How one fictioneer took the controls of an air adventurer. By Charles Spain “Chuck” Verral This is the voice of a writer who never really existed...
Tag - Street & Smith Publications
The publishing giant entered the comic-book market in 1940, two years after Superman burst onto the scene. And by the end of the decade, Street & Smith...
The Man of Bronze’s fight against evil raced through 181 novels. From a headquarters on the 86th floor of a towering Manhattan skyscraper, Doc Savage and his...
On April 8, 1949, Street & Smith canceled its last four pulp magazines: The Shadow, Doc Savage, Detective Story and Western Story. Here’s the story of the day...
Norvell W. Page and The Spider are almost synonymous. But in 1939, Page holstered the automatics and picked up a sword for two Prester John novels for the pulp...
The story is worth more than the paper it is printed on. Frank Munsey turned those words into action when he revamped Argosy magazine in the 1890s and...
From the spring of 1931 until the summer of 1949, a slim figure cloaked in black fought mobsters, evil scientists, crazed old men and foreign invaders with two...
Richard Wentworth first appeared as a run-of-the-mill, black-cloaked crimebuster called The Spider. But that quickly changed after two issues, when Wentworth...