Pulpdom is a little magazine about the popular novelists and the pulp magazines they wrote for during the early 20th century. It is the current name of a series of magazines that I have published most of my life. It all began in May 1960 with ERB-dom No. 1, a fanzine about Edgar Rice Burroughs. After some twists and turns for over 36 years, the name Pulpdom was adopted in January, 1997, and the mission of the magazine gelled into a celebration of all the popular pulps & authors, from the 1800s into the 1950s.

The four most famous of these pulp authors are Edgar Rice Burroughs, Max Brand, H. Bedford-Jones and probably Lester Dent. The most famous pulp magazines are The Argosy, Blue Book, Amazing Stories, The Shadow, Doc Savage and at least 200 more, always reflecting personal interests. Where did they come from, what did they write, and what became of their efforts? Did they become very successfull like ERB, did they move into the slicks like George Worts, or into western novels en masse like Max Brand, or into dog stories like A. P. Terhune, or into movies or into a cult status like Robert E. Howard. Or did they stay in the pulps for the most part, like H. Bedford-Jones, a pulp king who wrote from 1911 through the early 1940s.

The current December 2006 issue, Pulpdom #47, is mostly about "The Argosy in Transition", a look at the contributors and front covers of most of the issues from Jan. 1912 through 1917, when it became a weekly for the first time since the 1890s. Its 28 pages, has several in color, and is available inside the USA $5 + $1 postage.

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The most recent back issues are Pulpdom #46, about The Foreign Legion in pulps,and Pulpdom #45 is a analysis of the Tarzan-imitators that have appeared through the years. These are available for $6 each + $1 postage. A few other back issues are available, including some issues of ERB-dom. Contact me by mail or by Email: ridgefire@frontier.net
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