We Lost Will Murray

     Will Murray was a pulp historian, literary agent for the estate of Doc Savage creator Lester Dent, and a pulp writer himself.  He'd written further adventures for Doc and associates, The Shadow and Tarzan, among others, and was well-regarded among pulp collectors and readers -- and writers.  Philip Jose Farmer had said Murray was the foremost expert on 1930s pulp heroes, and considering the depth and scope of Farmer's own scholarship on the topic (he dreamed up the "Wold Newton" grand unified theory of pulp and literary superheroes, linking Sherlock Holmes, Tarzan, Doc Savage, The Shadow and a great many more to a fictional incident [and a real meteor impact] in 18th-Century Britain), we can take that as an authoritative assessment.

     Mr. Murray passed away August 24.  He was 73.

     An old nonsense riddle asks, "Why is a mouse when it spins?"  The answer is, "The higher, the fewer."  We're getting very far up these days, and very few.