The last new pulp hero from Thrilling Publications was the short-lived Purple Scar. This hero was published in Exciting Detective as their cover feature (maybe...
Category - Pulps
Pulps have their share of bizarre pulp heroes. But perhaps the strangest is The Skull Killer. Never heard of him? Well, he didn’t star in his own pulp...
In the March 1945 issue of Amazing Stories, “I Remember Lemuria” kicked off a phenomenon that continues to this day: the Shaver Mystery. It took...
A long-running pulp fanzine that recently made the move to being an online publication is Pulpdom. Pulpdom has a distinguished history that goes back many...
While most people when dealing with pulps focus on the later periods of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s, the hero pulps that occurred then, the crime...
I have posted previously on Joseph Lovece‘s new series, the “Steam Man of the West.” This is an original series inspired by the various...
I have previously posted on Murania Press‘ (Ed Hulse‘s) excellent magazine Blood ‘n’ Thunder. Last summer we got a single issue (#41)...
In the 1970s there was a small press called FAX Collector’s Editions. I’ve not seen a complete listing of what they produced, but know they did...
One of the pulp fanzines I got when I first was involved in pulp fandom was Doug Ellis‘ excellent Pulp Vault. Put out under his Tattered Pages Press...
The first of Lester Dent’s “gadget heroes” was Lynn Lash. This short-lived character came out before Doc Savage was created, and it’s...