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:

Re: MetaCyber More cowbell? No! More Meta-Cyber!! -ME

Re: My new campaign Well, my thoughts are you have certainly put some work into the whole zeppelin thing, and that all sounds interesting. But what are you going to do with it? What is the story? What is the premise? Are we talking "War of the Airships" here? -ME

Re: (location) Marsh's Drug Store Another thought regarding Marsh's is some of the lingo used in such places during the time. I noticed you picked up on the "doc" moniker. That was common back then, especially for the reason I mentioned about people simply walking into their local pharmacy, requesting and getting a compounded remedy for whatever ailed them. The pharmacist of the 20th century is actually composite of the apothocary and the druggist. The apothocary belonged to the healing arts and compounded remedies based on everything science and pure anecdotal evidence. Everything had to be precise and reproducible. As I mentioned, by the 1920s, still about 80% of medicines being sold at a pharmacy were compounded on site. The druggist was a late 19th century new-comer who sold pre-made remedies (elixirs, powder papers, etc.) from a retail store, but had no special education or training. Hence, the health-professional and businessman merged during this time. So, some nicknames and other titles for these people and places were: druggist, chemist (especially in the Northeast), doc, apothocary, and finally, pharmacist. Like medicine before the early 1900s, formalized and required education and training was largely a hodge-podge of different things depending on what state you lived in and what the state required, if anything. More fuel for the fire. -ME

Re: (location) Marsh's Drug Store I like the Marsh's Drug Store! When I first was reading it, I thought it was the actually history of a pharmacy in the US. Sounds very authentic. Coming from the profession, I noticed that there are some posts related to what would and would not be available in a pharmacy in the 1920s. An important point to remember is that prior to the Durham-Humphrey Act of 1951, which "defined the kinds of drugs that could be safely used without medical supervision and restricted their sale to prescription by a licensed practitioner", meaning that what we think of today as a prescription (a legal document between prescriber [MD] and dispenser [pharmacist]) was not legally required. Hence, in many instances, especially in the 1920s when 80% of the prescriptions were still being compounded, any person could walk into a pharmacy and request a remedy for ailment X, Y, or Z. Similarly, narcotics were then available by prescription, but were not considered any different from a legal practitioner's point of view than other prescription drugs until 1970. That is when the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act " replaced previous laws and categorized drugs based on abuse and addiction potential compared to their therapeutic value". So now we have certain drugs which have different classifications (i.e., legend, scheduled narcotics such as C-II, C-III, etc.). In the 1920s, the laws were very funky with regard to substances like heroin. The laws were such that it was illegal based on certain commerce/importation laws, but not by the same narcotics laws that are present today. More than you wanted to know, I'm sure. - Mad Ernie

Re: MetaCyber Shrike: I like your character concepts quite a bit. I have a player in a Champions campaign I have been running that wanted to create a character similar to some of what you describe as a Tuber. Thanks for the help in giving me something I can pass on to him. -Mad Ernie:cool:

Re: Transparent Aluminum As soon as I saw this thread I immediately thought of Star Trek IV. How ironic that James Doohan passed away recently. ME

Re: What Other Pulp Hero Books Would You Like To See? I second that motion. ME

Re: Tell us about your Pulp hero. I have a very old pulp character that dates back to the original Call of Cuthulu game. His name is James "Jimmy" Lawrence, a gangster. I took the name from the alias John Dillinger used prior to his death. Some historians claim Jimmy Lawrence was a real person and that it was he who was hot outside the theater in Chicago and not Dillinger himself. I basically patterned the character after Dillinger, leaving the question as to whether or not he was JD. ME

Re: "This is Aleph, and you're on the Global Frequency..."

Re: The Fox and Vixen It looks like you have some T.H.E. Cat, the Return of the Pink Panther, and The Thin Man thrown in to these two characers, also. You might consider posting this on the Pulp Hero discussion board, as well. ME:cool: