At long last, the wait is nearly over. The sequel to 2015’s Them That Lives By Their Guns: The Collected Hard-Boiled Stories of Race Williams, Volume 1 is now available for preorder on Amazon. Written by Carroll John Daly, and with an introduction by Brooks E. Hefner and cover photo by Mark Krajnak, this book […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: www.altuspress.com pr@altuspress.com Featuring NEW stories by Frederick Nebel, Paul Bishop, and Kimberly B. Richardson October 6, 2016 — Three of the most historic pulp fiction magazines of the Twentieth Century are set to return to magazine format. This November, Altus Press will relaunch full-length magazines of Argosy, Black Mask, and Famous Fantastic […]
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 […]
Altus Press is proud to offer its newest publications and products: The Complete Adventures of The Griffon Volume 3 by Arch Whitehouse Fighting the aerial forces of evil for nearly ten years in the pages of Flying Aces, Kerry Keen aka The Griffon finally returns to print! This edition continues the complete reprinting of the […]
Let’s continue this week with the wonderful American Science Fiction Magazine series published in Australia by the Malian Press. These Australian published pamphlets are a wonderful way for this wallet-stricken collector to purchase and read classic, quality pulp fiction stories at a fraction of the cost against what the original pulp magazine, while still retaining […]
September 20, 2016—Altus Press today announces Series 3 of its popular Dime Detective Library. Running for twenty years, Popular Publications’ Dime Detective Magazine published thousands of high-quality hard-boiled stories by hundreds of authors, eventually becoming the most respected detective pulp magazine behind Black Mask. However, Dime Detective excelled at introducing long-running series characters, something Black […]
Altus Press is proud to offer its newest publications and products: The Complete Adventures of the Moon Man, Volume 2: 1934 by Frederick C. Davis, introduction by Andrew Salmon One of the strangest pulp heroes is finally available from Altus Press! Created by pulp fiction legend Frederick C. Davis for the pages of the ultra-rare title, […]
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 […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Altus Press is expanding its Wild Adventures line of classic pulp fiction characters starring in new exploits, which last year added the Wild Adventures of Tarzan to the ongoing Wild Adventures of Doc Savage licensed series. Our September release is the first volume in the Wild Adventures of Pat Savage. Move over, […]
Time for another batch of new releases from Altus Press, your source for the best pulp publications available. Here is what’s available as of this week: Hazzard: The Complete Series by Frederick C. Davis The Fight Against the lawless! Mark Hazzard, red-headed, fiery-tempered District Attorney of King’s County was a man of the Law, but when the […]
If you’re an ERB fan, Altus Press wanted you to know about a fantastic book edited by a friend of ours, Jim Gerlach: Illustrated Bibliography of the Works of Edgar Rice Burroughs Released ERB Inc. publishes the “definitive bibliography” by Dr. Robert B. Zeuschner Tarzana, CA: Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc. today announced the release of […]
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 […]
Time for another batch of new releases from Altus Press, your source for the best pulp publications available. Here is what’s available as of this week: Super-Detective Jim Anthony: The Complete Series Volume 3 by Victor Rousseau The complete reprinting of the greatest of the Doc Savage pastiches continues! Volume Three of contains the next […]
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 […]
We’re back from the always-enjoyable Pulpfest convention, and it was fantastic to meet so many fans of Altus Press! As always, we premiere a number of new releases exclusively with Mike Chomko, Books, at Pulpfest. The convention has come and gone, and now it’s time to make them available everywhere else. Here’s the first batch: […]
Let’s dial back to the October 1954 issue of American Science Fiction Magazine, published in Australia by the Malian Press. There isn’t a “loser” tale in this issue. The cover is illustrated by the usually imaginative Stanley Pitt, but this cover is all straight lines, and lacks any real evidence of his capabilities. The cover […]
Altus Press is pleased to announce its summer 2016 releases, all of which will premiere at Pulpfest. They’ll be available exclusively at the Mike Chomko, Books, table. Our books typically sell out quickly at the pulp shows, so please contact Mike to reserve your copies. The Mysterious Wu Fang #1: The Case of the Six […]
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 […]
The 37th issue in the American Science Fiction Magazine pamphlet-format pulp reprint series, published in Australia by the Malian Press, features original cover art by Stanley Pitt. If not for the original illustrations, it’s hard to fathom just how desirable these magazines would be to collectors…. Originally printed in Science Fiction Quarterly (May 1954) “The […]
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 […]
“As You Were” by Henry Kuttner debuted in Thrilling Wonder Stories (August 1950) and was reprinted (unnumbered, as the 38th title) in the American Science Fiction Magazine series, published by the Malian Press, circa June 1955. As with all titles in this series, it features original cover art by renowned Australia illustrator Stanley Pitt. No […]
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 – […]
by Morgan Wallace Let us continue with our ongoing thread on Australia’s American Science Fiction Magazine pulp reprint series, as published by the Malian Press, in the 1950s. As always, each cover is gorgeously illustrated by Stanley Pitt. Our cover feature is “The Irrationals” by Milton Lesser. The story reminds me of the movie version […]
From now until March 31—and only on www.altuspress.com—use promo code easter20 at checkout to get 20% off our already-discounted prices!* We already have free shipping on softcovers, so now’s the time to stock up on Altus Press releases. But hurry: this promo code will expire after March 31! *This promo code will only work on […]
by Morgan Wallace The feature story in this issue of the Australian published American Science Fiction Magazine series is “Common Time” by James Blish. Admittedly a fine science fiction yarn, but bogged down when Blish gets a wee bit technical. I prefer my science fiction to be more escapist than scientifically instructive. Next novelette inside […]
Highlights Include a Never-Before-Reprinted Max Brand Novel Altus Press has been busy with a number of significant new pulp fiction reprint collections—many of which have never before been reprinted. Headlined by Series 2 of our popular Argosy Library series which contains stories by authors such as Max Brand, Norbert Davis, Loring Brent, Ralph Milne Farley, […]
Press release—FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Ultimate Rumble in the Jungle: Altus Press to Release King Kong Vs. Tarzan In 1935, King Kong’s creator, Merian C. Cooper, was seeking a vehicle by which to keep his greatest creation alive. Kong was dead. Skull Island had sunk at the end of Son of Kong. But Cooper was undeterred. […]
by Morgan Wallace Hello. I’ve been invited to write pulp-relevant articles and share them with an audience whom will readily appreciate the literature, and receive a broader scope of exposure. After some vacillating, I decided to give this adventure a try, and delved into my own older blog entries, and post them here, where you, the […]
We here at Altus Press are please to welcome a new pulp column to our website. Enjoyed by many on the Facebook Old Pulp group (and elsewhere), Morgan Wallace has been making his way through the Doubleday “Garden City” paperbacks, reviewing them one at a time. But Morgan has written on many other subjects, and […]
Altus Press has added a trio of ebooks to its library of pulp fiction. Each is only $4.99: Mavericks: Longriders of the West, Volume 2 by Tom Mount Meet the five Mavericks—Lance Clayton, Doc Grimson, Charlie Parr, Lockjaw Johnson, and Flint Maddox… They were wanted men, those five hard-riding travelers of the still night trails… Mavericks […]
January 26, 2016—Altus Press announces the release of two more collections in our Halfaday Creek Library. Written by James B. Hendryx, these stories of outlaws on the Alaska-Yukon border were among the longest-running and most popular series in the pulps. These collections, Strange Doings on Halfaday Creek (1943) and Murder on Halfaday Creek (1951) are sourced form […]
Here’s a nice review of our release, The Complete Adventures of Hazard & Partridge by Robert J. Pearsall, written by Davide Mana for his blog, Karavansara, East of Constantinople, West of Shanghai: https://karavansara.wordpress.com/tag/robert-j-pearsall/ Incidentally, look for a deluxe edition of this in 2016 which will contain the prequel story of this saga.
We here at Altus Press are pleased to announce our new line of pulp t-shirts. These are authorized, 100% authentic, and are completely faithful to the original logos that appeared on the actual classic pulp magazines. In fact, if you wear, for example, your brand new Argosy t-shirt at your next get-together with Frank Munsey, […]
Dashiell Hammett expert Don Herron raves about the new Race Williams collection, Them That Lives By Their Guns: The Collected Hard-Boiled Stories of Race Williams, Volume 1, from Altus Press! Read the review here: http://www.donherron.com/rediscovered-race-williams-roscoes-again/
Today, November 30—and only on www.altuspress.com—use promo code black25 at checkout to get 25% off our already-discounted prices on Cyber Monday!* We already have free shipping on softcovers, so now’s the time to stock up on Altus Press releases. But hurry: this promo code will expire after November 30! *This promo code will only work […]
From now until November 30—and only on www.altuspress.com—use promo code black25 at checkout to get 25% off our already-discounted prices!* We already have free shipping on softcovers, so now’s the time to stock up on Altus Press releases. But hurry: this promo code will expire after November 30! *This promo code will only work on purchases […]
For many years I’ve known that Frank A. Munsey hailed from Maine. The father of the pulp magazine, he certainly has to be the most successful person in the long history of the state. Whilst making my occasional drives up to central Maine, this fact usually came to mind as I passed through the Augusta […]
Altus Press is pleased to announce Series 2 of The Dime Detective Library. Created by Popular Publications, Dime Detective was one of the most important hard-boiled crime fiction pulps in the field, second only to Black Mask in its influence to the genre. Series 2 contains seven books, each containing the original pulp stories in order, along with […]
Continuing with our trip around the Interwebs for pulp-related goodness, here’s a great site for model planes: Easy Built Models. What makes this pulp-related is that they have a kit which you can buy & build yourself which matches Street & Smith pulp hero Bill Barnes’ plane, the Silver Lancer! Get the kit here. It’s […]
Starting with this post, we’re showcasing some of the more interesting links from around the web that pertain to Altus Press. Do you like action figures? What about custom pulp action figures? Over at Joe’s Customs, a poster showed off his newest creation: a custom action figure of Thibaut Corday of the French Foreign Legion, […]
We get a lot of requests to re-present this article by Doc Savage author Lester Dent on how to structure a story. Below is the full text of his article on his Master Fiction Plot. This is a formula, a master plot, for any 6,000 word pulp story. It has worked on adventure, detective, western […]
Check out today’s posting on The Pulp Super-Fan blog, wherein Super-Fan Michael Brown showcases the first set of our Argosy Library pulp reprints series. You can read it here: http://www.thepulp.net/pulpsuperfan/2015/08/03/the-argosy-library-series-i/ Got a review of an Altus Press book? We’d love to showcase them! Drop us a line here and we’ll either link to it, or if you prefer, […]
Now available from Altus Press: Señorita Scorpion – Discounted Two-Book Set by Les Savage, Jr., and Emmett McDowell, introductions by Will Murray Taken from their original appearances in Action Stories from 1944–49, this specially-priced two-book set collects all of the pulp westerns adventures of Señorita Scorpion: “Señorita Scorpion,” “The Brand of Señorita Scorpion,” “Secret of […]
We’ve brought out ebook versions of four of our more recent pulp fiction book releases… when you buy these from us, you’ll get a .zip file containing the book in both .epub and .mobi formats, so you’ll have no problem opening them on your favorite e-reader. Tales of the Werewolf Clan by H. Warner Munn […]
Altus Press is pleased to publish two much-anticipated novels by writer Will Murray which feature THREE classic fiction characters—Tarzan, Doc Savage, and The Shadow—in new, authorized full-length novels. These are available now in softcover, ebook, and deluxe, signed hardcover editions. Also, don’t forget to check out the final installment of our complete reprinting of the […]
June 4, 2015—Altus Press is proud to announce the first new Tarzan novel in several years! Written by the prolific adventure writer, Will Murray, author of The Wild Adventures of Doc Savage series, Tarzan: Return to Pal-ul-don is an authorized sequel to one of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ most celebrated Tarzan novels, Tarzan the Terrible. “Having […]
The First Series of Releases Features Popular Authors Such as Lester Dent, Otis Adelbert Kline, W.C. Tuttle, and George F. Worts March 18, 2015: Altus Press today announced the premiere of its new line of books: The Argosy Library series. Founded at the end of the Nineteenth Century by publishing tycoon Frank A. Munsey, Argosy […]
Altus Press Spring 2015 Release #16: Defiance Valley: The Complete Northwoods Stories of Frederick Nebel, Volume 1 by Frederick Nebel Tales of the Northwest may have been Frederick Nebel’s forte, but sadly these ultra-rare magazines don’t turn up often and as a result, few readers have been able to enjoy these classics. With this book, […]
Altus Press Spring 2015 Release #15 (coming soon): The King Makers: The Adventures of Vincent Connor by H. Bedford-Jones Vincent Connor—to all simply a wealthy playboy—but his “play” was matching wits in tight places against wily Oriental intriguers and the theft of the priceless Han jades. Part of the Uniform H. Bedford-Jones Library. 175 pages […]
Altus Press Spring 2015 Release #14 (coming soon): Blood and Steel: The Complete Tales of Kingi Bwana, Volume 4 by Gordon MacCreagh “Anything can happen in Africa!”–that’s the credo of big game hunter, trader and safari guide King, known all over the Dark Continent as Kingi Bwana. Together with his two loyal companions, the deadly […]
Altus Press Spring 2015 Release #13 (coming soon): In the Grip of the Griffin: The Complete Battles of Gordon Manning & The Griffin, Volume 3 by J. Allan Dunn The end of the saga! Running for 31 installments, this is one of the classic sagas from the pages of Detective Fiction Weekly featuring master criminal […]
Altus Press Spring 2015 Release #12 (coming soon): The Scorpion Scar: The Complete Tales of Koropok, Volume 2 by Sidney Herschel Small One of the best series from the twilight of Adventure Magazine’s run, this 11-story saga of an American undercover agent in the Far East during World War II has been sadly neglected […]
Altus Press Spring 2015 Release #11 (coming soon): The Complete Cases of Keyhole Kerry, Volume 2 by Frederick C. Davis The series concludes here! Big-city residents on both sides of the law regard him with equal measures of fear and reticence. They know that whatever they’re doing, right or wrong, will sooner or later come […]
Altus Press Spring 2015 Release #10 (coming soon): The Secret 6 Classics: The Suicide Squad’s Last Mile by Emile C. Tepperman The Suicide Squad returns for five final sagas: “The Suicide Squad’s Last Mile”: The F.B.I.’s ace manhunt trio fight their way to hell and back—to end the rule of a crime-czar who had decreed […]
Altus Press Spring 2015 Release #9 (coming soon): Tales of the Werewolf Clan by H. Warner Munn introduction by John Munn H. Warner Munn was a New England Native and was born in Athol, Massachusetts to parents who were both writers and artists. He finished his career in Tacoma, Washington where he wrote his stories […]
Altus Press Spring 2015 Release #8 (coming soon): Beyond the Call of Duty: The Complete Tales of Koropok, Volume 1 by Sidney Herschel Small One of the best series from the twilight of Adventure Magazine’s run, this 11-story saga of an American undercover agent in the Far East during World War II has been sadly […]
Altus Press Spring 2015 Release #7 (coming soon): The Sphinx Strikes by H. Bedford-Jones In this most dangerous game, The Sphinx, iron-nerved spy, was instructed—“Suspect everybody! And remember, murder is nothing in this business.” Collecting—for the first time—the entire series. Part of The Uniform H. Bedford-Jones Library. 164 pages / $14.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover
Altus Press Spring 2015 Release #6 (coming soon): Secret Agent “X” – The Complete Series Volume 7 by G.T. Fleming-Roberts introduction by Tom Johnson For 41 issues from 1934 to 1939, SECRET AGENT “X” battled the forces of evil in the pages of his own pulp magazine. Now, for the first time… the complete pulp […]
Altus Press Spring 2015 Release #5 (coming soon): Treasure Seekers by H. Bedford-Jones Carson’s contraption failed as a mine-detector, but it could locate something buried much deeper: treasure. Thus spurred one of H. Bedford-Jones’ most exciting series, one that has never before been reprinted. Part of the Uniform H. Bedford-Jones Library. 357 pages / $24.95 […]
Altus Press Spring 2015 Release #4 (coming soon): Kid Calvert: The Complete Series by Clint Douglas and Phil Richards introduction by Will Murray The forgotten Hero pulp! Created to compliment fellow Ace Publications hero characters such as Secret Agent “X,” Captain Hazzard, and The Griffon, Kid Calvert has remained forgotten, undiscovered by pulp scholars for […]
Here are the details on another Spring 2015 release form Altus Press: Dead Men Singing: The Men Who Fought For Texas by H. Bedford-Jones Written in celebration of the Texas Centennial, H. Bedford-Jones once again authors an exciting, fast-paced lesson on the founding of the Lone Star State. As he wrote at the time: “My […]
Here’s the next book coming soon from Altus Press: The Best of Spicy Mystery, Volume 2 by Ellery Watson Calder, Hugh Speer, Robert Leslie Bellem, Clint Morgan, Clive Trent, Jerome Severs Perry, Carl Moore, Cary Moran, and Clark Nelson introduction by Alfred Jan The Thrills of Horror! Romantic Tales of the Eerie and Occult! You’ll […]
Altus Press had been working ’round the clock to get another large batch of publications out for this spring. We’ll be posting each, one at a time, right here, on Twitter, and on Facebook. These will be available soon, with many making their debuts at the Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention in April Here’s […]
Today only—and only at altuspress.com—get 25% off just about everything! All you have to do is use promo code cyber25 at checkout. But hurry, it’s only valid today, and only on altuspress.com! This promo code also will work on our new releases! Visit www.altuspress.com today!
We’ve got another batch of titles ready for purchase at www.altuspres.com. Let’s take a look: The Complete Adventures of Armless O’Neil (Deluxe Edition) – $75.00 by Dan Cushman introduction by James Reasoner, with an interview with Dan Cushman Limited hardcover edition. Comes with eBook versions of all the stories. One of Dan Cushman’s best-written series, […]
I’ve posted 50 images of all the original pulp art on display at the Portland Public Library. If you’ve got Bob Lesser’s book, you’ve seen most of these, but there’s nothing like seeing them up close.
Whilst looking through my files for something, I ran across these nuggets: cartoons by writer H.G. Wells. These date from 1889–1920.
To celebrate the big Altus Press news from earlier this week, nearly all of our ebooks have been temporarily discounted to $2.99! Pick ’em up at www.altuspress.com or Amazon, BN, or the iBookstore. But hurry: it’s for a limited time.
For Immediate Release—October 21, 2014 Boston, MA—October 21, 2014— Steeger Properties, LLC has added to a growing collection of pulp fiction magazines by acquiring the copyrights to nearly 150 pulp magazine titles that were originally published by Popular Publications, Inc. Now claiming ownership to most of the pulp stories and characters published by both Popular […]
Altus Press is pleased to announce our all-new Deluxe Edition line of books, and it’s kicked off by one of our favorite series, The Complete Adventures of Thibaut Corday and the Foreign Legion (Deluxe Edition). Our new Deluxe Editions are oversized casewrap hardcovers which contain all the stories of a given series. Competitively priced, these are […]
Altus Press is pleased to present the next installment in the Kingi Bwana series, Unprofitable Ivory: The Complete Tales of Kingi Bwana, Volume 2. One of the best series from the pages of Adventure Magazine, author Gordon MacCreagh is sadly neglected by modern audiences. But they deserve all the attention they can get: they’re good. Order […]
Altus Press is proud to continue our reprinting of H. Bedford-Jones’ pulp output, this time the sequel to our already-released The King’s Passport. Cyrano is full of adventure… if you like fast-paced historical fiction, you can’t go wrong with H. Bedford-Jones or Cyrano. Order it here. Fighter, drinker, poet, rogue—all of these and more was […]
Altus Press in the wild! In Seattle last week, I stopped by The Seattle Mystery Bookshop and saw they stocked our Cardigan and MacBride & Kennedy series in their Hard-Boiled section. Thanks to SMB’s J.B. Dickey for thinking highly of our books! The Seattle Mystery Bookshop is a must-see if you’re a fan of “our” […]
Altus Press is pleased to collect—for the first time—the finale to one of the best sci-fi series from the pages of the historic Argosy Magazine. The complete saga of Dikar and The Bunch concludes here. Volume 2 contains the following stories: “Sunrise Tomorrow”: The road to liberty is long and perilous, but Dikar must lead […]
Altus Press is pleased to reprint—for the first time—J. Allan Dunn’s 31-installment series of clashes between detective Gordon Manning and master criminal The Griffin, from the pages of Flynn’s Detective Fiction Weekly in the 1930s. Dunn was one of the most interesting pulp writers of his day (more on which will be revealed in a biography […]
Altus Press is pleased to continue our Uniform Edition reprints of H. Bedford-Jones’s works with a classic series from Argosy’s peak period: Buccaneer Blood: The Adventures of Denis Burke collects all five stories of this saga, and it’s the first time this series has every been reprinted. As with all of H. Bedford-Jones’s writing, it’s […]
Altus Press is please to release our final collection of Frederick Nebel’s stories published in the pages of Black Mask. This collection assembles all the stray stories he did for that magazine, and they’ve never before been reprinted. You can get it here. Petty crooks, gangsters, rum runners, hijackers, jewel smugglers, Chinatown tongs, hard-boiled […]
We’re pleased to announce another new release, this one a classic, never before reprinted from the pages of Argosy: Tomorrow: The Complete Saga, Volume 1 by Arthur Leo Zagat The complete saga of Dikar and The Bunch is collected for the first time. Set in a decimated post-invasion United States, Volume 1 contains the following […]
Secret Agent “X” expert Stephen Payne is back with his best SAX novel yet! Designed to look like a vintage Secret Agent “X” pulp, it’s rounded out by an all-new introduction by Tom Johnson. Secret Agent “X”: The Resurrection Ring can be ordered here. It’s available in softcover and ebook (.epub and .mobi) formats. Arsonists in […]
It’s that time once again… We’ve got a big pile of releases ready to go but they need to be proofread. Do you have proofreading experience or are a thorough reader? Want to get in on the fun? We’re looking to make headway on this stack of books with the hope of getting them all […]
We’ve added nearly 20 more eBooks to our store… check ’em out… each is $4.99: The Black Bat Omnibus Volume 2 The Collected Tales of Sangroo the Sun-God The Complete Adventures of Hazard & Partridge The Complete Adventures of Senorita Scorpion Volume 2 The Complete Cabalistic Cases of Semi Dual, the Occult Detector, Volume 1: […]
