New for 2024 is the third edition of the excellent reference guide to the world of pulps: The Blood ‘n’ Thunder Guide to Pulp Fiction, written by...
Tag - The Skipper
We continue to look at the fanzine Echoes ran from 1982 to 2002. Published by the late Tom and Ginger Johnson, it is probably the longest-running pulp fanzine...
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...
I recently picked up a new coffee table artbook from Abrams titled Pulp Power: The Shadow, Doc Savage, and the Art of the Street & Smith Universe. This 350...
As a long-time comicbook reader, I have always enjoyed the excellent fanzines and books that have come from Twomorrows Publishing over the years. They publish...
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...
Cap Fury, the Skipper was part of Street & Smith‘s attempt to repeat the success of The Shadow and Doc Savage. After the success of those two...