The Avenger - A Forgotten Pulp Superhero A Mix Of Batman And Darkman - Origins Explored
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- Опубликовано: 27 ноя 2021
- Today, as we set on our voyage to explore the Avengers we are sure you must be thrilled! Wait a minute. I hope you have noticedwhat’s missing. I mean, there would be no Captain America, Iron Man, Ant-Man, Spider-Man, and other Super Heroes. Instead, there would be Fergus Mac Murdie, Algernon Heathcote Smith, Nellie Gray, along with a few more. What's in a name? Why don't you learn the names and see how sharp your memory is! We might conduct a quiz on the associates of The Avenger.
Anyway, meet the healthy, extremely knowledgeable, globe-trotting adventurer, Richard Henry Benson, the famous pulp hero of Street & Smith. Just like Conan, the Barbarian was created out of the Kull stories by Robert E. Howard in Weird Tales Magazine, The Avenger, was created in September 1939 by combining two other S&S pulp heroes, The Shadow and Doc Savage. Author Paul Ernst was engaged to develop and write about "The Avenger" under the house name Kenneth Robeson. Lester Dent, creator of Doc Savage, and Walter Gibson, author of "The Shadow," guided Paul Ernst to merge the two famous characters into The Avenger.
In the first story of The Avenger, titled "Justice Inc," we are introduced to Richard Henry Benson and his family, who have simply disappeared from a flight without a trace. The shock of losing the family converted Richard Henry Benson into the Avenger, avenging all crimes that cross his way. He was joined by others who had suffered in a similar manner. Together, they formed a "Justice Inc" group to provide justice to anyone suffering in a similar way. Apart from the magazine, a radio show was also organized at the same time featuring pulp stories. Comics were not left behind. The stories of the Avenger and "Justice Inc" were adapted into comics, initially as backup stories in S&S but later adapted by DC comics. Warner Paperback Library did paperback reprints of the Avenger in the 1970s. In recent times, Moonstone Books has published three volumes of avenger stories by a variety of authors. We will discuss these facts in detail eventually.
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Doc savage was a classic, both magazines and the film.
Also, Street & Smith had previously done other heroes to follow along after Doc Savage and The Shadow. They did Pete Rice, a western character, and revised Nick Carter. They created 2 that more followed Doc & The Shadow. The Whisperer for The Shadow and The Skipper, a kind of nautical Doc Savage. When they magazines failed, they wound up as backup series in the others magazines.
They also did Crime Busters which has several heroes serialized, in the hopes something would catch they could spin out in their own magazine.
Only then did they combine elements of Doc & the Shadow to create The Avenger.
The book that got me hooked on reading (in Jr. High) was "Doc Savage: Red Snow". After I'd read all the Doc Savage books (currently on the shelves) I started reading "The Avenger" #1, and I loved it too. And decades later I'm still looking for more books, and wishing for a movie, or series.
As always, thank you so very much for the (Marvelous) video.
You need to check out the New Pulp movement.
There are new Doc Savage works by Will Murray, new Avenger works by several. And original heroes and characters in the style of the old pulps.
Another great pulp character.
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@@martin21280 what's the question? The Avenger is a great pulp character, as he came from the pulp magazines
Awesome video guys do more videos like this forgotten golden age superhero characters and might as well do the silver forgotten characters too.
I wish they'd reprint these in e-book.
Hell yes.
People have no idea what they're missing.
All pulp fiction heroes are awesome ⭐👍🏿⭐
It would be more accurate to say that he was the progenitor of--and an inspiration for--both.
I read these stories as a kid... Then devoured the DC comics..
I wish Hollywood could come up with a decent revival... but I know that will never happen.
First read about the Avenger in DC’s Justice Inc. The concept was rather good, but both the 1930s pulp series & the later DC comic didn’t last long.
The Avenger was also seen in DC’s First Wave miniseries.
He was poorly used in First Wave. What you saw there was nothing like the original.
they should have made it so the electricity could change his face as he had a fake face put on his skull once the his real face died
No, I cannot name the pharmacist... but then it's been 40 years since I read these books.
Imagine,iftheydlaunchadocsavagemovieseriesandarichardbensonmovieseriesthatwouldbeawsome!!!!!!!+
He should join The Defenders Of The Earth
Can't. Those characters are owned by another company.
Can i get more info on the Alicia Benson series?
I read the books his face ...
LEE-ster Dent??
What could have been a decent video was marred by the video and artwork that just didn't fit. Get rid of the Marvel movie stuff and irrelevant artwork.
Wait I'm confused so did his family get on the plane while he wasn't on it or was he on the plane and didn't feel the crash because he was in the washroom came out and his family disappeared and apparently the crash didn't happen?
He and his family got on the plane.
When he went to the washroom, they killed his wife and daughter and threw them out of the plane, then claimed they were never there.
There was no crash.
The plane was full of criminals planning on killing another passenger. He and his family where just in the wrong place and the wrong time.
@@MichaelRBrown-lh6kn Wait the whole airplane was full of criminals like every single person in there seat was a criminal except for his family.
@@MMALifestyle1972 yes.
It wasn't a commercial flight. The criminals chartered it to fly over a lake, where they would dump out their victim. They had done this several times.
@@MMALifestyle1972 Keep in mind this was the 1930s. We are NOT talking big planes full of people. We are talking planes like DC-3 with maybe enough room for 20 people or so. It was probably not full, otherwise Benson couldn't have gotten him and his family on at the last minute.
And didn't he take on a invisible plane marvelous
in Sky Walker
The Avenger?
Looking for a Movie. A Horror Movie. Mid to Late 80's. About a town the Disappears and Reappears ever few years on a Certain Day for only 24hours. A Group of Friends were looking for it (research) and found it. The People in the City are after them but some do Welcome them and try to help them get out. All but one escape as he is pulled back in. A Few Years go by and the Friends return to try and find their friend they could not save. But the friend has changed and hunts them now.
Anyone seen or hear of a movie like this?
Brigadoon
@@seanfowler3966 Nope. Again, Mid to Late 80's. Unless I am missing something. I put that in to IMDB and it didn't come up, only the 1954, 1964 and 1966 came up.
@@ravenlorans thats what came up when I did the search.
@@seanfowler3966 I get other results when using google but nothing Matches. Brigadoon has parts that matches but the one I am looking for is a Horror. Not sure if the 54, 64, 66 ones are Horror or not. THINK it was set in Mexico. MAYBE.. New Mexico. Devil Shows up or the Devil Possessed their friend.
Still thanks for even trying.
@@ravenlorans ok, the brigadoon movie was based on a scottish folktale. Now I'm on a mission.
This channel has a lot of videos with interesting concept. However, 90% of the narrators are super boring, they read the script like a 3rd grader reading an assignment, there is no emotion or nuanced at all. Don't get me wrong, there are some good one here but the amount of bad narrators really stand out. Most channels like this are just someone reading a script but they actually put some effort into it, the people here feel like they are just half-assing it.
Right on point. I was going to write similar things. Content is good but narrator(s) are very bad. Put some background music etc. Make more attractive. If you can find a good narrator your channel will have much more subscribers. Please consider this as constructive criticism. We want you to be better.
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It doesn't help that the scripts themselves sound like they are written by someone whose first language is not English.
First ? Lol
This is an awful mish-mash
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spam what lol they post pretty sporadically
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