The Pulpster

The annual magazine about pulp magazines for over 25 years

Get your copy of number 35

Posted on September 14, 2026

The latest issue — number 35 (2026) — of The Pulpster is now available to order. If you weren’t able to get your copy at PulpFest 2026 (or weren’t a supporting member of the con), now is the time to get one. Number 35 celebrates the 100th anniversary of Amazing Stories with an article by Jeffrey Shanks, who explores the connections between the first science-fiction pulp, editor...

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A contributor from the beginning

Posted on August 28, 2026

Will Murray, who wrote for The Pulpster from its first number onward, has died. He was 73. Murray’s first appearance in these pages was “Writing Doc Savage,” published for Pulpcon 20 in 1991. He contributed to the magazine steadily across the next 35 years — on the pulp-hero revolution of 1933 and the heroic age of the pulps in number 32, on a possible (and humorous)...

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