pulps Archives

The original idea was to dig into the little-documented origins of Sun Publications, best remembered for its tenure in publishing 10 Story Book and the short-lived historical pulp Golden Fleece.  But that led to an even more obscure and fascinating tale of the Chicago businessmen who originally financed 10 Story Book, and how that resulted[...]

The article Horror on the Newsstands by Bruce Henry in the April 1938 issue of the American Mercury appears to be the first known usage of the term shudder pulp, at least by inference.  Henry begins the article by staking out the territory he's going to be talking about here, at a time when horror pulps[...]

Unfortunately, some of these players are unidentified, but based current research, Ridgway is most likely back row center or back row, second from left. Welcome to Spicy History Stories #3, the third installment of a weekly column about pulp magazine history that we're launching to coincide with the debut of Heritage Auction's weekly pulp magazine auctions.  Unlike[...]

Warner's Warner Publications.  Mencken and George Jean Nathan edited Smart Set 1914-1923 and also helped escalate this nascent spicy magazine war, initially by launching Parisienne into this same market space in 1915. Parisienne (Warner Publishing), Snappy Stories (New Fiction Publishing Co) Welcome to Spicy History Stories #2, the second installment of a weekly column about pulp magazine history that we're[...]

Paul.  One of the most famous pulps ever published, this issue has become perhaps the best-known cover of the pulp era because it's an image that is often used to represent the past's vision of the future.  This sale puts this issue in rare air for pulps, joining a tiny handful of publicly-known six-figure pulp[...]

Shreveport Times, 1928. Welcome to Spicy History Stories #1, the first installment of a weekly column about pulp magazine history that we're launching to coincide with the debut of Heritage Auction's weekly pulp magazine auctions.  Unlike other auction-centric posts we've done here, this column is not necessarily designed to be closely tied to any particular items[...]

While many pulp collectors have referred to this book as the "Action Comics #1 of pulps", that moniker actually does a disservice to the book's incredible influence, rarity, and value Bookery's describes it as "RARE", noting that there are "probably fewer than 20 existing copies" and that it is "currently the single most valuable pulp magazine". This[...]

The Fiction House story can't be told without distribution pioneer, anti-Prohibition activist, and champion swimmer John W. Glenister.

Collectors Summit is an event geared towards serious collectors of Golden Age to Bronze Age comic books, pulp magazines, original artwork.

Bookery's Guide to Pulps Second Edition VG value = $9,000; VF value = $25,000. The debut issue of historic long-running pulp magazine The Shadow (April, 1931) in FN- condition has just sold for $156,000 at Heritage Auctions, a record price for the issue in any grade.  The character was fleshed out and transformed into an[...]

Even if you're unfamiliar with pulp fiction, chances are excellent that you've seen the cover of Amazing Stories volume 3 number 5, cover-dated August 1928.  It has become perhaps the most famous cover of the pulp era because it's the image that is often used to represent the past's vision of the future.  Looking beyond[...]

There's a Fine-condition copy of that issue, Science & Invention August 1923 which cover-features the story Man from the Atom in this week's Amazing Pulps and Collectibles Auction featuring the Joe Rainone Collection at Heritage Auctions.  This auction lot also includes a copy of Science & Invention February 1922. LEFT: Science and Invention August 1923 "Man from[...]

Roswell, New Mexico became the center of the UFO Craze, but a pulp editor who was close friends with two important DC Comics editors played a key role.