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4 unusual facts about pulp magazine


Hawk of the Wilderness

Hawk of the Wilderness (1938) is a Republic Movie serial based on the Kioga novel of the same name by pulp writer William L. Chester.

Pulp fiction

Pulp magazines, short stories presented in a magazine format, printed on cheaply made wood-pulp paper

Pulp magazine

Over the course of their evolution, there were a huge number of pulp magazine titles; Harry Steeger of Popular Publications claimed that his company alone had published over 300, and at their peak they were publishing 42 titles per month.

The Masked Menace

It was adapted from the story Still Face by pulp writer Clarence Buddington Kelland and was released in ten chapters.


Alan Wake's American Nightmare

Critics praised the change of style and tone from the earlier themes of isolation, light versus darkness, and melancholy, utilizing psychological horror tropes, found in Alan Wake to the madcap, Pulp-influenced themes in Alan Wake's American Nightmare, utilizing black comedy tropes found in works by Quentin Tarantino.

Black science fiction

According to Jess Nevins, "a fully accurate history of black speculative fiction ... would be impossible to write" because very little is known of the dime novel authors of the 19th century and the pulp magazine writers of the early 20th century, including notably their ethnicity.

Cleve Cartmill

Before embarking on his career as a writer for pulp magazines, Cartmill had a wide number of jobs including newspaperman, radio operator and accountant, as well as, ironically, a short spell at the American Radium Products Company.

Conflict

Conflict (pulp magazine), an adventure pulp magazine from 1933-34 that published a story by Margie Harris

Jirel of Joiry

Jirel of Joiry is a fictional character created by American writer C. L. Moore, who appeared in a series of sword and sorcery stories published first in the pulp horror/fantasy magazine Weird Tales.

Philo Gubb

The character of Philo Gubb was created by prolific pulp fiction writer Ellis Parker Butler and first appeared in the May 1913 issue of Redbook magazine.

Shutter Island

Lehane has said he sought to write a novel that would be an homage to Gothic settings, B movies, and pulp.

Tales From the Bully Pulpit

The comic makes many references to other comics and film—including most notably Back to the Future, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Maus, and Watchmen—and parodies many tropes of science fiction and pulp story-telling.


see also

Landser

Der Landser, a German pulp magazine published weekly from 1957 through 2013, featuring stories in a World War II setting

The Smart Set

In their most successful effort to boost revenue, Mencken and Nathan began the pulp magazine Parisienne in 1915 as a place to publish a surplus of manuscripts they deemed too inferior for The Smart Set.