Crime Fighters Of The Pulps

It was the 1930s. The avarice of the elite had plunged the country into the Great Depression. Class warfare was being waged, and someone was about to snap!Young Betty McDougal discovered how hard life could be when her family was evicted from their farm and forced to live in a Citadel City shelter. They struggled to survive. It was a time of desperation, sin, mistakes and It was the 1930s.

Not bad for a lawyer who began writing for the pulps in his spare time. The success came from his pioneering creation of the courtroom thriller and his crusading lawyer and crime sleuth Perry Mason. Ghost, like many of Gardner’s novels, has a complicated plot, allowing for the author’s trademark courtroom reveals. In the wake of Cagney's G-Men, such adventure pulps as Argosy, Blue Book. Straight-from-the-shoulder information on crime fighting from the director; and tips.

The avarice of the elite had plunged the country into the Great Depression. Class warfare was being waged, and someone was about to snap!Young Betty McDougal discovered how hard life could be when her family was evicted from their farm and forced to live in a Citadel City shelter. They struggled to survive. It was a time of desperation, sin, mistakes and lessons Betty didn't want to learn. Her life felt pointless until a mysterious stranger delivered her an ominous black car. It transformed her.Pandora Driver was the relentless avenger of the common man sifting right from wrong in a realm where the villains were the local gentry and the heroes were outlaws.

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Pandora was a mistress of disguise who used sly audacity and an unstoppable Car-of-Tomorrow to unleash chaos into the halls of wealth and power. She infiltrated the unscrupulous rulers of Citadel City and adopted their unsavory methods to usurp them. Her fight was the fight of the ages. She was the fist of the people battling greed, graft, inequality, and exploitation. Her time was in the past, but the problems were the same blights facing society today.She intervened when law enforcement or the justice system failed citizens. Sometimes her methods were unsettling. Battling sin in the filth where it resides can dirty even the purest hearts.

The good old days we remember in monochrome were lived in color. In a time when good and evil was simply black and white, Pandora lived in the gray area.Pandora Driver: The Origin, summons the spirits of pulps past into a retro-hero tale for mature readers.It ain't Shakespeare. It's pure Pulp!Read Part 01 online or download a free preview from most ebookstores. Pandora Driver: The Origin takes us back to the days of the pulps, but infuses it with a modern feminist theme, and also some topical economic concerns. The setting is Citadel City, a place clearly modeled on Chicago during the mid-thirties, in a world that could be ours everything feels almost the same, with the exception of some interesting Dieselpunk-style technology thats the creation of a lone, renegade inventor.The main character, Betty McDougal, is a sweet farm girl from the sticks who“Pandora Driver: The Origin” takes us back to the days of the pulps, but infuses it with a modern feminist theme, and also some topical economic concerns. The setting is Citadel City, a place clearly modeled on Chicago during the mid-thirties, in a world that could be ours – everything feels almost the same, with the exception of some interesting Dieselpunk-style technology that’s the creation of a lone, renegade inventor.The main character, Betty McDougal, is a sweet farm girl from the sticks who has her farm, her job, her home, and finally her parents taken away from her by an uncaring financial combine - namely, the fat cat crooks who run business, both legal and illegal, in Citadel City.

The novel follows her as she swears revenge on the men who ruined her family, and plots her course as she plans how to do it, encountering many setbacks and cliff-hanging dangers along the way. With the help of several colorful and eccentric characters she comes across, she transforms herself into Pandora Driver - a master (mistress) of disguise, a ruthless crime-fighter, and owner of an indestructible car.Her nemesis is Carson, President of the Citadel Bank. In the true tradition of the pulps, he has no redeeming features whatsoever, but he exerts a horrible fascination as the reader wonders just how far he will go. With it's themes of how people will be ensnared by sexual abuse and the threat of violence, this book is definitely not kid stuff - but then again, it doesn't shower its readers with long descriptions of carnage, gun battles or blood and guts, like some pulp writers I've come across.Betty/Pandora wages a war on two fronts - by night, she stalks Citadel City as a vigilante, and by day, she wages a legal battle against Carson with a lawyer friend, Professor Langley. This also echoes the spinning headlines and courtroom dramas of the period.This novel is an intriguing addition to the world of pulp adventure, because Pandora Driver is one of the very few female crime-fighters. The only other I'm aware of is Domino Lady, who used an ingenious arsenal to fight crime, her chief weapon being her disarming and distracting beauty, and if this is a homage it's a very fitting one.This thriller tells an action-packed story, accompanied by some wonderful illustrations, that tips a fedora to the two-fisted pulp mysteries of the thirties and forties but still maintains a 21st century sensibility.

The Silver Age of pulp superheroes is back! John Picha's 'Pandora Driver: The Origin' is a high-speed chase through a black-and-white landscape of good and evil set in Depression-era America, where angelic farm girl Betty falls from grace and trades her halo for righteous vengeance on the forces of greed and corruption in the glittering lights of Citadel City.Betty's story is told in stark contrasts as hard times force her family from the farm to the heartless city, and Betty is forced to make The Silver Age of pulp superheroes is back! John Picha's 'Pandora Driver: The Origin' is a high-speed chase through a black-and-white landscape of good and evil set in Depression-era America, where angelic farm girl Betty falls from grace and trades her halo for righteous vengeance on the forces of greed and corruption in the glittering lights of Citadel City.Betty's story is told in stark contrasts as hard times force her family from the farm to the heartless city, and Betty is forced to make ever more desperate choices to keep her crumbling family from falling completely apart. Hammerfight. This adventure is a thrill ride, and sexy at times, but leave your fifty shades of gray behind-Betty makes her way in a six-panel, black and white world where Frank Miller would find himself at home, and she's not shy about using her body or her wits to get what she wants.The storytelling style makes it hard, at times, to really empathize with Betty-we're not taken deep into her character to share her feelings. But make no mistake, the story doesn't suffer for it. Betty is no ordinary girl-she's a superhero in the making, and superheroes are, by necessity, a breed apart. Betty impressed me as a feminist heroine because she was clever and thorough in her plans for justice and vengeance, but she's still a very flawed, intriguing character, and not yet quite comfortable in her superhero role, a matter which I expect to see rectified as the series continues.Who needs to read this book: Fans of Frank Miller-style graphic novels will find a familiar landscape in the intense, action-packed tale of how Betty finds her power and vengeance as the mysterious Pandora Driver.

If you like classic superheroes (with a touch of psychosis) like The Phantom, The Shadow, and the broodier side of Batman, Pandora Driver will find herself a parking spot on your keeper shelf.Who else needs to read this book: Graphic artists, because this one needs to be at least a 12-issue series, followed up by a graphic-novel omnibus.