The Pulp Era

The Pulp Era is not a strictly accurate version of the world of the 1930s and 1940s, the most common period covered the the classic pulp magazines. It's not a period strictly demarcated by a span of years with an obvious beginning and end. Instead, it's the way the time period between the Depression and WWII should have been,a time gilded by the distance of years and nostalgia.

The Pulp Era is an Age Of Menace. It is a time of great danger for those lonely bastions of Democracy assailed by the triumverate forces of Facism, Communism and unbridled Capitalism. The Pulp Era is also an aggregate of heroism, vision and Invention, with the 1939 New York World's Fair the epitome of such hope. Bronze giants walked the earth in those days, heroes donned capes and black masks,and they slugged it out against poachers in Darkest Africa.

During the Pulp Era mighty Zeppelins glided across the heavens, aircraft swooped acrobitically among the clouds, and gleaming locomotives thundered across strange and exciting continents of adventure. Africa is at its darkest, inscrutable is the Far East, and the poles of the Earth are frozen and white. Adventure can be found in all quarters of the world, or could be found just steps away from your front door of your home town.

The high reality of this exciting Golden Age of Adventure isn't in the dusty newspapers or mouldering newsreels left to us today to ponder over.

It is found in the the deadly and intoxicating excitement captured by wordsmiths in lurid pulp novels. It still lurks in those goose-bump stimulating old-time-radio serials. It blazes in silver and black in those edge-of-the-seat cliffhanger movies that have inspired imitations made over half a century ago. Think of these media relics of the past as the true "newsreels" and "newspapers" of this thrilling era of wonder and excitement; the Pulp Era!

::Brian::

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