spicy history stories Archives

William D'Alton Mann and the Town Topics scandal. Shreveport Times, 1928.
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[...]