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PulpShelf is the catalog for pulp magazine collectors.
Pulp magazines — the adventure, detective, western, horror, and science fiction periodicals of the 1890s–1950s — predate barcodes and standard identifiers. PulpShelf fills that gap with a complete, browsable database of the pulp era and a permanent Universal Periodical Number (UPN) for every single issue.
BROWSE THE COMPLETE CATALOG • 676 pulp titles and more than 42,000 individual issues • Cover images for nearly every issue • Full-text search across titles and issues — including renamed titles, so searching “Ka-Zar” finds the magazine it became • Publisher histories, format changes, and title genealogies • Every issue carries its permanent UPN reference number
TRACK YOUR COLLECTION — FREE, NO ACCOUNT NEEDED • Mark issues as owned straight from the issue grid • Collection stats per title and overall • Works fully offline — your collection is stored on your device • Export your collection anytime
FOR SERIOUS COLLECTORS PulpShelf Premium members additionally get cloud sync across devices, per-copy condition tracking, notes and photos of their own copies, want lists, scarcity ratings, and QR scanning of PulpShelf inventory labels.
Built by a collector, for collectors. The stacks are open.
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What's New in PulpShelf
1.1
July 21, 2026
• Cover Match — snap a photo of a pulp cover to identify the matching issue in the catalog (premium). • Find issues by full date — jump to an issue by typing a complete date, not just an issue number. • Coverless issues in Newsstand — new toggle to include issues that don't have cover art yet. • More label sizes — print inventory labels in additional dimensions. • New titles & covers — added Romantic Movie Stories and Husbands, plus new cover images.
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