Comics veteran Tony Isabella talks with Anthony Tollin, publisher of Sanctum Books, on the 10th anniversary of the pulp-reprint publisher’s debut. This...
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Anthony Tollin, publisher at Sanctum Books, and comics veteran Tony Isabella pinched hit for Will Murray, who was unable to attend PulpFest, and discussed how...
Tony Isabella, Anthony Tollin, Will Murray and Michelle Nolan discuss “75 Years of Street & Smith Comics” in this podcast recorded at PulpFest...
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...
A new generation of fans discovered Doc Savage thanks to the Bantam paperback reprints. One of the key figures behind the success of the Man of Bronze's return...
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...
Prior to writing The Shadow tales, Walter Gibson spent 10 years writing syndicated newspaper columns on puzzles, games and other parlor tricks. He was friends...
The cover of the first issue of The Shadow pulp may have looked familiar to some longtime pulp readers in 1931. In the introduction to Dover’s 1975...