The Rocketeer is an original comic-book creation of the late artist-writer Dave Stevens (1955-2008). While Stevens is mainly know for his many well-done comic...
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After the demise of Street & Smith‘s comic-book line, The Shadow would not return to comics until 1964, this time from Archie Comics. Yes, the...
With the arrival of the new Avenger comic-book series, I thought it would be a good idea to take a closer look at the previous comic-book stories staring this...
In the 1970s, Marvel Comics got the rights to do a Doc Savage comic. They actually wound up doing two different series. From 1972-74, Marvel did a color comic...
After the pulp era ended, the next appearance of Doc Savage in comic books came in 1966, after the Bantam paperback reprints took off. Talk of a movie soon...
Doc Savage, the Man of Bronze, has long been a popular pulp hero. But he has also appeared in comic books over the years; some good, some not so good. He first...
Comic-book creator Howard Chaykin has been involved with several pulp and pulp-inspired comics during his career. Most pulp fans are familiar with his take on...
Probably one of the best-known pulp heroes, even among people who know nothing about pulp heroes, is The Shadow. The Shadow is the pulp world’s Batman to...
A comic-book character I recently looked into is Atomic Robo. I had first noticed him when I saw some pulp-inspired covers. So I decided to check him out...
In studying pulps, it’s also valuable to study those fiction sources that preceded the pulps: the story papers and dime novels. Many of the same types of...