It’s a shame that The Pulpster only arrives once a year. But this year’s annual edition arrives in just a couple of weeks. Like PulpFest 2026, we celebrate three significant pulp anniversaries in number 35. 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...
Read MoreShiwan Khan, one of The Shadow’s foes who appeared four times, graces the cover of number 34 of The Pulpster, which will be released in about two weeks at PulpFest 2025. He’s among the Masters of Villainy featured in a quartet of articles. As our cover illustrates, we’ve got a package of articles on the “Masters of Villainy,” including Shiwan Khan and the other villains...
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 MoreWith PulpFest 2023 past, you can now order your copy of The Pulpster #32. The latest number celebrates the 100th anniversary of Sport Story Magazine and the sports pulps, and of Weird Tales, and the 90th anniversary of the pulp heroes of 1933, and includes articles connected to ERBfest 2023, the second installment of the history of Fiction House, and more. In addition to #32, back numbers 29,...
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 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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