In this issue: Columns: Back Issue Fulfillment Department ............................................... 2-3 Letters of Comment .........................................................................4 Articles: Windy City Convention Report ......................................................5 Some Thoughts on Anthologies .................................................... 6-8 10 Rules for Editing Anthologies......................................................9 Books I’d Like to See ............................................................... 10-13 ROCURED Three Views of Metropolis ....................................................... 48-49 Reviews: P The War Lord’s Gold ................................................................ 14-15 The White Shark ...................................................................... 14-15 Golden Perils 23 ............................................................................15 Reckoning in Red ................................................................... 16-17 High Adventure Issue 60 .......................................................... 16-17 Purple Prose 14 ..............................................................................17 High Adventure: Issues 56-59 ................................................... 18-20 ASILY Purple Prose 13 ..............................................................................20 It’s Raining More Corpses In Chinatown .......................................21 Book of the Dead .................................................................... 22-23 E ahoo.comGolden Perils 24 95403 CA, Santa Rosa, ............................................................................23 E Conan, the Complete Chronicles ............................................. 24-25 Pulp Adventures Issue 14 ................................................................26 Long Live The Dead.......................................................................27 B Nameless Cults......................................................................... 28-29 Straight From the Fridge, Dad .................................................. 30-31 The Mammoth Book of Pulp Action ....................................... 32-33 The Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction ....................................... 34-35 AN The Mammoth Book of Sword and Honor .............................. 36-37 Regular Features: C Recent Reading....................................................................... 38-44 Pulp(?) Sightings ...................................................................... 45-47 Mailing Comments .................................................................. 50-57 Our Featured Issue: Review of Argosy, June 17, 1933 .............................................. 57-58 Paul Stahr, Argosy Cover Artist .......................................................59 Research Overview ........................................................................59 Cover of Argosy, June 17, 1933 .......................................................60 UMBERS Corrections: I should have known that Merril Library is in Toronto as opposed to the way it N was spelled last issue. I also managed to misstype Donald Barr Chidsey’s name, twice, which doesn’t say much for my proofing skills. Cleve F. Adams is the author of the Violet McDade stories in Clues. Mike Chomko sold me “The Classic Era of American Pulp Fiction” for $39.95. The Vintage Library is carrying it for the same price. ACK Golden Perils issue 22 was the Fall 2001 issue. Uniformed readers should have been uninformed readers. B Prepared for P.E.A.P.S. mailing #59 for P.E.A.P.S. Prepared Harris Warren April, 2002April, (707) 577-0522 #10 Hwy, 3940 Old Redwood Issue 2.1 argosy_collector@y email: Back Numbers Can Be Easily Procured Back Issue Fulfillment Department: Missed Deadlines through the internet is not appropriate. I’ll probably use I had good intentions of getting out an issue for the extra space to run a copyright notice and other edito- the January mailing, but as the deadline approached, I re- rial items. alized that the issue was not ready to submit. I decided I’d I probably won’t get around to rescanning the back rather skip a mailing than submit something I didn’t feel cover, but the other corrections listed on page one will be was ready. When I found a typo in the corrections, I knew fixed. that the issue needed more work. I will be taking out personal information, such as I thought about doing a double issue this time my home phone number and address and adding copy- and numbering it 2/3 but that would only cause confu- right information. sion, for me if for no one else, down the road. This issue is While it could certainly have been a better look thicker than a “normal” issue, though, as I’ve had six months at the subject, Fredric Wertham’s book on Fanzines (see to work on it and I’m trying to catch up on reviews. Recent Reading on page 38) has some interesting com- ments on how fanzines operate. One of the most interest- Last Issue’s Follies ing is about how fanzine editors distribute complimen- Hopefully this issue will be a bit easier to read. tary copies. After thinking it over, I’ve come up with the When I put together the last issue I didn’t have a mailing following for Back Numbers: to look at and the inside margins were not set properly. Members of PEAPS get a hard copy through the I’m also trying for fewer typos and stupid errors, but that’s quarterly PEAPS mailing. Contributors, if any, will also be probably a forlorn hope. provided a hard copy. One thing I want to apologize for is the generally Anyone who sends me a copy of their fanzine or poor color of the scan on the back cover. I was running has a published letter of comment will be sent a PDF of late and I didn’t realize how badly the color had shifted on the current issue once the mailing reaches the PEAPS the scanner I was using. That’s what I get for proofing in membership. PDFs will also be sent to “friends of Back black and white and running my copies at the last minute. Numbers” and to PEAPS waitlisters if I have their email Looking over the review of Golden Perils 22 I addresses. found that I hadn’t given enough space to allow for an Anyone who is active in pulp fandom and who adequate review. Golden Perils is a very good product and has a project reviewed in Back Numbers will also be pro- its pulp newsline is invaluable. I think perhaps I was too vided a copy in PDF format if they can be contacted. I critical without describing the good points. feel it only fair to allow them the opportunity to respond, if they desire, in the next issue. Distribution After the most recent issue is received by PEAPS I’ve been impressed with Howard Hopkins’ idea members, the previous issues will be offered via email on to distribute Golden Perils over the internet in PDF for- the Pulpmags newsgroup and alt.pulp. I don’t want to re- mat. Since I work with Acrobat files on a daily basis, it’s lease the current issue because I think there should be an not a problem for me to convert an issue of Back Num- incentive to those who create their own zines and partici- bers into a screen-resolution PDF. pate in PEAPS. With this issue, I am going to start distributing This sounds complicated, hopefully in practice it the prior issue via email in PDF format. In other words, won’t be. when the members of PEAPS get this issue, issue one will be made available on the Pulpmags newsgroup to those APAzine vs. Fanzine who want to request it. Since I’m going to be distributing this zine be- There will be a few minor changes to Volume yond the PEAPS mailing, I’ve come upon a problem. Some 1.1, however. I am going to remove the comic strips that readers who are not PEAPS members have commented ran on page two. The decision to run them in the first that I am clearly writing for a certain audience and some place was a close one. I decided that sending a copyrighted of my references aren’t clear to them. comic strip to a small group of friends was questionable, This is caused by the fact that I am writing this as but acceptable. Publishing copyrighted material in a pub- an APA mailing, which causes me to have a different in- lication that is widely distributed to a large group of people tent than if I were doing this primarily as a normal zine Back Numbers Can Be Easily Procurred is published whenever Warren Harris gets around to it. Entire contents copyright 2002 by Warren Harris. All rights revert to creators upon publication. The current issue in PDF format is available for trade, a published letter of comment or if Warren thinks you’re an upstate guy. Issues are available for free in PDF format when the subsequent issue is received by the membership of the Pulp Era Amateur Press Association. 2 Back Numbers Can Be Easily Procured aimed at a general readership. friend and he couldn’t believe what a bargain it was for a When I’m writing I make the assumption that $9 per year membership. Of course, the “subscription” also my target audience is very knowledgeable about pulps. I requires 12 pages to be contributed each year, but I obvi- assume that everyone in PEAPS knows more about pulps ously don’t think that is a burden. than I do, so I don’t spend a lot of space or time in cover- I know that if I could buy a copy of the mailing ing what I consider the “basics.” without being a member of the waitlist for $6, I wouldn’t As a result, I don’t “fill in the blanks” when I’m have any incentive to turn out Back Numbers. As much as writing. For example,