When I think of Erle Stanley Gardner, I first think of Perry Mason. And second I think of the pulps. He wrote over 1,000 stories for the pulp magazines, a huge number by...
Republic Pictures produced some of the most pulpy of movie serials. And I’ve seen a ton of them. What follows is a review that was written in 2004 but never...
The radio version of The Shadow, as we mostly remember him today, was the mysterious character who had the hypnotic power to cloud men’s minds so that they could...
Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. The name is a familiar one. She appeared in a 1950s television first-run syndicated series, starring Irish McCalla. There was a 1984 movie...
“The Corpse Broker” was originally published in the September 1939 issue of The Spider magazine. With terrible swiftness, the Master of the Green Death had...
Perry Mason. Loved the TV series. Really loved the series of books. Erle Stanley Gardner. Now there was an author. He wrote 86 Perry Mason novels, and still had time to...
It seems that we who love the old pulps seem to find a lot of commonalities in the old movie serials. Back in 2004 I was going through a marathon session of watching...
During radio’s heyday, it seems like every radio show was giving something away. It may have cost you a cereal boxtop or the inner seal from a jar of Ovaltine...
It was late evening, Sept. 18, 2004, and I had just gotten back from the ultimate pulpy movie. I sat down to write my impressions, while they were still fresh. And here...
“Wings of the Black Death” was originally published in the December 1933 issue of The Spider magazine. Man-spread Black Plague ravages the city, and the...