Last year, I kicked off an effort to increase my reading of old pulp magazines, with a particular focus on those issues celebrating their centenary (i.e., issues from 1923). I started the focused project with Volume 1, Issue 1 of Weird Tales, as that famed magazine began publication in early 1923, and all issues from …
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I finished four books during this week, as well as one pulp magazine issue. Books The Hammer of Thor, by Carter Brown. Police Lieutenant Al Wheeler probes a disappearance and a jewel robbery, though soon the case expands to include embezzlement and murder. Interlocking alibis of the chief suspects set Wheeler up for a courtroom …
I finished two books during this week, as well as one volume of a multi-volume work and two pulp magazine issues. Books All Those in Favor, by H. Martin — a 1969 collection of business-related cartoons published by the American Management Association, this small volume reprints items that first appeared in several journals, including three …
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One hundred years ago this week, the magazine Weird Tales debuted. The “Unique” magazine is perhaps the most famous of the pulps to readers today thanks to its publishing of horror by H. P. Lovecraft and Conan tales by Robert E. Howard, but it encompassed many more authors and works during its three-decade run. I’m …
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The year 2023 is off to a pretty good start on the reading front, as I finished 6 books through January 7: The Lone Rider (I Must Ride Alone), by Jackson Gregory — First published in 1940, though I read the Popular Library paperback whose cover is shown above. This is a reasonably effective western …
