In studying pulps, it’s also valuable to study those fiction sources that preceded the pulps: the story papers and dime novels. Many of the same types of fiction...
“Tales of the Shadowmen: Grand Guignol” (2010) is the sixth volume of this eclectic anthology series from Black Coat Press. This collection fits into Philip...
Buck Rogers? The SF character from comicstrips, comicbooks, movies and TV shows? But this blog is about pulp characters. Buck Rogers isn’t a pulp character. Oh...
Recently Moonstone Books put out a great collection of Sherlock Holmes stories: “Sherlock Holmes: The Crossover Casebook.” As the title implies, all the...
Two good books that any pulp hero fan should have on their shelves is Don Hutchison‘s “The Great Pulp Heroes” (1996, 2007) and Nick Carr‘s...
For those not familiar, Jim Anthony was a sort-of Doc Savage “clone” published by Trojan/Culture Publications in the early 1940s. Trojan was a publisher of...
Manly Wade Wellman (1902-1986) wrote several occult detectives over the years as a pulp writer. But Wellman’s most well-known occult detective is John the...
“Tales of the Shadowmen: The Vampires of Paris” (2009) is the fifth volume of this eclectic anthology series from Black Coat Press. Based on Philip José...
For most pulp hero fans, if you mention The Green Ghost, they will think of the character created by G.T. Fleming-Roberts for Thrilling, that ran for about 14 stories in...
Professor Stone is Wayne Skiver‘s take on a Doc Savage-like pulp hero. Not a pure pastiche, such as characters like Doc Atlas, Prof. Stone is more a mix of...