Abstract
Some of the survivors of the so-called Heroic, or Golden Age of science fiction, detective fiction, and the burgeoning comic book industry are heard in these interviews—Jack Williamson, L. Sprague de Camp, Frederik Pohl, Poul Anderson, Wilson Tucker, Bob “Batman” Kane, Julius Schwartz (see the “Bradbury Chronicles” chapter), John Dickson Carr, and filmmaker Dan Ireland, whose film The Whole Wide World evokes the life and work of Robert E. Howard. Their purview embraces the decades spanning the 1920s to the 1950s, which saw a veritable explosion of the classic detective story, “pulp” science fiction and horror magazines, and superhero comics. By the late 1920s science fiction’s first magazine, Hugo Gernsback’s Amazing Stories, and horror fiction’s preeminent publication, Weird Tales, were specializing in, respectively, the “space operas” of E. E. “Doc” Smith’s “Skylark” and “Lensman” series; and H. P. Lovecraft’s cosmic horror and Robert E. Howard’s swashbuckling “Conan the Barbarian.”
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