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An archive of all-fiction pulpwood magazines from 1896 - 1946 (pulpmags.org)
72 points by thisjepisje on July 6, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


All the covers seem to be low-res unfortunately

See also: http://comicbookplus.com/ for many comics that have gone into public domain. Recently used some cartoon images from there for a presentation in lieu of standard clip-art.


One of the highlights is reading the long-copy advertising on the back covers


I could see pissing away an awful lot of time on this. It's almost like I'd rather wait until I'm 60 to dig in. :-)


There's a bunch of really amazing SF writers mixed into much of the pulp, like Philip K. Dick, Lovecraft, Poe, etc. There seems to be a lack of a large amount of the old serials but a few of them remain.

Weird and annoying: The copyright expired on much of the works, yet some of the archives refuse to display the text on copyright grounds. Take for example "The Variable Man" [1], which Wikipedia [2] claims copyright already expired on due to lack of renewal. So probably a bunch of these issues could be released if they reviewed the records. (Luckily the Gutenberg Project has a copy available [3])

http://www.unz.org/Pub/AmazingSF http://www.unz.org/Pub/WeirdTales http://www.pulpmags.org/weird_tales_page.html http://www.unz.org/Pub/FantasticMysteries http://www.unz.org/Pub/FantasticNovelsSF http://www.unz.org/Pub/FantasySF http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/ADT1736.0001.001?c=moa;c=moa...

[1] http://www.unz.org/Pub/SpaceSF-1953sep-00006?View=PDF [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Variable_Man#Copyright_sta... [3] http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32154/32154-h/32154-h.htm




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