A few years ago, my wife gave me a tin of old pulp magazines for my birthday. I gobbled up old stories and shorts that had ...

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, ...

What it’s about: In the first half of the 20th century, fiction magazines were popular, and were typically printed on cheap paper made from wood pulp (as opposed to the glossy, high-quality paper used ...

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 ...

The classic pulp horror magazine Weird Tales is returning in 2026 as a graphic novel anthology. Find out what to expect from ...

The debut issue of historic long-running pulp magazine The Shadow (April, 1931) in FN- condition has just sold for $156,000 at Heritage Auctions, a record price for the issue in any grade. The ...

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 ...

The field of illustrating pulp fiction magazines was lower-paying, freelance sales, with an open-door policy, purposely designed to avoid the high-paying, annually-contracted, star system for artists ...

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 ...