Publishing tomorrow in hardcover, Pulp Power: The Shadow, Doc Savage, and the Art of the Street & Smith Universe. A sumptuous 352-page cross between an artbook and a history book on a single pulp publisher, by the look of it.

Also, the major convention PulpFest 50 is on this weekend, and the lucky attendees are about now un-bagging the annual The Pulpster #31.

The contents have been announced. Items of interest…

* Darrell Schweitzer offers an interview with Science Fiction Grand Master Poul Anderson concerning his early years as a pulpsmith.

* The story of “The Vizigraph” the renowned letter column published in Planet Stories.

* Leading pulp and comic book dealer David Smith discusses “slabbing” pulp magazines.

* Pulpster editor emeritus Tony Davis explores pulp magazines and the founder of the Church of Satan.

* An examination of The Avenger, the Street & Smith pulp hero.