The Pulpster mailbag is open once again. Let us know what you, the reader, think about number 35. Like PulpFest 2026, we celebrate three significant pulp anniversaries this year. As part of the 100th anniversary of Amazing Stories, Jeffrey Shanks explores the connections between the first science-fiction pulp, editor Raymond Palmer, the Shaver Mystery, and the birth of the UFO phenomenon, while...
Read MoreThe Pulpster mailbag is open once again. Let us know what you, the reader, think about number 34. Like PulpFest 2025, we celebrated the Masters of Villainy and the Masters of Blood and Thunder (including ERBFest). For FarmerCon, we featured an extensive interview with Philip José Farmer. And we also marked the return of Doc Con. Of course, that wasn’t all in the magazine. We looked at...
Read MoreThe Pulpster mailbag is open. Let us know what you, the reader, think about number 33. Like PulpFest 2024, we celebrated the 90th anniversary of the Spicy pulps and the 100th anniversary of the start of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Caspak trilogy. We also concluded our three-part history of pulp and comic-book publisher Fiction House. But that wasn’t all that in the number. Please tell us...
Read MoreIt’s time to open The Pulpster mailbag and see what you, the reader, think about number 32. Like PulpFest 2023, we celebrated the 100th anniversaries of Sport Story Magazine and Weird Tales, and the 90th anniversary of the pulp heroes of 1933. We continued our history of pulp and comic-book publisher Fiction House. But that wasn’t all that in the number. Please tell us what you...
Read MoreIt’s time to open The Pulpster mailbag and see what you, the reader, think about number 31. Like PulpFest 50 in 2022, we celebrated the 100th anniversary of the start of the pulp and comic-book publisher Fiction House, and the 90th anniversary of the debut of the “Dime” line of pulps (Dime Mystery and Dime Western). And we touched on the slabbing of pulps. But that wasn’t...
Read MoreLet’s open The Pulpster mailbag and see what you, the reader, think about number 30. Like PulpFest 2021, we celebrated the 90th anniversary of The Shadow and the 100th anniversary of the romance pulps. We look forward to hearing from you. Please feel free to post comments, questions, discussions, etc., in the comments area below. We just ask that you keep it polite and civilized to one...
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