I had previously posted on an interesting pulp-style comicbook series that stars a 1930s-era aviatrix and adventurer, Athena Voltaire. She gets pulled into matters dealing with the occult and Nazis. At the time I had only read the Compendium volume...
Archive - September 2022
Here we are with another look at an old pulp-hero fanzine, one that started in 1980 as Doc Savage Quarterly and was renamed The Shadow/Doc Savage Quest. All were...
When I was doing my research into Blue Book magazine, one of the top quality pulps, I was surprised to learn that H. Bedford-Jones was not the magazine’s most...
An interesting non-fiction work I got recently that was published by Bowling Green State University’s Popular Press is Gary Hoppenstand‘s In Search of the...
I recently picked up a new coffee table artbook from Abrams titled Pulp Power: The Shadow, Doc Savage, and the Art of the Street & Smith Universe. This 350-page...
As most know, pulp (or pulpwood) magazines started in 1896 when Frank Munsey converted his magazine The Argosy to pulp paper to reduce costs, and would pretty much die...
As part of my revisiting the larger Hellboy universe, I am now going to revisit the various BPRD series with more details on the stories themselves. I thought I would do...
With the recent new Jon Shadows novel from Teel James Glenn, I bemoaned that some of his earlier pulp hero works from BooksForABuck were no longer available, and hoped...
I recently got pair of more academic works edited by Gary Hoppenstand that may be of interest. The first is a hardcover reference book, Critical Insights: Pulp Fiction...
Continuing my look at publishers, we look at another of the pulp reprinters: Age of Aces Books. Started in 2007, Age of Aces is editor Bill Mann and brothers Chris Kalb...