The Pulp Super-Fan

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 […]