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...
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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...
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...
Sar Dubnotal is an early “occult detective,” like John Silence, Carnacki and others, who appeared in 20 anonymously written novellas published in...
The practice of calling pulps devoted to, and often named after, the hero contained in them “hero pulps” is well understood. But some argue they...
Once again, Black Coat Press presents a translation of a French novel featuring a character they have been using in their Tales of the Shadowmen series. This...
Many pulp characters were turned into comic book characters. Many of the pulp publishers also had ties with (or owned) comic book publishers, so this was easy...
Within the hero pulp genre was the genre of secret agents. The best known was Operator #5. Lesser known (I had never heard of this character) is the Red...
Within the larger genre of pulp heroes, there are several sub-genres. One of them is the “magician-detective,” of which there are very few. In most...