The Case of Professor Zoff
The popularity of Dr. Occult and later Dr. Thirteen made occult detective characters another “must have” feature of early comics, along with the jungle lord Read More
Category: Doc Savage
Lin Carter & His Pastiches
On Facebook somebody said why doesn’t somebody do a list of all the authors that inspired Lin Carter’s many pastiches? Well kids, let’s give it Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Quest of Qui
Quest of Qui appeared in Doc Savage Magazine, July 1935. It was #12 in the Bantam paperback series. It also received a junior hard cover Read More
Doc Savage: The Illustrations!
The colorful covers of Doc Savage Magazine are well known with their Pulp action and sinister mystery. The interior art is less so. These images Read More
The Doc Savage Black & White Magazine
Marvel Comics pursued a line of black & white magazines in the early 1970s. The idea, no doubt, came from the success of the Warren Read More
New Pulp: We Finally Got There
Twenty years ago I made it my mission to write as they did in the old days of Black Mask, Dime Detective and Thrilling Wonder Read More
Hero Pulps: Champions of Excitement
The hero Pulp was a product of the 1930s and the Great Depression. In a time when all seemed doom and gloom, it was exciting Read More
Going Wild: An Interview with Jack Mackenzie
Jack Mackenzie is at it again. His latest project is a series of Pulp hero novels called Wild Inc. The first book is The Shattered Read More
Pulp Artist/Comic Artist
Doing research on my favorite Pulp artists at Field Guide to Wild American Artists, I found the end of each biography was almost always “and Read More
Doc Savage’s Hair: The Coiffe of Bronze
Recently someone in a Doc Savage Facebook group asked a question, and it was a good one. The question was: How did we go from Read More