Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares some posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. The latest shared post is my reminiscence about discovering pulp and superhero paperback novels as a teenager in the '70s: Superpulp Paperbacks!
It's within the realm of plausible possibility that I love books even more than I love records. Do not even try to make me choose between them. I'll be sharing a few other tales of my affection for pulps, fiction, and books in general over at Pop-A-Looza in the near future. In the mean time, you can have a look back at my introductions to Doc Savage and The Shadow, and my history of reading movie tie-in novelizations.
I've also tried my hand at writing superhero pulp, and I've been pleased with the results. For this blog, I wrote a fanfic Batman pulp short called "The Undersea World Of Mr. Freeze," and began a tentative (and uncompleted) next chapter called "Paradise Does Not Believe In Tears." I wrote and sold a Western called "The Last Ride Of The Copperhead Kid" and a 1930s masked vigilante adventure called "The Copperhead Strikes!" (which repurposed part of the opening from my Batman story). I also wrote and sold a 1965-set secret agent story called "The Copperhead Affair," which has not yet posted here (but may still be available at your local comic book store, in the pages of AHOY Comics' Second Coming: Only Begotten Son # 1).
Straying a bit more afield of classic pulp, I started writing another Copperhead-connected short story set at a punk rock club in the early '80s ("Chaos At The Copperhead Club") and a rock 'n' roll time travel superhero novel called Eternity Man! Both of those projects remain unfinished and abandoned...for the time being.
But right now, we go back to where a lot of this began for me. My superpulp paperbacks are the subject of the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.
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