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Black Mask July 1929

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.

Black Mask May 1929

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.

Spicy Stories February 1933

  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.

Smart Love Stories October 1936

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.

The Popular Magazine July 15 1910

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

Cupid's Capers September 1933 issue #1

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.

Black Mask February 1942

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 Battle Stories - December 1929 and April, May 1930

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).

Brief Stories Feb 1926

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.

Triple-X magazine July 1929

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.

Marvel Science Stories April-May 1939

"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.

Complete Stories April 1933

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.

Personal Confessions March 1938 issue #1

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.

Thrilling Mystery June 1936

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

Gay Parisienne September 1932

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.

Gay Life Stories - Volume 1 #6

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

Dime Mystery July 1937

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!".

Mystery Book Magazine Summer 1950

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.

Everybody's combined with Romance Nov 1929

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.

Western Romances October 1930

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.