Creating a series staring the villain is hard, but it has been done. Fu Manchu, by Sax Rohmer, is probably the most well-known. He appeared in over a dozen novels for...
Wayne Reinagel is a New Pulp author who is creating an epic set of novels. The main series is called Pulp Heroes and will consist of three pulp novels plus two...
Another Doc Con has come and gone (XVIII in 2015), but along with it we got a new volume of The Big Book of Bronze, volume 7. See my reviews of previous volumes. A semi...
Many great characters came out of the pulps, but it’s sad that few were as successful in other media such as comics. Take Street & Smith’s The Avenger...
I have previously posted on Robert Weinberg and his excellent pulp reprint series Pulp Classics, which mainly focused on the hero pulps. About midway doing that series...
I have found that with many techno-thriller heroes that they are usually super competent in one area. An interesting hero is Jack Du Brul‘s Dr. Philip Mercer, a...
Dr. Jules de Grandin is one of the best-known occult detectives, though probably overshadowed today. Created by Seabury Quinn (1889-1969), de Grandin is probably his...
The Masked Master Mind is another in Altus Press‘ The Argosy Library. Written by George F. Worts, it was serialized in Argosy All-Story Weekly in 1926. Worts is...
I’ve posted previously on the techno-thrillers of James Rollins (pen name of former veterinarian James Paul Czajkowski). He started out doing a series of stand...
Sexton Blake, a hugely popular British character during his time, is probably the best known of the various Sherlock Holmes knockoffs, which is interesting, because he...