But that's mistaking medium for genre. Yeah, early comics were influenced by pulps, but that's just a change of medium, not of genre. For example, the early Batman was pretty much a rip-off of The Shadow, so much so that the very first Batman story "The Case of the Chemical Syndicate", was lifted from the Shadow novel "Partners of Peril". It just happens that one is a prose novel, while the other is a comic story.