“Tales of the Shadowmen: Femmes Fatale” (2011) is the seventh volume of this eclectic anthology series from Black Coat Press. This collection fits...
Category - Pulps
Probably one of the best-known pulp heroes, even among people who know nothing about pulp heroes, is The Shadow. The Shadow is the pulp world’s Batman to...
A comic-book character I recently looked into is Atomic Robo. I had first noticed him when I saw some pulp-inspired covers. So I decided to check him out...
An interesting early occult detective is Thomas Carnacki by English author Willam Hope Hodgson (1877-1918). Hodgson wrote several works of horror, science and...
In the 1970s, Philip José Farmer started a trilogy set in the world of Opar, the city discovered by Tarzan that is supposed to be a lost colony of Atlantis...
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...
“Tales of the Shadowmen: Grand Guignol” (2010) is the sixth volume of this eclectic anthology series from Black Coat Press. This collection fits...
Buck Rogers? The SF character from comicstrips, comicbooks, movies and TV shows? But this blog is about pulp characters. Buck Rogers isn’t a pulp...
For those not familiar, Jim Anthony was a sort-of Doc Savage “clone” published by Trojan/Culture Publications in the early 1940s. Trojan was a...
Manly Wade Wellman (1902-1986) wrote several occult detectives over the years as a pulp writer. But Wellman’s most well-known occult detective is John...