“Pulp Detectives” is another great collection from Altus Press of stories by Tom Johnson, a long-time pulp fan, author, and publisher. These...
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The Black Bat is a lesser pulp hero, but still well remembered. He was part of the “third wave” of pulp heroes (Will Murray‘s term), all of...
Previously, I wrote a posting on Doc Savage pastiches and imitations created during the original pulp era. This time I look at some (note: some) of the modern...
Fortune McCall is a New Pulp hero created by writer Derrick Ferguson. I haven’t read much by him, but have heard a lot of good things about his work...
The Pulptress is a heroine created by Pro Se Press to be a sort of icon for the New Pulp movement. This allows for a character which other authors can try...
Doctor Coffin: The Living-Dead Man from Off-Trail Publications reprints eight of the 15 Doctor Coffin stories that ran for a year and half in Thrilling...
The Silver Manticore is an interesting New Pulp hero. “The Sting of the Silver Manticore” is an obvious homage to many fictional characters from...
The Secret 6, not to be confused with the similarly named groups from DC Comics, was Harry Steeger‘s Popular Publications‘ attempt at doing its own...
Much has been made of late of the New Pulp movement, made possible in many ways due to the advances in “print on demand” technology that has...
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...