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I'll pound you to a "Pulp" if you don't show off yours!
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Got this very interesting package today. This is a Weird Tales rejection slip from 1947 and the rejected manuscript for The Headless Goddess by a Mr. Will Heddens as well as a typed critique of GODDESS from Laurence R D'Orsay of California. It appears that D'Orsay was hired to critique and offer suggestions to aspiring authors (likely not just pulp writers). This could have been a paid-for service that Mr. Heddens contracted for back in 1931. Laurence "Rex" D'Orsay also published his own fiction and non-fiction in diverse magazines under the pen name Laurence R. D'Orsay and or Laurence Thalmore for Weird Tales, The Writer's Monthly and Writer's Digest. D'Orsay was employed at Weird Tales when he critiqued Mr. Hedden's manuscript.  

Mr. Hedden's manuscript was sent to Weird Tales on Jan 10, 1947 and there’s a smaller penciled note that states Street & Smith June 1939 (no rejection slip from that company was included but it can be assumed that the manuscript was sent to Street & Smith and rejected there as well). All in all, it appears that Mr. Heddens spent a considerable amount of years offering this manuscript up to the pulps. If anyone knows whether this story was ever published, please let me know. In the meantime here is the critique which gives insight on the type of style and stories that readers were expecting in the 1930’s:

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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)

 

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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)

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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.

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On 8/28/2023 at 6:10 PM, Primetime said:

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. 
 

 

 

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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.

I never knew Donenfield and Goodman worked for the same company prior to 1932. The comics business was a smaller world than I'd imagined.

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Daring Detective v07n41 (1938-02.Country Press) cover Stockton Mulford

Hello!  I'm new to the CGC boards but thought I'd hop in here on the pulp thread and go off that last red-covered true crime mag.  Fawcett publication, February 1938.

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2 more really cool finds at the Rocky Mountain book and paper fair. https://www.rmaba.org/rmbpf/2023/rmbpf_2023_GeneralInfo.html 
Also picked up my first and second "Weird Tales" I'll post when I image them.

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A more recent pick-up. My main passion in the pulps is the girlies, though I've been known to gather a wide variety of pulps and magazines.

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From Frank Armer's line, this one began as Real Story Book went to Real Story Book Frolics to Frolics to Paris Frolics.

There are a number of issues I'd still like to get, most of all March 1931.

Here's my copy of the first issue, Jack/Otto/Oscar Greiner

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You can see the whole issue on my shelf at the Internet Archive for this one:
https://archive.org/details/real-story-book-v-01n-01-1928-11.-king-d-m-ia

 

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