Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. A new exhibition of Künstler’s pulp magazine and book ...

In a kitschy clash of chisel-cut gangsters, half-naked women and radioactive beasts from beyond, Peter Haining’s The Classic Era of American Pulp Magazines offers a polemical history of the scandalous ...

Those of us born after, say, 1950, probably aren’t terribly familiar with pulp magazines. But most anybody reading one today might get a jolt of déjà vu nonetheless. From the 1920s through the ’40s, ...

What it’s about: In the first half of the 20th century, fiction magazines were popular, and were typically printed on cheap paper made from wood pulp (as opposed to the glossy, high-quality paper used ...

The debut issue of historic long-running pulp magazine The Shadow (April, 1931) in FN- condition has just sold for $156,000 at Heritage Auctions, a record price for the issue in any grade. The ...

The field of illustrating pulp fiction magazines was lower-paying, freelance sales, with an open-door policy, purposely designed to avoid the high-paying, annually-contracted, star system for artists ...

STOCKBRIDGE — A new show at the Norman Rockwell Museum celebrates the pulp magazine work of Gloria Stoll Karn, but that show might not exist if it weren't for a kindly Brooklyn janitor with an eye for ...

Robot uprisings, demon armies, women fighting dragons and men striding the cosmos have never looked cooler, or lovelier, than in the pulp magazine cover art going on display at the University of ...