Jim Main’s Pulp Fan #8, dated Fall 2023, arrived recently. This issue is themed around “pulp characters on the big screen,” starting with another great pair of...
Tag - The Spider
I recently obtained Pulp Adventures #43 from Bold Venture Press, dated Spring-Summer 2023. That’s a little weird, as the last issue was Winter-Spring. We get...
The 2023 Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention was held in April, and the new Windy City Pulp Stories #22 is out. This issue is again available through Amazon...
Illustrator Walter Baumhofer (1904-87) had a long career doing artwork in many areas. I think for most pulp fan, they know him for his Doc Savage cover...
When it comes to pulp covers of The Spider, the artist I think of is Rafael DeSoto (1904-92). In particular, the cover from October 1941, which he did...
Continuing my look at publishers, we look at another of the pulp reprinters: Age of Aces Books. Started in 2007, Age of Aces is editor Bill Mann and brothers...
I came across a fanzine titled bare*bones, which is devoted to “unearthing vintage, forgotten, and overlooked horror/mystery/sci-fi/western/weird film...
When it comes to comics, I only review ones that either include pulp characters or have characters that are clearly inspired by pulp heroes. One I had kind of...
One area that pulps are sometimes put down for is being “sexist.” I find this a somewhat ignorant claim, as the pulps were a product of their time:...
Most people are aware of Popular Publications’ Dime Mystery Magazine, the originator of the “weird menace” genre. But before it was Dime...