Question about pulp comics

[LobsterJohnson]

Hi everyone,
I am a big fan of pulp comics, and I read a lot of the Dark Horse and Dynamite comics in that genre. But I haven't been reading pulp comics for very long, and I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations regarding comics in this genre.

[Don C]

What are you currently reading?

[LobsterJohnson]

I've read Lobster Johnson, Black Beetle, most of the Dynamite pulp titles and I've read some Captain Midnight. I've heard Rocketeer and Sandman Mystery Theater are both really good, but I have not read either of those.

[borntohula]

I don't know if my definition of pulp is wrong but Brian Azzarello's 100Bullets is easy to class as pulp noir and Wonder Woman is often like a horror tale.

The anthology 2000AD got some good stories also. Classics are Future shocks tales, Judge Dredd (early stuff got alot of dinosaurs and other good fun), Strontium dog or why not Shako (the only ice bear on CIA's hit list). Modern titles: Stickleback or Leviathan (reads like Titanic meets silent hill).

Not to forget Jack Kirby. OMAC and Devil Dinosaur are really wild!

[Michael24]

I've read Lobster Johnson, Black Beetle, most of the Dynamite pulp titles and I've read some Captain Midnight. I've heard Rocketeer and Sandman Mystery Theater are both really good, but I have not read either of those.

I'm a big fan of the Rocketeer and the original '80s comic is solid stuff. Definitely check that out. This is a good book collecting the original story and the three-part follow-up, Cliff's New York Adventure.

IMO, the recent books by IDW range from good to bad. Rocketeer Adventures (two volumes of four issues each) is an anthology, and as with all anthologies there are good stories and not-so-good stories. I didn't really care for the Cargo of Doom mini-series, but I actually really enjoyed Hollywood Horror. I haven't read the Rocketeer/Spirit mini-series yet.

[Aomalle27]

Rocketeer/Spirit was awesome, Dave would have been proud, it definitely captures the feel and tone of Cliff Secord and company A wacky adventure, but a good one. Some upcoming titles to look for, Lone Ranger Vindicated, Masks II, Shadow vs Grendle, Black Beetle Necrologue, Sherlock Holmes vs Harry Houdini, Justice Inc

[FiveGhosts]

Dynamite announced some Legenderry spinoffs featuring Red Sonja, Vampirella and Green Hornet. The Green Hornet one might be classified as pulp, but the Legenderry series is technically steampunk. There could be some crossover between genres though.

[LobsterJohnson]

Rocketeer/Spirit was awesome, Dave would have been proud, it definitely captures the feel and tone of Cliff Secord and company A wacky adventure, but a good one. Some upcoming titles to look for, Lone Ranger Vindicated, Masks II, Shadow vs Grendle, Black Beetle Necrologue, Sherlock Holmes vs Harry Houdini, Justice Inc

Do you know when Black Beetle Necrologue is coming out? The first book is excellent.

[MajorHoy]

. . . Some upcoming titles to look for, Lone Ranger Vindicated, Masks II, . . .

Final issue of Masks 2 (#8) is due out next week (11/18/2015).

Do you know when Black Beetle Necrologue is coming out? The first book is excellent.

Saw this posted elsewhere: a link to Francavilla's latest update on Twitter.

Working on getting Vol.2 out in 2016 : ) RT
@GyroPhibes @f_francavilla Do you have an update on Black Beetle? Can't wait to read more of it.

Looks like it was posted about a month ago?
https://twitter.com/f_francavilla/st...88122415931392
(As to when in 2016, . . . )

[MajorHoy]

Hi everyone,
I am a big fan of pulp comics, and I read a lot of the Dark Horse and Dynamite comics in that genre. But I haven't been reading pulp comics for very long, and I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations regarding comics in this genre.

Once again bumping up this old thread . . .

By the way, for any Lobster Johnson fans here, there was this article from a few months back:

Apr 1, 2021, 11:00am EST

Face The Claw...Of Justice! Mike Mignola Teases Future Plans For Lobster Johnson

Josh Weiss - Contributor - Hollywood & Entertainment

The salt water tank of vigilantism is far from empty, folks. Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and Dark Horse Comics will once again be pinching crime in the buttocks with brand-new stories centered around the violent pulp and noir-inspired hero known as Lobster Johnson (aka “The Lobster” or “LoJo”).

“There are a couple of Lobster Johnson things in the early planning stages. Very early, so that’s as much of a tease as you’re going to get,” Mignola exclusively tells Forbes Entertainment during an interview about the forthcoming Hellboy omnibus box set.

“We are working on some plans for LoJo, there will be fresh versions of the older material as well as some newer stories in the works,” adds Dark Horse editor Katii O’Brien. “We are far from done with him, and readers can expect to see some Lobster Johnson in the next year!”

An influential role model for a growing Hellboy, Johnson first scuttled onto the scene in 1999’s Hellboy: Box of Evil #1. The semi-apocryphal figure was famous for battling monsters, and Nazis in Depression-era Manhattan. He’s basically Mignola’s ode to Captain America with a bloody twist of Quentin Tarantino thrown into the mix (imagine if Steve Rogers burned a red hot lobster claw insignia into the foreheads of his vanquished foes, and you’ve got the picture).

The Lobster’s career came to an end when he was killed during a raid on a German science outpost in Austria. Nevertheless, he later appeared to Hellboy as a ghost.

Over the last two decades, LoJo has received his very own standalone adventures like The Iron Prometheus, The Burning Hand, Satan Smells a Rat, Get the Lobster, A Chained Forged in Life and The Pirate's Ghost and Metal Monsters of Midtown. In addition, he was the subject of a 2009 prose novel, The Satan Factory, written by Thomas E. Sniegoski.

“The trick with the character is to keep him relatively low key, and that's great because then you can actually do stories about crime,” Mignola said in a 2013 interview with Comic Book Resources. “The fact that he is still regarded as a mythical, 'Was he real or not?' character means you're forced to maintain a certain mystery about him.”

The mysterious character made his live-action debut in 2019’s big screen Hellboy reboot, where he was played in a World War II flashback by Thomas Haden Church.

“The costume for Lobster Johnson is spot-on, or 99 percent exactly what was in the comic,” Mignola remarked to Vulture around the time of the film’s release. “That’s taken a lot of getting used to, seeing my work so represented on screen. So that was pretty cool.”

see thread "Lobster Johnson plans for 2022" in the Hellboy sub-section of the forum.

[Shadowras]

Anyone else reading the ERB stuff from American Mythology? It's Jungle Pulp I guess.
I recently read 'Beyond the farthest star: warriors of zandar', and 'Pellucidar: across savage seas', what was interesting is that one series focused on a girl Victory Harben, while Pellucidar focused on her mother when she was young. According to the stamp on the covers these books are also cannon with the novels.