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Do you know when/if they started published mags with all Holmes stories?

Some of my favored, early Subby covers 💧⛴️✈️ 🏍️ 🚊 🔥

Celebrating the 84th anniversary of its August 31, 1939 release (OCT copy) of Marvel Comics 1. 🔥🪽💧🤠🌳🏁🦁 (Please excuse the 1939 Wizard Of Oz movie novel, and the pulp library 📚 )

His sexy ankle wings 🪽 are quite popular. Here’s my low grader #1 to follow up @MrBedrock and his spectacular Subby set 👍🏽

This one arrived today. It appears to be tied for the third pulp ever that Martin Goodman published. His name is in the indicia which is a nice bonus. 😈 💎 Black Book Detective Magazine (Mutual Magazines/Newsstand Publications- July, 1933) Rafael DeSoto cover. Goodman and his partner, Louis Silberkleit, had just lost their circulation dept positions at Eastern Distribution Corporation due to bankruptcy in 1932. They manned together to start up Mutual Magazines/Newsstand Publications in 1933. They had started with four pulp titles and Black Book Detective was their second title. Louis (L in MLJ) would eventually be the third co-owner of MLJ Comics (Archie) and Goodman would start Timely/Marvel in 1939. Harry Donenfeld was a co founder of Eastern prior to its bankruptcy and would also start Independent News shortly after. IND News would be a major distributor for DC comics well into the Silver Age. Goodman enlisted IND to distribute Marvel Comics (SA Marvel covers have an IND printed on them). At one point, Goodman, Louis, and Donenfeld would briefly share the same Lower Manhattan office building as pulp publishers. Donenfeld would later purchase the rights to National/DC in 1938 from Wheeler-Nichols for $19.7k.

A set of four, Goodman Westerns. He loved his westerns 🤠 🤠Masked Rider (May, 1934) 🤠Quick Trigger Western Novels (Oct, 1939) (Marvel Comics ad) 🤠Best Western (Nov, 1940) (one of three pulps that contain the Human Torch/Marvel Mystery comic strip ad) 🤠Western Short Stories (Nov, 1949)

I’m sure but NM in pulps is more like VF in comics.

Here are four pulps that I am currently hunting for. Drop me a PM if you have any of these available or know anyone that does. Thanks 🙏🏽 🤠 Masked Rider (Aug, 1934) 🕵 Detective Fiction Weekly (June 15, 1935) 💃🏽 Star Detective Magazine (Dec, 1936) 🕳️ Real Mystery (July, 1940)

Greetings - I didn’t see an official “wanted” thread for pulps so I’ll create this one since I am looking for a few myself. Feel free to keep this thread going by posting your pulp desires… 🔎 👣🔍

Here’s a shot in the dark (or maybe it’s a dimly lit room 😀) - I’ve been looking for a copy of Detective Fiction Weekly from June 15, 1935. I bought this copy on eBay from a guy a last week. It turns out, the dealer said they already sold it in a cash deal at Pulp Fest to a person named “Paul” but he forgot to take to down from eBay. I was refunded promptly. I’m wondering if anyone happens to know “Paul” from Pulp Fest and could contact him and ask if he’s willing to let that pulp go. Or, “Paul” if you are reading this and wish to reach out, send me a PM. Thanks 😊

This came today - January, 1938. Now I have a Brundage brunette, Brundage blonde, and a Brundage red head❣️ 🦇 🧙 🦇

Got these in yesterday. I’ve been looking for the Ka-zar (October,1936) all summer and finally found one at Pulp Fest. There is a nice arrival date of “7-29” on the “K” in the logo. The Marvel Tales (December,1939) cover is really impactful in hand. Both covers done by JW Scott. Since I’m a Timely fan, it is noted that the MT was released the same month as Marvel Mystery Comics 2 and Daring Mystery Comics 1 - October, 1939. There is a partial date stamp on the “L” of the logo of the MT that reads “OCT 18 AM” 🦁 🪽

Action 121, Tec 136, Supe 53, Bat 47 Looks like April/May, 1948 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/newsstand.php?publisher=dc&type=calendar&month=4&year=1948&sort=alpha

No doubt the Masked Rider (1934) was a swiped/carried over influence on Goodman’s published Masked Raider in Marvel Comics 1 (1939). The Ranger Publications was one of the earliest extensions of Goodman’s Red Circle pulp regime. Those Masked Riders appear to be incredibly scarce.

For covers, it’s Schomburg in a runaway and it’s not even a close heat. Interiors…I’m not sure…

That is Schomburg all the way. In fact, Schomburg did all the Marvel Mystery covers from 3-11,13-29. 12 is a Kirby. Then Gabrielle takes over for 30-32. Then Schomburg again with a Syd Shores break for 37,38. Then Schomburg again all the way through issue 71 after which it switches up a lot. Goodman loved Schomburg.

This Goodman pulp arrived today - Uncanny Stories (April, 1941) The interior stories are filled with several Kirby, Simon (1), and Schomburg (2) sketches. Even the box art at the bottom of the Table of Contents page is Kirby. Could this be one of the few/only pulps with Kirby and Schomburg signed interior art? @Ameri I believe the cover is by JW Scott. Such a wild cover and those giant germs look like a host of alien 👾 octopus creatures 🐙🐙🐙

Follow the yellow brick road!

I’m looking for a low grade Ka-zar 1 (1936). If anyone sees one there, LMK 👍🏽

Old man Tarzan

Continuing my young journey into pulps with my favorite Timely artist, Alex Schomburg. Startling Stories (Sept., 1939) - 1st Schomburg Sci-Fi pulp cover 🚀 Pretty corny, cool image of 13, big headed aliens 👽 robbing a graveyard 🪦 There was a cash prize contest asking fans to send in letters explaining the cover (note: the deadline date of Sept 7, 1939 - that would have been the same time period that the NOV printing of Marvel Comics 1 was being printed/released and just after the OCT copies had sold out.) Here’s a photo of the Startling next to Schomburg’s 1st cover work for Timely - Daring Mystery Comics 1 - which was released a few short months after in late October, 1939.

3.0 - 3.5 Nice JAN 8 date stamp on the upper BC. That’s the first time I’ve seen a date stamp that late on a Flash 105. Typically, if it’s stamped, it is usually within a few day before Christmas, 1958.

Over the years I’ve learned that overnight shipping is better than registered. I know registered supposedly goes from lock box to lock box and is slower and more secure, but I feel the “longer” an important package is in the transport system so to speak, the higher chance of something bad happening to it. And CI insurance covers up to $60k per package with overnight shipping so that solves the coverage part. I’d rather it get there overnight three linger for several days or weeks in transit.

That’s the copy on loan from the owner making its rounds with that marvel museum. It was displayed in Seattle for awhile and now the museum is in the Carolinas(?)

Here’s the other pulp… January, 1928 Dave Smith of Fantasy Illustrated calls this a radiator robot 🤖 Nonetheless, it’s another wild Frank R. Paul cover that @Ameriinsists is a semi swipe/reverse image of Paul’s famous Marvel Comics 1 cover from 1939 (The Greatest Comic Book ever published)… Pretty cool if that was Paul’s slightest intention 👍🏽