From: Richard Hall Date: 9 August 2005 06:37:47 GMT+04:00 To: johnstonmcculleyzorro@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [johnstonmcculleyzorro] Digest Number 12 Reply-To: johnstonmcculleyzorro@yahoogroups.com Phil Latter sharpened his e-pencil: >> My sincere thanks to Rick Hall, Monte Herridge and Joe Treschel, for the great deal of research you all put into the Johnston McCulley index, which you uploaded today to the johnstonmcculleyzorro group. I am guessing this article has been published, other than on the internet-? << All I did was go to the sources listed at the bottom of the file and clean up the formatting and replace magazine codes with Titles and dates. The real thanks should go to the people who created those references and the people who helped _them_. Monte and Joe posted about magazines not in my references. I put the list together for this group. Anyone researching McCulley should be able to find this group. Lets not get it posted in a dozen places until we really have a solid, stable list. The Big List is very much a work in progress. A large number of pulps have been indexed, but by no means all of them. We can be sure there is nothng left to be found in the SF pulps. The mystery/detective/air war/hero pulps have been indexed, there are probably errors snd omissions. Once Phil Stephenson-Paine publishes his index those can be corrected. I checked the indexes for Argosy and Adventure. I checked the index of mystery digests. So what's left? There are many general interest pulps that do not have published indexes: Action Stories, All-Story, Blue Book, Short Stories, and many others. Sport pulps are not indexed. The love pulps have no index and ferw collectors. There is no index for western pulps. These two genre account for one half of allpulp magazines. The sub-genre of northwest pulps needs indexing. Romantic westerns is a substantial sub-genre; Ranch Romances, Romantic Range, et al. In everything listed above there are McCulley stories. we might have 50% to 75% of his stories listed, we won't know. And there are his pseudonyms, at least half a dozen. I put a lot of effort in version 1.0 and nearly as much in putting out version 1.5. There were errors to fix and many references listed stories I had found elsewhere. But there's still more to do: I have indexes for: Cavalier and Railroad Stories. Many pulps were idexed in fanzines, I have most of theose fanzines. And there is "Len Robbins' Index to the Pulps", six telephone book sized volumes of idexed pulp magazines. And the information in the FictionMags database. There should be an index to Short Stories by the end of the year. What can you do? 1 Make sure your magazines with McCulley stories are correctly posted in The Big List. 2 Check the web. Lotsof stuff out there, some actually useful. 3 Look for pulps. Even if you cannot buy it, if you see a story take a note of where it was. The next pulp conventin I go to, you can be sure when I am idly looking at pulps for interesting covers, I'll note the ones where McCulley get mentioned on the cover. 4 THINK. There are sources and references I have neither mentioned nor used. If you get ambitious and check "The Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature" tell us, either way. If you found nothing, we'll know not to check ourselves. If you think of a reference you cannot find, tell us. Somebody ought ot be able to check a copy. 5 Visit the Stacks. Many University libraries have pulps in their "Special Collections". The top 5 collections probably have 15,000 - 20,000 pulps all told. You could check covers; better yet - check the "Table of Contents"; best of all - capture those TOCs and add them to the Fictionmags database or see who is working on indexing which pulp and add the info to thatproject. 6 Start indexing a pulp title. There is a lot of room in the indexing field, a few e-mails and you could easily find a project. Thenm its just a matter of tracking down pulps in Libraries, private collectins, and shows and recording the TOCs. >> ... archival question. ... pulps... disintegrating. ... page corners flake off. The pages are brown. ... The teacher there had these plastic transparent tubes that he would put blueprints in, put in these blue strips of paper, and seal the ends of the tubes with plugs. These pieces of paper time-released gases which somehow drew the acid out of the paper, a type of preservation of the document. Further, he had papers that could be inserted in the pages of a book, (of course, you could do the same thing with a pulp or a comic book); the specially-treated paper would draw the acid out of the periodical's pages, right through the pages, to the specially-treated paper that you inserted into the periodical. I know almost nothing about preservation of old paper documents and periodicals. Does anyone here have any knowledge on preservation, once a periodical is already pretty far gone-? << Acid damage cannot be reversed, only stopped or slowed. There are de-acidificatin sheets, a fairly expensive solution. There are techniques the Library of COngress employs to preserve paper. There is a family of sprays, 'Wei-To', that will de-acidify paper. But the best techniques work on paper, teh binding of books and magazines is another problem. Eventually we will have to roll up our sleeves and scan all the stories in 60,000 pulp magazines, probably 600,000 stories. That's a lot of stories, but for the United States thats ab out 1/500th of a story per citizen. Closer to reality, the 6,000 pulp fans world-wide could do oine story a month and get them all done in 8 years. In other words, we need Daddy Warbucks to find the project. >> You all have NO idea how much this 19 page document has helped me on what Johnston McCulley has written in all genres. Is this likely a comprehensive list-? << As I said in my scribblings above, there tons missing. Lots of westerns, some sports and romance, a good deal of romntic western fare, probably a surprising amount in the general pulps. I the rest of hte magazines, who knows. Rick ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> What would our lives be like without music, dance, and theater?Donate or volunteer in the arts today at Network for Good. --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnstonmcculleyzorro/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: johnstonmcculleyzorro-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! 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