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Here's the controversial material in the '39 Popular Digest. Abortions, Ponzi schemes, anti-Semitism.

new one

some new ones

Happy to have finally acquired one of these. First use of the word Marvel... and the Avengers

Here some pages from a 1939 pulp newsletter

Here's a clearer photo of Marchbanks. I was looking back at this thread because I think I may have a Leroy Mackie pulp (Feb 1940). Initials L.M. are in pencil above the cowboy's head. The penciled name under the initials is a Willard Bennett. I found a Willard Bennett who lived in Cookeville at the same time but may not be the same Willard. This pulp is stamped "Independence Drug Store", not Marchbanks.

I picked up this Red Circle 1937 Detective Short Stories #1 recently and I noticed the same silver ink over the month as Mystic 4. The small Kazar plug appeared in this pulp too.

First appearance of H G Wells War of the Worlds was in Great Britain in 9 installments in Pearson's magazine. I believe the story was also serialized in the US in Cosmopolitan magazine at the same time. Must have been a mind-blower for 19th century folks reading about Martian invasions. Here's installment #4, July 1897.

July 15, 1942 issue

from Detective Short Stories - February 1941 issue

Thanks for the information! Here is my 2nd one and some interiors

Not exactly a detective pulp but a December 1935 magazine making fun of the pulps. Magazines like Mad and Cracked would later fine tune this type of satire in the 1960's.

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I guess this should qualify as a pulp. March 1892 Strand Magazine UK edition. This one has the 11th Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle (there were only 62 in all from 1887 through 1927). UK editions came first. The cost was just six pence (6 pennies) for 325 pages! USA editions followed a month later. Dr. Watson narrates each story. Sidney Paget (SP) illustrated all the stories. Paget's depiction of Holmes bears and uncanny resemblance to Basil Rathbone, the definitive movie Holmes.

crazy stuff

new one...March 1940

Needed to upgrade this one. Previous and current copy

The mix of green and purple is sensational on this one

new arrivals... 1933 Shadow, 1937 & 1939 Detective Fiction Weekly

That Superman 1 news was in a 1996 issue of the Comic Buyer's Guide. CBG was not a price guide. It was a newspaper that came out weekly and mixed news events with comic books ads.