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 Operator...
What if H.P. Lovecraft had worked as a Whitman’s Sampler copywriter? That’s what Luke Burns proposes in a brief, but devilishly funny post on...
If you’ve got $2,300 burning a hole in your pocket, then head over to Hake’s Americana & Collectibles for a near-perfect example of The Spider pulp ring...
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...