In 2012, Dynamite got the license for The Spider from Moonstone. They soon did a comic with The Spider, written by David Liss. But they moved the character...
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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...
Wayne Reinagel is a New Pulp author who is creating an epic set of novels. The main series is called Pulp Heroes and will consist of three pulp novels plus two...
At the end of 2014, Dynamite put out a trio of square-bound, one-shot specials with the three Street & Smith pulp heroes they were publishing: The Avenger...
Probably few pulp fans today are familiar with James Van Hise. He has been a writer, editor, and publisher for many years within certain genres such as...
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...
A particular phenomenon of the New Pulp world is of new stories using the original pulp heroes. Of course, this isn’t a new trend. The Shadow got the...
Robert Sampson (1927-92) was one of the major pulp researchers. His main work is his six-volume “Yesterday’s Faces.” But he has done other...
Last time I took a look at comic book versions of pulp heroes during the Golden Age of comic books. In this posting, I’ll focus on the 1960s through...
While many may not be familiar with the name Johnson McCulley, we probably know his most well-known character: Zorro. Zorro started off as a pulp...