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, 1928...
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 ’70s, again...
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 1939;...
Every so often someone raises a question online that basically asks: Did the folks putting out the pulp magazines call them “pulps”? The quick answer is yes...
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 Savage...
I sit here holding the empty, faded covers of Cowboy Thrill Magazine, a pulp-size magazine that promises “Great stories of the Old West.” That’s a scan of it...
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 town near you...
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...