Many readers have asked me "Why do so many pulp covers feature women in ripped red blouses standing in swamps while a man who looks a bit like David Bowie fights off an unusual animal attack?"
The answer is: pulp artist Wil Hulsey...
Wilbur "Wil" Hulsey was the undisputed king of the animal attack pulp cover. You name it, he'd paint it attacking you in a pool of stagnant water.
Very little is known about Wil Hulsey, but he worked on a number of men's pulp magazines in the 1950s and early 1960s including Man's Life, True Men, Guilty, Trapped and Peril.
It was the biggest manhunt in Britain: police, the press, aeroplanes, psychics all tried to solve the disappearance. In the end nobody really knew what happened. It was a mystery without a solution.
This is the story of Agatha Christie's 11 lost days...
By 1926 Agatha Christie's reputation as a writer was setting to grow. Her sixth novel - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - had been well-received and she and her husband Archie had recently concluded a world tour. But all was not well with the marriage.
In April 1926 Agatha Christie’s mother died. Christie was very close to her: she had been home-schooled and believed her mother was clairvoyant. The shock of her sudden death hit the author hard.
Starman the Libertarian is a South American superhero from the '80s, who will be familiar to Colombians of a certain age. You could usually find him on most news stands.
Created by Rafael Curtberto Navarro - who also created Kalimán: El Hombre Incredible - Starman was first published in 1980 by Editora Cinco and ran for over 100 issues.
Today in pulp I look back at the early days of pulp Spanish sci-fi.
Let me introduce you to the Luchadores del Espacio!!
Luchadores del Espacio - Space Fighters - is a Spanish-language science fiction saga published by Editorial Valenciana from 1953-63. It's one of the early milestones of Spanish space pulp.
Spanish language science-fantasy had taken off in Argentina during the 1950s with Más Allá (Beyond), a local rival to Galaxy magazine. So the time seemed right for Editorial Valenciana to launch some original Spanish sci-fi stories.
Today in pulp I'm looking back at one of #Japan's greatest science fiction magazines: Hayakawa S-F!
Esu-Efu Magajin (S-F Magazine) was first published in February 1960 by Hayakawa Shobō publishing, and has gone on to shape both Japanese SF and champion Japanese authors for many decades.
Science fiction had been reasonably popular in Japan before the war, but it was in the mid-1950s that specialist story magazines, such as Takumi Shibano's subscription fanzine Uchūjin (Cosmic Dust) began to appear.