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...
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Street & Smith’s pulp hero The Avenger is one of the few original pulp heroes to get additional stories. After Warner Books reprinted the original 24...
An interesting, if sometimes overlooked, pulp homage is Lin Carter‘s short-lived Prince Zarkon series. It ran for five novels in the 1970s and...
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...
Pulp was a hero-pulp fanzine that was published from 1970-81. It basically had two phases. It was first published by Joel Frieman thru his “Pulp...
A series of books for Doc Savage fan that I previously reviewed are the (sort of) annual “The Big Book of Bronze.” Now, the latest volume, number...
After the horrid Archie Comics version of The Shadow, the character would next appear in comics at DC Comics in the 1970s in what is felt to be the best comic...
Around 2010, DC Comics announced that it had gotten the rights to Doc Savage and some other characters, and was going to create a line around them and some of...
Probably few pulp fans today are familiar with James Van Hise. He has been a writer, editor, and publisher for many years within certain genres such as...
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...