Many great characters came out of the pulps, but it’s sad that few were as successful in other media such as comics. Take Street & Smith’s The Avenger...
I have previously posted on Robert Weinberg and his excellent pulp reprint series Pulp Classics, which mainly focused on the hero pulps. About midway doing that series...
I have found that with many techno-thriller heroes that they are usually super competent in one area. An interesting hero is Jack Du Brul‘s Dr. Philip Mercer, a...
Dr. Jules de Grandin is one of the best-known occult detectives, though probably overshadowed today. Created by Seabury Quinn (1889-1969), de Grandin is probably his...
The Masked Master Mind is another in Altus Press‘ The Argosy Library. Written by George F. Worts, it was serialized in Argosy All-Story Weekly in 1926. Worts is...
I’ve posted previously on the techno-thrillers of James Rollins (pen name of former veterinarian James Paul Czajkowski). He started out doing a series of stand...
Sexton Blake, a hugely popular British character during his time, is probably the best known of the various Sherlock Holmes knockoffs, which is interesting, because he...
An interesting series of works that I have previously posted on is Joseph Lovece‘s “Dime Novel Cover Series.” The series makes use of various...
Pulp Adventures #18 (Summer 2015), the fourth issue of the new version from Bold Venture Press, is now out. We get a collection of pulp fiction, along with some...
Lester Dent, the co-creator and major author of Doc Savage, is too often overlooked in regards to his non-Doc work he did before, during, and after he wrote the...