Early Pulp Magazine's Influence On Comic Books Part-1 || Docuseries-3 by Alex Grand

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Early comic books were influenced by Pulp Magazines, Newspaper Strips, and Golden Age Movies. Even Modern Comic books derive much of their stories and themes from
Pulp Fiction, Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls works that started as early as 1886 through the 1930s. This includes Nick Carter, Spring Heeled Jack, John Carter, Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Shadow, Doc Savage, G8, Suicide Squad, Buck (Anthony) Rogers, Batman, Two-Face, Superman, Enemy Ace, Green Lantern, Green Lantern Corp, Grey Lensmen, and so on.
#CBHDocuseries 3: Early Pulp Magazine's Influence On Comic Books Part-1
🎬 Edited & Produced by Alex Grand, ©2021 Comic Book Historians.
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📜 Video chapters
00:00 Start
00:07 Creators of original Golden Age of comics
00:50 Nicholas Carter, Spring-Heeled Jack
01:25 Pulp precursors to Superman
01:52 John Carter
02:22 Gladiator
02:55 Doc Savage
03:57 Link between Doc Savage and Golden Age of comics
04:44 Pulp precursors to Batman | Spring Heeled Jack
05:11 The Scarlet Pimpernel
05:32 Jimmie Dale The Grey Seal
05:52 The Gray Ghost
06:27 Black Pirate
07:02 The Shadow
07:32 Two-Face
07:44 Black Bat
08:05 Origin for Daredevil
09:19 Pulp roots of Ka-Zar
10:40 Science Fiction roots | JetPacks
11:43 Nighthawk | Mechanized Wings
12:25 G-8, Enemy Ace
12:58 Grey Lensman
13:26 Suicide Squad
13:53 Conclusion
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[@Principles_of_Psychology]

Wonderful! The pulp roots of comics are truly delightful to learn about...

[@dinomonzon7493]

Hope you can do a video centering on The Shadow. In Starlog Magazine #200, its noted that Bill Finger cited Douglas Fairbanks, Zorro, The Shadow, & Doc Savage as inspirations for Batman.

[@hydrolito]

Doc Savage also used top floors of a tall New York building for headquarters before The Fantastic Four. Black Hawks' Challengers of the Unknown and sea devils had teams of adventurers similar to Doc Savage.

[@codex3048]

The pulps themselves were influenced by such characters as Sherlock Holmes and Poe's C. Auguste Dupin, not to mention the works of Jules Verne and HG Wells. Literature is really just a never-ending stream of ideas that become reconfigured to new media and rewritten for new generations.

[@gabbar51ngh]

I think greatest influence comes from swashbuckler novels which were all about defeating the bad guys, Saving the day & getting the girl. Almost jingoistic level of heroism. Characters like James bond are very pulpy in nature despite not really appearing in Pulp magazine first. Not denying books you mentioned influenced Pulp but when you look how these pulpheroes are, majorly they feel like an updated swashbuckler story to the contemporary times of those writers. They were also not considered higher level literature so focused more on women, action & adventure to rope in average fellow who can't afford to enjoy that in real life but could buy the pulp magazine.

[@moonled]

All the way back to mythology. The crew of Jason's Argo included Hercules, a warrior woman, speedsters, an archer, and the son of a sea king. Like the JLA each of these had their own myths before teaming up in this quest. The Fantastic Four are the four elements, fire, rock, air and water.

[@stevevondoom4140]

alot of pulp characters are proto-all the favorites... doc savage and the shadow, the black bat,

[@alfrede.neumann5513]

Who in the hell gave this video a thumbs down? These videos are fantastic!

[@lunarmodule6419]

Ya!

[@KajiRider1997]

Superhero fanboys who cannot take the fact that they aren't that original.

[@KajiRider1997]

Here's a few of mine. 1860's Rocambole (france's first super villain and anti-hero and first larger than life character) 1890's Ironman (first vigilante who seem to be wearing a domino mask but its a ball mask). 1899 the human bat (Irish Batman precursor based on old Springheeled jack stories, Could fly before Nelson Lee) 1905 Arsene Lupin (best known for his unoffical Japanese grandson), 1905 Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation,(John Carter's inpiration) 1909 Doctor Omega (Doctor who precursor) 1911 Le Nyctalope (first cyborg sci-fi hero, could breath underwater and in space, Could see in the Dark, Had an artificial heart, fought the devil) Fanthomas 1913, Judex 1916 (partial inspiration for the Shadow) 1915 Scarecrow of Romney Marsh (Last of the smugglers but also precursor to Zorro), The trio of the Man in Purple, the Bat and Zorro, 1931 Ogon Bat(Japan's first superhero, could fly and had super speed and strength, good luck with that DC) 1941 Purple Scar (Originator of the Spider Sense)

[@hydrolito]

So, you don't think Atlas from mythology was larger than life?

[@hydrolito]

Gilgamesh predates Atlas he was also larger than life.

[@KajiRider1997]

@@hydrolito Errr what are you commenting to here? I just gave a few of mine and don't give any flying fucks about atlas. make sense pls

[@KajiRider1997]

@@hydrolito I checked the comment section. No one was talking about Atlas or gilgamesh. So you couldn't have made any mistakes here. Stop doing drugs while on KZbin.

[@topherholland4646]

Between pulp magazines and comic books, I'd probably read both.

[@moonled]

Japanese travelling storytellers used large painted panels to tell about characters like the Golden Bat who fought evil from a cave hideout. He also flew and wore a red cape.

[@3AtomicJabez8]

Love this video!

[@lunarmodule6419]

Great Krypton! This is good content. Just subscribed. Thank you.

[@moonled]

John Carter, Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon were all precursors of Adam Stranger who actually debuted in SHOWCASE 17.

[@03andrew77]

Nice work!

[@hydrolito]

Aladin which had a magic lamp and magic ring was from a Syrian Story teller and added to One Thousand and one nights which was research of Arabic stories by an Englishman estimated to be circa 1706 to 1721. This was original inspiration for Green Lantern although he was later changed.

[@hydrolito]

Misspelled Alladin before sorry about that.

[@macsnafu]

I thought G8 and His Battle Aces was going to lead to Blackhawk and his team.

[@ComicBookHistorians]

In retrospect, looking back I would put in Blackhawk as an in-between G8 and Enemy Ace.

[@chrisevansmustacheride4757]

Dude your amazing

[@LeighMet]

Two face was inspired by the 1942 movie version of jekel and hyde staring spencer tracey

[@hydrolito]

Tom Thumb was boy the size of an insect in 1621, Thumbelina girl size of an insect in Fairy Tales for Children 1835.

[@ComicBookHistorians]

For an improved volume experience on all devices, here is this same episode with improved sound. kzbin.info/www/bejne/joKqpHx9rtdkqcU

[@jeremycline9542]

Wealthy scions using their fortunes to wage a private war against crime: it comes from the pulps. Heroes training in the Far East, especially Tibet, where they learn martial arts and even gain mystic abilities? That also comes from the pulps.

[@gabbar51ngh]

Wonder woman in many ways is classic trope of hero meeting Princess of faraway land who happens to be from another world & culture. Only difference is here the focus is on the Princess over the man.

[@christianbjorck816]

Don’t forget Steve Ditko who was schooled by Jerry Robinson and created Spider-Man 😉

[@travorptrebor3358]

I'M SORRY. THERE IS ONLY 'ONE STORY' AND THAT IS : "THE CHASE"

[@hydrolito]

Ant Man shrunk to the size of an ant and communicated with ants which assisted him in fighting villains. Later assisted by wife that shrunk to insect size costume grew wings to fly and had armbands that would shoot a stink.

[@MichaelRBrown-lh6kn]

Overall a good video, but notice a big mistake in the origin of the Black Bat. He did not seek out for a surgery on his eyes. Instead, Carole Baldwin approached him about having a secret surgery to use the eye of her slain police chief father for new eyes. The surgeon had been doing experiments on the side to give one the ability to see in the dark, so this lead to him having eyesight AND being able to see in the dark, but kept it secret, letting people to think he was still blind. Carole Baldwin would become part of his small group of associates, and possible love interest.