tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79604025721934765022024-03-13T11:38:20.249-05:00The Pulp Magazines ProjectAn online, full-text archive of all-fiction pulpwood magazines from 1896-1946The Pulp Magazines Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09857977868153158453noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960402572193476502.post-28550535359200675772016-06-23T12:47:00.000-05:002016-06-23T12:55:22.226-05:00The Argosy (August 1905): Making Ad Pages Searchable<br />
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The Pulp Magazines Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09857977868153158453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960402572193476502.post-38670077705876498342015-02-28T22:55:00.001-06:002015-02-28T23:01:23.460-06:00New Issues/ Contexts (2/25/2015): Dime Novels and Nickel WeekliesThe <b>Pulp Magazines Project</b> has just added 8 issues of "dime novels" and "nickel weeklies" that were published between 1892 and 1922 to its website. The titles include <i>Frank Reade Library</i>, <i>Tip Top Weekly</i>, <i>Nick Carter Weekly</i>, <i>Deadwood Dick Library</i>, <i>Buffalo Bill Stories</i>, <i>All-Sports Library</i>, <i>All Around Weekly</i>, and <i>Wild West Weekly</i>.<br />
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To view them, click <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/contexts_pages/dime_novels.html">here</a>.<br />
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Publishers represented by this group include <b>Street & Smith</b>, <b>Beadle & Adams</b>, <b>The Winner Library Co.</b>, <b>Frank Tousey</b>, and <b>Harry E. Wolff</b>. Information and metadata listed alongside each issue includes publication date, year established, publisher, and an estimated total number of issues published.<br />
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For more information on the dime novels as a 19th-century publishing phenomenon, check out Tim DeForest's chapter on "Dime Novels," from <i>Storytelling in the Pulps, Comics, and Radio: How Technology Changed Popular Fiction in America</i> (2004).<br />
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It can be accessed through GoogleBooks <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=1xAXWwYchscC&pg=PA15&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=3#v=twopage&q&f=false">here</a>.<br />
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The Pulp Magazines Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09857977868153158453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960402572193476502.post-10481622718428268342014-10-21T08:20:00.001-05:002014-10-21T08:45:26.893-05:00New Issues: Adventure, Blue Book, and Short Stories (10/20/2014)The <b>Pulp Magazines Project</b> has added 10 new issues of 3 classic pulp magazine titles to its full-text digital archive. These include the Feb. 1911 issue and complete 6-issue run of Vol. 53 from the summer of 1925 (Jun. 10, 20, & 30; and Jul. 10, 20, & 30, 1925) of <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/adventure_page.html"><i>Adventure</i></a>, feat. <i>Prisoners of War</i> and <i>When East Met West</i>, by prolific British pulp authors Talbot Mundy and W.C. Tuttle, respectively (Jun. 10, 1925). Two issues of <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/blue_book_page.html"><i>Blue Book</i></a> (Jan. 1924 and Nov. 1926) feature Agatha Christie's "The Plymouth Express Affair" (Jan. 1924) and H. Bedford-Jones's "The Trail of Death" (Nov. 1926). In the Jul. 10, 1924 issue of <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/short_stories_page.html"><i>Short Stories</i></a>, you will find Harold Lamb's "The Camp of the Snake" and Murray Leinster's "Grist". There are now a total of 312 full-text magazines available on the site.<br />
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For more information on classic pulp titles like <i>Adventure</i> (1910), <i>Blue Book</i> (1915), and <i>Short Stories</i> (1910), check out Mike Ashley's "<a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/history_page.html">Golden Age of Pulp Fiction</a>" and R.D. Mullen's "<a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/contexts_pages/pulps_&_big_slicks.html">From Standard Magazines to Pulps & Big Slicks</a>".<br />
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For news and updates, along with a complete list of issues posted, check out our News & Updates page <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/news_updates.html">here</a>.<br />
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The <b>Pulp Magazines Project</b> would like to thank members of the <b>Pulpscans Group</b>, esp. Saskia van de Kruisweg (ROC, Amsterdam) for his beautiful scans, and Jan van Heiningen (Utrecht University) for allowing access to his extensive collection of pulps.<br />
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<br />The Pulp Magazines Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09857977868153158453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960402572193476502.post-14007445322009825582014-09-20T02:20:00.001-05:002014-10-21T08:46:04.102-05:00Archive Reaches 300 IssuesWith the addition of 10 new issues of <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/adventure_page.html">Adventure</a> (Teddy Roosevelt's favorite pulp) from 1911-25, the digital archive of the Pulp Magazines Project has reached 300 individual issues. As of Sept. 2014, the archive includes 85 titles from over two dozen publishers, with its special features on <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/contexts_pages/comics/comics.html">Comic Books & Pulp Publishers</a>; <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/contexts_pages/girlie_pulps.html">Snappy, Spicy, and Girlie Pulps</a>; and <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/contexts_pages/pulp_slicks/slicks.html">Pulp, Slick, & Book-Paper Magazines</a>. In these latest issues of Adventure, "<a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/database_pages/adventure.html">America's No. 1 Pulp</a>", we have novels and short stories by John Buchan (Jun. 1911), W.C. Tuttle (Aug. 1916), Edgar Wallace (Apr. 3, 1918), Hugh Pendexter (Jul. 18, 1918), Charles Beadle (Aug. 3, 1918), Talbot Mundy (Aug. 18, 1918), Arthur O. Friel (Dec. 3, 1919), H. Bedford-Jones (Aug. 10, 1925), and many more.<br />
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The Pulp Magazines Project wishes to thank the Pulpscans Group, Digital Pulp Preservation, the Digital Comic Museum, Newsstand: 1925, and Conrad First for all their help.<br />
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Next month, we'll be posting 6 more issues (Vol. 53) of Adventure from the summer of 1925, along with several new issues of <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/database_pages/argosy.html">Argosy</a>, <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/database_pages/blue_book.html">Blue Book</a>, and <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/database_pages/western_story.html">Western Story</a>.<br />
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<br />The Pulp Magazines Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09857977868153158453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960402572193476502.post-21704551167584304582014-09-11T15:08:00.001-05:002014-10-21T08:48:23.056-05:00New Issues/ Title: Startling Stories (9/10/2014)The Pulp Magazines Project has added 10 new issues (and 1 new SF title) to its full-text digital archive. They are the Jan., Mar., May, & Nov. 1939; Jan. & May 1940; Nov. 1941; Jun. 1946; and Jan. & May 1947 issues of <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/startlingstories_page.html">Startling Stories</a>, feat. works by Stan Weinbaum (Jan. 1939), Otis Adelbert Kline (Guest Editorial-"Prophets of Science" Jan. 1939), Ed Hamilton (May 1939), Robert Bloch (Nov. 1941), Henry Kuttner (Jun. 1946), Murray Leinster (Jan. 1947), and Robert A. Heinlein (May 1947) among others.<br />
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This brings the total number of full-text issues available on the PMP website to 282. In related news, the PMP website was migrated to a new server last week, which should result in faster download times, esp. for those large (50+ MB) PDF files.<br />
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<br />The Pulp Magazines Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09857977868153158453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960402572193476502.post-59664589582316183602014-05-30T16:04:00.001-05:002014-05-30T16:12:46.233-05:00New Issues/ Histories: Munsey Pulps (3/30 & 5/30/2014)The <b>Pulp Magazines Project</b> has added 12 new issues to its full-text digital archive, representing 5 major pulp magazine titles published by the Frank A. Munsey Co. (NY) between 1913 and 1940.<br />
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They include flagship titles <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/argosy_page.html">Argosy</a> (Mar. 27, 1920; feat. Ray Cummings, "The Right Thing"); <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/all_story_page.html">The All-Story</a> (Dec. 1913; feat. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Warlord of Mars, Pt. 1/4); and <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/argosy_page.html">Argosy All-Story Weekly</a> (Dec. 1, Dec. 8, & Dec. 15, 1923; and Sept. 15, 1928)—in addition to <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/railroad_mans_page.html">Railroad Stories</a> (May 1934; Feb. & Apr. 1935; and Apr. 1936); and the sf reprint magazine, <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/famous_page.html">Famous Fantastic Mysteries</a> (Jan. & Feb. 1940).<br />
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Also, be sure to check out the history of <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/database_pages/famous.html">Famous Fantastic Mysteries</a> (Sept. 1939-Jun. 1953), the Munsey sf "reprint magazine... that introduced a new generation of readers to the scientific romances, lost civilizations, and otherworldly love stories of the early 20th century" (Nathan Vernon Madison, VCU).<br />
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And finally, in April, 6 new issues of <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/wonder_quarterly_page.html">Wonder Stories Quarterly</a> (Sum. & Fall 1930; Spr., Fall, & Win. 1931; and Spr. 1932) were also made available on the site. For further news and updates to the site, along with a complete list of issues and title histories posted, check out our News & Updates page <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/news_updates.html">here</a>.<br />
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<br />The Pulp Magazines Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09857977868153158453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960402572193476502.post-69334305588229098352014-03-25T17:29:00.001-05:002014-03-25T17:39:32.818-05:00New Issues: Blue Book, Exciting Western, and Jungle Stories (2/20 & 3/25/2014)The <b>Pulp Magazines Project</b> has added 9 new issues to its full-text digital archive. They include the Jun. & Jul. 1940, and Aug. 1941 issues of <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/blue_book_page.html">Blue Book</a>, feat. Dornford Yates's <i>When the Devil Drives</i> (Jul. 1940); the Aug. 1946 and Jan. 1947 issues of <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/exciting_western_page.html">Exciting Western</a>, feat. W.C. Tuttle's <i>Trail of the Flame</i> (Jan. 1947); and 4 new issues of <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/jungle_stories_page.html">Jungle Stories</a> (Spr. 1946; and Spr., Fall, & Win. 1948), feat. stories by John Peter Drummond (Kigor, Jungle Lord) and Edgar Wallace (Sanders of the River).<br />
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This brings the total number of full-text magazines available on the PMP website to 254. For further news and updates to the site, along with a complete list of issues and title histories posted, check out our News & Updates page <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/news_updates.html">here</a>.<br />
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<br />The Pulp Magazines Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09857977868153158453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960402572193476502.post-31214157271438276792014-02-10T19:27:00.001-06:002014-02-26T16:29:11.260-06:00New Issues/ Titles: Amazing Stories Quarterly, Mammoth Adventure, Mammoth Mystery, Planet Stories, and Wonder Stories Quarterly (2/10/2014)New Issues/ Titles: Amazing Stories Quarterly, Mammoth Adventure, Mammoth Mystery, Planet Stories, and Wonder Stories Quarterly (2/10/2014)<br />
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The <b>Pulp Magazines Project</b> has added 10 new issues (and 4 new over-sized pulp titles) to its full-text digital archive. They include the Win.-Fall 1928 issues of <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/amazing_quarterly_page.html">Amazing Stories Quarterly</a>, feat. A. Hyatt Verrill's The World of the Giant Ants (Fall 1928); the Nov. 1946 issue of <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/mammoth_adventure_page.html">Mammoth Adventure</a>, feat. Tom W. Blackburn's The Cassock and the Sword; the January 1946 issue of <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/mammoth_mystery_page.html">Mammoth Mystery</a>; the Summer 1932 issue of <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/wonder_quarterly_page.html">Wonder Stories Quarterly</a>, feat. Raymond Gallum's "The Menace from Mercury"; and 3 new issues of <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/planet_stories_page.html">Planet Stories</a> (May and Jul. 1951, and Jan. 1954). This brings the total number of full-text magazines available on the PMP website to 245.<br />
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And finally, in October and January, histories for <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/database_pages/planet_stories.html">Planet Stories</a> and <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/database_pages/dynamic_science.html">Dynamic Science Stories</a> (Nathan Vernon Madison, VCU) were made available as well. For further news and updates to the site, along with a complete list of issues and title histories posted, check out our News and Updates page <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/news_updates.html">here</a>.<br />
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<br />The Pulp Magazines Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09857977868153158453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960402572193476502.post-54773514164741073722013-09-25T07:06:00.001-05:002013-09-25T07:18:59.070-05:00New Issues: Adventure and Blue Book (9/25/2013)The <b>Pulp Magazines Project</b> has added 5 new issues of 2 classic pulp titles to its full-text digital archive. These include the Jun. 15, 1935 and May 1949 issues of <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/adventure_page.html">Adventure</a>, feat. Cleopatra's Promise, by prolific pulp author Talbot Mundy (Jun. 15, 1935); and the May 1936, Mar. 1937, and Jul. 1938 issues of <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/blue_book_page.html">Blue Book</a>, feat. short stories by H. Bedford Jones, along with William L. Chester's Tarzan-inspired series, Kioga. There are now a total of 235 full-text magazines available on the site.<br />
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For more information on the history of these classic pulp titles, check out Patrick Belk's "<a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/database_pages/adventure.html">Adventure Magazine: America's No. 1 Pulp</a>"; Mike Ashley's "<a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/history_page.html">The Golden Age of Pulp Fiction</a>"; and R.D. Mullen's "<a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/contexts_pages/pulps_&_big_slicks.html">From Standard Magazines to Pulps & Big Slicks</a>".<br />
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And for October, more SF!<br />
<br />The Pulp Magazines Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09857977868153158453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960402572193476502.post-29176700581370326422013-09-15T02:00:00.001-05:002013-09-25T07:18:27.004-05:00New Issues/ Titles: Western Pulp Magazines (9/15/2013)The <b>Pulp Magazines Project</b> has added 6 new Western pulp titles (8 new complete issues) to its full-text digital archive. These include <a href="http://pulpmags.org/all_western_page.html">All Western Magazine</a> (Apr.-Jun. 1950; feat. Ernest Haycox, The Feudists); <a href="http://pulpmags.org/exciting_western_page.html">Exciting Western</a> (Sept. 1947; feat. W.C. Tuttle, Alias Adam Jones); <a href="http://pulpmags.org/fifteen_western_page.html">Fifteen Western Tales</a> (Jan. 1953); <a href="http://pulpmags.org/masked_rider_page.html">Masked Rider Western</a> (Winter 1945 & Nov. 1950); <a href="http://pulpmags.org/ten_story_western_page.html">Ten Story Western</a> (Dec. 1949; feat. Tom Roan, Yellow Devil Starves Tonight!); and <a href="http://pulpmags.org/two_gun_western_page.html">Two-Gun Western (Novels)</a> (Apr. 1942 & Nov. 1955).<br />
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Cheers, pardners.<br />
<br />The Pulp Magazines Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09857977868153158453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960402572193476502.post-68745744245358156722013-08-26T22:26:00.001-05:002013-09-25T07:17:49.780-05:00New Issues: Black Mask & Top-Notch (8/20 & 8/25/2013)With the start of the new semester, the <b>Pulp Magazines Project</b> returns with regular monthly updates to its digital archive. In the final weeks of August, we've added to the project's growing collection of pre-1923 pulps with new issues of <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/black_mask_page.html"><i>The Black Mask</i></a> and <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/top%20notch_page.html"><i>Top-Notch Magazine</i></a>:<br />
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Included are the Nov. 1920 and Aug. 1922 issues of <i>The Black Mask</i>---which feature Murray Leinster's "The Vault" (Aug. 1922)---and the Feb. 1912, Mar. 1913, and May 1 1915 issues of Street & Smith's <i>Top-Notch Magazine</i>---featuring Part I of Johnston McCulley's <i>Force Inscrutable</i> (Mar. 1913).</div>
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Enjoy.<br />
<br />The Pulp Magazines Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09857977868153158453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960402572193476502.post-27299651611784598532013-05-21T00:50:00.000-05:002013-09-25T07:17:59.132-05:00New Issues/ Histories: Black Mask, Dime Mystery, et alPublishing legends <i>The Black Mask</i> (1920), <i>Weird Tales</i> (1923), and <i>Amazing Stories</i> (1926) are considered so "extremely rare and valuable" that the U.S. Library of Congress houses its collection of 277 issues in Washington, D.C.'s Rare Book and Special Collections Division---along with the personal libraries of Presidents, medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, and one of only three known perfect copies of the Gutenberg Bible. With its latest addition of 4 issues of <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/black_mask_page.html">The Black Mask</a> (Aug. & Sept. 1920; Dec. 1921; and Apr. 1922), the Pulp Magazines Project has made all 3 classic titles available together---for the first time---in high-quality, cover-to-cover digital editions.<br />
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Also available at the Pulp Magazines Project, new issues of the iconic "weird menace" pulp, <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/dime_mystery_page.html">Dime Mystery Magazine</a> (Apr. 1938 and Sept. 1946); <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/adventure_page.html">Adventure</a> (Jul. 1, 1928; feat. Walt Coburn's "The Man Who Hated Himself"); <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/western_story_page.html">Western Story</a> (Jul. 27, 1940); <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/detective%20story_page.html">Detective Story</a> (May 1938; feat. Zorro-creator Johnston McCulley's "Thubway Tham's Thothial Thecurity"); and histories of both <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/database_pages/black_mask.html">The Black Mask</a> (E.R. Hagemann; UCLA) and <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/database_pages/dime_mystery.html">Dime Mystery Magazine</a> (Emily Sisler; University of West Florida).<br />
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<br />The Pulp Magazines Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09857977868153158453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960402572193476502.post-17081301544982081382013-04-13T02:39:00.001-05:002013-05-21T01:00:51.027-05:00New Issues/ Contexts/ Histories (4/13/2013): The ‘Girlie’ Pulps!<div style="text-align: center;">
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In the 1920s and '30s, <b>The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice</b> (est. 1873) prosecuted a long war against the so-called "girlie" pulps, a burgeoning field of mildly risqué pulp-paper magazines featuring sex-themed stories, scantily clad women, and sometimes nude photography.</div>
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In 1925, the organization attacked as indecent the magazines <i>Artists and Models</i> and <i>Art Lovers' Magazine</i>.<br />
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In 1930, the NYSSV forced pulp publisher Harold Hersey to suppress depictions of violence and lawlessness in his new line of gang pulps.<br />
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In 1934, the organization raided magazine shops to confiscate four new magazines with the titillating titles <i>Real Boudoir Tales</i>, <i>Real Temptation Tales</i>, <i>Real Forbidden Sweets</i>, and <i>Real French Capers</i>....<br />
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For 2013, let's hope it all goes better for these long lost, and much maligned step-children of popular 20th century print culture history:<br />
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The <b>Pulp Magazines Project</b> has posted 8 new scans, feat. representative issues of the snappy, spicy, & girlie varieties (shown above) of semi-slick or pulp-paper magazines from the 1930s and 1940s.<br />
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They include <i>10 Story Book</i> (Jul. 1934), <i>Follies</i> (Winter 1933), <i>Gay Life Stories</i> (c. 1939), <i>Hollywood Nights</i> (May 1937), <i>La Paree</i> (Nov. 1935), <i>Night Life Tales</i> (Winter 1940), <i>Pep Stories</i> (Apr. 1932), and <i>Spicy Stories</i> (Sept. 1936).<br />
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To access these issues, just click <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/contexts_pages/girlie_pulps.html">here</a>.<br />
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Also available now at the <b>Pulp Magazines Project</b>, from Lauren Gibson (The University of West Florida), a history of George T. Delacorte's <a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/database_pages/i_confess.html">"I Confess"</a> (1922 - 1932).<br />
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And from Beau Collier (Darwination Scans), an illustrated history of the "girlie" pulps (1912 - 1946). Just see "<a href="http://www.pulpmags.org/contexts_pages/girlie_pulps/history.html">Birth of the Girlie Pulps</a>."<br />
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The <b>Pulp Magazines Project</b> wishes to thank <b>Pulpscans</b> and <b>Digital Pulp Preservation</b>.<br />
<br />The Pulp Magazines Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09857977868153158453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960402572193476502.post-7625045206175874982013-03-31T02:04:00.000-05:002013-03-31T02:06:22.846-05:00British SF magazines, 1937-46<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Tales of Wonder</span></i><span style="font-size: small;"> vol. 1, no. 1 (World's Work, Surrey; June 1937)</span></td></tr>
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