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Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper #1102, Nov 11, 1876

Cartoonist James Albert Wales depicts the specter looming over the Presidential Election of 1876, which took place just days before this weekly hit the newsstands. This disputed election would soon trigger a constitutional crisis.

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Good Housekeeping 1906-05

Cover art by Karl Anderson

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Chimney Corner Vol 2 #52 from May 26, 1866

"The Death Fetch" is an interesting bit of horror featuring a student of the supernatural and the use of an old book of occult knowledge found at Princeton.

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Pluck and Luck #201, April 9, 1902 Frank Tousey, Publisher

Pluck and Luck was the longest-running American color-covered fiction weekly (that didn't convert into pulp format), running for 1605 issues 1898-1929.

Richard R. Montgomery is a pen name for the incredibly prolific Francis W. Doughty.

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Wild West Weekly #145, July 28, 1906 Frank Tousey, Publisher

An underappreciated American fiction series in the scheme of things, Wild West Weekly was launched by Tousey, acquired by Street & Smith in 1927 and published in pulp format thereafter. In total, it ran 1902-1943 for 822 issues

A bit of trivia, Young Wild West is referred to in The Maltese Falcon (1941) when Sam Spade contemptuously refers to Wilmer as Young Wild West.

Also, what the heck is it with this era and villains dressed as owls?

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A for the character of Paul Pry.

Snatch As Snatch Can

Dime Detective, September 15 1933

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The peril of Miss Martha Bigly

Larger view.

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May 20, 1879: "A flying monster— Miss Bigly's Thilling Adventure"

"The peril of Miss Martha Bigly, attacked by a giant specimen of the Argonauta, or winged Devil-Fish, on the Florida Coast, Near St. Augustine"

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First and last issues of The Rio Kid Western.

Featuring the character Bob Pryor aka: The Rio Kid. 

it ran from 1939 to 1953.

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The Rio Kid was a pulp hero character created by prolific Western writer Tom Curry (1900 – 1975). He was active from 1923 to 1972 with Rio Kid Western running from 1939 to 1953, making the character the last of the Pulp Heroes.

He, however, never got the love characters like The Shadow or Doc Savage got, as while he did get a 10 page comic book series in Thrilling Comics, never made it to radio, film or television.

His standout feature was that Bob “The Rio Kid” Pryor interacted with every famous real-life Wild West personality at least once during his 15-year career, apparently interacting with Doc Holliday more than Wyatt Earp did.

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Judge: Divorce Number, June 16. 1928

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Journal des Voyages #596, May 3, 1908.

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Happy Days, August 23, 1903.

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JCPenney winter coats ad

1962

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Fire Fighters a niche pulp published by Harold Hersey in the 1920s along with  The Dragnet Magazine, Spy Stories, Sky Birds, and The Underworld Magazine, the covers all sported an ancient Indian good luck symbol…a swastika-logo.

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For me Dashiell Hammett give a better look at the 1920s than F. Scott Fitgerald.

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Dell Books 3528 - Frank Kane - Hearse Class Male (by swallace99)