Some of the older members of this blog may remember going down to the newspaper stand on the street corner back in the 1930's, 1940's and 1950's and paying a whopping 10 cents for their favorite mystery magazine, science fiction magazine or quite possibly a magazine on your favorite hero. The magazines went by many names and covered every genre in print. Today, those old magazines are called, "Pulps". Taken from the wood pulp paper they were printed on. There were Thrilling Detective Stories, Dime Detective Stories, Railroad Stories, Astounding, Weird Tales, Terror Tales and the list goes on forever.
However, do to age and materials these fantastic magazines were made from, they are not going to go on forever. I have been collecting these magazines for nearly 20 years. I have a great many of them and some are worth a pretty penny, but all of them are priceless to a pulp collector such as myself.
I just returned from my yearly trip to Pulpcon in Dayton, OH where we celebrate the lives and times of the people who created the pulps. Buy, sell, trade pulps and just to have a good time with friends from all over the world who share the same interest and only get to see for this one weekend a year.
If anybody knows anybody who has any of these magazines and wants to part with them, please contact me. I will preserve the magazine so that it can be enjoyed for many years to come.
If anybody has any questions about whether or not a book is a pulp or not, ask me.
Thanks
Dave, son of John, son of H.Ray
2 comments:
They also included westerns. Here is a little piece my father Robert wrote about your Great Uncle Tab. Most of those pulps were thrown away many years ago.
Tab when he was a teenager decided to go west, so he and Boz hitchhiked to the Dakotas. I do not know how long he was gone maybe a few weeks or so. He brought back tales of the wild west of which he read in Zane Grey’s books or the pulp magazines of the time. He told of the stretches of land and of seeing the Badlands of South Dakota. He was a hero to me, I tell you. He also brought back a rattlesnake rattle.
Yes Tom, there were many western titles. Your Wild West was most likely Wild West Weekly published by Street and Smith. The same publisher who printed The Shadow.
Wild West Weekly continues to be a sought out after title today.
Dave
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