Wed 5 Dec 2018
For those of you who are into such things, I’ve just put 24 old pulp magazines up for bids on eBay today. There are westerns, detective pulps, including two copies of Black Mask, and two copies of Unknown.
I hope this link works:
https://www.ebay.com/sch/lewis-62/m.html?item=273585679424&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562
December 5th, 2018 at 10:49 pm
Steve, I think many of us are interested in your auctions of old pulps.
By the way, I used to own the original cover paintings to two of these magazines. The ACTION STORIES painting which I traded a long time ago to Charlie Crane for a SHADOW painting and the BLACK MASK cover showing the girl and a gigantic 45 pointed at her head. It’s also gone in some long forgotten trade.
December 6th, 2018 at 12:13 am
Once I saw that a lot of good stories from the pulps were being reprinted in well designed paperback formats, I decided that I needn’t keep my collection of the magazines themselves any longer.
I’ve been selling pulps on eBay a little at a time for maybe two years now. This is the first time I’ve posted a link to them on my blog.
I’ve being doing well selling off magazines at nice prices, well above what I paid for them, some 30 years ago or more. Some have probably been in the same boxes they’re now for all that time.
It also saves my son and daughter from figuring out what to do with them, once the time comes. And don’t worry about me, I still have plenty of reading material still on hand, and will have for a long time to come!
December 6th, 2018 at 12:15 am
PS. Walker, I’m positive I remember that BLACK MASK cover when you had it, but I’m not so sure about the ACTION STORIES. Either way, those are quite a couple of coincidences!
December 6th, 2018 at 8:10 am
Steve is right about the pulp reprints. We live in the Golden Age Of Pulp Reprints with so many publishers reprinting collections of authors who used to be buried in the old back issues.
Altus Press especially has a most ambitious schedule of pulp reprints. They have published hundreds of collections of the past few years.
A friend of mine who also publishes reprints has more than once wondered how Matt Moring can find the time and energy to publish so much!
December 6th, 2018 at 11:41 am
The reprints have made it possible for me to donate the originals to the Cox Collection at the University of Minnesota and still have a sampling of some of my favorites to read and re-read.