During the mid-’80s, the comic book industry went through a period where a large number of new comic books came out that glutted the market. A lot of these were black...
We sometimes forget that pulp fiction didn’t only exist in the U.S. Pulp fiction and its equivalents existed in other countries in the early 20th century. Pulp...
I have previously posted about the writing team of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. They have a couple of very good series: the long-running Pendergast series, and the...
As a kid, one of the first science-fiction authors I got into was Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the first works by him I read was his series about Mars, or...
One of the first postings of this blog looked at a forgotten series known as Amusement Inc. This series by pulpster Theodore Tinsley showcased a private army lead by a...
In 2011 Tommy Hancock‘s Pro Se Press started their most interesting effort to bring back a feature of the original, classic pulps: of being published monthly. This...
While I’ve long been a Sherlock Holmes fan, for the most part I didn’t bother getting into the various Sherlock Holmes pastiches and such until somewhat...
An interesting recent hero-pulp inspired comic book character is The Black Beetle created by Italian writer-artist Francesco Francavilla, who has been teasing...
An interesting new series of works I recently discovered is Joseph Lovece‘s “Dime Novel Cover Series.” The series makes use of various “dime...
Here is the Claw! In the Hellboy universe, an interesting hero-pulp inspired character that soon came to prominence is Lobster Johnson. His first appearance was in a...