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...
Read MoreIt’s full steam ahead for The Pulpster #32. This year’s number celebrates several notable anniversaries in 2023. It’s been 100 years since Street & Smith Publications kicked off the sports-pulp genre with Sport Story Magazine and since Weird Tales was unleashed on the world. And, who can forget the wave of hero pulps that burst upon the scene 90 years ago, in 1933?...
Read MoreThe next number of The Pulpster has been put to bed (using the old newspaper jargon to say it’s been sent to the printer). Now that it has been finalized, we’ve updated its page in the Back Numbers department with a listing of the contents. Number 31 is a terrific issue (if we do say so ourselves). It arrives with a robust 68 pages plus covers. Among those pages, you’ll find...
Read MoreEarlier in the week, we wrote a post over on the PulpFest website calling for submissions to number 31 of The Pulpster, which will be released at the convention in early August. We just wanted to echo the invitation here. PulpFest 50, and The Pulpster, will be celebrating the 100th anniversary of the start of the pulp and comic-book publisher Fiction House, and the 90th anniversary of the debut...
Read MoreNumber 29 — 2020’s giant, 80-page edition of The Pulpster — has been out for several months, so now our attention turns to number 30. The next issue will debut at PulpFest 2021, running Aug. 18-21, in Pittsburgh (assuming the pandemic is past and it is safe to gather again). But we’re already planning for that number. Editor Bill Lampkin posted a call for submissions over...
Read MoreOver on the PulpFest website, you can read “Highlights From The Pulpster,” offering an update on the contents of this year’s edition. Number 29 of The Pulpster will be an expanded issue, with 84 pages plus covers. That’s almost twice the size of last year’s number. It will be packed full of articles of interest to all pulp collectors. The issue will focus on the...
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