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...
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...
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...
Rocambole is an early French character who is a forerunner of many similar characters of heroic fiction that followed him. These stories were written in the 1850s and...
After the pulp era ended, the next appearance of Doc Savage in comic books came in 1966, after the Bantam paperback reprints took off. Talk of a movie soon started, with...