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...
Category - Pulps
Vintage writers’ journals offer a great way to peek behind the curtains and see the goings-on in the backshops of pulp magazine publishers. The April 28...
I have a confession to make: I only recently read “Tarzan of the Apes.” Believe me, I tried to read it several times — back in high school in the...
UPDATED 5.24.13 | Yesterday we posted six new photos over on ThePulp.Net‘s pulp photos gallery. The earliest of the latest batch is 1913; one was from...
Every so often someone raises a question online that basically asks: Did the folks putting out the pulp magazines call them “pulps”? The quick...
Back in February, I picked up a publicity photo of actress Betsy Drake standing in front of a newsstand (at right). I’ve been intending to add it to the...
I’ve been working on a project for this year’s Doc Con XVI, which naturally will be celebrating the 80th anniversary of the first appearance of Doc...
I sit here holding the empty, faded covers of Cowboy Thrill Magazine, a pulp-size magazine that promises “Great stories of the Old West.”...
If you’ve never made it to one of the exhibitions of Robert Lesser‘s wonderful collection of original pulp art, the collection may be coming to a...
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...