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Includes a story of Tex of the Border Patrol, who may have been Black Mask's only female series character. That's in addition to Erle Stanley Gardner and Raoul Whitfield. Get this very good condition pulp by clicking on the photo to view details/buy.

Fred Nebel, Raoul Whitfield, John Carroll Daly, Tom Curry, Nels Leroy Jorgensen - almost the entire supporting cast of Black Mask regulars are in this issue. Worth getting this issue in very good plus condition for any one of them. Click photo for details/to buy.

  I feel undressed if I don’t have my pearls on. My pearls are my security blanket . - Lady Sarah Churchill. Click photo to see details/buy this rare pulp.

Rare love pulp issue from Street and Smith; first issue after the title changed from Ainslee's Smart Love Stories . Great cover by Zoe Mozert, this magazine feels like a cross between a pulp and slick. Click photo to see details/buy.

Great Leyendecker sports cover on this early issue of Popular Magazine . Click photo to see details/buy.

First issue of this scarce pulp; I think this is the first copy seen by the public. The editorial proclaims "we have aimed at originality". and that using a "photographic illustration for the lead-off story" is "now presented for the first time in this class of publication." Click photo for details/to buy.

She's got all the guns she needs; have you got all the pulps you need? Get this one by clicking on photo to view details/buy. Classic cover by Rafael de Soto.

Three issues of this uncommon pulp, all featuring stories by Raoul Whitfield, covers by Andrew Benson and George Rozen. Click photos for details/to buy (Each issue is a separate listing).

Another pulp that lasted more than 100 issues and left no trace, never see these for sale. From looking at the covers in the 1920s, it looks like it was trying to compete with Short Stories. Click photo for details/to buy.

For a pulp that lasted more than a hundred issues, copies of Triple-X are surprisingly hard to find. The Triple-X stood for air, war and west stories, and in this issue you get all 3 in one story and one cover - a cowboy fighting a German aviator in the sky. Click photo for details/to buy.

"And this, as you can see, is where we make the test tube babes.". This pulp is a must have for any Marvel Comics fan, the logo is what was used later for Marvel comics (from issue #3). Click photo to see details/buy.

I've never seen someone so scared of a chameleon as Modest Stein's cover for this pulp in very good+ condition. Click photo to see details/buy.

First of 3 issues of this short lived pulp, most if not all of the confessions would have been fiction written by professional authors. Click photo to view details/buy.

Can you give me a hand with this? Can't you see i have my hands full? Couldn't resist that bit of dialog. This issue of Thrilling Mystery has a Robert E. Howard story, and stories from Hugh B. Cave and Henry Kuttner. Click photo to see details/buy

They called her a cover model but she's almost completely uncovered in this issue of Gay Parisienne , a rare "spicy" pulp. Click photo to see details/buy.

A jazz nightclub singer from the 1930s in this smoky cover of a spicy pulp, date and artist unknown. Click to see details/buy.

Why is the robed and cowled villain trying to set fire to that man's hair? Is he jealous because he's bald and forced to hide it under his costume? Read the magazine and find out more in  History's Gallery of Monsters . To see details/buy, click on the photo above. PS: I found the same red robed villain on another David Berger cover for Terror Tales . The man is bald. And i think she's saying, "No! Not the hair!".

This issue has Frederic Brown's The case of the dancing sandwiches , which was later republished as an novel. If that wasn't enough, there's also a John D. MacDonald story, Dead on the pin , in there. Click photo to see details/buy.

Rare title combining two great magazines, Everybody's , which had become a pulp a few years earlier; and Romance , for which this was the last and final attempt at finding a market niche. Unreprinted stories include Lady Equator by Dane Coolidge and Dance of the Seven Sins by Bernard J. Farmer. Click photo to see details/buy.

Seventh issue of this western title from Dell that ran for 10 years and usually had great covers. This one by Reusswig has the girl inside the stagecoach shooting the man holding it up, while the coachman is offers no resistance, making a significant change from the usual formula.

Although this early issue of Black Mask under Cap Shaw's editorship has stories by Fred Nebel, Raoul Whitfield and a Race Williams serial installment by John Carroll Daly, none of them got the cover. The cover illustration is for Sinister Orchids by Bassett Morgan, a pseudonym of Grace Ethel Jones, who also got the cover on a 1930s issue of Weird Tales. Click to see details/buy.

Great early issue of Black Mask, the iconic crime/detective pulp that created the hardboiled genre. This issue has a Continental Op story by Dashiell Hammett, with support from Erle Stanley Gardner and Raoul Whitfield. The next issue is the one that begins the Maltese Falcon. Click on photo to see details/buy.

You've seen The Wolf of Wall Street .  Now read The Werewolf of Wall Street , a much more exciting title and story. Click photo to see details/buy this magazine that is in fine shape.

Three issues of Action Stories from the 1920s. Issues from the 20s don't show up that often. These have Shark Gotch stories by Albert Richard Wetjen, westerns by Walt Coburn and a story by Fred Nebel. Click photos for details/to buy.

Dime Detective's popularity encouraged Popular Publications to launch other mystery/detective titles, and Detective Tales was the result. The second most successful of Popular's pulps, it initially started as a weird menace pulp before switching to all detective/mystery/crime and ran for just over 200 issues. This is the issue that started it, in near fine condition. Click photo for details/to buy.

What could they do when they paid all their money to authors for spicy, saucy and snappy stories?  Apparently, they skimped on the costumes. Hard to find issue of this rare pulp. Click photo to see details/buy.

Despite the Norman Saunders cover featuring a near-nude woman, this isn't a "spicy" pulp. It's a general fiction pulp, and this issue has a story by William G. Bogart, author of some of the Doc Savage stories, whose name is written on the cover in pencil. Could it be the author's copy? Even if it isn't, this is an above average condition copy of a sought after pulp. Click photo for details/to buy.

Issue #2 of the run, harder to get than #1. This issue has continued serials by prolific dime novelist William Wallace Cook, who turned out out so much pulp fiction that he was called "the man who deforested Canada", and Bertram Lebhar, another dime novelist who was also the editor of  Hosiery and Underwear Review . Click photo to see details/buy.

Wild Cherries October 1933 " No photos but lots of cartoons & drawings & 10 spicy Stories ", that's what FictionMags has to say about this scarce title. This issue looks to be in good shape. Click picture to view details/bid.

Beautiful cover by R.A. Burley. Love the flow of the composition and colors. Click photo for details/to buy.

I don't think this issue of this scarce magazine has been seen before. The editor says that "we have aimed at originality", and that "the photographic illustration of our lead-off story" is a first for "this class of publication". Click photo for details/to buy.

Great H.J. Ward cover for Private Detective , the use of decreasing light and increasing shadow from left to right particularly struck me. This issue looks to be in great shape with white pages. The cover scene is so well done that it was reused for the first issue of Speed Detective, albeit from a different angle. Click photo to view details/buy.

New York Nights November 1933 Third issue of this very rare and sought after magazine. Click photo to see details/buy.

  New York Nights Summer 1933 First issue of this rare title. Click photo to see details/bid.

Third issue of this sought-after title, has a Delos Palmer cover and a J.G. Reeder story by Edgar Wallace. Click photo for details/to buy.

First issue, rare in any condition; get it before it gets away from you. Click photo for details/to buy.

Great early issue of Black Mask , a year after Shaw took over as editor. You can already see the shift in the magazine to a more hard-boiled tone with stories from John Carroll Daly, Tom Curry and a great Fred Craft cover. Click on photo for details/to buy.

Super Detective March 1950 This issue of a "spicy" pulp from Trojan Publications looks to be in great shape. Cover by Joseph Szokoli, and a comic section to boot. Click on the picture to see details/buy.

Early Dime Mystery issue, just 10 issues after Popular Publications created a new pulp genre - weird menace. Pulp looks to be in good shape, faultless spine, couple of small tears in front and back covers. The paper is white, not off white/brown as they usually are. Click on the picture to see details/buy it.

All Star Detective Stories January 1930 Third issue under this name; the magazine was launched as Three Star Stories in 1928, ran for 34 issues, then became All Star Detective , under which name it ran for another 26 before coming to an end in 1931. Click photo for details/to buy.

Gay Broadway , Summer 1936 This issue is missing from the FictionMags index, which probably means this is the first copy ever seen. Great cover, table of contents below. Click on picture to see details/buy. Gay Broadway [v3 #4, Summer 1936] (D.M. Publishing Co., Inc.; Dover, Del., 48p+, 25¢, pulp, cover by Enoch Bolles) 2 · Posed by mistake · Gerard Ravel · ss 8 · Correspondent well known · Tom Kane · ss 15 · Fan Dance - Strictly Private · Wallace J. Knapp · ss [nude photo section] · [Various] · pt 36 · Lady, be bad! · Claire Kennedy · ss 43 · I'm telling you! · Avery Ames · ss

Two Book Detective Magazine January 1935 Is that a monkey on the curtain or is it the hiding horror? You tell me. Click photo for details/to buy.

Dime Mystery Book  April 1933 The fifth issue of the pulp that created the weird menace genre, early issues are hard to find. Has an Edgar Wallace J.G. Reeder story. Click photo for details/to buy it.

All-Story June 1905 Very early issue of All-Story , this is the sixth issue of this amazing title. Hard to find these in any condition, this one actually has both covers. Click on photo to view details/buy.

All-Story August 29 1914 Another All-Story issue in good condition. The lead serial is a North-western adventure from Hulbert Footner that was later reprinted in hardcover. An excerpt from The Sealed Valley below "I thought college would be romantic," Ralph went on. "I had fun of course, bully fun, but just the ordinary college fun. There were girls, plenty of 'em, dear little things! transparent as window-glass. Gad! a man longs to meet a woman who can fascinate him, and stir him to the bottom, and keep him guessing!" "Well, let me see what we've got in Fort Edward," said Dan. "To begin with, there's Biddy Maroney——" "Cut it out!" cried Ralph. "Fatal to thoughts of Romance! After college there was the medical school and the hospitals," he went on. "They knocked the spots out of Romance. Say, a city doctor loses faith in his fellowmen. I decided I'd hang out my shingle in the woods, and I c...

All-Story , December 25, 1915 Even though he doesn't merit the cover, this issue of All-Story has part 4 of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Son of Tarzan. That's in addition to part 2 of Polaris of the Snows , one of the best Tarzan imitators, authored by Charles B. Stilson. Click the picture to see details/buy it.