Arthur J. Burks – Part 5: 1931
If you missed the last one… Selling to Harry Bates at Astounding, Burks returns to Horror fiction with the same editor (for 2c a word) Read More
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The Amazing Adventures of Buster Crabbe
If you missed the last one… The amazing adventures of Buster Crabbe did not begin in the comics but in the movie serials. Larry “Buster” Read More
Those Fantastic Ape Monsters
Those fantastic ape monsters of Fantasy & Science Fiction show our interest in our shaggy relatives. Fiction writers produced tales of apes and apish creatures Read More
Spock’s Brain and Other Missing Cerebrum
Brain-stealers! As a kid, I can recall the sheer terror of Doctor McCoy saying to Captain Kirk: “His brain is gone.” Aliens have stolen Mr. Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Reynolds of the Mounted
Art Pinajian (1914-1999) got his start back in the 1930s. One of his first comics was “Reynolds of the Mounted”, a series of four-page Northerns Read More
Pulp Scenarios in 1960s Sitcoms
We are going to look at Pulp Scenarios that showed up in the wacky sitcoms of the 1960s. I’m not going to suggest that Sherwood Read More
Frank R. Paul and The Land That Time Forgot
Hugo Gernsback began his all-Science Fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, with a lot of reprints. This was because of several reasons. First, there wasn’t much SF Read More
The Mastermind of Mars
I don’t know if other writers have experienced this or not—that moment you became a hopeless slave. For me it was when I was twelve Read More
Helping Out a Friend: The Science Fiction of Tom Curry
Tom Curry (1900-1976) has won his place in the Pulps as a Western writer, the main author of the Rio Kid Magazine stories as well Read More