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...
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Street & Smith looked to The Whisperer and Cap Fury to push boundaries. By William Lampkin The Shadow Magazine kicked off the hero-pulp era with a bang...
American pulp magazines weren’t the only sources for inexpensive escapism during the pulp era. By Larry Latham Let’s talk pulp heroes, you and me...
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...
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...
As noted on The Spider main page, The Spider was first simply a nickname for detective Richard Wentworth. But by March 1934, a few issues after Norvell W. Page...
You're staring at the paper in your Underwood typewriter that's as blank as your mind. It's Friday night. Your story is due Monday. What do you do? You turn to...