{"id":2027,"date":"2013-01-11T16:28:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T21:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/?p=2027"},"modified":"2013-01-16T13:43:06","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T18:43:06","slug":"pulps-arent-comic-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/2013\/01\/11\/pulps-arent-comic-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulps aren’t comic books"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ProseFor those who aren’t familiar with the pulp magazines<\/a>, it may appear that the colorful, illustrated cover of a pulp — or pulp reprint or replica — wraps around a fully-illustrated magazine, i.e. a comic book.<\/p>\n

This was the assumption of several relatives over the Christmas holiday. It wasn’t the first time either. People frequently assume that the pulps were comic books. And generally, when they say “comic books” it is often with a certain disdain in their voice.
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\n(To be fair, I’ve read my share of comic books over the years and appreciate graphic storytelling. What has turned me off of them is the entertainment-value-to-cost ratio. Paying about $4 for 15 minutes of entertainment doesn’t equal value. To put that in context: If a ticket to The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey<\/em> was valued at the same rate as comic books today, it would cost about $45 just to get in to see the movie \u2014 forget about a drink and a snack. But this should be a topic for a comic book blog; so back to the pulps.)<\/p>\n

Whereas comic books are a visual form of literature, the pulp magazines contained (as most of you know) prose \u2014 short stories, novellas, novels, poems and the occasional article. <\/p>\n

Of course, gloriously colorful paintings graced the covers, and inked illustrations often accompanied the stories inside.<\/p>\n

There were instances of short comic strips appearing the pulps, but those were very limited. Take Spicy Detective Stories<\/em><\/a>, which included four to six pages of a black-and-white “Sally the Sleuth<\/a>” comic where she solved crime and always, curiously, ended up wearing nothing but her underwear. (It was<\/em> “spicy” after all.)<\/p>\n

Those limited examples aside, the pulps were filled with text — stories both poorly written and exceptionally crafted, and everything in between.<\/p>\n

Brief rant concluded. Now back to reading an H. Bedford-Jones<\/a><\/strong> story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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