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4 WAVELENGTH ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// table-tipping, automatic writing, and finally clairaudience, communi-cating with her husband and son and building up contactss with hundred s of other spirits. Today she is president for both the Spiritual and Ethical Society of New York and the Bureau for Scientific Inverstigation and Demonstration of Psychic Phenomena, and has "written" some fifty-five books, for which, she said, she was no more accountable than I was. "I just write what they tell me," she says. It's not a bit solemn, either. Once, an anonymous spirit author dictated a farce, "The Pepperpods on Tour." ***** The Pulps Have A Loyal Public :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: by A. A. Wyn -----:------:----- As publisher of appoximately fifteen Western, Detective, Flying-Spy and Mystery magazines, I am particularly amused by something that I re-ad in "Time" magazine recently. The writer of the article in question, supposedly one of those "who ought to know" (but who don't) statedthe characterization of this publishing world as "little known and offici-ally unrecognized." "Little known," by whom? "Officially unrecognized", by whom? Certainly the 10,000,000 people who go to their news stands each month to buy pulp magazines know and recognize this publishing world. When you consider that these 10,000,000 buyers, in usual computation, make over 30,000,000 pulp readers, you have an astounding percentage of the entire American literate public. For your information, here are some facts about the pulps. There are approximately 125 pulp magazines published each month, buying the following: Upward of 25,000 tons of paper a year, at a cost of approximately $-1,500000. More than $2,000,000 worth of printing a year. Approximately $250,000 worth of art work, and another $250,000 worth of photo-engraving per year. More than 100,000,000 words a year at a cost of more than $1,500,000 -----:------:----- Mass production of fiction entertainment at a low price... the ma-jority of the pulps are now selling at ten cents... naturally does not permit of leather-chaired editing. Good writing never has spoiled a Well-splotted pulp story, but it never made a bad one good. I have seen... and many's the time, too... work in a pulp editorial office stop while some one read aloud a paragraph or to of really excellent writing. But 100,000,000 words of thriss a year are not easy to find. Besides, every pulp publisher employs one, two, and up to a dozen ed- ( Continued On P. 18 )
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4 WAVELENGTH ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// table-tipping, automatic writing, and finally clairaudience, communi-cating with her husband and son and building up contactss with hundred s of other spirits. Today she is president for both the Spiritual and Ethical Society of New York and the Bureau for Scientific Inverstigation and Demonstration of Psychic Phenomena, and has "written" some fifty-five books, for which, she said, she was no more accountable than I was. "I just write what they tell me," she says. It's not a bit solemn, either. Once, an anonymous spirit author dictated a farce, "The Pepperpods on Tour." ***** The Pulps Have A Loyal Public :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: by A. A. Wyn -----:------:----- As publisher of appoximately fifteen Western, Detective, Flying-Spy and Mystery magazines, I am particularly amused by something that I re-ad in "Time" magazine recently. The writer of the article in question, supposedly one of those "who ought to know" (but who don't) statedthe characterization of this publishing world as "little known and offici-ally unrecognized." "Little known," by whom? "Officially unrecognized", by whom? Certainly the 10,000,000 people who go to their news stands each month to buy pulp magazines know and recognize this publishing world. When you consider that these 10,000,000 buyers, in usual computation, make over 30,000,000 pulp readers, you have an astounding percentage of the entire American literate public. For your information, here are some facts about the pulps. There are approximately 125 pulp magazines published each month, buying the following: Upward of 25,000 tons of paper a year, at a cost of approximately $-1,500000. More than $2,000,000 worth of printing a year. Approximately $250,000 worth of art work, and another $250,000 worth of photo-engraving per year. More than 100,000,000 words a year at a cost of more than $1,500,000 -----:------:----- Mass production of fiction entertainment at a low price... the ma-jority of the pulps are now selling at ten cents... naturally does not permit of leather-chaired editing. Good writing never has spoiled a Well-splotted pulp story, but it never made a bad one good. I have seen... and many's the time, too... work in a pulp editorial office stop while some one read aloud a paragraph or to of really excellent writing. But 100,000,000 words of thriss a year are not easy to find. Besides, every pulp publisher employs one, two, and up to a dozen ed- ( Continued On P. 18 )
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