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...
The Rook is a New Pulp hero created by Barry Reese. For those who are familiar with the character (i.e., you’ve read the other collections or read my prior...
A particular phenomenon of the New Pulp world is of new stories using the original pulp heroes. Of course, this isn’t a new trend. The Shadow got the first new...
“Tales of Masks & Mayhem, Vol. III,” is the third of four collections of New Pulp hero stories continuing from Tom Johnson‘s Fading Shadows zines...