One aspect of this blog is to not just give a review of works, but to help readers better appreciate the pulps and their authors and editors. Thus I try to give information on these authors. I have a trio of pulp-related author biographies from...
Archive - August 2020
A very interesting project for New Pulp has appeared from Airship 27: Who’s Who in New Pulp (Airship 27). Spearheaded by Ron Fortier, this work collects entries on...
I been reading the Doc Vandal series by Dave Robinson, and recently got the fifth volume, The Sunkiller Affair. In this story, the group must contend with two enemies...
After too long, we get more new stories about Ravenwood, Stepson of Mystery. He was an occult detective who had a short-lived series that ran in the back of Secret Agent...
Ray Cummings (1887-1957) is one of the “founding fathers” of pulp science fiction who unfortunately never got out of the “pulp getto.” During his...
I was really hoping I’d like this New Pulp-inspired comic, Adventureman (Image Comics), from Matt Fraction (really Matt Fritchen) and artists Terry and Rachel...
In 2010, a New Pulp publisher appeared called Pro Se Productions, or Pro Se Press. Headed by Tommy Hancock, who did the short-loved Pulp Ark show in Arkansas, it started...
I recently obtained The Doc Vandal Omnibus: Vol. 1, which has the first three novels by Dave Robinson featuring Doc Vandal, a steampunk take on Doc Savage. Doc Vandal...
I have previously posted on dime-novel reprints from Darren Németh‘s Giant Squid Audio Lab Co. done via Kickstarter. He has put out three in his Page-Turner...