On a wintry evening in early 1922, Chauncey and Edith Brainerd settled into the warm comfort of the Knickerbocker Theatre in Washington, D.C., to watch the...
Category - Pulps
Isn’t it a wonderful time to be a pulp fan? That thought popped into my mind a few days ago when I picked up my mail: a flyer and a magazine. The flyer...
As you’ve guessed from my past posts, I consider fandom important. It’s what draws us together, where we make friends. Doc Savage has been an...
Artist Gloria Stoll Karn died July 23, 2022, at 98. I didn’t hear the sad news until shortly after PulpFest 50 began last week, and didn’t have a...
Ron Goulart's book Cheap Thrills was one of the first books I read that provided background into the pulp magazines back in the early 1970s.
There’s no single date for when the pulps actually died, but April 8, 1949, was certainly the date that their eventual demise became official. As I wrote...
We need to clear things up, especially after the news that actor/director George Clooney has been linked to a potential Buck Rogers TV series. That guy wearing...
Here’s some interesting news pulled directly from today’s headlines (well, the Deadline website): James Patterson and Condé Nast are teaming to...
I was very sorry to see on Facebook just now of the passing of pulp art collector Robert Lesser on March 1, 2020. His collection of art filled Pulp Art:...
UPDATED | In 1939, science fiction is considered to have entered its golden age, specifically with the publication of the July 1939 number of Astounding...