{"id":2725,"date":"2013-07-23T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/?p=2725"},"modified":"2013-07-23T12:51:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T16:51:17","slug":"cant-you-see-im-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/2013\/07\/23\/cant-you-see-im-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Can’t you see I’m reading?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AmazingI had to laugh the first time I saw this photo.<\/p>\n

Clearly the fellow was deeply engrossed in the January 1942 number of Amazing Stories<\/em>.<\/p>\n

What was he reading? It was a huge issue with 244 pages, so there was plenty of fiction to choose from.<\/p>\n

Was it the cover story, “The Test Tube Girl,” by Frank Patton<\/strong>? Alfred Bester<\/a><\/strong>‘s “Life for Sale”? “Mystery of the Blue God,” by Harry Bates<\/a><\/strong>?<\/p>\n

Or maybe Robert Moore Williams<\/a><\/strong>‘ “Planet of Doomed Me”? “Somerset, the Scientific Monkey,” by Donald Bern<\/a><\/strong>?<\/p>\n

The photo (below) is the latest addition to our ever-growing Pulp Photos gallery<\/a>. It’s our 56th different photograph from the pulp era featuring pulp magazines.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"Reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Whatever had his attention, he clearly wasn’t interested in being in the photo with the two women. (Were they his mother and sister? Or maybe his mother-in-law and wife?)<\/p>\n

We may never know the story behind the photo, but we can still get a smile out of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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