Before launching what would become the Marvel Comics empire, Martin Goodman published low-rent pulp magazines issued by a dizzying array of shell companies designed to insulate him from creditors. In order to compete in an already-crowded marketplace, he allowed editor-in-chief Robert O. Erisman to distinguish these periodicals with lurid covers and sensational fiction. They eschewed explicit descriptions of sex acts but otherwise left nothing to the imagination, routinely trafficking in torture and paraphilia. Bearing Goodman’s “Red Circle” trademark, the horror pulps MYSTERY TALES, UNCANNY TALES, MARVEL TALES, and REAL MYSTERY were transgressive in the extreme, shattering the boundaries of good taste and igniting a firestorm of outrage that eventually drove them off the newsstands. Although Goodman continued publishing pulps as well as comic books well into the 1950s, he deliberately allowed MYSTERY TALES and its sister magazines to lapse into obscurity, making no attempt to renew their copyrights or reprint their contents in other periodicals or paperback editions. This anthology collects the wildest, most offensive stories from those long-forgotten magazines, making it a veritable cornucopia of sexual violence and perversion!

Satan Lives for My Love!: Sex and Sadism in Marvel's Horror Pulps, 1938-1940

Literature & Fiction

Hulse, Ed

Genre Fiction

Murania Press

The Art of the Classic Western Movie Poster

Arts & Photography

Graphic Design

Schiffer

The Art of Classic Crime and Mystery Movies: From the Earliest Poverty Row Movies to the Films of the 1970s

Since 2002, Blood ‘n’ Thunder has explored American popular culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries as manifested in the era's popular fiction—dime novels, story papers, nickel weeklies, pulp magazines—and such derivative storytelling vehicles as stage melodramas, motion pictures, and Old Time Radio programs. Blood ‘n’ Thunder’s readers include not only veteran fans and collectors of such material, but also newly interested hobbyists born decades after the heyday of pulps and related narrative forms. This 340-page book collects the finest articles and reviews that appeared in Blood ‘n’ Thunder’s long-out-of-print first ten issues—over 125,000 words of history, biography, and commentary, impeccably researched and lovingly presented by devotees for devotees. It’s a one-volume encyclopedia for aficionados of vintage adventure, mystery and melodrama.

The Best of Blood 'n' Thunder: Selections from the Award-Winning Journal of Adventure, Mystery and Melodrama in American Popular Culture

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Murray, Will

Grams, Jr. Martin

Trost, Mark

Antiques & Collectibles

Ed Hulse

The latest issue of this award-winning journal features extensive articles on: the pulp-fiction origin and first film appearance of Johnston McCulley's Zorro; the creation and early years of the Green Hornet radio show; the efforts of a fledgling writer to resurrect Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu; the rediscovery of a long-lost Republic cliffhanger serial, Daredevils of the West; Part Two of an extensive survey of The Popular Magazine; and much more. The issue is over 100 pages in length and sports dozens of rare illustrations.

Blood 'n' Thunder: Winter 2010

Between 2002 and 2016, BLOOD 'N' THUNDER was the premier journal for devotees of adventure, mystery and melodrama in American popular culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This award-winning magazine, written by enthusiasts for enthusiasts, eventually expanded its readership to include casual fans of vintage storytelling mediums: pulp fiction, motion pictures, Old Time Radio drama, and so on. BLOOD 'N' THUNDER, moribund for three years, has now returned in a new format but with the same excellence of writing and research. The articles and essays are scholarly without being dry or academic in nature; no publish-or-perish hackery here. This revival issue covers a variety of subjects, all related to pulp fiction. David Kalb documents the history of the long-lost 1941-42 radio series featuring Street & Smith's Avenger; he compares recently uncovered scripts to the novels from which they are adapted. David Saunders, whose father Norman was among the most prolific painters of lurid pulp covers, profiles the forgotten publisher J. Thomas Wood. Novelist and pop-culture historian Will Murray weighs in on pulp pulchritude—an appreciation of artists whose covers sported alluring women. Indefatigable researcher Rick Lai offers a detailed chronology of the Jimgrim saga, a multi-novel series penned by pulp-fiction giant Talbot Mundy. BLOOD 'N' THUNDER editor Ed Hulse celebrates the Zorro centennial (he first appeared in a 1919 issue of the legendary ALL-STORY WEEKLY) with a behind-the-scenes account of the making of Douglas Fairbanks' 1920 swashbuckling hit THE MARK OF ZORRO. Ed also supplies a look at HAWK OF THE WILDERNESS, a 1938 cliffhanger serial adapted from the popular imitation-Tarzan novels that appeared in the venerable pulp BLUE BOOK.

Blood 'n' Thunder, Volume Two, Number One

Saunders,David

Kalb, David

Lai, Rick

Independently published

Innumerable Hollywood biographies and movie history books have been written in retrospectby film historians who relied partially if not extensively on the information provided by theindustry's trade and fan magazines.Long before the modern concept of social media outlets were imagined, these magazines offeredthe curious public a way to further satisfy their obsession for movies outside the darkenedauditoriums of the cinema. These publications, though tightly controlled by the industry, alsoserved as documentation-a window into the popular culture of the day-in feature articles, movie reviews, and product advertisements-and they still do today.In this volume, the first twenty years of WilliamPowell's life and career are presented unfilteredin a collection of feature articles by contemporaryscribes of the industry, along with the generouslyadded illustrative material culled from our collectionand the collections of several other dedicated movieenthusiasts. They chronicle the silent introductionof William H. Powell to movie audiences in the 1920sand follow his development from snidely villain tothe more charming and sophisticated roles for whichhe achieved fame in the early talkies. Many aspectsof his public and private life are revealed by someof the people who knew him best during the yearsleading up to the Second World War

William Powell: Vintage Movie Magazines Revisited

Santa Maria, Nick

Performing Arts

This special book-length (234 pages) issue is our most ambitious yet. The main feature is a 22,000-word essay on Zane Grey and his involvement with Hollywood, illustrated with more than 60 rare photos. Other articles cover Tom Mix's silent-movie adaptations of Max Brand novels, the evolution of Western fiction in pulp magazines, the making of Republic's 1938 cliffhanger serial featuring the Lone Ranger, an overview of the Doubleday-published pulp titled WEST, and a behind-the-scenes report on the discovery and marketing of Roy Rogers. Finally -- and this last item would be worth the price alone -- we reprint a classic 1919 Western novella by Stewart Edward White, THE KILLER, which has been out of print for decades and was the inspiration for the 1932 George O'Brien Western titled MYSTERY RANCH. At 36,000 words, this thrilling yarn deserves publication as a standalone book, but we've included it as bonus material! There are nearly 100 movie photos reproduced in this issue, and nearly as many pulp covers and original pieces of art by such well-known Western illustrators as Walter M. Baumhofer, Tom Lovell, and Gayle Hoskins, to name just a few.

Blood 'n' Thunder: Winter 2012: All-Westerns Double Issue

Brand,Max

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The Spring 2012 issue features a Will Murray article -- almost a psychoanalysis -- on the Spider, pulpdom's most emotionally complex hero. BnT editor Ed Hulse offers a detailed, behind-the-scenes look at the 1940 cliffhanger serial starring Victor Jory as The Shadow. Old-Time Radio historian Martin Grams Jr. presents a comprehensive overview of the short-lived 1948 Green Lama radio series based on Ken Crossen's pulp hero. A 1941 writers-magazine article by Frank Gruber stresses the importance of invention in plotting mysteries. A classic hard-boiled detective story (William E. Barrett's "The Mobster Man" from 1933) and several departments round out the issue, which has the usual complement of rare photos, pulp covers, and original artwork.

Blood 'n' Thunder: Spring 2012

Gruber, Frank

The great movie serials of yesteryear are covered in 20 informative essays culled from the pages of BLOOD 'N' THUNDER, the premier journal of adventure, mystery and melodrama in American popular culture of the early 20th century. There are no gushy fanboy puff-pieces in this book; each essay is undergirded with solid research and, in many cases, interviews with the actors, writers and directors involved. Titles covered at length include THE IRON CLAW (1916), PATRIA (1917), THE GREEN ARCHER (1925), THE HOUSE WITHOUT A KEY (1926), JUNGLE MYSTERY (1932), THE RED RIDER (1934), NEW ADVENTURES OF TARZAN (1935), TIM TYLER'S LUCK (1937), SECRET OF TREASURE ISLAND (1938), THE LONE RANGER (1938), THE SHADOW (1940), DRUMS OF FU MANCHU (1940), and DAREDEVILS OF THE WEST (1943). Serial performers and technicians interviewed specifically for these articles (over a period of several decades) include Kay Aldridge, Henry Brandon, Herman Brix, Yakima Canutt, George DeNormand, Rose Hobart, Iris Meredith, Cecilia Parker, Barry Shipman, Frank Leon Smith, Frankie Thomas, and William Witney. Nearly 100,000 words long and over 300 pages, the book is illustrated with two lengthy galleries including dozens of rare stills, posters and lobby cards from the serials under discussion. This is a must-have volume for anyone who is seriously interested in the history of motion-picture chapter plays.

Blood 'n' Thunder's Cliffhanger Classics

Humor & Entertainment

Taves, Brian

Layton, Rex W.

Neyer, Daniel J.

Movies

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