Manga Review: Manga Yokai Stories adapted by Sean Michael Wilson, illustrated by Inko Ai Takita, from material collected by Lafcadio Hearn Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was an Irish-Greek journalist and writer who’d spent time in the UK and US before emigrating to Japan. These days he’s best remembered for his work collecting and translating Japanese… Continue reading Manga Review: Manga Yokai Stories
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Book Review: Oliver Quade, the Human Encyclopedia
Book Review: Oliver Quade, the Human Encyclopedia by Frank Gruber Oliver Quade is a traveling salesman, specializing in books, and in particular The Compendium of Human Knowledge, a thousand-page condensed encyclopedia. His sales gimmick is that he has an eidetic memory, able to retain every fact he’s ever read, and Mr. Quade is a prodigious… Continue reading Book Review: Oliver Quade, the Human Encyclopedia
Comic Book Review: DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #8: Legion of Super-Heroes
Comic Book Review: DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #8: Legion of Super-Heroes edited by Jack C. Harris We’re skipping quite a few stories of the Legion of Super-Heroes since the last digest I posted about. This collection reprints the Legion stories from Adventure Comics #355-357 plus stories from Superboy #198 and #202. By this point,… Continue reading Comic Book Review: DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #8: Legion of Super-Heroes
Book Review: They Lived by Their Guns
Book Review: They Lived by Their Guns by Various Authors Back in the day, Westerns were king. Even pulp magazines like Argosy that weren’t exclusively western-focused tended to have at least one tale set in that genre every issue. Thus this collection of five novelettes reprinted from the magazine from the late 1940s, published in… Continue reading Book Review: They Lived by Their Guns
Comic Book Review: Batman & Superman in World’s Finest Comics: The Silver Age Volume 1
Comic Book Review: Batman & Superman in World’s Finest Comics: The Silver Age Volume 1 edited by Jack Schiff with various writers and artists Superman was first published in 1938, with Batman following in 1939, swiftly becoming the two biggest sellers for National Comics, which would become DC Comics. Despite the obvious synergy potential of… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Batman & Superman in World’s Finest Comics: The Silver Age Volume 1
Magazine Review: Pulp Review #22: Vulture Coast
Magazine Review: Pulp Review #22: Vulture Coast edited by John P. Gunnison As I mentioned in my review of High Adventure #200, that pulp reprint magazine was known as Pulp Review for its first 23 issues, and I have some of those earlier issues, that I hope to get to before I die. Let’s look… Continue reading Magazine Review: Pulp Review #22: Vulture Coast
Book Review: Thrilling Adventure Yarns 2026
Book Review: Thrilling Adventure Yarns 2026 edited by Robert Greenberger Disclaimer: I contributed to the Kickstarter for this book, and there’s an advertisement for this blog on page 44. It’s time for another annual installment of this pulp-style anthology! Some returning authors, some new ones, and some familiar characters to follow. This year, the genres… Continue reading Book Review: Thrilling Adventure Yarns 2026
Book Review: The Complete Max Carrados Volume II
Book Review: The Complete Max Carrados Volume II by Ernest Bramah Disclaimer: I contributed to the Kickstarter for this project. To recap from my review of the first volume, Max Carrados is a blind detective published in stories from 1913-1934. A resident of a ritzy London suburb who’d been blinded in a riding accident, Max… Continue reading Book Review: The Complete Max Carrados Volume II
Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #503
Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #503 edited by Nicola Cuti All good things must come to an end, they say, and this digest issue was the last one of the original Adventure Comics run. (It would be picked up again as a title 2009-11 before being cancelled for the New 52 reboot.) At the end… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #503
Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #502
Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #502 edited by Nicola Cuti We are getting towards the end of the digest version of Adventure Comics, and presumably the people putting these together were already aware of this, but there’s no hint about that in this issue. “Plastic Man” (no subtitle) written by Martin Pasko, art by Joe… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #502