I had a great time attending the PulpFest 2021 convention that was held in Pittsburgh in August. I went there with Wyatt Doyle, my co-editor in the Men’s Adventure Library…
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The Men’s Adventure Magazines & Books Facebook Group – some recent posts….
Most of my “spare time” nowadays gets filled up working on new books for the Men’s Adventure Library series I co-edit with Wyatt Doyle and new issues of the…
MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY #1, “The Most Wanted Wild West Issue”
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…
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…
MORT KUNSTLER: THE GODFATHER OF PULP FICTION ILLUSTRATORS – a look at our latest book…
For the Men’s Adventure Library book series I co-edit and publish with Wyatt Doyle, via his New Texture imprint, 2019 was a banner year. In January, we published POLLEN’S ACTION:…
DEBUTING AT PULPFEST 2019: A guest post by Mike Chomko…
EDITOR’S NOTE: Mike Chomko is one of the founders and main organizers of the annual PulpFest convention that will held this year in Pittsburgh from August 15 to 18. Recently,…
ARGOSY, ADVENTURE & BLUE BOOK: Top pulps that became top men’s adventure magazines
The 2019 PulpFest convention will be held in Pittsburgh from August 15th to 18th. PulpFest is a descendant of the pioneering PulpCon that used to be held in my home…
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…
A look at our book: CUBA: SUGAR, SEX, AND SLAUGHTER…
CUBA: SUGAR, SEX, AND SLAUGHTER, in another one of the story and art anthologies in the Men’s Adventure Library series I co-edit with Wyatt Doyle. This one is a collection…
Andrew Nette: pulp fiction historian, novelist, blogger – and real cool cat…
I am more than a little bit in awe of Australian author, editor, pulp paperback expert, and pop culture scholar Andrew Nette. He not only wrote one of best novels…
Ho! Ho! Ho! Men’s adventure magazines style…
Most of the more than 160 different men’s adventure magazines published from the late 1940s to the mid-1970s never featured holiday-themed covers for Christmas or any other holidays. I guess…