RIP: Larry Latham

Posted by William at 1:56 pm Tuesday, November 4, 2014 in Obituaries, People, Pulps

Just saw a post on Facebook by Will Murray saying that Larry Latham has died. Larry’s wife, Kelly Reynolds, confirms this in a post on the Lovecraft Is Missing website.

Larry passed away on Sunday, Nov. 2. He had been battling cancer.

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Celebrating Marvel’s 75 years

Posted by William at 10:00 am Tuesday, November 4, 2014 in Events, Movies/TV/Radio, Pulp History, Pulps

spacer These days, it’s all about the pop — movies, TV and comics, but particularly the movies — when it comes to Marvel. But in 1933, it was pulp.

Before comic books, Martin Goodman jumped into the pulp magazine world in 1933 with Western Supernovel Magazine, which became Complete Western Book Magazine with its next issue. In a few years he was publishing a wide range of pulp magazines — from Black Book Detective Magazine and Best Love Magazine, to Ka-Zar and Complete Sports, to Star Detective Magazine and Sky Devils — under a variety of companies, including Newsstand Publications, Manvis Publications, Atlas News Co., and Stadium Publishing, all loosely under his Red Circle Magazine group.

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On ‘The Texas-Siberia Trail’

Posted by William at 10:00 am Thursday, October 30, 2014 in Books, Opinion, Pulps, Review

spacer Back in the early spring, I had the great fortune of meeting Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson, the granddaughter of Maj. Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson at a nearby convention.

I was mostly familiar with the Major‘s background as one of the founders of DC Comics. But before that, he was a pulp fictioneer.

Nicky was promoting a book of her grandfather’s adventure stories, “The Texas-Siberian Trail.” The book was edited by John Locke and published by his Off-Trail Publications.

Being known as the Major obvious indicates that he had a military background. Nicky provides a very informative preface. She discusses the Major’s service in the U.S. Army Cavalry along the Texas-Mexico border and in the Philippines, and in Military Intelligence in Asia and Russia, then on the Western Front of World War I.

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Bits of pulp: The color of pulps & more

Posted by William at 10:00 am Tuesday, October 28, 2014 in Bits of Pulp, Events, News, Pulp Art, Pulp History, Pulps

I’ve mentioned before that — while there are a number of black-and-white photos of pulps on newsstands — I would love to see a vintage color photo of a newsstand covered in pulps.

A week ago today, artist Avi Katz sent me the best example of what it must have been like to stand in front of such a newsstand.

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3 pulp questions: John Olsen

Posted by William at 10:00 am Thursday, October 23, 2014 in 3 Pulp Questions, People, Pulps

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John Olsen

John Olsen takes a turn answering our “3 pulp questions” today.

John runs The Shadow in Review website and is the ebook manager for RadioArchives.com.

Way back in the early days of the web, John’s website was quite popular for posting scans of The Shadow stories. I’d propose that John’s efforts led to the return to print of the novels through Sanctum Books. I’m not sure Conde Nast realized that there was much interest in those old stories before then.

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Bits of pulp: Doc, Doc, goose

Posted by William at 10:00 am Thursday, October 16, 2014 in Bits of Pulp, Doc Con, Events, News, Pulp Collectibles, Pulps

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Lester Dent

With Doc Con starting tomorrow, let’s just make this a Doc Savage week at Yellowed Perils.

REMEMBERING LESTER DENT: Terence Towles Canote over at A Shroud of Thoughts blog has a nice tribute to “The 110th Anniversary of Lester Dent‘s Birth.”

While Dent is popularly remembered as the chief writer for Doc Savage Magazine, he also had other series characters and stories in the pulps. Canote covers that history in his tribute.

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Doc Con XVII begins Friday

Posted by William at 10:00 am Tuesday, October 14, 2014 in Doc Con, Events, News, Pulps

Doc Con 2014 is this coming weekend — Friday through Sunday, Oct. 17-19, in Glendale, Ariz.

If you’re keeping count, it’s the 17th annual gathering in Arizona.

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Wow, what a feat! This convention isn’t put on by an organization or business. It was created by fans of the Doc Savage stories as a way of celebrating their shared enthusiasm with fellow fans, and it’s still put on through the efforts of those very same fans.

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