When your next adventure was just a dime away!
The Shadow
From the spring of 1931 until the summer of 1949, a slim figure cloaked in black fought mobsters, evil scientists, crazed old men and foreign invaders with two blazing automatics and a laugh that chilled the hearts of evil. The mysterious figure was The Shadow. The popularity of a radio announcer – known as The Shadow – for Street and Smith’s Detective Story Hour...
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Doc Savage
Just under two years after The Shadow appeared on magazine racks, Doc Savage became the third pulp character to get his own magazine. The world met the Man of Bronze in a novel titled “The Man of Bronze,” March 1933. Doc Savage was created by Street and Smith’s Henry W. Ralston, with help from editor John L. Nanovic, in order to capitalize on the...
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The Spider
On the heels of the success of Street and Smith’s The Shadow, Popular Publications brought another black hat and black cape wearing hero to the pulps — The Spider, Master of Men! He was the seventh pulp character to get his own magazine.
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Pulp websites
If you're more interest in the broader topic of pulp magazines, check out our links to websites on the pulps in general, pulpsters and other pulp characters.
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Pulpcon 36 (2007)
The end of 2011 brought news of the deaths of two key members of pulp fandom: Pulpcon’s Rusty Hevelin and Robert E. Howard expert Glenn Lord. Listen to their 2007 Pulpcon comments.
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Pulp photos
Don’t you wish you had a time machine? Flash back to the 1930s and pick up mint copies of your favorite pulps? We’ve got the next best thing: a greatly expanded gallery of newsstand photos.
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Yellowed Perils
The latest from the Yellowed Perils blog: Three pulp experts have passed away… Genre fiction: then and now… Director Shane Black on “If we do Doc Savage…” Is “John Carter” the next “Avatar”?
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Long before TV, when movies were silent and radio was rarely heard, the pulp magazines burst onto the scene. The cheaply produced magazines offered an eager populace with a pasttime that carried them to far–away places on adventures far beyond their everyday lives.
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