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I've been reading the old pulp novels of the 30s and absolutely love them. They have such an energy to them, a real vitality, and the adventures never stop.
So, discuss pulps here!
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▶ No.17706
For me, its The Spider. Literally just a combination of Batman and Charles Bronson. So based.
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▶ No.17728>>17731 >>17774
The Conan the Barbarian stories are great too. Tower of the Elephant and The Frost Giant's Daughter pack an insane punch. Honestly all of Robert E Howard's stories are good.
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▶ No.17731
>>17728
There is something interesting about pulps. Its like they captured something very unique in art which is commonly not properly expressed, which is a concept of Individual confrontation, or, to risk sounding cringe, Confrontational Masculinity. Essentially two men fighting. It is really what drives society, but rarely get space in the arts
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▶ No.17733>>17734
What's ur opinion on sex pulp
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▶ No.17734>>17774
>>17733
I like it. It is sexy and the characters are sex havers. Thats one of the big differences between the virility of the pulps, and the almost incel sexual-frustration of the comics that stole a lot of their ideas from the pulps.
Spider-man, Batman, and Superman are all either incels or volcels, and I wouldn't be surprised if their writers were as well. But you know Richard Wentworth was fucking Nita van Sloan every night, and Lamont Cranston was running through all the young socialites. Heroes used to get the girl and fuck them. Now they get put on a pedestal.
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▶ No.17774
>>17728
Yup, I’m going through the full collection his Conan works (about as thick as the Bible btw) and I fully expected to be turned off by the 1930s prose and writing style and grammar even though I find myself having to look up a word or two every now and then it’s actually super digestible, Howard really knows how to make a scene and narrative flow smoothly in as far as I can tell. Also his humor and ‘sensitivities’ are very blunt by todays standards and it’s very funny. I want to give Barsoom stuff a try too eventually.
>>17734
I mean, both Batman and Superman have kids and Spider-Man has had plenty of sex at this point lol
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▶ No.17793
>>17701 (OP)
WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEARTS OF MEN?
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