Re: RARA-AVIS: RARA AVIS Proprietor Bill Denton and the Pulp Show encounter

From: Duane Spurlock ( duane@emazing.com)
Date: 01 May 2000


William Denton < buff@pobox.com> wrote: Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: RARA AVIS Proprietor Bill Denton and the Pulp Show encounter

<< The hardboiled pulps at the show could get pretty expensive, with the interesting BLACK MASKS costing the most--far beyond what I could every pay, especially if I wanted a collection of more than a miniscule size. I picked up half a dozen copies of ARGOSY from the '20s and '30s. Did they published much hardboiled stuff, or did HB writers publish in it
>>

Woolrich and Erle Stanley Gardner showed up in ARGOSY, as did Lester Dent, but Dent's stuff there isn't quite in the same league with the stuff he had in BLACK MASK. Others we would recognize showed up there from time to time. As a general interest pulp, ARGOSY didn't focus so much on HB crime, although crime stories ran there. I think ESG's "Whispering Sands" stories first ran there.
-- Duane Spurlock

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