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  3. Golden Age Superheroes as Pulp Heroes

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    Re: Golden Age Superheroes as Pulp Heroes

     

    All of them' date=' just in street clothes rather than costumes.[/quote']

     

    I dunno...personally, I couldn't see Green Lantern, Hawkman, Superman, Wonder Woman or The Flash as pulp characters. Manhunter, yes. Plastic Man? Not so much.

     

    FYI on Hugo Danner- "Gladiator" was actually a novel, not a pulp and read very differently than anything you'd read in the pulps.

  5. Golden Age Superheroes as Pulp Heroes

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    I don't remember (without looking it up) whether "Doctor Occult" is actually a "Golden Age" character or not but I think he would make a good "psychic detective" type for a "Pulp" campaign.

     

    Dr. Occult actually predates Superman, so I guess that makes him a "Platinum Age" character. He still counts, of course. :D

  7. Golden Age Superheroes as Pulp Heroes

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    What GA comic book characters would make good pulp characters, heroes and villains, both? An obvious example would be the Bat-Man. With a tweak here and there, he'd make a great pulp hero (and already had a pulp equivalent, of sorts, with Black Book Detective's "The Black Bat").

     

    Some other good candidates are Sandman (the original gas-masked version), The Blackhawks, The Vigilante, and The Spirit. I'd include characters like Slam Bradley, but they're already close enough to pulp characters that there's not much point in mentioning them, at least not so far as I can tell.

     

    Any other nominations?

  10. Worst. Hero. Ever.

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    Dazzler - she's based off disco' date=' what could possibly be worse.[/quote']

     

    And to make matters worse, she was originally going to be called "The Disco Dazzler", but they dropped the first part when disco died. Why they didn't drop the whole theme or the character entirely, I don't know.

     

    Even worse than that, Dazzler was originally conceived as a multi-media marketing juggernaut- they were actually going to hire a woman to portray her on records, in movies, etc. All of this based on the Healing Power of Disco.

     

    Believe it or not, they gave this idea a second try with the one-shot wonder "Nightcat" in the early 90's. Only one issue appeared, but it did include an actual head shot of the actress/singer/whatever that was going to portray her. This time it was apparently based on the healing power of the Miami Sound Machine.

  11. Worst. Hero. Ever.

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    Since when did Jubilee stop counting?

     

    Oops, forgot about her. I her case, though, Lee "asianed" Jubilee so soon after her first appearance that nobody seems to remember she was ever occidental. Could be nobody ever really gave a poop, either.

  12. Worst. Hero. Ever.

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    Yeah, next they'll start brainwashing villians. ;)

     

    My vote goes for Psylocke. I'm not sure how a British telepath becomes an asian ninja but even I can't stretch my suspension of belief that much.

     

    It happened when Jim Lee wanted an asian character to draw in X-Men. That's the long and the short of it.

  13. Worst. Hero. Ever.

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    In the 1960s, there was an Android Captain Marvel whose power was that he could separate his limbs and head by yelling "SPLIT!" Now, I like quirky concepts, but it works when the writer actually does something cool with the quirkyness.

     

    Nuts! I didn't see this. So, yeah, this is the same guy I just posted about.

  14. Worst. Hero. Ever.

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    A certain site proclaims Tiger-man as the worst hero' date=' ever. I'm just curious if anyone knows of any other contenders to the title? Anyone?[/quote']

     

    I actually own the two (I think) issues of Tiger-Man and I can tell you first hand that there are plenty of other characters out there that suck way worse than T-M. It was actually kind of an interesting book and was, in a lot of ways, Wolverine before Wolverine was.

     

    My vote for worst goes to the post-Fawcett, pre-Marvel & DC version of Captain Marvel. It was as stupid as it was ugly and I wish I would have bought the issues I found as a kid. Read more about him here-

     

    http://www.toonopedia.com/capmarv0.htm

  16. Concept Cars

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    Man' date=' the Firebird III is a sweet ride! The ONLY thing wrong with it, looks-wise, is the double bubble canopy thing. With something that looked a little more like a WWII fighter canopy, that bad boy would look like an A-Wing on wheels, like some kind of badass space fighter that was slumming on the surface for the weekend before heading back where never lark or even eagle flew.[/quote']

     

    It reminded me of something you'd see on one of those old Gerry Anderson puppet shows. Captain Scarlet or like that.

  17. Top 10 Action Hero One-Liners

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    "You tell 'em I'm comin'! And Hell's coming with me, you hear! Hell's comin' with me!"- Wyatt Earp, Tombstone

     

    "I'm your huckleberry"- Doc Holliday, Tombstone

    (If you haven't seen Tombstone, this might not see like much of a one-liner. Taken in context, however, it's actually kinda spooky)

  20. Hey Rube! Circuses in Pulp Hero.

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    Hello Dave.

     

    Thanks, that's one I missed. Managed to see most of the others (I think) except for the other one you mention, which I couldn't find on youtube for some reason. I found a few drunken "tributes" to Papa Lazarou, too, but this one-

     

     

    was really pretty good.

  23. Hey Rube! Circuses in Pulp Hero.

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    Edit as memory kicked in: The UK TV show "The League of Gentlemen" (ostensibly a comedy, but the nearest I've ever seen to a genuine Lovecraftian feel on screen!) featured a character called Papa Lazarous who was the ringmaster and possibly the scariest TV character I can remember.

     

    Repped for introducing me to Papa Lazarou. That literally made my skin crawl. Now promise you will never do that again! :tsk:

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