marmat Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 Looking for info about this one. Is it a comic or a pulp/magazine? American or canadian? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fett Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=22849227 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifties Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 On 10/17/2022 at 3:17 AM, fett said: https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=22849227 Quote Softcover Pulp Digest, 5 1/2-in x 8-in, 162 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35. Whenever you see a cover price beyond 10 cents for a normal publication, it's not a comic book. Exceptions would be the 15 cents for a few EC Sci-Fi comics, and 25 cents for the brief run of 3D books by St. John, EC, Harvey, etc. Might be a few others as well. Point Five 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dr. Love Posted October 17, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted October 17, 2022 Not a comic. Not a pulp. Not really a magazine. Science fiction digest is the correct answer. What pulps evolved into in the 50's. thehumantorch, comicjack, adamstrange and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat-Man_America Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 On 10/17/2022 at 2:13 PM, Dr. Love said: Not a comic. Not a pulp. Not really a magazine. Science fiction digest is the correct answer. What pulps evolved into in the 50's. This is basically true, although the evolution is not quite that clearly defined. The first SF digests appeared before the end of WWII (1944) introduced by editor John W. Campbell with Astounding Science Fiction. And some pulps would continue into the 1950's right up to the middle of the decade. To make things more confusing there were magazine sized SF "slicks" introduced in the 1950's if I'm not mistaken. That said, the digests were the most profitable format from the mid-50's on. Here are three examples within a couple of years: oversized pulp (LIFE magazine sized) standard sized pulp digest sized (non-pulp format) Dr. Love and 50YrsCollctngCmcs 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 I'm curious if pulps were strictly a newsstand purchase or if subscriptions were available. In a similar vein when were comics subscriptions first offered. I know that early Dell comics did subscriptions but I don't recall seeing ads for early DC Golden Age comics but maybe I just haven't looked hard enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifties Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 On 10/17/2022 at 7:41 PM, 50YrsCollctngCmcs said: In a similar vein when were comics subscriptions first offered. EC offered subs in 1950, with their New Direction books. 50YrsCollctngCmcs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PopKulture Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 On 10/17/2022 at 9:41 PM, 50YrsCollctngCmcs said: I'm curious if pulps were strictly a newsstand purchase or if subscriptions were available. In a similar vein when were comics subscriptions first offered. I know that early Dell comics did subscriptions but I don't recall seeing ads for early DC Golden Age comics but maybe I just haven't looked hard enough. Some pulps were definitely available via subscription. They’re rare, but every once in a while, you run into one of the brown paper mailers they were sent in. Some, like the Shadow, had some smaller spot illos. 50YrsCollctngCmcs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 Comparison of digest (what you have) to bedsheet, standard pulp size is somewhere in the middle, close to regular comic size. frozentundraguy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
