Pulp Heroes was the theme of the 1997 DC annuals. The reason I've made "Pulp Heroes" the secondary title to each of these collections is because the primary titles are all old DC titles whose copyrights need to be kept up. So these collections would keep Suspense Detective, Young Romance, Weird Western Tales, My Greatest Adventure and Tales of the Unexpected current for DC.

Alternate title suggestions are the same titles, without "Pulp Heroes" as the subtitle. The only reason for this would be to cement the title renewals for DC, but personally, I like 'em better with the subtitle.

Another way to go is to combine these issues into two TPB's (either 11 & 12 issues, for as close to an even split as possible, or 10 & 13 issues, to keep the groupings together), simply titled Pulp Heroes, Volume 1, and Pulp Heroes, Volume 2. I think that's a more meh idea, and it doesn't do anything for keeping title copyrights current, but it's been long enough since these annuals came out, that it might be the more practical idea, as far as publishing.

Suspense Detective: Pulp Heroes

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Stories in Suspense Detective: Pulp Heroes:

Batman in "The Screams of the Green Dragon"

Azrael in "The Vampire Bat

Superman in "Pierced"

JLA in "Hardboiled Hangover"

JLA in "Lockdown!"

Aquaman in "From Tusk 'Til Dawn"

Aquaman in "The Lady in Cement"

Aquaman in "Wet City"

Young Romance: Pulp Heroes

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Stories in Young Romance: Pulp Heroes:

Batman in "I Was the Love-Slave of a Plant-Based Killer!"

Nightwing in "Forever Hold Your Peace"

Supergirl in "I Lived For Love!"

Supergirl in "Object of Desire"

Starman in "Stars in My Eyes!"

Scalphunter in "First Months and a Lawman's Choice"

Starman in "Summer and a Father's Choice"

Starman in "Winter and a Brother's Choice"

Weird Western Tales: Pulp Heroes

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Stories in Weird Western Tales: Pulp Heroes:

Hitman in "A Coffin Full of Dollars"

Robin in "The Law West of Gotham"

Superman in "Terror of the Sierra Madre"

Superman in "The Return of Saganowahna"

Superman in "The Journey of the Horseman"

Impulse in "Showdown"

Windrunner in "Thunder in Mesa City"

My Greatest Adventure: Pulp Heroes

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Stories in My Greatest Adventure: Pulp Heroes:

Batman in "Warrior Breed!"

Batman in "I Am a Gun"

Superboy in "Land of the Lost"

Superman in "Black Crucible"

Green Lantern in "Worlds Within Worlds"

Tales of the Unexpected: Pulp Heroes

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Stories in Tales of the Unexpected: Pulp Heroes:

Superman in "The Magnetic Medium"

Wonder Woman in "Necropolis"

Artemis in "From Hell She Came"

Teen Titans in "The Lost Junction Massacre"

Catwoman in "I Married a Mummy"

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These were some cool annuals, and I think they'd make great TPB's. But you tell me...

More WUBI:

I would get all these even though I've read none of them. They just intrigue the heck out of me=)

I would at least buy the My Greatest Adventures: Pulp Heroes TPB, the covers look awesome.

I have a few favorites here: JLA Annual, just because the Martian Manhunter looks cool there (to me), and it reminds me of his John Jones: Detective persona, that I wish DC would use more (Detective Jones would work great in Gotham, I've always thought). The Nightwing and Hitman stories were awesome - Hitman is still a favorite for the best ending to a problem. Supergirl Annual #2 is a favorite cover for me, just because it harkens back to the days of the original LSH, when Brainy loved Kara, and Superman Annual #9's cover evokes Doc Savage - probably intentionally, which is kind of cool, since Supes borrowed concepts from the Doc (particularly the Fortress of Solitude, and Man of Steel, rather than Man of Bronze).

I have one of these, the Green Lantern Annual there, but i would prob buy this cause they all look awsome.

Pulp Heroes was a nice surprise for me, because I didn't expect them to be in continuity. I thought they were the current characters shoehorned into the pulp novel era. Instead, it turned out to be current continuity stories showing that the pulp novel story still works today. Very, very cool reads, IMHO.

The site redesign had messed this blog up for a bit, and I couldn't get into it to edit it. So for a brief time, I had redone this blog as a list, and these are the comments from that list (the list is now deleted):

We now return you to your regularly scheduled blog comments. -cb