Ron Goulart (born 1933) is an American pop-culture historian and mystery, fantasy, and science fiction author. 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Popular culture, or pop culture, is the vernacular (peoples) culture that prevails in a modern society. ... In modern colloquial English, a mystery is a subgenre of detective fiction (see mystery fiction). ... Fantasy is a genre of art, literature, film, television, and music that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of either plot, theme, setting, or all three. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Note that this partial list contains some authors whose works of fantastic fiction would today be called science fiction, even if they predate, or did not work in that genre. ...

In his fiction-writing, Goulart is best-known for his humorous crime and science fiction, especially that dealing with robots; his crime fiction often involves historical Hollywood figures, such as Groucho Marx. His first professional publication was a reprint, in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, of a parody of a pulp magazine readers' letters column, originally published in the University of California, Berkeley college humor magazine Pelican. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Groucho Marx poses for an NBC promotional photograph Julius Henry Marx, known as Groucho Marx (October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977), was an American comedian, working both with his siblings, the Marx Brothers, and on his own. ... F&SF April 1971, special Poul Anderson issue. ... Pulp magazines (or pulp fiction; often referred to as the pulps ) were inexpensive fiction magazines. ... University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (also known as California, Cal, UCB, UC Berkeley, The University of California, or simply Berkeley) is a public, coeducational university situated east of the San Francisco Bay in Berkeley, California, overlooking the Golden Gate. ... A collection of magazines A magazine is a periodical publication containing a variety of articles, generally financed by advertising and/or purchase by readers. ...

Goulart's fiction is characterized by several themes, notably technology gone wrong (usually through incompetence rather than malice), heroes with superhuman powers, and wicked humor. His early career in advertising informs much of his work.

Among his pop-culture historical writing, Cheap Thrills: An Informal History of the Pulp Magazines (1972) might still be his most famous book-length work, though his The Hardboiled Dicks: An Anthology And Study of Pulp Detective Fiction (1967) has also been influential. He has also written, on comics and many other topics, for the nostalgia magazine P.S. and many others, and has conducted the book review column for Venture Science Fiction. 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Tuesday. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Digest-sized science fiction magazine, a companion to The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (F&SF) and its crime fiction stablemates at Mercury Press when launched with the January, 1957 issue. ...

Goulart ghost wrote novels featuring the Phantom, Flash Gordon, and the pulp character the Avenger. In addition, he has written scripts for a number of comics including the Star Hawks comic strip he created with artist Gil Kane. This article is about a ghostwriter, the type of writer. ... The Phantom is a comic strip created by Lee Falk (also creator of Mandrake the Magician), recounting the adventures of a costumed crime-fighter called the Phantom. ... Flash Gordon is a science fiction comic strip originally drawn by Alex Raymond, first published on January 7, 1934. ... The Avenger is a fictional character whose original adventures appeared from 1939 to 1942 in The Avenger magazine, published by Street and Smith. ... Comics (or, less common, sequential art) is a form of visual art consisting of images which are commonly combined with text, often in the form of speech balloons or image captions. ... Star Hawks is the name of a comic strip written by Ron Goulart and drawn by Gil Kane. ... Eli Katz (April 6, 1926–January 31, 2000), who worked under the name Gil Kane and in a few instances Scott Edwards, was a comic book illustrator whose career spanned the 1940s to 1990s. ...

External link

• Ron Goulart at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database