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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Moore"
<moorich2@...> wrote:
> I respect how Hunter managed to cobble together a
living when he
was
> just another ex-GI scrambling for editors'
attention.
Check out Earl Kemp's online pop-culture fanzine EI for some
accounting of how Lombino/Hunter managed to keep body and
soul together in that first decade or so: http://efanzines.com/EK/eI24/index.htm#jungle
The Scott Meredith Literary Agency, which was providing the
contents of MANHUNT among many other publishing ventures, had
lots of ways for both it and the writers it represented to
make do or make out.
Well below the
> payscale and respect of Manhunt were the pulp
magazines edited by
> Robert Lowndes. Lowndes is renowned in science
fiction circles for
> managing interesting issues on a very limited
budget. The same is
> true of his pulps Famous Detective Stories and
Smashing Detective
> Stories. Lowndes' top rate was 1 cent a word and the
average was
> less. He still managed contributions from top
writers.
Indeed, and his earlier cf magazines, too, though I think his
cf magazines improved as both the market contracted a bit and
he had more time and experience to bring to them, in the
latter '50s at Columbia/Blue Ribbon. Edward Hoch is always
keen to credit Lowndes for early interest in his work.
Thanks for tracing the slightly Marlowe-like development of
Cannon!
Todd Mason
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