Mysterious Wu Fang, The
Entry updated 10 March 2025. Tagged: Publication.
US Pulp magazine, seven issues September 1935 to March 1936, monthly, published by Popular Publications; edited by Edythe Seims working for Rogers Terrill.
Intended to capitalize on the popularity of Sax Rohmer's Dr Fu-Manchu (featured in films and a Radio series of the period; see Fu Manchu), The Mysterious Wu Fang showed the titular "Dragon Lord of Crime" seeking world domination, sometimes using sf means in the attempt. The 80-90pp lead "novel" in each issue was by the prolific Robert J Hogan, who was simultaneously producing G-8 and His Battle Aces; the first of them, The Case of the Six Coffins, was reprinted in Pulp Classics #8 (1975 chap), one of a series published by Robert E Weinberg. The fourth in the series was reprinted by Wildside Press: The Case of the Suicide Tomb (December 1935; 2005). Accompanying short stories, including Alden H Norton's fiction debut "Blood on the Goose" (September 1935) were almost all nonfantastic. Dr Yen Sin was a near-identical follow-up magazine from the same publisher. [MJE/FHP/MA/DRL]
see also: Yellow Peril.
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