Here is the fourth volume of “Tales of Masks and Mayhem,” now from a new publisher, NTD Books. This one is a mix of new and reprinted stories, with...
Tag - hero pulps
Among original pulp heroes, Capt. Hazzard is sadly a one-hit wonder, and is one of the most blatant Doc Savage clones. Published by Ace Magazines, he got only...
The Rook is a New Pulp hero created by Barry Reese. For those who are familiar with the character (i.e., you’ve read the previous collections or read my...
“The Cobra: The King of Detectives” collects several “snake” inspired works by early pulp author Richard Sale, including his short...
For those not familiar, Jim Anthony was a sort-of Doc Savage clone published by Trojan/Culture Publications in the early 1940s, a publisher of the...
Lazarus Gray is a New Pulp character from writer Barry Reese. I have been reading his Rook series. (He has other works as well, but those are the ones...
“The Good, the Bad, and the Unknown” is an interesting collection. I originally thought it a single novel using three classic characters: Moon Man...
An interesting comic book series that made use of pulp and proto-pulp characters and themes is Planetary, by writer Warren Ellis and artist John Cassaday. This...
In the next in this series of articles, I take an overview of one of the major pulp publishers and their pulp heroes: Popular Publications. Established in...
The Rook is a New Pulp hero created by Barry Reese. For those who are familiar with the character (i.e., you’ve read the other collections or read my...