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 collection...
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...
Writer/director Shane Black tells Bleeding Cool that he has given himself 90 days to get the ball rolling on a Doc Savage movie. Black was talking to Bleeding...
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...
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...
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 one...
After a couple of false starts over the years, I finally decided a couple of weeks ago that I needed to read Edgar Rice Burroughs‘ “Tarzan of the Apes...
Frank R. Paul is such a monument in science fiction art that it’s almost a no-brainer to include him in the Great Pulp Art series. It wasn’t until this past...
Since today is the 76th anniversary of H.P. Lovecraft‘s death, it seems like an appropriate time to take a look at a video adaptation of his story “The...