Kharis2000
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I'm curious, is the paired VPPs an artifact error, or does he really pack two?
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Thanks to the magic of the Online Book Archive, and a lack of copyright renewal, the following Hugo Gernsback-managed publications are now freely available:
Science Wonder Quarterly, ed. by Hugo Gernsback (full serial archives): http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=sciwonderqtly
Science Wonder Stories, ed. by Hugo Gernsback (full serial archives): http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=sciwonderstories
Wonder Stories Quarterly (partial serial archives; renamed Science Wonder Quarterly): http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=wonderstoriesq
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Working my way through 'The Shadow in Review' by John Olsen. Review and plot summary of every Shadow novel, the serials, the 90's movie, and more. Available POD on Lulu for the insane price of $10.00. [Note: I have no connection to the project and receive no kickbacks... I'm just a nerd for this stuff.]
http://www.lulu.com/us/en/shop/john-olsen/the-shadow-in-review/paperback/product-22786708.html
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Just finished ERB's 'The Land of Hidden Men' [lost city story in Cambodia] and starting and am starting another ERB classic, 'The Bandit of Hell's Bend.' [One of his Westerns]
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I read the same reviews, saw the movie, and didn't have an issue. I feels to me as if a fair number of the reviewers had pre-determined their reaction to the film based on their own issues with regards to colonialism, racism, the pulps in general, and Tarzan in specific, and just went through the motions of seeing the film before posting their reviews.
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Air Wonder Stories was a monthly fiction magazine founded by Hugo Gernsback in 1929. It ran for 11 issues dated July 1929 through May 1930. After that, the magazine merged with Science Wonder Stories to form Wonder Stories.
No copyright renewals were filed, so , thanks to the Internet Archive, all 11 issues of this pulp-era gem are available for free (and legal) download in PDF, EPUB, KINDLE, and several other formats.
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=airwonderstories
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There's a character with this same gimmick in Predators, the Dark Champions villain sourcebook. Diomedes, IIRC
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Dr. Mid-Nite from the JSA used 'Blackout Bombs" that had this effect, plus allowing him to disadvantage opponents into fighting him in the dark.
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IIRC, Michael Surbrook has write-ups for the Original Freedom Force characters on his site, which might give you some good ideas/starting points.
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Some good pulp idea mining in this one - or at least a great NPC or two
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I'd be interested in seeing more, definitely.
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That's where I do my reading as well - the actual collecting is too rich for my blood (and wallet).
Some of the one's I've been surprised by were the original Miss Fury (much more serialized than I ever thought likely for the period, with actual character growth and development), Captain Midnight (which I only knew through the serial of the same name), and, somewhat surprisingly for me, a number of the America's Best characters like the Black Terror.
Almost all of the stories from those characters adapt well as scenario ideas for Pulp Hero (Captain Midnight is more high-tech than the others).
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How many folks have looked at the 'heroic adventurer' comics from the Golden Age and used them to mine ideas from?
The Golden Age Shadow comics have given me some ideas, as have Airboy and it's associated Air Fighters comics (some terribly racist period material in there, though, so not for everyone), and others.
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I don't know what the issues making you unsure might be, but I can tell you that there isn't anything resembling bedroom action going on in the stories, despite the other material the publisher was cranking out. A kiss here and there, some obvious (for the pulps) indicators in one of the first three stories that at least one character wishes there was said action going on, but all in all these stories didn't really fall in the 'spicy' category for me. (Your mileage might vary, of course.) For me, they were simply written for an audience a bit older than the 12-14 crowd that Doc Savage was aimed at.
Given the price for the print versions, I would, however, definitely recommend the Kindle versions, if you do ebooks.
Another set of reviews:
http://www.thepulp.net/pulpsuperfan/2013/04/20/jim-anthony-super-detective/
http://www.thepulp.net/pulpsuperfan/2013/12/30/review-super-detective-jim-anthony-vol-2/
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Basic information on the series can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Anthony
I read the Volume 1 Altus collection in Kindle format:
I liked them well enough that I'll be picking up the second volume in a month or so.
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The only foreign heroes I used in my last Champions game were a British WW2 team that the party encountered while time-travelling into the past [They were presented with the problem by Dr. Destroyer that someone was attempting to destroy and replace him (proved to be an act of insane hero worship by Professor Muerte, who wanted to *become* Destroyer) using time-travel, and, since he could not return to the past and defend himself and prevent a total unraveling of the timeline, he required heroes to do it, since sending villains into the past posed too many risks to the present since they were, well, villains. (I recall the 'WTF?' moment when that dropped on the PCs was epic)]
Had to hunt up my notes, but they were: Big Ben, a working-class growing brick with levels and extra defense triggered by interposing to defend allies (and the lone 'traditional British themed' hero); Clockwork, a female noblewoman gadgeteer hero with a clock/clockwork theme (who was always irritated that she was viewed as Big Ben's 'sidekick' when he reverse was more accurate); Skyman, a Canadian 'action scientist' and expert pilot with an advanced aircraft capable of hovering and transitioning to a submarine (similar to the aircraft Angelina Jolie flew in 'Sky Captain'); Devil Dog, a WW1 American Marine expat infantryman/werewolf who packed conventional military weapons to back up his fur and fangs (a reskinned Black Fang from Arcane Enemies); Guardian Key, a Jewish physician and goetic mage whose family was still trapped in Poland (a reskinned Astralle from Arcane Adversaries); Thunderhead, an female Irish storm-based flying energy-caster that had political issues with Clockmaker and Big Ben, but felt the Nazis were a greater threat; and 'The Marquis,' an ironically-named, streetwise and cynical anything-goes Cockney brawler/boxer (a reskinned Brahama from Predators).
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Just finished a block of Christmas gift card purchases: A collection of the original Jim Anthony stories (interesting and entertaining stories about a slightly less stilted version of the Doc Savage concept), a collection of the Kid Calvert western stories (admittedly outside my wheelhouse, both topically and stylistically, but entertaining), the collected Captain Zero stories (probably the best 'invisible man' series I've read from the pulps), and Volume 1 of Harold Lamb's Cossack stories, Wolf of the Steppes (not what I expected, but darned good).
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I have them both, Dean, and they're both slotted for use in the next campaign I run where supers are present, so yes, I found them useful. =)
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No, from Last Unicorn Games.
See if the files at this link are still good, Chris:
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And the last PC, the Trinalaxan botanist.
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And here's the Campaign Outline for Season One.
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Here's the Mindalari Generalist. One NPC and one PC to go.
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While I wait for the last two PCs (and stall some more on making the NPC), I'm putting together notes on the game itself mechanically. I'll try to have that done in the next few days and posted up for folks to look at.
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Female Venusian scientist/doctor.
Still awaiting male Mindalari generalist, female Trinalaxan botanist, and the female Martian Amazon NPC (which I am the drag on)
What "Pulp" have you read lately ?
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No, the money has never lined up for me to buy them, but it will eventually. I was lucky enough that my local university library had all of Robert Sampson's 'Yesterday's Faces' series so I've read all of them even if I only own the first two.