New Issues/ History/ Contexts (1/22/2012)

We’ve added 5 new titles to the Pulp Magazines Project website: Famous Fantastic Mysteries (Sept/ Oct 1939, Nov. 1939, and Dec 1939); Fight Stories (June 1928, Sept 1930, and Aug/ Oct 1949); Flying Stories (May 1929, 1st issue of Vol. 2); Thrilling Adventures (July 1932); and Weird Tales (Aug/ Sept 1936, July 1937, and February 1938).

Eleven new issues in all (ranging in pub. dates from 1929 to 1949):

Also available at the Pulp Magazines Project, the history of Weird Tales (Leif Sorensen; Colorado State University) and two new Contexts pages: Pulp Market Share 1922 (Jess Nevins; World Fantasy Award-nominated Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana, 2005) and an Office Dummy, or prototype, issue of Flying Stories Vol. 2, No. 1 (May 1929).

History of Air Stories now available (1/20/2012)

In May 1927 Charles Lindbergh made his world-famous solo flight across the Atlantic, catapulting himself (and The Spirit of St. Louis) into the history books and America into an “air-minded” frenzy. The “golden era” of aviation fiction had begun. In the next five years, 148 aviation series and dozens of aviation pulps like Air Trails, Air Adventures, Dare-Devil Aces, Flying Aces, Sky Trails, and Wings would come into print.

Amid stiff competition, Fiction House’s Air Stories, edited by Jack B. Kelly (1927-1932) and Malcolm Reiss (1937-1939), held a unique bragging right; its first issue appeared in August 1927, making it “The First Air Story Magazine!” as prominently advertised on many of the magazine’s covers…

For the fuller history of this title, click here.