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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
1.3
August 11, 2026
Share your finds Every issue page now has a Share button. Send an issue to a friend and it arrives as a real preview card — cover art, title and date — instead of a bare link. Email preferences Turn PulpShelf emails on or off any time from the Account screen, not just at signup. Fixes • Delete Account now works. It was failing for signed-in accounts. • Corrected the catalog entry for Western Novelets and the date Western Action changed its name.
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