In 2020, the Covid pandemic prevented us from holding PulpFest that August. The Pulpster #29 was already being written and edited, so we decided not only to continue working on it but to expand it to include articles that would have been presentations at PulpFest 2020. That 29th issue came in at 84 pages, the maximum number of pages our printing house could produce without changing formats. At...
Read MoreThe latest issue — number 33 (2024) — of The Pulpster is now available to order. If you weren’t able to get your copy at PulpFest 2024 (or weren’t a supporting member of the con), now is the time to get your own. Number 33 celebrates the 90th anniversary of the Spicy pulps and the 100th anniversary of the start of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Caspak trilogy. We also concluded our...
Read MoreDo we have a slam-bang number coming in August at this year’s PulpFest. As our cover illustrates, we’ve got a package of articles on the Spicy pulps, which hit newsstands — or, maybe, slid under the counters — 90 years ago. Ed Hulse looks at ashcan editions that Culture Publications used to lock up its titles; Alfred Jan re-examines Spicy Mystery Stories; and Willard E. Hawkins delves into the...
Read MoreIt’s full steam ahead for The Pulpster #32. This year’s number celebrates several notable anniversaries in 2023. It’s been 100 years since Street & Smith Publications kicked off the sports-pulp genre with Sport Story Magazine and since Weird Tales was unleashed on the world. And, who can forget the wave of hero pulps that burst upon the scene 90 years ago, in 1933?...
Read MoreWith PulpFest 50 past, you can now order your very own copy of The Pulpster #31. The latest number celebrates the 100th anniversary of the publisher Fiction House and includes articles on Dime Mystery Magazine, The Avenger, Nightmare Alley author William Lindsay Gresham, and much more. Also, in celebration of PulpFest’s golden anniversary, you can order a combo pack with all three of the...
Read MoreThe next number of The Pulpster has been put to bed (using the old newspaper jargon to say it’s been sent to the printer). Now that it has been finalized, we’ve updated its page in the Back Numbers department with a listing of the contents. Number 31 is a terrific issue (if we do say so ourselves). It arrives with a robust 68 pages plus covers. Among those pages, you’ll find...
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