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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 16, 2017 13:57:20 GMT -5
I was digging through some stuff and discovered that Weird Tales, at its height, struggled to maintain sales of 50,000 copies per issue. This was at a time that the top pulps were selling a million an issue. It's become such an iconic magazine that you really don't expect that.
If you were selling primarily to Weird Tales (I'm looking at you, Lovecraft and Howard) you were pretty close to the bottom of the pulp food chain.
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Post by Rob Allen on Nov 16, 2017 14:18:12 GMT -5
If you were selling primarily to Weird Tales (I'm looking at you, Lovecraft and Howard) you were pretty close to the bottom of the pulp food chain. That's part of the reason why Howard stopped writing Conan stories to focus on his humorous Western tales of Breckinridge Elkins for Action Stories magazine.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 16, 2017 14:24:39 GMT -5
If you were selling primarily to Weird Tales (I'm looking at you, Lovecraft and Howard) you were pretty close to the bottom of the pulp food chain. That's part of the reason why Howard stopped writing Conan stories to focus on his humorous Western tales of Breckinridge Elkins for Action Stories magazine. That makes sense. Action Stories was published by Fiction House. It had to have paid better than Weird Tales. This came about because I was looking at Lovecraft. I have to think that he's probably one of the most recognizable pulp writers at this point to the general public. But he was really almost a complete failure as a writer when he was working.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 16, 2017 14:50:22 GMT -5
That's part of the reason why Howard stopped writing Conan stories to focus on his humorous Western tales of Breckinridge Elkins for Action Stories magazine. That makes sense. Action Stories was published by Fiction House. It had to have paid better than Weird Tales. This came about because I was looking at Lovecraft. I have to think that he's probably one of the most recognizable pulp writers at this point to the general public. But he was really almost a complete failure as a writer when he was working. Especially since Farnsworth Wright was a notoriously bad payer. Howard dreamed of writing for the big magazines... Adventure, Argosy... but he ended up selling to whoever would finally accept his stories, because he wrote for a living. In his letters to Lovecraft, Howard stated that he would have been perfectly happy writing nothing but tales of the old west for the rest of his career. He had great love for the history of his country.
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Post by Confessor on Nov 16, 2017 15:32:40 GMT -5
So, anyone else looking forward to the Classic Comics Christmas 2017 yet?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2017 15:53:49 GMT -5
So, anyone else looking forward to the Classic Comics Christmas 2017 yet? I wanted to take part of it last year and I didn't put my heart into it. Not only that, I'm suspending my Batman Thread in December so that I can focus on this thing alone. Whatever the topic is ... it's will be a challenge to put this together. I just can't believe how fast time flies around here. I was hoping that shaxper will make some announcement soon.
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 16, 2017 17:33:34 GMT -5
So, anyone else looking forward to the Classic Comics Christmas 2017 yet? Heh, heh, heh. Cei-U! I twirl my mustache!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2017 0:21:00 GMT -5
Full Body Umbrella
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Post by wickedmountain on Nov 17, 2017 12:00:14 GMT -5
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Post by wickedmountain on Nov 17, 2017 12:01:58 GMT -5
Hi everyone been long time not feeling to well lately. But wanted everyone here to know haven't forgotten you all this is a great community. With some great people here. I've missed you around here and your presence here. Thanks for dropping by and saying "Hello" here. Thanks friend very nice of you to say nice to be back. 😊 I have missed you and everyone else as well.
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Post by wickedmountain on Nov 17, 2017 12:03:50 GMT -5
Hope everyone here has been doing well what has everyone been up to?
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Nov 17, 2017 22:19:29 GMT -5
Hope everyone here has been doing well what has everyone been up to? Watching Punisher on Netflix.
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Post by Pharozonk on Nov 18, 2017 14:29:37 GMT -5
I just submitted my application for my first solo post-college apartment! Is this what adulting is like?
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Post by hondobrode on Nov 18, 2017 18:24:11 GMT -5
Yer getting there Pharo
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2017 23:39:27 GMT -5
File Under: Things to make you feel old... Yesterday, Saturday the 18th of November marked the 25th anniversary of the release of Superman #75 featuring the Death of Superman... That's twice as long ago from now as the release of FF #1 was when I read my first Marvel comic, and longer than the span between Action Comics #1 and FF #1, yet for some reason I still think of Superman #75 as a modern comic, not one that now lies in the dustbins of history and qualifying as Vintage by most common standards of the term in collectibles and antiques. I still get the "but wasn't that just a couple of years ago" reaction when I think of this book, but no, it;s 25 freaking years old now. -M
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