Ravenwood was a short-lived pulp hero series that ran in the back of Secret Agent X for five issues in 1936. Like all the pulp characters from Ace (aka Magazine...
“The Winter Wizard” is the first novel starring New Pulp hero The Challenger, created by Jeff Deischer. Jeff previously wrote “The Adventures of Doc...
In the next in this series of articles, I take an overview of another of the major pulp publishers, the Thrilling Group, and their pulp heroes. Thrilling was probably...
“The Spider’s Web” is the second collection of stories featuring Tom Johnson‘s New Pulp hero, The Black Ghost. His Black Ghost character is one...
One of Thrilling’s last pulp hero is the bizarre Purple Scar. This short-lived series was published in Exciting Detective as the cover feature. Thrilling was...
Lazarus Gray is a New Pulp character from writer Barry Reese. I have been reading his Rook series (he has other works as well, but those are the ones I’ve been...
Mr. Death is a very early, but lesser-known pulp hero. Altus Press‘ volume “Alias Mr. Death: The Complete Series” collects all the original stories...
“Pulp Echoes” is the third (and apparently last) collection of New Pulp hero stories by Tom Johnson. It’s a sort of sequel to his previous two...
Doctor Death is one of the unique characters in pulp fiction. Not only is he a villain and the star of his own series, but there are in fact two different Doctor Death...
Thunder Jim Wade is a short-lived character who is usually written off as a Doc Savage clone. Written by the well-known SF author Henry Kuttner, who married another well...