Pulp covers re-emerge, making comeback?

January 20, 2009

Rumour has it that pulp magazines are making the rounds on the Internet. Those early to mid-century cheap fictional magazines and later paperbacks were massively popular in the States.

A bit of trivia here: the name pulp came from the cheap wood pulp paper on which those magazines were printed on. Better paper (and offering more PG13 content) were called slicks and glossies (as they are still called in Europe today). The pulp covers however, were printed in slick paper, and were famous for their half-dressed damsel in distress. Crude, violent, and often unintentionally funny, those magazines sold over half a million copies per issue at their height. Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 Pulp Fiction paid homage to the genre, embodying the seedy, violent, and crime-related aspects of those magazines.

With comic book success in the last few years, with Iron Man, Superman, Spiderman, etc, are pulps making a comeback?

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