I will be posting photographs to ThePulp.Net’s Instagram feed throughout PulpFest 2017. Watch below for photographs and captions from Thursday’s events. The...
In just over a week, PulpFest 2017 will be getting underway near Pittsburgh, Pa. I plan on being there, and I hope that you will be there, too. The past few years I have...
Continuing my “selling the pulps” series, this post turns our attention to postcards. The postcards featured below were mailed out by Street & Smith...
Marvel’s Iron Fist showed up on Netflix earlier this month, and I’ve been slowly watching through the series. As with Netflix’s previous Marvel...
Last week’s post looked at ads for Street & Smith Publications‘ pulp magazines that appeared in its movie-fan magazine, Picture Play. Those ads ran from...
We usually think of pulp magazines as selling themselves — that their garish, often lurid covers splashed across newsstands were all it took to propel the fiction...
Pulp AdventureCon returns to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., for the third time on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017. At the same time, it kicks off a new year of pulp conventions, which...
It’s easy to think of the pulp magazines as solitary items today — 70, 80, 90 or more years after they were for sale on newsstands — and forget that...
Science-fiction author Paul A. Carter died Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, in Kingman, Ariz. He was 90. Carter’s earliest work of fiction, “The Last Objective,”...
The pulps are more than just the stories and characters depicted on the covers and inside of the magazines. The pulps are the thousands of writers, artists, and editors...