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Pulp in Germany still very alive - what about elsewhere?


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When Americans speak about Pulps they always refer to the past - stories from the 20s to maybe 50s. Are there still pulp stories that are published regularly? I mean that are not reprints but written and published today.

 

Germany actually has a pulp magazine scene that is very much alive - only it is not recognized as such.

There is Perry Rhodan, a Sci-Fi series now going since 1962, currently running number 2799 (with multiple reruns of the older books), John Sinclair, Scotland Yards demon- and ghosthunter with a villains' gallery that puts Marvel's to shame (# 1845), Lassiter (a Western series, currently at # 2157), G-man Jerry Cotton (# 2600), Maddrax (post-apocalyptic Sci-Fi, # 166), Fürsten-Roman (ramantic stories around noble nouses, # 2430), Dr. Stefan Frank (ramantic hospital stories, # 2213), Bergkristall (# 129 , dealing with romance, poachers and eveyrthing that you can possible imaginge n the Alps to happen). There used to be Landser (German WW2 stories) but they were cancelles this year due to protest - and probably they didn't sell that many anyway. But the series ran since the 50s.

 

These are only a fraction of the titles that you can get basically at every newsstand - they are NOT special interest titles that you can only get at special pulp shops or internet-sites. A lot of people have seen and/or read them at one point of their life or another.

 

Perry Rhodan, John Sinclair and Maddrax even have their one roleplaying games (though blessed with limited success), Sinclair, Cotton and several others have or had series of audio-plays on CD (VERY popular in Germany!), Sinclair had even a short and sucky TV-series (3 films I think)

 

Anything comparable in The UK, the States, Ozz, Scandinavia or elsewhere?

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 There is a bit of "Pulp" or neopulp out there if you look around. "Moonstone" has produced a number of anthologies featuring "The Phantom" "Green Hornet", "Captain Midnight", "The Spider" and others; "Altus Press" has reprinted "Thunder Jim Wade" and "Wildcat Books" has done "Captain Hazzard" adventures. Plus the new "Doc Savage" novels from "Altus Press" and "The Spider" stories and novels from "Baen Books". Happy hunting !

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There are also a large number of books that tell pulp style stories in a more novel style format and bumped out of the 30's-40's.

 

A lot of adventure, space opera and such, just in 600+ page packets. 

 

Also a lot of self published books via eBook venues like Amazon. 

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What's Pulp?

 

Lucius Alexander

 

The palindromedary says that could be a thread on its own but without an answer there's no way to begin to address the topic

 

Something only the really gifted and intelligent can enjoy :angel:

 

{steps back}

 

Please Lucius, don't start THAT debate again. I've run out of large cans to put the worms back into !

 

Ready the can good sir.......

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