Pulp

Deceiver…manipulator…thief…hunter…sanctioner…patriot….partisan…Undercover man…dangerous man.

Popular Publication’s Operator 5 title ran as a monthly then bi-monthly for 48 issues from April 1934 to November 1939. In his Moonstone reincarnation, the intent is to emphasize the psychological toll going undercover has on Jimmy Christopher, Operator 5 as he’ll have to do questionable acts at times to maintain his disguises. Additionally, historical figures and situations from the era of the Great Depression will be woven into the series’ storylines to better ground the character and his life and times.

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Achilles “Decimator” Smith is a 24-year-old black middleweight contender garnering attention in the boxing world of segregated Los Angeles.  But when his sister is brutally murdered and Decimator searches for her killers bring him to a cavern and a ceremony combining forbidden magic and arcane science resulting in his being wounded and doused in a bath of electrified chemicals. His adventures, in the fine tradition of the pulps, will take him far beyond the confines of the square ring as he battles female crime lords, four-armed robots, axis agents, and quixotic super villains and their world-threatening weapons.