Bowling Green's Popular Press
During the 1980s and early 1990's Bowling Green University's Popular Press was the top small press pulp fiction publisher. Best known for Robert Sampson's series of pulp history books, Yesterday's Faces, this small press also produced a number of pulp reprints, biographies, autobiographies, and pulp histories collecting priceless knowledge and information relating to the pulp era.
Popular Press published hundreds of different titles covering all aspects of popular culture but finally closed it's doors a few years back. Many titles are now out of print with many others stock running low. We've restocked our shelves and have also put many of these titles on sale. So, get'em while they last!
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Yeserday's Faces: Volume 1: Glory Figures This book and its companion volumes are concerned with the slow boiling and shaping of many literary conventions over many decades. This volume will begin with the dime novels and several early series characters who influenced the direction of pulp fiction at its source. |
| Yesterday's Faces: Volume 2: Strange Days continues the story of series characters in the early pulp magazines by presenting more than fifty of these characters, selected to represent four popluar story types from 1907 to 1939 pulps -- Scientific Detectives, Occult and Psychic Investigators, Jungle Men, and adventures in the Interplanetary Romance and the story of Super Science. |
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Yesterday's Faces: Volume 3: From the Dark Side Rascals, rogues, criminal heroes are staple figures in popular fiction. From the Dark Side, the third volume of the Yesterday's Faces series, presents a fascinating array of these criminal figures, drawn from the pages of the early pulp magazines. |
| Yesterday's Faces: Volume 4: The Solvers Thousands of detective stories lie unexamined in the early pulp magazines. Published between 1900 and 1930, these stories are generally unknown. Yet their influence lingers unseen, part of the history of the detective story as it developed in the popular magazines. In The Solvers, the fourth volume of Yesterday's Faces, Robert Sampson has selected more than fifty magazine series characters to illustrate that development. |
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Yesterday's Faces: Volume 5: Dangerous Horizons In Dangerous Horizons, the fifth volume of the Yesterday's Faces series, Robert Sampson has selected a host of series characters who adventured throughout the world in the 1903-1930 pulps. |
| Yesterday's Faces: Volume 6: Violent Lives In "Violent Lives" Robert Sampson calls up a vivid selection of adventurers, spies, and warriors. Here are struggle-bent heroes, breaking the law for justice: Anthony Trent, the Master Criminal and brilliant detective; Bulldog Drummond, fighting social menaces with vigilante evidence. Together with other justice fighters, heroes outlawed and disgraced, struggling against terrible odds -- as Zorro, the laughing swordsman in Old California; the Night Wind, a man of superhuman strength battling to retrieve his reputation; or White Wolf, a quick-gun youth and his pie-eating horse fighting across tbe wild West. |
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