Mad_Ernie

Re: What were the best Marvel titles of the 70's? Yes. It started out as Dr. Doom and Sub-Mariner but there was an occasional issue that drifted to a differnt coupling, like Dr. Doom and the Red Skull. Good call!

Re: Best superhero titles of the 70's Awww, you beat me to it. YES! The censor board was out to lunch when that book got through.

Re: Campaign Tone -- explaining “Bronze Age” I agree. I would consider the first "drug" stories (including the Harry Osborn drug stories in Spiderman) to be the beginning of the bronze age, so say around 1971 or 1972. I think your examples of the Phoenix arc in X-Men and the New Teen Titans by Wolfman & Perez really conclude the bronze age for me (or perhaps begin the next one). When I think of the bronze age, we are talking mainly 1970s-ish comic books and characters. So, what does that include besides the examples above? - Monsters - with comics code relaxed, many companies began doing a lot of horror comics and inserting horror theme into super-hero comic books - Captain America: the Secret Empire - an all-time classic from Steve Englehart and Sal Buscema. This series really sucked me as a comic book geek back in the early-to-mid 70's. - Social issues - others have been metioned (drugs, dirty politics) but themes like racial equality and women's lib also began appearing more in the comics Those are just some examples. Keep looking and you'll find more. -ME:cool:

Great White/Pinnacle Games has been putting out some pulp-related material lately. Wonder why it took them so long? Anyway, it's the Savage system, but some of the stuff might be useful resource material for GM's using Pulp Hero, as well as some stuff that might even be worth converting to Hero. Check out the new stuff here http://www.peginc.com/ -ME

Re: The Ultimate Pulp Era Gear Archives - Over 100 pages of Free Pulp Research Colin: Great Job! I have seen the page a couple weeks ago and am amazed at the plethora of good pulp RPGing info. Well done, sir! Collin (a.k.a. Mad Ernie)

Re: Cool Pulp Images No apologies necessary (cause I think you were the first)! Excellent site! Much obiliged!

EN World has posted the release of a gaming supplement for what is basically King Kong and all of the extras (natives, etc.). Here is the link: http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=162876 Bad news: the stats are in d20 But I would imagine converting it to Hero system would not be too difficult. -ME

Re: The things I learned playing a gunbunny Or how about, You can get further with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone. -ME

Re: Your Hometown For Pulp

Re: Doc Savage Thanks, Rob! That website is VERY helpful! -ME

Re: Pulp Apocalypse - Suggestions Wanted You should rent the HBO series "Carnivale", as it takes place during the Great Depression and focuses on a possible apocalypse from a biblical perspective. -ME

Re: Your Hometown For Pulp Well, I don't know about my hometown back then, but my current metropolitan area was quite bustling place in the 20's and 30's. Kind of a Chicago in miniature. Kansas City was really the gateway to the West back then, not St. Louis, and it had its share of high society and corrupt politicians to be sure (wait, have they left after all these years?). Boss Pendergast was everything you think of when it comes to big, wealthy, corrupt and politically connected. KC was quite a crossroads for gangsters at the time, as many of the popular ones from that day were from the Midwest (e.g., John Dillinger from Indiana, Pretty Boy Floyd from Missouri, Bonnie & Clyde, etc.). In fact, the main event that kicked off J. Edgar Hoover's arming the FBI and giving them big political clout was the Kansas City Massacre at Union Station. If you want to know more about that event, you should check out the graphic novel "Union Station" by my high school friend Ande Parks. You can find it at Amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1929998694/sr=8-10/qid=1141160175/ref=pd_bbs_10/102-9296993-3112147?%5Fencoding=UTF8 -ME

Re: Kong: the movie I agree. They could have cut 20-30 minutes all out of Skull Island and it would not have hurt my feelings one bit. I thought the arrival of the ship to Skull Island up to the time we first see Kong went a little too fast, as did the later New York segment. Peter Jackson has been bitten by the Spielberg/Lucas bug: I can do it, therefore I will. -ME

Re: I need your help with my Pulps Adventure Besides the duplicitous female Nazi spy/sadist, there is also the traditional Dragon Lady/daughter of Fu Manchu/daughter of Ming that could be easily turned into a villianess. If you want to get really creepy, you could come up with a mass murderer or serial killer who is female based on someone like Lizzie Borden. Make it kind of a schizophrenic-psychopath who doesn't always know she is a/the killer. - ME:cool:

Re: THRILLING PLACES -- What Do *You* Want To See? Steve: I know the Tibetan monestary has already been suggested, but I was thinking more along the lines of Shambala. Some place that isn't just a monk retreat for teaching martial arts but more of a mystical, ancient city, sort of Oz-like, if you get my drift. Martial arts would be but a small part of what the whole place is about. -ME:cool: