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From the Pulps to the Comics

Before comic books if you wanted to read about fantastic heroes and weird villains you went to the Pulps, pulp magazines, measuring 7 inches wide by 10 inches high with bright covers outside, and inside around 128 pages of cheap wood pulp paper, where the birthplace of such heroes as Tarzan, Zorro, Doc Savage, The Shadow, the Avenger and others.

When the comics had their first serge after the coming of Superman the pulp publishers saw that the way to make money it seemed was with colorful heroes, so they went to the source they knew and many of the heroes of one media found their way into the latest one.

These are some of those Pulp Heroes who have made it to the Comics.

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  • Started in 1933 a lot of Doc went into Superman (William Clark Savage - Clark Kent- Man of Bronze - Man of Steel, both had a Fortress of Solitude etc)

  • The first dark avenger, others from Batman to the Punisher would follow.

  • Published for years in the 30s in Black Book Detective as the Black Bat, when transfered to comic form Nedor made a deal with DC and agreed to call him The Mask... how dull... run out of cirtters of the night?

  • This character started before them all in the Charper Novels of 1880s! When the Pulps came he showed up there, and then the comics, and then paperback origials... when does he get his blog?

  • OK, he started out in the comics (in 1933 as a matter of fact!) and went to the Pulps for two issues of his own magazine, but... close enough.

  • First appeared in 1912

  • First appeared in the Pulps.

  • After almost 100 years he is at last going to appear in a big budget film!

    Up date.... Oops!

  • First apperence 1919, and in something like 60 text stories after that as well as comics

  • Took them long enough, but she made it!

  • Along with Doc (and Tarzan and the Shadow) a member of the Wold Newton Family

  • The Yin to Monk's Yang

  • The Supergirl of Earth Pulp Fiction

  • In the Pulps after a couple of years his hair turned brown again and his face unfroze.

  • His Pulp stories in the 30s, made today's Punisher look like a pacifist.

  • Pulp magazine stories, radio show, and they almost gave him a TV series in the early 50s, the Green Lama was all over the place.

  • Out of Weird Tales into the hearts of Pop Culture, and into his enemies hearts with his sword.

  • Shared Weird Tales with Conan... I doubt they got along however.

  • From real life (sort of ) to penny dreadfuls, to pulps, to comics.

  • Started in the Pulps as Captain Future, so when Nedor started publishing comics they did a comic character named Captain Future who was NOT based on the C.F. of the Pulps, thinking better of this later they brought C.F. to the comics but called him Major Mars!

  • Before Timely/Atlas/Marvel comics Martin Goodwin published pulps, and Ka-Zar was in one of them.

  • A bit of a flip here, this character started in the comics and then got a one issue all text Pulp Magazine. It was pretty bad.

  • Another comic character that got a short lived (3 issues) Pulp Magazine based on him.

  • Started out as Ki-Gor in the pulp Jungle Stories, he became Kaanga for Jungle Comics

  • The longest running pulp hero made it to the comics as well.

    Plus he has returned via Moonstone.

  • Where his stories crazy, or was he?

  • X the Phantom Fed was based on the Ace Magazines Pulp, Secret Agent X, which ran for 41 issue between February 1934 and March of 1939.

    The stories used for X the Phantom Fed were taken from the first half dozen Secret Agent X stories and adapted for the comics.

    While we have not heard of the Phantom Fed sence 1940, Secret Agent X had returned in The Battle for L.A. from Moonstone

  • He liked to amuse his side-kicks with magic tricks in between the action, millions dead, American in flames and he's making quarters appear out of their ears.

  • Started in a German pulp (where they were stealing Sherlock Holmes!) then became a French pulp, (though said to be American now) then became a comic character, where he stayed.

  • One of the last of the single Pulp heroes, his magazine ran until 1955, lasting five years longer than the Shadow and seven years longer than Doc Savage, he also made it to the comics

  • Ka-chow went the rosco!

  • Hey, you paid for the art use it!

  • From the people who brought you Doc Savage, The Shadow and The Avenger.

  • He has now had more comics about him than Pulps

  • he lived on Baker Street too.

  • The mystery man who could be done in by a 12 year old with a baseball and a half decent aim.
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