Vintage Science Fiction Pulp Magazines, A Closer Look. Episode

[@bradenwalker5844]

Super cool video. Thank you for sharing this beautiful art.

[@JoVanWilliams-k5v]

Really enjoyed the video. I’m starting to get into Pulps. I have a few. Thanks for sharing!

[@FromTheRoomOfLittleEase]

This guy is so cool. Pulp magazines are the high water mark of Western culture as far as I'm concerned. I'm glad to have found this channel. I wish you guys were my parents, heh.

[@1995yuda]

Beautiful stuff!

[@frankenoise]

The Boats of the Glen Carrig by WHH is actually pretty scary. Highly recommended it folks. Great collection too!

[@AldousOnTheFarm]

Great stuff. Thank you for sharing.

[@georgehsmyth1456]

An absolute joy watching this, thank you!

[@garylovisi357]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.

[@paraisoat]

Thank you for sharing your passion

[@garylovisi357]

Michael, thanks for your post, glad you liked the video, stay tuned, more to come.

[@collectorsescape8391]

I really loved the quality and of course, the colors and graphics are always so cool.

[@paulojorgemendeslima2633]

That was the first time I saw scify pulp magazines inside and I thought it was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. Great video!

[@garylovisi357]

Paola, while the covers are outstanding, the interior art is often just a good, black and white of course, but usually by the same great artists who did the covers. Glad you enjoyed the video.

[@historybuff66]

Beautiful collection, Gary. “Thrilling Wonder Stories” I always felt published many of the seminal science fiction stories of the Golden Age. The Arthur C. Clarke entry you mention, “30 Seconds-30 Days”, is best known as “Breaking Strain”, one of my favorites of his. It was one of a handful of stories that served as source material for Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey”.

[@alvinmarcus5780]

Thanks for showing us some of your pulps Gary. I've started collecting a few because I to love everything about them. I've even started getting the " Captain Future " reprints from Amazon and would like to get them all before it over. Not as cool as the real deal but to read there great. But I know I'm going to keep getting pulps from the past. Just to awesome not too. God bless you and the missus.

[@cassowarycoot27]

Thanks for the wonderful information Gary! Cant wait to see if you have any wild comic books in your collection!

[@garylovisi357]

I have some, bronze age mostly, maybe we’ll do somethjng on comic books in the future.

[@MrChubbyHubby.]

I did enjoy it Gary Lovisi, thank you for showing us your cool collection, and yes, the art is amazing, and a lot of the writing was great, they just did not always know that at the time. I was able to find some Doc Savage reprints years ago, are there reprints of any others?

[@garylovisi357]

@@MrChubbyHubby. many of the classic pulp novels have been reprinted in paperback and in newer trade paperbacks, some also on kindle. People love these stories

[@MrChubbyHubby.]

@@garylovisi357 Thank you for the info.

[@bozoclown2098]

Revive with color illustrations(colored pencil comic book art,watercolor, gouache). Signed print's. Added value items. 2025 can be a good year for revivals.

[@mibelloaleman]

Where can one buy these vintage magazines? Is it through online sites or shops? Your collection is gorgeous! 🛸🚀🙂

[@bozoclown2098]

Try using comic book pages instead of single illustration along with text to revive (alike plastic records) to bring back niche readers. Who know where it can grow

[@HorribleGamingFun]

those are really cool i wish we still had stuff like that i mean, i know there are still short story magazines and such, but i feel like they lack the magic of what they used to be

[@garylovisi357]

Wish we still did too. They were from a different era.

[@GRAF11113]

Wooww!!!

[@cliffwoodbury5319]

The art work in the pulps is so amazing and i know them being pulp they were made on cheap paper but in modern times i think it would sell well because being graphic novels they are compromises between comics and novels and if you like superheroes like so many i think people would transition to reading more!!!!!!

[@garylovisi357]

I agree, there are also many indy publishers putting out reprint and new pulp books that are great. Glad you liked the video.

[@ObscureBookAdventures]

Great video. You have some nice editions. I love those old pulps. I have only one and that’s an old Argosy magazine that’s falling apart. But I do have some reprints in which all stories by one character are reprinted. Like Vee Brown, Doctor Death (review of that one on my channel), and such. Do you know the reading event GarbAugust? Every August is dedicated to reading pulp and old trashy novels. This reading event is hosted by Olly over at CriminOlly. But I guess you read pulps all year round. lol. Well me too. I’m planning to read some pulp novels with giant apes in the next month for the reading event Giant Ape-Ril which I’m co-hosting. This is all about reading fiction and non-fiction about giant apes like King Kong, Bigfoot, and the Yeti. But I found also some interesting-looking stories in magazines like Amazing Stories and Astounding Stories.

[@pulsarstargrave256]

I almost fainted when he opened the first magazine! Old newsprint is fragile and easy to tear-- I have some Simon & Kirby romance comics and I handle them with care... and rarely! I doubt I'll do the whole Crystal casing thing but owning and showing are enough for me.

[@garylovisi357]

@@pulsarstargrave256 glad you enjoyed it.

[@pulsarstargrave256]

​@@garylovisi357 I did, you have a nice collection. UPDATE I thought the name "Alexander Blade" sounded familiar because it was also one of the pseudonyms David Vern Reed wrote under when he wrote for the pulps. Assuming you're correct about Mr. Brown, is it possible Brown had assistant writers who all wrote under the "Alexander Blade" moniker? If I remember correctly, "The Shadow's" primary writer Walter Gibson and his assistants wrote under the fictitious credit "Maxwell Grant"!

[@Glrk10]

Have you ever ran across any stories by L. Ron Hubbard?

[@garylovisi357]

Yes, sure, he wrote many fine sf and other pulp stories.

[@collectorsescape8391]

I love these :)

[@KabirHimself]

Is there a channel by chance or if you could narrate summary or explanations of these old pulp novels

[@garylovisi357]

There are so many and i have not read them all, of course, but i try to do a summary or info on the story, Author or artist when i am able.

[@bozoclown2098]

Add pulp text to comic books

[@rclark777]

Without pulp magazines, we'd never have Lovecraft or Asimov or comic books or even the entire sci-fi and horror genres as we know them.