{"id":9293,"date":"2020-01-06T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/?p=9293"},"modified":"2025-10-10T14:40:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T18:40:52","slug":"the-argosy-library-series-vi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2020\/01\/06\/the-argosy-library-series-vi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Argosy Library, Series VI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2019\/12\/the-gray-dragon.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[9293]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9350\" src=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2019\/12\/the-gray-dragon-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"'The Gray Dragon: The Adventures of Peter the Brazen, Volume 2'\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2019\/12\/the-gray-dragon-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2019\/12\/the-gray-dragon-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2019\/12\/the-gray-dragon-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2019\/12\/the-gray-dragon.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Hot on the heals of Series V, we get Series VI and VII of the &#8220;Argosy Library,&#8221; from <a href=\"https:\/\/steegerbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steeger Books<\/a> (previously Altus Press), each with 10 more books of great \u2014 and sometimes overlooked \u2014 fiction that appeared in the early pulps. We get some stand-alone works, as well as volumes of various sub-series.<\/p>\n<p>As always, most are taken from the pulps started by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulp-info\/pulp-history\/\">Frank A. Munsey<\/a><\/strong>, who converted his fiction magazines to pulp paper and reduced their price, making them more profitable. He published the well-known <em class=\"pulp-magazine\">Argosy<\/em> magazine, which got its start in the late 1800s, and several other popular magazines, such as <em class=\"pulp-magazine\">All-Story<\/em> and <em class=\"pulp-magazine\">Flynn\u2019s Detective Fiction Weekly<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Series VI consists of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Complete Cases of The Mongoose<\/em> by <strong>Johnston McCulley<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>The Girl and the People of the Golden Atom<\/em> by <strong>Ray Cummings<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>The Gray Dragon: The Adventures of Peter the Brazen, Volume 2<\/em> by <strong>Loring Brent<\/strong> (<strong>George F. Worts<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Golden City<\/em> by <strong>Ralph Milne Farley<\/strong> (<strong>Roger Sherman Hoar<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li><em>The House of Invisible Bondage: The Complete Cabalistic Cases of Semi Dual, the Occult Detector<\/em> by <strong>J.U. Giesy<\/strong> and <strong>Junius B. Smith<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>The Scrap of Lace: The Complete Cases of Madame Storey, Volume 1<\/em> by <strong>Hulbert Footner<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>The Tower of Death: The Adventures of Scarlet and Bradshaw, Volume 3<\/em> by <strong>Theodore Roscoe<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>The Devil-Tree of El Dorado: The Saga of Monella, Volume 1<\/em> by <strong>Frank Aubrey<\/strong> (<strong>Francis Atkins<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Firebrand: The Complete Adventures of Tizzo, Volume 1<\/em> by <strong>Max Brand<\/strong> (<strong>Frederick Faust<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li><em>Marching Sands and The Caravan of the Dead: The Harold Lamb Omnibus<\/em> by <strong>Harold Lamb<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more-->So what do we have this time?<\/p>\n<p>Johnston McCulley (1883-1953) is better known as the author and creator of <strong>Zorro<\/strong>, but over his career he wrote many serialized heroes and villains that <a href=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2013\/03\/26\/the-other-pulp-characters-of-johnston-mcculley\/\">I have posted on<\/a>. <em>The Complete Cases of The Mongoose<\/em> reprints the full set of stories with this later character that appeared in <em class=\"pulp-magazine\">Detective Story Weekly<\/em>. Another variation of the &#8220;vengeance hero,&#8221; the Mongoose is actually a brother and sister who are going after the men who frame their father and sent him to prison.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2019\/12\/the-golden-city.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[9293]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9351\" src=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2019\/12\/the-golden-city-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"'The Golden City'\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2019\/12\/the-golden-city-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2019\/12\/the-golden-city-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2019\/12\/the-golden-city-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2019\/12\/the-golden-city.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Science-fiction author Ray Cummings (1887-1957) is considered one of the fathers of sf, but I think most people remember him for the short story &#8220;The Girl in the Golden Atom,&#8221; about a man who takes a drug that shrinks him down to subatomic size and he finds a world that exists on an atom. It led to the novel &#8220;The People of the Golden Atom.&#8221; Both are reprinted in <em>The Girl and the People of the Golden Atom<\/em> and later combined into a single novel. They are also the first in &#8220;The Scientific Club&#8221; series, which Steeger has also reprinted.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been wanting to read the <strong>Peter the Brazen<\/strong> series by Loring Brent (George F. Worts), as some say it&#8217;s one of the possible inspirations for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/the-links\/docsavage\/\">Doc Savage<\/a><\/strong>. The first volume came out, and strangely followed by the third one, which I&#8217;ve held off on reading. Now we finally get <em>The Gray Dragon: The Adventures of Peter the Brazen, Volume 2<\/em>, which finishes off the first story sequence. So now I can read it and the third volume.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Radio Man<\/strong> series is what most people remember from Ralph Milne Farley (Roger Sherman Hoar). But he did other works. <em>The Golden City<\/em> is a lost-world\/lost-race work set in Mu (or is it Lemuria?) that sounds interesting. One listing I read tried to tie it in with the Radio Man series, but that&#8217;s incorrect.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been hoping for another <strong>Semi-Dual<\/strong> volume, and we get <em>The House of Invisible Bondage: The Complete Cabalistic Cases of Semi Dual, the Occult Detector<\/em>. Like the last volume, this reprints a serial from later in the series, so it seems we will get volumes out of sequence. But I&#8217;ll be getting this one.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not aware of many female detectives in the pulps, but <em>The Scrap of Lace: The Complete Cases of Madame Storey, Volume 1<\/em> is the first volume reprinting a series by Hulbert Footner (1879-1944). I&#8217;m not sure how many volumes this will run.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Tower of Death: The Adventures of Scarlet and Bradshaw, Volume 3<\/em> is the next volume reprinting this series by Theodore Roscoe. It&#8217;s set in the Orient as curio hunter <strong>Peter Scarlet<\/strong> hunts for treasure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2019\/12\/the-devil-tree-of-el-dorado.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[9293]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9352\" src=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2019\/12\/the-devil-tree-of-el-dorado-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"'The Devil-Tree of El Dorado: The Saga of Monella, Volume 1'\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2019\/12\/the-devil-tree-of-el-dorado-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2019\/12\/the-devil-tree-of-el-dorado-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2019\/12\/the-devil-tree-of-el-dorado-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2019\/12\/the-devil-tree-of-el-dorado.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Francis Atkins (1847-1927) is British author who wrote under several aliases, including Frank Aubrey. <em>The Devil-Tree of El Dorado: The Saga of Monella, Volume 1<\/em> is the first of a trilogy of lost-world\/lost-race novels. The third was reprinted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armchairfiction.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Armchair Fiction<\/a>, and had hoped the first two would be reprinted. I wasn&#8217;t aware these were reprinted in the pulps, but I guess they were.\u00a0 Now this first novel was <em>not<\/em> reprinted in the pulps, but the other two are, but I think that allowable to give us the full trilogy.<\/p>\n<p>Max Brand \u2014 really Frederick Faust (1892-1944) \u2014 is better known as a western author. So as we did in the last Library series, we get a reprint of another non-western series. <em>The Firebrand: The Complete Adventures of Tizzo, Volume 1<\/em> is the first of two volumes reprinting a series about a 16th-century Italian Renaissance swashbuckling swordsman.<\/p>\n<p>Harold Lamb (1892-1962) is a better known as a prolific author of historical fiction in <em class=\"pulp-magazine\">Adventure<\/em>. But he wrote some works for <em class=\"pulp-magazine\">Argosy<\/em>, such as &#8220;Marching Sands,&#8221; a serial about a lost city of Crusaders located in the Gobi Desert, and &#8220;The Caravan of the Dead&#8221; (reprinted as <em>The House of the Falcon<\/em>) a serial about a lost valley of sun worshipers in Asia. <em>Marching Sands and The Caravan of the Dead: The Harold Lamb Omnibus<\/em> collects these. Not sure if it&#8217;s a stand-alone collection or one of several.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s another great set of works, several of which I will be getting soon, others maybe later, and others I&#8217;m not sure. I&#8217;ll have further comments with my posting on Argosy Library, Series VII.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot on the heals of Series V, we get Series VI and VII of the &#8220;Argosy Library,&#8221; from Steeger Books (previously Altus Press), each with 10 more books of great \u2014 and sometimes overlooked \u2014 fiction that appeared in the early pulps. We get some stand-alone works, as well as volumes of various sub-series. 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