Ron Goulart's book Cheap Thrills was one of the first books I read that provided background into the pulp magazines back in the early 1970s.
Category - Pulp History
There’s no single date for when the pulps actually died, but April 8, 1949, was certainly the date that their eventual demise became official. As I wrote...
Continuing my “selling the pulps” series, this post turns our attention to postcards. The postcards featured below were mailed out by Street &...
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...
Science-fiction author Paul A. Carter died Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, in Kingman, Ariz. He was 90. Carter’s earliest work of fiction, “The Last...
The pulps are more than just the stories and characters depicted on the covers and inside of the magazines. The pulps are the thousands of writers, artists...
Bits of pulp is an irregular feature of Yellowed Perils highlighting pulp-related tidbits that might interest fans of the pulp magazines. CTHULHU McCTHULHUFACE...
Last month, I took a look at a pair of sf stories from 1940s that featured mutants. The premise of the post being that the X-Men weren’t the first time...