Number 31
The Pulpster #31 (2022)
Number 31 of The Pulpster was published for PulpFest 50 in August 2022.
Fiction House at 100
The home for action
Part 1: Constructing a pulpwood powerhouse in the 1920s
by Michael Chomko
(Part 2 will appear in The Pulpster #32 in 2023.)
Letter-hackers and super fans
The story of The Vizigraph, the viewing plate for Planet Stories readers
by Sara Light-Waller
Fiction House’s king of the jungle
Ki-Gor aped Tarzan in the long-running Jungle Stories
by Jess Terrell
Queen for a single pulp
Sheena rules in the comics and on TV, but not in the pulps
by Jess Terrell
‘Friend, mentor, and guide’
The master illustrator tells Wyatt Doyle about his “Uncle” George Gross
by Mort Künstler
A Grand Master talks science fiction
Poul Anderson reflects on the genre he began writing in the pulps
by Darrell Schweitzer
Articles
The thing in the slab
CGC plans to begin grading and sealing pulp magazines this year
by David W. Smith
From mystery to weird menace
Ninety years ago, Dime Mystery introduced a shuddering new genre
by Emily Sisler
Portrait of a satanic pulp fan
Anton LaVey’s love of pulp magazines influenced the creation of his Church of Satan
by Tony Davis
Racing down Nightmare Alley
Like his characters, William Lindsay Gresham was doomed from the start
by Craig McDonald
Diamonds and gold for Justice Inc.
The Avenger marks two anniversaries in 2022
by Craig McDonald
Zane Grey set the stage for pulp westerns
A look back at the writer of The Purple Sage 150 years after his birthday
by Dan Smeddy
A guiding light for Pulpcon
Our friend Rusty Hevelin helped pulp fandom take root and grow
by Curt Phillips
Birthday wishes
PulpFest’s chairman recalls Rusty Hevelin on the 100th anniversary of his birth
by Jack Cullers
Departments
From the Editor, by William Lampkin
From the Publisher, by Michael Chomko
Final Chapters, by Tony Davis
On the Cover
This number’s cover features artwork that Allen Anderson originally painted for Planet Stories (January 1952), a Fiction House publication.
Errata
p. 2, Darrell Schweitzer co-edited the revived Weird Tales from 1988-2007 (not 1998-2007).
p. 31, Kaspa the Lion Man was created by C.T. Stoneham, not Paul Regard.
p. 32, As a young man, Ki-Gor rescued American heiress and aviator Helene Vaughn of Park Avenue, New York, from slave raiders after her plane crashed in the jungle. She elected not to return home, and instead remained in the jungle as Ki-Gor’s wife. The young lady could defend herself, and was familiar with an Enfield rifle. Beautiful with flaming red hair, her likeness was aimed at potential readers drawn in by the magazine cover. (The penultimate sentence of this paragraph did not make it into print — just a comma within it.)
p. 67, Ron Goulart was regrettably misidentified in the opening sentence: Ron Goulart, a name familiar to most pulp fans for his original fiction, pulp studies, and new paperback stories of characters such as The Avenger, The Phantom, and Flash Gordon, sadly passed on Jan. 14, 2022, one day after his 89th birthday. (Not Robert Goulart)