A topic I’ve only hinted at is what I’ll call “pulp-hero backup series.” Many of the character-pulp/pulp-hero magazines, such as The Shadow, Doc...
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Some time back I did a posting on all four of Lester Dent‘s “gadget heroes,” the final one being Clickell “Click” Rush. But at the time only a handful of the...
While authors for a long time have hidden themselves behind pseudonyms, the use of them is a big part of the pulp magazines. The reasons that some used...
Street & Smith kicked off the hero pulp trend with The Shadow in 1931. They eventually followed that with Doc Savage in 1933. While those were successful...