Coming soon: number 33
The Pulpster #33 (2024)
Do we have a slam-bang number coming in August at this year’s PulpFest.
As our cover illustrates, we’ve got a package of articles on the Spicy pulps, which hit newsstands — or, maybe, slid under the counters — 90 years ago. Ed Hulse looks at ashcan editions that Culture Publications used to lock up its titles; Alfred Jan re-examines Spicy Mystery Stories; and Willard E. Hawkins delves into the balance needed to write for the Spicys.
A hundred years ago, the first hardback edition of The Land That Time Forgot was released. You’ll find two articles about Edgar Rice Burroughs’ fantastic adventure, which appear in connection with PulpFest’s partner con, ERBFest: Henry G. Franke III’s overview of the trilogy, and Jess Terrell’s dissection of one of ERB’s stranger creatures.
Two years ago marked the 100th anniversary of the founding of Fiction House, and that year’s number of The Pulpster included the first of Michael Chomko’s epic three-part history of the pulp and comic-book publisher. The story wraps up in this number. And William Lampkin has a sidebar that looks at Thurman T. Scott’s side business.
You’ll also find the most extensive history of the Canadian pulps to date (by Tony Davis), and articles on Secret Agent X (by Will Murray), Frederick Nebel (by John C. Bruening), and “The Maltese Falcon” (by Kurt Brokaw), plus a fun speculation by Murray about why pulps may be so rare.
And, as always, closing out the number is our annual salute by Davis to those from our pulp collective that we’ve lost.
Check our website a bit after PulpFest 2024 to order your copy of our latest number.