I think that for most people they are probably aware of Sherlock Holmes. If they haven’t read one or more of Arthur Conan Doyle‘s original stories, they have...
Blood ‘n’ Thunder is a journal aimed at late 19th and early 20th century pop culture. For the pulp fan, this means the pulp magazines, their forerunners...
“The Good, the Bad, and the Unknown” is an interesting collection. I originally thought it a single novel using three classic characters: Moon Man, Doctor...
As a follow-up to my “What is pulp?” posting, I’d like to look at what formats people like to get their pulp fiction. When I got into pulp, you...
An interesting comic book series that made use of pulp and proto-pulp characters and themes is Planetary, by writer Warren Ellis and artist John Cassaday. This series...
“Shadows of the Opera: The Mark of the Revenant” is a great collection of interconnected short stories by Rick Lai. These are “Wold Newton”...
In the next in this series of articles, I take an overview of one of the major pulp publishers and their pulp heroes: Popular Publications. Established in 1930, Popular...
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...
“Tales of the Shadowmen: The Modern Babylon” (2005) is the first volume of an eclectic annual anthology series from Black Coat Press. It makes use of a...
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) is a well-known pulp writer who created Tarzan and John Carter of Mars, two of his best-known creations. Like many pulp fans, I...