In 1937, Harold Brainerd Hersey published “Pulpwood Editor: The Fabulous World of the Thriller Magazines Revealed by a Veteran Editor and Publisher,” a...
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The first time I saw Lance Thingmaker‘s hardcover collection of the 1930s fanzine The Fantasy Fan was a Doc Con 2011. Arizona Fan of Bronze J.R. Burgin had...
Looking for a distraction while taking my car in for servicing, I grabbed a well-worn copy of “Land of Always-Night,” number 13 of Bantam’s Doc Savage...
Earlier this year, Steven Brower and Jim Simon published “Astounding, Mysterious, Weird & True, Vol. 1: The Pulp Art of Comic Book Artists,” a book that...
Altus Press announced over on its Facebook page that Frederick Nebel‘s classic detective team from Black Mask — police Capt. Steve MacBride and reporter...
Of course, some of the fiction published in the pulp magazines was dreck. But there was also a fair share of excellent storytelling. I’m certain you can name...
After a couple of false starts over the years, I finally decided a couple of weeks ago that I needed to read Edgar Rice Burroughs‘ “Tarzan of the Apes.” With...
For those of us who discovered Doc Savage during the Bantam reprint years, the covers captured our imaginations much like the pulps’ covers did for their...
Okay, I’ve been on a string of John Carter posts of late because of the movie’s release. Here’s another one… The game Back in the 1970s, we used to play...
Paper vs. digital is a topic I’ve written about before. It’s still something I think about quite often (recently, in particular, since I just ordered another...