By Thomas McNulty, Golden Gazette News During the days of the Depression the pulp magazines flaunted amazing stories about adventurers cut from the same cloth as aviators Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh. Hollywood filmmakers [...]

The lure of gold and precious stones has been with mankind since the first sunbeam glittered on a shiny stone in the dirt. Man’s hunger for the beautiful and rare treasures of the earth [...]

While of course there are many different events that actually launch a movement like the Russian Revolution—and there are many contributing factors that set off what would finally usher in the era of Communism—one [...]

Readers of pulp fiction sought escape, romance, and adventure, and the authors who wrote for the magazines of the 1930s and 1940s never hesitated to provide all they could by way of exotic locations, [...]

By Lee Barwood, Golden Gazette News Every mythology has a special place where its heroes go after death. In Norse mythology, it’s Valhalla. In Finnish, it’s Puhjola. Valhalla (the name means “hall of the [...]

In the far-flung adventure Hell’s Legionnaire, American Dusty Colton comes face to face with villainous Berber tribesmen. The Berbers are legendary for their fighting skills and violent resistance to foreign invaders. References to the existence [...]

Hear that? That’s the sound of justice being administered in the Old West—or maybe the sound of a stagecoach being held up. In the 1930s and 1940s, writers of pulp fiction westerns had to [...]

In the 1930s and 1940s, writers of pulp fiction westerns swept readers back in time to the plains of the Old West with larger-than-life characters who took justice into their own hands. Pulp fiction [...]

In the 1930s and 1940s, writers of pulp fiction westerns knew all the right words as they set the stage for rough-and-tumble heroes who single-handedly beat back the bad guys, bringing justice where there [...]

The pulp fiction writers of the 1930s and 1940s who spun tales of the Old West had to know how to make their readers feel they were right there in the midst of the [...]