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By Review Year: 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 Special Projects Author Runthroughs | Arizona Author Spotlight | Books of Horror Go To List Children's Genre Classics | Doc Savage Runthrough | Hugo Award Runthrough Guy N. Smith Runthrough | Lost World-Lost Race Classics | Pulp Centennial Introduction I've been diving into the pulp era for quite a while now, not least through my ongoing runthrough of the Doc Savage series in pulp publication order, but I keep looking for reasons to dive deeper. I run a lot of writing projects on anniversaries, including a couple on film that tie to centennials, reviewing films on the 100th anniversary of their original release and others on the centennial of someone associated with them, like an actor or director. I should have launched my Pulp Centennial project in March 2023 on the 100th anniversary of the release of the first issue of Weird Tales, but I was busy with other things and it didn't happen. So I'm starting instead on the 100th anniversary of the release of the first issue of Amazing Stories, the first dedicated science fiction pulp, which was dated April 1926. The goal is to follow that through as readers of the day would have done, at the rate of one per month. If there's a gap, I'll skip that month. I have every pulp issue of Amazing Stories, at least in digital form, so I can keep up with those. As of my second month, I added in Weird Tales too and I'll include anything else that's available and of interest, like the May 1926 issue of The Frontier that's also available digitally. I'll be working through the older issues of Weird Tales as well and should have them caught up by the time things get busy in 1930, a hundred years on, of course. As always, I'll be posting links to my reviews for The Nameless Zine here. June 1926 Amazing Stories | The Frontier | Weird Tales

Amazing Stories Click on a cover or link to read that issue's review. Hugo Gernsback (ed.) - Amazing Stories:    #1: Amazing Stories Vol. 1 No. 1 (Apr 1926)    #2: Amazing Stories Vol. 1 No. 2 (May 1926)    #3: Amazing Stories Vol. 1 No. 3 (Jun 1926)

The Frontier Click on a cover or link to read that issue's review. Harry E. Maule - The Frontier:    #20: The Frontier Vol. 4 No. 2 (May 1926)

Weird Tales Click on a cover or link to read that issue's review. Edwin Baird (ed.) - Weird Tales:    #1: Weird Tales, Vol. 1 No. 1 (Mar 1923) Farnsworth Wright (ed.) - Weird Tales:    #32: Weird Tales, Vol. 7 No. 5 (May 1926)    #33: Weird Tales, Vol. 7 No. 6 (Jun 1926)

Last update: 14th June, 2026