Number 28

The Pulpster #28 (2019)

Number 28 of The Pulpster was published for PulpFest 2019.

Cover stories

Holy pulps, Batman!
The Caped Crusader’s creators lifted elements straight from the pulps.
by Will Murray

The grandfather of the superhero
From Zorro to The Bat to The Crimson Clown, Johnston McCulley created a whole family of masked heroes.
by Will Murray

A vine legacy
Tarzan’s literary descendants swung through the pulps and into other media.
by Scott Tracy Griffin

The night of pulp fiction TV
The Wild Wild West found writers and inspiration in the pulp magazines.
by Aaron H. Oliver

May the pulps be with you
The original Star Wars trilogy launched a media universe, but was grounded in the pulps.
by Jess Terrell

Super space heroes of intergalactic adventure
They were pulp heroes before transforming into Japanese TV icons.
by Sara Light-Waller

Zorro slashes from screen to screen
Since Johnston McCulley’s masked hero first appeared 100 years ago, he’s circled the world.
by D. Kepler

Articles

The Thrill Book at 100
The fascinating, ambitious oddity was more than a simple failure.
by Richard Bleiler

One year of Romance
The adventures of a pulp with aconfusing name came to an abrupt end.
by Doug Ellis

A long service with the pulps
Bertrand Sinclair penned stories for the pulp magazines for almost 50 years.
by Tony Davis

My first meeting with Sherlock Holmes
A pulp writer reflects on the influence of the Great Detective.
by G.T. Fleming-Roberts

Departments

From the Editor, by William Lampkin
From the Publisher, by Michael Chomko
Final Chapters, by Tony Davis

On the cover

Artwork of The Black Bat in action by Rudolph Belarski from the cover of Black Book Detective (September 1939)