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Are there any publishers making magazines like Weird Tales? Magazines like this didn't last long, but today with the Internet and publishing software, it seems more practical in ways. Hell, people are subscribing to those Japanese candy boxes. I imagine this sort of magazine could maybe even thrive. Surely it must exist somewhere? I'd happily spend $10, $20, even maybe $40 to receive 12-24 issues annually.

>> No.11970230
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11970230

Gen lib has a bunch of pulp magazines in their fiction section. Make sure you change your search to "fiction"

Lots of Doc Savage. Fun light reading, also good horror magazines from the 80s

>> No.11970236

Lots of editions of "Weird Tales"

>> No.11970983

No. The Shudder Pulp Panic and comic books chipped away at their readership. Paper shortages during World War II finished them off. Television packed the dirt on their grave. The kind of people who used to read pulp fiction magazines don't read at all anymore.

>> No.11971088

>>11970983
Comics killed off the hero pulps. With crime and sleaze pulps they switched over to paperback originals. The prices were comparable and the fiction was the same stuff by the same writers.

>> No.11971103

>>11970983
>>11971088
YA today occupies a similar niche as the pulps that were read by youths.

>> No.11971221

>>11971103
Pulps were actually cool for the most part. I guess that says a lot about the times.

>> No.11971351

>>11968549
https://cirsova.wordpress.com

>> No.11971894

>>11970230
What is it with people on /lit/ who don't seem to be able to comprehend what people are asking?

>> No.11971973

>>11971088
Other genre comics were bigger than super hero comics by the late 1940s, especially crime. Crime Does Not Pay remains the biggest selling Western comic in history.

>> No.11972360

>>11968549

https://www.tor.com/2010/11/04/do-you-ezine-a-list-of-genre-zines/

The keyword you want is "zine", it has that underground comixxx connotation so you'll get results that way. Tor has a list of genre zines, and there are many more in the comments.

>> No.11972518

>>11971351
Thanks.

>>11972360
Thanks.

>> No.11974042

>>11968549
The Creeps magazine maybe?

>> No.11974076

>>11971894
tell me about it. i'm surprised no one said >durr try pynchon!

>> No.11974692

Goodman Games started publishing 'Tales from the Magician's Skull'

>> No.11975162

>>11968549
>Are there any publishers making magazines like Weird Tales?

making, perhaps, but not selling.

computer files are trivially easy to copy.

nobody is going to pay for them.

if nobody's going to buy them, publishers have no revenue stream.

if no revenue stream, no incentive to pay good writers.