s many of the writers, stories and characters that originally appeared in the pulp magazines. The paperback reprints continued to be my main source for pulp-era stories through the mid-1990s, when reprints and replicas began to appear. Read the rest of this entry »
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Welcome to the new Yellowed Perils.
We’ve spent the past few days moving the Yellowed Perils blog to new software. In addition to introducing a new look, the move should let us add more features to make it easier for you to participate in the discussions.
Of course with any move, there may be some bumps and hiccups. We think we’ve doublechecked all of the past entries and comments. We hope everything is all there. But if you come across something missing or a problem, please let us know. We’ll try to get it corrected as soon as possible.
We’ll also be tweaking things over the next days and weeks to make it look cleaner and run more smoothly.
Meanwhile, stay tuned.
Update: I should have mentioned that, with the new software, there may be a slight delay in comments showing up. The first time you post, I may have to approve your comment before it shows, which is just a formality to prevent spamming. Your subsequent comments should show up immediately.
Earle Bergey’s cover painting for Fredric Brown’s “What Mad Universe” features Betty Hadley in her space girl outfit.
Startling Stories, September 1948
Brian Earl Brown used to have on his Web sitea page devoted to “Earle Bergey and the Wonderful Brass Bra,” with several examples of science-fiction pulp covers by Bergey.
Bergey specialized in painting gorgeous space girls (barely) clad in boots, briefs and, as Brian described them, brass brassieres — apparently the standard outfit for spacefaring females in the ’40s and ’50s.
The first pulp cover in his Bergey gallery was the September 1948 number of Startling Stories, which featured “What Mad Universe” by Fredric Brown. (Click the image at left to see a larger version of Bergey’s cover.)
Walker Martin on the PulpMags group at Yahoo posted a notice that pulp artist Ernest Chiriacka died Tuesday, April 27, 2010. “Darcy,” as Chiriacka was known, was 96.
