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 as the “Edisonades,”...
While a long-time pulp fan, sadly most of my interactions with fellow fans as been through online forums. Years ago a Usenet forum called alt.pulp was created, and I was...
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 line as...
Matthew Reilly is an Australian action-thriller author with both stand-alone novels and some series under his belt. Some elements of his stories is his tendency to turn...
Hellboy, World’s Greatest Paranormal Investigator, is a comic-book series that in the last 20 years has spawned a whole universe of stories and series, along with...
James Rollins (pen name of veterinarian Jim Czajkowski) is an author I got into while reading Clive Cussler. He was first dismissed as a sort of “grade B” Cussler. I had...
Long a stable of comic books, team ups of literary characters are much rarer. In the pulp world, they were largely non-existent until today. One team-up that many pulp...
Barry Reese is back with the second volume of his latest New Pulp hero(ine): Gravedigger. For those that missed the first volume, Gravedigger is a hero with a mission...
At the end of 2014, Dynamite put out a trio of square-bound, one-shot specials with the three Street & Smith pulp heroes they were publishing: The Avenger, Doc...
When I got back into the pulp world back in the ’90s, one fanzine I got was Pulp Adventures, published by Rich Harvey through his Pulp Adventures Press and later his...