I’ve been slowly making my way through the several Loeb Classical Library volumes that contain the historical work Roman Antiquities, by the first-century B.C. author Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and I recently finished up the fifth volume, covering Books 8 and 9 (through section 9.24). The volume is largely devoted to the career of, and the …
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Louis L’Amour pens a contemporary mystery-thriller, albeit still in a western setting, with The Broken Gun, as an author interested in what happened to two brothers who had brought a herd of cattle west and then disappeared finds himself the target of those who know what happened and themselves have something to hide. Though he …
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Back in 2021, role-playing games publisher Goodman Games launched a new magazine focusing on sword and sorcery, a well-made and well-illustrated journal whose production values were very high, and whose contents were a good match for that quality. I recently received the latest issue, No. 5, and promptly read it this past week. I’m pleased …
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R.A.J. Walling’s sleuth Mr. Tolefree is called in by a man dealing with an eccentric family to buy a long-held antique, but not to investigate anything to do with the purchase, but rather to figure out the strange goings-on the buyer experienced while staying at the family home. Mr. Tolefree ends up a guest there …
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The third issue of Argosy All-Story Weekly for the year 1926 included the first installment of a new serial, Wild Paradise, by Kenneth Perkins; it’s a western adventure concerned with an Arabian stallion. Other serials in the issue include The Vanishing Professor (Part 2 of 4), There Goes the Bride (Part 4 of 5), and …
Read the full post →“<em>Argosy All-Story Weekly</em>, January 16, 1926”
My pulp magazine focus this year is on Argosy All-Story Weekly in 1926, ninety-five years ago. My aim is to read all the issues I possess (currently around 18) in the week that corresponds to the week the issue would have been available, bearing in mind that the date on pulp magazines was the date …
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The long-running series of volumes edited by Lawrence Lariar and collecting cartoons that appeared in various magazines throughout the year, which began in the midst of World War II, was nearing its end with this edition. The book contains the usual mix of topical cartoons and those with more timeless appeal; a few will be …
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