I must be confused, because I really only started collecting pulps
about 4 months ago. I did have a few pulps that I bought many years
ago, but I did not really pay much attention to pulps until recently.
In August, a friend gave me a ticket to the local Science Fiction
Museum, where they have many sci-fi pulps on display. Unfortunately,
this caused me to start buying them, and I'm concerned that this
could grow into a serious sickness. I should probably sue my friend
for exposing me to these magazines, but I don't have a good lawyer.
I tend to buy any title as long as the cover appeals to me, the
condition is good, and it's not too expensive. I like many of the
Fantastic Adventures covers. My favorite covers are the politically
incorrect "weird menace" pulps, but I don't have any of them, since
they usually go for at least $150 in nice condition.
-rk
On Nov 30, 2008, at 2:21 PM, Richard Halegua Comic Art wrote:
yes Bruce, BLB's are also part of the historical lexicon of
collecting. As a matter of fact, BLB's and Pulps have the same
problem: only comic book collectors have an interest in them due to
the tie between the 3 hobbies.
But pulps are in worse shape than BLBs by virtue of % of issues
collected. There are something like 40,000 different pulp issues
from 1895-1955 (not including most digest sized titles of the
1950s). Only about 2000 of them are collected today and titles like
Argosy, Blue Book, Detective Fiction Weekly etc are hardly noticed
except for those trying to acquire specific authors. Most pulp
collecting is confined to Shadow, Doc Savage, Spider, Weird Tales,
Black Mask, Terror Tales etc. Even 95% of all Sci-Fi titles are
dogs and things like westerns are better used to keep your
fireplace going
at least in BLBs there are very many with characters from comics.
But yes. all o fthese hobbies are on the way out. For younger
collectors, the most popular things will be video games in the
original boxes, and box art because like us, who collected comics &
posters etc because we had lots of fun with them as youngsters,
their generation is all about video.
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