In learning more about the pulp hero as a phenomenon, I frequently saw mention of The Gray Seal. First published in 1914, he was popular enough that his works...
Tag - Street & Smith Publications
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...
Another pulp hero who has been largely overlooked by most pulp fans is I.V. “Ivy” Frost. A science detective created by Donald Wandrei (1908-1987)...
Johnston McCulley, the prolific writer who created Zorro, created several other serial pulp characters that many of today’s pulp fans are unaware of. His...
The Pulpster is the program book for PulpFest, and this time we look at the most recent Pulpster, #24, from Pulpfest 2015. I wasn’t able to attend, but...
Well, another Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention for 2015 has come and gone, and with it we get another convention program book: Windy City Pulp Stories #15...
Nick Carter is a literary character which has been around a long time, was enormously popular during his time, but is today largely forgotten. He has appeared...
Doc Savage, the Man of Bronze, has long been a popular pulp hero. But he has also appeared in comic books over the years; some good, some not so good. He first...
When we think of the Street & Smith pulp heroes, we think of The Shadow and Doc Savage and sometimes also The Avenger. Which is kind of funny as The...
Doc Savage, the Man of Bronze. Among the best known of pulp heroes. He is the pulp world’s Superman to The Shadow as Batman. (So does this make Street...