Last time I took a look at comic book versions of pulp heroes during the Golden Age of comic books. In this posting, I’ll focus on the 1960s through today. During this period, new comics based on the original pulp heroes appeared several times...
Archive - May 2013
The Silver Manticore is an interesting New Pulp hero. “The Sting of the Silver Manticore” is an obvious homage to many fictional characters from pulps...
The Secret 6, not to be confused with the similarly named groups from DC Comics, was Harry Steeger‘s Popular Publications‘ attempt at doing its own version...
Much has been made of late of the New Pulp movement, made possible in many ways due to the advances in “print on demand” technology that has allowed small...
One thing I’ve been thinking about of late has been how I got into reading Doc Savage and my experiences finding and reading the stories. It was reading Doc that...
In a prior posting, I covered the connection between pulp publishers and comic book publishers. This time, I’ll delve further into comic book versions of pulp...
“Doctor Omega” is an almost forgotten early (1906) French SF novel by Arnould Galopin written as a sort-of response to H.G. Well‘s First Men on the...
Pulp and comics have long had a connection, something that most average comic book fans are unaware of. (I think more pulp fans are aware of this.) Many pulp characters...
Sar Dubnotal is an early “occult detective,” like John Silence, Carnacki and others, who appeared in 20 anonymously written novellas published in France...
The practice of calling pulps devoted to, and often named after, the hero contained in them “hero pulps” is well understood. But some argue they should be...