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Once upon a time, there was [[Pulp Magazine|pulp]]. Pulp was a style of writing that emerged onto the scene in the 1920s, featuring a variety of stories printed on cheap paper (hence "pulp"). Back in the day, pulp content ranged from the [[Cosmic Horror Story|Cosmic Horror Stories]] of H.P. Lovecraft to noir pieces to the over-the-top action of ''[[Doc Savage]]'' to the [[Heroic Fantasy|sword-and-sandals]] fantasy of ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]''. The pulp era died down by the late '50s, when the leading distributor of pulp, the American News Company, went bankrupt.
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* ''[[Tom Strong]]'' is [[Alan Moore]]'s take on the pulp hero living into the modern era.
* Marvel's ''[[Immortal Iron Fist]]'' is mostly a kung fu book, but features strong elements of pulp as well (especially with Orson Randall, the World War I era Iron Fist).
* In 1997 [[DC Comics]] had a "Pulp Heroes" event, in which all their annuals were written in the style of the pulps. Ones that particularly fitted the
* The [[EC Comics]] title ''Two-Fisted Tales'' began with stories of this genre but soon became a (much better) war comic.
* In ''[[Atomic Robo]]'', the titular character has fought Nazi mad scientists, Lovecraftian horrors, and an intelligent dinosaur, visited different dimensions, and encountered the ghost of Rasputin.
* [[DC Comics]]' ''First Wave'' imprint, a
* The picture above is from Dave Stevens's ''[[The Rocketeer (comics)|The Rocketeer]]'', adapted into a movie in 1991.
* [[Dominic Fortune]], a 1930s 'Brigand For Hire' in the [[Marvel Universe]]. Created by [[Howard Chaykin]].
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* Cult classic ''[[The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension]]'', a purposeful knockoff of Doc Savage.
* ''The Adventures of [[The Librarian]]'' are a modern day pulp adventure spanning three films to date.
* ''[[Captain America: The First Avenger|Captain America the First Avenger]]'', what with gung-ho hero Cap and a group of [[Badass Normal
== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Philip Jose Farmer]]'s long writing career is marked by his great love of the pulps and he devoted great energy to his many Two Fisted Tales. Even his works which aren't in the genre are often informed by it. ''[[Doc Savage]]: His Apocalyptic Life'' provides a biography of the pulp era hero and links him to other period heroes.
* ''The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril'' has [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy|the authors of Doc Savage and The Shadow]] looking into the murder of [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and uncovering a global conspiracy.
* ''The Takers'' is an [[Indiana Jones]]-style homage novel by Jerry Ahern, about an [[Self-Insert Fic|action-adventure novelist]] and his [[Love Interest]]
* [[Kim Newman]]'s Dr Shade ... [[Alternate Character Interpretation|sometimes]]. Some of the stories featuring him are celebrations of the pulps and others (most especially "The Original Dr Shade") are [[Deconstruction
* Zach Parsons specifically called his book My Tank is Fight! "two fisted pulp history." And describes the development and potential use of various [[WW 2]] super/strange weapons.
* The ''[[Gabriel Hunt]]'' books, although set in modern times.
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