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...
Category - Pulps
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...
Last time I took a look at comic book versions of pulp heroes during the Golden Age of comic books. In this posting, I’ll focus on the 1960s through...
The Secret 6, not to be confused with the similarly named groups from DC Comics, was Harry Steeger‘s Popular Publications‘ attempt at doing its own...
One thing I’ve been thinking about of late has been how I got into reading Doc Savage and my experiences finding and reading the stories. It was reading...