Q. Do indices to character pulps exist online?

A. Yes. Using Robert Weinberg and Lohr McKinstry's The Hero-Pulp Index (Opar Press, 1971) as a basis, Nick Sauer and Michael Rogero Brown put together several files in early 1993 containing indices for most of the hero pulps. The indices include volume and issue numbers, authors, date of publication, paperback reprints, and comic book, radio, movie and other book appearances by the characters.

These indices are available:

• Black Bat
• Captain Future
• Doc Savage
• G-8 and His Battle Aces
• Moon Man
• Operator 5
• The Phantom Detective
• Secret Agent X
• The Shadow
• The Spider
• Minor heroes and villains
• H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos
• Weird Heroes, a 1970s attempt at creating a paperback hero-pulp anthology.