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Pulpsmith [v 7 #4, Winter/Spring 1988] ed. Harry Smith (Smith, The, $3.00, 144pp+, digest, cover by Brooks) [PSP] 3 · Friday in Belfast · Joan L. Cannon · ss 8 · Manly Obligations · William J. Watkins · ss 15 · Three Heads · Roger Finch · pm 16 · Know Thyself · Don Lago · ar 20 · Painting at Night · John O’Dell · pm 21 · Ceremony of Grapes · Edward Lynskey · pm 22 · To Old People · Hugh Ogden · pm 24 · The Unseen Artist · Ruth Shigezawa · ss 32 · Nova · Marcia Hurlow · pm 33 · Acclaim · Greg Anderson · ss 36 · Veronique’s Valediction · Russell Lucas · pm 37 · Sightings Through a Hole in the Wall · Bruce Wilkinson · ss 42 · The Monitor · Henry Alan Paper · ss 46 · The Original Charlie Chan · Dick O’Donnell · ar 52 · Raymond Chandler · Dolores Hanney · ar [Raymond Chandler] 57 · When There’s Nothing · Stephen Reilly · pm 58 · Coney Island Baby · Mary Schafer · pm 59 · Corpus Vile · Victoria McCabe · pm 60 · Anti-Depressants · Victoria McCabe · pm 62 · Faith · Michael Corbett · pm 63 · Everybody Wants · S. M. Plottner · pm 64 · The Next Duty Roster · Lanny Gibson · ss 72 · Nuclear Destruction · Barbara Petoskey · pm 73 · North Dakota · Joe Klein · pm 74 · Pink Sheets · Donald Phelps · pm 76 · Walking to the Barber Shop · Patrick McKinnon · ss 79 · Time Poems 79 · Night Blooms · Melissa Morphew · pm 80 · Perspectives · Mordecai Marcus · pm 81 · Zechar’s Barn · Myrna J. Stone · pm 82 · Reversal · Dorothy Friedman · pm 83 · February Letter · Cynthia Hoffman · pm 84 · A Vision · Ray Tumbleson · pm 84 · When My Father · Paula Meehan · pm 85 · Swingset at Dusk · LeAnne Setlak · pm 86 · The Truth · David Nixon · pm 87 · Lorelei · Joanna Warwick · pm 88 · Wildness in Old Men · Daniel Lusk · pm 89 · Imagine Now · Daniel Lusk · pm 90 · The Fuzzy Fifties · Philip Miller · pm 92 · The Sixties · Robert McDowell · pm Pulpsmith Fll ’87 102 · Little Poems · Various Authors · pm 104 · At the Grave · Jacques Dauphin; trans. by Ron Offen · pm 108 · A Letter · Vera Lachmann; trans. by Spencer Holst · pm 109 · Down to the Sea · Richard Marsh · ar 111 · Verse Comedies 111 · All Sorts Plumbing · Robert Feinstein · pm 112 · The War Winds Down · Paul Humphrey · pm 113 · Diner Belle · D. Nurskey · pm 114 · Suzy-Q · Colleen Black · pm 115 · Experimental · Dean Blehert · pm 115 · King Kong · Robert Chute · pm 116 · Nea Bag Lady · William Packard · ar 122 · Night Light · Edward Lynskey · pm 123 · Waiting for Roses · T. Kretz · pm 125 · The Mute · Joseph Martin · pm 126 · Moderation · John Tagliabue · pm 127 · Kabbalah · David Gershator · pm 128 · How We Inform · Carolyn Stoloff · pm 129 · A Clone to His Master · Joseph Lazarus · pm 130 · The Killer Instinct · H. L. Van Brunt · ar 133 · What a Man Wants · Phil Tabakow · pm 134 · On John Reed · Sidney Bernard · ar 136 · Joyous Celebration · Sidney Bernard · pm 137 · Reagan-Gorbachev · Sidney Bernard · ar
Pulpsmith [Volume 8, 1989 Giant Edition] ed. Harry Smith (Smith, The, $10.00, 384pp, digest, cover by Smith) [PSP] 4 · Letter from the Editor · Harry Smith · ed 6 · Self-Portrait Mixed-Media · Dan Daly · ss 16 · TV 2001 · Larry Tritten · ss 23 · The Market Place · Peter Halfar · ss 26 · Soho Suite · Nancy Wolf · pi 39 · Down & Out on Murray Hill · Harry Smith · ar 51 · Three Poems · Menke Katz · pm 54 · Six Poems · Lloyd Van Brunt · pm 64 · Flying to Cambodia · John Bennett · na 154 · Breaking the White Arc · Alan Napier · pm 159 · Four Poems · Edward Zuckrow · pm 164 · The Jungle Burial · Mark Heydon · ss 172 · Night Walk · Patricia Mees Armstrong · pm 174 · Swimming with the Manatees · Deborah Rose O’Neal · ss 180 · Shark on the Playgrounds · David Michael Nixon · pm 181 · In Tarpit Mirrors · David Michael Nixon · pm 182 · Cops · Patrick McKinnon · pm 183 · The Geese · Patrick McKinnon · pm 184 · Guess Who? · Joseph Lazarus · pm 186 · Digital Analysis · Lloyd Van Brunt · pm 187 · The Children’s Unit · Nan Wigington · pm 188 · Revery 17 · Stanley Nelson · ss 191 · The Past Can Be Dangerous · Colleen Black · pm 192 · Leopard Country · Harry Humes · pm 194 · Tying Trout Flies on Shrove Tuesday · Harry Humes · pm 195 · Aunt Bert & The Missouri Steam Roller · S. K. Carew · pm 196 · Hundred Yard Hill · William John Watkins · ss 202 · Mr. Hoover in the Darkness · John Elsberg · pm 203 · Three Poems · Charles Wyatt · pm 207 · The Ultimate Metaphor · Mary Stafford · ss 208 · By God · Terry Kennedy · pm 209 · Letter to Tanck · Anthony Robbins · pm 211 · When Grandma Spent the Night · Cheryl Darnell · pm 212 · Mother Son · Michael Beres · ss 219 · Mt. San Jacinto at Dawn · Lance Lee · pm 220 · Monet · Lance Lee · pm 221 · Cezanne Dazzles Mt. San Victoire · Lance Lee · pm 222 · Why Not Agamemnon · Hilary Tham · pm 225 · Asses · Nan Sherman · pm 226 · Eggs Over Easy · Colleen Black · pm 227 · Jewels in the Pudding · Karen Douglass · pm 228 · Sam the Sexslave Speaks · Tuli Kupferberg · pm 228 · The Mistress Susanna Replies · Tuli Kupferberg · pm 229 · Quark Fog · Eric Ormsby · pm 231 · Me and the Deipnosophist · Sean Masters · ss 235 · Tilly’s Song · Kingsley Vogan · pm 236 · A Banquet of Cliches · Jared Smith · pm 242 · The Cleveland Indian · Luke Salisbury · na 279 · Encountering My First Spring Flower · Robert Bowie · pm 280 · Train…Dry Thistles…Some Weeds · Jared Smith · pm 281 · Boiled Grass and the Broth of Shoes · Richard Nason · ar 310 · The Ammons Vendler · Harry Smith · ar 324 · Leon Edel’s Henry James · Jim McCartin · ar 336 · Arts End Rescues Mangan · Richard Nason · ar 350 · Election Night Walk · Sidney Bernard · ar 357 · Silicon Poetry · Thomas Easton · ar 362 · On the Work of John O’Hara · Donald Phelps · ar [John O’Hara] 367 · On the Work of Paul Bowles · Donald Phelps · ar [Paul Bowles] 373 · On the Work of Arch Oboler · Donald Phelps · ar [Archie Oboler] 376 · On the Work of Ree Dragonette · Donald Phelps · ar [Ree Dragonette] 380 · Obit: Robert Reinhold · Anon. · ob [Robert Reinhold] 382 · Weigh Station · Misc. Material · ms
Punk Planet
Punk Planet [#52, November/December 2002] ed. Daniel Sinker (; Chicago, IL, $4.95, 176pp, bedsheet) [TM] 116 · Remembering the Millennium · Mark Brown · ss
Punk Planet [#53, February 2003] ed. Daniel Sinker (; Chicago, IL, $4.95, 176pp, bedsheet) [TM] 108 · Sheridan Drive-In (1978) · John McNally · vi
Punk Planet [#54, March/April 2003] ed. Daniel Sinker (; Chicago, IL, $4.95, 166pp, bedsheet) [TM] 111 · The Usual Punishment · Amy Knox Brown · vi
Punk Planet [#55, May/June 2003] ed. Daniel Sinker (; Chicago, IL, $4.95, 184pp, bedsheet) This issue devoted to printed matter. [TM] 32 · Interview with Dave Eggers, Barb Bersche, & Eli Horowitz of McSWEENEY’S · Daniel Sinker · iv [Dave Eggers; Barb Bersche; Eli Horowitz] 35 · Marrakesh · Dave Eggers · ex; from THEY SHALL KNOW OUR VELOCITY. 49 · The Desert · John Pierson · ex; from WEASEL IN A BOX, Hope and Nonthings, 2003? 134 · Prima · Myriam Gurbia · vi
Punk Planet [#58, November/December 2003] ed. Daniel Sinker (; Chicago, IL, $4.95, 168pp+, bedsheet) [TM]

112 · Power Lines · John McNally · ex; from The Book of Ralph, Free Press, 2004.
Punk Planet [#61, May/June 2004] ed. Daniel Sinker (; Chicago, IL, $4.95, 152pp+, bedsheet) 10th Anniversary Issue. [TM] 102 · Adult Children of Academics: Athena · Leah Ryan · vi 147 · GHOULS, GIMMICKS AND GOLD: HORROR FILMS AND THE AMERICAN MOVIE BUSINESS 1953-1968 by Kevin Heffernan (Duke UP) · Mike Hobart · br 147 · HEADLESS by Benjamin Wiessman (Akashic Books) · Charlie Anders · br
Punk Planet [#63, September-October 2004] ed. Daniel Sinker (; Chicago, IL, $4.95, 152pp+, bedsheet) [TM] 101 · Jesus in a Saucepan · Matt Fedorko · vi; to be published in anthology FOR HERE OR TO GO, edited by Leah Ryan [Garrett County Press 2004].
Punk Planet [#69, September/October 2005] ed. Daniel Sinker (100pp+, bedsheet) [TM] 38 · Interview with Daniel Clowes · Joe Meno · iv 48 · Interview with Ayun Halliday · Lisa Groshong · iv 116 · Tetris · Justin Taylor · vi
Purple Prose
Purple Prose [v 1 #1, July 1995] ed. Michael Chomko (Michael Chomko, 6pp, quarto) [PSP] 1 · Pulpish Origins: I-Beams, Back Alleys, and The Man of Bronze · Michael Chomko · ar
Purple Prose [v 1 #2, October 1995] ed. Michael Chomko (Michael Chomko, 8pp, quarto) [PSP] 1 · Pulpcon 24 Gazette · Michael Chomko · ar 4 · Dero Rays: Comments on Recent Mailings · Michael Chomko · ms
Purple Prose [v 1 #3, January 1996] ed. Michael Chomko (Michael Chomko, 8pp, quarto) [PSP] 1 · Biographical Notes · Michael Chomko · bg 2 · Pulpish Origins, Part 2 · Michael Chomko · ar 6 · Dero Rays: Comments on PEAPS 33 · Michael Chomko · ms
Purple Prose [v 1 #4, April 1996] ed. Michael Chomko (Michael Chomko, 8pp, quarto) [PSP] 1 · A Tale of Two Authors: A Report from Pulpcon “B” · Michael Chomko · ar 4 · “I Remember Greenville!” · William Jorgensen Bloodstone · ar 5 · Dero Rays: Comments on PEAPS 34 · Michael Chomko · ms
Purple Prose [# 5, v 2 #1, July 1996] ed. Michael Chomko (Michael Chomko, 16pp, quarto) [PSP] 1 · Pulplore · Michael Chomko · cl 2 · The Unique Magazine and a Boy Who Loved It · Richard H. Minter & Michael Chomko · ar 4 · Richard H. Minter’s 25 Golden Weird Tales · Richard H. Minter · ms 5 · Richard H. Minter’s 25 Silver Weird Tales · Richard H. Minter · ms 6 · American Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazines of the Pulp Era · Michael Chomko · bi 11 · Some Speculations on the Captain Future Novelettes · Michael Chomko · ar [Edmond Hamilton]
Purple Prose [# 6, v 2 #2, 1996] ed. Michael Chomko (Michael Chomko, $3.00, 17-32pp, quarto) [PSP] 18 · Pulplore: Three Kids Caught in the Spider’s Web · Michael Chomko · in 21 · The Spider: Master of Men · Michael Avallone · ar 23 · I Played Violin with Richard Wentworth · Wooda Nicholas Carr · ar 25 · Michael Avallone’s Top Ten Spiders · Michael Avallone · ms 25 · Wooda Carr’s Top Ten Spiders · Wooda Nicholas Carr · ms 26 · Letters from the End of the World: The Story of Virginia Combs · Michael Chomko · ar
Purple Prose [# 7, v 2 #3, 1997] ed. Michael Chomko (Michael Chomko, $3.00, 33-52pp, quarto) [PSP]

35 · Pulplore: Wooda N. Carr · Michael Chomko · cl
36 · Part One: Riding the Gunsmoke Trail with Operator #5 and the Flying Spy · Michael Chomko · ar
42 · Part Two: Cloaks and Daggers, Imaginary Wars, and Other Sleights-of-Hand · Michael Chomko · ar
46 · Part Three: Operator #5’s North Dakota Adventures · Michael Chomko · ar
49 · Wooda Carr’s Top Ten Operator #5 Novels · Wooda Nicholas Carr · ms
50 · Afterward [from Trapped in the Spider’s Web: Growing Up with the Bloody Pulps] · Nick Carr · ex
Purple Prose [# 8, v 2 #4, November 1997] ed. Michael Chomko (Michael Chomko, $3.00, 53-70pp, quarto, cover by Jim Steranko) [PSP] 54 · Introduction · Michael Chomko · in 55 · The Mysterious Mr. D · Steve Mitchell · ar 57 · Doc Savage, Found in a Grocery Bag · Shawn Danowski · ar 60 · Another Guy Named Shawn · Tom Johnson · ar 61 · Corresponding, Collaborating and Convalescing: My Friendship with Shawn Danowski · Chuck Juzek · ar 62 · A Little Lookin’ Out for the Other Fella [Part One] · Michael Chomko · ar
Purple Prose [# 9, v 3 #1, July 1998] ed. Michael Chomko (Michael Chomko, $3.00, 32pp, quarto, cover by Robert Sankner) [PSP] 2 · Apologies are in Order · Michael Chomko · in 3 · Kingdon Cole: One of Doc’s Ancestors? · Richard Bleiler · ar [Herman Landon] 6 · A Little Lookin’ Out for the Other Fella [Part Two] · Michael Chomko · ar
Purple Prose [#10, v 3 #2, November 1998] ed. Michael Chomko (Michael Chomko, $3.00, 36pp, quarto, cover by Robert Sankner) [PSP] 2 · Arthur Sullivant Hoffman’s Adventure · Michael Chomko · in [Arthur Sullivant Hoffman] 3 · Forgotten Giant: Hoffman’s Adventure · Richard Bleiler · ar [Arthur Sullivant Hoffman] 12 · Scobee’s Mountain · Kurt Shoemaker · ar [Barry Scobee] 21 · Kipling of Texas: Barry Scobee’s Adventure Fiction · Michael Chomko · ar [Barry Scobee] 27 · Adventurers the World Around · Jim Tucker · ar [Arthur Sullivant Hoffman] 35 · The Fine Art of Adventure · Misc. · pi
Purple Prose [#11, v 3 #3, July 1999] ed. Michael Chomko (Michael Chomko, $4.50, 36pp, quarto, cover by Robert Sankner) [PSP] 2 · A Fork in the Trail · Michael Chomko · in 3 · John Newton Howitt: The Noble Spirit Who Walked Among Us · Peter Osborne · ar [John Newton Howitt] 16 · The Astounding Orban · Ray Capella · ar [Paul Orban] 29 · The Completist · V. P. Nowell · ar; illus. Ray Capella 33 · letter · Kevin Cook · lt 33 · letter · Virgil Utter · lt 33 · Last Words · The Readers 34 · letter · Richard Bleiler · lt 35 · The Fine Art of John Newton Howitt · John Newton Howitt · pi
Purple Prose [#12, v 3 #4, December 1999] ed. Michael Chomko (Michael Chomko, $4.50, 36pp, quarto, cover by Robert Sankner) [PSP]

2 · Walt Coburn, Cowhand · Michael Chomko · in [Walter J. Coburn]
3 · My Thirty Years as a Pulp Writer · Walt Coburn · ar True West Jul/Aug ’67
4 · Coburn Covers · Misc. · pi
19 · Walt Coburn, Western Maverick: A Biography and Appreciation of the Author · Jon Tuska · ar [Walter J. Coburn]; an earlier version appeared in Coffin Gap: A Western Trio by Walt Coburn, Five Star, 1998
26 · Walt Coburn: The Popular Years · Misc. · pi [Walter J. Coburn]
28 · letter · Victor Berch · lt
28 · Last Words · The Readers
29 · letter · John Albert · lt
29 · letter · Hugh B. Cave · lt
29 · letter · Jon Tuska · lt
31 · Gayle Hoskins’ “A Cowboy’s Day” · Rex W. Layton · pi [Gayle Porter Hoskins]
Purple Prose [#13, v 4 #1, November 2000] ed. Michael Chomko (Michael Chomko, $4.50, 36pp, quarto, cover by Neil Mechem) [PSP] 3 · Broken Mirrors · Michael Chomko · in 4 · “In the Days Before the Undressed Dames and Drooling Dwarves…”: Dime Mystery Magazine in its Pre-Weird Menace Days (1932-1933) · Shawn Danowski · ar 27 · G. T. Fleming-Roberts’ Other Magician Detective · Monte Herridge · ar [G. T. Fleming-Roberts] 34 · letter · Camille Cazedessus · lt 34 · letter · Jon Tuska · lt 34 · Last Words · The Readers 35 · Dime Art · Misc. · pi
Purple Prose [#14, v 4 #2, July 2001] ed. Michael Chomko (Michael Chomko, $4.50, 36pp, quarto, cover by Neil Mechem) [PSP] 2 · Cops and Robbers · Michael Chomko · in 3 · Raffles and His Ranconteurs: The Amateur Cracksman from the 1890’s to the 1980’s · Curt Ladnier · ar [E. W. Hornung; Barry Perowne] 8 · Dashiell Hammett, Tarnished Knight · Michael Black · ar [Dashiell Hammett] 22 · The Sad Tale of Oscar Sail · Will Murray · ar [Lester Dent] 27 · The Candid Camera Kid · Monte Herridge · ar [Norman A. Daniels] 35 · Hardboiled Art · Misc. · pi
Purple Prose [#15, v 4 #3, February 2002] ed. Michael Chomko (Michael Chomko, $4.50, 36pp, quarto, cover by Robert Sankner) [PSP] 2 · A Coal Cracker Takes Wings · Michael Chomko · in 3 · With Wings I Soared · George Evans & Michael Chomko · ar 16 · Fighting Aces of War Skies: Fiction House’s Premier Air Pulp—Wings · Steve Young & Michael Chomko · ar 35 · Fighting Art of Pulp Skies · Misc. · pi
Purple Prose [#16, v 4 #4, July 2002] ed. Michael Chomko (Michael Chomko, $4.50, 36pp, quarto, cover by Robert Sankner) [PSP] 3 · The Steeger Papers · Michael Chomko · in [Henry Steeger] 4 · Notes and Name Droppings from an Editor’s Chair · Henry Steeger & Michael Chomko · ar; written by Steeger, with annotations by Chomko 34 · Memories of the King · Don Hutchison · ar [Henry Steeger] 35 · A Tale of Two Publishers · Misc. · pi
Purple Prose [#17, Vol. 5 No. 1, July 2003] ed. Michael Chomko (Michael Chomko, $5.00, 36pp, quarto) [PSP] fc. · after Rafael DeSoto’s “Satan’s Seven Swordsmen” · Neil Mechem · cv 2 · Terrill Tales · Michael Chomko · in [Rogers Terrill] 4 · The Reign of the Rajah · Will Murray · ar [Rogers Terrill] 18 · The “True Story” of the Confession Pulps · Alfred Jan · ar 22 · Introduction to “A Writer’s Wife” · Monte Herridge · ms 25 · A Writer’s Wife: An Interview with Mrs. G.T. Fleming-Roberts · Albert Tonik · iv [Mrs. G. T. Fleming-Roberts] 31 · letter · Kevin L. Cook · lt 31 · letter · J. Randolph Cox · lt 31 · Last Words · The Readers 32 · letter · Michael T. Gilbert · lt 32 · letter · Jim Goodrich · lt 33 · letter · Rex W. Layton · lt 33 · letter · Will Murray · lt 33 · letter · Vince Nowell · lt 35 · From Steeger Stories to Terrill Tales—A Gallery of Popular Publications Cover Art · Misc. · pi

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