Pulps comic books issue 1

1st printing. Written by Robert Kenneth Jones. A History of pulp magazines and writers of the 1930's. Softcover, 8" x 5 1/4", 238 pages, B&W. Cover price $4.95.

1st Printing - Written by Douglas Ellis. During the 1920's and 1930's the girlie pulps proliferated, but were sold "under the counter" to protect innocent eyes. Published with the belief that "sex sells", each month they sailed forth, their covers adorned with bewitching vixens in various states of undress, showing as much as the law would allow - and often daring to show more. Talented artists such as Enoch Bolles, Peter Driben, Earle Bergey, Norman Saunders, H.J. Ward and Zoe Mozert created a body of gorgeous pinup art that, unlike the later magazine and calendar pin-up art of the 1940's, has generally remained hidden until now. Hardcover, Horizontal Format, 12" x 9", 208 pages, full color. Cover price $40.00.

1st printing. Adventure House lists each and every pulp title produced, each issue of those titles, a single-cover reproduction of nearly all titles listed, title change information, publisher information, and more. Includes over 800 cover reproductions, special binding that allows the book to remain open flat without breaking, and a visual checklist. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 384 pages, B&W. Cover price $29.95.

1st printing.

A team of experts in each of the ten major Pulp genres, from action Pulps to spicy Pulps and more, chart for the first time the complete history of Pulp magazines-the stories and their writers, the graphics and their artists, and, of course, the publishers, their market, and readers. Each chapter in the book, which is illustrated with more than 400 examples of the best Pulp graphics (many from the Editors' collections-among the world's largest) is organized in a clear and accessible way, starting with an introductory overview of the genre, followed by a selection of the best covers and interior graphics, organized chronologically through the chapter.

Hardcover, 10-in. x 11-in., 240 pages, full color.

Cover price $49.99.

2nd Edition - 1st printing.

By Tim Cottrill. Foreword by Jim Steranko.

During the first half of the 20th century pulps did for entertainment what video games and television would aspire to in the decades to come. Cheap fiction magazines brought escape from the concerns of world wars, the Depression, and the workaday world, and fostered daydreams of midnight femme fatales and alien amazons. Fifty years after the last of the true pulps, their tanned and musty pages still spring forth with tales of bronzed heroes, bold explorers, mystery men, chiseled cowboys, exotic friends, endangered damsels, lost lands, and bizarre beasts from the distant past...and the far future. The pulps may be gone, but they continue to influence cinema, literature, and the imagination of both readers and collectors the world over.

This is the most complete PULP data and price reference in print!

Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 392 pages, Text (with 8 full color pages).

Cover price $39.95.

1st printing. Written by Mitch Maglio. Art by Matt Baker. Cover by Lily Renee. From sexy jungle girls to even sexier ray gun toting space women and beyond, Fiction House Comics had it all! Now for the first time the entire history of Fiction House, the leading purveyor of Good Girl art during the Golden Age of Comics, is told in a single volume! Stuffed with breathtaking cover reproductions, original artwork and full length stories, Fiction House: From Pulp to Panels tells the story of one of the most successful publishers through the works of legends such as Matt Baker, George Tuska, Lou Fine, Bob Lubbers, and Lily Renee. Hardcover, 9-in. x 11-in., 300 pages, full color. Cover price $49.99.

Issue 1 - June, 1991. Pulpcon 20 program booklet with information, articles, and artwork. Ashcan size, 5" x 8", 44 pages, B&W.

1st printing.

By Jacques Sadoul.

How often do you have the chance to explore the fantastic future and, at the same time, to re-experience the past? In this fascinating collection of the great illustrations from science fictions most memorable years – 1926-1953 – Jacques Sadoul leads a guided tour of extraterrestrial monsters, robots, astronauts, and the cities of the future as they were envisioned in the pulp magazines of yesteryear.

Featuring 8 Major Themes:

o The Great Galactics
o The Age of Robots
o Space Ships
o The Women of the Cosmos
o Dream Weapons
o The Bestiary of Outer Space
o The Machines of the Future
o The Cities of the Future

Hardcover, 9-in. x 10 1/2-in., 176 pages, PC/PB&W.

Cover price $17.95.

First Printing. Edited by Otto Penzler. The best crime stories from the pulps during their golden age - the '20s, '30's, & '40s. Softcover, 7 x 9-in, Black and white interior. Cover price $25.00.

1st Edition - 1st printing.

By Tim Cottrill.

During the first half of the 20th century pulps did for entertainment what video games and television would aspire to in the decades to come. Cheap fiction magazines brought escape from the concerns of world wars, the Depression, and the workaday world, and fostered daydreams of midnight femme fatales and alien amazons. Fifty years after the last of the true pulps, their tanned and musty pages still spring forth with tales of bronzed heroes, bold explorers, mystery men, chiseled cowboys, exotic friends, endangered damsels, lost lands, and bizarre beasts from the distant past...and the far future. The pulps may be gone, but they continue to influence cinema, literature, and the imagination of both readers and collectors the world over.

This is the most complete PULP data and price reference in print!

Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 392 pages, Text (with 8 full color pages).

Cover price $39.95.

1st Printing - Written by Peter Haining. The Pulp magazines first appeared on American newsstands at the end of the 19th century and flourished until World War II. Many famous American writers began their literary careers in the pulps, or contributed to them in some way. Here, rescued from obscurity, are the best stories from the pulp era - stories of fantasy, horror, mystery, and science fiction from such famous titles as "Argosy", "All-Story Magazine", "The Blue Book", "Strange Tales", "Black Mask", "Detective Story Magazine", "Amazing Stories", and "Weird Tales". Softcover, 5" x 8", 420 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.

1st Printing. Relive the menacing, bizarre, and incredible pulp fiction tales of yesteryear through the eyes of the artist with expert Frank M. Robinson as your guide. Whether swathed in slime, wielding unearthly weapons, or riding off into the sunset, the heroes, villains, and creatures of pulp magazine covers offer a glimpse into unknown realms. Softcover, 5" x 6.5", full color. Cover price $14.95.

1st Edition - 1st printing. By Adam Parfey. Man's Exploits, Rage, Escape to Adventure - these were a few of the 35-cent magazines that helped veterans confront the confusion of jobs, girls and the Cold War after coming home from World War II. It's a Man's World looks back at the last great run of pop illustrations, at least as brilliant as pulp's best. Contributions from Bruce Jay Friedman, Josh Alan Friedman, and David Saunders help bring us inside the offices, showing us how the writers, illustrators, editors, and publishers put together two decades of "armpit slicks." Original art from the notorious Mort Kunstler, Norman Saunders and Norm Eastman are featured within, and Bill Devine's annotated checklist of the many thousands of adventure magazines is essential for collectors of the genre. Hardcover, 9-in. x 11-in., 288 pages, full color. Cover price $29.95.

Expanded Edition - 1st printing. It's a Man's World was first released in 2003. This rich collection, filled with interviews, essays, and color reproductions of testosterone-heavy thirty-five-cent magazines with names like Man's Exploits, Rage, and Escape to Adventure (to name a few), illustrates the culture created to help veterans confront the confusion of jobs, girls, and the Cold War on their return from World War II and the Korean War. The expanded paperback edition includes wartime illustrations and advertisements from mass-produced magazines that preview the xenophobia and racist ideas later seen throughout men's adventure magazines of the '50s and '60s. Hardcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 320 pages, full color. Cover price $34.95.

Expanded Edition - 1st printing. It's a Man's World was first released in 2003. This rich collection, filled with interviews, essays, and color reproductions of testosterone-heavy thirty-five-cent magazines with names like Man's Exploits, Rage, and Escape to Adventure (to name a few), illustrates the culture created to help veterans confront the confusion of jobs, girls, and the Cold War on their return from World War II and the Korean War. The expanded paperback edition includes wartime illustrations and advertisements from mass-produced magazines that preview the xenophobia and racist ideas later seen throughout men's adventure magazines of the '50s and '60s. Softcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 312 pages, full color. Cover price $34.95. Cover price $34.95.

1st printing. Written by Monte Beauchamp and Steven Heller. Art by Bill Everett. Our culture embraces the skull: apparel and products with skulls abound. Popular Skullture features the oddest, creepiest, and weirdest skull covers from 1930s to mid-'50s comics, pulps, and paperbacks. Edited and designed by Monte Beauchamp, with an introduction by Steven Heller, beautifully presented in the Kitchen Sink tradition. Introduction by legendary graphic design guru Steven Heller. Collecting rare, collectible pulp, paperback, and comic book covers. Hardcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 176 pages, full color. Cover price $19.99.

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1st Printing - Hardcover, 8" x 11", 240 pages, B&W.

2nd or later printing - Hardcover, 8" x 11", 240 pages, B&W.

Written by Robert Kenneth Jones. A History of pulp magazines and writers of the 1930's. Hardcover. 6.5-in. x 9.5-in. 240 pages, text (with some B&W illustrations).

1st printing. A complete issue-by-issue breakdown of some of the scarcest pulps ever produced. Represented here are magazines dealing with horror, terror, suspense, supernatural, occult, weird menace, bizarre, and off-trail stories and articles... the choice of these titles governed in part by their rarity. All the titles in this collection are scarce and difficult to locate, and many are not to be found in libraries and private collections. Titles include: Thrill Book, Doctor Death, Strange Tales, Strange Stories, Tales of Magic and Mystery and many more! If you have dreamed for years of an index of rare magazines, containing pictures of every cover of every issue being indexed, then here is that dream come to life! Softcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 112 pages, full color. Cover price $22.00.