In this posting on pulp fanzines, I look at the excellent, but very short-lived fanzine: Duende. Duende was edited and largely written by pulp historian Will...
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Some pulp fans may be aware of Philip José Farmer‘s 1969 book “A Feast Unknown.” This book pitted two pulp icons — Tarzan and Doc Savage...
Recently I looked at the “biographies” of pulp characters Tarzan and Doc Savage by Philip José Farmer. As part of doing a biography, Farmer also...
A classic pulp author who has in recent years been forgotten is A. Merritt (1884-1949). Abraham Merritt was an editor who also wrote fantasy tales. His stories...
After the demise of Street & Smith‘s comic-book line, The Shadow would not return to comics until 1964, this time from Archie Comics. Yes, the...
Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) was a long-time SF author and pulp fan. He turned his love of the pulps into several works using the pulp characters he loved...
With today’s print-on-demand technology making book publishing easier, we’ve seen an explosion of small presses using it to make available pulp...
We’ve looked at Sherlock Holmes and some of the Holmes pastiches that became characters in there own right. Now we look at another of those: Harry...
Four books that I think every Doc Savage fan should have are: “Doc Savage: Arch Enemy of Evil” by Larry Widen (1993, 2006) “The...
Rocambole is an early French character who is a forerunner of many similar characters of heroic fiction that followed him. These stories were written in the...