Flash Gordon: The Golden, Silver and Bronze Age Comics
Flash Gordon, the comic strip, began on January 7, 1934. Intended as competition for Buck Rogers, it is still running to this day. Alex Raymond Read More
Category: Pulp Magazines
Adventures Underground
Adventures Underground! What an amazing place to tell a story. Jules Verne chose it well when he wrote Journey to the Center of the Earth Read More
Classic Monsters in Comics: The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells (1897) was one of his genre-establishing books along with The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau and Read More
Druidic Magic in the Pulps
There are exceptions to the villain rule, of course. Bran Mak Morn, the Robert E. Howard character, is not afraid of Gonar’s magic. In “The Read More
Atlantis: The Pulp Years – Part 1: 1910-1920s
Atlantis flourished during The Pulp Years, 1923-1954. In L. Sprague de Camp’s Lost Continents (1954) he discusses the romantic novels of the 1880-90s, then follows Read More
The Monsters of Jack Williamson’s “The Moon Era”
Jack Williamson’s “The Moon Era” is a wonderful adventure in the best of the Wonder Stories tradition. Wellsian in tone, we follow Stephen Conway to Read More
Plant Monsters of the 1930s: Odds & Ends
If you missed Plant Monsters of Amazing Stories…. For our last post on the Plant Monsters of the 1930s, we offer a potpourri of various Read More
Plant Monsters of the 1940s
If you missed the last one… The 1940s saw a variety of Science Fiction and Horror magazines use plants in different ways. Sometimes they were Read More
Time Machine Problems: Writing Historical Pulp
Writing Historical Pulp has its challenges. And its rewards. I quite enjoy small Pulp and comic book surprises in television shows and movies when they Read More
The Plant Monsters of Amazing Stories: 1929-1939
If you missed the Plant Monsters of Astounding… The Plant Monsters of Amazing Stories (from 1929-1939) give us the story of two editors: T. O’Conor Read More