Pulp International

The landmark television cop show Miami Vice, starring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas, premiered today in 1984. Watching it feels to us very much like watching film noir, not just because of the similar subject matter and iconography, but because the wardrobes, language, and 1980s Miami location make it an excursion to a visual realm radically dissimila...

William David’s 1953 novel Army Mistress bears excellent cover art by Lou Marchetti—one of his best pieces, we think, which made this rare novel worth a purchase for us. David was a pseudonym, but unraveling all of t...

It almost qualifies as a sub-genre, women who find themselves on a boat filled with men. We’ve seen probably six or seven over years, such as here,

Here’s a poster we ran across for a movie we discussed many years ago, Kerry Conran’s Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, which was a pulp style sci-fi adventure starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, and Ang...

Every once in a while we like to read a vintage sci-fi novel. 1952’s Dragon’s Island, later re-issued as The Not-Men, was written by Jack Williamson, a pulp stalwart who published from the late twenties onward in Amazing Stories, Weird Tales, Marvel Tales, Startling Stories, Astounding Stories, and other vener...