An interesting comic book series that made use of pulp and proto-pulp characters and themes is Planetary, by writer Warren Ellis and artist John Cassaday. This...
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“Shadows of the Opera: The Mark of the Revenant” is a great collection of interconnected short stories by Rick Lai. These are “Wold...
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...
“Tales of the Shadowmen: The Modern Babylon” (2005) is the first volume of an eclectic annual anthology series from Black Coat Press. It makes use...
The Rook is a New Pulp hero created by Barry Reese. For those who are familiar with the character (i.e., you’ve read the other collections or read my...
“Tales of Masks & Mayhem, Vol. III,” is the third of four collections of New Pulp hero stories continuing from Tom Johnson‘s Fading...
Successful New Pulp writer Barry Reese has a new character: Gravedigger. I have been reading his Rook series (seven so far and counting), and Lazarus Gray...
Most pulp fans know Weird Tales magazine as the long-running occult/horror/fantasy pulp that published such greats as H.P. Lovecraft, Seabury Quinn, and many...
Here is the third volume of Airship 27‘s “Mystery Men (& Women).” With this one we get four New Pulp characters. There are a couple of...
“The Spider,” from Pulpville Press, reprints two stories by Frederick C. Painton, an unknown to me pulp writer. Pulpville has a couple of other...