This post begins: The Pulps were the midwife to the comics. Nowhere was this more evident than at DC Comics. The big editors, Julius Schwartz and Mort Weisinger had been fans and then Pulp editors then finally turned to comics. Many of the authors who created the classic characters and situations for Superman, Batman and The Flash had written for Pulps first, like Otto Binder, Edmond Hamilton, Manly Wade Wellman, Alfred Bester and Gardner F. Fox. It is no surprise that many Pulp themes were re-imagined in the comics.
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