AustLit

The Australian Pulp Fiction Industry project was initiated by the research of Dr Toni Johnson-Woods for Pulp: A Collector's Book of Australian Pulp Fiction Covers.

At the beginning of that work, Johnson-Woods situated pulp in the Australian literary archival landscape:

'Only recently has pulp fiction attracted scholarly attention – almost too late as much of the material was printed to be discarded and has not survived. Some pulp fiction exists only as documented titles, the books themselves being lost forever and only a few boxes of publishers' records surviving. Little is known, therefore, about authors, artists and other industry personnel and what is known is anecdotal.

While most of the pulp fiction in Australia still resides with private collectors (the gatekeepers of pulp's history), the National Library of Australia's G. C. Bleeck Collection is the most important public archive of pulp fiction material in Australia.'

This project records the sometimes fleeting existence of the work of G. C. Bleeck, Carter Brown and their contemporaries in as much bibliographic detail as can be found.