Recently, I joined forces with Bill Cunningham, head of Pulp 2.0 Press, to launch a new 155-page, full color, 8"x10" magazine that reprints stories and illustrations from men’s adventure magazines…
Category: Paul Bishop
“THE WACKIEST SHIP IN THE ARMY” from ARGOSY, to film, TV & paperback – A Guest Post by Paul Bishop
EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION . . . Recently, my friend writer, editor and podcaster Paul Bishop asked if I had a copy of ARGOSY, July 1956. If so, he asked, could I…
Mike Shayne in men’s adventure magazines – Part 2: 1953 thru 1961….
When Davis Dresser’s novel, DIVIDEND ON DEATH, was published in 1939 under the pseudonym Brett Halliday, it launched what became a huge multi-decade multimedia empire. It was the first…
Catching up with Bill Cunningham and Pulp 2.0 Press
Lately, I’ve been on a Mike Shayne kick. My reading and watching involving that famed Miami-based Private investigator has led to a series of posts on this blog, starting one…
What I’ve been reading in the Western, pulp and action/adventure genres — and beyond…
I always appreciate it when someone posts a positive review of one of the books in the Men’s Adventure Library series I co-edit with my publishing partner Wyatt Doyle (head…
PAPERBACK FANATIC: ISSUE #43 – another must have issue…
As you can tell from my previous posts about vintage paperback expert and pop culture historian Justin Marriott, I’m a bit in awe of him. He’s incredibly knowledgeable and incredibly…
Catching up with fanzine publisher Justin Marriott and his pulp culture posse…
Justin Marriott and Paul Bishop are two of my favorite pulp culture mavens. (“Pulp culture” is a term I borrowed from the book of that name by Frank M. Robinson…
The John Whitlatch enigma solved: a guest post by writer & pulp maven Paul Bishop…
Updated on December 27, 2018… EDITOR’S NOTE: A while back, I posted an interview here with a writer I’m a huge fan of and proud to call a…