Pulp Magazines
Our selection of pulp magazines with the exception of Weird Tales which has it's own catalog listing.
AMAZING STORIES.
Jamaica, NY: Radio-Science Publications, Inc., 1931. Large octavo, single issue, cover by Leo Morey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. Stories by Lloyd A. Eshach and Otis Adelbert Kline.
AMAZING STORIES.
New York, NY: Teck Publishing Corporation, 1931. Large octavo, single issue, cover by Leo Morey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. Stories by David H. Keller, Jack Williamson and others.
ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER SCIENCE.
New York: Publishers' Fiscal Corporation, 1930. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Cover painting by H.W. Wesso. Features stories by David R. Sparks, Harl Vincent and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1934. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Cover painting by Howard V. Brown. Feature novel is The Skylark of Valeron by "Doc" Smith (part 1), other stories by Nat Schachner, Frank Belknap Long, Jack Williamson (The Legion of Space p. 5) and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1934. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Cover painting by Howard V. Brown. Feature novel is The Skylark of Valeron by "Doc" Smith (part 1), other stories by Nat Schachner, Frank Belknap Long, Jack Williamson (The Legion of Space p. 5) and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: The Clayton Magazines, Inc., 1931. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Cover painting by H.W. Wesso. Features stories by Jack Williamson, Nat Schachner, Ray Cummings and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: The Clayton Magazines, Inc., 1931. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Cover painting by H.W. Wesso. Features stories by Arthur J. Burks, R.F. Starzl and Ray Cummings. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1935. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Cover painting by Howard V. Brown. Stories by Jack Williamson, Donald Wandrei, C.L. Moore, Frank B. Long, and John Taine and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
BLACK MASK.
Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc., 1947. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Manhattan Horse Opera" by John D. MacDonald.
DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY.
New York: The Red Star News Company, May, 1936. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Features "Noon Street Nemesis" by Raymond Chandler.
DIME DETECTIVE MAGAZINE.
Chicago: Popular Publications, 1939. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Features the Raymond Chandler story, "Pearls are a Nuisance". Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 168-170.
COMPLETE DETECTIVE NOVEL MAGAZINE.
New York, NY: Novel Magazine Corporation, 1928. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine.
G-8 and HIS BATTLE ACES.
Chicago, IL: Popular Publications, Inc., 1935. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Cover novel "The Sword Staffel" by Robert J. Hogan. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 253-255.
NEW DETECTIVE MAGAZINE.
Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc., 1947. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. W.T. Ballard, Bruno Fischer, and others. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 373-374.
OPERATOR #5.
Chicago, IL: Popular Publications, Inc., 1936. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Cover novel "America's Plague Battalions," by Curtis Steele (pseudonym) The 4th installment of the ongoing Purple Empire story. A well regarded hero pulp with strong science fictional elements combined with spy fiction. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 402-405. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 448-451.
OPERATOR #5.
Chicago, IL: Popular Publications, Inc., 1935. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Cover novel "Scourge of the Invisible Death," by Curtis Steele (pseudonym). Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 402-405. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 448-451.
OPERATOR #5.
Chicago, IL: Popular Publications, Inc., 1936. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Cover novel "The Bloody Forty-five Days," by Curtis Steele (pseudonym). A well regarded hero pulp with strong science fictional elements combined with spy fiction. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 402-405. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 448-451.
POPULAR DETECTIVE.
New York: Better Publications, Inc., 1945. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Murder Nightmare" by Norman A. Daniels. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 422-423.
PRIVATE DETECTIVE STORIES.
New York: Trojan Publishing Corp. 1946. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes a Robert Leslie Bellem story.
PRIVATE DETECTIVE STORIES.
New York: Trojan Publishing Corp. 1946. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Death is My Shadow" by Day Keene.
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1950. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Alfred Coppel, Clyde Beck, Stanley Mullen, Ray Bradbury ("Death-By-Rain") and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.
STREET & SMITH'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1942. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Mark Harper, Alan Hathaway, Jack Storm and others.
THE ILLUSTRATED DETECTIVE MAGAZINE.
Jamaica, NY: Tower Magazine Incorporated, 1929. Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. "Murder House" by Will Levinrew. Also a Craig Kennedy story by Arthur B. Reeve. A large format, densely illustrated, bedsheet-sized pulp. "The fiction emphasized the woman's point of view, was often narrated by a woman, and featured as many feminine as masculine detectives. In the rear of the magazine flowered all the usual departments of a more conventional woman's publication ... That this magazine would publish much fiction of interest seems improbable. But without effort, it contrived to be superb. ILLUSTRATED DETECTIVE selected outstanding writers who had made their mark in the 1920s and mingled these with rising writers of the 1930s. Over the years, the magazine would publish work by top names in the mystery field, including Ellery Queen, Stuart Palmer, Sax Rohmer, Arnold Kummer, Hulbert Footner, Vincent Starrett and H. Bedford-Jones. The fiction was polished, often strongly compressed, and good enough for a large amount of it to appear later between book covers. The magazine appeared monthly for almost six years, sixty-nine issues, at ten cents a copy. After three years, the title was changed to THE MYSTERY MAGAZINE ... Covers were tasteful, bright, and uneventful, relying heavily on the faces of self-confident women. Inside was an astonishing amount of material: eight to ten pieces of fiction, four or more crime-fact articles, and up to ten continuing departments (about half of these slanted directly toward women). When the magazine was at its peak in the early 1930s, it offered material carefully calculated to appeal to most tastes and both sexes ... MYSTERY was as meticulously planned as an orchestral score. Its careful variations played upon every shade of reader interest. It was consciously polished, self-consciously feminine. A curious pared sound rang in its fiction, as if the stories had been edited with a chain saw, but the prose flashed with a bright nickel glitter. Slick the magazine may have been, and often over illustrated, but it was also considerably interesting and, for years, excellent." - Cook, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines, pp. [287]-90.
MYSTERY MAGAZINE: THE ILLUSTRATED DETECTIVE MAGAZINE [COVER TITLE].
Chicago, IL: Tower Magazines, Inc., 1934. Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Fiction by George Harmon Coxe, Guy Endore, Hulbert Footner and others. A large format, densely illustrated, bedsheet-sized pulp. "The fiction emphasized the woman's point of view, was often narrated by a woman, and featured as many feminine as masculine detectives. In the rear of the magazine flowered all the usual departments of a more conventional woman's publication ... That this magazine would publish much fiction of interest seems improbable. But without effort, it contrived to be superb. ILLUSTRATED DETECTIVE selected outstanding writers who had made their mark in the 1920s and mingled these with rising writers of the 1930s. Over the years, the magazine would publish work by top names in the mystery field, including Ellery Queen, Stuart Palmer, Sax Rohmer, Arnold Kummer, Hulbert Footner, Vincent Starrett and H. Bedford-Jones. The fiction was polished, often strongly compressed, and good enough for a large amount of it to appear later between book covers. The magazine appeared monthly for almost six years, sixty-nine issues, at ten cents a copy. After three years, the title was changed to THE MYSTERY MAGAZINE ... Covers were tasteful, bright, and uneventful, relying heavily on the faces of self-confident women. Inside was an astonishing amount of material: eight to ten pieces of fiction, four or more crime-fact articles, and up to ten continuing departments (about half of these slanted directly toward women). When the magazine was at its peak in the early 1930s, it offered material carefully calculated to appeal to most tastes and both sexes ... MYSTERY was as meticulously planned as an orchestral score. Its careful variations played upon every shade of reader interest. It was consciously polished, self-consciously feminine. A curious pared sound rang in its fiction, as if the stories had been edited with a chain saw, but the prose flashed with a bright nickel glitter. Slick the magazine may have been, and often over illustrated, but it was also considerably interesting and, for years, excellent." - Cook, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines, pp. [287]-90.
MYSTERY MAGAZINE: THE ILLUSTRATED DETECTIVE MAGAZINE [COVER TITLE].
Dunellen, N.J. Tower Magazines, Inc., 1933. Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. "The Murder Club" by H. Bedford Jones. Also fiction by Herman Landon, Barry Perowne and others. A large format, densely illustrated, bedsheet-sized pulp. "The fiction emphasized the woman's point of view, was often narrated by a woman, and featured as many feminine as masculine detectives. In the rear of the magazine flowered all the usual departments of a more conventional woman's publication ... That this magazine would publish much fiction of interest seems improbable. But without effort, it contrived to be superb. ILLUSTRATED DETECTIVE selected outstanding writers who had made their mark in the 1920s and mingled these with rising writers of the 1930s. Over the years, the magazine would publish work by top names in the mystery field, including Ellery Queen, Stuart Palmer, Sax Rohmer, Arnold Kummer, Hulbert Footner, Vincent Starrett and H. Bedford-Jones. The fiction was polished, often strongly compressed, and good enough for a large amount of it to appear later between book covers. The magazine appeared monthly for almost six years, sixty-nine issues, at ten cents a copy. After three years, the title was changed to THE MYSTERY MAGAZINE ... Covers were tasteful, bright, and uneventful, relying heavily on the faces of self-confident women. Inside was an astonishing amount of material: eight to ten pieces of fiction, four or more crime-fact articles, and up to ten continuing departments (about half of these slanted directly toward women). When the magazine was at its peak in the early 1930s, it offered material carefully calculated to appeal to most tastes and both sexes ... MYSTERY was as meticulously planned as an orchestral score. Its careful variations played upon every shade of reader interest. It was consciously polished, self-consciously feminine. A curious pared sound rang in its fiction, as if the stories had been edited with a chain saw, but the prose flashed with a bright nickel glitter. Slick the magazine may have been, and often over illustrated, but it was also considerably interesting and, for years, excellent." - Cook, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines, pp. [287]-90.