Wednesday, September 29, 2010

BLACK MASK: A Message from "Cap" Shaw

If you harbored any doubt that Black Mask is the number one magazine for rip-snorting, red-blooded he-men, Editor Joseph "Cap" Shaw and his pal Colgate Baker are here to set you straight:

from Sept. 1932 (click to enlarge)


If this cover looks familiar, it's because I borrowed it to celebrate Brian Drake's Mask-inspired story collection, Reaper's Dozen.

Coming Friday Oct. 8: A Forgotten Black Mask Book. Think you know what it is? Bet you don't.
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8 comments:

  1. Richard R.September 28, 2010 at 11:16 PM

    That's great, thanks for sharing it. I'm looking forward to your Friday post. I won't be doing an FFB this week, several of us are taking the day off. Hmm, maybe I should have made the Avram Davidson book an FFB, eh?

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  2. Evan LewisSeptember 28, 2010 at 11:38 PM

    Oops. I missed the memo that Forgotten Books was taking a week off. Guess I'll save my Black Mask FFB until Oct 8.

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  3. Deka BlackSeptember 29, 2010 at 4:24 AM

    Editorials in pulp magazines is a whole world, and worth to know more deeply. I would want to see more.

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  4. Charles GramlichSeptember 29, 2010 at 5:32 AM

    The kind of letter we'd all like to get.

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  5. Cullen GallagherSeptember 29, 2010 at 6:50 AM

    Couldn't agree with the letter any more.

    And now I have to wait until Oct 8 to find out what your mystery book is! Gosh darn...

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  6. David CranmerSeptember 29, 2010 at 10:47 AM

    Wonderful history you have uncovered here.

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  7. AnonymousSeptember 29, 2010 at 8:13 PM

    That looks like an amazing issue: Nebel, Whitfield, and Gardner. Damn. All three of those guys need to be more anthologized. Especially Nebel.

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  8. Evan LewisSeptember 29, 2010 at 9:00 PM

    True!

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