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It's #PublicDomainDay, and as requested by @doctorcomics I am providing a list of the best of the pulp heroes who are now in the public domain. * means the character or text they appear in are prime pulp.

Carlo Aldini:

* Bakterev: https://t.co/QQoSLCNIa4
Black Eagle: https://t.co/QujggV83rX
Brigand: https://t.co/uOs7x9Lvwn
* Sir Ralf Clifford: https://t.co/6QXvegLKPk
Earani: https://t.co/uHGIeecPva
Ebony: https://t.co/C7Jc3j4O44
Fifth Wanderer: https://t.co/5GWyZZJgJF

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Fresquinho: https://t.co/FGRRM4lEEv
Jerzy Hartman: https://t.co/54aVxZKugb

Valentin Katayev's Stanley Holmes, Sherlock Holmes' nephew (son of Mycroft), who goes to India to stop a revolutionary movement from using a Russian scientist's super-magnet to create world peace.

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Aleksandr Beliayev's Professor Kern, who murders people to create Brains In A Jar so that he can discover the secrets of SCIENCE!

Frederick Irving Anderson's Sophie Lang, a flawless master thief: "Sophie, the uncaught."

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Tomas Lann from the film Luch Smerti (The Death Ray): Russian factory worker invents death ray, leads workers' revolution.

*Arthur O. Friel's Roderick McKay--very entertaining stories about a post-WW1 mercenary

* Jennette Lee's Millicent Newbury--crime-solving "mind nurse" 5/
* Baroness Orczy's Old Man in the Corner--one of the greatest of the armchair detectives

* Bertram Atkey's Winnie O'Wynn, my favorite Con Woman of them all--she uses a splendid naif/ingenue act to gull everyone (think Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, only better written)

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* Reo Ratt--German cowboy hero in the 1920s who fights Mad Scientists, apes trained to hold up stagecoaches, and the Mysterious Four.

* Peyami Safa's Recai--greatest of the Turkish pulps' master thieves; he duels with Sherlock Holmes & Arsene Lupin in his adventures.

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Kurt Falkenstein's James Robertson--a Holmesian detective who fights against a Mad Scientist trying to recreate Frankenstein's experiments, Thuggee trying to retrieve a gold statue of Kali stolen by the British, Arsene Lupin, and Professor Moriarty himself.

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* Naum Rogozhin from the film Krest i Mauzer (Cross and Mauser". Rogozhin is one of the best villains in all of world film, period, full stop. A titanically evil Catholic "vicar," he literally files his nails to sharp points to accentuate his wickedness. Guilty of every sin.

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* Sanada Yukimura's Sarutobi Sasuke, a superhumanly powerful ninja (nickname "leaps like a monkey") who assists a samurai detective fight against the enemies of the Koga ninja and the enemies of the Emperor.

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Sharik, from Mikhail Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog--scientist puts pituitary glands into a dog, transforms him into a lewd, foul-mouthed drunk who achieves great success in Soviet society.

* Fritz Lang's Rama Singh--a Sikh detective/adventurer active from Burma to Mecca.

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* AD Temple's Josh Stebbins--either an adventurer who teamed up with "Byron Murchensen," discovered suspended animation, and found & thawed out some frozen Vikings (with Eirik the Red becoming a bouncer in Chicago)...or a fabulous teller of tall tales.

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More from Society

Like most movements, I have learned that the definition of feminism has expanded to include simply treating women like human beings.

(A thread for whoever feels like reading)


I have observed feminists on Twitter advocating for rape victims to be heard, rapists to be held accountable, for people to address the misogyny that is deeply rooted in our culture, and for women to be treated with respect.

To me, very easy things to get behind.

And the amount of pushback they receive for those very basic requests is appalling. I see men trip over themselves to defend rape and rapists and misogyny every chance they get. Some accounts are completely dedicated to harassing women on this site. It’s unhealthy.

Furthermore, I have observed how dedicated these misogynists are by how they treat other men that do not immediately side with them. There is an entire lexicon they have created for men who do not openly treat women with disrespect.

Ex: simp, cuck, white knight, beta

All examples of terms they use to demean a man who respects women.

To paraphrase what a wise man on this app said:

Some men hate women so much, they hate men who don’t hate women

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