Sadly, another pulp fictioneer is gone. Frederik Pohl died Monday, Sept. 2, 2013, at the age of 93. His granddaughter Emily Pohl-Weary reported his passing on...
Category - Pulps
Before he found fame from crime fiction novels and films, Elmore Leonard was a pulp magazine author. He died Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013, following a stroke earlier...
While leafing through the February 2013 issue of Vanity Fair* over the weekend, “The Proust Questionaire,” a regular feature of the magazine...
Sometimes “oops” can mean collectibility. Take, for instance, the famous “inverted Jenny” postage stamp. The stamp’s upside down...
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...
I had to laugh the first time I saw this photo. Clearly the fellow was deeply engrossed in the January 1942 number of Amazing Stories. What was he reading? It...
Earlier this year, Steven Brower and Jim Simon published “Astounding, Mysterious, Weird & True, Vol. 1: The Pulp Art of Comic Book Artists,” a...
Altus Press announced over on its Facebook page that Frederick Nebel‘s classic detective team from Black Mask — police Capt. Steve MacBride and reporter...
I remember reading a post by Roger Ebert about his love of science fiction pulps back in early 2012. Ebert, who died April 4 from cancer, was best known for...
Don’t you wish you had a time machine? Can’t you just imagine standing in the glory of a sidewalk newsstand overflowing with lavishly colored pulp...