Challenger Storm is a New Pulp character created by Don Gates. I know Don has been working on Challenger for some time, as I visited his old website and saw...
Tag - Doc Savage
Last time I took a look at comic book versions of pulp heroes during the Golden Age of comic books. In this posting, I’ll focus on the 1960s through...
The Silver Manticore is an interesting New Pulp hero. “The Sting of the Silver Manticore” is an obvious homage to many fictional characters from...
One thing I’ve been thinking about of late has been how I got into reading Doc Savage and my experiences finding and reading the stories. It was reading...
In a prior posting, I covered the connection between pulp publishers and comic book publishers. This time, I’ll delve further into comic book versions of...
Street & Smith’s The Avenger, while not as popular as their successful characters The Shadow and Doc Savage, is one that remains popular to this day...
For those not familiar, Jim Anthony was a kind-of Doc Savage “clone” published by Trojan/Culture Publications in the early 1940s, a publisher of...
The two pulp heroes that kicked off the original “hero pulp” (or character pulp or single character magazines) movement are The Shadow and Doc...
There seems to be a phenomenon with popular characters. People start to look for other characters that inspired that character. Sometimes authors are...
Most pulp fans know that Lester Dent (1904-1959) created and wrote Doc Savage, probably one of the most well-known pulp heroes. What they are probably less...