Wings, 1931

DePauw University received the Mullen Pulp Magazine Collection from the estate of Richard Dale Mullen, founder of Science Fiction Studies and professor of English at Indiana State University. It contains pulp magazines ranging in date from 1874-1965. The collection includes all genres of fiction, but more than half of the collection consists of science fiction titles such as Amazing Stories, Astounding Stories and Science Wonder Stories.

Two additional series of pulp magazines from two donors in 2009 and 2014 have been added and are in separate series described at the end of this finding aid. These science fiction magazines extended the date range of the collection. Stephaine Wood, a DePauw alumnus who had taken a science fiction class at the university, added two more science fiction titles, Astounding Science Fiction and Galaxy Science Fiction, to the collection in 2008. Joe Decker donated additional Galaxy Science Fiction issues up to 1979.

While not complete, many of the collection's titles are long runs of magazines. One of the most complete in the DePauw collection is Hugo Gernsback's first title, Amazing Stories, that begins with the first issue from April 1926 and runs through June 1938, well after Gernsback lost ownership of the magazine in 1929. Some subsequent Gernsback titles are also present in the collection, Science Wonder Stories and Air Wonder Stories. Other popular magazines featuring science fiction writing and illustration are also represented in this remarkably large collection.