New Releases
The Return of Yorke Norroy
One of pulp fiction’s earliest series characters, whose adventures have been forgotten by all but a few rabid collectors of pre-World War I magazines, returns in the swashbuckling adventure story that his creator probably meant to be his last. To the world at large Yorke Norroy is a fop, a fashion-plate, a wealthy idler, a […]
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The Elixir of Hate
Aging, seriously ill doctor Granville Dennison abandons his life and practice in New York City to sail across the Atlantic on a quixotic quest. Dennison has reason to believe that an Italian physician named Pagani, living with his young niece in an old villa on the French Riviera, may have found the secret to reversing […]
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B. Typhosus Takes a Hand
Waking up in a Pullman car one morning, a man finds that he can’t remember who he is or where he is going. Before long he learns his name is Rodney Hazzard, and his destination is the small Appalachian community of South Tredegar, where he’s apparently a businessman of some importance. Embarrassed by his predicament […]
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Satan Lives for My Love! — Sex and Sadism in Marvel’s Horror Pulps, 1938-1940
Before launching what would become the Marvel Comics empire, Martin Goodman published low-rent pulp magazines issued by a dizzying array of shell companies designed to insulate him from creditors. In order to compete in an already-crowded marketplace, he allowed editor-in-chief Robert O. Erisman to distinguish their periodicals with lurid covers and sensational fiction. Bearing Goodman’s […]
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Behind the Mask: The Making of Republic’s Lone Ranger Serials
In addition to being the most profitable chapter play in the 20-year-history of Republic Pictures—generating more than $1.1 million in worldwide revenue—The Lone Ranger (1938) set new standards of excellence for motion pictures adapted from characters originating in other media. It was a genuine phenomenon, securing bookings from major theater circuits and big-city picture palaces […]
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