I subscribe to a great site called pulp of the day.  Every day they put up a new pulp magazine cover.

I love this stuff.

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These next two aren’t from pulp of the day, just found somewhere on the net.

Tales To Astonish issue 27 - January 1962.  The first appearance of Hank Pym/Ant Man - soon to star in his own movie from Marvel.  Cover and interior pencils by the great Jack Kirby.

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Crime SuspenStories issue 22 - May 1954.   Cover by Johnny Craig.  This cover brought a lot of trouble to EC, there were claims that they were corrupting the youth of America which lead to calls for comics to be censored. The great thing about it was that this was a censored cover.  Before publication they sliced the bottom inch off of the original which showed strands of bloody muscle and sinew hanging from the woman’s neck!

This could be my favourite photo of all time.

Found on Strange Maps. An annotated floor plan of 221B Baker St.

‘The floor plan was “drawn from notes taken while reading all 60 Sherlock Holmes stories twice in a row. If it appears in the books, it appears in this drawing,” says Mr Stutler.’

There’s a link to Russ’s site at the end of the article.

I was in the local recycling centre yesterday and liberated this from the free book shelves. What kind of person would throw this away?

The dust jacket is a little tattered but apart from that it’s clean and brand new looking.

I could understand people throwing out really, really crappy books - and yet the shelves remain unburdened by the works of Dan Brown and Cecilia Ahern. Puzzling.