{"id":3713,"date":"2014-05-15T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/?p=3713"},"modified":"2014-11-12T13:03:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T18:03:56","slug":"3-pulp-questions-robert-weinberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/2014\/05\/15\/3-pulp-questions-robert-weinberg\/","title":{"rendered":"3 pulp questions: Robert Weinberg"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Robert Weinberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Robert Weinberg<\/a><\/strong> joins us for the latest installment of “3 pulp questions<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

I was going to start this post with some description of Robert Weinberg’s background in pulp fandom, such as pulp fan and expert, but I kept thinking of more ways to describe him, including author, editor, publisher, pulp art collector.<\/p>\n

On top of that, there’s no way I would be able to list all of his pulp accomplishments. So, I’ll just touch on the ones that have been important to me.<\/p>\n

His name was one of those I remember — along with Robert Sampson<\/strong>, Jim Steranko<\/strong>, Ron Goulart<\/strong> and Philip José Farmer<\/strong> — from my earliest days of pulp discovery in the 1970s.<\/p>\n

It was probably in Steranko’s Mediascene<\/em> No. 18 in the article “The 50 Rarest Pulps” in 1976 that I first saw Robert Weinberg’s name.<\/p>\n[box type=”shadow”]\n

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

One of the first pulp references I came across was “Gangdom’s Doom,” an examination of The Shadow<\/a><\/strong> by Frank Eisgruber Jr.<\/strong> The chapbook turned out to be the first issues of Robert’s Pulp Classics<\/em>, a fanzine<\/a> that featured pulp research and pulp reprints.<\/p>\n

Then there was his fanzine titled simply Pulp<\/em>. I picked copies of that zine up much later than its 1970 through 1981 run.<\/p>\n

Oh, also his zine The Weird Tales Collector<\/em>. And “The ‘Weird Tales’ Story,” his history of the “unique magazine.”<\/p>\n

With Lohr McKinstry<\/strong>, he co-authored “The Hero-Pulp Index” (which the two of them have been updating). And there’s “Horror of the 20th Century: An Illustrated History.” I’ve only scratched the surface of his pulp contributions.<\/p>\n

I’d like to offer him a hearty thank you for helping me develop a love of the pulp magazines.<\/p>\n

Now, let’s here from Robert Weinberg.<\/p>\n

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

I was hooked on fantasy and SF after reading “The Devil and Daniel Webster” by Stephen Vincent Benet<\/strong> in a grade school English book when I was 11 years old. Soon after, I began buying all the SF paperbacks I could find, using my $1 a week allowance.<\/div>\n
Fortunately, I lived near Newark, N.J., which in those days had lots of used bookstores, with paperbacks three-for-a-quarter. Back issues of SF magazines were the same price.<\/div>\n
\"AstoundingSoon, I was buying old SF magazines because there wasn’t enough SF in paperbacks for me to read. I got hooked on SF magazines and was soon buying SF pulps at the highway-robbery price of 25 cents each!<\/div>\n

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

I own the manuscript to A.E. van Vogt<\/strong>‘s “The World of Null-A.” Some people might not consider it a pulp possession since Astounding<\/a><\/em> in 1945 was a digest magazine.<\/div>\n
I also own the manuscript for L. Sprague de Camp<\/strong>‘s novel, “Divide and Rule” which was serialized in Unknown<\/a><\/em>.<\/div>\n
\"TheAnd for my most-prized pulp possession, I own one of the early drafts of “The Phoenix on the Sword” the first Conan<\/a><\/strong> story written by Robert E. Howard<\/a><\/strong>, signed by Howard.<\/div>\n

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

Personally, I like The Skipper<\/a><\/strong> series as published in his own magazine by Street & Smith<\/a> in 1937. The stories don’t make a lot of sense, but the action is great. You won’t ever be bored reading a Skipper novel!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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