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For the fourth volume of this series, Robert Sampson has selected more than fifty magazine series characters to illustrate the development of the character of t

More than forty criminal heroes are examined in this volume. They include evil characters such as Dr. Fu Manchu, Li Shoon, Black Star, the Spider, Rafferty, Mr.

The pulp magazines dealt in fiction that was, by reason of the audience and the medium, heightened beyond normal experience. The drama was intense, the colors v

Adventure, suspense, above all violence--these filled the lives of the characters brightening the pulp magazines. From the early 1900s to the 1950s, these magaz

This is the first book to offer a critical analysis of one variant of the mystery story or novel—the use of a physician as the major detective. There is littl