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Post by deuce on Apr 6, 2016 9:25:15 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Apr 6, 2016 18:14:19 GMT -5
This is a great pulp site: truepulpfiction.blogspot.com/It tends toward Argosy and Adventure (the biggest pulps of the day) but it covers everything.
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Post by samarobrin on Apr 6, 2016 23:49:10 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Apr 26, 2016 17:20:22 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Apr 27, 2016 21:45:43 GMT -5
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Post by themirrorthief on Aug 17, 2016 23:06:05 GMT -5
a bit off the subject but I recall one of the earliest pulp writers to explore Mu and Lemuria was Fredric Kummer Jr. He did some pretty decent sword and sorcery tales about those legendary islands back in the late thirties. I have found four of them so far. One of the heroes is Kirk the Wanderer who is kind of like John Carter in that he can travel back and forth between modern times and Lemuria. He is fond of saying Holy Mackrel right before he smashes somebody with his great battleaxe which he loves to show off to his modern pals who think he is full of hooey. I think Kummer also appeared in Weird Tales possibly?
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Post by Jason Aiken on Aug 18, 2016 11:16:53 GMT -5
a bit off the subject but I recall one of the earliest pulp writers to explore Mu and Lemuria was Fredric Kummer Jr. He did some pretty decent sword and sorcery tales about those legendary islands back in the late thirties. I have found four of them so far. One of the heroes is Kirk the Wanderer who is kind of like John Carter in that he can travel back and forth between modern times and Lemuria. He is fond of saying Holy Mackrel right before he smashes somebody with his great battleaxe which he loves to show off to his modern pals who think he is full of hooey. I think Kummer also appeared in Weird Tales possibly? Now I'm going to have to track down those Lemuria tales. That sounds pretty cool. www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1845That's Kupper's bibliography from ISFDB. As for Muu, I really need to read Heald and Lovecraft's "Out of the Aeons" in that new B&N Cthulhu Mythos collection. I hear it's about Muu. Etext is here: www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/oa.aspx
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Post by deuce on Aug 18, 2016 13:27:09 GMT -5
a bit off the subject but I recall one of the earliest pulp writers to explore Mu and Lemuria was Fredric Kummer Jr. He did some pretty decent sword and sorcery tales about those legendary islands back in the late thirties. I have found four of them so far. One of the heroes is Kirk the Wanderer who is kind of like John Carter in that he can travel back and forth between modern times and Lemuria. He is fond of saying Holy Mackrel right before he smashes somebody with his great battleaxe which he loves to show off to his modern pals who think he is full of hooey. I think Kummer also appeared in Weird Tales possibly? Actually, way off-topic, so your post was moved here. You love the pulps, MT, so I don't understand why you aren't posting on this thread all the time. REH, Clark Ashton Smith and Lovecraft were some of the very first fiction writers to use Mu in their stories, about a decade before this "Kummer" guy. Andre Norton wrote what would become Operation Timeprobe in the mid-'30s. BTW, neither Mu nor Lemuria are "legendary". The former was made up in the 20th century and the latter in the 19th. I tried to find "Kummer". Never heard of the guy. Nothing on Google or Bing. I'm almost sure he didn't appear in WT. Not sure I'm crazy about the idea of reading "Holy Mackrel!" [sic] a bunch of times.
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Post by Jason Aiken on Aug 18, 2016 15:16:50 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Aug 18, 2016 15:50:35 GMT -5
Thanks, Jason! A very cool site. I see why I couldn't find Kummer. It's "Fredric Arnold Kummer". I was searching "Fredric Kummer" within quotes. Turns out, Kummer did get published in Weird Tales: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1845
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Post by themirrorthief on Aug 19, 2016 2:09:41 GMT -5
the Volcanic Slaves of Mu is a pretty good sword and sorcery mini epic...Kummer poured on the action and Im pretty sure he borrowed heavily from Howard...Kirk the Wanderer reminded me of Turlough Dubh O'Brien the way he wielded that axe. Intrigue on Lemuria is another Kirk the Wanderer tale. Adventure on Lemuria is another with a different hero and Princess of Power? is another with a character named Ulf I think it was tho not so sure. Kummer had a long career in writing...he got started in the pulps around 1900 or sooner. He passed on in 1943 but managed to churn out a lot of sci fi and fantasy before his demise
Kummer was a late comer to sci fi and fantasy but he seemed to get the hang pretty quick
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Post by themirrorthief on Aug 19, 2016 2:22:52 GMT -5
archive.org/details/Planet_Stories_v01n04_1940-Fallif you seriously want to delve into some great pulp fiction this magazine would be a great place to start since its pretty much all straight dope by the best in the business including Neil R Jones, Carl Selwyn, and Ed Earl Repp who was amazing in his own right
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Post by deuce on Aug 24, 2016 10:50:39 GMT -5
Razor Fist does some great retrospectives on the Shadow in pop culture:
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Post by deuce on Aug 31, 2016 20:03:22 GMT -5
Coming Attractions is a weekly source for breaking pulp-related news. Books, comics, movies...you name it. Bill Thom has great sources and usually has the news first or nearly that. www.pulpcomingattractions.com/
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Post by deuce on Sept 19, 2016 13:24:55 GMT -5
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