Lester Dent is well known for being the creator and main writer of Doc Savage. But many pulp fans also know that before and during the time he wrote Doc, he also did...
Dillon is a New Pulp hero created by Derrick Ferguson. Dillon is an adventurer with unique skills and abilities, and a mysterious past. And he’s black. Ferguson is...
Pat Wildman (Patricia Clarke Lupin Wildman) is a New Pulp character created by Philip José Farmer and Win Scott Eckert. She is the daughter of James Clarke...
I have previously posted on the excellent fanzine Blood ‘n’ Thunder produced by Ed Hulse and his Murania Press. Maybe calling it a “fanzine” does...
I have previously posted about the Green Lama. While a minor pulp character, he has been fairly successful, appearing in two separate comic-book series (including his...
In this posting on pulp fanzines, I look at the excellent, but very short-lived fanzine: Duende. Duende was edited and largely written by pulp historian Will Murray, and...
Some pulp fans may be aware of Philip José Farmer‘s 1969 book “A Feast Unknown.” This book pitted two pulp icons — Tarzan and Doc Savage, here renamed...
After the demise of Street & Smith‘s comic-book line, The Shadow would not return to comics until 1964, this time from Archie Comics. Yes, the publisher of the...
In the 1970s, Marvel Comics got the rights to do a Doc Savage comic. They actually wound up doing two different series. From 1972-74, Marvel did a color comic. In two...
We’ve looked at Sherlock Holmes and some of the Holmes pastiches that became characters in there own right. Now we look at another of those: Harry Dickson, the...