Roter Baron Posted November 23, 2013 Report Share Posted November 23, 2013 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 23, 2013 Report Share Posted November 23, 2013 I hadn't known of these. May have to give them a look, as something to exercise my German on a more regular basis than the occasional technical paper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 23, 2013 Report Share Posted November 23, 2013 The Phantom is alive and kicking -- otherwise, I don't see much pulp out there. There used to be fantasy and/or sci-fi anthology magazines, but I haven't seen any of those since at least the Nineties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted November 24, 2013 Report Share Posted November 24, 2013 I haven't seen too much Pulp here either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranxerox Posted November 25, 2013 Report Share Posted November 25, 2013 Gold Eagle Books which is a Harlequin imprint publishes the Mack Bolan books, Jack Strait novels and the Deathland series, all of which are essentially pulps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndianaJoe3 Posted November 27, 2013 Report Share Posted November 27, 2013 The mass-market, "franchise" paperback is probably the modern equivalent of the pulp. They're longer-form, but self-contained. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burrito Boy Posted November 27, 2013 Report Share Posted November 27, 2013 Gold Eagle Books which is a Harlequin imprint publishes the Mack Bolan books, Jack Strait novels and the Deathlands series, all of which are essentially pulps. I should have thought to mention those since I'm a big fan of Deathlands. And I'd add their Outlanders and Rogue Angel series to the list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted December 1, 2013 Report Share Posted December 1, 2013 I would argue many popular fiction genres in the US are outgrowths of various pulp genres. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st barbara Posted December 6, 2013 Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 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 ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spence Posted December 20, 2013 Report Share Posted December 20, 2013 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Desmarais Posted December 31, 2013 Report Share Posted December 31, 2013 The mass-market, "franchise" paperback is probably the modern equivalent of the pulp. They're longer-form, but self-contained. I would also count comic books as an outgrowth of the pulp industry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st barbara Posted March 5, 2014 Report Share Posted March 5, 2014 Please Lucius, don't start THAT debate again. I've run out of large cans to put the worms back into ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spence Posted March 5, 2014 Report Share Posted March 5, 2014 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 {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....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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