Reader Pulp | Jan 2 2011 |
Above is a cover of Frank A. Munsey’s Argosy from June 18, 1938, with a famous painting by Rudolph Belarski for Max Brand’s western adventure story “Señor Coyote”. Even though Argosy was the first real pulp magazine, we haven’t featured it often here because issues in good condition can be difficult to find. With this one we got lucky—the highly regarded antiquarian and collectible website National Road Books, who we’ve bought other magazines from, sent us an e-mail letting us know they’ve uncovered a trove of more than a hundred issues of Argosy, and included the scan. So thanks for the assist, guys. It’s always needed. And speaking of assists, we want to remind everyone that our reader pulp feature, in the sidebar at right, is available to anyone who wants to share pulp treasures. How’s about we all make that a resolution for 2011? Agreed? Great.
Vintage Pulp | Jun 2 2009 |
Frank Munsey’s Argosy is generally considered to be the first pulp magazine. By the time this beautiful June 1955 issue came out it had already been publishing for seventy-three years, and would last another twenty-three. The cover art, with its fearsome cat exploding from the heart of darkness to strike at a solitary hunter, perfectly embodies William Blake’s famous poem The Tyger, in which he wrote of the fire in the creature's eyes, and of its brain forged in a furnace. We’ll have much more from Argosy in the future.