“The Spider,” from Pulpville Press, reprints two stories by Frederick C. Painton, an unknown to me pulp writer. Pulpville has a couple of other...
Category - Reprints
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...