Major Malcolm-Wheeler Nicholson is best remembered as the man who invented the modern comic book, founded DC Comics, and brought SUPERMAN, hero of heroes, to the public. But before all of that the Major wrote adventure tales for the great pulp magazines-and no run-of-the-mill pulp fiction was it. The Major served as a cavalry officer on the southwest border during the Mexican Revolution. While the First World War raged in Europe, he fought the Moro insurgency in the southern Philippines. Then followed his strangest assignment, conducting espionage in legendarily hostile Siberia. After the war...

Pulp Adventures continues its quarterly journey across the landscape of pulp fiction. This issue travels from the South Seas to London back alleys, and stops in smoky firehouses in the Windy City The highlight of this issue is "The Daughter of Huang Chow" by Sax Rohmer, a classic thriller by the creator of Fu Manchu When Inspector Kerry investigates murder and opium smuggling, he stumbles across a woman whose feminine charms render him powerless-but he doesn't seem to mind Also in this issue: A show business detective finds himself working for an actor who loses track of his women in "Road...