Old, but not gold: Dr. Satan’s pulp adventures
(Another repost from my own blog) Pulp-reprint publisher Steeger Books has enabled me to buy a number of neat books such as Hades and Hocus Pocus. When they had a …
Category: Pulp magazines
Elegy for Dad Heroes
Reading Burl Barer’s excellent book on The Saint was when I realized some characters are Dad Heroes. A dad joke is defined as the kind of joke a father would …
Tarzan (and other people) at the Earth’s Core! The rest of the Pellucidar series
Long before DC or Marvel, Edgar Rice Burroughs built a shared universe. First we have the narrator of so many of his framing sequences, the Edgar Rice Burroughs who’s related …
For the world is hollow, and I have touched a dinosaur: Pellucidar
Long after scientists and geographers figured out the Earth was round, they still hadn’t figured out what was inside it. As Walter Kafton-Minkel discusses in his Subterranean Worlds, some theorists imagined …
