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 ...

The pulp magazine once reigned supreme, and news that the Phantom is set for a TV reboot means a key antihero should be next.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...