The Pulp Super-Fan

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 […]