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I hung out some with Chris last year. Really cool guy. His paper last year was on REH as a Irish-American writer. I'll definitely be checking this one out if it doesn't conflict with the others. PCA really is cool. Academic geekery.

My guess is that ERB and Tarzan in particular have transcended the pulp medium so much that ERB scholars probably wouldn't really consider doing a paper in the Pulp Studies area. I'll bet there are several ERB papers in other areas like SF&Fantasy. Likewise, we didn't get any HPL papers this year so their probably in the Horror area.

That would be awesome, Todd. After the papers they'll be a screening of the recent film adaptation of HPL's "Whisperer in Darkness" along with a panel discussion. Friday evening will be the Pulpfeast with food and booze (of course they'll be food and booze on the other nights too). If you've got pulps to sell, definitely bring them.

March 27-30 is the 2013 Popular Culture Association nationa conference this year in DC. This will be my third time giving a paper in the Pulp Studies section which has been growing every year. This year will be the largest ever, with five different sessions in the Pulp Studies area. If you are in the DC area and a fan of the pulps you should consider coming by and checking it out. PCA is not your typical stuffy academic conference - it's a lot of fun. The comics and graphic novels area is huge! Below is the line up of Pulp Studies papers. I'll be chairing the anthropology/evolutionary session. Pulp Studies I: Pulp pedagogy: Active learning and Active Reading in the Pulps. Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 11:30am - 1:00pm “I Confess”: Pulps and the Audience’s Populist Voice. - Lauren Gibson, University of West Florida "Filling the Void”: Pulps, Movies, and Censorship in the 1930s - Emily Sisler, University of West Florida "Behind the Curtain:" Women and the Science Fiction Pulps - Rachel Johnson, University of West Florida Pulp Studies II: Anthropological and Evolutionary Dimensions of Pulp Fiction Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 1:15pm - 2:45pm Evolutionary Otherness: Anthropological Anxiety in Robert E. Howard's "Worms of the Earth" - Jeffrey Shanks, National Park Service Ancestral Memory in the Fiction of Robert E. Howard - Rebekkah Brown, Independent scholar Bodies without Integrity: Undermining the Body in the Fiction of Leigh Brackett - David Schappert, Moravian College and Moravian Theological Seminary Pulp Studies III: Sex, Swords and Sinews in the Fiction of Robert E. Howard Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 3:00pm - 4:30pm “I’m Getting Tired as Hell Working for the Other Man”: Robert E. Howard, Industry, and Individualism - Daniel Nyikos, University of Nebraska - Lincoln Robert E. Howard's Pulps: From Adventure to Weird Tales - Deke Parsons, Claremont Graduate University Vaqueros and Vampires in the Old West: Robert E. Howard and the Genesis of the Weird Western - Mark Finn, Independent Scholar Pulp Studies IV: The Politics of Pulp Fiction Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 4:45pm - 6:15pm The Shadow Politics of Weird Tales: Epistemological Crises, the Modern Subject, and the Other - Jason Carney, Case Western Reserve University The Pulpular Front: Pulp Magazines as Anti-Fascist Propaganda - David Earle, University of West Florida In the Shadow of Fu Manchu: Pulps, Politics, and the Yellow Peril - Alexandra Yancey, St. Thomas University ‘An invasion of the bookstalls’: 1920s Pulp Magazines and the Foreign Market - Patrick Scott Belk, University of West Florida Pulp Studies V: Celebrating "Those who move their lips when they read": Appreciating Working Class Fictions Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm “Rhetorical Stances in Amazing Stories Readers' Letters” - Gabriel Cutrufello, Swarthmore College Toward a Definition of Weird Fiction: Debates in the "Eyrie" Letters in the Edwin Baird Issues of Weird Tales. - Justin Everett, University of the Sciences The Individual Pulp Story: Reading the Pulp Story Closely - Benjamin Wallin, Nyack College

Very nice Josh! Congrats!

Gorgeous copy David!

Michael, I'm finally getting a chance to go through this thread and I am just blown away on so many levels. Thank you so much for sharing your story and your journey.

Very very cool!

For starters check out ebay Books- Magazine Back issues for lots of great selections, search for pulps to narrow it down(but it will also eliminate some options). As with any collectible buy what you like! Some collect for the content, me, I'm a cover guy. Make sure you look into these two books: Bookery's Guide to Pulps & Related Magazines This is a great reference guide for general pricing and info, put out by a boardie! Adventure House Guide to the Pulps Nice guide for checklist of titles, no pricing info if I recall correctly, I haven't looked at mine for awhile I picked up this recently(non-ebay purchase), I was drawn to the back cover art as well: Nice South Seas! radjack, just to add to what Andrew said, there are actual two ebay sections for pulps: Books>Magazine Back Issues>Pulps Collectibles>Comics>Magazines>Pulps Heritage will often have some good stuff, but they tend to sell for much more than ebay. If you're interesting in Robert E. Howard pulps I have a collecting guide on my blog: http://www.anageundreamedof.com/2012/12/collecting-robert-e-howard-pulps-part-1.html For Weird Tales in general, check out RedFury's thread here in GA as he's providing quite a bit of content info with each issue he's posting.

Well, I lost my man-cave when our second child was born --- it became the baby room. But now I'm slowly starting to work on a man-wall.

That was cellphone pic. Here's a large, non-blurry, NSFW!, version.

Amazingly Claudia let me hang this in our bedroom.

Whoa!

Looks like you guys had a great time with good friends and awesome books!

Love it! Early and tough!

And in some cases I would think they are tougher than the paintings due to preservation. Paintings would at least have been kept even if they're locked up in collections. Advertising materials would likely have been tossed in most cases I would think.

No doubt. That represents a lot of time, effort and patience to build an amazing collection of rare and even unique items like that.

Awesome!

Very very helpful! Thanks a ton for that You're very welcome. You should check out the pulp thread in Gold to see some really cool stuff and really very affordable compared to a lot of SA and GA.

Gotcha. Well here's a five part series I wrote for The Cimmerian blog a few years ago on collecting REH pulps. It needs updating but it's still pretty accurate. http://www.thecimmerian.com/pulp-collecting-and-reh-part-1/

Beautiful Dwight!

I was looking around on ebay for some of these pulps but the prices are very erratic. How much should someone pay for one of these? Well it depends. Do you mean this particular issue, which is a key (1st Conan)? Do you mean Weird Tales issues in general or just issues with Conan and Robert E. Howard content? Pulp prices are actually very stable. Any variance in price you see is likely due to the same basic reasons some comics are worth more than others. Grade, scarcity, content, classic covers, etc.

Happy 80th Birthday Conan!

Was that regular Economy? Moderns?

This is especially true for the first film, since the idea for making him Luke's father didn't come until the 2nd draft of the Empire screenplay.