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...
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Buck Rogers? The SF character from comic strips, comic books, 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...
In the next in this series of articles, I take an overview of one of the major pulp publishers and their pulp heroes: Ace Magazines. Established in 1928 by...
An interesting comic book series that made use of pulp and proto-pulp characters and themes is Planetary, by writer Warren Ellis and artist John Cassaday. This...
In the next in this series of articles, I take an overview of one of the major pulp publishers and their pulp heroes: Street & Smith. Established in 1855...
In the next in this series of articles, I take an overview of another of the major pulp publishers, the Thrilling Group, and their pulp heroes. Thrilling was...
In 2008 and 2010, comic book creators Ed Brubaker (writer) and Sean Phillips (artist) came out with a new, pulp-inspired comic book, Incognito, published as a...
The Black Bat is a lesser pulp hero, but still well remembered. He was part of the “third wave” of pulp heroes (Will Murray‘s term), all of...