![]() ![]() Publishers paid their writers per word, thus, to put food on the table, speed over quality was of paramount importance. If a writer worked for the pulps, to earn a living, the word count mattered. Pulps, apart from the painted covers and a handful of rushed interior illustrations, were a writers medium. Before there were comics, there were two strands of printed, disposable mass entertainment, newspaper strips and pulp magazines. This is understandable when you look at how the comic industry came to be. Some didn’t even want to be writing comics long term, most certainly, they did not start out as writers of funny books. If you look at the starting point and career trajectory of the most prolific or the most influential writers among the first generations of comic book creators, you’ll notice that none of them considered working in this industry as something they’d be doing as a full-fledged job. ![]()
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