Yesterday's Faces: A Study of Series Characters in the Early Pulp Magazines Volume 1: Glory Figures

By Robert Sampson

Book Overview

The pulp magazines dealt in fiction that was, by reason of the audience and the medium, heightened beyond normal experience. The drama was intense, the colors vivid, and the pace exhausting. The characters moving through these prose dreams were heightened, too. Most were cast in a quasi-heroic mold and moved on elevated planes of accomplishment.
This book and its companion volumes are concerned with the slow shaping of many literary conventions over many decades. This volume begins the study with the dime novels and several early series characters who influenced the direction of pulp fiction at its source.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879722177
• ISBN13: 9780879722173
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Popular Press
• Length: 6 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

a comprehensive history of the pulp magazines

The first volume(of a total of six) in Robert Sampson's comprehensive study of the history of pulp magazines and the varieties of heroes/vigilantes/detectives/etc. that existed. Has plenty of black and white reproduction of old pulp covers, ranging from mysteries to westerns.The hardcovers are out of print, but it is still possible to locate new paperback copies.