Continuing my “selling the pulps” series, this post turns our attention to postcards. The postcards featured below were mailed out by Street &...
Category - Pulp Collectibles
Last week’s post looked at ads for Street & Smith Publications‘ pulp magazines that appeared in its movie-fan magazine, Picture Play. Those ads...
We usually think of pulp magazines as selling themselves — that their garish, often lurid covers splashed across newsstands were all it took to propel...
It’s easy to think of the pulp magazines as solitary items today — 70, 80, 90 or more years after they were for sale on newsstands — and...
I got a laugh out of this “Tarzan of the Apes Playset and Diorama” that turned up in my RSS reader earlier this week. Tim Knight posted a number of...
With Doc Con starting tomorrow, let’s just make this a Doc Savage week at Yellowed Perils. REMEMBERING LESTER DENT: Terence Towles Canote over at A...
I get jealous when folks mention in newsgroups or on blogs that they stopped by a flea market or an antique store and picked up a half-dozen pulp magazines...
Friday, the first full day of PulpFest 2014, turned out pretty busy. The dealers’ room reopened at 10 a.m. All the dealers were set up by opening time. I...
I had a pleasant chat with pulp uber-collector Dwight Fuhro earlier this week about pulp advertising. He emailed me several advertisements for The Shadow...
Updated: July 24, 2014. As pulp collectors, we mostly focus on the actual product of the whole publishing process: the pulp magazines themselves, the stories...