In the next in this series of articles, I take an overview of one of the major pulp publishers and their pulp heroes: the Frank Munsey Co. Frank Munsey is very...
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“The Cobra: The King of Detectives” collects several “snake” inspired works by early pulp author Richard Sale, including his short...
For those not familiar, Jim Anthony was a sort-of Doc Savage clone published by Trojan/Culture Publications in the early 1940s, a publisher of the...
As a follow-up to my “What is pulp?” posting, I’d like to look at what formats people like to get their pulp fiction. When I got into pulp...
Most pulp fans know Weird Tales magazine as the long-running occult/horror/fantasy pulp that published such greats as H.P. Lovecraft, Seabury Quinn, and many...
Ravenwood was a short-lived pulp hero series that ran in the back of Secret Agent X for five issues in 1936. Like all the pulp characters from Ace (aka...
One of Thrilling’s last pulp hero is the bizarre Purple Scar. This short-lived series was published in Exciting Detective as the cover feature. Thrilling...
Mr. Death is a very early, but lesser-known pulp hero. Altus Press‘ volume “Alias Mr. Death: The Complete Series” collects all the original...
Doctor Death is one of the unique characters in pulp fiction. Not only is he a villain and the star of his own series, but there are in fact two different...
Thunder Jim Wade is a short-lived character who is usually written off as a Doc Savage clone. Written by the well-known SF author Henry Kuttner, who married...