Posted at 11:17 PM Monday, April 30, 2012 |
by William
Published in
Great Pulp Art, Pulps
We all know Chicago politics can be rough, but artist Emmett Watson has taken it to the extreme for this cover of Detective Fiction Weekly from Sept. 21, 1940.
This is one of those covers that always makes me smile. It’s so outrageous.
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Posted at 4:20 PM Thursday, April 19, 2012 |
by William
Published in
Pulps, ThePulp.Net
I hope that during your visits to ThePulp.Net you have had a chance to look at our gallery of pulp-era news stand photos.
TPN introduced the gallery in late 1999, with four low-resolution photos from the 1930s. Since then I’ve been keeping my eye out for more and higher-quality photos of news stands displaying pulp magazines.
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Posted at 5:50 PM Monday, April 16, 2012 |
by William
Published in
News, Obituaries, People
Ray Beam
Beam won the First Fandom Hall of Fame Award in 1993 and the Sam Moskowitz Archive Award in 2000.
According to Curt Phillips on the PulpMags group at Yahoo, he was also “a fixture of Cincinnati fandom and MidwestCon.”
Posted at 5:07 PM Wednesday, April 11, 2012 |
by William
Published in
Great Pulp Art, Pulps | 2 Comments
Today we introduce a new feature here on Yellowed Perils. This ongoing feature will showcase a piece of great pulp art, so I’m cleverly calling it Great Pulp Art.
Kicking off is a great meta-cover by Graves Gladney for The Shadow story “The Wasp Returns” (Feb. 1, 1940). What makes it interesting is the self-referencing magazine stand that The Shadow takes cover behind. I’m not sure how well protected you would be by the two or three stacked pulps when the bullets fly.
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Posted at 2:02 PM Thursday, April 5, 2012 |
by William
Published in
Doc Con, Events, Pulpcon, PulpFest, Windy City | 3 Comments
2012 is well under way, so the pulp convention season is starting up again.
If you haven’t noticed, we keep an updated listing of upcoming Pulp Events on the front page of ThePulp.Net. It covers conventions, sales shows, exhibits and other pulp gatherings.
The 33rd Los Angeles Vintage Paperback Collectors Show in Mission Hills, Calif., was March 25. It was my first time to attend. (We were in town for a family event, but I managed to zip over for about an hour Sunday morning.) As Laurie Powers noted, there were few pulps for sale this year. I didn’t find anything on my wants-list, but I did pick up the second volume of The History of the Science Fiction Magazine, by Mike Ashley, (I’ve had the first volume since the late ’70s) and a 1918 issue of The Popular Magazine.
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Posted at 4:40 PM Thursday, March 15, 2012 |
by William
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Books, General, Movies/TV/Radio, Websites | 3 Comments
Okay, I’ve been on a string of John Carter posts of late because of the movie’s release. Here’s another one…
Back in the 1970s, we used to play strategy board games. Around the same time, I had been reading Edgar Rice Burroughs‘ Mars series so I couldn’t resist buying the “John Carter: Warlord of Mars” game when Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) issued it in ’79.
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Posted at 1:08 PM Tuesday, March 13, 2012 |
by William
Published in
Pulps, Pulpsters
Click to see the full letter.A personal letter written by Robert E. Howard to Emil Petaja is for sale on eBay. (A hat-tip to Lee A. Breakiron for pointing it out on the R.E.H. Inner Circle group at Yahoo.)
If you are interested, the seller, jbs15, is asking $4,999.95 (plus $4.95 shipping).
The letter is part of ongoing correspondence with Petaja and opens with comments about a Petaja poem. “Witch’s Berceuse” appeared in the Summer 1935 issue of the amateur publication Marvel Tales of Science and Fantasy, alongside works by Ralph Milne Farley (Roger Sherman Hoar) and P. Schuyler Miller. It would be another couple of years before Petaja’s first professional published work appeared in Weird Tales.
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Posted at 12:11 AM Tuesday, March 13, 2012 |
by William
Published in
Bits of Pulp, Pulp Art
The folks over at The ArtOrder have posted a gallery of submissions to its Pulp Magazine ArtOrder Challenge.
The challenge was in connection with an upcoming Pulp Art Tribute show (where “artists will reinterpret and pay homage to Pulp Art”) scheduled for summer at Gallery Provocateur in Chicago.
It’s a mixed bag of submissions displayed at The ArtOrder — mixed in concept (a number of cliche poses) and execution (some pretty amateur). But one or two do stand out (such as the illustration at right by Mark Molchan).
Posted at 1:44 PM Tuesday, March 6, 2012 |
by William
Published in
Bits of Pulp, Movies/TV/Radio
Here’s a 10-minute exclusive peek at John Carter, which opens in theaters this week.
It’s a pretty entertaining segment. I hope the rest of the film is as enjoyable. I’m looking forward to seeing it.
Posted at 9:46 PM Monday, March 5, 2012 |
by William
Published in
News, ThePulp.Net, Websites
We just upgraded the software running the PulpWiki.
And while we were at it, we revamped the look of the site and introduced a new logo (that’s it above).
There are a few bugs to get worked out. But they are nothing that will get in your way of reading and participating in the wiki.
Certainly you’re familiar with the mother of all wikis, Wikipedia.org. Well, the PulpWiki has a decidedly narrower focus: the pulp magazines.
But like Wikipedia, it needs support from the community. And that’s you. Please take a few minutes to look the PulpWiki over, then I hope you will contribute something: a correction, a new fact, or maybe even a new entry.
(There are plenty of pages waiting for your help.)
All that’s required to contribute is a quick registration. Why? Simply because of spammers. If registration weren’t required, the PulpWiki would be filled with links to spam websites. We don’t use, sell or give away your registration information.
I’m hoping you’ll join the other contributors to the PulpWiki.