Most pulp fans know Weird Tales magazine as the long-running occult/horror/fantasy pulp that published such greats as H.P. Lovecraft, Seabury Quinn, and many...
Category - Pulps
Here is the third volume of Airship 27‘s “Mystery Men (& Women).” With this one we get four New Pulp characters. There are a couple of...
“The Spider,” from Pulpville Press, reprints two stories by Frederick C. Painton, an unknown to me pulp writer. Pulpville has a couple of other...
Once again, Airship 27 assembles a great collection of new short stories of a classic pulp hero with “Black Bat Mystery, Vol. 2.” For those not...
Ravenwood was a short-lived pulp hero series that ran in the back of Secret Agent X for five issues in 1936. Like all the pulp characters from Ace (aka...
In the next in this series of articles, I take an overview of another of the major pulp publishers, the Thrilling Group, and their pulp heroes. Thrilling was...
One of Thrilling’s last pulp hero is the bizarre Purple Scar. This short-lived series was published in Exciting Detective as the cover feature. Thrilling...
Mr. Death is a very early, but lesser-known pulp hero. Altus Press‘ volume “Alias Mr. Death: The Complete Series” collects all the original...
“Pulp Echoes” is the third (and apparently last) collection of New Pulp hero stories by Tom Johnson. It’s a sort of sequel to his previous...
Doctor Death is one of the unique characters in pulp fiction. Not only is he a villain and the star of his own series, but there are in fact two different...