This week's letter is M, and finally we have a letter that has more than a few pulp titles to its credit. In fact, the letter M brings us three words that seem to fit perfectly together: Murder, Mystery, and Marriage.
MYSTERY ADVENTURES, December 1936
MURDER MYSTERIES, February 1935
MIDNIGHT MYSTERY STORIES, December 9, 1922
MARRIAGE STORIES, September 1927
MYSTERY NOVELS, July 1935
MYSTERY LEAGUE, October 1933
MAVERICKS, September 1934
MAN STORIES, June 1931
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The most influential of these titles was MYSTERY LEAGUE which was larger than pulp size, edited by Ellery Queen and lasted only 4 issues. But the editors learned something from this failure. In 1941 they started ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE as a far smaller digest and it is still being published 70 years later.
That first pic looks like the guy's holding a light saber.
M turned out to be a great letter. I'd not seen MYSTERY LEAGUE before, nor some of the others. I'm loving this series!
Marriage Stories... pretty surprising.Is a romance pulp?
You chose some really good ones Laurie. I especially like the MYSTERY ADVENTURES, December 1936
as the guy wearing the fedora looks like he is firing a ray gun.
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