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Post by deuce on Feb 1, 2017 10:22:46 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Feb 1, 2017 15:38:36 GMT -5
February, 1943...
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Post by almuric on Feb 1, 2017 21:38:08 GMT -5
"I need ALL THE GUNS!"
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Post by deuce on Feb 2, 2017 11:25:33 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Feb 5, 2017 13:08:08 GMT -5
An issue of Adventure in its later, "men's adventure" days.
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Post by deuce on Feb 14, 2017 10:43:05 GMT -5
One of REH's favorite pulps.
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Post by docpod on Feb 14, 2017 11:03:05 GMT -5
That particular issue of ADVENTURE contains the beginning of the novel "Wulfhere" by A. B. Higginson. It is a novel set in 7th Century Britain which was changing into England. Black Dog Books has plans on reprinting it (someday).
Morgan
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Post by thedarkman on Feb 14, 2017 21:44:30 GMT -5
That particular issue of ADVENTURE contains the beginning of the novel "Wulfhere" by A. B. Higginson. It is a novel set in 7th Century Britain which was changing into England. Black Dog Books has plans on reprinting it (someday). Morgan Docpod; I miss Horned Helmet Thursdays...
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Post by deuce on Feb 24, 2017 0:24:43 GMT -5
The rise and fall of the Shadow. It was a dame, natch: “In 1946, Babette Rosemund, a woman who soundly disliked the pulp tradition, took over as editor of The Shadow. At this time, Gibson was involved in a contract dispute with Street & Smith, regarding his role as creator of The Shadow. In a moment of absolute corporate near-sightedness, Street & Smith unceremoniously fired him, informing him by letter that they had found a new man to become Maxwell Grant.
“With that note, the man who had created The Shadow was dropped from the title.
“Rosemund then recrafted the magazine. The Shadow Magazine of the thirties was replaced with Shadow Mystery which featured cutting edge mystery fiction. While the writing in this new pulp was palatable, the major problem was that The Shadow no longer existed in it. Instead, Lamont Cranston became the hero, solving mysteries with the police. All hints of a secret identity were ignored. The Shadow lost all his superhuman qualities. His guns remained holstered, his laugh rarely pealed across the pages. Removed were the cast of supporting characters and the villains. The agents and the gadgets. The Shadow’s laugh and his blazing 45’s. Fifteen years of Gibson’s creativity, obliterated in a single stroke.
“In 1947 the magazine fell back to bimonthly and then to quarterly as sales continued to fall. Eventually, William de Grouchy took the editorship away from Rosemund and immediately turned to Gibson to help restore the magazine. Gibson responded with a return to the inspired stories of the early 1930’s, but by then the die had already been cast. In the summer of 1949, The Shadow Magazine folded.”
The full article is here: www.shadowsanctum.net/history/articles/The_Shadow_Pulp_Years-Severin_Holt6.html
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Post by emerald on Feb 24, 2017 11:43:56 GMT -5
The rise and fall of the Shadow. It was a dame, natch: “In 1946, Babette Rosemund, a woman who soundly disliked the pulp tradition, took over as editor of The Shadow. At this time, Gibson was involved in a contract dispute with Street & Smith, regarding his role as creator of The Shadow. In a moment of absolute corporate near-sightedness, Street & Smith unceremoniously fired him, informing him by letter that they had found a new man to become Maxwell Grant.
“With that note, the man who had created The Shadow was dropped from the title.
“Rosemund then recrafted the magazine. The Shadow Magazine of the thirties was replaced with Shadow Mystery which featured cutting edge mystery fiction. While the writing in this new pulp was palatable, the major problem was that The Shadow no longer existed in it. Instead, Lamont Cranston became the hero, solving mysteries with the police. All hints of a secret identity were ignored. The Shadow lost all his superhuman qualities. His guns remained holstered, his laugh rarely pealed across the pages. Removed were the cast of supporting characters and the villains. The agents and the gadgets. The Shadow’s laugh and his blazing 45’s. Fifteen years of Gibson’s creativity, obliterated in a single stroke.
“In 1947 the magazine fell back to bimonthly and then to quarterly as sales continued to fall. Eventually, William de Grouchy took the editorship away from Rosemund and immediately turned to Gibson to help restore the magazine. Gibson responded with a return to the inspired stories of the early 1930’s, but by then the die had already been cast. In the summer of 1949, The Shadow Magazine folded.”
The full article is here: www.shadowsanctum.net/history/articles/The_Shadow_Pulp_Years-Severin_Holt6.htmlWell, yeah, but during the 40's the same kind of thing was happening in a good many of the pulps, especially the hero pulps. Doc Savage stopped having such outrageous adventures. Even the Phantom Detective's covers started to look more tame. The lurid edge of the pulps got blunted by a number of things. Increased scrutiny by the culturally sensitive, which ended up basically killing the Spicy and Weird Menace pulps, certainly played a part. And there was that odd need, then as now, for readers to believe they wanted more 'sophisticated' material. We saw a similar situation play out over the 1990's, when painted covers on genre paperbacks (especially mysteries and thrillers) gave way to simple covers with basic designs or (even worse) big embossed letters spelling out the title and author's name. Nobody wanted to read, or be seen reading, "trash". One of the principal reasons given for the success of ebooks, especially genre and most especially romance, is that reading on a device made people more comfortable reading a book that didn't have a cover others could see and judge. Fie. I read Hard Case Crime novels on airplanes and ask anyone who disdains genre 'trash' if they've ever tried to write anything that could hold a reader's attention, much less thrill them.
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Post by deuce on Mar 6, 2017 10:50:00 GMT -5
February, 1944...
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Post by deuce on Mar 6, 2017 18:21:09 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Mar 9, 2017 12:00:17 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Mar 22, 2017 17:09:50 GMT -5
Cover art by John Drew...
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Post by deuce on Mar 24, 2017 13:45:34 GMT -5
REH sold several yarns to the "Spicy" pulps...
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