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  1. looking for non-Causasian pulp roles

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    Re: looking for non-Causasian pulp roles

     

    The "the Avenger" pulp series gave the title character several assistants, including the African-American couple, Josh and Rosabel Newton, who frequently went undercover as servants and played on Black stereotypes. The Wikipedia article may mistakenly suggest that these characters were created prior to the 1973--4 revival, however.

     

    Perhaps I'm misreading what you're saying, but the Newtons first appear in The Sky Walker, first published in 1939.

  2. Fictional cities

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    Re: Fictional cities

     

    I've experimented with tossing down the basics for a city, and then letting the players come up with the neighborhoods their characters initially patrol as part of character creation.

  3. They Might be Heroes

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    Re: They Might be Heroes

     

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    Having subdued its inebriated driver, Orlando, Florida's own TraffiCat steps delicately out of the rear window

    of the car it entered a few minutes earlier. While the feline wonder is rumored to be anything from a

    magician's familiar to a rogue Imagineering project, the terrific tabby uses its invulnerability and spectacular

    leaping abilities to stalk drunken and reckless drivers in and around The City beautiful.

  4. Superhero Images

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    Re: Superhero Images

     

    Has it really been that long? How the time does fly. But as I said, that sort of dead linkage is to be expected. (Though it looks like a lot of the pics are still extant; the BB software has just changed the way it handles pics since then.)

     

    That said, it looks like if we could get Oddhat started again on a similar thread, he could come up with pages of material.

  5. Superhero Images

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    Re: Superhero Images

     

    Some time ago, there used to be thread hereabouts called "Images That Could Be a Hero" or something like that, with lots of odd and interesting photos that could be used as super background material. None of the search combos I'm using come up with anything, so I'm wondering if it was axed for some reason or another. It could be that my search-fu just isn't strong enough. Of course, after all this time, there would the normal heat death of broken links, but I would like to see what remains if anyone can remember what it was called.

  13. Earth x DC Comics like setting

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    Re: Earth x DC Comics like setting

     

    Which lead to the battle of Dunkirk in our world they got away in great evack in anything that floats' date=' this was Churchill's idea in this world it would have bin a mass surender and capture.[/quote']

     

    As opposed to the real world, where Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay organized the evacuation?

  17. Pulpy Art

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    Re: Pulpy Art

     

    Not strictly art, but this came up on my radar a few days back. TNA Wrestling's Bound For Glory PPV was in Chicago this year, so all their ads were gangster-themed, shot on the sets/attractions at Universal Orlando (an occasional employer/stomping ground of mine). TNA photog Lee South uploaded his stills to his Flickr stream, and pulp GMs may find them useful...

     

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/leesouthphotography/sets/72157606244483639/

     

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  20. Golden Age resources: whatever you can think of.

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    Re: Golden Age resources: whatever you can think of.

     

    Internet Archive - Universal Newsreels

    http://www.archive.org/details/universal_newsreels

     

    Old Newspaper Ads

    http://www.lileks.com/oldads/

     

    Vintage Magic Posters

    http://www.magicgallery.com/name_lindex.htm

     

    National Archives & Records Administration

    http://aad.archives.gov/aad/

     

    Penny Arcade & Coin-Op Location Pictures

    http://marvin3m.com/arcade/arcade.htm

     

    Balloon and Airship Stereoscopic Photographs

    http://www.stereo.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/index.htm

     

    The Authentic History Center

    http://www.authentichistory.com/

     

    Museum of Retro Technology

    http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/museum.htm

     

    Open Video Project

    http://www.open-video.org/

     

    Third Reich in Ruins

    http://www.thirdreichruins.com/

     

    World War II Poster Collection

    http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govinfo/collections/wwii-posters/

     

    Guide To Marvel's Golden Age Characters

    http://www.geocities.com/ratmmjess/gaguide.html

     

    Cash Gorman's Golden-Age Encyclopedia

    http://www.geocities.com/cash_gorman/

     

    Mikel Midnight's Golden Age Directory

    http://blaklion.best.vwh.net/comics.html

     

    Classic Comic Books

    http://members.aol.com/MG4273/comics.htm

     

    The Cosmology Compendium

    http://herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=64771

     

    The Golden Age Batman Chronology

    http://ourworld.cs.com/argentprime/batman.htm

  21. Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

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    Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

     

    I think you need to read the story about the Head of Vecna.

     

    You realize that the Head of Vecna was perpetrated by one group of PCs on another group of PCs, not by the GM, right?

     

    Many years ago (back when we all were still playing D & D), I ran a game where I pitted two groups against each other.

     

    Several members of Group One came up with the idea of luring Group Two into a trap. You remember the Hand of Vecna and the Eye of Vecna that were artifacts in the old D&D world where if you cut off your hand (or your eye) and replaced it with the Hand of Vecna (or the Eye) you'd get new awesome powers? Well, Group One thought up The Head of Vecna.

     

    I'm not sure that your example is proving exactly what you think it is.

  22. Need a reasonably well known charcter idea

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    Re: Need a reasonably well known charcter idea

     

    Well, yes, I'm sure there are earlier examples...

     

    But I personally found Adric to sort of be the absolute essence of the problem.

     

    Of course you did. Had you been a few years younger, you'd feel the same about Wesley Crusher. Older, Will Robinson. Older still, one of those annoying Timmys that some radio heroes got saddled with.

     

    Every generation finds it necessary to reinvent the wheel. Or to despise the young supergenius who reinvents the wheel for that generation.

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