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...
Category - Pulps
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...
Thunder Jim Wade is a short-lived character who is usually written off as a Doc Savage clone. Written by the well-known SF author Henry Kuttner, who married...
What is (and is not) “pulp” is something that has generated a lot of discussion over the years. Some people are very stringent about what pulp is;...
The Moon Man is one of the most unusual pulp heroes. Sometimes called the “Robin Hood of the Pulps,” he is really Det. Sgt. Stephen Thatcher, who...
“Tales of Masks and Mayhem” Vol. II is the second of four collections continuing from Tom Johnson‘s Fading Shadow’s zines, such as...
The Rook is a New Hero pulp character created by Barry Reese. The Rook fights crime and evil in the ’30s and ’40s (and later). In his six Rook...
Altus Press has added another volume to their “Companion” series of handbooks on classic pulp series. This one is on The Black Bat...