I picked up For Steam and Country recently. It’s the first in a series of young-adult (YA) novels, “The Adventures of Baron von Monocle” by Jon Del Arroz. It’s actually a popular YA/steampunk series, which is a genre I didn’t know existed. It is...
Archive - September 2023
Most pulp-hero fans may not be aware that pulp magazines always run multiple stories, even with the character pulps. This means that The Shadow, Doc Savage, The Spider...
We continue with my deeper re-read of the B.P.R.D Omnibus series, which is part of the Hellboy universe. I won’t repeat everything I said about the B.P.R.D., so read the...
After reading J. Walt Layne‘s novel, Russian Roulette set in Champion City, I figured I should check out the prior ones. The first one is A Week in Hell from Pro...
Some time back I did a posting on all four of Lester Dent‘s “gadget heroes,” the final one being Clickell “Click” Rush. But at the time only a handful of the 18 stories...
Here we have The Weird Worlds of Joel Jenkins, Vol. 2, the second in a series of three volumes. They collect several short stories by Joel Jenkins (and sometimes others)...
A different kind of reprint came out from Steeger Books recently: The Camp-Fire: The Complete Correspondence From the Pages of ‘Adventure,’ 1918-1920. This large...
We continue with my deeper re-read of the B.P.R.D Omnibus series, which is part of the Hellboy universe. I won’t repeat everything I said about the B.P.R.D., so read the...
With the release of the eighth issue of Men’s Adventure Quarterly, we close out the second year of this well-done magazine focused on men’s adventure magazines. This is...
I recently got Will Murray’s Dark Avenger: The Strange Saga of The Shadow, his second book on The Shadow after Master of Mystery: The Rise of The Shadow. Like that book...