It’s March 3, 2026, today. That’s over a quarter century into the 21st century, and almost 130 years since The Argosy made its pivotal shift to all...
Category - Pulp History
It’s hard to correct something once it’s out there on the internet. Just look at the confusion over the Amazing Stories (August 1928) cover...
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.
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...
In addition to pulps, I collect vintage photographs that include pulp magazines in them. Many are of newsstands covered with the magazines; others are...
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...