Cover of Pulp Classics #9 (1975), containing a facsimile reprint of the first issue of Dr. Yen Sin

Dr. Yen Sin was a short-lived pulp magazine published by Popular Publications during 1936. It superceded a similar magazine from the same publishers entitled The Mysterious Wu Fang, which had ceased publication in February 1936. The title characters of both magazines, Wu Fang and Yen Sin, were Yellow Peril villains in the mould of Fu Manchu. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Popular Publications was the largest publisher of pulp magazines during its existence. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Yellow peril is also a humourous British term for a traffic warden. ... This article is about the fictional literature character. ...

Only three issues of Dr. Yen Sin appeared, with cover dates May/June 1936, July/August 1936 and September/October 1936. Each issue contained a lead novel, written by Donald E. Keyhoe (who later became famous as the author of Flying Saucers Are Real), together with additional material. The titles of the three novels, in chronological order of publication, are as follows: Donald Edward Keyhoe (June 20, 1897 - November 29, 1988) was an American Marine Corps officer with some flight experience, writer of many aviation articles and stories in a variety of leading publications, and manager of some of the spectacular flights of aviation pioneers, especially of Charles Lindbergh. ... Cover of original paperback Donald Keyhoe, in The Flying Saucers Are Real (©1950) investigates numerous encounters between USAF fighters, personnel, and other aircraft, and UFOs between 1947 and 1950. ...

• The Mystery of the Dragon's Shadow
• The Mystery of the Golden Skull
• The Mystery of the Singing Mummies

The first novel was reprinted in Rober Weinberg's Pulp Classics #9 (1975), while the second and third novels were reprinted in High Adventure issues 32 (1997) and 39 (1998) respectively. Robert Weinberg (also credited as Bob Weinberg is an American author. ...

The novels are set in a dark, fog-shrounded version of Washington, D.C. resembling the Limehouse of Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu books. Yen Sin, described as the "Yellow Doctor" and the "Invisible Emperor", combines the mysticism of the East with the latest devices of the West with diabolical results. He uses blow guns, Dacoit stranglers, death rays and science laboratories to achieve his evil ends. He is opposed by Michael Traile, a man who is incapable of natural sleep (owing to a bungled brain operation) and who has to resort to periodic yoga-like relaxation sessions in order to recharge his vitality. ^[1] Nickname: DC, The District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location of Washington, D.C., in relation to the states Maryland and Virginia. ... Limehouse Town Hall Limehouse is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. ... Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (February 15, 1883 - June 1, 1959), better known as Sax Rohmer, was a prolific English novelist. ... The word Dacoity is the anglicized South Asian version of the Indian word dakaethee which comes from dakoo which means armed robber. ... A woman practising hatha yoga Yoga is a family of ancient spiritual practices originating in India. ...

Notes

1. ^ Hutchison, Don (1995). The Great Pulp Heroes. Mosaic Press. ISBN 0-88962-585-9.p. 188

External links

• Page with Dr. Yen Sin cover scans