Within the larger genre of pulp heroes, there are several sub-genres. One of them is the “magician-detective,” of which there are very few. In most of these...
Street & Smith’s The Avenger, while not as popular as their successful characters The Shadow and Doc Savage, is one that remains popular to this day. Street...
Few pulp heroes were able during the classic period to make the transition from the pulp magazines to other medium such as movies/movie serials, radio, comics books, or...
For those not familiar, Jim Anthony was a kind-of Doc Savage “clone” published by Trojan/Culture Publications in the early 1940s, a publisher of the...
The two pulp heroes that kicked off the original “hero pulp” (or character pulp or single character magazines) movement are The Shadow and Doc Savage, both...
There seems to be a phenomenon with popular characters. People start to look for other characters that inspired that character. Sometimes authors are forthcoming about...
Clive Cussler is the author that got me into the “techno thriller” field. From him I got into reading James Rollins, Jack Du Brul, Andy McDermott, David...
Warren Fahy‘s “Fragment” is part of the “techno thriller” genre (though perhaps a better term might be “science thriller”) that...
Most pulp fans know that Lester Dent (1904-1959) created and wrote Doc Savage, probably one of the most well-known pulp heroes. What they are probably less aware of are...
While many may not be familiar with the name Johnson McCulley, we probably know his most well-known character: Zorro. Zorro started off as a pulp character before...