It looks like him, but that’s not The Shadow I know. I’ve read the first eight issues of Dynamite‘s The Shadow comic book recently. Funny, but I was expecting...
Category - Pulps
Most of the Operator #5 covers are pretty pedestrian compared with, say, The Spider, Doc Savage or the other hero pulps. They featured Jimmy Christopher, alias...
Often it seems like there are two types of pulp fictioneers: Those whose writing style is straight out of the 1800s, and those who adopt a more modern style...
For those who aren’t familiar with the pulp magazines, it may appear that the colorful, illustrated cover of a pulp — or pulp reprint or replica — wraps around...
You may have heard or seen the news last week that Besse Cooper died at the age of 116 on Dec. 4 in Monroe, Ga. As far as I know, she had no direct connection...
Other than the clumsy block with text in it, this cover from the April 1935 number of Terence X. O’Leary’s War Birds is one of my favorite pulp covers and...
Over at her blog, writer/editor/publisher Silvia Moreno-Garcia writes about how the pulp magazines portrayed people of color (most often as villains) and how...
Sai S. over at Pulp Flakes was pondering the decline of the pulps following a comment by Walker Martin. So he took time to plot the number of pulps being...
The latest installment of Great Pulp Art takes a turn to the East. It’s the cover for the February 1932 number of Soldiers of Fortune. And, as you can see, it...
There’s an interesting chart over at io9 that “Reveals How Science Fiction Futures Changed Over Time.” The accompanying article, by Annalee Newitz, discusses...