While I was an early science-fiction fan (including pulp sf), I also got into comic books as a kid, and later started to collect them. A resource I started to...
Category - Commentary
2017 is here, and I see that my fourth anniversary of this blog is rapidly approaching, as well as hitting 400 posts. Not sure which one will hit first. A...
Those who have followed my blog for awhile may be wondering if there is any logic to what I post when. Actually, there is. Early on I set down a general...
In 2015, those of us here in South Florida were fortunate that Rich Harvey and Audrey Parente of Bold Venture Press kicked off a version of Pulp AdventureCon...
In the March 1945 issue of Amazing Stories, “I Remember Lemuria” kicked off a phenomenon that continues to this day: the Shaver Mystery. It took...
While a long-time pulp fan, sadly most of my interactions with fellow fans as been through online forums. Years ago a Usenet forum called alt.pulp was created...
Some pulp hero fans make the mistake of lumping all the pulp heroes together into one group, as if they comprise a genre all their own. Sometimes it leads to...
As a follow-up to my “What is pulp?” posting, I’d like to look at what formats people like to get their pulp fiction. When I got into pulp...
A particular phenomenon of the New Pulp world is of new stories using the original pulp heroes. Of course, this isn’t a new trend. The Shadow got the...
What is (and is not) “pulp” is something that has generated a lot of discussion over the years. Some people are very stringent about what pulp is;...