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 every E...
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 —...
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 with the...
It’s been about 15 months since we did a major overhaul of ThePulp.Net. In summer 2011, we reorganized the website, added several new features and jettisoned a few...
When we last saw our intrepid vine-swinger on screen, he was in a very short-lived TV series on the WB almost 10 years ago. But it looks as if Tarzan may be returning to...
What better day than today — the 108th anniversary of Lester Dent‘s birth — to remind you that next weekend, Oct. 19-21, is the 15th Arizona Doc Con. It’s...
For those of us who discovered Doc Savage during the Bantam reprint years, the covers captured our imaginations much like the pulps’ covers did for their readers...
Click over to the Pfeiffer Pfiles for a never-before-seen photo of Fred Pfeiffer at work — well, homework. Pfeiffer Pfiles curators Scotty Phillips and Courtney Rogers...
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...