Pulled this from my wife's old homestead before they bulldozed it. Shame they're a little degraded, but there's a lot of them here. Comics or dime store novels from the 1940s. Not sure if they're worth anything. Probably not more than a few dollars each I'd expect (if that). Thought some of you guys would get a kick out of seeing some Genuine "Pulp Fiction"!

The art on those old pulp magazines is amazing. Some of it (not these) is fairly risqué.

Karma? For sale?

I would love one of the western ones, just to read the real thing. One that is too degraded to sell, that is.

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Originally posted by Paragon:
Karma? For sale?

I would love one of the western ones, just to read the real thing. One that is too degraded to sell, that is.

Lemme root through and air them out a bit, and then you got it, I'll hook you up! Shoot me an email.

It's always worthwhile to go online and take a look at prices. You wouldn't believe what some of the old forty-cent paperback copies of Erle Stanley Gardner's Cool & Lam series are going for.

Like any other paper collectible, condition is just about everything, unfortunately. But they can be enjoyed as reading copies...I have a number of modern reprint collections of mystery and horror pulp tales, and the better stories are a hoot.

rodeo romances

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rodeo romances

I've been a pulp fiction fan for quite a while now, and along with a decent number of fiction-reprint collections have probably close to two dozen non-fiction books that examine the pulp industry in its era...I think I enjoy reading *about* the pulps more than I do reading the pulps themselves. Anyway and interestingly, another western romance pulp -- Ranch Romances -- was one of the more popular pulp magazines of its time.

I love the detective stories of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. Set in the '30s and '40s. Cell phones would've made life for their fictional detectives a helluva lot easier.