Illustrator Walter Baumhofer (1904-87) had a long career doing artwork in many areas. I think for most pulp fan, they know him for his Doc Savage cover...
Category - Pulps
Conan. Solomon Kane. Kull the Conqueror. Bran Mak Morn. Red Sonya. Sailor Steve Costigan. These and many others are the creations of Robert E. Howard (1906...
When it comes to pulp covers of The Spider, the artist I think of is Rafael DeSoto (1904-92). In particular, the cover from October 1941, which he did...
After getting the chapbook The Death-Head’s March and Others from Black Dog Books, I got another The Stinging ‘Nting and Other Stories, which...
I recently got the volume The Scrap of Lace, which is the first collection of stories with Madame Storey by Hulbert Footner (1879-1944). Footner was a Canadian...
When it comes to spicy pulp covers, the artist I think of is H.J. Ward (1909-45). But I was surprised to learn that he actually did a lot more, including work...
When I was doing my research into Blue Book magazine, one of the top quality pulps, I was surprised to learn that H. Bedford-Jones was not the magazine’s...
An interesting non-fiction work I got recently that was published by Bowling Green State University’s Popular Press is Gary Hoppenstand‘s In Search...
I recently picked up a new coffee table artbook from Abrams titled Pulp Power: The Shadow, Doc Savage, and the Art of the Street & Smith Universe. This 350...
I recently got pair of more academic works edited by Gary Hoppenstand that may be of interest. The first is a hardcover reference book, Critical Insights: Pulp...