Weird Heros #1, A New American Pulp!

Weird Heros #1, A New American Pulp!

Author: Byron Preiss

Publisher: ibooks

Published: 2014-11-18

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1596876794

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Weird Heroes is a collective effort to do something new: to approach three popular heroic fantasy forms—science fiction, the pulps and the comics—from different and exciting directions. Each story in this book is experimental. There are revitalizations of classic fantasy themes such as time travel and jungle adventure. There is innovative use of some of the most dynamic graphic story talent in the world, from Philippino illustrator Alex Nino to American cartoonist Ralph Reese. There is a strong and conscious effort to encourage storytelling which does not rely on violence as a primary source of drama. Weird Heroes is a collective effort to give back to heroic fiction its thrilling sense of adventure and entertainment—the heartbeat of the old pulps. The pulps used heroes to bring fiction to a grand level of excitement—a level which incorporated the reader into the experience. Weird Heroes refreshes that concept of fiction as an adventure in itself, without relating to the new wave of violence and pornography in the production of exciting stories. Weird Heroes is a collection of memorable firsts. It represents the first major publication of prose stories by both science fiction and graphic story writers. Within volumes 1 and 2 you will find the first published appearances of famous pulp biographer Philip Jose Farmer’s epic pulp character, “Greatheart Silver.” You’ll be witness to the first major book publication of an interview with award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer, Fritz Leiber. You’ll experience the insanity of Superman author Elliot S. Maggin’s “Gonzo Storytelling” and discover the new hero by a literary descendant to Dashiell Hammett on Secret Agent X-9, Archie Goodwin. Weird Heroes contains the first American book illustration work by award-winning Spanish artist Esteban Maroto. Jim Steranko and Neal Adams, two titans of the modern graphic story field, appear for the first time under the same cover in Volume 2. Tom Sutton, an unsung hero of the comics with a comedic style that blends Kurtzman, Elder, and Eisner, also makes his book debut with five plates for “Showdown at Shootout.”


Pulp Hero

Pulp Hero

Author: Steven S Long

Publisher:

Published: 2019-04-27

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9781583660577

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The Twenties and Thirties were a golden age of adventure as two-fisted heroes and daring explorers came to life in the pages of pulp magazines. Now you can create roleplaying games and characters set in this thrilling era!


Black Pulp

Black Pulp

Author: Walter Mosley

Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub

Published: 2013-04-17

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9781484135716

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A collection of stories featuring characters of African origin, or descent, in stories that run the gamut of genre fiction.


Greatheart Silver

Greatheart Silver

Author: Philip Jose Farmer

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2013-07-25

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0575119926

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The Forces of Evil are on the March again. All our Heroes of Yesteryear are gone. Only one Man can save us now. GREATHEART SILVER.


Tales of the Wold Newton Universe

Tales of the Wold Newton Universe

Author: Philip Jose Farmer

Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)

Published: 2013-10-08

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 1781163057

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A collection of Wold Newton-inspired short stories by Farmerphiles, experts, and the Grand Master of SF himself.A real meteorite fell near Wold Newton, Yorkshire, England, on December 13, 1795, and was found to be radioactive, causing genetic mutations in the occupants of a passing coach. Many of their descendants were thus endowed with extremely high intelligence and strength, as well as an exceptional capacity and drive to perform good, or, as the case may be, evil deeds.


Pulp Writer

Pulp Writer

Author: Paul S. Powers

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2007-12-01

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 0803206674

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A master of driving pace, exotic setting, and complex plotting, Harold Lamb was one of Robert E. Howard's favorite writers. Here at last is every pulse-pounding, action-packed story of Lamb's greatest hero, Khlit the Cossack, the "wolf of the steppes.


The Shudder Pulps

The Shudder Pulps

Author: Robert Kenneth Jones

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2007-09-01

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1434486249

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The shudder pulps published some of the grisliest, goriest, most outrageous mystery-terror fiction ever sold on the American newsstand, during the golden age of the pulp magazines. This volumes chronicles the authors, artists, and publishers of those classic thrill-fests!


The History of the Science-fiction Magazine

The History of the Science-fiction Magazine

Author: Michael Ashley

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 527

ISBN-13: 1846310032

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This third volume in Mike Ashley's four-volume study of the science-fiction magazines focuses on the turbulent years of the 1970s, when the United States emerged from the Vietnam War into an economic crisis. It saw the end of the Apollo moon programme and the start of the ecology movement. This proved to be one of the most complicated periods for the science-fiction magazines. Not only were they struggling to survive within the economic climate, they also had to cope with the death of the father of modern science fiction, John W. Campbell, Jr., while facing new and potentially threatening opposition. The market for science fiction diversified as never before, with the growth in new anthologies, the emergence of semi-professional magazines, the explosion of science fiction in college, the start of role-playing gaming magazines, underground and adult comics and, with the success of Star Wars, media magazines. This volume explores how the traditional science-fiction magazines coped with this, from the