One thing I’ve been thinking about of late has been how I got into reading Doc Savage and my experiences finding and reading the stories. It was reading Doc that...
In a prior posting, I covered the connection between pulp publishers and comic book publishers. This time, I’ll delve further into comic book versions of pulp...
“Doctor Omega” is an almost forgotten early (1906) French SF novel by Arnould Galopin written as a sort-of response to H.G. Well‘s First Men on the...
Pulp and comics have long had a connection, something that most average comic book fans are unaware of. (I think more pulp fans are aware of this.) Many pulp characters...
Sar Dubnotal is an early “occult detective,” like John Silence, Carnacki and others, who appeared in 20 anonymously written novellas published in France...
The practice of calling pulps devoted to, and often named after, the hero contained in them “hero pulps” is well understood. But some argue they should be...
Once again, Black Coat Press presents a translation of a French novel featuring a character they have been using in their Tales of the Shadowmen series. This time...
Techno-thriller authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child have put out several works together and separately. Most of their works together have a certain, interesting...
Many pulp characters were turned into comic book characters. Many of the pulp publishers also had ties with (or owned) comic book publishers, so this was easy to happen...
Within the hero pulp genre was the genre of secret agents. The best known was Operator #5. Lesser known (I had never heard of this character) is the Red Finger, who...