Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention has been running in Chicago around April for 15 years (since 2000). Every year they have been publishing a convention booklet of...
“Tales of the Shadowmen: Espirit de Corps” (2013) is the 10th and latest volume of this eclectic anthology series from Black Coat Press. Because it’s...
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...
Recently I looked at the “biographies” of pulp characters Tarzan and Doc Savage by Philip José Farmer. As part of doing a biography, Farmer also worked out a...
A classic pulp author who has in recent years been forgotten is A. Merritt (1884-1949). Abraham Merritt was an editor who also wrote fantasy tales. His stories were...
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...
Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) was a long-time SF author and pulp fan. He turned his love of the pulps into several works using the pulp characters he loved the most:...