The Pulp Magazines Project

The Argosy (August 1905): Making Ad Pages Searchable

New Issues/ Contexts (2/25/2015): Dime Novels and Nickel Weeklies

The Pulp Magazines Project has just added 8 issues of “dime novels” and “nickel weeklies” published between 1892 and 1922 to its website. The titles include Frank Reade Library, Tip Top Weekly, Nick Carter Weekly, Deadwood Dick Library, Buffalo Bill Stories, All-Sports Library, All Around Weekly, and Wild West Weekly.

To view them, click here.

Publishers represented by this group include Street…

New Issues: Adventure, Blue Book, and Short Stories (10/20/2014)

The Pulp Magazines Project has added 10 new issues of 3 classic pulp magazine titles to its full-text digital archive. These include the Feb. 1911 issue and complete 6-issue run of Vol. 53 from the summer of 1925 (Jun. 10, 20, & 30; and Jul. 10, 20, & 30, 1925) of Adventure, feat. Prisoners of War and When East Met West, by prolific British pulp authors Talbot Mundy and W.C. Tuttle, respectively…

Archive Reaches 300 Issues

With the addition of 10 new issues of Adventure (Teddy Roosevelt’s favorite pulp) from 1911-25, the digital archive of the Pulp Magazines Project has reached 300 individual issues. As of Sept. 2014, the archive includes 85 titles from over two dozen publishers, with its special features on Comic Books & Pulp Publishers; Snappy, Spicy, and Girlie Pulps; and Pulp, Slick, & Book-Paper Magazines. In…

New Issues/ Title: Startling Stories (9/10/2014)

The Pulp Magazines Project has added 10 new issues (and 1 new SF title) to its full-text digital archive. They are the Jan., Mar., May, & Nov. 1939; Jan. & May 1940; Nov. 1941; Jun. 1946; and Jan. & May 1947 issues of Startling Stories, feat. works by Stan Weinbaum (Jan. 1939), Otis Adelbert Kline (Guest Editorial-“Prophets of Science” Jan. 1939), Ed Hamilton (May 1939), Robert Bloch (Nov. 1941),…

New Issues/ Histories: Munsey Pulps (3/30 & 5/30/2014)

The Pulp Magazines Project has added 12 new issues to its full-text digital archive, representing 5 major pulp magazine titles published by the Frank A. Munsey Co. (NY) between 1913 and 1940.

They include flagship titles Argosy (Mar. 27, 1920; feat. Ray Cummings, “The Right Thing”); The All-Story (Dec. 1913; feat. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Warlord of Mars, Pt. 1/4); and Argosy All-Story Weekly (Dec.…

New Issues: Blue Book, Exciting Western, and Jungle Stories (2/20 & 3/25/2014)

The Pulp Magazines Project has added 9 new issues to its full-text digital archive. They include the Jun. & Jul. 1940, and Aug. 1941 issues of Blue Book, feat. Dornford Yates’s When the Devil Drives (Jul. 1940); the Aug. 1946 and Jan. 1947 issues of Exciting Western, feat. W.C. Tuttle’s Trail of the Flame (Jan. 1947); and 4 new issues of Jungle Stories (Spr. 1946; and Spr., Fall, & Win. 1948),…

New Issues/ Titles: Amazing Stories Quarterly, Mammoth Adventure, Mammoth Mystery, Planet Stories, and Wonder Stories Quarterly (2/10/2014)

The Pulp Magazines Projecthas added 10 new issues (and 4 new over-sized pulp titles) to its…

New Issues: Adventure and Blue Book (9/25/2013)

The Pulp Magazines Project has added 5 new issues of 2 classic pulp titles to its full-text digital…

New Issues/ Titles: Western Pulp Magazines (9/15/2013)

The Pulp Magazines Projecthas added 6 new Western pulp titles (8 new complete issues) to its…

New Issues: Black Mask & Top-Notch (8/20 & 8/25/2013)

With the start of the new semester, the Pulp Magazines Projectreturns with regular monthly updates…

New Issues/ Histories: Black Mask, Dime Mystery, et al

Publishing legends The Black Mask (1920), Weird Tales (1923), and Amazing Stories (1926) are…