Most pulp fans are familiar with The Black Bat, but how many know of the early character called only The Bat? The Bat was published in Thrilling...
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A different pulp-inspired comic from the team of Ed Brubaker and Sean Philips is Fatale. It followed their interesting Incognito series, which was inspired by...
I’ve looked at several of the pulp heroes from Thrilling Publications over time. One I haven’t gotten to is G.T. Fleming-Roberts‘ The Green...
Dynamite published its second Doc Savage mini-series, the five-issue The Spider’s Web. It was also written by Chris Roberson and is set after the first...
A new guide to The Shadow pulp series is out: The Shadow in Review. It’s written by John Olsen, who writes the companion blog That’s Pulp!, and...
A juvenile series that was in counterpoint to Tom Swift Jr. was Rick Brant. Published by Grosset & Dunlap (like Tom), but owned outright by G&D and not...
After too long we get two more issues of Murania Press‘ excellent magazine Blood ‘n’ Thunder. Blood ‘n’ Thunder covers not just...
I have previously posted about the Vic Challenger series, having received the fifth novel in the series. Set in the 1920s, the series stars young Victoria...
I am always on the lookout for new occult detectives, and I recently discovered one who is actually an old one, written in the 1930s and ’40s. Detective...
In going through my comic book collection, I came across two issues of a pulp-inspired comic, The Gloom. Clearly a parody of pulp heroes, it appeared in 2005...