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I was in elementary school in the early 1980s, saw I caught the last decade of pulp magazines, pulp dime novels (selling from 2.99-5.99), comics and graphic novels on the newsstands and spinning racks of grocery shops, delis, and bookstores. You are correct, because at trip to the candy shop afterschool (or before!) to buy comics was a joy and delight as artwork competed for your eyes and 5 dollar allowance. Some days you didn't know what to buy. By the early 1990s though, you could see it all starting to disappear.

@@agm5424 Thank you so much! Much appreciated.

It's THE MESSAGE.

Yes, you can. You aren't a time traveller, you're allowed to apply your current world experiences to things you're reading.

While I do think you can judge the past (I still judge the Aztecs and the Phoenicians for their human sacrifice,) for literature it just isn't appropriate. Or perhaps I should say moralizing on old literature is in bad taste. Lots of this stuff is just great literature, the great Robert E. Howard being one example. If people can't deal with anything other than modern perspectives, the solution is simple: don't read it. The fact that one of the great fathers of modern horror - and the definitive father of cosmic horror - Lovecraft, still has to be put through the PC wringer in every online discussion is an example of the stupidity and poor taste of the practice. Having read his diary, I can say that Lovecraft seems like a pretty rotten person... and a great writer, which at this date is the only thing that matters. His sins at this point are between him and his God - or perhaps between him and Cthulhu. ;)

@@cfor8129 that’s a little dishonest, if not simply misinformed. Of course you can interpret anything through your own experiences - but that’s YOUR take. OP is ascribing the un-pc content of these magazines to “fears of white men in the early 20th century” - which is preposterous. OP even goes out of his way to claim that “the examples of racism and sexism are hard to ignore,” which is quite obviously his own perspective. They didn’t really have leftist soyboys back then, so to say his interpretation of that era is a realistic or ‘correct’ one is untrue.

Fantastic! A modern pulp hero story that focuses on a different ethnic group is a great idea. I hope it gets some traction! The pulps could use a resurgence. It is very unfortunate that so much of this art form is lost forever.

I have never looked at a comic book and thought, "Wow, that's so racist, I won't buy that." This is the first time I have ever heard anyone say that.

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Iconic. 🎉

Ok, bye