It’s March 3, 2026, today.
That’s over a quarter century into the 21st century, and almost 130 years since The Argosy made its pivotal shift to all fiction and pulp paper in late 1896.
And, to a lesser extent (but still worth celebrating), this month marks the 30th anniversary of when ThePulp.Net first appeared online in March 1996, as .Pulp (on America Online).
You probably don’t remember that, but America Online was an online service that began offering users a chance to create and post websites.
In July 1998, I moved .Pulp from AOL to its own domain, changing its name to ThePulp.Net.
Here we are three decades later, and ThePulp.Net is still going strong. We’ve got the links pages that started us out (though quite expanded over the years), an extensive bibliography of pulp-related books, more than two dozen pulp-related articles (plus older ones from The Pulp Companion), more than 133 episodes (and more to come) of our podcast, Pulp Tales, and our blogs.
I have to give a shout-out to Michael R. Brown for his prodigious blogging as The Pulp Super-Fan. He’s made almost 1,250 posts since we introduced his blog in 2013. (And, Michael has another 20 posts already queued up.)
My posts here at Yellowed Perils have dramatically decreased over the past few years. I’d like to write more, but real life keeps intruding. I will keep posting when I can, between updates to ThePulp.Net’s main pages and editing Michael’s posts, not to mention my work on the PulpFest organizing committee and my quarterly contributions to the PEAPS mailings.
Nonetheless, I want to celebrate ThePulp.Net‘s 30th anniversary with a new series of articles.
We previously posted the first two for 2026, a pair of articles featuring an interview with pulp artist Graves Gladney. The third part was posted today.
These first three articles, as well as the next two, center around another anniversary in 2026: the 95th anniversary of the debut of The Shadow Magazine.
Gladney, who doesn’t mince words about his career, other artists, and other matters, painted 62 covers for The Shadow. In this latest article, he talks about several of those.
Next month, look for an interview that the late pulp fan and historian Al Tonik conducted in 1983 with Jerome Rozen, who painted the first four covers of The Shadow to feature original art. (We also have something special coming alongside that article, so stay tuned.)
Then in May, we’ll hear from Walter B. Gibson on writing for The Shadow.
Have a slice of birthday cake, and watch for a new monthly article at ThePulp.Net through the end of the year.
