Last year when the great fanzine Blood ‘n’ Thunder ended with issue #50 (actually a double issue of #49/50), we were promised that BnT would...
Category - Pulps
“Where brooding darkness spreads its evil wings, the Night Raven stings!” Marvel Comics for several years had an imprint in the U.K. publishing...
After a little longer then expected, we get the fifth issue of Awesome Tales (Spring 2017), a fanzine produced by Black Cat Media (R. Allen Leider) and...
In 1984 I was thrilled to see a new movie that seemed (to me) to have some pulp inspirations: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the 8th Dimension. We...
Mention the name Michael Crichton and most people will think of Jurassic Park (or at least the movies). Maybe some of his other works turned into movies like...
Some may be familiar with Sinister Cinema, a company that has for years made various “B movies” available on VHS and now DVD. In 2010 they expanded...
Street & Smith kicked off the hero pulp trend with The Shadow in 1931. They eventually followed that with Doc Savage in 1933. While those were successful...
Another pulp hero who has been largely overlooked by most pulp fans is I.V. “Ivy” Frost. A science detective created by Donald Wandrei (1908-1987)...
Johnston McCulley, the prolific writer who created Zorro, created several other serial pulp characters that many of today’s pulp fans are unaware of. His...
In the past I’ve written on the pulp-comics connections with several of the major and minor pulp publishers. And recently I posted on the pulp roots of...