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Offline cromojaro

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Pulp Figures Rugged Heroes
« on: 03 February 2022, 12:10:53 PM »
I bought ywerterday the Pulp Figures' blister PHP02 - Rugged Heroes.

They describes the miniatures as: Lord Mumford, Flying Tiger Jake, Brutus, Dieter, Carson Smith. Carson Smith has an open hand with a choice of whip or machete.

Carson Smith is inspired in Indiana Jones. Do you known what inspires the other miniatures.
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Offline odd duck

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Re: Pulp Figures Rugged Heroes
« Reply #1 on: 03 February 2022, 12:46:27 PM »
I believe the Flying tiger character was inspired by the TV show Tales of the Brass monkey don't know about the others

Offline cromojaro

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Re: Pulp Figures Rugged Heroes
« Reply #2 on: 03 February 2022, 01:07:47 PM »
I believe the Flying tiger character was inspired by the TV show Tales of the Brass monkey don't know about the others

Thnaks. It looks similar. I saw this show when I was I child, but I don't remembered the outfit of the character.

Offline lethallee61

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Re: Pulp Figures Rugged Heroes
« Reply #3 on: 04 February 2022, 01:14:09 AM »
The bare chested hero is based on Doc Savage, the “Man of Bronze”.
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Offline cromojaro

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Re: Pulp Figures Rugged Heroes
« Reply #4 on: 04 February 2022, 10:18:58 AM »
The bare chested hero is based on Doc Savage, the “Man of Bronze”.

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Offline warrenpeace

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Re: Pulp Figures Rugged Heroes
« Reply #5 on: 08 February 2022, 04:03:32 AM »
"Flying Tiger Jake" is the character Jake Cutter from Tales of the Gold Monkey 🐒,  , a tv 📺 series of 22 episodes that started in September 1982. The mechanic, Corky, and the one eyed dog 🐕,  Jack, from Tales of the Gold Monkey, are in the PHP 11 pack

The shirtless male figure in this pack does look a bit like the Doc Savage character as depicted on the covers of interwar pulp magazines. However, I'm not sure whether or not Doc Savage used a gun. I'm going to use that figure for Irving Goff, a hero of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War.

I would say that Doc Savage, or at least the version depicted on the covers of paperbacks in the 1960's  & 1970's, is the "Doc Thompson" figure in PHP 05.
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Offline diehard

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Re: Pulp Figures Rugged Heroes
« Reply #6 on: 08 February 2022, 07:52:13 AM »
In addition to that the Doc Thompson pack also has four of the five characters who were Doc's assistants. Definitely going with Thompson as the Pulp Heroes take on the Man of Bronze.
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Offline warrenpeace

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Re: Pulp Figures Rugged Heroes
« Reply #7 on: 08 February 2022, 04:20:54 PM »
In addition to that the Doc Thompson pack also has four of the five characters who were Doc's assistants. Definitely going with Thompson as the Pulp Heroes take on the Man of Bronze.

Then again, there's no harm in having younger and older versions of the same character. One could make up story lines that run over decades. There was that series on the young Indiana Jones. And that character certainly got older as the actor did.

For Doc Savage, I think one of the interesting extra characters was his cousin Patricia Savage.

 

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