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Superman Sunday with Larry Tye
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no it’s Superman! Truth, justice and the American way and George Reeves flying across the black and white screen of an early 50’s television set is indelibly printed on my brain. Like so many other children of that era, I pinned the...
The Pulps and Comics
If you love comics you need to know about the pulps. Modern comic books are rooted in that late great period of American fiction writing known as Pulp Fiction. This nomenclature is often confused with 1950s paperback novels, many with lurid covers. The “real”...
The House is Haunted
It's Halloween and time for shivers of excitement. Ghouls, ghosts, goblins, witches and their black cats, bats flying and skeletons dancing in graveyards--Trick or Treat? Comic books are filled with superheroes fighting monsters and dark forces and pulp fiction...
How I Spent my Summer–Pulpfest 2011
Dark clouds filled the sky. As I drove on the winding mountain road, I had a bad feeling that I should have followed my instincts about traveling this way. Rain began to fall and huge trucks roared past spraying the windshield making it harder to see. With...
Let’s All Eat Cake
Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson was born January 7, 1890 marking this year, 2011 as the 121st anniversary of his birth. He often listed his place of birth as Greeneville, Tennessee, the county seat of Greene County in East Tennessee. More than likely he was born at...
My Real Life Pulp Adventure
Breathlessly I jumped in the roadster knowing that time was running out if I was going to make it to the rendezvous that would change my life. Sailing past the mean streets of the City with its hustlers and dreamers I made it--well--just in the Nick of time....
