In the world of pulp heroes, very few have hit over 100 issues or stories. One of those is Popular Publication’s G-8. Created and written by Robert J. Hogan...
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Most people are aware of Popular Publications’ Dime Mystery Magazine, the originator of the “weird menace” genre. But before it was Dime Mystery, it was Dime...
Famous Fantastic Mysteries (FFM) was a long-running pulp first published by Munsey then Popular Publications from 1939 to 1953. This popular pulp reprinted...
In October 1933, Popular Publications launched their two longest-running pulp heroes: The Spider and G-8. The Spider is nominally a Shadow clone, but that...
Creating a series staring the villain is hard, but it has been done. Fu Manchu, by Sax Rohmer, is probably the most well-known. He appeared in over a dozen...
Pulps have their share of bizarre pulp heroes. But perhaps the strangest is The Skull Killer. Never heard of him? Well, he didn’t star in his own pulp series...
Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention has been running in Chicago around April for 15 years (since 2000). Every year they have been publishing a convention...
One of the more unusual pulp heroes is the short-lived Captain Satan from Popular Publications. Lasting five issues of his own series in 1938, the magazine was...
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 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 version of...