Pulp Magazine - Notable Original Characters

Notable Original Characters

While the majority of pulp magazines were anthology titles featuring many different authors, characters and settings, some of the most enduringly popular magazines were those that featured a single recurring character. These were often referred to as "hero pulps" because the recurring character was almost always a larger-than-life hero in the mold of Doc Savage or The Shadow.

Popular pulp characters included:

  • The Avenger
  • Biggles
  • The Black Bat
  • Bran Mak Morn
  • Buck Rogers
  • Captain Future
  • Conan the Barbarian
  • The Continental Op
  • Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective
  • Doc Savage
  • Doctor Death
  • Dr. Yen Sin
  • Domino Lady
  • The Eel
  • Flash Gordon
  • Fu Manchu
  • G-8
  • Green Lama
  • Hopalong Cassidy
  • Jim Anthony
  • John Carter of Mars
  • Jules de Grandin
  • Ka-Zar
  • Khlit the Cossack
  • Kull
  • Moon Man
  • Nick Carter
  • Operator No. 5
  • The Phantom Detective
  • Lord Lister(aka Raffles)
  • Secret Agent X
  • Sexton Blake
  • The Shadow
  • The Spider
  • Solomon Kane
  • Tarzan
  • Zorro

Read more about this topic:  Pulp Magazine

Famous quotes containing the words notable, original and/or characters:

    In one notable instance, where the United States Army and a hundred years of persuasion failed, a highway has succeeded. The Seminole Indians surrendered to the Tamiami Trail. From the Everglades the remnants of this race emerged, soon after the trail was built, to set up their palm-thatched villages along the road and to hoist tribal flags as a lure to passing motorists.
    —For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself.
    Paul Gauguin (1848–1903)

    White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light.... They are too pure to have a market value; they contain no muck. How much more beautiful than our lives, how much more transparent than our characters are they! We never learned meanness of them.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)