Who could be in a Pulp LXG?

[MindWright]

How about Alvin York? WWI Marksman and Hero. True, he's a real person and not a fictional character, but he's certainly well known enough.

 

[Savage Wombat]

Re: tips from the books

Alan Moore mentioned leagues from other eras in the back story (that is the story in the back of the text). There is strong indication that volume III (if it is ever written) will involve a future version of the LXG. It seems likely that this would be a pulp era league.

Not just in the backstory. In one panel there's a shot of a photograph, or portrait, of a previous League. Let's see who I remember:

Natty Bumppo - from James Fenimoore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales (iirc)
Lord and Lady Blakeney - a.k.a. the Scarlet Pimpernel
Dr. Syn - I don't know him
Fanny Hill
Lemuel Gulliver
... and I think some wild west character who escapes me at the moment.

 

[Welverin]

For instance, a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen of 1980's TV might include McGuyver, Colt Seaver ("the Fall Guy"), Thomas Magnum (of "Magnum, PI"), and T.J. Hooker.

Alternatively you could just go with the A-team.

 

[Chun-tzu]

There already was a pulp era LXG (although it was set in the future). The Defenders of the Earth included Flash Gordon, the Phantom, Mandrake the Magician, and Lothar (Mandrake's friend).

Of course, a lot of these guys would make great additions to the team (although Tarzan becomes a bit redundant with the Phantom already there, and likewise with Flash Gordon and the Rocketeer).

 

[blackshirt5]

I'm not incuding the Rocketeer anymore. The team right now stands as follows:

Doc Savage
Green Hornet
Kato
Tom Swift
The Shadow
Tarzan
Indiana Jones
Emily(Amelia Earhart)

The story behind Amelia Earhart is that she was captured by the Nazis and they used the ubermenschen treatment on her; the brainwashing failed, but she was gifted with heightened senses, superstrength, and her biological clock was rolled back about 20 years, giving her a body to kill for(she looks like one of the Olsen twins ). I might include a bit of Elliot Ness in the Green Hornet, or else update the Green Hornet's story(after a failed case, Elliot Ness starts drinking heavily; in a similar act, after his faithful sidekick Green Hornet dies, Kato goes on an opium binge; the two meet at a bar and make a pact to stop crime and injustice everywhere, together; Ness quits the Treasury Department and dons the mask of the Green Hornet!)is the Green Hornet.

 

[Villano]

Re: Re: tips from the books

Not just in the backstory. In one panel there's a shot of a photograph, or portrait, of a previous League. Let's see who I remember:

Natty Bumppo - from James Fenimoore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales (iirc)
Lord and Lady Blakeney - a.k.a. the Scarlet Pimpernel
Dr. Syn - I don't know him
Fanny Hill
Lemuel Gulliver
... and I think some wild west character who escapes me at the moment.

Here's a link for some Dr. Syn history:

http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/syn.htm

BTW, as for Fanny Hill, I have no idea of her historical aspects, but her character was the subject of some drive-in films in the '70s, movies whose sole purpose was to show nudity. I have no idea how many were done, but I know there were a few.

And, yes, I did see one. Don't get your hopes up, it wasn't very good, either as a film or a nudie flick, so I doubt the others had any quality.