She was in my mind for years before I finally wrote her story
I must have been in the United States little over a year when I picked up my first Doc Savage novel, Devil On The Moon. It may have been pure …
Category: Pulp magazines
RIP James Bama
So Sunday, April 24, James Bama died. He’s best known for his work as a Western artist but for me he’s first and foremost the definitive Doc Savage paperback artist.I …
The Man of Bronze in the Bronze Age: Marvel’s Doc Savage
(Another rewritten post from my own blog, from 2014). If not for Doc Savage, I might never have started reading Marvel in the Bronze Age. I’d read Marvel occasionally in …
Oddball pulp and paperback covers
I love cover art, particularly from the days when the covers worked to reach out and grab you to make you buy them. But sometimes the effort to become interesting …
John D. MacDonald – SF writer?
Before he gained fame writing thrillers and his well-regarded Travis McGee books, John D. MacDonald was also quite a prolific writer of science fiction. He wrote three novels, and published dozens of stories in the pulp magazines.