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 go off on...
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, posters for...
Mark your calendar for Saturday, Nov. 3. That’s the date for Doc Con X, the 10th annual gathering in Arizona of Doc Savage fans.
I blame the paperbacks. I blame those 1950s, lurid-covered, pocket-sized publications of Fawcett, Popular Library, Signet, Carnival and more for staining the term “pulp”...
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 that, I might...
If you live in the Northeast U.S., mark your calendar for Brown University’s Pulp Uncovered festival, in Providence, R.I., on March 15-18. There’s been a spattering of...
You need to reset the date on your iPod from 2007 to the 1930s. Thanks to Renaissance Men Ventures, you can subscribe to New Vintage Radio Podcast. The podcast, which is...
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 storm of...
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 Conde Nast...
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 any...