Resources on the Pulp Era (and after)

Here are some sites we will be using in our discussions of the detective hero and the rise of the superhero. It all goes back to the cheap popular literature of the early 20th century, especially the pulp magazines.

• Cover Browser
• Raymond Chandler, "The Simple Art of Murder"
• Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden"
• The Page of Fu Manchu
  
• "The Shadow": cover mosaic; radio show; sidekicks
  
• Hero Pulp web site: Doc Savage novels; Doc's sidekicks
  
• The Spider: cast of characters; fang look; covers by year; list of novels; complete pulp story guide
  
• Miller Center Presidential Speech Archive