Cheap Thrills

Cheap Thrills (History of Pulps)

By Ron Goulart

Hermes Press

ISBN #978-1932563740

Price $29.99 (Paperback)

208 Pages

Rating 5-Stars

This is a reprint of Goulart’s 1969 An Informal History of The Pulp Magazines paperback. This 2007 edition is a trade paperback (8.5 X 11). It has been updated with corrected information, as well as additional material, and packed full of color cover scans. It contains chapters on the Dime Novel & Paper Stories of the 19^th century, the beginning of the pulp magazines, heroes, soldiers of fortune, The Shadow, Doc Savage, the masked heroes, Tarzan ands the Jungle Lords, Conan & the barbarians, Captain Future and the science fiction heroes, and much more.

This is a book for the old pulp and new pulp fan alike.  It belongs on everyone’s shelf. Highly recommended.

Tom Johnson

Author of THE NEW PULP HEROES