News & Updates

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Recently Added Titles
March 2017
03/20/2017: Series, Issue, Item-level records (5,266); Metadata, Full-text, and Keyword Search added
February 2015
02/25/2015: Frank Reade Library (Sept. 24, 1892; "Frank Reade, Jr., and His New Steam Man")
02/25/2015: Tip Top Weekly (Jun. 26, 1897; "Frank Merriwell on the Desert")
02/25/2015: Nick Carter Weekly (Nov. 6, 1897; "Nick Carter's Promise")
02/25/2015: Deadwood Dick Library (Mar. 15, 1899; "Sierra Sam's Double")
02/25/2015: Buffalo Bill Stories (May 25, 1901; "Buffalo Bill's Best Shot")
02/25/2015: All-Story Library (Mar. 11, 1905; "Jack Lightfoot in the Woods")
02/25/2015: All Around Weekly (Dec. 9, 1910; "Bravest of the Brave")
02/25/2015: Wild West Weekly (Mar. 3, 1922; "Young Wild West in Death Canyon")
January 2015
01/10/2015: Catalog-level Search form; view Full Records; and [title], [pub], [editor] Fields added
October 2014
10/20/2014: Adventure (Feb. 1911; Jun. 10, 20, & 30; and Jul. 10, 20, & 30, 1925)
10/20/2014: Blue Book (Jan. 1924 and Nov. 1926; H. Bedford-Jones, "The Trail of Death")
10/20/2014: Short Stories (Jul. 10, 1924; Harold Lamb, "The Camp of the Snake")
September 2014
09/20/2014: Adventure (Jun. 1911; Aug. 1916; and Apr. 3, Jul. 18, Aug. 3, & Aug. 18, 1918)
09/15/2014: Adventure (Sept. 3 & Sept. 18, 1918; Dec. 3, 1919; and Aug. 10, 1925)
09/15/2014: Argosy Weekly (Mar. 15, 1930; Jul. 24, 1937; and Mar. 15, 1941)
09/15/2014: Startling Stories (Mar. & Nov. 1951; Dec. 1952; and Sum. & Win. 1955)
09/10/2014: Startling Stories (Nov. 1941, Jun. 1946, and Jan. & May 1947)
09/05/2014: Startling Stories (Jan., Mar., May, & Nov. 1939; and Jan. & May 1940)
May 2014
05/30/2014: Argosy All-Story Weekly (Dec. 1, Dec. 8, & Dec. 15, 1923; and Sept. 15, 1928)
05/30/2014: Railroad Stories (May 1934; Feb. & Apr. 1935; and Apr. 1936)
05/30/2014: Famous Fantastic Mysteries (Jan. & Feb. 1940)
05/30/2014: History of Famous Fantastic Mysteries (Sept. 1939-Jun. 1953)
April 2014
04/25/2014: Wonder Stories Quarterly (Sum. & Fall 1930; Spr., Fall, & Win. 1931; and Spr. 1932)
March 2014
03/30/2014: The All-Story (Dec. 1913; Edgar Rice Burroughs, Warlord of Mars, Pt. 1/4)
03/30/2014: Argosy (Mar. 27, 1920; Ray Cummings, "The Right Thing")
03/25/2014: Jungle Stories (Spr. 1946; and Spr., Fall, & Win. 1948)
February 2014
02/20/2014: Blue Book Magazine (Jun. & Jul. 1940, and Aug. 1941)
02/20/2014: Exciting Western (Aug. 1946 and Jan. 1947; W.C. Tuttle, Trail of the Flame)
02/10/2014: Amazing Stories Quarterly (Win.-Fall 1928; A. Hyatt Verrill, The World of the Giant Ants)
02/10/2014: Mammoth Adventure (Nov. 1946; Tom W. Blackburn, The Cassock and the Sword)
02/10/2014: Mammoth Mystery (Jan. 1946; Bruno Fischer, The Spider Lily)
02/10:2014: Wonder Stories Quarterly (Sum. 1932; Raymond Gallum, "The Menace from Mercury")
January 2014
01/15/2014: History of Dynamic Science Stories (Feb.-Apr./ May 1939)
Forthcoming Issues
The Popular Magazine (Feb. 1905), Rider Haggard, Ayesha; or, The Return of She, Pt. 2/8
The Popular Magazine (Mar. 1905), Rider Haggard, Ayesha; or, The Return of She, Pt. 3/8
The Popular Magazine (April 1905), Rider Haggard, Ayesha; or, The Return of She, Pt. 4/8
The Popular Magazine (May 1905), Rider Haggard, Ayesha; or, The Return of She, Pt. 5/8
The Popular Magazine (July 1905), Rider Haggard, Ayesha; or, The Return of She, Pt. 7/8
The Popular Magazine (Aug. 1905), Rider Haggard, Ayesha; or, The Return of She, Pt. 8/8
November 2013
11/05/2013: Planet Stories (May & Jul. 1951, and Jan. 1954)
October 2013
10/20/2013: History of Planet Stories (Win. 1939-Sum. 1955)
September 2013
09/25/2013: Adventure (Jun. 15, 1935; Talbot Mundy, Cleopatra's Promise; and May 1949)
09/25/2013: Blue Book (May 1936, Mar. 1937, and Jul. 1938)
09/15/2013: All Western Magazine (Apr.-Jun. 1950; Ernest Haycox, The Feudists)
09/15/2013: Exciting Western (Sept. 1947; W.C. Tuttle, Alias Adam Jones)
09/15/2013: Fifteen Western Tales (Jan. 1953; Bryce Walton, Draw Fast or Die!)
09/15/2013: Masked Rider Western (Winter 1945 and Nov. 1950)
09/15/2013: Ten Story Western (Dec. 1949; Tom Roan, Yellow Devil Starves Tonight!)
09/15/2013: Two-Gun Western (Novels) (Apr. 1942 and Nov. 1955)
August 2013
08/25/2013: Top-Notch Magazine (Feb. 1912, Mar. 1913, and May 1, 1915)
08/20/2013: The Black Mask (Nov. 1920 and Aug. 1922; Murray Leinster, "The Vault")
May 2013
05/20/2013: The Black Mask (Aug. & Sept. 1920, Dec. 1921, and Apr. 1922)
05/20/2013: Dime Mystery Magazine (Apr. 1938 and Sept. 1946)
05/20/2013: History of The Black Mask (Apr. 1920-Jul. 1951)
05/20/2013: History of Dime Mystery Magazine (Dec. 1932-Oct. 1950)
05/10/2013: Adventure (Jul. 1, 1928; Walt Coburn, "The Man Who Hated Himself")
05/10/2013: Western Story Magazine (Jul. 27, 1940)
05/10/2013: Detective Story (May 1938; Johnston McCulley, "Thubway Tham's Thothial Thecurity")
April 2013
04/15/2013: Spicy Adventure Stories (Sept. 1939)
04/15/2013: Bedtime Tales (c. 1935)
04/12/2013: Contexts, History of the Girlie Pulps (Beau Collier)
04/12/2013: History of "I Confess" (Feb. 1922-Feb. 1932)
04/12/2013: 10 Story Book (Jul. 1934)
04/12/2013: Follies (Win. 1933)
04/12/2013: Gay Life Stories (c. 1939)
04/12/2013: Hollywood Nights (May 1937)
04/12/2013: La Paree (Nov. 1935)
04/12/2013: Night Life Tales (Win. 1940)
04/12/2013: Pep Stories (Apr. 1932)
04/12/2013: Spicy Stories (Sept. 1936)
March 2013
03/30/2013: Contexts, Comic Books and Pulp Publishers (1940-52)
03/25/2013: Planet Stories (Nov. 1939, Spr. 1946, Nov. 1950, and Jan. 1951)
03/25/2013: Amazing Stories (Aug. 1927 & May 1934)
03/20/2013: Railroad Man's Magazine (Nov. 1910-May 1911)
03/05/2013: Railroad Man's Magazine (May-Oct. 1910)
February 2013
02/25/2013: Railroad Man's Magazine (Nov. 1909-Apr. 1910)
02/25/2013: History of Munsey's Magazine (Oct. 1891-Oct. 1929)
02/05/2013: Sweetheart Stories (Aug. 1942)
02/05/2013: Snappy (Nov. 1937)
02/05/2013: Ginger Stories (Jun. 1929)
02/05/2013: New Love Magazine (Mar. 1943)
02/05/2013: Contexts, The Love Pulps (Thomas H. Uzzell)
January 2013
01/05/2012: Wide Awake Magazine (Jan. 10, 1916)
01/05/2013: Saucy Stories (May 1919 & Aug. 22, 1922)
01/05/2013: Romance (Oct. 1920; Edgar Lee Masters, Mitch Miller, Pt. 5/5)
01/05/2013: Romance (Jan. 1920; Joseph Conrad, The Rescue, Pt. 3/6)
01/05/2013: Railroad Man's Magazine (Oct. 1912)
01/05/2013: Railroad Man's Magazine (Oct. 1909; Johnston McCulley, "The Courage Club" Nos. 5 & 6)
01/05/2013: Contexts, The Rise and Fall of the Pulps (John Locke)
Past Updates & Available Titles
December 2012
12/30/2012: Short Stories (Apr. 1916; Achmed Abdullah, "The Fetish of Remorse")
12/30/2012: People's (Nov. 1915; Bram Stoker, "Greater Love")
12/30/2012: Live Stories (Jul. 1919)
12/30/2012: Hutchinson's Story Magazine (UK; Sept. 1919; "Sapper", Bulldog Drummond, Pt. 1/5)
12/30/2012: Detective Story Magazine (Oct. 5, 1916; Sax Rohmer, The Yellow Claw, Pt. 1/6)
November 2012
11/15/2012: Interview, Urban Tulsa Weekly Vol. 22, No. 21 (Nov. 22-28): 15 (Patrick Scott Belk)
October 2012
10/15/2012: Argosy and Railroad Man's Magazine (Apr. 5, 1919)
10/10/2012: The All-Story Magazine (May 1905 & Aug. 1909)
10/07/2012: The Popular Magazine (Jul. 23 & Oct. 20, 1915)
10/07/2012: Astounding Stories (Nov. 1932, Nov. 1933, Jan. 1936, and Aug. 1938)
10/04/2012: Blogpost, "Fast Modernism: Popular Magazines and the Speed of Writing" (David Earle)
September 2012
09/30/2012: Thrills Incorporated (AUS; Mar.-July 1950, Nov. 1951, and Jun. 1952)
09/25/2012: North West Romances (Winter 1950)
09/22/2012: Air Wonder Stories (Jul.-Aug., Dec. 1929, and May 1930)
August 2012
08/10/2012: Contexts, From Standard Magazines to Pulps and Big Slicks (R.D. Mullen)
08/10/2012: The Black Cat (Dec. 1899)
08/10/2012: The Saturday Evening Post (Aug. 18, 1906; Joseph Conrad, Gaspar Ruiz, Pt. 4/4)
08/10/2012: Harper's (Sept. 1910; Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer, Pt. 2/2)
08/10/2012: Scribner's (March 1914)
08/10/2012: Collier's Weekly (Jun. 14, 1919; Joseph Conrad, The Crime of Partition)
08/08/2012: McClure's (Jul. 1897)
08/08/2012: The Red Book (Apr 1908)
08/08/2012: Everybody's (Mar. 1911)
08/08/2012: Smith's (Jul. 1913)
08/08/2012: Young's (Jan. 1914)
08/08/2012: Munsey's (Feb. 1915; Joseph Conrad, Victory: An Island Tale)
08/08/2012: The Smart Set (Dec. 1919)
July 2012
07/25/2012: The Popular Magazine (Jan. 7, Nov. 7, Dec. 20, 1916; Apr. 20, 1917; and Apr. 20, 1918)
07/20/2012: The Popular Magazine (Nov. 23, 1912; July 1, 1913; Nov. 7, 1914; and Feb. 23, 1915)
07/02/2012: Interview, "The PMP: Preserving Popular Fiction," Golden Gazette News (Patrick Scott Belk)
June 2012
06/30/2012: All-Story Weekly (Feb. 3, 1917; Jan. 25, June 14 & 21, 1919)
06/30/2012: Detective Story Magazine (Jan. 5, 1917)
06/25/2012: Dynamic Science Stories (Feb. and Apr./ May 1939)
May 2012
05/30/2012: History of Ranch Romances (Sept. 1924-Nov. 1971)
05/28/2012: History of Love Story Magazine (August 1921-Sept. 1954)
05/02/2012: Weird Tales (Oct. 1936; Oct. & Dec. 1937; Mar., July, & Nov. 1938; and April 1939)
April 2012
04/05/2012: Love Story Magazine (Mar. 10 and Oct. 20, 1934; Mar. 30, 1935)
04/05/2012: "I Confess" (Jan. 12, 1923)
04/05/2012: Ranch Romances (Sept. 1, 1933; Mar. 1, 1943; and Feb. 11, 1944)
04/02/2012: Amazing Stories (April 1928)
04/02/2012: The Argosy (November 1908; Albert Payson Terhune, From Flag to Flag, Pt. 1/4)
04/02/2012: Sea Stories Magazine (August 1929)
04/02/2012: Western Story Magazine (June 5, 1926)
04/01/2012: Issues #1-2 of Out of this World Adventures (July and Dec. 1950)
04/01/2012: Planet Stories (Fall 1944)
04/01/2012: Jungle Stories (Summer 1950)
04/01/2012: Indian Stories (Winter 1950)
04/01/2012: Ghost Stories (Jan. 1927)
04/01/2012: Basketball Stories (Winter 1937)
04/01/2012: Argosy All-Story Weekly (Oct. 21, 1922; Ray Cummings, The Fire People, Pt. 1/5)
04/01/2012: All-Story Weekly (June 19, 1920; Ray Cummings, "The Light Machine")
04/01/2012: The Frontier (May 1926)
04/01/2012: Detective Story Magazine (Aug. 27, 1921)
04/01/2012: Adventure (Oct. 1915; Albert Payson Terhune, "From the 'Tip' of the Rocket")
March 2012
03/28/2012: Contexts, The Longest Running Pulps (Mike Ashley)
03/28/2012: Contexts, Photos of Newsstands & Bookstalls from c. 1900-late 1940s
03/25/2012: Hutchinson's Story Magazine (UK; July 1919; Rider Haggard, "She Meets Allan," Pt. 1/9)
03/25/2012: The Merry Magazine (UK; March 1929)
03/22/2012: Wonder Stories (Dec. 1930; Jan.-Aug. 1931; Oct. 1931; Aug. 1932)
February 2012
02/22/2012: History of Astounding Stories (Jan. 1930- )
02/18/2012: History of Fight Stories (June 1928-Spring 1952)
02/18/2012: Issues #7-8 of Amazing Stories (Oct.-Nov. 1926)
02/13/2012: History of Amazing Stories (April 1926- )
02/10/2012: Issues #1-6 of Amazing Stories (April-Sept. 1926)
January 2012
01/25/2012: Contexts, Online Copyright Information & Resources
01/22/2012: Issues #1-3 of Famous Fantastic Mysteries (Aug./ Oct-Dec. 1939)
01/22/2012: Fight Stories (June 1928, Sept. 1930, and Aug./ Oct. 1949)
01/22/2012: Flying Stories (May 1929)
01/22/2012: Thrilling Adventures (July 1932)
01/22/2012: Weird Tales (Aug./ Sept. 1936; REH, Red Nails, Pt. 2/3)
01/22/2012: Weird Tales (July 1937)
01/22/2012: Weird Tales (Feb. 1938; REH, "Haunting Columns")
01/22/2012: History of Weird Tales: The Unique Magazine (Mar. 1923- )
01/22/2012: Contexts, Pulp Market Share 1922 (Jess Nevins)
01/22/2012: Contexts, "Office Dummy," or Prototype, Issues
01/20/2012: History of Air Stories: The 1st Air Story Magazine! (Aug. 1927-Winter 1939)
December 2011
12/10/2011: History of Detective Story Magazine (Oct. 5, 1915-Summer 1949)
12/10/2011: Contexts, Publishers' Checks
12/10/2011: Contexts, Publishers' Index Card Files
12/10/2011: Contexts, Form Rejection Letters
12/03/2011: Issue #1 of Air Stories (August 1927; 1st Aviation Pulp).
12/03/2011: Astounding Stories (Feb. 1932; Ray Cummings, Wandl, The Invader, Pt. 1/4)
12/03/2011: Frontier Stories (May 1927)
12/03/2011: Contexts, Pulp Magazine Circulations 1900-22
12/03/2011: Essay, "So What Is Pulp?" (Beau Collier)
November 2011
11/05/2011: Blogpost, "Popular Publications, Pulp Heroes, and the 99%: a Book Review" (David Earle)
October 2011
10/21/2011: History of Ginger Stories (Nov. 1928-1932)
10/18/2011: History of Top-Notch Magazine (Mar. 1910-Oct. 1937)
10/11/2011: History of Wonder Stories (July 1929-Winter 1955)
10/10/2011: History of Western Story Magazine (July 12, 1919-Aug./ Sept. 1949))
10/10/2011: Blogpost, "Pulps, Preservation, and Active Reading" (David Earle)
10/01/2011: Breezy Stories (March 1916)
10/01/2011: Green Book (March 1912)
10/01/2011: Short Stories (Aug. 10, 1926)
10/01/2011: World Fiction (Nov. 1922; Blasco Ibanez, "A Wedding Serenade")
September 2011
09/15/2011: History of New Story Magazine (Aug. 1911-Nov. 1915)
09/01/2011: Western Story Magazine (Nov. 25, 1922)
09/01/2011: Wonder Stories (Aug. 1934; A.L. Burkholder, "Dimensional Fate")
August 2011
08/25/2011: History of People's Story Magazine (July 1906-Aug. 15, 1924)
08/25/2011: History of Snappy Stories (Aug. 1912-1932)
08/20/2011: Ginger Stories (Feb. 1930)
08/15/2011: Amazing Stories (Dec. 1926; H.G. Wells, The First Men in the Moon [r], Pt. 1/3)
08/15/2011: Detective Story Magazine (Mar. 5, 1916)
08/15/2011: Live Stories (May 1919)
08/15/2011: Snappy Stories (Mar. 3, 1916)
08/10/2011: New Story (July 1914; H. Bedford Jones, A Discord in Avalon)
08/10/2011: People's Story (Nov. 25, 1922; Captain Dingle, The Redheads)
08/08/2011: History of The Popular Magazine (Dec. 1903-Oct. 1931)
08/05/2011: History of The Argosy (Jan. 1896-Dec. 1943)
08/05/2011: Contexts, Representative Authors' Payments 1885-1946
July 2011
07/30/2011: History of Adventure Magazine: America's No. 1 Pulp (Nov. 1910-Apr. 1971)
07/30/2011: History of All-Story (Jan. 1905-Jul. 17, 1920)
07/30/2011: History of The Cavalier (Oct. 1908-May 9, 1914)
07/25/2011: The All-Story Weekly (June 5, 1915; John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps, Pt. 1/2)
07/25/2011: Top-Notch Magazine (October 17, 1917)
07/25/2011: Essay, "The Golden Age of Pulp Fiction" (Mike Ashley)
07/20/2011: Adventure (Aug. 3, 1919; Baroness Orczy, "Needs Must")
07/20/2011: The Argosy (Aug. 1905; Albert Payson Terhune, The Fugitive, Pt. 1/4)
07/20/2011: Blue Book (Aug. 1916)
07/20/2011: The Cavalier Weekly (Sept. 28, 1912)
07/20/2011: The Popular Magazine (December 1908; H.G. Wells, Tono-Bungay, Pt. 4/5)
 
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