In this posting on pulp fanzines, I look at the excellent, but very short-lived fanzine: Duende. Duende was edited and largely written by pulp historian Will Murray, and published by Odyssey Publications, a short-lived publisher that Murray was...
Archive - September 2014
Some pulp fans may be aware of Philip José Farmer‘s 1969 book “A Feast Unknown.” This book pitted two pulp icons — Tarzan and Doc Savage, here renamed...
Recently I looked at the “biographies” of pulp characters Tarzan and Doc Savage by Philip José Farmer. As part of doing a biography, Farmer also worked out a...
A classic pulp author who has in recent years been forgotten is A. Merritt (1884-1949). Abraham Merritt was an editor who also wrote fantasy tales. His stories were...
After the demise of Street & Smith‘s comic-book line, The Shadow would not return to comics until 1964, this time from Archie Comics. Yes, the publisher of the...
Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) was a long-time SF author and pulp fan. He turned his love of the pulps into several works using the pulp characters he loved the most:...
With the arrival of the new Avenger comic-book series, I thought it would be a good idea to take a closer look at the previous comic-book stories staring this Street...
With today’s print-on-demand technology making book publishing easier, we’ve seen an explosion of small presses using it to make available pulp reprints like...