For those not familiar, Jim Anthony was a sort-of Doc Savage clone published by Trojan/Culture Publications in the early 1940s, a publisher of the “spicy” pulps, a sort-of soft porn magazine. He lasted 25 stories, and Altus Press is...
Archive - December 2013
As a long-time science fiction fan, I obtained many reference books on science fiction. Some that I really enjoyed included “The Visual Encyclopedia of Science...
In the next in this series of articles, I take an overview of one of the major pulp publishers and their pulp heroes: Ace Magazines. Established in 1928 by Harold Hersey...
Lazarus Gray is a New Pulp character from writer Barry Reese. I have been reading his Rook series. (He has other works as well, but those are the ones I’ve been...
I think that for most people they are probably aware of Sherlock Holmes. If they haven’t read one or more of Arthur Conan Doyle‘s original stories, they have...
Blood ‘n’ Thunder is a journal aimed at late 19th and early 20th century pop culture. For the pulp fan, this means the pulp magazines, their forerunners...
“The Good, the Bad, and the Unknown” is an interesting collection. I originally thought it a single novel using three classic characters: Moon Man, Doctor...
As a follow-up to my “What is pulp?” posting, I’d like to look at what formats people like to get their pulp fiction. When I got into pulp, you...
An interesting comic book series that made use of pulp and proto-pulp characters and themes is Planetary, by writer Warren Ellis and artist John Cassaday. This series...
“Shadows of the Opera: The Mark of the Revenant” is a great collection of interconnected short stories by Rick Lai. These are “Wold Newton”...