Blood ‘n’ Thunder is a journal aimed at late 19th and early 20th century pop culture. For the pulp fan, this means the pulp magazines, their...
Category - Pulps
As a follow-up to my “What is pulp?” posting, I’d like to look at what formats people like to get their pulp fiction. When I got into pulp...
An interesting comic book series that made use of pulp and proto-pulp characters and themes is Planetary, by writer Warren Ellis and artist John Cassaday. This...
In the next in this series of articles, I take an overview of one of the major pulp publishers and their pulp heroes: Popular Publications. Established in...
Rocambole is an early French character who is a forerunner of many similar characters of heroic fiction that followed him. These stories were written in the...
“Tales of the Shadowmen: The Modern Babylon” (2005) is the first volume of an eclectic annual anthology series from Black Coat Press. It makes use...
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) is a well-known pulp writer who created Tarzan and John Carter of Mars, two of his best-known creations. Like many pulp fans...
The Rook is a New Pulp hero created by Barry Reese. For those who are familiar with the character (i.e., you’ve read the other collections or read my...
“Tales of Masks & Mayhem, Vol. III,” is the third of four collections of New Pulp hero stories continuing from Tom Johnson‘s Fading...
In the next in this series of articles, I take an overview of one of the major pulp publishers and their pulp heroes: Street & Smith. Established in 1855...