) Soldiers of Fortune - February 1932 |
) Black Mask - September 1929 |
) Real Spicy Horror - April 1937 |
) Mind Magic - July 1931 |
) All About Television - 1927 |
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) Science and Invention - August 1924 An SF cover two years before Amazing Stories was published! |
) Real Detective Tales - June 1924 Published by the same printer who also published Weird Tales. "The Bride of Siva" by Seabury Quinn was similar to the Jules de Grandin stories. |
) Strange Detective Stories - November 1933 Very scarce. |
) Detective Book Magazine - Summer 1938 Scarce reprint magazine, with the first reprint in pulp form of "Creep Shadow" by A. Merritt. One of the hardest Merritt items to locate. |
) Detective Book Magazine - Winter 1953 Rare reprint of John Dickson Carr's horror novel, "The Burning Court" with a stunning Kelly Freas cover painting. |
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) The Angel Detective - July 1941 - The only issue of this rare pulp featuring a masked detective and his Eskimo assistant. |
) The Popular Magazine - 2nd August issue, 1930 - The Popular was a long-running action/adventure magazine. It rarely ran any science fiction. However, 1930 saw publication of "Morgo the Mighty" by Sean O'Larkin. This serial novel featured a number of incredible covers, including this one for the first installment of the story. |
) Telling Tales - 2nd October issue, 1924. A risqué cover for this pulp about "speed, spice, and sparkle." |
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) The Popular Magazine - 1930. One of the scarcest SF pulps ever is this issue of The Popular Magazine from 1930 with the 2nd installment of the serial, "Morgo the Mighty." This is the famous giant rooster cover! |
) Movie Action Magazine - November 1935 - A pulp featuring stories based on upcoming movies, with photos from the films used as illustrations for the fiction. |
) Black-Hood Detective - September 1941 - Another very rare detective hero pulp. The Black Hood also appeared as a comic book character in the early 1940's. |
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) Excitement - October 1930 - a fine copy of this scarce Street & Smith pulp magazine that lasted for 11 issues in 1930-1931. A great robot cover by Jerome Rozen illustrating "Kosmac, the Terror of the Iron Horde." |
) Excitement - November 1930 - A fine copy of this scarce pulp, featuring a great Rozen painting for "The Monster of Marong" by J. Allan Dunn. Also included in this issue was another Kosmac robot story, "The March of the Iron Men." |
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) ACE G-MEN - a striking cover from 1942 - This pulp featured several excellent series characters, the most popular being the Suicide Squad. |
) OPERATOR 5 - December 1934 cover - Bob's favorite pulp cover and one of the best pulp paintings ever done. Illustrating the novel, "Legions of Starvation." Art by John Newton Howitt. |
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) DUSTY AYRES AND HIS BATTLE BIRDS was a futuristic air-war pulp series. It ran for 11 issues. When the decision was made to cancel the magazine, the final novel actually featured Dusty Ayres and his friends killing the evil villain trying to conquer the USA. It was perhaps the only hero pulp that actually featured a clear-cut end to the series. |
) THE SPIDER - July 1939 - The first hero pulp Bob ever bought, featuring the novel, "The Spider and the Slaves of Hell." In this scene, the villains plan to blow up an office building and have planted huge explosives on the roof. They've cut all the elevator cables. The Spider is captured at the scene of the carnage by the police. They're too busy to take him to jail so they put a ball and chain on his leg to keep him prisoner. While the police try to climb to the roof by the emergency stairs (blocked of course by the villains), the Spider takes matters into his own hands and climbs up the outside of the building, carrying the ball and chain with him! This cover, taken directly from the novel, shows the Spider reaching the rooftop, ball and chain slung over one arm, about to fight three villains armed only with a knife. They don't write stories like that anymore!! |
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) THE SECRET SIX - issue # 2, November 1934 - A great cover painting by Henry Alan. |
) THE THRILL BOOK - August 15, 1919 issue. The cover for the first part of the serial, "The Head of Cerberus" by Francis Stevens. Many pulp scholars consider this novel the first alternate-world story ever published. |
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) THE THRILL BOOK - October 1, 1919 - a famous cover! This same cover art was used 12 years later as the cover painting for the first issue of THE SHADOW. Street & Smith, the publishers of THE THRILL BOOK and THE SHADOW, didn't want to spend any money for a cover illo for the new magazine, so they decided to pick a painting already in stock. This cover was the only one that featured a shadow as part of the cover. However, the novel in the magazine, "The Living Shadow," didn't have an oriental villain. So, writer Walter Gibson was told by his editor to insert an oriental villain into the already finished story so that the novel would match the cover! The magazine, which no one expected to sell very well, was an immense hit, and lasted for 325 issues. |
) THE THRILL BOOK - March 1, 1919 - the scarce first issue of the magazine most pulp collectors feel is the rarest of all pulp runs. THE THRILL BOOK lasted for 16 issues bi-weekly, all published in 1919. Only a few complete sets are known to exist. Bob owns six of the sixteen issues. |
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) DIME DETECTIVE was one of the great detective pulps. It had some terrific covers. Here are a few of Bob's favorites. June 15, 1934 by John Howitt. |
) DIME DETECTIVE was one of the great detective pulps. It had some terrific covers. Here are a few of Bob's favorites. February 15, 1934 by John Howitt. |
) DIME DETECTIVE was one of the great detective pulps. It had some terrific covers. Here are a few of Bob's favorites. April 15, 1934 by John Howitt. |
) DIME DETECTIVE was one of the great detective pulps. It had some terrific covers. Here are a few of Bob's favorites. October 1932 by William Reusswig. |
) One of the rare Clayton pulps JUNGLE STORIES from 1931. |
) BUCK JONES is one of the rarest of all western pulp titles. |
) Astounding was perhaps the greatest of the early SF magazines. Early issues had stunning covers. January 1930 (the first issue) with cover art by Wesso. |
) Astounding was perhaps the greatest of the early SF magazines. Early issues had stunning covers. Another great Wesso cover, for May 1931. This painting defines the term, BEM, a bug-eyed monster! |
) Astounding was perhaps the greatest of the early SF magazines. Early issues had stunning covers. The Red Hell on Jupiter, Oct 1931, by Wesso. |
) Astounding was perhaps the greatest of the early SF magazines. Early issues had stunning covers. Beyond the Sphinxes' Cave, Nov 1933, art by Howard V. Brown. |
) Another early issue of EXCITEMENT magazine. |
) Another rare issue of EXCITEMENT with an SF cover. |
) All-Detective was one of the scarcest mystery pulps of the early 1930's. |
) Another great All-Detective cover by Norman Saunders. |
) All-Detective ran a number of "Click Rush" stories by Lester Dent. |
) Another scarce issue of All-Detective. |
) One of the other three issues of Soldiers of Fortune, published in 1931. |
) another issue of Soldier of Fortune. The third of the four issues published. |
) the fourth and final issue of Soldier of Fortune from 1931. |
) A great Weird Tales cover by Margaret Brundage, June 1933. |
) Another great Brundage Weird Tales cover for September 1933. |
) Another great Brundage painting for December 1934 Weird Tales. |
) The stunning Brundage painting for the first part of the serial, "Red Nails," published in Weird Tales, July 1936. |
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