The Pulp Super-Fan

In early 2026, we got a double issue of The Bronze Gazette: No. 98/99. Or maybe I should call it a flip issue. The same was done with No. 96/97, which I missed posting on. The Bronze Gazette is the premier Doc Savage fanzine, which was offered as a subscription for these “two” issues. The […]

An interesting art volume I received is Gil Cohen: Inside/Out (Archive Collection), edited by Bob Deis and Wyatt Doyle and published by New Texture as part of the Men’s Adventure Library series of books. This hardback volume is planned to be the first of several volumes collecting the over 400 pieces of art done by […]

Here we have the second volume of Lester Dent’s “gadget hero,” Clickell “Click” Rush: The Devils Smelled Nice: The Complete Adventures of the Gadget Man, Vol. 2. This one has the next six stories. This series was published in Street & Smith’s Crime Busters pulp in 1937-39, which was intended to be a sort of […]

I have been posting on the fanzine bare*bones, which is devoted to “unearthing vintage, forgotten, and overlooked horror, mystery, sci-fi, western, and weird film, paperbacks, comics, pulp fiction, and video.” It is produced by Peter Enfantino and John Scoleri through Cimarron Street Books. I have reviewed the first 20 issues. Now there are more, so […]

I picked up the third volume in the Jimmy Wentworth series from Steeger Books. The Brothers of the Snake: The Complete Chinatown Cases of Jimmy Wentworth, Vol. 3, collects the next six stories in this series. Written by Sidney Herschel Small (1893-1958), who wrote more than 500 stories of Asian intrigue in both the pulps […]

Trumpets From Oblivion is a historical action/adventure series by H. Bedford-Jones that appeared in Blue Book Magazine. This thirteen-part series ran from November 1938 to November 1939 and was cover-featured four times. The cover from the second story was used for the collection by Steeger Books, which is part of its H. Bedford-Jones Library. This […]

I picked up a small book by L.S. Goozdich, Fire in the Tall Grass. Published by Veritas Entertainment, this is the first adventure with Noah Redford, set after World War I. Since the book is small, I think this one is most likely a novelette. This is one of several such works by the author […]

The fifth volume in the chronological reprinting of Semi Dual stories from Steeger Books came out last year. I am holding off on the three Semi Dual serials that were reprinted from later in the series. This volume picks up where Vol. 4 left off, more or less. For those who may have forgotten who […]

This time I look at a fanzine that just recently ended, The Paperback Fanatic. Produced by Justin Marriott, it focused on, of course, paperback book collecting. It’s one of several such fanzines he has put out over the years. Starting with issue #37, they are available from Amazon via print-on-demand, so those issues are readily […]

After the release of The Singular Papers of Solar Pons, the next collection of new stories by David Marcum, we got the next issue of the scholarly journal devoted to Solar Pons: The Pontine Dossier, Millennium Edition, Vol. 1, No. 6 (Winter 2025-26), edited by Derrick Belanger. I was surprised to see this on Amazon, […]

The Man With the Rubber Face reprints the entire series of stories starring John Cabot, the titular “man with the rubber face,” in his crusade against criminals. Written by H. Bedford-Jones, this series ran in Mystery magazine. This was a slick-paper magazine from Tower Magazines, sold only in Woolworth stores, and is not properly a […]

I picked up The Fighting Heart of Man, Vol. 1, published by Veritas Entertainment. This small volume, 4- by 7-inches, has 11 stories by Nathanael Hummel and L.S. Goozdich. These stories are very short, sometimes being vignettes. Some feature characters for whom the two authors have published other works: Noah Redford and Nate Colt. Noah […]

On Black Friday weekend 2025, Steeger Books put out their next sets of Argosy Library volumes, Series XVIII and XIX, getting closer to 200 volumes. As always, with each series, we get 10 books of great and sometimes overlooked fiction that appeared in the early pulps. We get some stand-alone works, as well as volumes […]

In 2025, writer-artist Mike Mignola did an original hardcover graphic novel, Bowling With Corpses and Other Strange Tales From Lands Unknown. Not set in the “Hellboy Universe,” this was a collection of short stories written and drawn by Mignola, set in “Lands Unknown,” a new dark fantasy setting of his. As he credits Howard, Smith, […]

I recently picked up a pair of books from Matthew Bieniek: Barnstormers: The Adventures of Kiki and Bridget. Set in 1925 during the post-World War I barnstormer era, this is the kind of story we might have gotten in the aviation pulps. The series focuses on a pair of young pilots with their own Curtiss […]

You may not be aware that the home of Robert E. Howard in Cross Plains, Texas, is in need of vital repairs. This has been reported by the Robert E. Howard Foundation on its website and in videos on YouTube. To help out, they have been working on fundraising for it, an effort joined in […]

The Mardi Gras Mystery is an interesting novella by H. Bedford-Jones that appeared in Short Stories in the August 1920 issue. I got the edition reprinted by Steeger Books in its H. Bedford-Jones Library. Set in New Orleans shortly after the start of Prohibition during Mardi Gras, we don’t have parades, but there are a […]

We got the third issue of RevERBerate, a fanzine devoted to Edgar Rice Burroughs, in January 2026. Like the previous ones, this one is again 48 pages, printed on high-quality, glossy stock, perfect-bound with color cardstock covers. As with the previous issues, nothing on the cover indicates the issue number or date, which is on […]

I picked up the first of a new annual journal from Belanger Books, done in conjunction with the Arthur Conan Doyle Society: Steel True, Blade Straight 2022 Annual. It is subtitled “A Journal of Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle-Inspired Stories, Poems, and Scholarship.” At this time, there are annuals for 2023, 2024-25, and 2025-26. […]

As a follow-up to my prior posting on the Hellboy-related comics, here are the comics that have come out so far in 2026 and those I am aware are coming. All are from Dark Horse Comics under Mike Mignola‘s new imprint: Curious Objects. In early 2026, we saw the conclusion to Captain Henry and the […]

I discovered a new collection of pulp-style short stories in Honor Among Rogues by Logan D. Whitney. This small volume, 4- by 7-inches size, has six short stories set around the world from the 1890s to the 1940s in several genres: Western, aviation, action-adventure, and more. We even get two stories with the same hero. […]

In late 2025, we got the next volume of pulp detective Jigger Masters, created by author and editor Anthony M. Rud (1893-1942): The Death Messenger: The Complete Cases of Jigger Masters, Vol. 4. This character had an unusual history, having first appeared in The Green Book Magazine in 1918. Then he disappeared for about 15 […]

Strange Escapes is another of H. Bedford-Jones’s short story series from Blue Book magazine. It is an eight-story series that appeared under his Gordon Keyne pseudonym and ran from February 1938 through September 1938. None of these stories were cover-featured, so a cover tied to his “Warriors in Exile” series from the January 1938 issue […]

I previously read and reviewed Terrance Layhew’s first novel, One Man’s Treasure, which I enjoyed. Now he has a new series with pilot Mitch Mayhew coming from Veritas Entertainment, which is putting out works by several authors under the heading of “men’s adventure fiction.” I’ve seen several of these on Amazon, but have yet to […]

Somehow I missed doing a review of The Pontine Dossier, Millennium Edition, Vol. 1, No. 4 (Autumn/Winter 2023), the scholarly journal of Solar Pons, edited by Derrick Belanger. So I rectify that here. There are six issues out, all available from Amazon. For those who missed my previous posts on him, Solar Pons is a […]

I had not previously been aware of J.P. Linde, but when I saw he wrote an authorized Peregrine novel, I wanted to see what else he has done. One is Son of Ravage, which by the cover design is a clear Doc Savage pastiche — or at least giving us a son of Savage. But […]

I recently received the 13th issue of Men’s Adventure Quarterly, the excellent magazine series focused on men’s adventure magazines, now starting its fourth year of publication. That’s a pretty good accomplishment. They have been very successful at getting out four issues a year for the past three years, and in putting out a well-designed publication […]

I have posted on some other fanzines produced by Justin Marriott, and this time I take a look at Men of Violence: The Fanzine of Men’s Adventure Paperbacks. While not pulp, I’ve long felt that the numbered men’s adventure paperback series were another successor to the pulps. Started by Don Pendleton’s The Executioner, these works […]

Carroll John Daly (1889–1958) is best known for his hard-boiled detectives, such as Race Williams in Black Mask, and Satan Hall in Detective Fiction Weekly (since 1930). But another interesting character is Mr. Strang, who appeared in a short-lived series in Detective Fiction Weekly. His stories have been reprinted in two volumes by Steeger Books. […]

Around Thanksgiving, the fifth Thomas Adam Grey thriller by Duane Laflin, The Medusa Sting, came out. As I’ve been enjoying this series, I quickly got and read it. This series continues to be great, and I look forward to the next ones. Laflin is a retired professional magician who now writes novels. Wayne Reinagel has […]