Depending on who you ask, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is either a fantastic president or a menace. Typically the focus on whether to call him good or bad hinges on your opinion of his New Deal economic program. Advocates say it was a helping hand in a time of need, especially after President Hoover exacerbated the…
[[[Government Issue: Comics For The People, 1940s-2000s]]] By Richard L. Graham Abrams Comic Arts, 304 pages, $29.95 The rich history of comics is also one of the public’s perception of it being mainly for children. What is only recently being uncovered are the many ways comics have been used beyond cheap entertainment for the masses….
Sometime in the late 1970s, there was a show in New York where DC Comics actually had a booth and I got to wander over as a fan and chat casually with president Sol Harrison. It was the earliest memory I had of a publishing taking booth space on the convention floor. Before then, the…
Premiering tonight on the History Channel! Relentless. Infectious. All consuming. Since the beginning of time they have embodied our deepest fears and today their power to frighten us is more potent than ever before. They are the monster that history cannot kill. Get ready for an unprecedented exploration of history’s most terrifying and enduring horror….
On October 20, 1951, CBS unveiled its Eye Device logo, better known as the CBS Eye. It was created by William Golden, theoretically based on a Pennsylvania Dutch hex sign as well as a Shaker drawing. The following season, as Golden prepared a new “ident”, CBS President Frank Stanton insisted on keeping the Eye device…
Today is a very, very special day in the history of Aquaman–it’s his 70th birthday! And when we say 70th birthday, we don’t mean the birthday DC Comics has seen fit to give him within their continuity–that’s January 29. No, we mean that on this day seventy years ago–September 25, 1941–More Fun Comics #73, Aquaman’s…
If it weren’t for the work of Tim Berners-Lee, you’d be reading these sites in a letter column somewhere, and out somewhere on a Saturday night. (Hat tip: Making Light.)
So the universe upheaved and a gap appeared in time and here we are, at the far end of that gap. (Or the near end, if we’re looking backwards. But never mind.) We’ve again grubbed residence in Comicmixland and vowed to deliver weekly blather. But, with a deep bow to Bill Maher, we have new…
Second All Pulp Blog History of the Pulps part 4 June 2, 2011 by Mark S. Halegua During the next six years from 1917 through 1923 there was a further explosion in titles and publishers. The titles ranged from short runs like Thrill Book, to long running weekly titles like Western Story, both by Street…
Drawing upon their rich history, Square Enix’s Dissidia 012 [duodecim] places a “Who’s Who” list of well loved characters from their “[[[Final Fantasy]]]” games into a novel setting – a combination of a role-playing game and a fighting game. Any “Final Fantasy” veteran may think about who would win in a fight between Lightning and…
Pulp IS History!!! History of the Pulps Part 3 By Mark S. Halegua Yes, that’s right, I said part 3. So, you’re wondering where are parts 1 and 2? You haven’t seen them on All Pulp. So, where are they? They’re on comicrelated.com. See, I started writing a pulp blog there and the first two…
On this day in 1841 in Philadelphia, PA, Edgar Allen Poe’s first detective story, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” was published in Graham’s Magazine. It has been called the first detective story ever, with C. Auguste Dupin as the first true detective in fiction, the precursor of everyone from [[[Sherlock Holmes]]] to [[[Scooby Doo]]],…
