Ages of Heroism - The Pulp Era

The Pulp Era (1920–1940)   By the 1920s, the world was accelerating toward something new and unstable. Organized crime hardened into modern syndicates, global travel shrank the map, and reports of the strange and impossible surfaced with increasing regularity. Adventure was no longer confined to the frontier; it spilled into cities, jungles, lost ruins, and back alleys alike. The world felt larger, louder, and far less predictable than it had a generation earlier.   Sometime in this chaos, an American publishing house—its name still debated—made a fateful decision: to write these stories down. Printed on cheap pulp paper and sold for pennies, their magazines blended fiction with heavily embellished field reports, eyewitness accounts, and half-sanitized truths. Other publishers quickly followed, until the line between invention and documentation became deliberately unclear. Real figures inspired fictional counterparts, while fictional heroes provided cover for very real operations happening just beyond public scrutiny.   In hindsight, the Pulp Era is widely regarded as the prototype age of modern heroism and villainy. Costumes were rare, powers inconsistent, and morality often personal rather than symbolic. Yet the patterns were forming—recurring adversaries, public personas, mythmaking, and the idea that individuals could stand against forces far larger than themselves. It was a warning tremor before the earthquake, a sign that the world was on the verge of changing in ways both spectacular and catastrophic.   Figures of the Pulp Era (WIP will add more)   The Scarlet Siren-pulp era
  The Torrid Temptress-Pulp Era
  Madame Mirage – Pulp Era
  Doctor Velvet – Pulp Era
  Catalina "Cat" de la Vega - Pulp Era
  Aysun "Zara" Kovalenko -Pulp to Golden Era
  The Midnight Matron - Pulp Era