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 in the...
While leafing through the February 2013 issue of Vanity Fair* over the weekend, “The Proust Questionaire,” a regular feature of the magazine, caught my eye...
From Los Angeles Times‘ Jacket Copy: ‘Conan the Barbarian‘ goes to the prestigious Ransom Center… Best known for the noble barbarian brought to...
Sometimes “oops” can mean collectibility. Take, for instance, the famous “inverted Jenny” postage stamp. The stamp’s upside down frame...
Bill Colby-Newton wants to start a “Doc Con North” in the Twin Cities of St. Paul/Minneapolis. He’s penciled in June 2014 as a tentative date, and has...
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 of...
Updated: Sept. 8, 2013. Since I wasn’t able to attend PulpFest this year (again), I’ll be looking for other pulp fans’ reports and posting links here...
PulpFest 2013 is officially under way in Columbus, Ohio. I wish I were there. Early registration opened at 6 p.m., while the actual programming began a bit earlier with...
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 was a huge...
Earlier this year, Steven Brower and Jim Simon published “Astounding, Mysterious, Weird & True, Vol. 1: The Pulp Art of Comic Book Artists,” a book that...