Baseball and Football Pulp Fiction

Six Publishers, with a Directory of Stories, 1935-1957

von Michelle Nolan

228 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This first-ever volume focusing on sports pulp fiction devoted to America's two most popular pastimes of the 1935-1957 era--baseball and football--provides extensive detail on authors, along with examination of key plots, themes, trends and categories. Commentary relates the works to real-life baseball and football of the period. The history of the genre is traced, beginning with the debut of Dime Sport (later renamed Dime Sports), the first magazine from a major publisher to provide competition for Street & Smith's long-established Sport Story Magazine. Complementing the text is a complete catalog of fiction from the six major publishers who competed with S&S, also noting the cover themes for 1,054 issues.

• Reihe: McFarland
• ISBN: 9781476677576
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 10.08.2020
• Größe: 251 x 178 mm
• Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.