With this posting I start a re-reading (and in some cases first time reading) of the Solar Pons stories by both August Derleth and Basil Copper. For those not...
Category - Pulps
The Phantom Detective was Thrilling’s most popular pulp hero, outliving both The Shadow and Doc Savage in terms of longevity, though with fewer stories...
Among the best known of pulp characters within the mainstream is Johnston McCulley‘s Zorro. though this is more due to the fame created by his appearance...
An unusual publisher this time is the Popular Press. It was originally established at Bowling Green State University in 1970, and was later acquired by the...
Of Popular Publication’s pulp heroes, Operator #5 is their third longest-running one. A superspy billed as “America’s Undercover Ace,”...
We recently got the third of the four novellas in the new Captain Future stories by Allen Steele, which is “The Return of Ul Quorn” sequence. This...
In the world of pulp heroes, very few have hit over 100 issues or stories. One of those is Popular Publication’s G-8. Created and written by Robert J...
When it comes to long-running hero pulps, The Phantom Detective is brought up. The magazine has the distinction of outliving both The Shadow and Doc Savage...
Just before the release of a new two-volume Solar Pons collection, The Meeting of Minds: The Cases of Sherlock Holmes and Solar Pons, we get the next issue of...
While authors for a long time have hidden themselves behind pseudonyms or pen names, the use of them is a big part of the pulp magazines. The reasons that some...