{"id":1612,"date":"2012-01-18T17:00:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2012-01-19T12:56:34","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T19:56:34","slug":"howard-hopkins-1961-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/2012\/01\/18\/howard-hopkins-1961-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard Hopkins: 1961-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1613\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1613\" style=\"width: 75px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/files\/2012\/01\/howard-hopkins.jpg?resize=75%2C125&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"Howard Hopkins\" width=\"75\" height=\"125\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1613\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Howard Hopkins<\/figcaption><\/figure>By now most of you have heard that pulp fan and author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardhopkins.com\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Howard Hopkins<\/strong><\/a> suffered a fatal heart attack last week (Jan. 12, 2012). He was 50.<\/p>\n<p>New of Howard&#8217;s death hit the newsgroups and Facebook on Monday afternoon. (The holiday weekend didn&#8217;t give me a chance to post this sooner.)<\/p>\n<p>It has been a very sad couple of months for the pulp community, with the losses of <a href=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/2011\/12\/28\/rusty-hevelin-1922-2011\/\"><strong>Rusty Hevelin<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/2012\/01\/03\/glenn-lord-1931-2011\/\"><strong>Glenn Lord<\/strong><\/a> and, now, Howard.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nMy connection with Howard was through email correspondence and newsgroups over the years and through his pulp fanzine, <em>Golden Perils<\/em>, and his reference books \u2014 his thorough look at <a href=\"http:\/\/thepulp.net\/PulpWiki\/wikka.php?wakka=AvengerThe\"><strong>The Avenger<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulp-info\/pulp-bibliography\/pulp-characters\/#hopkins\"><em>The Grey Nemesis<\/em><\/a>, and a collection of illustrations from <a href=\"http:\/\/thepulp.net\/PulpWiki\/wikka.php?wakka=ShadowThe\"><strong>The Shadow<\/strong><\/a> pulps, <em>Shadowed Pages<\/em> (produced with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adventurehouse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>John Gunnison<\/strong><\/a>). Sadly, we never met face-to-face.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laurie Powers<\/strong>, over at her <a href=\"http:\/\/lauriepowerswildwest.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wild West blog<\/a>, has <a href=\"http:\/\/lauriepowerswildwest.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/more-tributes-to-howard.html\" target=\"_blank\">a nice collection of links to tributes to Howard<\/a>. There&#8217;s also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/news\/howard-hopkins-50-writer-musician-author-of-chloe-files_2012-01-17.html\" target=\"_blank\">an article about Howard<\/a> on <em>The Portland<\/em> (Maine) <em>Press Herald<\/em>&#8216;s website.<\/p>\n<p>Our condolences to his wife, family and friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now most of you have heard that pulp fan and author Howard Hopkins suffered a fatal heart attack last week (Jan. 12, 2012). He was 50. New of Howard&#8217;s death hit the newsgroups and Facebook on Monday afternoon. (The holiday weekend didn&#8217;t give me a chance to post this sooner.) It has been a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[18,9],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-1612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","category-people"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2qgXO-q0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1618,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions\/1618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}