Adventure magazine and Ared White
This issue of Adventure magazine, a 10-cent pulp from December 1932, features an eye-catching cover. It depicts a troop of knights reaching the shores after […]
This issue of Adventure magazine, a 10-cent pulp from December 1932, features an eye-catching cover. It depicts a troop of knights reaching the shores after […]
PulpFest, an international celebration of adventure fiction, is set to invade Pittsburgh in July. To help celebrate the love and legacy of this all-American artform, writers […]
In the wake the tidal wave that was left by Edgar Rice Burroughs’ “Tarzan” series, innumerable copycats appeared. Some put a woman in the Tarzan […]
With the Summer of 2015 plodding along, I have to admit that I was doing some plodding of my own. You see, I had a self-imposed […]
This was supposed to be a review of Roddy Doyle’s “The Deportees and Other Stories.” When I picked the book up off my “Need to […]
In a few hours we used to count as “therapy time,” Comics on the Brain sat down and watched the TV movie “Flatbed Annie & […]
A lot of pulp magazines feature a dashing hero as the main image. This is the sort of guy with a full head of hair, […]
For writers of New Pulp, especially those that focus on the 1930s and 1940s, it can be kind of hard to recreate the feel of […]
Comics on the Brain has been a fan of pulp magazines for quite a while. We love the action, adventure and crazy plots that unfold […]
To the world, teenager TOMMY ONE is unbeatable. He’s perfect. He’s the boy every girl dreams of dating. He’s the world-famous superstar every guy wants […]
After reading some other work by C.J. Henderson, most notably his New Pulp offerings, Comics on the Brain was eager to grab another one of […]
This great pulp magazine cover features an illustration for Isaac Asimov’s short story called “Living Space.” The short story deals with the colonization of […]
The cover of 1951’s Avon Fantasy Reader No. 17 features a great scene from “The Sapphire Siren” a short story by Nictzin Dyalhis. The “Siren,” […]
In the vast expanse of the publishing world, New Pulp is just one of the niches. The genre is an attempt to revitalize the stories […]
While it’s not exactly a pulp genre book, Comics on the Brain just had to buy “The House Without A Key: A Charlie Chan Mystery” […]
Thanks to a string of successes stretching back to “Batman” in 1989 and taking center stage in 2012 with “The Avengers,” comic books clearly have […]
It’s long been known that the comic book megastar Batman had his roots in the pulps thanks to earlier characters such as the Black Bat, […]
In the world of literary fandom, there are people who love H.P. Lovecraft, J.R.R. Tolkien, Isaac Asimov and the other greats. It’s because each of […]
Sometimes when I’m bored with reading my current novel (or, more accurately, bored with reading my current two or three novels), I’ll reach into my […]
Some people need a daily dose of cute. They want to say “awwww” every morning even before sucking down a caffeine-laden drink. To them, a […]