For today's #SundayMotivation I'm looking back at '70s Argentine superhero Namur, a lady who lives her life by the motto "Peligro Supremo!"
Namur is something of a mystery. She's an FBI agent who uses her unique martial arts skills to fight crime. However she always wears a mask to protect her identity.
Namur's boss at the FBI is the equally mysterious 'Taurus' who hides his identity behind a fan. It's such a secretive world fighting crime...
Many of Namur's investigations take place in Argentina, where she is in a constart battle with various international criminal masterminds; gangsters, kingpins, smugglers, skeletons etc...
Fortunately Namur is in constant televisual contact with all the police forces of the world, providing valuable real-time information to help her on her secret missions. She also has excellent taste in table lamps!
Namur is if course a martial arts expert and is a match for any opponent...
...however Namur's favourite weapon is the whip, which she expertly wields to disarm foes.
Actually Namur is an Argentinian fotonovela first published in 1972 by Ediciones Record S.C.A.
Namur was played by actress Gloria Gago, better known for her roles in Spanish language comedies such as Estoy Hecho un Demonio (1972) and El Gran Marrone (1974).
Namur was one of a long line of 1970s action fotonovelas produced in Argentina. The format was quite popular and covered everything from superheroes to the occult.
The layout of these fotonovelas was somewhat simplistic, as was the captioning and the special effects. Much of it was done in pen directly over the photographs.
But if action, adventure and leather bikinis is your thing then Namur is probably right up your alley. Do keep an eye out for her!
More pulp heroes another time...
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What are the pulp archetypes? Pulp novels are usually written quickly and rely on a formula, but do they use different archetypal characters to other fiction?
Let's take a look at a few...
The Outlaw is a classic pulp archetype: from Dick Turpin onwards lawbreakers have been a staple of the genre. Crime never pays, but it's exciting and trangressive!
Some pulp outlaws however are principled...
As Bob Dylan sang "to live outside the law you must be honest." Michel Gourdon's 1915 hero Dr Christopher Syn is a good example. A clergyman turned pirate and smuggler, he starts as a revenger but becomes the moral magistrate of the smuggling gangs of Romney Marsh.
Many readers have asked me "Why do so many pulp covers feature women in ripped red blouses standing in swamps while a man who looks a bit like David Bowie fights off an unusual animal attack?"
The answer is: pulp artist Wil Hulsey...
Wilbur "Wil" Hulsey was the undisputed king of the animal attack pulp cover. You name it, he'd paint it attacking you in a pool of stagnant water.
Very little is known about Wil Hulsey, but he worked on a number of men's pulp magazines in the 1950s and early 1960s including Man's Life, True Men, Guilty, Trapped and Peril.
It was the biggest manhunt in Britain: police, the press, aeroplanes, psychics all tried to solve the disappearance. In the end nobody really knew what happened. It was a mystery without a solution.
This is the story of Agatha Christie's 11 lost days...
By 1926 Agatha Christie's reputation as a writer was setting to grow. Her sixth novel - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - had been well-received and she and her husband Archie had recently concluded a world tour. But all was not well with the marriage.
In April 1926 Agatha Christie’s mother died. Christie was very close to her: she had been home-schooled and believed her mother was clairvoyant. The shock of her sudden death hit the author hard.
Starman the Libertarian is a South American superhero from the '80s, who will be familiar to Colombians of a certain age. You could usually find him on most news stands.
Created by Rafael Curtberto Navarro - who also created Kalimán: El Hombre Incredible - Starman was first published in 1980 by Editora Cinco and ran for over 100 issues.