The Pulpster [#30, August 2021, Published for Pulpfest 2021] ed. William Lampkin, pub. Mike Chomko ($12.00, 60pp, magazine, cover by Graves Gladney; The Shadow June 1, 1940)) 1 • Contents Page 2 • From the Editor • William Lampkin • ed 2 • Contributors • bg 4 • From the Publisher • Michael Chomko • ed 5 • When Pulp Fandom Leapt into the Future • William Lampkin • ar 9 • Something for ‘Everybody’s’ • Sai Shankar • ar 13 • Tough as a Boot; Kind as Mrs. Claus [Dorothy McIlwraith] • Tony • ar 14 • Everybody Loves a Hero • Dorothy McIlwraith • ar; The Writer 1949 17 • Mostly Personal • Margaret A. Bartlett • ar; The Author & Journalist September 1948 18 • Alpha and Omega for the Dark Avenger [The Shadow] • Craig McDonald • ar 20 • The Shadow’s First Voice—and Face • David Saunders • ar 22 • The Secrets of the Girasol Ring • Will Murray • ar 27 • A Million Words a Year for 10 Straight Years • Walter B. Gibson • ar; a version of this article originally appeared in Writer’s Digest March 1941 31 • In the Shadow of Jerome Rozen • Al Tonik • iv 31 • Graves Gladney Speaks His Mind • Terry Klasek and Kenn Thomas • iv; Whizzard #4 & 5, Summer 1974 & January 1975 41 • Selling Glamour for a Dime • Thomas H. Uzzell • ar; Scribner’s Magazine April 1938 47 • Cave: Beginning, Middle, and End • Darrell Schweitzer • iv; Cemetery Dance #29, Oct. 1998 60 • Final Chapters • Tony Davis • ob
Contents formatted for inclusion in Phil Stephensen-Payne’s Galatic Central reference website. FictionMags Index Family Item Types & Other Abbreviations key.
AnLab Reader’s Award Finalists posted on Analog SF. (Hat tip to Mary Burgess.)
Catherine Wells, who has a story in the March/April 2020 issue of Analog called “Respite,” writes about arrogance on the magazine’s blog.
Matthew Hughes gives insights into “Air of the Overworld” in the current issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
Gideon Marcus declares F&SF March 1965 “is a dud” at Galactic Journey.
John Floyd discusses his story “Crow’s Nest” from Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (Jan/Feb 2020) at SleuthSayers.
Mystery Scene magazine No. 163 is out. Full contents list, with links to order a single issue or subscription information here.
Have something to share about a Weird Tales, H. P. Lovecraft,Margaret Brundage, or anyone or anything else related to “The Unique Magazine?” Or something about vintage paperbacks and pulps? Bill Lampkin, the editor of the award-winning PulpFest program book, The Pulpster, would like to hear from you. Check out the post, “The Pulpster Wants You in 2020!” on the PulpFest website.
Front and back cover of bare•bones No. 1 Winter 2020
The reboot of bare•bones No. 1 (Winter 2020), covering vintage, forgotten and overlooked horror/mystery/sci-fi/western/weird films, paperbacks, comics, pulp fiction, and video, arrived this week.
Contents Page Peter Enfantino, John Scoleri: Dueling Editorials Thomas Deja “An Introduction to Ed Noon—The Worst Detective Ever Created” Matthew R. Bradley “The Martian Chronicles on Screen” Thomas W. Flynn, Jr. “The Spaghetti Western/Martial Arts Mash-Ups of the 1970s” John Scoleri “Born of I Am Legend” Gilbert Colon “Book Two of Lin Carter’s ‘People of the Dragon’ Saga” Peter Enfantino “Digging into Crime Digests” John Scoleri “Christian Stavrakis: The bare•bones Interview” J. Charles Burwell “A Survey of Key Hardboiled/Noir Anthologies” Peter Enfantino “Sleaze Alley” John Scoleri “What’s on the Tube: January 1–7, 1972” David J. Schow “R&D” About the Contributors
Editors: Peter Enfantino, John Scoleri Layout: John Scoleri 6” x 9” 102 pages Print $9.95
Bonnie Hearn Hill, whose “Feliz Navidead” appeared in the Jan/Feb 2020 issue of EQMM, discusses the books that helped shape her writing at Something is Going to Happen.
Readin’ ’n Writin’ Rick McCollum was busy (well, he’s always busy) this week working on the cover of the next Pulp Modern. He posted the photo of his WIP on his Facebook page. The image is based on a scene from one of the yet-to-be-announced stories.
The move to color for the print edition of The Digest Enthusiast has garnered mostly positive feedback, but I have heard a couple of concerns about the higher price. One reader suggested offering both a color and black-and-white version. If anyone cares to weigh-in please send an email or leave a comment on the Larque Press Facebook page.
Read the second part of Brett Halliday’s serialized Weep for a Blond Corpse in the April 1957 issue of Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine this week. Although the issue includes a nice collection of novelets by Frank Ward and Richard Deming; short stories by Lawrence Treat, Walt Sheldon, C.L. Sweeney, Jr., William R. Cox, and Arthur Feldman; and part two of Halliday’s novel, it wasn’t quite as good at the previous issue. My favorites were Deming’s creepy crime novelet, Sweeney, Jr.’s “Soft, White Body,” and Treat’s humorous yarn. I also enjoyed Halliday’s prose and Cox’s trouble with gangsters.
From the Vault A correction to last week’s True Crime Detective stats. The Winter 1953 issue is incorrectly labeled as Vol. 2 No. 5 inside. It is actually Vol. 3 No. 1, as labeled correctly on its spine. Now onto this week’s digest:
True Crime Detective Vol. 3 No. 2 Spring 1953 Contents Page Walter Wanger “What I Found in Jail” Joseph A. Shay as told to Robert P. Wilmot “A Rake’s Progress” Kurt Singer “The Man Who Sank the Royal Oak” Anthony Boucher “Do You Believe . . . ?” A department of criminous mythology Stuart Palmer “Death and the Farmer’s Daughter” F. Tennyson Jesse “The Importance of Spelling” A.P. Herbert “Rex v. Puddle: Blackmail” Verdict of Two: a book review department by the Editors Anthony Boucher “The Tragedy of Samuel Savile Kent” “The Truth About Lizzie Borden” Stewart H. Holbrook “Death and Times of a Prophet” Richard Brennan “The Case of the Talking Reindeer”
Publisher: Lawrence E. Spivak Editors: Anthony Boucher, J. Francis McComas General Manager: Joseph W. Ferman Managing Editor: Robert P. Mills Advisory Editor: Charles Angoff Consulting Editor: Edward D. Radin Art Director: George Salter Cover: Dirone Photography from “The Tragedy of Samuel Savile Kent” 5.5” x 7.75” 128 pages 35¢
Bookseller Mike Chomko is a major supporter of the pulp and digest magazine community. He serves on the PulpFest convention committee and publishes The Pulpster magazine for that annual show in Pittsburgh.
Contents
William Lampkin: From the Editor
Contributors Michael Chomko: From the Publisher William Lampkin “Fatty’s Friend” (Rosco “Fatty” Arbuckle) Tom Krabacher “Mr. Hoffman’s Wartime ‘Adventure’” (Arthur Hoffman)
Arthur Sullivant Hoffman “That Earlier American Legion” George Evans & Michael Chomko “With ‘Wings’ I Soared” Philip José Farmer “A Fimbulwinter Introduction” Joe R. Lansdale “The Man with the Electric Brain” Irene Cumming Kleeberg “A Peek Inside Popular Publications” David W. Smith “The Original Suicide Squad” Tony Davis: Final Chapters
The Pulpster No. 27
Editor:William Lampkin
Assistant Editor: Peter Chomko
Publisher: Mike Chomko
8.5” x 11” 48 pages
A few copies of the The Pulpster are still available within the U.S.:
No. 26 and 27 $13.00 each postage-paid or order both for $24.00 postage-paid
Email Mike Chomko for further ordering instructions.
