Adventure Pulp

Adventure pulp draws on the adventure magazines of the 1930s-40s, titles like 'Adventure,' 'Argosy,' and 'Doc Savage,' whose painted covers showed rugged explorers, jungle expeditions, and daring heroics. What it romanticizes is pre-war masculine adventure and globe-trotting discovery. Khaki or olive safari shirts with multiple pockets and canvas cargo trousers are the working uniform. Worn leather jackets and wide-brim explorer hats go over them. Leather satchels or messenger bags, sturdy lace-up boots, and compass or map-motif accessories complete it.