Supposedly, BLACK ACES was Fiction House's attempt to imitate the success of BLACK MASK, but it didn't last very long, only seven issues. Its failure wasn't due to the quality of the writers, though. This issue featured stories by Carroll John Daly, James P. Olsen, Eugene Cunningham, Theodore Tinsley, William Chamberlain, and Franklin Martin, all well-regarded pulp authors. And it had a cover by Rudolph Belarski. The newsstands were just too crowded for it to stand out, I suppose.
This is the last weekend pulp post of the year. I hope those of you who read them are still enjoying them. I've started to think that I won't be doing these forever, but I'm not ready to quit yet and plan to be at it for a good while yet.
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During dinner last night with a couple pulp collectors, we were talking about BLACK ACES. It might be possible to reprint them. We all agreed that the paper in BLACK ACES is just about always brittle. They must have used an even lower quality of pulp.
Concerning the pulp posts, I hope you continue them because they are always of interest. I check in all the time to read the comments and check out some of the other blogs that you recommend.
I'd love to see a lot of the Fiction House stuff reprinted, including stories from this pulp. A volume of Eugene Cunningham's hardboiled fiction would be great.
I have a hunch the Depression had as much to do with this pulp not lasting very long as anything else. I once had a copy of this and Walker is correct about the paper because mine was brittle.
Please, keep the posts coming in 2016 and beyond.
I rarely comment but I read your blog every day--I love your pulp posts and hope you keep them coming for a long time.
The pulp posts aren't going to stop any time soon. I'm still having too much fun with them, and it's good to know that people enjoy them. I'm looking to slow down some in general in a couple of years, but we'll see. I've thought that before.
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