Here is the second volume of Airship 27’s “Mystery Men (& Women)” — though there are no mystery women in this one. We get four New Pulp hero stories:...
Category - Pulps
An interesting proto-pulp character is the French adventurer Rocambole. While being well known around the world, the character is sadly less known in the...
“Tales of Masks and Mayhem,” originally published by Mystic Toad Press, is back in a new edition by Altus Press. This collection reprints stories...
Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) is a Grand Master of Science Fiction. For most science fiction fans, he is probably best known for his series “The World...
Doc Atlas was created by Michael A. Black and Ray Lovato as a clear homage to Doc Savage. While it’s easy to spot the similarities, it’s clear...
Robert Sampson (1927-92) was one of the major pulp researchers. His main work is his six-volume “Yesterday’s Faces.” But he has done other...
The Black Bat is a lesser pulp hero, but still well remembered. He was part of the “third wave” of pulp heroes (Will Murray‘s term), all of...
Previously, I wrote a posting on Doc Savage pastiches and imitations created during the original pulp era. This time I look at some (note: some) of the modern...
“Echoes 30” is a special 30th anniversary of Echoes, a long running, but now defunct, pulp fanzine. Echoes ran from 1982 to 2004, before the advent...
Doctor Coffin: The Living-Dead Man from Off-Trail Publications reprints eight of the 15 Doctor Coffin stories that ran for a year and half in Thrilling...