In October, we’ll turn our attention to Street & Smith’s Pete Rice, the last of the heroes to get a pulp magazine in 1933. But this month, we’ve been saluting the 90th anniversary of Standard Magazine’s The Lone Eagle and Popular Publications’ G-8 and His Battle Aces and The Spider. Speaking of which, if you haven’t discovered them already, you’ll find a couple of new videos on “The Master of Men” featured on the PulpFest YouTube Channel.
Just released is Sara Light-Waller’s Artists of The Spider, a look at the cover and interior artists for the Popular Publications’ hero pulp.
A professional journalist and illustrator with over thirty years of experience, Sara Light-Waller is an accomplished new-pulp fiction author/illustrator with two books out and more on the way. She is also the winner of the 2020 Cosmos Prize for her illustrated short story, “Battle at Neptune.” A member of the PulpFest organizing committee and a regular contributor to our website and The Pulpster, Sara now joins Craig McDonald as one of our YouTube film creators.
Speaking of Craig McDonald, click here to catch his latest Spider film, The Spider: An Uncertain Face. And don’t forget about Craig’s fifth segment in his continuing series on “The Great Pulp Heroes,” an in-depth look at the Popular Publications hero and our most viewed film to date.
Craig McDonald is the author of the Edgar-nominated Hector Lassiter historical crime series which chronicles the exploits of a fictional Black Mask author. More recently, he has introduced The Adventures of Zana O’Savin, a mixture of history and pulp-pastiche for modern-day readers.
Visit PulpFest on YouTube for Sara’s and Craig’s new films. While you’re there, don’t forget to subscribe. We’re planning more pulp-inspired films in the months ahead.
Kenneth Grant is a writer and popular culture enthusiast who began writing for our website in 2022. He particularly enjoys the hero pulps and also enjoys reading the latest in pulp-inspired fiction.
Our featured image is excerpted from Rafael DeSoto’s cover art for the October 1941 issue of The Spider, published by Popular Publications. Our lead image is a lobby card advertising the 10th chapter of Columbia Pictures’ 1941 movie serial, The Spider Returns, the second of two chapterplays inspired by the Popular hero pulp to be produced by Columbia.
