Cyclopaedia 32 – Pulp Heroes By T.R. Knight (InnRoads Ministries * Article Series)

Overview The most popular Pulp

Magazines Do you like your heroes and villains over-the- top? Do you enjoy two-fisted tales of action and adventure? Then the heroes of the pulp There were over 150 pulp magazines in magazines of the late 1800s and early 1900s print at one time but these stood out as the would excite you. The term pulps come from greatest with the most significant stories the reference to low-quality literature on and greatest longevity: inexpensive paper. Although some later famous authors and artists were to work on • Adventure the pulps, the stories themselves were often • considered sensational, exploitive, and • Argosy Magazine rushed. Yet that is what made them so • Black Mask popular among the masses. The pulp • Blue Book magazines led to the penny dreadfuls, dime • Dime Detective , and comic books. • Flying Aces • For a minimal cost, readers were swept away • on fantastical adventures of mystery, crime, • romance, westerns, horror, , • Thrilling and masked avengers. For this article, we are • focusing on the heroic and masked avenger • Story Magazine pulps made famous with The , Domino Lady, , The , The Following are sources of information Shadow, The Spider, , and many others. pertaining to Pulp Heroes to assist For other stories, see other Cyclopaedias on prospective game masters, game designers, Noir, , Sword & Sorcery, and writers, and storytellers in knowing where Wild West. to start their research.

Argosy Magazine is seen as the first official and set the tone for all the others to come. Low costs for writers, the Articles pulp paper, and printing led to affordable entertainment for the masses and allowed From Pulp to : Culture, authors to stretch their imagination as they Race, and Identity in American Popular wrote quickly. They are stories of their time Culture, 1900-1940 period and culture, so they don’t always age By Chambliss, Julian and Svitasvsky, William well for readers today. Yet, these stories Source: were the predecessors to the scifi, superheroes, and action heroes we love https://scholarship.rollins.edu/as_facpub/2 today! /

Cyclopaedia 32 – Pulp Heroes Page 1 of 4 Books Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze By Robeson, Kenneth The Age of Dimes and Pulps: A History of Sensationalist Literature, 1830–1960 Encyclopedia of Writers By Agnew, Jeremy By Server, Lee

The Age of the Storytellers: British Popular The Encyclopedia of Pulp Heroes Fiction Magazines, 1880-1950 By Nevins, Jess By Ashley, Michael The Fantastic Pulps Amazing Stories: Giant 35th Anniversary By Haining, Peter Issue By Bradbury, Ray and Burroughs, Edgar Rice The Great Pulp Heroes By Hutchison, Don Anti-Foreign Imagery in American Pulps and Comic Books, 1920–1960 Hellboy - By Madison, Nathan Vernon How to Write Pulp Fiction The Art of the Pulps: An Illustrated History By Bell, James Scott By Ellis, Douglas and Hulse, Ed Indiana Jones and the Longship of the Gods The Best of Amazing Stories: The 1940 By Hohlbein, Wolfgang Anthology: Special Retro-Hugo Edition By Wilcox, Don Indiana Jones and the Peril at Delphi By Macgregor, Rob Buckaroo Banzai By Rauch, Earl Mac It's A Man's World: Men's Adventure Magazines, The Postwar Pulps, Expanded The Call of Edition By Lovecraft, H. P. By Parfrey, Adam

Cheap Thrills: An Informal History of the The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Pulp Magazines Comic Book By Goulart, Ron The Classic Era of American Pulp By Burroughs, Edgar Rice Magazines By Haining, Peter Pulp Art By Lesser, Robert Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life By Farmer, Philip Jose Pulp Culture: The Art of Fiction Magazines By Robinson, Frank M.

Cyclopaedia 32 – Pulp Heroes Page 2 of 4 The Pulps: Fifty Years of American Pop Playing Game - RPG Culture John Carter: Warlord of Mars - Tabletop By Goodstone, Tony Game Mercenaries, Spies & Private Eyes - RPG The Pulps: A Yearly Guide Pulp Adventure - RPG By Nevins, Jess Pulp Era: Cinematic Adventures in the Yesteryear! - RPG The of Pulp Cthulhu - RPG By Howard, Robert E. Pulp Fantastic - RPG Pulp Hero - RPG - Comic Book Race to Adventure - Tabletop Game The Spirit of the Century - RPG Storytelling in the Pulps, Comics, and Radio Thrilling Tales - RPG By DeForest, Tim Tomb Raider - Video Game Two-Fisted Tales - RPG of the Apes Uncharted - Video Game By Burroughs, Edgar Rice Uncharted: Board Game - Tabletop Game

Weird Tales: Seven Decades of Terror1997 By Betancourt, John and Weinberg, Robert Cinema

Young Indiana Jones and the Plantation Treasure The Adventures of Bricso County, Jr. - TV By McCay, William The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension The Adventures of Tintin Games At the Earth's Core Biggles: Adventures in Time Big Trouble in Little China .45 Adventure: Crimefighting Action in the Pulp Era - Tabletop Game : The First Avenger Adventure! - RPG Darkman The Adventurers: The Pyramid of Horus - Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze Tabletop Game Fantômas: In the Shadow of the Guillotine The Adventurers: The Temple of Chac - Firewalker Tabletop Game The Arkham Horror - Tabletop Game Greystoke Ernest Evans - Video Game Gunga Din Feng Shui - RPG Hellboy Fireball Island - Tabletop Game High Road to China Fortune and Glory: The Cliffhanger Game - Hooten and the Lady - TV Tabletop Game Jonny Quest - TV The Adventures of Indiana Jones Role- Judex

Cyclopaedia 32 – Pulp Heroes Page 3 of 4 Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Pulp Magazines Project Ark https://pulpmags.org/ King Solomon's Mines Tarzana The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen http://www.tarzana.ca/ The Legend of Tarzan Librarians - TV The Librarian: Quest for the Spear People Lost Horizon The The Mask of Fu Manchu Lars Anderson The Mask of Zorro Walter Baumhofer The Mummy Rudolph Belarski National Treasure Earle K. Bergey The Rocketeer Red Tails John W. Campbell Relic Hunter - TV Romancing the Stone The Shadow Robert H. Davis The Shadow Strikes Sheena Lee Falk Sin City John Philip Falter Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow Solomon Kane Walter B. Gibson The Spider's Maxwell Grant Tales of the Gold Monkey - TV Tarzan the Ape Man Robert E. Howard The Testament of Dr. Mabuse L. Ron Hubbard Tomb Raider Gloria Stoll Karn The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles - TV Zorro - TV H.P. Lovecraft Jess Nevins Frank R. Paul Henry W. Ralston Locations George Rozen PulpFest Doc Savage http://www.pulpfest.com Joseph T. Shaw E.E. Smith Pulp Fiction at the Library of Congress Harry Steeger https://www.loc.gov/rr/news/pulp.html Hugh J. Ward

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