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BLACK MASK, August 1936
Outstanding issue from near the end of this classic pulp’s peak period, with Joseph T. “Cap” Shaw still as editor and the “hardboiled” school of crime fiction in its prime. Popular series characters represented in stories include Fred Nebel’s Kennedy and MacBride, W. T. Ballard’s Red Drake, Roger Torrey’s George Killeen, and Nels Leroy Jorgensen’s […]
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CORNELL WOOLRICH: FIRST YOU DREAM, THEN YOU DIE
New York: Mysterious Press, 1988. Boards in Brodart-protected dust jacket. First edition. Francis M. Nevins, Jr.’s humungous (more than 600 pages) bio-bibliography of fiction’s master of suspense is a strong contender for Best Reference Work on a Single Pulp Author. Nevins covers every story and every book in detail, with appendices listing first appearances in […]
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MASTER STORYTELLER: L. RON HUBBARD
Los Angeles: Galaxy Press, 2003. Cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Author William J. Widder examines the fiction-writing career of L. Ron Hubbard in this oversized (9 1/4 x 12 1/4″), handsomely designed and printed hardcover book. The text is accompanied by hundreds of beautifully reproduced hardcover, paperback, and pulp-magazine covers and interior illustrations on […]
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THE LAST ADVENTURER: THE LIFE OF TALBOT MUNDY
West Kingston, R.I.: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., 1984. Buckram boards in dust jacket. First edition. Fascinating bio of pulp fiction’s master of adventure raised quite a stir upon publication, as it debunked many myths about Mundy’s life (most disseminated by the author himself) that had been accepted as facts for decades. It presents numerous […]
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THE THRILLER, March 3, 1934
This British story paper was the closest thing that country had to an American crime pulp; in fact, it occasionally reprinted yarns from U.S. pulps including The Shadow. Always uncommon here, copies of The Thriller are now positively rare, especially in high grade. Contents always included a long novelette (pictured on the cover), one short […]
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THE THRILLER, May 10, 1934
This British story paper was the closest thing that country had to an American crime pulp; in fact, it occasionally reprinted yarns from U.S. pulps including The Shadow. Always uncommon here, copies of The Thriller are now positively rare, especially in high grade. Contents always included a long novelette (pictured on the cover), one short […]
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ACE G-MAN STORIES, September-October 1938
Early issue of this Popular Publications crime pulp, before it specialized in series characters such as the Ghost, the Phantom Fed, and the (original) Suicide Squad. Cover by Malvin Singer. Condition: Fine. A few small closed tears on cover edges (see scan). Back-cover indentations from bundling wire. Otherwise a clean, tight, glossy copy. Text block […]
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DETECTIVE TALES, May 1940
Another long-running Popular Publications crime pulp, not as notable as Dime Detective or Black Mask but a highly collectable title in its own right. This is the fourth in a string of 1940-41 issues with extremely lurid Rafael De Soto covers that show sexy, half-clad women in bondage and/or torture situations. They’ve always commanded high […]
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DIME DETECTIVE, September 15, 1934
This issue has stories by hard-boiled authors primarily “raided” from Black Mask: Frederick Nebel, Roger Torrey, Dwight V. Babcock, John Lawrence. Cover by John Newton Howitt. At this point Dime Detective was just entering its peak period and was already a sales powerhouse. Condition: About Fine. Very slightly warped but otherwise has no significant flaws […]
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