Well, I’ve been busy for awhile and hadn’t been able to post anything, but I’ll try to send something out more regular now, as there are always many interesting Pulp items being sold and bought. So, without further ado…. A fine Original Pulp painting by Rudolph Belarski (and) recently appeared on eBay, Aces (June 1930), and sold for $4,300.00, […]
Red Blooded Stories (November 1928) sold recently on eBay for $228.94. (2ND Issue of 5; transformed into TALES of DARING and DANGER for 4 issues) CLASSIC Cover of nude African warrior battles (what appears to be) Spanish Revolutionaries. Now how often did that happen? Cover by Robert A. Cameron Authors: “Honor of the Sea” by […]
SOLDIER STORIES – April 1929 recently sold on eBay for $429.24. This is the First Issue of just 4 of this Fiction House title. It would morph into DETECTIVE CLASSICS for the later 22 issues. “A COMPLETE GOOD COPY. TWO INCHES MISSING FROM SPINE AT BOTTOM. BACK COVER LIGHTLY SOILED. PIECE OUT OF PULP AT BOTTOM NEAR […]
FIVE-NOVELS MONTHLY – March 1931 recently sold on eBay for $175.93 38TH Issue of 206 Authors: “Black Terror” by John Murray Reynolds; “Feud of the Jay Bar Dee” by Arthur Hawthorne Carhart and here’s a bit of ‘magic” for you…FictionMags Index shows the story “Vicky’s Magic Ring” by J. Jackson Grady, but the cover shows […]
MYSTERY NOVELS and SHORT STORIES – Dec. 1939 sold recently on eBay for $153.50 Second issue of 6 of one of the better “Weird Menace” titles. Authors: “Maidens for Bondage” by Arthur J. Burks; “Hall of Crawling Desire” by G. T. Fleming-Roberts (and 2, 3, 4, 5); “Courtship of the Vampire” by Frank Belknap Long, […]
The AMERICAN AUTOPSY – Jan. 1932 (that’s right, that’s a real Pulp title) sold recently on eBay for $202.25 First and Only Issue put out by Harold Hersey (Headquarters Publishing) Authors: Anonymous, but probably all Hersey, doing fiction, non-fiction, and POETRY (Really !!!) “…in an unrestored G/VG with no missing pieces, no tape and […]
Here is very strange eBay sale, winning bid-wise. A very common issue in my opinion. TEXAS RANGERS – Aug. 1942 sold recently in November 2016 for the amazing price of $152.50 Bookery has nothing special written on it, listing it as “fairly common” and priced at $4.00 – $10.00 – $20.00. (I picked up a copy […]
From THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER MAGAZINE SECTION, FEBRUARY 28, 1932, here is a nearly 85 year old short story by Homer King Gordon that’s completely unknown (it’s not in the FictionMags Index so probably didn’t appear in the magazines (Homer King Gordon)). This was the only paper I found it listed in. “Silk and Birds of […]
“THE WOMAN’S PICTURE” By GORDON RAY YOUNG (Found in a 1919 newspaper but originally from The CAVALIER – March 22, 1913. Public Domain) An Unusual Episode of Life on the Border Copyright by Frank A. Munsey Co. I raised my hands. There was no word spoken. The revolver and behind it the masked face of […]
POPULAR MAGAZINE – Nov. 1903 (First Issue) sold recently on eBay for $214.27 First issue of 612 of Street & Smith’s 28 year run Pulp. Munsey had ARGOSY in 1896. In 1903 POPULAR became it’s first rival, and the second Pulp title (ALL-STORY MAGAZINE by Street & Smith began in 1905). Authors: “The Rockspur Eleven” […]
Here are 6 very rare FAME AND FORTUNE MAGAZINES and 6 FORTUNE MAGAZINE recent sales from eBay.As you can see from the prices the conditions of the Pulps doesn’t matter much. Bidding-wise collectors will take whatever condition is available as they are rare to find. FAME AND FORTUNE MAGAZINE – Second Dec. 1928 recently sold on eBay for […]
ALL-STORY MAGAZINE – Jan. 1905 (First Issue) recently sold on eBay for $392.00 First Issue of 444. The third Pulp title after ARGOSY and POPULAR MAGAZINE. Authors: “The Goal of a Million” (Part 1 of 5) by William Wallace Cook;“When Time Slipped a Cog” (Part 1 of 5) by W. Bert Foster (25 page sci-fi […]
POPULAR WESTERN – Nov. 1934 (First Issue) recently sold on eBay for $133.50 Authors: “The Sheriff of Painted Post” (The FIRST app. “Sheriff Blue Steele” of at least 102) by Tom Gunn (pseudonym of Syl MacDowell);“The Devil’s Double” by Herbert A. Woodbury; Clee Woods; Forbes Parkhill; Wilton West “HIGH GRADE ! in an unrestored complete […]
SMASHING NOVELS MAGAZINE – July 1936 recently sold on eBay for $87.76 Authors: “The Paper Tiger” by Arthur J. Burks; “Wild Horse Valley” by Alan M. Emley (pseudonym of Alan Lemay); “The Phantom of Forgotten River” by W. Ryerson Johnson; “The Eighteenth Leap” by Vingie E. Roe (reprinted from EVERYBODY’S MAGAZINE – March 1921) “…in […]
TALES OF MAGIC and MYSTERY – Jan. 1928 sold recently on eBay for $84.00 “…the January 1928 (vol. 1, no. 2) issue of the rare pulp, “Tales of Magic and Mystery”, which was a short-lived competitor to “Weird Tales”. The magazine was edited by Walter Gibson, future author of “The Shadow,” and he wrote […]
FLYING STORIES – Oct. 1929 sold recently on eBay for $34.04 “Flying Stories” was a rare bedsheet pulp published by MacFadden, running for 20 issues between 1928 and 1930. This… is for the October 1929 issue. Authors include Frederick Nebel (with a serial installment of “The Scourge of the South Sea Skies”) and Laurence Donovan. […]
The CONFESSIONS OF A STOOL PIGEON (By One of Them) sold recently on eBay for $263.89 “The Confessions of a Stool Pigeon, by One of Them, 1931. Pyramid Publishing of Cincinnati turned out this gem at the height of the dees-dem-dose era. It’s actually a full-length gangster novel, printed anonymously in the oversized “bedsheet” pulp […]
A Far West Stories and Far West Romances set of 2 magazines recently sold on eBay for $221.39 FAR WEST STORIES – Oct. 1931 (Issue 75 of 84) Authors: All but one 9 page story (?) are reprints from the early 1921-1925 WESTERN STORY MAGAZINE. And I would question that one story because it’s strange […]
Westland Love Magazine – March 1934 recently sold on eBay for $174.26 3RD Issue of 5. Authors: Howard E. Morgan, Myrtle Juliette Corey; H. Ralph Goller (there’s a Ralph Goller who had only one other story in the equally Rare ZOOM – Aug./Sept. 1931); Clyde Wilson (this is either one of the 2 Clyde Wilson’s […]
Here are 3 recent eBay sales of PIRATE STORIES plus a little extra… PIRATE STORIES – Nov. 1934 sold for $35.00 First Issue of 6. Cover by Sidney Rosenberg Authors: “Pirate Guns” by F. V. W. Mason; “Scourge of the Main” by James Perley Hughes “..a Gernsback publication. These are some of the premiere collectibles […]
2 copies of BRIEF STORIES – Dec. 1925 sold recently on eBay for $132.49 and $318.13 ! Authors: “A Desert “Sheek” ” by Erle Stanley Gardner (at this time Gardner was doing the ‘Speed Dash – “The Human Fly” ‘ series over at TOP-NOTCH MAGAZINE; “In Old Port Royal: V – Not Always to the […]
Here are two recent eBay sales of ALL STAR DETECTIVE: ALL STAR DETECTIVE STORIES – Feb. 1931 recently sold for $25.87 Authors: “Coffins for Six !” by Erle Stanley Gardner; “The Death Feast” by H. H. Matteson; “The Ghost Canoe” by Leslie McFarlane No description given “This magazine is from my Uncle’s estate. It […]
POPULAR FICTION MAGAZINE – Nov. 1931 recently sold on eBay for “Buy It Now” of $60.00 First Issue as this title. It had previously been the scarce MAN STORIES, and after POPULAR FICTION, the equally scarce NICKEL DETECTIVE MAGAZINE with 6 issues, finally ending up as STRANGE DETECTIVE STORIES with 4 issues. Authors: “The Flaming […]
EXCITING DETECTIVE – Fall 1940 (First Issue) recently sold on eBay for $41.00 This cover has everything going for it: Man in Electric Chair with black hood over his face; Red dressed babe trying to unstrap him as another guy blast away with his gun protecting them; a Black Robed, Masked, Pale faced fiend climbing down […]
Here is a completely unknown Pulp I just found listed, that’s NOT on GALACTIC CENTRAL or The FictionMags Index. The phrase “…a seven day dose of atomic power” probable places the date after August 1945, the publics first knowledge of the Atom Bomb drop. LADIES OF THE UNDERWORLD – June #1 19?? 25¢ Pulp Style […]
NEW STORY MAGAZINE – Sept. 1912 recently sold on eBay for $214.27 Authors: The 41 page story “Checkmate by Wireless” by Gilbert Patten, is nice to see because Patten’s not using his more famous ‘Burt Standish’ tag-line (there is the 9 page “The White Hope Umpire” also as by Gilbert Patten); 1ST ”Jetts Brothers (or […]
DETECTIVE BOOK MAGAZINE – Summer 1943 sold on eBay in December for $35.80 Authors: “Drawn Conclusion” is a 101 page story by Willetta A. Barber and R. F. Schabelitz who never had another story appear in the Pulp. It appears from the FictionMags index entre to have appeared in book form from Doubleday 1942; […]
TIP TOP SEMI-MONTHLY – March 25, 1915 Second issue sold for just $36.00 and the April 10, 1915 Third issue sold for the same. March 25, 1915 “VERY NICE. Except 2″ SPLIT AT BOTTOM… easy to re-glue. NICE BACK COVER AND GREAT PAGES !”; April 10, 1915 “NICE. Except 3″ SPLIT AT BOTTOM… easy to re-glue. […]
Here are 10 recent sales of SEA STORIES MAGAZINE from eBay: SEA STORIES MAGAZINE – Aug. 5. 1923 sold for $125.00 “Buy It Now” Authors: “Mystery” by C. S. Montanye; “A Matter of Viewpoint” by Captain A. E. Dingle (Reprinted from PEOPLE’S – Feb. 1916); “The Tyranny of Fear” by Morgan Robertson (Reprinted from The POPULAR […]
So what does intrepid top crime reporter of the Clarion and cohort of The Phantom, Steve Hudson, read when he’s not getting knocked around like some second rate Tonto or Robin, the Boy Wonder ? Well, directly from The PHANTOM DETECTIVE – Oct. 1945 After Steve got knocked around, again, with brass knuckles at the […]
KA-ZAR – Oct. 1936, Jan. 1937 and June 1937 Set sold recently on eBay for $550.00 “Buy It Now” “VERY NICE OVERALL SHAPE. HIGHER GRADE SET…. NO pieces missing, no tape on covers although small piece inside cover. Full overhang! Complete bold spine! EXCEPTIONAL page quality. Nice back cover with usual edge wear/tears. Much better […]
“THE ROTTING LOG” by Johnston McCulley (The PACIFIC MONTHLY – May 1906) Is this Johnston McCulley’s very FIRST published story ? FictionMags Index list “The Song of the Sand” in The RED BOOK MAGAZINE – Oct. 1906 as the earliest listed there. This May issue is even earlier. ENJOY PULPS – David Lee Smith
For some recent Pulp sales we follow the gun-powder smell over to BLACK MASK and see ten arresting prices. If it wasn’t stated before, the quotation marks on the condition were the dealers description of issue in question. Sometimes they only state “Good shape” or “As shown in pics,” which usually isn’t much to go on, […]
“Calling RICHARD WENTWORTH – Grow a Back-Bone – Stat !!!” (1932) Jamaica NY Long Island Daily Press 1932 THE POT of GOLD by Eudora Ramsay Richardson Here’s a SPIDER/RICHARD WENTWORTH story pre-First SPIDER – Oct.1933 !!! To make it more Pulp related feminist, Eudora Ramsay Richardson (1891-1973) wrote two stories for WEIRD TALES: March 1924 […]
Hello all Pulp Magazine Collectors, Readers, Buyers, etc… you know who you are. My introduction to Pulp Magazines: When comics priced me out of their range the value/fun just wasn’t there for continuing collecting new issues. I quit at $1.50 or so (1988 and 10,000 plus issues). New issues today go for around $2.00 – […]
