#guy vander

Les Grandes Aventures  sur Terre * sur Mer * dans les Airs

Pulp adventure series. Weekly. At least 37 issues [1912]. Format 135 x 230 - 32 pages. #1 was offered free as often when Ferenczi launched a series. Illustrated short stories, bizarre and macabre news mostly written - related by HR Woestyn (aka H. Nivès, H. Sevin, Jacques Belleme...), Guy Vander, and Ferdinand Laven [aka F. de Trêves, F. Von Tier, Flavius...]...Existed probably in german language.

cover art: Gil Baer

publisher: Joseph Ferenczy, 48 rue de Lancry, Paris

Les Drames Mystérieux à travers le Monde

First dedicated to crime pulps (no data, but 1926, maybe earlier). The series had 25 issues entitled “Les Drames Mystérieux” and then became “Les Drames Mystérieux à Travers le Monde” (more oriented on weird adventure). The series ran till # 40 and became simply “A travers le monde” (# issues unknown).

Here “L’explosion de Santa Clara” written by Guy Vander (real name or pen-name that has given and continues to give twists and turns to pseudonym tracers...)

Format 120 x 160, 16 pages. The format is unpredictable in this series - each pulp differs from the other.

Edited at Editions Modernes, which means the cheapest pulp quality from the era. Really difficult to find, and when you have the chance to fall on one of these pulps, you’ll probably discover that the ink is fuzzy, or invisible…though, the one reproduced here is quite like if it just came out of the press!

publisher: Editions Modernes, Paris

publishing director: Edouard Drin