Scientifiction. It’s not a word that just rolls off your tongue. But that’s the portmanteau that Hugo Gernsback created back in 1926 before science...
Category - Great Pulp Art
Our latest installment of Great Pulp Art takes a turn toward a dark corner of the pulps. It’s the November 1934 number of Popular Publications‘...
Adventure is often called the greatest of the pulp magazines because of its excellent fiction. Time magazine dubbed it the “No. 1 pulp” in 1935...
I don’t write much about the western pulp genre. While I enjoy a good movie western, I haven’t had the urge to read much in the way of western...
The first three covers of Oriental Stories must have almost jumped off the newsstand for someone browsing for reading material in late 1930 and early ’31...
Today’s installment of Great Pulp Art is a Halloween one. Having spent a lot of time watching TV while growing up, I had a regular dose of horror and...
There was a period during my elementary school years where my in-class doodling depicted biplanes swarming around one another, much like you often see gnats...
It’s not one of the icon covers from Street & Smith’s The Shadow pulp. But ever since it turned up on the paperback racks in 1974 on the cover...
With major league baseball season well under way and the college world series in a couple of weeks, I thought this installment of Great Pulp Art should echo...
Frank R. Paul is such a monument in science fiction art that it’s almost a no-brainer to include him in the Great Pulp Art series. It wasn’t until...