{"id":3516,"date":"2014-04-03T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/?p=3516"},"modified":"2014-11-12T13:04:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T18:04:49","slug":"3-pulp-questions-lohr-mckinstry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/2014\/04\/03\/3-pulp-questions-lohr-mckinstry\/","title":{"rendered":"3 pulp questions: Lohr McKinstry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lohr McKinstry<\/strong> answers “3 pulp questions” in the fifth installment of the series.<\/p>\n

Back in the heydays of the alt.pulp newsgroup<\/a>, Lohr was one of the regular participants. I recognized his name from the cover of “The Hero Pulp Index” that he and Robert Weinberg<\/strong> produced back in 1971.<\/p>\n

Lohr says he and George Vanderburgh<\/a><\/strong> are working on an updated edition of the “Hero Pulp Index.” Weinberg, of course, has been involved, as has John DeWalt<\/strong>. There’s no publication date as yet.<\/p>\n

Lohr also wrote the introduction to a collection of stories by Robert R. Mills. “Enter Tiny David<\/a>,” to be published by Black Dog Books<\/a>, will feature 16 adventures of Lt. Edward “Tiny” David<\/strong> of the New York State Police Black Horse Troop. The stories originally appeared in Blue Book<\/a><\/em> between 1929 and 1936.<\/p>\n

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3 Pulp Questions<\/strong><\/h4>\n

3 Pulp Questions<\/a><\/strong> is an opportunity for you to get to know fellow pulp collectors a bit better and, maybe, introduce you to pulps, authors, stories or characters that you haven’t explored.[\/box]\n

I finally had a chance to meet Lohr — and quite a number of other pulp fans that I “knew” online — at Pulpcon 35<\/a> in 2006.<\/p>\n

Now here’s your chance to met Lohr, as he answers “3 pulp questions”:<\/p>\n

1. How were you introduced to the pulps?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was in junior high school in Pennsylvania and when classes got out for the summer, I went to the local bookstore to look for reading material. On the shelf were the first few Doc Savage<\/a><\/strong> reprints from Bantam Books. I choose \u201cMeteor Menace,\u201d went home, sat in a chair behind my house and started reading. I couldn\u2019t believe how great it was — blue meteors turning men mad, Russian jail escapes, supermachine pistols roaring — I think I finished it by nightfall. The next day I went back to the store and bought every Doc reprint they had.<\/div>\n
I soon got the Conan<\/a><\/strong> reprints, \u201cThe Weird Adventures of The Shadow\u201d hardcover and the Corinth reprints. I was hooked.<\/div>\n
I started buying pulps by mail, starting with Doc Savage and The Shadow<\/a><\/strong>. I corresponded with other pulp fans and began trading indexes with them.<\/div>\n
\"TheIn 1967, I went to Phil Seuling<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s first comic convention in New York City. There I met Bob Weinberg<\/a>, who had a table in the dealers\u2019 room. We became friends and at some point I showed him all my pulp indexes. He decided we needed to print them, because no one had ever done something like that before.<\/div>\n
The result was the Weinberg-McKinstry “Hero Pulp Index.” It sold out.<\/div>\n
I went to college, studied journalism, and pretty soon I was moving around the country, working for various newspapers. I lost contact with pulp fandom, but I never stopped reading. About six years ago, I went to Pulpcon<\/a> and renewed my ties. I\u2019ve been to Pulpcon\/PulpFest<\/a> every year since. This year I will be at Windy City<\/a> in April and PulpFest in August.<\/div>\n

2. What is your most prized pulp possession?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My complete set of Unknown<\/a>\/Unknown Worlds<\/a><\/em> magazine. There\u2019s an incredible amount of great fantasy reading in those 48 issues.<\/div>\n

3. What overlooked (pulp magazine, story, author, character, or series) would you recommend to pulp fans and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jean Milligan<\/strong>, who wrote for Weird Tales<\/a><\/em> and Short Stories<\/a><\/em> under the \u201cAlison V. Harding<\/strong>\u201d penname, is definitely an underappreciated author.<\/div>\n
Her Damp Man trilogy is fascinating. She wrote 36 stories for Weird Tales<\/em>, but no one has ever done a single collection of her work. Her husband, Charles Lamont Buchanan<\/strong>, was assistant editor at Weird Tales<\/em>. Her characterization wasn\u2019t strong, but her plotting was. She is mostly forgotten today.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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