With profound economic uncertainty lingering at home and the clouds of fascism building abroad, Americans were in desperate need of an escape in the 1930s. So they flooded into movie houses on a daily ...

In a kitschy clash of chisel-cut gangsters, half-naked women and radioactive beasts from beyond, Peter Haining’s The Classic Era of American Pulp Magazines offers a polemical history of the scandalous ...

Robot uprisings, demon armies, women fighting dragons and men striding the cosmos have never looked cooler, or lovelier, than in the pulp magazine cover art going on display at the University of ...

Question: Several months ago, I bought a box of old catalogs and other publications at a yard sale. Among the periodicals is a 1934 copy of a pulp magazine, "Black Mask." It has interesting cover art ...

If you've ever wanted a convention-style experience that was just about vintage paper, Collectors Summit sounds like the event for you. Their upcoming event will be held at Heritage Auction ...

With that rather lurid opening paragraph from the heart of the Shudder Pulp era, it can only be time for Spicy History Stories #5, the fifth installment of a weekly column about pulp magazine history ...

Stories of powerful heroes have existed since the creation of stories and myths. Most modern myths of powerful creatures revolve around superheroes such as Batman and Superman. However, these are ...