Pulp magazines (often referred to as "the pulps") are inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 through the 1950s. The term pulp derives from the cheap wood pulp paper on which the magazines were printed; in contrast, magazines printed on higher quality paper were called "glossies" or "slicks". The typical pulp magazine had 128 pages; it was 7 inches (18cm) wide by 10 inches (25cm) high, and 0.5 inches (1.3cm) thick, with ragged, untrimmed edges.
The pulps gave rise the term pulp fiction in reference to run-of-the-mill low quality literature.
In their first decades, pulps were most often priced at ten cents per magazine, while competing slicks cost 25 cents a piece. Pulps were the successors to the penny dreadfuls, dime novels, and short fiction magazines of the 19th century. Although many respected writers wrote for pulps, the magazines were best known for their lurid and exploitative stories and sensational cover art. Modern superhero comic books are sometimes considered descendants of "hero pulps"; pulp magazines often featured illustrated novel-length stories of heroic characters, such as The Shadow, Doc Savage, and The Phantom Detective.
It was one of the first non-superhero applications of the point-based game system that had been developed for the Champions superhero game. The generalized point system would eventually be published as the Hero System, following in the footsteps of Chaosium's Basic Role-Playing System, but preceding GURPS as a non-genre-specific game system.
Publishing History
Justice, Inc. was published in July 1984 by Hero Games, and was written by Aaron Allston, Steve Peterson and Michael Stackpole. The two-volume set included a rulebook and campaign book containing a discussion of the pulp genre, the "Empire Club" campaign setting, a timeline of real-world events of the 1920s and '30s, and several pulp adventures.
Two supplements were published:
Lands of Mystery (May 1985), a critically acclaimed sourcebook describing how to design and run "Lost World" adventures, like those found in the fiction of Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. Rider Haggard. ISBN 0-917481-60-7
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A cult-favorite adventurer and hero, Red Sonja’s deadly skills with weapons earned her the moniker, “The She-Devil with a Sword.”. The character was originally inspired by the early ‘30s pulp fiction of Robert E.
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Kirsten Ely shared the news of her father’s death in a lengthy tribute on Instagram ... “This is how the world knew him.”.View this post on Instagram ... He also starred in 1975’s as the blockbuster’s eponymous twinkle-eyed pulp hero ... View comments ....
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We Live in Time is a romantic weeper with a gimmick. It tells its story out of order ...Memento did it to imitate its hero’s short-term memory loss. PulpFiction and many others did it to withhold information and create maximum suspense ... We Live in Time ... .
While the show’s portrayal of iconic hero Lara herself is its saving ... You get the sense that Atwell’s Lara is a true pulp adventurer hero, it’s just a shame the rest of the show just doesn’t know it.
The Dark Knight is considered one of the most iconic pulp heroes in the history of popular culture ... Some of Tim Burton’s other heroes weren’t so content with themselves, and those are the ones who served as my avatars.
In the shadow of the Oasis reunion, Britpop heroes Pulp, the anti-Oasis, are playing a handful of North American shows this month, their first appearances over here since 2012. These gigs are not strictly nostalgia exercises, either ... chrisdeville ... 0 ... .
This film made the pulp hero who predates Batman seem cool again by reintroducing the original Zorro, Don Diego de la Vega (Anthony Hopkins), and allowing him to set the stage for his successor, ...
Max may not have the large number of new movies every month that it used to have ... A pulp adventure hero headlines our second pick before we close out the month with an unconventional adaptation of a beloved children’s book. Recommended Videos.
