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, here renamed (recast?) Lord...
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 worked out a chronology...
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 were...
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 publisher of 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 the most:...
With the arrival of the new Avenger comic-book series, I thought it would be a good idea to take a closer look at the previous comic-book stories staring this Street...
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 reprints like never...
In the 1970s, Marvel Comics got the rights to do a Doc Savage comic. They actually wound up doing two different series. From 1972-74, Marvel did a color comic. In two...
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 Dickson, the American...
Four books that I think every Doc Savage fan should have are: “Doc Savage: Arch Enemy of Evil” by Larry Widen (1993, 2006) “The Collector’s Handbook of Bronze, Final...