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...
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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...
Buck Rogers? The SF character from comicstrips, comicbooks, movies and TV shows? But this blog is about pulp characters. Buck Rogers isn’t a pulp...
In what is probably the last in this series of articles, I give an overview of another of the major pulp publishers and their pulp heroes: Fiction House...
Among original pulp heroes, Capt. Hazzard is sadly a one-hit wonder, and is one of the most blatant Doc Savage clones. Published by Ace Magazines, he got only...