American pulp magazines weren’t the only sources for inexpensive escapism during the pulp era. By Larry Latham Let’s talk pulp heroes, you and me...
Category - Pulp Articles
ThePulp.Net’s articles section goes beyond the links with original essays, interviews, and historical pieces on the fictioneers, artists, and stories that defined the pulp era. New articles are added regularly.
On April 8, 1949, Street & Smith canceled its last four pulp magazines: The Shadow, Doc Savage, Detective Story and Western Story. Here’s the story of the day...
Who was this strange Wold Newton Family, which counts Tarzan, Doc Savage, and Fu Manchu among its members? Win Scott Eckert gives you the scoop on Philip...
A new generation of fans discovered Doc Savage thanks to the Bantam paperback reprints. One of the key figures behind the success of the Man of Bronze's return...
Norvell W. Page and The Spider are almost synonymous. But in 1939, Page holstered the automatics and picked up a sword for two Prester John novels for the pulp...
The Pulp Companion was ThePulp.Net’s online pulp zine, which ran from June 2002 through Spring 2005. The briefs and featured articles remain available on TPN...
By Mark Edward Jones It wasn’t teachers or any form of schooling that helped me to read. It was amazing tales that I first discovered in comic books and...
By Stanley R. Grothaus I had always been a reader. In the late ’20s, when radio was just coming on the air, and movies were moving from silents to sound...