The PulpFest 2014 dealers’ room opened this morning at 9, but I didn’t straggle in until 10. Saturday was a long, full day. Like Sunday, the...
Category - Pulp History
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...
Thanks for heavy traffic in a couple of areas along the way, PulpFest 2014 started with a bit of a disappointment for me on Thursday. I’d hoped to make...
That question popped into my mind yesterday. With the start of PulpFest 2014 less than a week away, I thought it might be a good idea to ponder it. What if...
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...
Scientifiction. It’s not a word that just rolls off your tongue. But that’s the portmanteau that Hugo Gernsback created back in 1926 before science...
One of the focuses of this year’s PulpFest is the 85th anniversary of the science-fiction pulps of 1939. To get you prepared, Mike Chomko has begun a...
It was 65 years ago today that Street & Smith Publications announced that it would shut down its line of pulp magazines. Within months, the final issues...
Looking through old issues of Xenophile makes me wish I had known about the pulp fanzine back in the 1970s. The late Nils Hardin‘s zine ran for 44 issues...