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 […]
Pulp magazines
Author Signings: New Pulp Invades Pittsburgh and Pulpfest
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 […]
Tarzan’s Imposter: Jan of the Jungle
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 […]
Legends of New Pulp: Tommy One & the Legion of Neptune
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 […]
How Roddy Doyle’s “The Deportees” can help New Pulp
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 […]
Trucker pulps: ‘Flatbed Annie & Sweetiepie’ and the pulp formula
In a few hours we used to count as “therapy time,” Comics on the Brain sat down and watched the TV movie “Flatbed Annie & […]
When pulps spotlight the villain
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, […]
Newspaper reprints capture the time of the pulps
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 […]
Smedley Butler makes Pulp History
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 […]
The Lives and Times of Tommy One
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 […]
Sword & Sorcery in “Reign of the Dragon Lord”
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 […]
Minecraft and Asimov’s many Earths
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 […]
Swords, sapphires and the secrets of Nictzin Dyalhis
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,” […]
Battle for L.A.: New Pulp done right
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 […]
Unlock Charlie Chan’s “House Without A Key”
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” […]
Cliffs Notes for Hollywood: The Fafhrd and Gray Mouser comic
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 […]
The Bat Man before Batman
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, […]
The Adventures of the Scarlet Shroud: Action from the New Pulp era
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 […]
Writhe around with C.L. Moore
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 […]
Too many puppies, too many kittens, not enough pulp
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 […]