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...
Archive - 2023
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...
Jim Main’s Pulp Fan #8, dated Fall 2023, arrived recently. This issue is themed around “pulp characters on the big screen,” starting with another great pair of covers by...