Here is a collection of links to other sites dealing with the pulps:

Pulp-related newsgroups

If you are interested in online discussions related to all aspects of pulps, check out one of the newsgroups listed below.

Note: Not all internet service providers offer access to all newsgroups. If you are unable to connect through your ISP, consider using Google Groups to access the newsgroup via the Web.

• alt.pulp for general pulp discussions. Google Groups.
• alt.fan.doc-savage for Doc Savage. Google Groups.
• alt.fantasy.conan for Conan and Robert E. Howard. Google Groups.
• alt.fantasy.er-burroughs for Edgar Rice Burroughs (though it appears this group has been abandoned). Google Groups.
• alt.horror.cthulhu for H.P. Lovecraft. Google Groups.

Pulp bibliographies

These bibliographies of many pulp and pulp-related characters used to be housed at the SF-Lovers’ Web site. They now appear at this Geocities site.

The alt.pulp FAQ

Here is a hypertext version of the alt.pulp newsgroup’s FAQ.

* Steranko on the pulps and * Time on the pulps

Chris Kalb’s Doc Savage site, The 86th Floor, includes a couple of articles on the pulps and pulp reprints; one by Jim Steranko, the second from a 1971 Time magazine.

Pulp Series Character Reprint Index

Will Thom has converted his Echoes articles from text to hypertext. You’ll find reprint histories of nearly 200 characters’ stories in this indispensible reference site.

Street and Smith Preservation and Access Project

Syracuse University is creating a Street and Smith digital archives. You’ll find information of Street and Smith publications, include pulps, and details about the university’s plans for the archive.

Popular Publication Records

The New York Public Library’s page about its Popular Publications collection provides background on the pulp publishing company founded by Henry Steeger. The site also lists the contents of the library’s collection.

Pulp fiction collection

Learn a bit about the Library of Congress’ Pulp Fiction Collection.

DePaul University pulp collection

Find out about DePaul University library’s collection of pulps, and about pulps themselves.

Coming Attractions

Bill Thom provides a weekly listing of pulp-related Coming Attractions. You’ll find a lot of information about books, reprints, zines, movies and more. This is one Web site you’ll want to check every weekend.

PulpCon

Find out what’s planned for the next PulpCon, the granddaddy of all pulp gatherings.

PulpFest 2009

This is the site of the recently organized “new and improved” PulpCon, which will provide an alternative to the older PulpCon listed above.

PulpCon 35 Report

ThePulp.Net provided same-day coverage of PulpCon 35 (2006) through the Yellowed Perils blog. At this link, you will find dozens of photographs, as well as complete audio of two PulpCon events: a panel discussion about pulp reprints, and guest of honor Phil Klass, who wrote under the name William Tenn, talking about his experiences writing for the science fiction pulps.

Reminiscing about pulps

Author and pulp historian Nick Carr recalls the heyday of pulps in an article for Reminisce online magazine.

Pulp Rack

Duane Spurlock’s site collects a variety of articles about the pulps and the pulp fictioneers. Look for fictioneer biographies, articles on Max Brand and the Western pulps, Talbot Mundy and Adventure, and the art of the pulps. There are also e-texts and reviews.

Pulp characters A to Z

Jess Nevins has put together an excellent resource for learning more about many of the minor (as well as major) pulp characters, from Pat and Jean Abbot to Zorro. His regularly updated index covers pulps from roughly 1902 through 1939.

A brief history of the pulps

Adventure House gives you an overview, written by John P. Gunnison, of pulp magazines. The page includes a list of key magazines, their publishers and a list of notable authors and characters. There are also a few cover images to enjoy. Also of note is a pulp glossary – here’s where you can find explanations for terms as well as info on authors and characters.

Another history of the pulps

Michael Jarrett, an associate professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, has posted another brief history of the pulps.

Media critique #3: pulp fiction

Elliot Lake Secondary School in Ontario, Canada, has posted questions to help students better understand pulp magazine literature. The page also includes links to other pulp-related sites and several pulp cover images.

Ultimate Pulp Superhero Index

Will Murray has expanded on Robert Weinberg and Lohr McKinstry’s and refocused it on characters inspired by the success of The Shadow magazine in 1931. You’ll find characters, the pulp magazines and dates they appeared, authors and publishers in this online reference on the Adventure House Web site.

The FictionMags Index

William G. Contento is coordinating this index of magazine contents derived from information provided by members of the Fictionmags mailing list. The index ranges from fiction magazines from the late 1800s through the pulps and into the digests of the 1960s.

British pulp

Terry Fountain’s bi-monthly fanzine, ThrillerUK, has a Web site with a rundown of British pulp heroes and information about the publication, which focuses on both British and American pulps.

The Vintage Library

Visit this site’s Pulp Fiction Central for a look at The Spider and Carroll John Daly pages. This is commercial site, so expect to pay for some of your downloads. But, it does have quite a bit of background information available for free.

Dime novels, story magazines and pulps

Michigan State University Libraries’ site includes a brief history of dime novels, story magazines and pulps.

The Paperback and Pulp Waystation

Sean Wallace’s site includes numerous articles on collecting pulps and paperbacks, with an emphasis on British publications.

Norman Saunders, pulp illustrator

David Saunders, son of Norman Saunders, has put together a site devoted to his artist father. There’s a biography, checklist and details and samples of the elder Saunders’ work in magazines and for Topps cards.

Remembering Norman Saunders

The Norman Saunders Artwork Archive reprints a remembrance written by Nina Saunders, the artist’s daughter, for the book Pulp Art. There are links to other areas of the site, but many aren’t operational.

Pulps at auction

Pulps turn up not just on eBay, but at such big-name auction houses as Sotheby’s, too. Diamond Galleries’ e-zine Scoop from 2003 includes an article about an auction including pulp-related items – including three original cover paintings from The Shadow pulp – from the collection of Forrest J. Ackerman and from the estate of illustrator Charles Coll.

Thriving stories

Mahinder Kingra has written a story about “Why short stories thrive among crime, horror and sci-fi fans” for City Paper, Baltimore’s weekly alternative newspaper. It’s mostly about current fiction magazines, but the article touches on vintage pulp magazines, too.

Character pulps

The Avenger

Tomi Vaisala’s site includes info on The Avenger pulps, as well as cover art.

The Avenger in print and on radio

Robert Finnan’s page on The Avenger includes a listing of the hero’s magazine appearances and information on the short-lived radio series.

Dusty Ayres and his Battle Birds covers

General Atomic has posted eight covers from Dusty Ayres and His Battle Birds pulps. Witness action scenes from “Black Lightning,” “The Green Thunderbolt” and “The White Death.”

* G-8’s Web base

In addition to his * Doc Savage and The Spider sites, Chris Kalb has crafted a wonderful site devoted to the Flying Spy, which includes information on author Robert J. Hogan and interior artist J. Fleming Gould, the major characters in the series, an annotated bibliography of adventures and covers and interior art. Added features include screensavers, a “G-8’s Flight Helmet” kit and a game. (The site requires the Macromedia Flash plugin.)

G-8 collectibles

Arnie Katz, editor of the CollectingChannel.com, gives an overview of the G-8 and His Battle Aces pulp and its writer, Robert J. Hogan, on this community page on eBay.

Page of Grace

Thrilling Detective includes a page on Grace Culver, one of the popular backpages features of The Shadow magazine. Along with brief background information, you’ll find a list of the stories in which she appeared. The Web site also includes information on scores of other detectives.

Edmond Hamilton’s Captain Future

Larry Estep has put together a site devoted to Captain Future: Wizard of Science (later known as Man of Tomorrow). Learn more about Curt Newton and his fight against evil. The Web site includes information on Hamilton, the series’ writer, and a bibliography of the good captain.

Captain Future: A German view

Sascha Goto’s Captain Future site includes information on the original pulp run of Edmond Hamilton’s character, as well as a Captain Future FAQ, and information on and sounds from the television program. The site is in German, but using babelfish.altavista.com provides an adequate translation.

Capitaine Flam

This French site looks at Capitaine Flam, aka Captain Future. You’ll find e-texts, cover scans and other inside features, as well as a history of Captain Future in pulp and video.

Ka-Zar, the other jungle lord

In October 1936, Red Circle published the first of three Ka-Zar pulps. Clark Holloway offers a sketch of how David Rand became Ka-Zar, includes a checklist of his pulp and comic appearances, and posts the first novel, “King of Fang and Claw,” in html form, complete with black and white illustrations.

* Operator 5’s online operations

Chris Kalb (see G-8 above) provides an overview of America’ Undercover Ace and a bibliography of his adventures. The site is part of Chris’ * Hero Pulp Web site.

Phantom Detective

The domino masked Phantom is the subject of Mark Halegua’s Web site. Halegua presents a brief background on the sleuth who appeared in The Phantom Detective magazine, a bibliography and scans of some of the magazine’s covers.

Phantom Detective checklist

Here’s a rundown of The Phantom’s adventures.

Zorro’s home on the Web

The official Zorro site includes a complete listing of Zorro’s pulp adventures, information on fan clubs, collecting Zorro and the 1998 movie, and the latest Zorro news.

The Mask of Zorro
The Legend of Zorro

The official Web sites of the 1998 and 2005 movies starring Antonio Banderas as the mask avenger. The sites have since been converted to promote the DVD releases, but still have information about the movies and character.

Zorro Web ring

This Web ring will link you to a variety of sites devoted to Zorro.

The pulp avengers

Brian Misiaszek has put together a FAQ about the pulps, pulp heroes and how they can be used in role-playing games.

Pulp Culture review

Here’s a review of Pulp Culture: The Art of Fiction Magazines with an eye toward role-playing games.

Pulp Heroes Movies

On his Heroes & Comics Web site, Renaud Bédard makes a plea for a movie team-up of classic pulp characters, as well as hardback books that reprint the Street & Smith comic book versions of The Shadow and Doc Savage.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The official ERB Inc. site

Edgar Rice Burroughs is probably most famous for Tarzan, but he wrote other pulp stories, including series featuring John Carter of Mars, Carson Napier of Venus and David Innes. You’ll find plenty of information about Burroughs and his creations at this site, as well as links to sources for ERB comics and reprints and to the artists who drew them.

Another official ERB Inc. site

Formerly the site for Disney’s Tarzan movie, Tarzan.com has reverted to ERB Inc. as one of its two official sites.

ERBzin-e

Bill and Sue-On Hillman have put together an extensive Web site cataloging their ERBzin-e, a weekly online fanzine about Edgar Rice Burroughs, and ERB-related sources.

Tarzan of the Internet

Ed Stephan’s Web site offers a jungle-sized list of links to Tarzan pages, as well as images from Tarzan’s pulp appearances.

Exploring ERB

Patrick H. Adkins has pulled together many of his contributions to the Edgar Rice Burroughs Amateur Press Association (a group similar to the PEAPS). He offers some thoughtful perspectives on Burroughs and his creations.

John Carter of Mars

Clark Holloway profiles Edgar Rice Burrough’s first pulp hero, John Carter, on his Pulp Heroes Web site. He also has posted the end note and cover from the March 1941 Amazing Stories that featured the John Carter story “The City of Mummies.”

The language of Mars

At his language site, Jeffrey Henning takes a fascinating look at the language and lexicon created by ERB for his Barsoomians.

The Barsoomian Blade

What started out as The Barsoomian Blade, a tabloid spoof looking at events on Burroughs’ Mars, has expanded into a site that includes fan fiction, humor and more.

Weird Science-Fantasy Pages

William Thompson’s Weird Science-Fantasy site includes sections on Edgar Rice Burrourghs’ characters Tarzan and John Carter. You’ll find information about Burroughs, a few Tarzan e-texts, and book and other appearances by the characters.

Earth’s Core review

Steven H. Silver reviews Edgar Rice Burroughs’ At the Earth’s Core with an emphasis on how it stands up today.

ERB Web ring

The Edgar Rice Burroughs Web ring offers several dozen sites covering all aspects to the author and his work.

Weird fantasy/horror

Weird Tales Web site

The official Weird Tales Web site focuses mostly on the current incarnation of the magazine and ignores much of its history.

* Weird Tales authorized fan site

Lars Klores’ Weird Tales Web site features an impressive lineup of cover scans, information about the pulp’s authors (including their photos) and artists, and background on the magazine.

Robert E. Howard United Press Association

Keep up with the latest news regarding REH and his characters are the Web site for nearly 30-year-old amateur press association. In addition to news items, the REHUPA site includes tips on collecting REH, bibliographies and checklist information, a biography of Howard, photos of him and literary criticism about his works.

The Barbarian Keep

Ed Waterman offers a bounty of information regarding Robert E. Howard and his works: from fan clubs and discussion groups to sources for REH books to fanzines and critical publications to information on REH movies and TV programs.

Robert E. Howard Archive

Steve Hogan and friends offer an insightful look at the creator of Conan, Solomon Kane and other pulp barbarians.

Cimmerian Collection

In the Cimmerian Collection, Jeffrey Blair Latta reviews and lists the publication history books and stories by Robert E. Howard. He also includes covers of selected editions.

Conan the Official Web Site

Look for information about Conan collectibles, books, comics, games and more at this site for Conan Properties International. There’s also a Conan bibliography listing all of the barbarian’s book appearances.

Conan: Red Nails

The official site of the 2006 animated version of Robert E. Howard’s Red Nails is up with information about the film’s characters and story.

* Solomon Kane review

John Robey offers a review of Robert E. Howard’s Puritan adventurer at the Astounding Adventures Quarterly Web site. AAQ is a quarterly Web zine of fan fiction and articles.

Clark Ashton Smith site

Boyd Pearson’s Web site, The Eldritch Dark, includes: biographical information on Smith; areas on his writings, including e-texts of his stories and poems; information about his art; and a Hyperborean glossary.

H.P. Lovecraft Archive

Learn more about the master of Weird Tales at Donovan Loucks’ site.

Authors of supernatural horror

Though Alan Gullette’s site is about supernatural horror authors in general, there are sections on H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith.

Science fiction/fantasy

Science fiction checklist and links

Jonathan Vos Post has put together an index of science fiction magazines and links to Web site related to them.

A history of pulp science fiction

At Camille Erwin “Caz” Cazedessus II’s Web site for his Pulpdom zine, there is “A Brief History of Science Fiction and Pulp Magazines” which traces the development of science fiction from Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein into the 1900s and the arrival of pulp and popular fiction magazines.

Virginia Tech Speculative Fiction Project

Virginia Tech’s Speculative Fiction Project includes the contents of eight pulps, including issues of Air Wonder Stories, Cosmic Stories and Marvel Science Stories. Only the Air Wonder Stories Vol. 1, No. 1 (July 1929) is available for public access. The Cosmic Stories and Cosmic Science Fiction Stories are for Virginia Tech students and faculty, while the Marvel Science Stories, Super Science Stories and Tales of Wonder are available to credentialed scholars.

William J. Heron Collection of Speculative Fiction

Visit the Web site of Library Special Collections Department at Virginia Tech. You’ll find information about their collection, including a list of what they have, and images of pulp and paperback book covers.

Science fiction in French

NooSFere, the French encyclopedia of science fiction, includes covers and information about a variety of science fiction pulp magazines, such as Astounding, Galaxy Science Fiction and If.

Paskow Science Fiction Collection

Here is information about Temple University Library’s Paskow Science Fiction Collection, which some information on pulps and fanzines.

Buck Rogers in the pulps

Though you likely think of him as a comic strip character (or worse, as a TV character), Buck Rogers actually made his leap to the 25th century in the pulps. Most of this site looks at Buck’s comic, radio, film and TV appearances, but there is a section on his Amazing Stories debut, when he was known as Anthony “Buck” Rogers. The site also includes the first portion of Philip Francis Nowlan’s initial Buck Rogers story, “Armageddon, 2419.”

Gernsback’s Forecast

Longtime pulp editor Hugo Gernsback is the inspiration for this Webzine. You’ll find a brief biographical sketch of Gernsback, as well as science fiction articles and reprints here.

L. Ron Hubbard letters

Hubbard wrote for a variety of pulp magazines. The site – officially connected with his Church of Scientology – offers an overview of his letters and other correspondence with publishers and writers. Included is “In Defense of the Pulp,” an essay in which Hubbard defends the pulps as quality literature.

Mystery/hardboiled

* Classic Mysteries

Here’s a guide to pulp mystery authors as Dashiell Hammet, Raymond Chandler, Carroll John Daly and others. (And info about other mystery authors as well.)

Twists, Slugs and Roscoes

Not sure what a flivver is? Or a roscoe? Or mazuma? Then William Denton’s Glossary of Hardboiled Slang is just what you need.

Ginger Johnson watches the detectives

Ginger Johnson, who along with her husband Tom published numerous pulp zines for over 20 years, looks at five detective pulps for Web Mystery Magazine: All Star Detective Stories; Thrilling Detective; Gold Seal Detective; Best Detective; Detective Book Magazine.

Miscellaneous

The Wold Newton family

Win Eckert takes a look at and expands on Philip José Farmer’s Wold Newton theory of heroes and villains. Eckert also offers an expanded chronology of the family.

Jungle Sagas

This apparent one-shot e-zine features several jungle stories from the pulp era, including a Ki-Gor novel from Jungle Stories magazine.

Edgar Wallace online

British author Edgar Wallace is the focus of this official site of the Edgar Wallace Society. Wallace was a popular author for British pulps.

Zane Grey’s West Society

The group’s Web site includes a biography of Zane Grey, information on the society, “How to Get Started Reading Zane Grey” and “Why You Should Read Zane Grey” sections. There’s also a checklist for Zane Grey’s Western Magazine and a bibliography of his stories and articles published in a variety of magazines, including pulps.

Western pulp magazines

This is basically an online advertisement for old Western pulp magazines, but it does include a reproduction of a pulp cover.

Dime novels and penny dreadfuls

Before “pulps,” there were dime novels and penny dreadful papers and magazines. Here is Stanford University’s collection. Offers background on the popular fiction that led to the pulps.

Superman: The origin

Al Schroeder’s tribute to Siegal and Shuster’s Superman includes information on pulp influences – particularly Doc Savage – in the creation of the comic book character.

Dime Novel Round-up

The 19th Century Girls' Series Web site provides a content listing for Dime Novel Round-up zine, which looks at both dime novels, pulps and other popular fiction genres.

Images

Pulp and comic book covers

Though chiefly a binary newsgroup for scans of comic book covers, you can find quite a few pulp covers there, too.

The Pulp Gallery

Here’s a collection of over 2,400 magazine covers, most are pulps, that’s been posted on one of the photo album sites, PhotoPoint.com. In addition to the usual samples of The Shadow, The Spider and others, you’ll find an interesting look at how pulp cover art was recycled.

Pulp Cover Gallery

Max Salmenson has put together a collection of pulp cover scans. You’ll find covers from Planet Stories, Weird Tales, Startling Stories, Amazing Stories and more.

G-8 cover gallery

Bill Mann, with the help of several contributors, has put together a complete collection of G-8 and His Battle Aces pulp covers. Feast your eyes on cavemen, skeletons and sky wolves, oh, and more weird “staffels” than you can shake a stick at.

Adventure House gallery

Take a walk through pulp history in Adventure House’s pulp gallery. You’ll find most all pulp genres represented. There are scans of pulps such as Air Trails, Baseball Stories, Gun Molls Magazine, Saucy Movie Tales, Thrilling Ranch Stories and, our favorite, Popular Engineering Stories.

Magazine Art

This Web site devoted to magazine art in general includes a section focusing on the pulps, include Adventure, Uncanny Tales and other science fiction and fantasy titles.

Art's Not Dead Online Gallery

You'll find numerous pulp magazine posters, many from the Spicy line, mixed in with posters from the men's adventure magazines and '50s sleaze paperbacks for sale at this site. There are also many vintage sci-fi pulp posters. You can purchase the posters on paper or canvas.

William J. Heron Collection of Speculative Fiction

If you missed it above, this site at Virginia Tech’s library includes images of pulp and paperback book covers.

Fantastic Collectibles gallery

Ray Bowman offers a nice selection of pulp covers, including examples from Weird Tales, Amazing Stories, Nick Carter, Saucy Movie Tales and more.

Tales of Future Past

While most of the magazine illustrations here are from non-fiction science publications, there are a selection of science fiction pulp covers scattered throughout.

The Vintage Library

You’ll find a varied selection of pulp artwork at this site.

* Weird Tales gallery

As mentioned above, Lars Klores’ Web site features a gallery of Weird Tales covers, organized by year and by artist, plus there are photographs of the pulp’s writers and editors.

In Tandem Publications

Find out about In Tandem’s CD-ROM collection of pulp magazine covers, titled “Lurid Ladies.”

Pulp art on CD-ROMs

Though Graffix Multimedia sells CD-ROMs of pulp cover scans, their site includes numerous cover samples from mystery, detective, science fiction and western pulps.

Robert Weinberg’s site

At writer and pulp historian Robert Weinberg’s page you’ll find a couple of Weird Tales covers and a illustration by Virgil Finlay.

Pulps: A Japanese view

This site from Japan includes an excellent selection of pulp cover scans. They are chiefly science fiction pulps, such as Amazing, Captain Future, Planet and such, but also Argosy, Blue Book and Weird Tales. The text at this site is in Japanese. (If anyone is aware of a translation site similar to babelfish.altavista.com that translates Japanese to English please let us know and we’ll pass the word along to other pulp fans.)

Poulpe pulps

Francesca Myman takes a slightly skewed look at pulp magazine covers with her poulpe pulp site. It’s the octopus — the animal, not the pulp character — that takes the place of the BEM* on these covers. (*Bug-Eyed Monster)

Norm Saunders Artwork Archive

The work of artist Norm Saunders is shown here, including scans of his paintings used as pulp covers and actual published pulp covers, including Ace Detective, Planet Stories, Saucy Movie Tales and Star Western. There is biographical information, an “artography,” samples of his work in other fields and links.

E-texts

Virginia Tech Speculative Fiction Project

Virginia Tech’s Speculative Fiction Project includes the contents of eight pulps, including issues of Air Wonder Stories, Cosmic Stories and Marvel Science Stories. Only the Air Wonder Stories Vol. 1, No. 1 (July 1929) is available for public access. The Cosmic Stories and Cosmic Science Fiction Stories are for Virginia Tech students and faculty, while the Marvel Science Stories, Super Science Stories and Tales of Wonder are available to credentialed scholars.

PDF pulps

Larry Estep’s PulpGen site includes a page for downloading PDF versions of pulp stories. It’s a nice selection of stories by David Goodis, E. Hoffmann Price, Major R.T.M. Scott, Theodore Tinsley and others. (Look under the “Download the Stories” subhead and browse by author, magazine or recent additions.)

More PDF pulps

John Gunnison has added a collection of pulp stories in PDF form at his Adventure House site. You’ll find stories by Robert Leslie Bellem, Lew Merrill, Clarence E. Mulford and more, including a 1962 Playboy article, “The Bloody Pulps.”

ERB pulp text

Miscellanea, formerly known as Retro Novello, includes e-texts of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ The Girl from Farris’s and The Effeciency Expert for downloading. You’ll also find several stories by Sax Rohmer.

Online Books Page

Links to sites with electronic texts of books.

Gutenberg Project

Search the Gutenberg Project’s directory of electronic texts. Here you’ll be able to find many Edgar Rice Burroughs’ adventures, as well as many, many other novels – and all are free.

The Vintage Library

The Vintage Library is business site, so expect to pay for some of your downloads. They have several pulp adventures for sale and available for download, and promise more.

Clark Ashton Smith writings

The Fantasy Collector’s collection includes stories and poems by Smith.

Radio/TV/Film

The Serial Squadron

The Serial Squadron Web site, dedicated to movie, radio and TV serials, includes information on serials featuring such pulp and dime novel characters as The Shadow, The Spider, Deadwood Dick, Tarzan and others.

Old Time Radio show logs

Episode guides and air dates of a variety of old radio programs, including some based on pulp characters, such as The Shadow, Doc Savage and Dr. Kildare.

Old Time Radio Show Catalog

OTRCat features a daily download from classic radio drama, as well as sells MP3 and audio CDs of vintage radio programs, including a variety of science fiction shows based on pulp writers’ stories.

Old time radio posts

You will frequently find episodes of The Shadow and other pulp-related radio programs posted to this old time radio newsgroup. Most appear to be in MP3 format.