I was recently sent a new fanzine: Ackermansion Memories #14. Put out by James Van Hise, it harkens back to fanzines of the past before the advent of print-on...
Category - Pulps
I recently picked up a hardback book that collects a large number of pulp-cover art: Savage Art: 20th Century Genre and the Artists that Defined.It was...
I have posted about Victor Rousseau Emanuel (1879-1960), a prolific pulp author in the early years who is largely overlooked today. Some of his works have been...
As previously noted, the fanzine Echoes ran from 1982 to 2002. Published by the late Tom Johnson with his wife Ginger, it is probably the longest-running pulp...
A recent acquisition I obtained is The Chillingly Weird Art of Matt Fox by Roger Hill. Published in hardback by TwoMorrows Publishing, it came out recently and...
A topic I’ve only hinted at is what I’ll call “pulp-hero backup series.” Many of the character-pulp/pulp-hero magazines, such as The Shadow, Doc...
Just before PulpFest 2023, we got the second volume of Donald Keyhoe‘s Devildog Squadron series, The Flying Juggernaut, from Age of Aces. This was his...
Recently I learned of a recurring character from the early years of Astounding Stories, who was noted to have been very popular in his time: Hawk Carse. I had...
Sometime back I did a review of the first Eric Trent collection from Steeger Books. Eric Trent was Donald Keyhoe’s next-to-last serial air-adventure character...
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...