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[Arg0naut]

Like many of us at these forums, I've searched far and wide trying to find the stories of our favourite pulp writers. Last night I stumbled across a library after our own hearts: http://www.pulpmags.org/magazines.html

The website contains complete scans of the old pulps in their original format. If you want to read some Robert E Howard off of first-printing pages, with the original interior artwork, letter columns and advertisements intact, then I'd say you're in luck!

It's a non-profit organization and a growing project, and the Howard pickings are a bit slim for now. You'll find him, at least, in an issue of WT from 1936 and an issue of Fight Stories from 1930.

While their collection isn't that comprehensive so far, it is pretty diverse, with offerings from a lot of mags I've never heard of before.

If any of you fellas have some original pulps and don't mind doing a little scanning (for posterity), I know we'd all appreciate getting some more issues available.

I'm damn excited to start reading these magazines! I have a few reprint pulps, but I never dreamed I'd have the chance to lay my eyes on those fabled, yellowing pages in their original glory. I know the computer is a sorry substitute for the real thing, but I can almost smell those pages coming through the screen!

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On a similar note, I've noticed that Wikisource has some WT content on-line too.
http://en.wikisource...lume_24/Issue_3
They aren't scans of the original pages, like with the Pulps Project, but sometimes the pictures are there.

Edited by Arg0naut, 25 September 2012 - 01:08 AM.

[Haemogoblin]

So cool. I'll definitely be checking these out.

[Arg0naut]

I thought this would generate more interest from people. Original Weird Tales, you guyz. Geez. OGWT.

[Alpha Beta Mu]

FYI, Wikisource has scans of the original pages too, they're just one level deeper. You have to click on either the "Source" tab (near the top of the page; it should be in between "Page" and "Discussion") or one of the page numbers that should be floating on the left of the page.

Wikisource's scans come from The Internet Archive (which has a few more scanned pulps but mostly in the science fiction genre).

[deuce]

I thought this would generate more interest from people. Original Weird Tales, you guyz. Geez. OGWT.

Muchas gracias, Argonaut. However, you seem to be laboring under the impression that most members of this forum are interested in Robert E. Howard (let alone the "pulps"). Au contraire. It's all about "Conan" and the movies thereof.