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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aliens! Science gone wrong! Dive into the sensationalist depths of retro pulp by creating your own magazine with an online pulp magazine cover generator. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers ...