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PULPSweeney Toddthe Demon Barber

of Fleet Street

John Carter inA Princess of Mars

Pacifc Rim

When Kaiju aack!

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Volume1

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Pacifc Rim

When Kaiju aack!

Sweeney Toddthe Demon Barber of Fleet Street

John Carter in

A Princess of Mars

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Table of Contents 3

Leer from the Editor A few words for the guy in charge 6

Fan Leerstell us what you do and do not like 7A Princess of Mars the rst chapter of our feature story 12

Q & A Ask the answer man 24

Top 5 Classic Movie Monsters 27

Sweeney ToddA History of the Butcher of Fleet Street 28

Pulp Sci-Fi Gaming: Traveller 34

B-Rated What is B-Rated? Heres our answer! 42

Pacic Rim Our movie review 44

Contents

Our Cover: John Carter

and Thuvia, from Edgar

Rice Burroughs: John Car-

ter in: A Princess of Mars

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John Carter in

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by Edgar Rice Burroughs

of Mars

Forewordo the Reader o this Work:

In submitting Captain Carters strangemanuscript to you in book orm, Ibelieve that a ew words relative tothis remarkable personality will be o

interest.

My first recollection o Captain Carteris o the ew months he spent at myathers home in Virginia, just priorto the opening o the civil war. I wasthen a child o but five years, yet I wellremember the tall, dark, smooth-aced,

athletic man whom I called Uncle Jack.He was a splendid specimen omanhood, standing a good two inchesover six eet, broad o shoulder andnarrow o hip, with the carriage o thetrained fighting man. His eatures wereregular and clear cut, his hair black and

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closely cropped, while his eyes wereo a steel gray, reflecting a strong andloyal character, filled with fire andinitiative. His manners were perect,and his courtliness was that o a typical

southern gentleman o the highest type.

His horsemanship, especially aferhounds, was a marvel and delight even inthat country o magnificent horsemen.I have ofen heard my ather cautionhim against his wild recklessness, buthe would only laugh, and say that

the tumble that killed him would berom the back o a horse yet unoaled.

When the war broke out he lef us, nordid I see him again or some fifeenor sixteen years. When he returned itwas without warning, and I was muchsurprised to note that he had not

aged apparently a moment, nor hadhe changed in any other outward way.He was, when others were with him,the same genial, happy ellow we hadknown o old, but when he thoughthimsel alone I have seen him sit orhours gazing off into space, his aceset in a look o wistul longing and

hopeless misery;and at night hewould sit thuslooking up intothe heavens, atwhat I did notknow until I readhis manuscriptyears aferward.

He told us that he had been prospectingand mining in Arizona part o the timesince the war; and that he had been verysuccessul was evidenced by the unlim-ited amount o money with which hewas supplied. As to the details o his lie

during these years he was very reticent,in act he would not talk o them at all.

He remained with us or about a yearand then went to New York, where hepurchased a little place on the Hudson,where I visited him once a year on the

occasions o mytrips to the NewYork market--myather and I own-ing and operatinga string o generalstores throughoutVirginia at that

time. Captain Carter had a small butbeautiul cottage, situated on a bluffoverlooking the river, and during one omy last visits, in the winter o 1885, I ob-served he was much occupied in writing,I presume now, upon this manuscript.

a typical southerngentleman of thehighest type.

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He told me at this time that i anythingshould happen to him he wished me totake charge o his estate, and he gaveme a key to a compartment in the saewhich stood in his study, telling me Iwould find his will there and somepersonal instructions which he had

me pledge myselto carry out withabsolute fidelity.

Afer I had retiredor the night I haveseen him rom mywindow standing

in the moonlighton the brink othe bluff overlooking the Hudson withhis arms stretched out to the heavensas though in appeal. I thought at thetime that he way praying, although Inever understood that he was in the

strict sense o the term a religious man.

Several months afer I had returnedhome rom my last visit, the first oMarch, 1886, I think, I received a tele-gram rom him asking me to cometo him at once. I had always been his

avorite amongthe younger gen-eration o Car-ters and so I has-tened to complywith his demand.

I arrived at the lit-

tle station, abouta mile rom his

grounds, on the morning o March4, 1886, and when I asked the liveryman to drive me out to Captain Car-ters he replied that i I was a riendo the Captains he had some very bad

He told me at thistime that if anythingshould happen to himhe wished me to take

charge of his estate

aylor Kitsch asCaptain John Carter

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Top 5Classic Pulp Monsters1.

Bram Stokers classic undead villain

has spawned countless variaons over

the years, and is our #1 monster!

2.Mary Shellys stiched togethermonster is hands down, a favorite

with the pitchfork and torches

3.The wolfman has made audiencesand readers howl in terror over the years

and makes our list at #3 spot!

4.Nothing shy about The CreatureFrom The Black Lagoon, who has

inspired lake and sea dwelling horrors

to raid our shores for years!

5.Aliens! Our #5 pick has been invadingEarth and entertaining the masses for

decades in countless forms!

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Swe

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ney Todd:The Demon Barber

of Fleet Street

Sweeney odd is a fictional character who first appeared as the murderer o theVictorian penny dreadul Te String o Pearls (184647). He appeared in theBritish film, Sweeney odd: Te Demon Barber o Fleet Street (1936). In 1973,he was introduced as an antihero when English playwright Christopher Bondretold the Victorian tale, which ormed the basis o the 1979 musical and its2007 film adaptation o the same name.

Claims that Sweeney odd was a historical person are strongly disputed byscholars, although possible legendary prototypes exist.

In the original version o the tale, odd is a barber who dispatches his victimsby pulling a lever as they sit in his barber chair. His victims all backward down

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break their necks or skulls. In case theyare alive, odd goes to the basementand polishes them off (slittingtheir throats with his straight razor).

In some adaptations, the murderingprocess is reversed, with oddslitting his customers throats beoredispatching them into the basement viathe revolving trapdoor. Afer odd hasrobbed his dead victims o their goods,Mrs. Lovett, his partner in crime (insome later versions, his riend and/

or lover), assists him in disposing othe bodies by baking their flesh intomeat pies and selling them to theunsuspecting customers o her pie shop.

oddsb a r b e rshop is situatedat 186 Fleet Street, London, next toSt. Dunstans church, and is connected toMrs. Lovetts pie shop in nearby Bell Yardby means o an underground passage.

In most versions o the story, he and Mrs.Lovett hire an unwitting orphan boy,obias Ragg, to serve the pies to customers.

Te tale became a staple o Victorian

melodrama. It was the subject o a1959 ballet by English composer SirMalcolm Arnold and, in 1979, a onyaward-winning Broadway musical byStephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler.Te musical was adapted or the screenin 2007 as a musical film, directed

by im Burton, written by JohnLogan, Hugh Wheeler, ChristopherBond and starring Johnny Depp.

Sweeney odd first appeared in a

story titled Te String o Pearls: ARomance. Tis penny dreadul waspublished in 18 weekly parts, inEdward Lloyds Te Peoples Periodicaland Family Library, issues 724, 21November 1846 to 20 March 1847.

It was probably written by James

Malcolm Rymer, though TomasPeckett Prest has also been credited withit; possibly each worked on the serialrom part to part. Other attributions

include Edward P. Hingston,G e o r g e

M a c a r r e n ,and Albert Richard Smith.In

February/March 1847, beore theserial was even completed, GeorgeDibden Pitt adapted Te String oPearls as a melodrama or the BritanniaTeatre in Hoxton. It was in thisalternative version o the tale, ratherthan the original, that odd acquiredhis catchphrase: Ill polish him off .

Lloyd published another, lengthier,penny part serial rom 184748, with92 episodes. It was then published inbook orm in 1850 as Te String oPearls, subtitled Te Barber o FleetStreet. A Domestic Romance. Tisexpanded version o the story was 732

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Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carteras Sweeny odd and Mrs Lovett (2007)

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By Anonymous

A B movie is a low-budgetcommercial motion picture thatis not definitively an arthouse.In its original usage, during theGolden Age o Hollywood, theterm more precisely identified a

film intended or distribution asthe less-publicized, bottom halo a double eature. Althoughthe U.S. production o moviesintended as second eatureslargely ceased by the end o

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the 1950s, the term B moviecontinued to be used in thebroader sense it maintainstoday. In its postGolden Ageusage, there is ambiguity onboth sides o the definition: onthe one hand, many B movies

display a high degree o crafand aesthetic ingenuity; on theother, the primary interest omany inexpensive exploitationfilms is prurient. In some cases,both may be true.

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I were nine years old, I wouldsee the monsters-versus-robotsadventure Pacific Rim 50

times. Because Im in my orties andhave two kids and two jobs, Ill have to becontent with seeing it a couple more timesin theaters and re-watching it on video.

Like George Lucas original 1977Star Wars, Guillermo del oros sci-fi actioner uses high technology to

pump up disreputable subject matterto Hollywood blockbuster levels. Tefilms main selling point is its overscaledaction sequences. In a terrifiedutureworld, spindly-limbed, whale-sized beasts emerge rom a Hellmouthon the ocean floor and duke it out withimmense robots. Te robots are run

by two-pilot teams whose movementssuggest tai chi exercises taking place onthe worlds largest, weirdest ellipticalmachines. Tey work in pairs becausethey use their minds and bodies toguide the machines in the way thatpuppeteers guide puppets, and the

technology is too complex or a singlebrain to handle.

Te creatures began attacking yearsbeore the start o the story proper

(we get the history in a prologue). Tehumans cant fight the monsters byconventional military means becauseit causes too much collateral damage.Tey created the robots calledJaegers to engage them directly,beore the creatures, called Kaiju,

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