Download or read book Pulp Adventures 39 written by Laurie Powers and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue focuses on Will Murray, author of The Wild Adventures of Doc Savage, in three different manners. First, Will Murray traces The Batman's origins, demonstrating how the character was influenced by both The Shadow and Zorro. Of particular focus is the crossover stories DC Comics published in the 1970s, wherein Manhattan's Man of Mystery and The Dark Knight actually cross paths, in two different issues of Batman. Next, Laurie Powers (author of Daisy Bacon: Queen of the Pulps) interviews Will Murray regarding his journey from being a Doc Savage fan to becoming the author. Will describes his early involvement with the Doc Savage series, and the arc of the Wild Adventures series. Steve Holland: The World's Greatest Illustration Art Model documents the career of the man who posed as Doc Savage for illustrator James Bama, Bob Larkin, and Joe DeVito. But Holland wasn't just the Man of Bronze - he posed for numerous important illustrators as The Avenger, The Spider, Flash Gordon, The Phantom, and as various soldiers, cops and criminals for thousands of mens adventure magazines. Michael Stradford, author of the new book, discusses the actor-turned-model, his life and career, and the importance of Holland's lasting influence on commercial art. Also in this issue: David Goudsward discuss the background of Henry S. Whitehead's story "The Love Philtre" (written as Casimir Dren), accompanying a reprint of the story. O. Henry's stories became the gold standard for short story authors in America, and around the world. This issue features his pulp tales "Witch's Loaves" (from The Argosy, March 1904) and "The Venturers" (originally published in Everybody's Magazine, October 1909). William Nadel, editor of Thirty by O. Henry, provides notes on O. Henry and the stories. Classic pulp fiction: Door of Doom by Charles Boeckman Calculated Nightmare by John Burke Witches' Loaves by O. Henry The Venturers by O. Henry The Love Philtre by Henry S. Whitehead New pulp fiction: Jake's Close Shave by Brian Beatty Djinn and Tonic by Teel James Glenn Evil Forces by Gary Lovisi Red's Chapel by Charles Burgess The Making of a Pirate by Adam McFarlane

Download or read book The Art of Pulp Fiction An Illustrated History of Vintage Paperbacks written by Ed Hulse and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judge these books by their covers! Get immersed in the definitive visual history of pulp fiction paperbacks from 1940 to 1970. The Art of Pulp Fiction: An Illustrated History of Vintage Paperbacks chronicles the history of pocket-sized paperbound books designed for mass-market consumption, specifically concentrating on the period from 1940 to 1970. These three decades saw paperbacks eclipse cheap pulp magazines and expensive clothbound books as the most popular delivery vehicle for escapist fiction. To catch the eyes of potential buyers they were adorned with covers that were invariably vibrant, frequently garish, and occasionally lurid. Today the early paperbacks--like the earlier pulps, inexpensively produced and considered disposable by casual readers--are treasured collector's items. Award-winning editor Ed Hulse (The Art of the Pulps and The Blood 'n' Thunder Guide to Pulp Fiction) comprehensively covers the pulp-fiction paperback's heyday. Hulse writes the individual chapter introductions and the captions, while a team of genre specialists and art aficionados contribute the special features included in each chapter. These focus on particularly important authors, artists, publishers, and sub-genres. Illustrated with more than 500 memorable covers and original cover paintings. Hulse's extensive captions, meanwhile, offer a running commentary on this significant genre, and also contain many obscure but entertaining factoids. Images used in The Art of Pulp Fiction have been sourced from the largest American paperback collections in private hands, and have been curated with rarity in mind, as well as graphic appeal. Consequently, many covers are reproduced here for the first time since the books were first issued. With an overall Introduction by Richard A. Lupoff, novelist, essayist, pop-culture historian, and author of The Great American Paperback (2001).

Download or read book Pulp Adventures for Today full size written by Michael Wallace and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulp Adventures for Today! is a high-speed, low-drag Role-playing game based on the science fiction stories of yesteryear, such as Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Tarzan of the Apes, John Carter of Mars, etc These rules are designed to be used with any sort of campaign which doesn't rely too much on realism The only things required to play Pulp Adventures for Today! are a group of friends, a handful of standard six-sided dice, a pencil, and your imagination So strap on your blaster, sharpen your saber, climb aboard your war zeppelin and look for adventure Included in this rulebook are: * Rules for character creation, * Skills and how to use them, * Equipment from the past through the future, * A small number of vehicles, * A sampling of critters, * And two sample campaign settings: Terra Reich, in which a horde of evil aliens invade Earth while WW2 is underway and The Atlantean Age, a more typical swords & sorcery setting.

Download or read book The Pulp Adventure MEGAPACK written by H. Bedford-Jones and published by Wildside Press. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you think of the pulp magazines that flourished in the first half of the 20th century, it’s hard not to think of adventure—the term “pulp fiction” these days has come to mean slam-bang action. That’s what this volume of our MEGAPACK® is here to celebrate: great adventure stories. Included are: HE SWALLOWS GOLD, by H. Bedford-Jones PLANE JANE by Frederick C. Davis ARCTIC ANGELS, by A. DeHerries Smith THE TAKING OF CLOUDY McGEE, by W.C. Tuttle ESPECIALLY DANCE HALL WOMEN by Alma and Paul Ellerbe ISLAND HONOR, by Murray Leinster NERVE ENOUGH, by Richard Howells Watkins BY ORDER OF BUCK BRADY, by W.C. Tuttle CODE, by L. Paul SALVAGE, by Roy Norton THE LUCKY LITTLE STIFF, by H.P.S. Greene WHEN EVERYBODY KNEW, by Raymond S. Spears THE SOUL OF HENRY JONES, by Ray Cummings THEN LUCK CAME IN, by Andrew A. Caffrey TOO MUCH PROGRESS FOR PIPEROCK, by W.C. Tuttle

Download or read book The Weird Detective Adventures of Wade Hammond written by Paul Chadwick and published by . This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 3 contains another 10 stories of vintage detective hero, Wade Hammond, from 1930's detective pulps. Wade battles a baffling array of crazed killers, mad scientists, ornery animals, and more; all told in Paul Chadwick's memorably vivid style.

Download or read book Pulp Adventures 29 written by Audrey Parente and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DTC

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Download or read book Pulp Adventures 16 written by Arthur Burks and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-17 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur J. Burks, one of the great science-fiction authors, paints a vast canvas, creating a lurid, thrilling vision of the devastation and rebirth of the earth's greatest nation! A science fiction epic reprinted with its amazing sequel for the first time! In "Survival," David Haslup leads his people in flight from an invading army - deep into the bowels of the earth, carving out an interior world of supermen and super-science! Centuries later, in "Exodus," David Haslup's descendant, 39 generations later, leads his people in battle to reclaim the surface world -- a world their generation has never seen! In "Thubway Tham's Four Queens," the creator of Zorro recounts a tale of high stakes poker and low-life players. Can the notorious but lovable pickpocket prove that anyone can be a high-stakes poker player? Or will Tham's desire for easy money once again prove his undoing? Also: "The Watcher" by Charles E. Fritch, and "63,571" by L. H. Hayum. Cover by Norman Saunders.

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Download or read book It s a Man s World written by Adam Parfrey and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanded edition covering the Adventure Magazine genre of Cold-War masculinity including new material wartime xenophobic American magazine articles and advertisements.

Download or read book Pulp Adventures written by Rich Harvey and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-10-19 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hard-hitting fiction awaits within the pages of editor Rich Harvey's revived PULP ADVENTURES. Classic pulp stories by E. Hoffmann Price, Robert Leslie Bellem, Gardner F. Fox, G.T. Fleming Roberts; plus two recent tales. In "Fury In Vermont" by Ron Fortier, the intrepid adventurer Kate Fury battles zombies in rustic backwood country. Then private detective Jack Hagee tracks a serial killer, who begins tracking him in "Toothpick" by C.J. Henderson. With a fantastic cover by the great Norman Saunders, vintage artwork, and new illustrations by Ed Coutts.

Download or read book Pulp Adventures 32 written by Talbot Mundy and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine stories of mystery, science fiction, horror - new and classic pulp fiction!Audrey Parente, editorClassic Pulp Fiction - "The Death Dancer" by Charles Boeckman: The "Atomic Goddess of Beauty" sees a strange case of murder explode!; "Roman Holiday" by Talbot Mundy: A tale of Christians and Romans - and Lions - in the reign of mad Caligula; "The Pigtail of Hi Wing Ho" by Sax Rohmer: Mystery in Chinatown ...New Pulp Fiction - The Mystery of Island X! by Bobby Nash: Lance Starr and his scrappy crew investigate mysterious goings-on on an island - only to discover the island IS the mystery!; "The Spawn of Lilthu" by William M. Hope: The "Welcome" mat was Thurl's invitation to a hellish fate; "The Wicked Big 'Monstah Ovah Bawstin'" by David Bernard: An FBI agent generates buzz with his biggest case; "Time and Tide" by Adam Beau McFarlane: The Black Island Tavern plays host to a sailor like no other; "Stranded At Saturn" by Jack Halliday: He dreamt of reaching the stars ... until he crash-landed ...; "A Snitch in Time" by Robert W. Walker: First-class seats for murder ...

Download or read book Queen of the Pulps written by Laurie Powers and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-09-12 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daisy Bacon, the opinionated, autocratic and complex editor of Love Story Magazine from 1928 to 1947, chose the stories that would be read by hundreds of thousands of readers each week. The first weekly periodical devoted to romance fiction and the biggest-selling pulp fiction magazine in the early days of the Great Depression, Love Story sparked a wave of imitators that dominated newsstands for more than twenty years. Disparaged as a "love pulp," the magazine actually championed the "modern girl," bringing its heroines out of the shadows of Victorian poverty and into the 20th century. With Love Story's success, Bacon became a national spokesperson, declaring that the modern woman could have it all--in love, in marriage and in the business world. Yet Bacon herself struggled to achieve that ideal, especially in her own romantic life, built around a long-term affair with a married man. Drawing on exclusive access to her personal papers, this first-ever biography tells the story behind the woman who influenced millions of others to pursue independence in their careers and in their relationships.

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Download or read book Black Pulp written by Brooks E. Hefner and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2021-12-21 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deep dive into mid-century African American newspapers, exploring how Black pulp fiction reassembled genre formulas in the service of racial justice In recent years, Jordan Peele’s Get Out, Marvel’s Black Panther, and HBO’s Watchmen have been lauded for the innovative ways they repurpose genre conventions to criticize white supremacy, celebrate Black resistance, and imagine a more racially just world—important progressive messages widely spread precisely because they are packaged in popular genres. But it turns out, such generic retooling for antiracist purposes is nothing new. As Brooks E. Hefner’s Black Pulp shows, this tradition of antiracist genre revision begins even earlier than recent studies of Black superhero comics of the 1960s have revealed. Hefner traces it back to a phenomenon that began in the 1920s, to serialized (and sometimes syndicated) genre stories written by Black authors in Black newspapers with large circulations among middle- and working-class Black readers. From the pages of the Pittsburgh Courier and the Baltimore Afro-American, Hefner recovers a rich archive of African American genre fiction from the 1920s through the mid-1950s—spanning everything from romance, hero-adventure, and crime stories to westerns and science fiction. Reading these stories, Hefner explores how their authors deployed, critiqued, and reassembled genre formulas—and the pleasures they offer to readers—in the service of racial justice: to criticize Jim Crow segregation, racial capitalism, and the sexual exploitation of Black women; to imagine successful interracial romance and collective sociopolitical progress; and to cheer Black agency, even retributive violence in the face of white supremacy. These popular stories differ significantly from contemporaneous, now-canonized African American protest novels that tend to represent Jim Crow America as a deterministic machine and its Black inhabitants as doomed victims. Widely consumed but since forgotten, these genre stories—and Hefner’s incisive analysis of them—offer a more vibrant understanding of African American literary history.

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Download or read book The Blood n Thunder Guide to Pulp Fiction written by Ed Hulse and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-07-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 20th century's first half, millions of Americans flocked to newsstands every month in search of thrills provided by all-fiction magazines printed on cheap pulp paper. These periodicals introduced and popularized such famous characters as Tarzan, Zorro, Sam Spade, Buck Rogers, Doc Savage, Hopalong Cassidy, and Conan the Barbarian, to name just a few. The producers of pulp fiction churned out their vigorous and occasionally outre stories at a feverish pace, generally for a mere penny per word. Some eventually graduated from the pulps to become world-famous, best-selling authors-among them Edgar Rice Burroughs, Max Brand, Erle Stanley Gardner, Ray Bradbury, Louis L'Amour, Dashiell Hammett, and Raymond Chandler. Often derided in their own time, the "rough paper" magazines had an incalculable effect on American pop culture. They gave birth to modern science fiction and the hardboiled detective story, but also to plot devices, character types, and storytelling innovations that live on in today's most popular novels, movies, and TV shows. Illustrated with more than 600 magazine covers and original paintings, THE BLOOD 'N' THUNDER GUIDE TO PULP FICTION presents a complete and lively history of this unique literary form, covering genres individually and identifying key titles, authors, and stories. It also offers advice on collecting the vintage magazines and directs readers to recently published reprints of classic pulp."