An interesting, if sometimes overlooked, pulp homage is Lin Carter‘s short-lived Prince Zarkon series. It ran for five novels in the 1970s and ’80s, and it...
The third issue of the new Pulp Adventures, #17, is now out. We get another great collection of pulp fiction with a Norman Saunders western cover. We don’t have...
An interesting action series I got into is the Jack Reacher series. While some may know of the series thanks to the recent Tom Cruise movie, I was reading it a little...
I have previously posted about the writing team of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. They have a couple of very good series: the long-running Pendergast series, and the...
One of the first postings of this blog looked at a forgotten series known as Amusement Inc. This series by pulpster Theodore Tinsley showcased a private army lead by a...
While I’ve long been a Sherlock Holmes fan, for the most part I didn’t bother getting into the various Sherlock Holmes pastiches and such until somewhat...
An interesting recent hero-pulp inspired comic book character is The Black Beetle created by Italian writer-artist Francesco Francavilla, who has been teasing...
Here is the Claw! In the Hellboy universe, an interesting hero-pulp inspired character that soon came to prominence is Lobster Johnson. His first appearance was in a...
A prior posting was on the various “boy inventor” adventure series that ran in the “dime novels,” the late 1800s forerunners to the pulps. Known...
Tom Strong is an interesting pulp-inspired comic-book character created by writer Alan Moore and artist Chris Sprouse. He was published by DC Comic’s Wildstorm...