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...
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I recently got Will Murray’s Dark Avenger: The Strange Saga of The Shadow, his second book on The Shadow after Master of Mystery: The Rise of The Shadow. Like...
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...
I recently obtained a complete set of the Fantasy Mongers fanzine. This fanzine lasted from 1979 to 1989 (with a short hiatus which I’ll explain) and had 28...
The fifth issue of the pulp fanzine The Shadowed Circle arrived recently. The focus is on The Shadow, and I subscribed for issues #4-6. So to help promote this...
Jim Main‘s Pulp Fan #7, dated Spring 2023, arrived recently. This issue is themed around The Shadow, starting with a great cover by Tim Faurote and...
Bronze Knuckles is a recent New Pulp fanzine I discovered. The main emphasis of the fanzine is pulp hero stories, but other pulp-inspired stories are carried...
The fourth issue of the pulp fanzine The Shadowed Circle arrived recently.The focus is on The Shadow, and I subscribed for this and the following two issues. I...
For two years, there was a Shadow newspaper strip. Syndicated by the Ledger Syndicate, it was written by Walter Gibson with artwork by Vernon Greene (1908-65)...
Here we are with another look at an old pulp-hero fanzine, one that started in 1980 as Doc Savage Quarterly and was renamed The Shadow/Doc Savage Quest. All...