The Pulp Zone: covers, stories, and letters — as well as background — on the pulps. Once, over 1,000 pulp magazines of every genre filled the newsstands. Because the pulps were considered nonessentail trash by the Canadian war department during WWII, they were not imported from the US. As a result, the war was a golden age for Canadian genre writers, who found themselves with a sellers market of hundreds of made-in-Canada pulps with names like "Exciting Monkey Bum Stories for Boys" (well, maybe not exactly like that), hungry for their work. One thing a diligent reader of pulps will notice is all the ads for trusses. Here's what I wonder: were there more hernias back then, or fewer hernia surgeries? Link Discuss
The Pulp Zone: covers, stories,
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