Number 27

The Pulpster #27 (2018)

Number 27 of The Pulpster was published for PulpFest 2018.

Cover stories

Mr. Hoffman’s wartime Adventure
The Great War showed that pulps could be more than just escapist fiction.
by Tom Krabacher

That earlier American Legion
From the pages of Adventure, a war-veterans organization stumbled to life.
by Arthur Sullivant Hoffman

With ‘Wings’ I soared
Air-war pulps spurred the imagination of an illustrator at a young age.
by George Evans, with Michael Chomko

Articles

Fatty’s friend
A pulp-era image brings the pulps to life.
by William Lampkin

A Fimbulwinter introduction
100 years after his birth, a look back at Philip José Farmer’s life.
by Philip José Farmer

The Man with the electric brain
Philip José Farmer wrote sf, horror, adventure, and fantasy, but mostly Farmer stories.
by Joe R. Lansdale

A peek inside Popular Publications
A former college intern’s letter recalls the pulps and the authors during her summers there.
by Irene Cumming Kleeberg

The original Suicide Squad
Well before DC’s super-villain team-up, these G-men tackled crime with guns blazing.
by David W. Smith

Departments

From the Editor, by William Lampkin
From the Publisher: The first 10 years of PulpFest, by Michael Chomko
Final Chapters, by Tony Davis

On the cover

Artwork by Rudolph Belarski from the cover of Thrilling Adventures (April 1940)..