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And as I think of it, if you haven't already read it, pick up Harlan Ellison's short story collection STRANGE WINE (published 1977), in particular the short story "The New York Review of Bird", where hilariously, Ellison portrays himself as a pulp-hero-like character under his often-used pseudonym "Cordwainer Bird", that he used as his alternate screen name when a movie or film studio destroyed one of his screenplays, refusing to let them use his real name to appear on the final product. Essenially with the pseudonym, flipping them the bird.

Beyond humor in a story, there are a number of actual incidents of Ellison engaging in violent mischief.
Such as a clash with Frank Sinatra and his bodyguard, when Sinatra allegedly tried to intimidate Ellison (I think this one was written about in ESQUIRE magazine in the late 1960's).

And another where, after a screenplay Ellison did for "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" was edited and butchered and Ellison objected, a network executive told him "Writers are toadies, you'll shut up and do what you're told"
And Ellison boasts he ran across the conference table at the executive, and the panicked executive backed away so that he bumped a heavy model of the Seaview submarine, and it fell off its stand and broke the executive's hip.

Or an unsolicited violent assault by Ellison on a writer named Charles Platt, at a convention, where Ellison saw him sometime after Platt made some perceived slight against Ellison, and Ellison allegedly sucker-punched him.

So... Ellison could be said to have indulged on a number of occasions in self-styled pulp heroics himself.
That have for decades been part Ellison's cult of personality, for which Ellison is as famous for as he is for his outstanding talents as a writer of screenplays and short stories.