No, Perry Mason is not a character from the old pulp magazines. Many people have forgotten that Perry Mason didn’t start out on TV with the Raymond Burr series...
We all like a good pirate movie, don’t we? And we all love the old movie serials. So the natural question to ask is: Were there any pirate serials? You bet! The...
Can a human brain live inside the skull of a gorilla? The answer is yes, certainly, if you’re listening to an old time radio episode of The Shadow. That’s...
“Emperor of the Yellow Death” was originally published in the December 1935 issue of The Spider Magazine. Wang-ba emerged from the mystic Orient to proclaim...
By September 1939, Erle Stanley Gardner was really hitting his stride, churning out the Perry Mason mystery novels. He was still writing for the pulp magazines at that...
Noel Neill, who played Lois Lane in the original Superman serial, passed away this past Sunday, July 3. It seems appropriate, then, to pull out an old review I did for...
Let’s take a look at one of those radio adventures of The Shadow that has not survived in recorded form. Today, you can listen to over 200 audio files of The...
“Legions of Madness” was originally published in the June 1936 issue of The Spider Magazine. The city is in the grip of an insanity that racks its victims in...
Erle Stanley Gardner. He’s the guy often used as an example, in pulp fandom circles, of a pulp author who escaped the low-paying pulps and moved on up to the...
Now this is more like it! While not one of the classic cliffhangers from the early 1940s, The Invisible Monster, a 1950 Republic chapter-play, has what it takes to...