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Operator No. 5
''Operator #5'' was a pulp magazine published between 1934 and 1939. Publication history In 1931 Street & Smith, one of the major pulp magazine publishers, launched ''The Shadow The Shadow is a fictional character created by American magazine publishers Street & Smith and writer Walter B. Gibson. Originally created to be a mysterious radio show narrator and developed into a distinct literary character in 1931 by Gibs ...'', the first of the hero pulps. It was an immediate success, and other publications quickly copied the format. Henry Steeger, the owner of pulp publisher Popular Publications, launched two hero pulps in 1933 in response: one was '' G-8 and His Battle Aces'', an air-war pulp, and the other was '' The Spider'', about a crime fighter.Murray (1983), p. 521. ''The Spider'' was successful, and Steeger decided to add another hero pulp. Steeger's idea, which he had been mulling over for while, was for a hero who would "single-handedly, or almost, save the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operator No 5 April 1934
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Street & Smith
Street & Smith or Street & Smith Publications, Inc., was a New York City publisher specializing in inexpensive paperbacks and magazines referred to as dime novels and pulp magazine, pulp fiction. They also published comic books and sporting yearbooks. Among their many titles was the science fiction pulp magazine ''Astounding Stories'', acquired from Clayton Magazines in 1933, and retained until 1961. Street & Smith was founded in 1855, and was bought out in 1959. The Street & Smith headquarters were at 79 Seventh Avenue in Manhattan; they were designed by Henry F. Kilburn. History Founding Francis Scott Street and Francis Shubael Smith began their publishing partnership in 1855 when they took over a broken-down fiction magazine."The Press: New Bottles" ''Time (magazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pulp Magazine
Pulp magazines (also referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 until around 1955. The term "pulp" derives from the Pulp (paper), wood pulp paper on which the magazines were printed, due to their cheap nature. In contrast, magazines printed on higher-quality paper were called "glossies" or "slicks". The typical pulp magazine had 128 pages; it was wide by high, and thick, with ragged, untrimmed edges. Pulps were the successors to the penny dreadfuls, dime novels, and short-fiction magazines of the 19th century. Although many respected writers wrote for pulps, the magazines were best known for their lurid, exploitation fiction, exploitative, and sensational subject matter, even though this was but a small part of what existed in the pulps. Digest magazines and men's adventure magazines were incorrectly regarded as pulps, though they have different editorial and production standards and are instead replacements. Modern superhero Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shadow (magazine)
''The Shadow'' was an American pulp magazine that was published by Street & Smith from 1931 to 1949. Each issue contained a novel about the Shadow, a mysterious crime-fighting figure who had been invented to narrate the introductions to The Shadow#Radio program, radio broadcasts of stories from Street & Smith's ''Detective Story Magazine''. A line from the introduction, "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows", prompted listeners to ask at newsstands for the "Shadow magazine", which convinced the publisher that a magazine based around a single character could be successful. Walter B. Gibson, Walter Gibson persuaded the magazine's editor, Frank Blackwell, to let him write the first novel, ''The Living Shadow'', which appeared in the first issue, dated April 1931. Sales were strong, and Street & Smith quickly moved it from quarterly to monthly publication, and then to twice-monthly. John Nanovic was hired as editor in 1932, and the lead stories were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hero Pulp
Pulp magazines (also referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 until around 1955. The term "pulp" derives from the wood pulp paper on which the magazines were printed, due to their cheap nature. In contrast, magazines printed on higher-quality paper were called "glossies" or "slicks". The typical pulp magazine had 128 pages; it was wide by high, and thick, with ragged, untrimmed edges. Pulps were the successors to the penny dreadfuls, dime novels, and short-fiction magazines of the 19th century. Although many respected writers wrote for pulps, the magazines were best known for their lurid, exploitative, and sensational subject matter, even though this was but a small part of what existed in the pulps. Digest magazines and men's adventure magazines were incorrectly regarded as pulps, though they have different editorial and production standards and are instead replacements. Modern superhero comic books are sometimes considered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Steeger
Henry Steeger III (May 26, 1903 – December 25, 1990) was an American magazine editor and publisher. Career Steeger co-founded Popular Publications in 1930, one of the major publishers of pulp magazines, with former classmate Harold S. Goldsmith. Steeger handled editorial matters while Goldsmith took care of the business side. Both were veterans of the pulp magazine business. Steeger had edited war pulps at Dell Publishing while Goldsmith had served as an editor at A. A. Wyn's Magazine Publishers. Steeger's new firm launched four titles which debuted on the newsstands with cover dates of October 1930. ''Battle Aces'' was devoted to aviation war stories and enjoyed a two-year run before changing titles. ''Detective Action Stories'', one of Popular Publications' most successful titles, enjoyed a run of seven years. The first issue featured an Erle Stanley Gardner story: "The Key to Room 537." ''Gang World,'' a crime fiction magazine featuring characters "in conflict with each oth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Popular Publications
Popular Publications was one of the largest publishers of pulp magazines during its existence, at one point publishing 42 different titles per month. Company titles included detective, adventure, romance, and Western fiction. They were also known for the several ' weird menace' titles. They also published several pulp hero or character pulps. History The company was formed in 1930 by Henry "Harry" Steeger, a former editor at Dell Magazines, and Harold S. Goldsmith, former managing editor of the Magazine Publishers group. It was the time of the Great Depression, and Steeger had just read ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' where he ran Ace Publications. The original intention was for Steeger to mostly run the editorial side of the publishing company while Goldsmith would operate the business side. Steeger realized that people wanted escapist fiction, allowing them to forget the difficulties of daily life. Steeger wrote "I realised that a great deal of money could be made wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
G-8 And His Battle Aces
''G-8 and His Battle Aces'' was an American air-war pulp magazine published from 1930 to 1944. It was one of the first four magazines launched by Popular Publications when it began operations in 1930, and first appeared for just over two years under the title ''Battle Aces''. The success of Street & Smith's ''The Shadow'', a hero pulp (a magazine with a lead novel in each issue featuring a single character), led Popular to follow suit in 1933 by relaunching ''Battle Aces'' as a hero pulp: the new title was ''G-8 and His Battle Aces'', and the hero, G-8, was a top pilot and a spy. Robert J. Hogan wrote the lead novels for all the G-8 stories, which were set in World War I. Hogan's plots featured the Germans threatening the Allied forces with extraordinary or fantastic schemes, such as giant bats, zombies, and Martians. He often contributed stories to the magazines as well as the lead novel, though not all the short stories were by him. The cover illustrations, by Frederick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Spider (magazine)
''The Spider'' was an American pulp magazine published by Popular Publications from 1933 to 1943. Every issue included a lead novel featuring Spider (pulp fiction), the Spider, a heroic crime-fighter. The magazine was intended as a rival to Street & Smith's ''The Shadow (magazine), The Shadow'' and Standard Magazine's ''The Phantom Detective'', which also featured crime-fighting heroes. The novels in the first two issues were written by R.T.M. Scott, R. T. M. Scott; thereafter every lead novel was credited to "Grant Stockbridge", a Pen name#Collective names, house name. Norvell W. Page, Norvell Page, a prolific pulp author, wrote most of these; almost all the rest were written by Emile Tepperman and A. H. Bittner. The novel in the final issue was written by Prentice Winchell. The Spider's secret identity was Richard Wentworth, a rich New Yorker. Unlike some contemporary pulp heroes, the Spider was willing to kill criminals, and when he did so he left a red spider inked on hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Leo Zagat
Arthur Leo Zagat (1896–1949) was an American lawyer and writer of pulp fiction and science fiction. Trained in the law, he gave it up to write professionally. Zagat is noted for his collaborations with fellow lawyer Nat Schachner. During the last two decades of his life, Zagat wrote short stories prolifically. About 500 pieces appeared in a variety of pulp magazines, including ''Thrilling Wonder Stories'', '' Argosy'', ''Dime Mystery Magazine'', '' Horror Stories'', ''Operator No. 5'' and ''Astounding''. Zagat also wrote the "Doc Turner" stories that regularly appeared in ''The Spider'' pulp magazine throughout the 1930s and the "Red Finger" series that ran in '' Operator #5'', and wrote for '' Spicy Mystery Stories'' as "Morgan LaFay". A novel, '' Seven Out of Time'', was published by Fantasy Press in 1949, the year he died. His most well-known series is probably the ''Tomorrow'' series of six novelettes from ''Argosy'' (1939 thru 1941), collected into two volumes by Altus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Gruber
Frank Gruber (born February 2, 1904, Elmer, Minnesota, died December 9, 1969, Santa Monica, California) was an American writer of short stories, novels, and screenplays. Included in his work are stories for pulp fiction magazines, dozens of novels (mostly Westerns and detective yarns) and scripts for Hollywood movies and television shows. He sometimes wrote under the pen names Stephen Acre, Charles K. Boston and John K. Vedder, and also was the creator of three TV series. Career Gruber said that as a nine-year-old newsboy, he read his first book, ''Luke Walton, the Chicago Newsboy'' by Horatio Alger. During the next seven years he read a hundred more Alger books and said they influenced him professionally more than anything else in his life. They told how poor boys became rich, but what they instilled in Gruber was an ambition, at age nine or ten, to be an author. He had written his first book before age 11, using a pencil on wrapping paper. Age 13 or 14, his ambition die ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Weinberg (author)
Robert Edward Weinberg (August 29, 1946 – September 25, 2016) was an American author, editor, publisher, and collector of science fiction. His work spans several genres including non-fiction, science fiction, horror, and comic books. Biography Born in New Jersey in 1946, Weinberg sold his first story in 1967. Most of his writing career was conducted part-time while also owning a bookstore; he became a full-time writer after 1997. Weinberg was also an editor, and edited books in the fields of horror, science fiction and western. Weinberg graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology. From 1970 to 1981, Weinberg edited and published ''Pulp'', a fanzine devoted to pulp magazines; ''Pulp'' became noted for its interviews with pulp writers such as Walter B. Gibson and Frederick C. Davis. Pulp ran for 14 issues. He also published the ''Pulp Classics'', ''Lost Fantasy'', ''Weird Menace'', and ''Incredible Adventures'' series of pulp reprints at the same time. In comics, Weinbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
