The Other Detective Pulp Heroes is a nice little volume put out by Tattered Pages Press as the first in their “Pulp Vault Pulp Study” volumes in 1992. Written by pulp...
I’m taking a look at all of The Bronze Gazette issues for 2017, as I’ve done for previous years, as subscriptions are taken for a year’s set of issues. So here are...
Astro City is a long-running comicbook series created by writer Kurt Busiek with cover artist Alex Ross and with most issues having Brent Anderson for interior work...
Three With a Bullet is a collection of three new stories by three different authors with three different classic pulp heroes: The Man in Purple, the Masked Rider, and...
The end of 2017 meant that there’s another volume of Tales of the Shadowmen out. The Black Coat Press series is now up to 14 volumes. This one is subtitled “Coup de...
I think more people who have read horror works that are considered “Lovecraftian” have probably heard of the King in Yellow, either the character or the play. Less well...
I have previously noted that many early comic book characters were inspired by pulp characters. Many of these early characters wore suits (even if somewhat colorful)...
P.J. Lozito‘s Silver Manticore is an interesting mix of pulp, radio, movie series, and comicbook characters that at times almost gets out of hand. The Silver Manticore...
An interesting short novel I picked up is Frank Schildiner‘s Iron Skull: The Last Dominion from Pro Se Productions. It makes use of, and basically re-images, the obscure...
After a bit, Airship 27 has a fifth Jim Anthony volume, Jim Anthony – Super Detective vs. Mastermind. For those not familiar, Jim Anthony was a sort-of Doc Savage...