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 ...

Those of us born after, say, 1950, probably aren’t terribly familiar with pulp magazines. But most anybody reading one today might get a jolt of déjà vu nonetheless. From the 1920s through the ’40s, ...

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 ...

Ask most people what “pulp fiction” is and the likely reply would be that it’s a movie about two hit men played by Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta. While that is essentially correct, it’s also ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. A new exhibition of Künstler’s pulp magazine and book ...

Daisy Bacon with her magazines in the early 1940s. (Photo courtesy of Laurie Powers) A former Port Washington resident, Daisy Bacon is known as one of the highest-paid editors in New York City during ...

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 ...

Known among pulp fans as one of the world's most knowledgeable and discerning collectors in the field, Dr. Richard Meli has spent several decades amassing what might be the most impressive pulp ...

The Pulp-O-Mizer Pulp Magazine Cover Generator lets you play editor of your own retrofuturistic magazine, with titles like Enormous Stories, Hearts and Pistons, and What in the Blue Blazes. It’s a fun ...

Pulp-fiction magazines have a deep, lasting legacy that includes the ancestors of modern superheroes, countless genre storytelling conventions, and John Carter. But those enduring contributions to pop ...