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Two-Fisted Tales
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Once upon a time, there was 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 Stories of H. P. Lovecraft to the noir pieces of Raymond Chandler and from the over-the-top action of Doc Savage to the Heroic Fantasy of Conan the Barbarian and even the Raygun Gothic of Hugo Gernsback's Amazing Stories. The pulp era died down by the late '50s, when the leading distributor of pulp, the American News Company, went bankrupt, although there was a resurgence in the '60s and '70s in the form of the Darker and Edgier "men's adventure magazines", which straddled the line between pure pulp adventure and ostensibly-true Lurid Tales of Doom, all with a Rated M for Manly aesthetic. These are today best-remembered as things to read at the barber shop while you waited for your turn. Then, people started looking back on the pulp era nostalgically, and when they did, they usually locked onto the over-the-top stories of Proto-Superhero characters like The Shadow, Doc Savage, and The Phantom. Many point to Raiders of the Lost Ark and the sequel Indiana Jones movies, which took 1930s pulp adventures as an inspiration, as the keystone of the pulp resurgence, but whatever kicked it off, pulp has recaptured the heart of many a geek. Two-Fisted Tales refers to stories told in a style that reflects fondly on the old pulps. This usually means the story will be set in the '20s or '30s, and focus on square-jawed, clever men (and women) of action. Other elements thrown in for flavor include: Attack of the Killer Whatever: The men's adventure subgenre had a lot of "man versus wilderness" narratives, in which Action Survivor heroes were tormented by animals ranging from the usual culprits like bears, big cats, sharks, and the like, to the truly improbable and harmless, as in the infamous Man's Life story "Weasels Ripped My Flesh!" note Yes, that's what the Frank Zappa album is named after Proto-Superhero motifs Space Opera or Planetary Romance, where people get around in Retro Rockets and other Shiny-Looking Spaceships, and everything is smooth-lined and chrome-plated. You may also find Green Skinned Space Babes or outright Human Aliens, and the possibility of Boldly Coming is rarely far off. Combine this with the above Proto-Superhero and you get Captain Space, Defender of Earth! Mad Science and/or Weird Science. Popular experiments for the those dabbling in these fields include a Man-Eating Plant, mucking about with Evolutionary Levels, or anything involving a Killer Gorilla Bold Explorers discovering lost civilizations, usually including a Jungle Princess, Living Dinosaurs, and maybe a Temple of Doom or two. These are usually located either in a place considered "exotic" by western readers, such as a Hungry Jungle, Thirsty Desert, Mysterious Antarctica, or Beneath the Earth. Fanciful depictions of actual civilizations are also fairly common. Ancient Egypt, Darkest Africa, The Shangrila, and Mystical India have all been popular subjects. Expect a lot of Values Dissonance here, too: most of these stories (though not all) take it for granted that the world is a playground for white heroes to have adventures in. If the Evil Colonialist does show up as a villain, the emphasis will be put on his personal cruelty, rather than any systemic critique of colonialism itself. Odds are also good that he'll be from a country other than that of the assumed readers, thus drawing a distinction between the "bad, cruel" colonialism of the rival powers and the "good, humane" colonialism that we're doing (whoever "we" are) Gangsters, usually of the type that wear pinstripe suits, call each other by crazy nicknames, and wield Tommy guns The Yellow Peril, usually including a Dragon Lady The occult. A lot of ideas from actual occult, pseudoscientific, and theosophical lore found their way into pop culture via pulp science fiction, so tropes like Landmark of Lore, Ancient Astronauts, a Sunken City, and the Hollow World fit right in here. Pulp is also the home of the Occult Detective. Plenty of Nazis to be punched out. Most of them will be the source of, exploiting, or trying to exploit either Mad / Weird Science or the Occult. In later material, Dirty Commies (often overlapping with the above Yellow Peril) would sometimes take their place. Ace Pilots, either flying a Cool Plane, or, if it's a Space Opera, a Space Fighter Cool Airships were very big in the '30s, and turn up occasionally in pulp literature and film serials of that era, but have really found their niche in later Genre Throwbacks, where they became a shorthand for fanciful worlds where the pulp adventures never stopped. However, due to their associations with Germany, airships are far more likely to belong to the bad guys than the heroes. Adventurer Outfits During the War: Stories about military life or important battles were very popular. They'd usually emphasize the horrors of war, while at the same time celebrate the bravery of those who had endured it. Given when these magazines were being published, it was safe to assume most of the male readers were themselves veterans, so unflattering depictions of the boys in uniform were right out; this also meant these stories needed to be unusually well-researched. Chandler American Time: The pre-war thirties is a popular time frame. As noted above, lots of this stuff was still being published well into the '70s, but even by then it had a very retro-'30s or '40s sensibility, as evidenced by the fact that Nazi villains remained a staple, whether the stories were period pieces set During the War or not. Our Cryptids Are More Mysterious - Especially in the post-war pulps. The men's adventure subgenre in particular is often credited with bringing cryptids from the fringes of science and into mainstream pop culture. Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti were particularly common. Wild Wilderness - The men's adventure pulps were often seen as the "outdoors" equivalent to the more "sophisticated", indoors magazines like Playboy. Their heroes were typically rugged, outdoorsy types living in small communities on the edge of the wilderness or leading safari tours into the Savage South, shipwrecked sailors in lifeboats or on some Deserted Island, or other varieties of tough guy on some kind of Robinsonade. This was the perfect environment to meet the improbably violent animals and cryptids mentioned above, though some of these stories would temper the carnage with a Green Aesop. As stated above, Two-Fisted Tales don't often attempt to recapture the varied feel of all the old pulps; it's very rare you'll see someone trying to overlay the Doc Savage feel onto a Cthulhu story (not that it's impossible). Usually, it attempts to focus on the thrilling heroics, not that that's a bad thing. While most works in the genre are not set during the interwar "pulp era" (though the occasional one, such as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre [1948], is), The Western could be considered an inherently pulpy genre, thanks to it frequently featuring heightened reality, an exotic historical setting (often nostalgically rendered), double-fisted machismo, a sensationalistic tone, plenty of action and/or adventure, print-the-legend storytelling, larger-than-life mythmaking, and fairly clear lines of morality. Related to Diesel Punk and Jungle Opera. Often the subject of a Genre Throwback. See also Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot, Twice-Told Tale which requires a specific tale. Also see Sword and Sorcery for a similarly campy style of adventure narrative that was popular around the same time. See Also: Hungry Jungle If you're an author; see Write a Jungle Opera |
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Mark Stephen Rainey's Blue Devil Island featuring the Blue Devil Squadron facing off against an Eldritch Abomination in the South Pacific during World War II. | |
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Star Wars was inspired by elements of the pulp series Flash Gordon and was in fact originally intended to be a film adaptation of it. | |
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The Captain Riley series by Fernando Gamboa, featuring a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits on a Cool Boat fighting (who else?) Those Wacky Nazis. | |
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In-universe, the Heterodyne stories, (often exaggerated) tales about the adventures of heroes Bill and Barry Heterodyne, are enormously popular. | |
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The Mummy's Hand and its sequels codified the trope of a mummy as a shambling, mute Implacable Man who likes to strangle people with their recurring villain Kharis and his repeated run-ins with a family of Adventurer Archaeologists. | |
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The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril has the authors of Doc Savage and The Shadow looking into the murder of H. P. Lovecraft and uncovering a global conspiracy. | |
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