By Mark Kaufman

I did not use StumbleUpon for this week’s entry, instead I found a most awesome site dedicated to magazines by chance.

The Galactic Central site is a wonderful repository of magazine cover art and information on pulps, genre magazines, i.e. girlie, adventure, romance, western, sci-fi, crime, general interest titles, literary, and sports adventures to name but a few. The great thing about this site besides the fact that it is a repository of beautiful illustration from the various golden ages of magazine publishing and design, is that it is an online library of a crazed completist! The site will take you hours and hours to navigate, but I guarantee that you will happily click to and fro and be amazed at the lovely and/or insane artwork, checklists, titilating titles and the raw, bold, and brazen things publishers did to make sure that their magazines jumped off the newsstands. A guilty pleasure to be sure.