Techno-thriller authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child have put out several works together and separately. Most of their works together have a certain, interesting...
Many pulp characters were turned into comic book characters. Many of the pulp publishers also had ties with (or owned) comic book publishers, so this was easy to happen...
Within the hero pulp genre was the genre of secret agents. The best known was Operator #5. Lesser known (I had never heard of this character) is the Red Finger, who...
Within the larger genre of pulp heroes, there are several sub-genres. One of them is the “magician-detective,” of which there are very few. In most of these...
Street & Smith’s The Avenger, while not as popular as their successful characters The Shadow and Doc Savage, is one that remains popular to this day. Street...
Few pulp heroes were able during the classic period to make the transition from the pulp magazines to other medium such as movies/movie serials, radio, comics books, or...
For those not familiar, Jim Anthony was a kind-of Doc Savage “clone” published by Trojan/Culture Publications in the early 1940s, a publisher of the...
The two pulp heroes that kicked off the original “hero pulp” (or character pulp or single character magazines) movement are The Shadow and Doc Savage, both...
There seems to be a phenomenon with popular characters. People start to look for other characters that inspired that character. Sometimes authors are forthcoming about...
Clive Cussler is the author that got me into the “techno thriller” field. From him I got into reading James Rollins, Jack Du Brul, Andy McDermott, David...