While Street & Smith was a titan in the pulp publishing world, its success was not merely the result of good timing or luck. One of the key architects behind its golden age was Henry W. Ralston, a quiet but forceful presence whose instincts and vision shaped...
Sanctum Books republished all the pulp-era Doc Savage titles — including The Red Spider. (The novel was shelved in 1948 and printed in 1975 by Bantam Books.) The Sanctum editions were usually two novels per volume and included original pulp artwork. (Unlike the Bantam reprints.) The Sanctum books also often include articles by Will Murray and occasionally material that had been removed from the original manuscript by the pulp editor. The covers usually utilize the original pulp art, but some issues were published with variant Bantam covers.
In association with author Will Murray, Altus Press (founded by Matt Moring) published a series of new Doc Savage novels from 2011 to 2018. Collected under the tag line “The Wild Adventures of Doc Savage” the novels use combinations of unused pulp era outlines, text, and (primarily)...
Bantam Books reprinted the Doc Savage pulps from 1964 through 1990. Bantam was the first publisher of the pulp-era novel The Red Spider, which had been shelved by Street and Smith. The company then published new titles by Philip José Farmer (Escape from Loki) and Will Murray...
Founded in 1855 by Francis Scott Street and Francis Shubael Smith in New York City, Street & Smith began with a focus on dime novels and serialized weekly stories. In the 1920s and 1930s the company evolved into one of the most prolific publishers of pulp magazines,...
