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...
Tag - The Shadow
It’s 2015, and we have another volume of “Tales of the Shadowmen,” now up to volume 11. It’s subtitled “Force Majeure,” a...
There are three books I think every fan of The Shadow should have: “Gangland’s Doom,” Frank Eisgruber Jr. (1973, 1985, 2007) “The...
In 1988, Marvel put out something unusual. While DC Comics was doing its modern take on The Shadow following Howard Chaykin‘s miniseries, Marvel put out...
After the horrid Archie Comics version of The Shadow, the character would next appear in comics at DC Comics in the 1970s in what is felt to be the best comic...
The Rocketeer is an original comic-book creation of the late artist-writer Dave Stevens (1955-2008). While Stevens is mainly know for his many well-done comic...
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...
I have previously posted on the excellent fanzine Blood ‘n’ Thunder produced by Ed Hulse and his Murania Press. Maybe calling it a...
In this posting on pulp fanzines, I look at the excellent, but very short-lived fanzine: Duende. Duende was edited and largely written by pulp historian Will...
Recently I looked at the “biographies” of pulp characters Tarzan and Doc Savage by Philip José Farmer. As part of doing a biography, Farmer also...