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 Pulp magazine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Parallels between comic books and pulp magazines can be drawn; for example, magazines often featured illustrated novel-length stories of heroic characters such as The Shadow, Doc Savage, and The Phantom Detective.
A distinction can be made between an author who wrote for the pulps but later went on to transcend the limitations of the genre, and a "pulp author" who did not.
Mammoth Pulp Pulpy tales of suspense - free on-line.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_magazines   (654 words)

  
 Browne Popular Culture Library
His papers, with those of his wife, romance writer Dorothy Daniels, are part of the manuscript collections of the Browne Library.
Weird Tales is the most famous of all the pulps.
After the demise of the pulps in the fifties, he covered the same wide variety of genre for paperback publishers.
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/pcl35.html   (1214 words)

  
 Pulp and Dagger -- Editorial #14
The Pulp era reportedly began, in the last decade of the 19th Century, when a man named Frank Munsey got the marvelous idea that maybe the story was more important than the paper it was printed on.
They decreed that Pulp literature wasn't "real" literature, it was "hack".
I go through that unbearable hell every time I buy anything off ebay, but this time the wait was particularly protracted.
http://www.pulpanddagger.com/pulpmag/editorial14.html   (1683 words)

  
 pulp
Battlefield Earth (1984) represented a compilation of all of his pulp science fiction themes, and the film version draws heavily upon this incredible legacy.
However, "Battlefield Earth" is not a retread of pop-culture icons.
Instead Roger Christian chose to remain true to its pulp origins, and the production shows a real love for the genre of science fiction, and not the cynicism that was shown with “Armageddon” or “Men in Black.”
http://www.towson.edu/~flynn/pulp.htm   (1421 words)

  
 Weird Tales - The Unique Magazine
Slowly disintegrating with the cheap paper upon which they were printed, their sublime poetry is lost forever.
Many of the tales contained in the crumbling pages have never been reprinted, and exist solely in the few decaying copies of the magazine which remain.
Weird Tales existed in a void, and the stories published therein reached pinnacles of strangeness never equalled.
http://members.aol.com/weirdtales   (174 words)

  
 DITL - article Pulp magazine
The pulps created their own heroes; a famous and successful character was seen as a requesite for a best-seller.
New titles were getting more and more ephemeral and only the major remain - those who were able to print the best stories, but not always pay their authors correctly, by the early fifties some were still paid for each word printed.
This kind of analysis ignores that pulp magazines were a genuine form of popular literature.
http://www.ditl.info/art/definition.php?term=3643   (878 words)

  
 MAGAZINES page of ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE
Landsberg proposed a ground rule that the others seconded heartily: They would not publish their own fiction; UNEARTH (as Landsberg named it) would never be viewed as a vanity mag.
Landsberg then proposed the "First Sale" feature, which would reprint the first stories of major authors, with new intro's by the authors.
Artemis Magazine Asimov's Science Fiction (Index) Astonishing Stories, American and Canadian editions (Feb 1940-Apr 1943): nothing on the Web?
http://www.magicdragon.com/UltimateSF/magazines.html   (7811 words)

  
 The Holloway Pages: Pulp Heroes: Flash Gordon
At one point, the author appears to be unaware that Hawkmen could fly, and with the (premature) fall of Ming, the author has made Vultan the King of Mongo, whereas Raymond's storyline had made Prince Barin of Arboria the rightful heir.
Also aimed at a juvenile audience, the novel was published as being written by Alex Raymond, though there is no reason to think that he was the actual author.
B & W illustration of Dale Arden from the Flash Gordon Strange Adventure Magazine, December 1936, as reproduced in Thrilling Novels #61.
http://home.comcast.net/~cjh5801a/Flash.htm   (3818 words)

  
 Andrew Vachss - No Punches Pulled ... (Planet Pulp Magazine): The Zero 5.0laf - The Official Website of Andrew Vachss
If you've never saved an interview from Planet Pulp before, you ought to damn well print this one out and tack it to the board in your office.
Despite having to suffer through some of my initially badly-worded questions,Vachss dealt out an enormous amount of wisdom and knowledge about his writing career and the business as a whole.
PPM: Switching gears, your latest novel, THE GETAWAY MAN some would say it's a bit of a departure from your Burke novels, but it's certainly a throw-back to some really amazing pulp noir, the cover alone is just fantastic.
http://www.vachss.com/av_interviews/pp2003.html   (4549 words)

  
 A Brief History of Science Fiction & Pulp Magazines
Today, these all fall into the realm of what has become "traditional sf", but Campbell's' discovery of Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov are special milestones.
Park Winthrop wrote of a people inside the earth with "THE LAND OF THE CENTRAL SUN," a 1902 serial in Argosy and William Wallace Cook created "robots" in his 1903 Argosy sf serial A ROUND TRIP TO THE YEAR 2000; OR A FLIGHT THROUGH TIME.
A unique magazine titled Weird Tales began in 1923, but it contained more 'horror' and
http://www.stationlink.com/pulpdom/pulphist.html   (1018 words)

  
 The Shadow Magazine
The Shadow magazine was such a success that publisher Henry Ralston also created a companion magazine the following year Doc Savage, The Man Of Bronze, written by Lester Dent.
Agatha Christie so loved mysteries set in Chinatown, she set one of her Hercule Poirot stories in London’s (non-existent) Chinatown.
“The Pulps” edited by Tony Goodstone (1970, Bonanza Books div.
http://www.angelfire.com/sd/lamont/ShadowMag.html   (1475 words)

  
 Pulp Rack - Each Issue a Feast for the Eyes
Western stories probably covered more pulp pages with ink than any other sort of story.
It's a light but fun piece of reading -- don't be turned off just because it appeared in a romance magazine.
Many classics have been translated into Finnish, and they have influenced many Finnish writers.
http://pulprack.com/index2.html   (1360 words)

  
 PULPDOM Magazine, ERB-dom & THE FANTASTIC COLLECTOR MAGAZINE
There is a never-ending exposition of adventure stories and authors from the early pulp era.
The most important part of PULPDOM is that it features "never reprinted before" pulp stories, always of a "fantastic adventure" nature, and always illustrated.
PULPDOM is about all 35,000 pulp magazines, but we admit a concentration on pre-1930 titles, with occasional sojourns into other rare old magazines and early fantastic books.
http://www.stationlink.com/pulpdom   (353 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Pulp Classics: Submarine Stories Magazine (March 1930): Books: John Gregory Betancourt
Publisher: learn how customers can search inside this book.
Amazon.com: Pulp Classics: Submarine Stories Magazine (March 1930): Books: John Gregory Betancourt
The March 1930 issue of the rare pulp magazine SUBMARINE STORIES, which lasted for thirteen issues and so must count as one of the more successful of the hyper-specialized pulps.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1557422990?v=glance   (357 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: The Classic Era of the American Pulp Magazine: Books
Publisher: learn how customers can search inside this book.
Amazon.co.uk: The Classic Era of the American Pulp Magazine: Books
The pulp magazines developed out of the 19th-century dime novels and were eventually overtaken by comics and the arrival of the first paperback books, but for a brief period between the 20s and 40s the pulp magazines ruled supreme.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1853753882   (526 words)

  
 ThePulp.Net: The Spider
The Vintage Library, an online business selling pulp material, offers a rundown on the Master of Men and his authors.
You'll find galleries of covers from The Shadow, The Spider, Black Mask, The Phantom Detective, Amazing Stories, Startling Stories, Weird Tales and more.
He was the seventh pulp character to get his own magazine.
http://thepulp.net/thespider.html   (583 words)

  
 Boing Boing: Pulp SF magazine's role in atom bomb
George Pendle, author of the terrific bio of rocket scientist Jack Parsons, wrote a nice piece about an SF story in Astounding Science Fiction magazine that did such a good job of predicting the atom bomb that it got the story's author in hot water with the US government.
When Campbell was asked how he had come upon such classified information he explained that he was a physics graduate from MIT, and that he had come up with the idea by basing all his suppositions on information freely available to the public.
He calmly showed where he had found out about Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman's discovery of nuclear fission in 1938 and how he had worked through the normal extrapolation process so common in his magazine's stories.
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/08/11/pulp_sf_magazines_ro.html   (916 words)

  
 Gold Seal Detective Magazine
By the early 1950s, trampled by comic books, television, and the paperback (called a pocket book because it fit nicely inside a pocket), the pulp magazine industry was moribund.
This allowed him to publish a thicker magazine...
After merely half a century, the pulps were dead, only remotely remembered by the many digest size magazines that were able to survive the changing times.
http://www.lifeloom.com/I2GingerJohnsonA.htm   (540 words)

  
 PULP
Accessible because we want all readers to be drawn to what we have to show and tell.
PULP acts as a reader's digest of the best in current print and desktop publications.
We are a guide, but go in-depth as well.
http://www.pulpwebsite.com   (175 words)

  
 Vintage Octopus Pulp Covers!
As a writer, my fascination with the eight-armed critter with the endless supply of ink is understandable and ongoing.
The octopus, known as poulpe in French, polip in Hungarian, and polypous in Classical Greek, is pluperfectly the essence of pulp.
i) Your pulp octopus page is the best thing ever for which thank you for eternity.
http://www.cyrune.com/pulp.html   (1306 words)

  
 Pulp Covers Gallery
hat site devoted to a pulp magazine character would be complete without some of those cover reprints all the kids are clammering for.
I'm not sure why, but his work on The Avenger is not up to the quality of his previous work for Street & Smith.
Graves Gladney also provided covers for Street & Smith'sThe Shadow magazine around this same time period, and several covers for their Unknown title as H. Scott had done.
http://members.aol.com/macmurdie/covers   (342 words)

  
 Pulp magazine --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
English science-fiction writer who examined the human struggle for survival when catastrophic natural phenomena suddenly invade a comfortable English setting.
Magazine photos of Hemingway hunting and fishing enhanced his image and helped sell his work.
Cody became the hero for many short novels by Buntline, published as dime, or pulp, novels—so-called because...
http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-9313096?tocId=9313096&query=frank   (683 words)

  
 Black Mask Magazine - An American Classic...
He once said, "We always held that a good story is where you find it regardless of author fame or medium of publication.
By December 1933, the magazine was publishing nothing but crime stories, and its national circulation had risen from 66,000, when Shaw had taken over, to 103,000.
Keeping Smart Set solvent was always their priority, and there had initially been plans to follow up Saucy Stories with an all-Negro pulp.
http://www.blackmaskmagazine.com/history.html   (755 words)

  
 Open Directory - Arts: Literature: Periods and Movements: Pulp Fiction
Hugo Gernsback's Forecast - An e-zine named after the man who started Amazing Stories magazine and whom many consider the "Father" of science fiction.
ThePulp.Net - The history and legacy of the pulps -- the popular literature from the first half of the 20th century -- is covered here.
Pulp Magazine Heroes - Nice pages about Doc Savage, the Spider, and the Avenger.
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Periods_and_Movements/Pulp_Fiction   (531 words)

  
 Adventure Magazine
You can see several issues of ROMANCE at the end of the section of EVERYBODY'S. Its attempt to attract women readers was clear from the beginning, but the 1929 covers always contain the specific word "love" somewhere in their descriptions of contents.
This did not seem to work; in February of 1917 they returned to the original approach, and kept to it until the magazine disappeared from the stands in the early 1970's.
ROMANCE had been created in 1919 as a stablemate of ADVENTURE, and at first published fiction in the swashbuckling mold of heroic "romance" as the term was used in the 19th Century.
http://www.magazineart.org/pulp/adventure/adventure   (698 words)

  
 ERBzine 0220: Pulp Bibliography
Idle Hour Magazine - December 1915 - The Eternal Lover 2/2
Idle Hour Magazine - November 1915 - The Eternal Lover 1/2
Ivanov's - Belgian pulp magazine - 1939 - Imitation Tarzan story
http://www.erbzine.com/mag2/0220.html   (4599 words)

  
 remixing vintage pulp fiction art as commentary about our mixed-up world
Our drivel-free, sardonic (we hope) cover commentary takes on the absurdity of life today.
Pulp magazine covers from the 30's to the 60's depicted old terrors and fools.
remixing vintage pulp fiction art as commentary about our mixed-up world
http://www.pulp-it.com   (845 words)

  
 PULP Magazines at LINES ON PAPER
PULP Magazine, The Shudder Pulps / FAX 1975, first edition, hardcover, illustrated history of the 'weird menace' pulps, uncommon, Fine book with VG+ dj, $40 click for pic
PULP Magazines, One Hundred Years of Science Fiction Illustration by Anthony Frewin / Pyramid 1975, first printing softcover, British survey of history of S-F illustration with strong emphasis on classic American Pulp covers, many full color repros, Fine+, $10
PULP Magazines, Pulp Art by Robert Lesser / Gramercy 1997, first printing hardcover, fascinating survey of original pulp magazine cover paintings, Fine- book and dj, $25
http://linesonpaper.tripod.com/PULPMags.html   (750 words)

  
 Pulp Magazine Heroes
A book containing lurid subject matter, and being characteristicly printed on rough, unfinished paper.
Pulp and Adventure Heroes of the Pre-War Years
Pulp Fiction - the movie by Quentin Tarantino
http://www.cs.uku.fi/~vaisala/Pulp.htm   (104 words)

  
 PULP/Pulp Magazine/Issue 43
Discover the truth about material girl Madonna's influential wardrobe in an interview with her personal stylist.
The New Year issue of Pulp is packed full of the freshest new fashion and culture.
There's an exclusive shoot with Thievery Corporation, a brief encounter with all the hottest spots in Europe, an interview with The Shins, plus all the usuals - social experiments, fiction, graphics, news, reviews and skews.
http://www.pulp.co.nz/view.asp?webpage=3645   (91 words)

  
 Meet Ratnaz Files: A Pulp Fiction Parody
THE RATNAZ FILES ALSO APPEAR IN "Classic SF Stories by Today's Authors In the Style of Yesterday's Giants"
The tribulations of a pulp author in the electronic age
http://www.erbzine.com/mag0/meetratz.html   (82 words)

  
 Canadian Pulp Fiction Archive MetaFilter
Check out the ad in the upper right of this first page of Confessions magazine.
A book edited by James M. Cain called For Men Only, and featuring stories by Hemingway, Steinbeck, Farrell, and Somerset Maugham.
As is usual with the really good posts, it'll take a while to go through all the stuff here.
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/45401   (203 words)

  
 ** PULP FICTION LINKS & CONNECTIONS **
A web site devoted to the Vintage Paperback book.
Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang"
His TRIVIA page is a good jumping-off point for history, books, authors, films and other topics related to the Pulp Magazines of long ago.
http://www.pulpcards.com/connects.htm   (226 words)

  
 PULP MAGAZINE GALLERY
Press here for an order form that you may print out
However, these magazines are a historical fact, and many people study them for one reason or another.
Skip to the bottom of this page to find an index to my other pulps, and the way back to my homepage where you may find science fiction hardcovers, collectible paperbacks, plastic bags, as well as other paperback books.
http://www.oldsfbooks.com/pulpgal.html   (471 words)

  
 Pulp Magazine Cover Gallery
Watch for more covers from my new pulp fiction magazine collection by artists such as Hannes Bok, Virgil Finlay, Margaret Brundage, and titles such as Planet Stories, Weird Tales, Amazing Stories, Famous Fantastic Mysteries, and others --- coming soon!
Some pulp covers may contain drawn nudity, bondage, torture, and racial/ethnic stereotypes...
Last Updated: 08 Mar 2005 04:24 PM -0800
http://www.spiritone.com/~maxpax/pulp.htm   (75 words)

  
 PULP : : New Japanese Pop Culture Monthly : : 5.06 Feature
He made his debut in Garo coming from an art background and developed interesting work, like his four-panel manga.
Out of all this, I think your manga style stands out as its own distinct genre.
IE: But it's good to find out that people are attracted to quality.
http://www.pulp-mag.com/archives/5.06/feature_mizuno_01.shtml   (1140 words)

  
 P U L P
Armed with a new drummer and a refined sense of team work, Chuck Isidro and his cohorts let us in on the story behind the creation of their latest disc, and share a few thoughts and opinions on their band.
But they also took the good with the bad...in more ways than one.
Reproduction in whole or part in any form electronic or otherwise is prohibited without the written permission from the publisher.
http://www.pulpcommunity.com   (455 words)

  
 Magazine Data File
Note that some issues of Swan American Magazine reprinted stories from the magazine under various derivative titles.
A biannual journal of creative works featuring new fiction, poetry, literary nonfiction, interviews with authors, and book reviews of small press and university press titles.
Primarily a rock music magazine, but like Rolling Stone has published some literary journalism and occasional fiction, e.g.
http://www.philsp.com/data/data077.html   (171 words)

  
 Epson PhotoCenter - Visit Albums - Album List
Pulp Art: C-CANDID CONFESSIONS to COMET (79 photos)
The Greenfield Collection: A 3000+ pulp magzine and dime novel collection.
Pulp Art: F-FICTION PARADE to FUTURE SCI-FI (128 photos)
http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumList?u=1655461   (362 words)

  
 VIZ Media . news . press room . 2002 press releases
PST to receive credit for the balance of their subscription.
However, should PULP subscribers not wish to have their subscription transferred, they can call 1-800-394-3042 weekdays between the hours of 10 a.m.
Even with the magazine's cancellation, Viz will continue to publish each serialized series in alternate formats.
http://www.viz.com/news/newsroom/2002/04_pulpcancelled.php   (442 words)

  
 Magazine Data File
This was really a continuation of Munsey's Magazine, although the wording is always given as "Combined with Munsey".
One of Popular's belated pulps best known now for its stories by John D. MacDonald and even a story by Cyril Kornbluth ("Homicidal Hypo-Man" Jun-1949); the rest was competent but unremarkable.
A companion to Argosy, noted for its sf/fantasy content, especially Edgar Rice Burroughs, A. Merritt, Ray Cummings, Homer Eon Flint.
http://www.philsp.com/data/data011.html   (234 words)

  
 PhilMusic Update: Pulp Magazine Launches Its Maiden Issue In Glorietta
The writing ultimately showing signs that the writers are struggling to pinpoint the magazine’s identity.
The magazine is called Pulp, and is published by the Fookien Times Yearbook Publishing Company, (of Philippines Yearbook fame) headed by publisher Grace Glory Go and editor-in-chief Vernon Go.
The official Tower Records Philippines magazine is finally out.
http://www.philmusic.com/zine/news/1999/12/121999_pulplaunch   (474 words)

  
 Pulp Magazine - New Zealand Magazines :: iSUBSCRiBE - magazine subscriptions online
AND, as ever, Pulp’s pages are packed with all the goodness you’ve come to expect – top stories, great giveaways, style files, news and reviews.
PLUS The latest fashion, as fresh as it gets Enjoy some one on one with The Strokes’ drummer, Fabrizio Moretti Find out what why some Brits love our Zane Lowe and others want to have him deported.
PULP MAGAZINE : Pulp Magazine’s epic Christmas issue is now on the streets.
http://www.isubscribe.co.nz/title_info.cfm?prodID=7197   (130 words)

  
 Pulp Magazine Art Index - at the UCM Museum in Abita Springs, Louisian
No portion of this document may be copied, reproduced or revised without written the permission of the author.
Pulp Magazine Art Index - at the UCM Museum in Abita Springs, Louisian
http://ucmmuseum.com/pulpindex.htm   (31 words)

  
 Uniservity: Pulp Magazine Homepage
The Pulp team have their work featured on the BBC Manchester website, which you can see by clicking on the following link
Even if you're not a MMU student, don't be scared of picking up a copy and letting us know what you think.
PULP is run for the benefit of the students at MMU, but has a reputation which has grown for over 25 years.
http://www.uniservity.net/club_news.asp?clubid=5289&newsid=11034   (204 words)

  
 ** PULP FICTION POSTCARDS & OTHER POP-CULTURE PRODUCTS **
Enjoy these wonderful cover images painted by some of the best pulp magazine, pin-up and paperback book artists of this century.
Postcards of Classic Pulp Fiction Magazine and Vintage Paperback Book Covers Dating From the
Artists like Rudolph Belarski, Earle Bergey, Robert Bonfils, Margaret Brundage, Rafael DeSoto, Peter Driben, George Gross, Reginald Heade, Robert Maguire and many others are shown on these postcard images.
http://www.pulpcards.com   (221 words)

  
 Gallery of Science Fiction Pulp Magazine Technology
Space concepts depicted on the cover art of the "pulps" of the 1930s and 1940s often proved prophetic.
Click on the below listed covers for a discussion of aspects of each cover which are either prophetic or inaccurate.
From the experience of the 1990s, a review of the pulp cover art frequently exhibits scientific inaccuracies.
http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/pulpcove.html   (105 words)

  
 Black Mask Magazine -- An American Classic
This early example of the genre first appeared in Black Mask in 1926, and vividly displays the wide-scope of the magazine's early adventure and detective fiction.
A contemporary of Hammett's, he is often credited with one of the earliest writers of pulp aviation fiction.
This site will also incorporate Dime Detective, Dime Mystery, Strange Detective Mysteries, Terror Tales, Horror Stories, Adventure and Famous Fantastic Mysteries, but great as they all were, Black Mask Magazine still reigns supeme, holding a unique place in our hearts and in American popular culture.
http://www.blackmaskmagazine.com/blackmask.html   (225 words)

  
 ThePulp.Net
One is taking a snapshot of pulp fans’ ages, while the other asks about where you live.
Afterward, browse the forums, then join or start a discussion.
Welcome to your guide to the online world of pulp magazines.
http://thepulp.net   (179 words)

  
 Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine - Science Fiction Publication
EnVision, the 5 day spec fic workshop for novel-length writers, has produced a collection of shorts stories and novel excerpts drawn from workshop attendees.
These offer an insight into the critiquing process and the development of a writer.
Why does the world need another SF magazine?
http://andromedaspaceways.com   (421 words)

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