Chums

[Mark Kohut]

Perhaps his house had them there ANNUALS!?

Great find.

On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 6:35 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> First I've read of CHUMS.
> Thanks
>
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 6:03 AM, matthew cissell <mccissell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Another secondary literature question for your collective memory. Much
> has
> > been written about the Chums of Chance but I don't remember if anyone has
> > found a firm source for the name. Folks have compared the CoC to
> exemplars
> > of the genre, that is true.
> >
> > Well, the other day while cooking I was listening to (and occasionally
> > glancing at) a BBC documentary series called Empire, it was Episode 3
> > "Playing the Game". In that episode it discusses British Empire and
> > colonialism in India and elsewhere, and it mentions the literature of
> > Empire (not Kipling and all that, but the popular press). At around 38
> > minute mark it shows a fine assortment of examples one of which is held
> up
> > and is called: "Chums". Good image at 38:39.
> >
> > Turns out their is a Wikipedia entry. (If this is old news, just consider
> > me slow and not much of a learner). You might look at this collector's
> page
> > also: http://www.collectingbooksandmagazines.com/chums.html
> > The serial stopped publishing in '41 when TP was just a kid. Perhaps
> there
> > were some in the house growing up.
> >
> > In light of this it makes some reviews look pretty clueless. For example,
> > when Salon's Laura Miller wrote, "The Chums of Chance (as if that name
> > weren't bad enough)" I guess she thought it pretty clever. Doesn't seem
> > clever.
> >
> > ciao
> > mc
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