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 stricklystrictly demarcated by a span of years with an obvious beginning and end. Instead, it's the way the timeperiodtime period between theDepressionthe Depression and andWWIIWWIIshould should have been,a time gilded by the distance of years and nostalgia.

The Pulp Era isanis 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 EraisEra is also anagegreatan aggregate of heroism, vision and Invention, with the 1939 New York WorldsWorld's Fair the epitome of such hope. Bronze giants walked the earth in those days,heroesdays, heroes donned capes and black masks,and theysluggedthey slugged it out against poachers in Darkest Africa.

During thePulpthe Pulp Era mightyZeppelinsmighty Zeppelins glided across the heavens,aircraftheavens, aircraft swooped acrobitically among the clouds, and gleaming locomotives thundered acrossstrangeacross strange and exciting continents of adventure.Africaisadventure. Africa is at its darkest,inscrutableisdarkest, inscrutable theFaris the Far East, and the polesofpoles of the EarthareEarth are frozen and white. Adventure can be foundinfound in all quarters of theworld,the world, or could be found just steps away from your front door of your home town.

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

It is found in the thedeadlythe deadly and intoxicatingsintoxicating excitement captured by wordsmiths inluridin lurid pulp novels.Itnovels. It still lurks in thosegoose-bumpthose goose-bump stimulating old-time-radio serials. It blazes in silver and black in thoseedge-of-the-seatthose edge-of-the-seat cliffhanger moviesthatmovies that have inspired imatationsimitations made over half a century ago. ThinkofThink of these media relics of the past as the true"newsreels"true "newsreels" and "newspapers" ofthisthrillingeraof this thrilling era of wonder and excitement; the Pulp Era!

::Brian::

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