Michael R. Brown has been described by All Pulp and the Pulped podcast as a “pulp super-fan.”
His introduction to the pulps came from the myriad paperback reprints of the ’70s — first, with Doc Savage, then other pulp heroes, including The Avenger, The Shadow, The Spider, G-8 and more. Those early discoveries led him to classic pulp horror fictioneers H.P. Lovecraft and Manly Wade Wellman, as well as British authors as Arthur Conan Doyle, Algernon Blackwood and William Hope Hodgson, and the German SF series Perry Rhodan.
Michael crafted the FAQ for the alt.pulp newsgroup back in the 1990s, and put together some of the indexes of the hero pulps available there, which he still updates for his own use.
He currently reads a wide-ranging list of books and writes reviews on many pulp reprints on Amazon.com.
Check Michael’s Pulp Super-Fan blog regularly. His posting schedule is:
- Mondays: original pulps, along with their predecessors, such as dime novels and the like. Originals from overseas will also be included.
- Tuesdays: pulp art and artists. We’ll see how long this goes.
- Wednesdays: post-pulp and New Pulp, including most fanzines.
- Thursdays: H. Bedford-Jones. He has put out so many works and I have a backlog of his stuff to work through that doing them on Monday would overwhelm the rest.
- Fridays: everything else. Posts on comics, movies and serials, TV shows, and radio will appear here, along with other oddballs like games, juvenile series, and the like.
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