Before there were comic books there were the pulps. Before Batman, Superman, and Captain America, there was Doc Savage, The Shadow, and Tarzan. Pulps in the literal sense are not a genre, but derived their moniker from the cheap “pulpy” paper the stories were printed upon. The stories found on those pages ranged from Sci-Fi and Fantasy to Mysteries, Romance and Westerns.
Over time, the term “Pulp Adventure” has evolved and narrowed its focus to the time between the great wars while still bearing the markings of the spectacular stories of the pulps, often where larger than life heroes would set forth to stop the sinister plot of a diabolic and mysterious villain in some exotic location.
Inspired by authors Edgar Rice Burroughs and Attilio Gatti, the movies Raiders of the Lost Ark, Rocketeer, and the Mummy, as well as a “super” hero from radio, comics and movie serials called the Green Hornet, these sources combined were the spark behind Fists & .45s!
Under development is Fists & .45s!: A Spicy Spaghetti Western, which combines elements of the historical and mythical wild west, Pulp Western stories of the 1930s and Spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s.