As a group of us from last year’s PulpCon walked through the World War I section of the U.S. Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Bill Mann...
Category - Pulps
We’re in the middle of recoding ThePulp.Net for new management software. (We won’t be uploading it until we’ve got the majority of the site rebuilt.) But in...
I, like most of you, make the rounds on eBay every few days to see if any nifty pulp-related stuff has appeared. I have my stand-by searches, but I frequently...
We’re all familiar with copycats. Something becomes popular, and everyone tries to copy it. Back when the first Indiana Jones movie proved to be a smash...
I blame the paperbacks. I blame those 1950s, lurid-covered, pocket-sized publications of Fawcett, Popular Library, Signet, Carnival and more for staining the...
Over on our pulp history page, we’ve got a quote attributed to Frank Munsey: “The story is worth more than the paper it is printed on.” Well, to paraphrase...
Well, the recent announcement by Sony Pictures that Sam Raimi has purchased the movie rights to a platoon of Street & Smith pulp characters has sparked a...
I thought I would pass along this posting from Tahir Bhatti about a potential Doc Savage movie: It has been 11 months since I last made contact with Jerry, a...
I’ve recently been thinking about the popularity of pulp characters. Not just popularity among pulp fans, but their popularity among the general public. Could...
Okay, after my first venture into the world of Captain Future — four novels so far – I’m marginally entertained. Writer Edmond Hamilton has a great imagination...