“What’s your favorite pulp magazine?”
That was a question asked by an audience member at the “From Pulps to Comics” panel discussion at Pensacon in Pensacola, Fla.
Boy, that’s a tough question to answer.
But panelists Jeffrey Shanks, Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson and David Earle gave it a shot in the video below:
Thanks to Nicky for this video excerpt, which was recorded on Feb. 21, 2014.
If you’d like to hear the complete discussion, please you can listen online at ThePulp.Net’s Pulp Event Podcast page or subscribe to the podcast via the iTunes Store.
Thanks for this video of a subject which I find to be of great interest. I was on a panel at Windy City a few years ago when this question came up and everybody picked ADVENTURE magazine. It’s still my favorite, especially the 1920’s when Arthur Sullivant Hoffman was editor.
But when I think back to my earlier collecting years, I’ve had other favorites such as WEIRD TALES and UNKNOWN when I was a teenager and in my twenties; BLACK MASK when I was in my thirties; the weird menace magazines in my forties, the various general fiction titles in my fifties(ALL STORY, POPULAR, ARGOSY, BLUEBOOK, SHORT STORIES) and now I’m into WESTERN STORY and WEST during the Doubleday years of 1926-1934.
The pulps certainly covered all genres and whatever your interest, there was a magazine for you.
As I said in the post, that’s a tough question to answer. I’m not sure I can.
As you note, Walker, a person’s favorite pulp can change over time. I get interested in an author or magazine, and binge on them. At that time, that would be my favorite. Just a few years ago, it was Dime Detective. Now, hmmm.