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| Adventure House -
Three more pulp facsimile editions have been announced! A new series of complete pulp replica/reprints. Except these are printed on acid-free paper and guaranteed not to crumble into dust while you read them. Adventure House will bring you some of the scarcest pulps imaginable in this great new series, reprinting them as the reading public saw them on the newsstands, at a fraction of their current collectors prices. Pulp replica - full color covers, complete with all ads, illustrations and facsimile pages. Three new titles were just announced! Release dates have not been announced, but MYSTERY TALES is at the printer! MYSTERY TALES December 1939, Cover Artist: J. W. Scott, , 7x10, 112 pages, $14.95 HIGH SEAS ADVENTURES February 1935, Cover Artist: Sidney Riesenberg, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 SPICY DETECTIVE STORIES June 1938, Cover Artist: H.J. Ward, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 Previously announced and coming soon! SAUCY MOVIE TALES August 1936, Cover Artist: Norman Saunders, 7x10, 96 pages, $14.95 SAUCY MOVIE TALES - September 1936, Cover Artist: Norman Saunders, 7x10, 96 pages, $14.95 SAUCY MOVIE TALES December 1936, Cover Artist: Norman Saunders, 7x10, 96 pages, $14.95 SPICY ADVENTURE STORIES September 1941, Cover Artist: H. J. Ward, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 Now available: SAUCY MOVIE TALES July 1936, Cover Artist: Norman Saunders, 7x10, 96 pages, $14.95 SPICY MYSTERY STORIES February 1938, Cover Artist: H. Parkhurst, 7x10, 128pages, $14.95 SPICY MYSTERY STORIES May 1936, Cover Artist: H.J. Ward, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 DON WINSLOW OF THE NAVY - May 1937, 7x10, 96 pages, $14.95 SAUCY MOVIE TALES - June 1936, Cover Artist: Norman Saunders, 7x10, 96 pages, $14.95 |    |
| AGE
OF CONAN: HYBORIAN ADVENTURES - LEGENDS OF KERN VOLUME 1 MMPB - Available in bookstores May 31st! LEGENDS OF KERN VOLUME 1 is by Loren L. Coleman In the bleak northlands, one name inspires fear like no other - Grimnir. He is a Nordheim raider and the living god of the pundering Vanir. His coming brings a long and desperate winter that grips Cimmeria, birthplace of King Conan, in an icy stranglehold. Destined to confront the dreaded Grimnir, the young, exiled warrior Kerd, the "Wolf-Eye," must confront his legacy and lead his people to deliverance - or certain death! Soft Cover, 272 pages SRP: $6.99 Volume II will be available in bookstores on June 28. Volume III will be available in bookstores on July 26. |  |
| BRAN
MAK MORN - Available in bookstores May
31st! BRAN MAK MORN will be available in comic shops on June 2nd! In ages past, the Picts ruled all of Europe. But the descendants of those proud conquerors have sunk into barbarism . . . all save one, Bran Mak Morn, whose bloodline remains unbroken. Threatened by the Celts and the Romans, the Pictish tribes rally under his banner to fight for their very survival, while Bran fights to restore the glory of his race. Lavishly illustrated by award-winning artist Gary Gianni, this collection gathers together all of Howard’s published stories and poems featuring Bran Mak Morn–including the eerie masterpiece “Worms of the Earth” and “Kings of the Night,” in which sorcery summons Kull the conqueror from out of the depths of time to stand with Bran against the Roman invaders. Also included are previously unpublished stories and fragments, reproductions of manuscripts bearing Howard’s handwritten revisions, and much, much more. The trade paperback edition of BRAN MAK MORN by Robert E. Howard will feature the added bonus of a series of sketches by artist Gary Gianni. These sketches didn't appear in the Wandering Star limited edition hardcover, but were published separately by Wandering Star in ROBERT E. HOWARD'S BRAN MAK MORN: A SKETCHBOOK BY GARY GIANNI. The final contents haven't yet been chosen, but these are the sort of think that will be included. Click here to view. http://info.randomhouse.com/cgi-bin21/DM/y/eidW0DH1Pu0WM0cfx0Es These sketches join a previously-unpublished, untitled Robert E. Howard story, also scheduled for the Del Rey trade paperback, as added bonuses for Robert E. Howard fans everywhere. This information first appeared in the monthly Del Rey Newsletter for January 2005. |  |
| THE
CIMMERIAN VOLUME 2, NUMBER 3 (JUNE 2005) - Available for pre-order! THE CIMMERIAN VOLUME 2, NUMBER 3 (JUNE 2005) is now available for pre-order! This issue features Part Two of the comprehensive coverage of the new five-volume set of Howard titles from the Bison Books imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, an article about the current collecting prices for Howard boxing pulps, a Clark Ashton Smith-inspired poem from Donald Sidney-Fryer, another jam-packed Lion's Den, and more. Edited by Leo Grin and Illustrated by Jae Woo Kim 40 pages This issue was printed in two editions. The deluxe edition, numbered 1-75, uses a black linen cover with foil-stamped emeraude text. The limited edition, numbered 76-225, uses an emeraude cover with solid black text. Deluxe edition: $15 each. Limited edition: $10 each. Shipping is $3 per every 4 books shipped in the US. Canadian shipping is $5, UK and Australian and French shipping is $10. PREORDERS ACCEPTED NOW. ORDERS WILL SHIP ON JUNE 14. ATTENTION DELUXE ISSUE READERS: If you are NOT going to Cross Plains for REH Days, I urge you to preorder in case all the remaining deluxe issues are sold out at the event. If you preorder before June 7 you are guaranteed your usual copy; if you wait until after June 7 they may all be gone. Send check or money order, made payable to THE CIMMERIAN, to: THE CIMMERIAN P. O. Box 1245 DOWNEY, CA 90240 | |
| COMIC BOOK MARKETPLACE #121
- Now available! COMIC BOOK MARKETPLACE #121 will delve into the secret world of The Phantom. Created by writer Lee Falk and artist Ray Moore for the comic pages back in 1936, this mysterious character has appeared in movies, serials, pulps, on the radio, and is currently undergoing a resurgence of interest because of artist Paul Ryan's great Phantom art for European publisher, Egmont. We'll have an interview with Paul from John R. Stuart, plus our usual assortment of features and color pages. You better be there, or Devil will bite you! You'll enjoy our regular columns too!: Nolan's Notebook and That Wonderful Year by Michelle Nolan; Inspiration Central by Bill Baker; Weird Words by Pat Calhoun; CBM Market Reports by our Advisors; The Naiman Report by Michael Naiman; Marketplace Mail and much, much more! This issue also features several articles by Will Murray! Unmasked: "X" The Phantom Fed relates the story of pulp hero Secret Agent X in the comics. Lee Falk The Fall of Captain Marvel SRP: $6.95 |  |
| CONAN
AND THE JEWELS OF GWAHLUR #3 (of 3) Dark Horse Comics has posted a preview of THE JEWELS OF GWAHLUR #3. P. Craig Russell (W/A) and Lovern Kindzierski (C) On sale June 15, Full Color, 32 pages, $2.99 In a story written by Conan creator Robert E. Howard and set later in the character's life, the barbarian must unravel the treacheries of a false goddess and an imposter oracle in a haunted temple where for once it's not Conan doing the decapitations. P. Craig Russell, one of the most celebrated fantasy artists in the history of comics, makes an indelible mark on the greatest fantasy hero of all time, as this most opulent of Conan's original adventures concludes. On sale June 15, Full Color, 32 pages, $2.99 Dark Horse Comics |  |
| E-texts
on the net this week The Shadow Magazine: There's no new review this week. Next week's review will be Death's Premium from January 1, 1940. Death in Soho by John Olsen is this week's Two-Minute Shadow Mystery. Shadows of the Pulps: A new Amazon Anne will be posted next month, Amazon Anne and the Ghost of Broadway. Blackmask Online: Nothing new this week. Larry Estep-Online Pulps: Now with over 600 stories online! Skin Deep by Sherman Ripley from JUNGLE STORIES, October, 1931 The Fangs of Otan by Harold F. Cruickshank from THRILLING ADVENTURES, August 1939 Writing the Animal Story by Harold F. Cruickshank from WRITER'S DIGEST Mr. Mister by Thomas Thursday from ALL-STORY WEEKLY, May 22, 1920 Saturn's Ringmaster by Raymond Z. Gallun from THRILLING WONDER STORIES, December, 1936 | |
| ERBville Press - Three new titles are now available! THE RALPH MILNE FARLEY COLLECTION BOOK 2 by Ralph Milne Farley This second collection of stories by Ralph Milne Farley (Roger Sherman Hoar) contains "Pe-Ra, Daughter of the Sun", "The House of Ectasy", "Holy City of Mars", "The Invisible Bomber", "The 'Rexmel'", "Wish I Had Written That", two "Meet the Authors" biographies from Amazing Stories and one on his pen-name, Lieut. John Pease. Fully illustrated with the original magazine artwork. 182 pages, 6x9 trade paperback, $11.00 OTIS ADELBERT KLINE COLLECTION BOOK 1 by Otis Adelbert Kline This first collection of stories by Otis Adelbert Kline contains "Revenge of the Robot", "Stolen Centuries", "The Iron World", "Man From the Moon", Meteor-Men of Mars", "Flaming Notes", "Office Flirt", "City Slickers", and "Writing the Fantastic Story". Fully illustrated with the original magazine artwork. 180 pages, 6x9 trade paperback, $11.00 DAN TURNER, HOLLYWOOD DETECTIVE by Robert Leslie Bellem Join Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective, on nine of his "spicy" adventures in the land of murder. Stories included in this collection are: Temporary Corpse, Death's Bright Halo, Dark Star of Death, Blackmail From Beyond, Crimson Quest, Latin Blood, Cat Act, Beyond Justice, and The Murdered Mummy. 208 pages, 6x9 trade paperback, $11.00 Still available: KWA OF THE JUNGLE by Paul Regard Book 2: Kwa and the Ape People - 144 pages, 6x9 trade paperback, $9.95 Book 3: Kwa, King of Ophir and Kwa and the Beast Men - 148 pages, 6x9 trade paperback, $9.95 Book 4: Kwa and the Walking Moon and Kwa and the Swamp Demon - 116 pages, 6x9 trade paperback, $9.95 KA-ZAR: KING OF FANG AND CLAW by Bob Byrd - 204 pages, 6x9 trade paperback, $11.00 SHEENA: KILLER'S KRAAL by James Anson Buck - 109 pages, 6x9 trade paperback, $8.50 VICE SQUAD DETECTIVE - 174 pages, 6x9 trade paperback, $11.00 THE RADIO MAN RETURNS by Ralph Milne Farley First time in paperback! The original text of "The Radio Man Returns" from the AMAZING STORIES pulp magazine and "The Radio Minds of Mars" from SPACEWAY magazine, plus the original illustrations. 126 pages, 6x9 trade paperback, $9.95 THE RALPH MILNE FARLEY COLLECTION BOOK 1 by Ralph Milne Farley Three stories are included in this first collection of stories: The Immortality of Alan Whidden (a time travel story), City of Lost Souls (a Foreign Legion tale set on Mars), and Who Killed Gilbert Foster? (a detective tale). Also included is a short biography from ARGOSY magazine. Illustrated. 174 pages, 6x9 trade paperback, $11.00 THE VACANT WORLD by George Allan England This is the first book in the Darkness and Dawn trilogy of books which relate the story of two people who suddenly find themselves 1,000 years in the future. 184 pages, 6x9 trade paperback, $11.00 |    |
| Moonstone Books: THE PHANTOM #6
- Available in comic shops June 2nd! by Rafael Nieves, Jerry DeCaire, & Art Lyons DAMNATION GAME: Part 2 (of 2 ) - After Mbeye's newest zombie fails to assassinate him, the Phantom moves swiftly through the streets of Chicago to topple the necromancer's drug empire. He finds in this job some real horror, as the entranced dead are commanded to stop him with a brute power no normal man could ever endure! But this is the Phantom! No spell can hide or shadow a man from his mighty call to Justice. 32 pages, Full Color, SRP: $3.50 |  |
| Normand
Design & Recoverings - Four new McClurg Tarzan dust
jackets are now available! Now available from Normand Designs are the dust jacket recreations for TARZAN THE UNTAMED, TARZAN THE TERRIBLE, TARZAN AND THE ANT MEN, and TARZAN AND THE GOLDEN LION. From the Recoverings newsletter, May 2005: After almost a year of relative quiet here at Recoverings, I've started to set the wheels in motion to finish as many of the McClurg dust jackets as possible this year. Over the last three months I've been working to get these four Tarzan jackets restored and reset, along with MASTER MIND OF MARS and THE MONSTER MEN. All of these jackets required extensive digitization of vintage linotype fonts along with the usual restoration of the cover art. In fact, though I hoped to announce the latter two jackets along with these, I am currently waiting on definitive type samples of the italic font used on them -- Benedictine Book Italic -- so that the weights will match exactly. I'll be letting you know when they are set to my satisfaction. TYPE FONT PROJECT In the meantime, having done so much in the way of type recreation lately, I've decided to start another project which has been on my idea board for some time. In order to get it going, I'd like to ask the J. Allen St. John collectors among you for help with resources. If you have any examples of St. John's pen lettering in your collection, title pages or ad lettering, I'd like to get 300 dpi scans, or large photocopies of them. Of course, I have the samples from BEASTS, SON and JEWELS OF OPAR. What I'm looking for are samples from some of the other books that he did for McClurg & Co. or other publishers. I'm particularly interested in obtaining copies of the title pages for the Margaret Hill McCarter books (THE CORNER STONE [1915], CUDDY'S BABY [1917] and THE CANDLE IN THE WINDOW [1925]) published by McClurg & Co., and ALICE IN WONDERLAND: A DRAMATIZATION. . . [1915] from McClurg. I would also like to see a copy of OUR BABIES [1926] published by the City of Chicago, a medical pamphlet for new mothers with lettering by St. John. Though his lettering in these cases bears many similarities to the font Auriol designed by Georges Auriol, St. John's has enough of its own characteristics as to deserve immortality in a font. Any help I can get from you will be rewarded with a free copy of the finished product optimized for your computer system. ONLINE PAYMENT AVAILABLE If you are already signed up to PayPal, or if you want to give it a go, you can now pay for your jacket order electronically. Use my e-mail address, phil@recoverings.com, or use Normand Design, and don't forget to list the jackets you want in the comments field. This process has worked well for some of my new customers and you may find it easier than putting that check in the mail. Thanks again for all your support in this endeavor. I know that you have the option of other facsimile jacket suppliers at lower prices, and I appreciate your loyalty. I know that I offer the highest quality restorations of these jackets and I intend to continue that dedication to accuracy and clarity until all the Burroughs jackets are available to you. I'm proud to have had my restorations used as the frontispieces in the Easton Press deluxe Tarzan and Mars collections. Visit the Normand Designs webiste at http://www.recoverings.com/ Click here to download the new Normand Designs flyer in PDF format. |    |
| Plutonium Nightmare -
Now Available! Plutonium Nightmare -a novel of The Voice- by Erwin K. Roberts is now available. Contrary to popular belief the time for heroes did not end in the 1950's when Dan Fowler and The Masked Rider rode off into the sunset to join Doc and the others. True, the Independent Operator seemed unwelcome in the paranoid McCarthy era. Some went even deeper undercover to work. Some retired to start families. The time is the spring of 1980. A shadowy figure known only as 'The Man' orchestrated a raid on the Breeder Reactor of the Hardin Nuclear Power Plant. He planned for every possible contingency, to include leading the police around in circles. He paid of his hired muscle, the H-8 Consortium, with an Atom Bomb made from the loot. 'The Man' prepares to auction off 70 kilos of plutonium enriched nuclear fuel, secure in the belief that he has covered every contingency. 'The Man' has never heard of The Voice, first of a new generation of Independent Operators. Wearing an assortment of faces, The Voice deals himself into the game. Using his father's gas gun, his own throwing knives, and a lot of raw fire power, The Voice will do anything necessary to force the radioactive genie back in the bottle. 116 pages with a CGI cover PDF & print-on-demand versions on sale at http://www.lulu.com/Modern-Knights For more adventures of The Voice, visit the Fading Shadows website and look under DOUBLE DANGER TALES. |  |
| 20 May 2005 | |
| Adventure House -
Coming in August! G-8 and His Battle Aces #17: Squadron of the Scorpion - Soft Cover, 7x10, 112 pages, B&W, SRP: $9.95 Their insignias were signs of the Zodiac . . . they fought only when ordered by the Stars! Yet G-8 had a hunch that this apparently superstitious staffel was important, that somehow it was playing death stakes in one of the most deadly war schemes ever laid—and he followed his hunch on a lone daring patrol! G-8 and His Battle Aces #17 is solicited in the June PREVIEWS (available May 25th). The Diamond Item Code is JUN053360. |  |
| Age
of Conan - Hyborian Adventures - Coming soon! The Official Conan website has posted information on the second Age of Conan - Hyborian Adventures series. The Anok, Heretic of Stygia trilogy is written by J. Steven York. The titles are Scion of the Serpent, Heretic of Set, and Venom of Luxur. Covers for all three titles and story descriptions are posted online. No release dates are given. |  |
| Battered
Silicon Dispatch Box - Now Available! LOST TREASURES FROM THE PULPS #9 THE MAGICAL MYSTERIES OF THE GREEN GHOST (Fleming-Roberts/Roberts) 2 Volume Folio Hard Cover ISBN 1-55246-534-9 $160.00 April 2005 Lost
Treasures from the Pulps can be ordered from: Visit the Battered Silicon Dispatch Box website at http://www.batteredbox.com/ to order. |  |
| Bold
Venture Press: THE SPIDER #8: THE MAD HORDE - Coming to comic shops in August! THE MAD HORDE is by Norvell Page; illustrated by John Fleming Gould Thousands of rabies-infected animals terrorize the countryside, spreading the disease to human victims. Now the Spider must halt the swarming beasts - human and animal alike - and destroy the hellish factory that spawned them! Also includes a Doc Turner adventure! Soft Cover, 96 pages, B&W, SRP: $10.00 THE SPIDER #8: THE MAD HORDE may be available direct from Bold Venture Press sooner. THE SPIDER #8 is solicited in the June PREVIEWS (available May 25th). The Diamond Item Code is JUN053473. |  |
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Burroughs Bulletin #62 - Now Available! The Spring 2005 issue (#62) of the The Burroughs Bulletin is now available. This issue features articles on Burroughs’ 62nd story, Tarzan and the Forbidden City. It is profusely illustrated in black & white with full color front and back covers. Articles include: "A Folklorist Reading of Tarzan and the Forbidden City" by David A. Adams "The Anomaly of Tarzan and the Forbidden City" by Robert R. Barrett "Alienation in Tarzan's First Love" by Stan Galloway "The Mystery of The Red Star of Tarzan" by Paul Spencer "The French Translations of Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1926-1950" by Michel Decuyper Letters to the Editor and Bibliographer's Corner Subscriptions
are $35 for four quarterly issues from: |  |
| COMIC BOOK
MARKETPLACE #121 - Available in comic shops May 25th! COMIC BOOK MARKETPLACE #121 will delve into the secret world of The Phantom. Created by writer Lee Falk and artist Ray Moore for the comic pages back in 1936, this mysterious character has appeared in movies, serials, pulps, on the radio, and is currently undergoing a resurgence of interest because of artist Paul Ryan's great Phantom art for European publisher, Egmont. We'll have an interview with Paul from John R. Stuart, plus our usual assortment of features and color pages. You better be there, or Devil will bite you! You'll enjoy our regular columns too!: Nolan's Notebook and That Wonderful Year by Michelle Nolan; Inspiration Central by Bill Baker; Weird Words by Pat Calhoun; CBM Market Reports by our Advisors; The Naiman Report by Michael Naiman; Marketplace Mail and much, much more! SRP: $6.95 FINAL ISSUE | |
| CONAN #19 -
Coming in August! Kurt Busiek (W), Cary Nord (P), and Dave Stewart (C) Conan unleashes an ancient evil of extraordinary power in this story that sets the stage for the adaptation of one of Robert E. Howard's most-praised Conan stories, "The Tower of the Elephant," beginning next month. Civilization continues to prove unsavory to the Cimmerian barbarian as he navigates through the teeming villainy of the City of Thieves. Determined to profit from this den of peril, Conan attempts to rob a luxuriant temple only to find himself face-to-face with an unscrupulous power bent upon its own escape. Yet, even that may not be as troubling as a woman from Conan's past who has returned to the scene, unexpectedly. Dark Horse Comics On sale August 24, Full Color, 32 pages, $2.99 CONAN #19 is solicited in the June PREVIEWS (available May 25th). The Diamond Item Code is JUN050022. |  |
| CONAN:
THE GOD IN THE BOWL AND OTHER STORIES - Coming in September! Kurt Busiek (W), Cary Nord (P), Thomas Yeates (P), and Dave Stewart (C) The critically acclaimed and award-winning creative team behind the runaway-hit revival are back with a brand new adaptation of one of Conan creator Robert E. Howard's best-known tales. Award-winning writer Kurt Busiek and artists Cary Nord and Dave Stewart render the glorious suspense of Howard's beloved "The God in the Bowl" in all its terrifying detail, as well as introducing not only Conan's most famed adversary, Thoth-amon, but a new female foil to Conan's exploits-Janissa the Widowmaker, bound by a pact to a witch who has sinister plans for Conan. Collecting issues #7, #9-#14 of the Dark Horse series. On sale September 28, Hardcover, 184 pages, Full Color, 7" x 10", $24.95 THE GOD IN THE BOWL AND OTHER STORIES is solicited in the June PREVIEWS (available May 25th). The Diamond Item Code is JUN050023. | |
| CTHULHU: NIGHT GAUNT PLUSH
- Coming in September! Ripped painfully from the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft, is yet another of those 12" tall awful otherworld beasties, a Night Gaunt. Eyeless, it is a mindless, winged blasphemy of outer space, a horned and faceless steed. Limited edition. Scheduled to ship in September 2005. SRP: $29.95 CTHULHU: NIGHT GAUNT PLUSH is solicited in the June PREVIEWS (available May 25th). The Diamond Item Code is JUN053770. CTHULHU: NIGHT GAUNT PLUSH can also be pre-ordered from Entertainment Earth. http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodinfo.asp?number=TYV12509 |  |
| DARKSIDE
PRESS/MIDNIGHT HOUSE http://www.darksidepress.com/index.html Forthcoming from Darkside Press are MY ROSE AND MY GLOVE, the first collection by Harvey Jacobs in 35 years. It will feature stories from THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, OMNI, NEW WORLDS, and various anthologies. Also coming is STAR CHANGES, a collection of Clark Ashton Smith 's science fiction. Forthcoming titles from Midnight House will be THING OF DARKNESS, a collection of tales by WEIRD TALES great, G. G. Pendarves, and DARKER TIDES, by Eric Frank Russell. Also coming in 2005 will be the first of two volumes collecting the psychic detective tales of Uel Key, the first volume of Daniel F. Galouye's complete short fiction, and additional titles by Richard B. Gamon, Fritz Leiber, Clifford D. Simak, and Cleve Cartmill. In the discussion stages are a "lost" collection by Keith Roberts and volumes by WEIRD TALES greats Joseph Payne Brennan and Everil Worrell. | |
| E-texts
on the net this week The Shadow Magazine: This weeks review is "Realm of Doom" from February 1, 1939. The Weapon Vanished! by Jonathan Blade is this week's Two-Minute Shadow Mystery. Shadows of the Pulps: A new Amazon Anne will be posted next month, Amazon Anne and the Ghost of Broadway. Blackmask Online: Told in the East by Talbot Mundy Larry Estep-Online Pulps: Now with over 550 stories online! Nothing new this week. | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs' LAND
THAT TIME FORGOT Will Murray posted in the PULPMAGS newsgroup that he recently interviewed the screenwriters of the Hallmark Entertainment MYSTERIOUS ISLAND miniseries airing this summer (July 2-3), and they told him they'd just begun work on a 4 hour adaptation of Burroughs' LAND THAT TIME FORGOT for Summer 2006. One drawback is that it will be set in the modern day. PULPMAGS - If you're interested in the old pulp magazines, this forum is the place to be. We deal with OLD pulps only! If you're looking for something dealing with modern "pulp fiction" style writing, you'd be bored here. This moderated list is set up along the lines of PEAPS, the Pulp Era Amateur Press Society, and all pulp fans across the world are welcome. Curt Phillips is the PulpMags moderator. | |
| Everett Raymond Kinstler:
An Artist's Journey Everett Raymond Kinstler: An Artist's Journey is a PBS special airing through the end of 2005. Everett Raymond Kinstler is perhaps America's most acclaimed portrait artist. He has captured the likenesses of movie stars and astronauts, first ladies and Supreme Court justices, university presidents and U.S. presidents. His work hangs in universities, private collections and the White House. Now his life story is coming to PBS: Through the end of the year, "Everett Raymond Kinstler: An Artist's Journey," produced by Dianne B. Bernhard and directed by Colin P. Russell, will air on PBS stations nationwide. Check your local TV listings. | |
| EVERETT RAYMOND KINSTLER
- THE ARTIST'S JOURNEY THROUGH POPULAR CULTURE 1942-1962 - Coming Fall 2005! by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. & Everett Raymond Kinstler Today, Everett Raymond Kinstler paints portraits, but he spent 20 years drawing comic books, pulp magazines, and paperback covers. From Zorro to The Shadow, George Bernard Shaw and Salvador Dali, this book features over 350 illustrations, many from original drawings and paintings, complemented with a biography enlivened by Kinstler's memories of those fascinating years. MATURE THEMES Hard Cover, 8.5x11, 240 pages, SRP: $44.95 Trade paperback, 8.5x11, 240 pages, SRP: $24.95 Publisher: Underwood Books (October 10, 2005) The hard cover edition of this book is solicited in the June PREVIEWS (available May 25th). The Diamond Item Code is JUN053436. |  |
| Golden
Perils #37 - Now online and ready for free downloading! GOLDEN PERILS #37 is now ready for free download with all the latest news from the pulp world, including comics, TV, DVD, Old Time Radio and movies, and reviews of MEN OF TOMORROW and RADIO'S CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT by Jeffrey T. Zverloff. The file is just under 1 megabyte in size, PDF, and you will need Acrobat Reader 4.0 or above to read it. Scroll down to GP 37, right click on "download" and choose Save Target As to save to your harddrive. You can download the latest issue at: http://www.howardhopkins.com/page4.htm |  |
| H.P.
LOVECRAFT: AGAINST THE WORLD, AGAINST LIFE - Now available! by Michel Houellebecq In this prescient work, the author focuses his considerable analytic skills on H.P. Lovecraft, the seminal, enigmatic horror writer of the early 20th century. Lovecraft and Houellebecq are kindred spirits, sharing a uniquely dark worldview. But even as he outlines Lovecraft's rejection of this loathsome world, it is Houellebecq's adulation for the author that drives this work and makes it a love song, infusing the writing with an energy and passion not seen in the author's previous works. McSweeney's Books Trade paperback, 5.5 x 8.5, 150 pages, SRP: $18.00 | |
| The Illustrators The Illustrators is a 14 part series exploring the history of American Illustrators, beginning with the late 1800s through the present day. Though artists such as Norman Rockwell and N.C. Wyeth most commonly come to mind with the public, there exists an unknown history of illustrators that hasn't been explored in the documentary format. The series will present a detailed chronicle of illustrators and their work. Each program will showcase either a particular illustrator or genre of illustration, featuring interviews with several illustrators and historians. Drawing and painting techniques, design, composition, and color will be demonstrated by many of the artists in the series. Director Paul Jilbert has compiled a collection of interviews with the following artists: Robert McGinnis, James Bama, Howard Terpning, James Avati, Syd Mead, Josh Agle (SHAG), Don Crowley, Bob Kuhn, Dick Bryers, Jim Silke, Dave Stevens, Glen Orbik, James Gurney, Dave Dorman, and others. You can view preview clips from the upcoming programs. DVD's will be available starting in March 2005 with the release of Robert McGinnis: Painting the Last Rose of Summer. Followed in July 2005 by James Bama: American Realist. Visit The Illustrators website at http://theillustratorstv.com/index.htm | |
| THE IRON GHOST #3
- Coming in August! Written by Chuck Dixon, art by Sergio Cariello, cover by Flint Henry and Sergio Cariello. Tannhauser and Volz continue to follow the trail of the now mythical Iron Ghost. New clues lead them to a German airfield on the Russian front line where the Germans are pinned between a Russian air strike and the ground onslaught from the Ghost himself. What do two modified .45 caliber handguns and a red monocle mean to our detectives, and who does it point to for their first arrest in the case? 32 pages, $2.95, in stores on August 10. THE IRON GHOST #3 is solicited in the June PREVIEWS (available May 25th). The Diamond Item Code is JUN051791. |  |
| JAMES
BOND: DR. NO - Available in comic shops May 25th! by Ian Fleming, Henry Gammidge & John McLusky Collects Dr. No, Diamonds are Forever and From Russia, With Love. When two MI5 agents disappear in Jamaica, Bond is sent to investigate - but a mysterious assailant attempts to dispatch him! When Bond links his attack to Dr. No's island, things go from bad to worse! Features a brand-new introduction by Eunice Gayson (Sylvia Trench), one of the few Bond Girls to appear in two movies! Soft Cover, 9x12, B&W, $16.95 | |
| James Rollins James Rollins (MAP OF BONES) signs at Borderlands Books in San Francisco, CA, at 2 p.m.Saturday May 21st. | |
| Jules Verne’s THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND - Coming in July! Jules Verne’s THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND premieres Saturday and Sunday, July 2-3, from Hallmark Entertainment. It stars Kyle MacLachlan (“Twin Peaks”), Patrick Stewart (“The Lion in Winter,” “Moby Dick”), Gabrielle Anwar (“Scent of a Woman,” “Body Snatchers”), Omar Gooding (“Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper,” “Smart Guy”), and the UK’s Empire Award-winner Vinnie Jones (“Two Smoking Barrels”) and follows the adventures of a group of castaways who use their survivalist savvy to build a functional community on an uncharted island. Based on Jules Verne’s classic novel, THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND chronicles a hot air balloon that is blown far off course and crash lands with all of its passengers on an uncharted island. One of the marooned voyagers nearly dies after a skirmish with bloodthirsty buccaneers, but is saved by mysterious medicine. The group discovers their secret helper is Captain Nemo (Stewart) who later dies and is buried at sea in his beloved submarine. | |
| King Kong by Delos W. Lovelace
- Coming in September! King Kong remains one of the most enduring icons of American popular culture — a massively destructive but curiously sympathetic giant gorilla whose rampage through New York City suggests, on a psychological level, the re-emergence of repressed desire. This novelization captures the pathos, drama, and horror of this story of the beast who loved a human beauty. The action begins with the controversial expedition of Hollywood filmmaker Carl Denham to Skull Island as he pursues a mythical monster. Enticing Kong with beautiful starlet Ann Darrow, Denham manages to chain the beast and bring him to New York, where he escapes to terrorize an entire city while pursuing the woman he loves. Expanded from the original story by Merian Cooper and British mystery maven Edgar Wallace, this version features stunning illustrations of the ape and his adventures. Publisher: Underwood Books Trade Paperback, 160 pages, 6 x 9, Color illustrations, $11.95 |  |
| KOLCHAK:
The NIGHT STALKER - Coming this fall on ABC! THE NIGHT STALKER will premiere on Thursday evening at 9PM on ABC this fall. Premise: There are things in the dark, things adults deny but children are right to fear. When a pregnant woman is snatched from her home, the shocked citizens of L.A. believe it's an act of domestic violence. But crime reporter Carl Kolchak suspects that the truth is far more complicated. That's because 18 months ago Kolchak's wife was killed in a bizarre fashion and he has been the FBI's No. 1 suspect ever since. Kolchak's determination to find the truth behind his wife's mysterious murder has led him to investigate other crimes that seem to have some kind of supernatural component. But he's trying to piece together a puzzle that keeps changing shape. Who or what is committing these crimes? How are they all related? And why do some victims end up with a strange red mark on their hands in the shape of a snake? With sidekick Perri Reed, a sexy if skeptical fellow reporter in tow, Kolchak will go to any lengths to answer these questions. But when he does discover the truth -- will anyone believe him? Show Background: Frank Spotnitz and Daniel Sackheim are the executive producers. Current Cast: Stuart Townsend as Carl Kolchak Gabrielle Union as Perri Reed Eric Jungmann as Jain McManus Cotter Smith as Tony Vincenzo | |
| KOLCHAK TALES: BLACK &
WHITE & RED ALL OVER - Coming in August! by Peter David, Kirk Jarvinen, & Various Sit in with Carl Kolchak during his visit to a psychiatrist, and learn of the fashion model mysteriously turned into stone; of a young boy's apparent abduction by a cult being more than it seemed; and the revelation that Tony Vincenzo may have run into supernatural horrors back when he was a reporter. 48 pages, B&W, SRP: $4.95 KOLCHAK TALES is solicited in the June PREVIEWS (available May 25th). The Diamond Item Code is JUN053075. | |
| KOLCHAK: The NIGHT STALKER
CHRONICLES -
Coming in October! FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER! A MONSTER collection of 26 new original Kolchak short fiction stories by noted authors from comics, horror fiction, and film! With the advent of the new Kolchak ABC TV show, Moonstone proudly announces NEW contemporary prose adventures of the original Kolchak, TV's first and foremost paranormal investigator! You want KOLCHAK vs Dark Shadows' BARNABAS COLLINS? You got it! You want KOLCHAK embroiled in the LOVECRAFT Mythos? You got it! How about KOLCHAK written by one of the SIMPSONS' creative forces? You got it! Plus all kinds of other cool stuff, like tales form Kolchak's untold past, monster huntings, noir thrillers, and even horror stories of more cerebral type! Look at who has written an original (not seen anywhere else) Kolchak story: (From the book& film field) Max Allan Collins, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Ed Gorman, Elaine Bergstrom, PN Elrod, Robert Weinberg, Brett Matthews, CJ Henderson, Mark Dawidziak, Richard Valley, James Bates. (From the comics field): Peter David, Chuck Dixon, Steven Grant, Mike W. Barr, Gary Phillips,Fred Van Lente, Adi Tantimedh, Martin Powell, Clay & Susan Griffith, James Kuhoric, Jason Henderson, plus more! 320 pages of text w/ spot illustrations, 6" x 9", $18.95 |  Cover: Doug Klauba |
| LEGEND #4
- Available in comic shops May 25th! Written by Howard Chaykin, art and cover by Russ Heath. The conclusion. Hugo Danner continues of search for his true self and his place in this world, but how can he help people when all they see is a pariah? And what happens when he realizes that all his powers cannot help him when his true foe is human nature? 48 pages, $5.99, in stores on May 25. |  |
| Radio
Spirits - New Tarzan Radio Episodes on CD! After making its radio debut in 1932, this popular tale of an orphaned child raised by apes in the African jungle had critics cheering it as, "the most fascinating and colorful radio program they had ever heard." Enjoy the 18 episodes that marked the beginning of this classic radio epic and be sure to listen for Edgar Rice Burroughs' own daughter as Tarzan's love interest Jane. Category: Adventure Duration: 3 hours CD: $18.98 Tape: $17.08 http://radiospirits.chtah.com/a/tBCifxwARgsZ1AWqV3-AMIDX5C1/rs34 http://radiospirits.chtah.com/a/tBCifxwARgsZ1AWqV3-AMIDX5C1/rs37 |  |
| REH:
Two-Gun Raconteur #8 - Now available for preorder - Coming in
June! A sneak Preview of REH: Two-Gun Raconteur #8 is now available at http://www.rehtwogunraconteur.com Don't miss out – pre-order your copy of the eighth issue of The Definitive Robert E. Howard Fanzine now! Number 8 will make its debut at Howard Days in Cross Plains, Texas on June 10th. Orders will be mailed on June 15th. Issues 5, 6 and 7 are nearly sold out, and this issue is sure to be a bestseller as well! Contents Include: • Conan cover by Gene Day • Inside front and back covers featuring Sailor Steve Costigan and Breckenridge Elkins by Bill Cavalier • Back cover of King Kull by Esteban Maroto • "Black Country" by Robert E. Howard, Illustration by Greg Ruth • "Herbert Klatt: The Fourth Musketeer" by Glenn Lord • "Robert E. Howard's Heroes & Heroines: A Portfolio" by Stephen Fabian • "Restless Hercules, Wild Planet" by Morgan Holmes, Illustration by David Burton • "A Dark Gray Heritage, Part 2" by Danny Street • Plus news, additional artwork, features and more! Price is $13.00 ($10.50 + 2.50 for US postage and handling). Order from and make checks and money orders payable to: Damon C. Sasser 905 Littleport Lane Channelview, Texas 77530 Payment also accepted via PayPal through orders@rehtwogunraconteur |  |
| TOM STRONG #34
- Coming in August! Written by Steve Moore with art by Paul Gulacy & Jimmy Palmiotti and a cover by Chris Sprouse Big trouble in central China! Tom lends a hand after a nuclear detonation in central Asia but discovers a spired city in which unusual dangers abound, as well as a lovely adventuress. What does all this have to do with a bizarre children's book written more than 100 years earlier? On sale August 10, 32 pages, Full Color, $2.99 TOM STRONG #34 is solicited in the June PREVIEWS (available May 25th). The Diamond Item Code is JUN050435. |  |
| WAR
OF THE WORLDS GRAPHIC NOVEL -
Available in comic shops May 25th! Best Sellers Illustrated will launch its line of graphic novels in May with an adaptation of the H.G. Wells science-fiction classic, The War of the Worlds. Vice-president Aron Kessler said, "Wells was far ahead of his time when The War of the Worlds was first published in book form in 1898. Not only was he a visionary, but he was also an astute social critic whose writings are as relevant today as they were over a century ago. For these reasons, we're able to remain true to the original story, while completely updating it for a modern audience." The adaptation is written by Stephen Stern, writer/creator of the independent comic-book, Zen Intergalactic Ninja. Stern's other credits include the comic-book adaptation of the animated classic, Mr. Magoo¹s Christmas Carol and the collection of novellas and short stories, Alien Hero. "The War of the Worlds isn¹t just a great science-fiction novel; it¹s great literature," Stern said. "As always in modernizing a classic, the task is to remain faithful to the spirit of the source material while re-imagining it in a contemporary context. In this instance, I¹m also shifting the locale from London and its environs to the New York metropolitan area. In light of recent history, this attack by the Martians takes on a chilling relevancy and poignancy." War of the Worlds is illustrated by veteran Star Trek comic-book artist Arne Starr. The graphic novel will feature a cover by Frank Brunner. |  |
| Wildside
Press - Publication delays! Wildside Press is moving to Rockville, Maryland! Although they hope to make the transition to their new offices as painless and invisible to customers as possible, expect delays on any orders placed between June 15 and June 30, as they settle in and unpack. Please note that due to this move, Wildside Press will be delaying publication of The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard, Volume 3 and The Tarzan Twins, by Edgar Rice Burroughs, until early July. After that, Wildside Press will return to their normal schedule. | |
| ZORRO #1
- Available in comic shops May 25th! by Don McGregor Announcing an all-new full-color Zorro comic from Papercutz. With The Legend of Zorro soon to return the masked swordsman to the big screen, re-uniting Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta Jones, Zorro returns to comics as well, re-uniting editor Jim Salicrup with acclaimed Zorro writer Don McGregor. As usual you can expect the unexpected. For the very first time, Zorro is presented in a stunning new manga-like art style, sure to appeal to the ever-growing fans of both manga and anime. Plus, Zorro travels up to the frigid northern parts of California, you¹ve never seen him in before, to battle deadly new foes. And wait till you see the mysterious, beautiful woman he's brought with him! So, when we say Papercutz is presenting Zorro as you've never seen him before, we're not kidding! But we're also keeping everything that's made him one of the true classic swashbucklers and beloved action heroes of our time! 32 pages, Full Color, SRP: $2.95 |  |
| ZORRO
#4 - Coming in August! by Don McGregor & Sidney Lima Only 99¢! A perfect jumping-on point for new readers with an all-new story! Lockspur taunts a young couple, threatening to take one of them alive. Meanwhile, Zorro and Eulalia Bandini are buried alive when they plunge into an icy chasm that threatens to become their glacial coffin! On sale August 31, 24 pages, Full Color, SRP: $0.99 ZORRO #4 is solicited in the June PREVIEWS (available May 25th). The Diamond Item Code is JUN053088. | |
| ZORRO VOLUME 1
- Coming in August! by Don McGregor & Sidney Lima Zorro is risking all to find safe haven for Eulalia Bandini, a woman who dared to defy the all-powerful Capitan Monasterio. Zorro also takes time to save a middle-aged mapmaker and his wife from the clutches of the cadaverous Ripklaw. See the romantic tension increase between Zorro and Eulalia! And watch as Zorro ultimately battles Ripklaw to the death! This collects the stories from the first three issues of the Zorro monthly comic. On sale August 31, Soft Cover, 5x7, 96 pages, Full Color, SRP: $7.95 On sale August 31, Hard Cover, 5x7, 96 pages, Full Color, SRP: $12.95 ZORRO Volume 1 is solicited in the June PREVIEWS (available May 25th). The Diamond Item Code is JUN053089. The Diamond Item Code is JUN053090. | |
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| Adventure House -
Now Available! HIGH ADVENTURE #82 featuring THE CONQUEST OF AMERICA is now available. Is America Doomed? Will the Asian Hordes of Wu Fang descend upon a helpless America and claim United States soil as their own? Has America gone too far in disarming after the Great War? Find out in the pages of the stunning novel The Conquest of America by Frederick Painton, as reprinted from the pages of the late 20s era pulp BATTLE STORIES. Soft Cover, 7x10, 112 pages, B&W SRP: $7.95 HIGH ADVENTURE #82 will be available in comic shops on May 18th. Coming Soon: HIGH ADVENTURE #83 featuring Dan Fowler is his first great adventure in the pages of G-MEN. (July 2005) HIGH ADVENTURE #84 featuring The Green Lama in The Wave of Death by Richard Foster. (September 2005) HIGH ADVENTURE #85 featuring The Black Bat in The Maniac Murders. (November 2005) |  |
| Adventure House -
Now Available! G-8 AND HIS BATTLE ACES #16 featuring The X-Ray Eye is now available. "Scientist murdered in Berlin." It was that headline in a German newspaper that sent G-8 on the trail of one of the most ghastly war schemes that ever blasted fighting skies. Intelligence was not impressed by the news story; but G-8 suspected the motive behind the crime, knew that it promised a horror campaign that might destroy the world— and grimly he set out to combat it! SRP: $9.95 G-8 AND HIS BATTLE ACES #16 will be available in comic shops on May 18th. Coming Soon: G-8 and His Battle Aces #17: Squadron of the Scorpion (August 2005) G-8 and His Battle Aces #18: The Death Monsters (November 2005) |  |
| BACK-ISSUE #10 -
Now available in comic shops! "Bring on the Bad Guys" explores the history of Batman foe, Ra's al Ghul, with commentary by Neal Adams and Denny O'Neil (and rare art by Adams)! Denny O'Neil returns to join artist Mike Kaluta for a "Pro2Pro" interview about The Shadow, and Roger Stern and Ron Frenz go "Pro2Pro" about their much-loved story, "The Kid Who Collected Spider-Man." Plus: Mike Grell's Jon Sable, Freelance (including a "Backstage Pass" look at the Sable TV show); a Howard Chaykin interview; Mike W. Barr's examination of Doc Savage in comics; a spotlight on The Human Target; a speculative look at why DC bypassed the black-and-white boom of the 1970s; a Batman "Rough Stuff" art gallery, featuring Bill Sienkiewicz, Walter Simonson, Paul Smith, Brian Bolland, Ed Hannigan, David Mazzucchelli, and others; and a "New in Print" look at Batman: Dark Detective, reuniting Steve Englehart, Marshall Rogers, and Terry Austin! With an eye-popping Ra's al Ghul cover by Neal Adams! Edited by Michael Eury. Twomorrows Publishing Magazine, 8x11, 100 pages, B&W SRP: $5.95 | |
| Brimstone -
Now Available! BRIMSTONE by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child is now available in a paperback edition. Jeremy Grove, a notorious art critic, has been found dead. Murdered. Charred. Burned from the inside out, with a demonic hoof print burned into the floor, and his crucifix melted. The work of the devil? Or an even greater evil? Special Agent Pendergast has taken up the case. A famous agent of the FBI, Pendergast's methods and manners are eccentric, dignified, mysterious...and almost always successful. His interest in unique cases has often placed his life in peril, but never has he had a case such as this, where he just may be up against the Devil Himself. Also featuring former NYPD lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta (RELIC, RELIQUARY) and now-Captian Laura Hayward (RELIQUARY), and a ton of references to former Preston/Child novels, this is a suspense thriller that will intimidate and enthrall new fans, and delight old ones. |  |
| CONAN
#16 - Available in comic shops May 18th! Kurt Busiek (Writer), Cary Nord (Pencils), and Thomas Yeates (Pencils) The third major arc in the critically acclaimed, best-selling Conan series begins with Conan once again rejecting civilization, but quickly learning that sorcery reaches out into the wild as well. Cary Nord begins a much-anticipated run on covers of the series that he made a hit, as we lay the groundwork leading up to the adaptation of one of Robert E. Howard’s most popular stories, "The Tower of the Elephant." "A writer as prominent as Kurt Busiek delivers many great works; however, this may very well be his crowning achievement. Cary Nord captures the essence of Howard’s vision, with a respectful nod to the legendary Conan art created by Frank Frazetta. Together, Busiek and Nord have truly earned this award." Broken Frontier on awarding Conan their Paper Screen Gem Award in the Fantasy category. On sale May 18, Full Color, 32 pages, $2.99 Dark Horse Comics |  |
| CONAN
#19 - Coming in August! Kurt Busiek (W), Cary Nord (P), and Dave Stewart (C) Conan unleashes an ancient evil of extraordinary power in this story that sets the stage for the adaptation of one of Robert E. Howard's most-praised Conan stories, "The Tower of the Elephant," beginning next month. Civilization continues to prove unsavory to the Cimmerian barbarian as he navigates through the teeming villainy of the City of Thieves. Determined to profit from this den of peril, Conan attempts to rob a luxuriant temple only to find himself face-to-face with an unscrupulous power bent upon its own escape. Yet, even that may not be as troubling as a woman from Conan's past who has returned to the scene, unexpectedly. Dark Horse Comics On sale August 24, Full Color, 32 pages, $2.99 CONAN #19 is solicited in the June PREVIEWS (available May 25th). | |
| CONAN:
THE GOD IN THE BOWL AND OTHER STORIES - Coming in September! Kurt Busiek (W), Cary Nord (P), Thomas Yeates (P), and Dave Stewart (C) The critically acclaimed and award-winning creative team behind the runaway-hit revival are back with a brand new adaptation of one of Conan creator Robert E. Howard's best-known tales. Award-winning writer Kurt Busiek and artists Cary Nord and Dave Stewart render the glorious suspense of Howard's beloved "The God in the Bowl" in all its terrifying detail, as well as introducing not only Conan's most famed adversary, Thoth-amon, but a new female foil to Conan's exploits-Janissa the Widowmaker, bound by a pact to a witch who has sinister plans for Conan. Collecting issues #7, #9-#14 of the Dark Horse series. On sale September 28, Hardcover, 184 pages, Full Color, 7" x 10", $24.95 THE GOD IN THE BOWL AND OTHER STORIES is solicited in the June PREVIEWS (available May 25th). | |
| Conan: Red Nails 2D/3D Animated Film Sherman Oaks, California-based Swordplay Entertainment Inc., has begun principal production on the animated feature film, CONAN: RED NAILS, based on the classic story by the best-selling fantasy author Robert E. Howard, a new 2D/3D animated feature film, targeting a fall 2006 release on video/DVD, with a theatrical release pending test screening. New Line Home Entertainment has acquired all North American distribution rights to the animated feature film. Cinema Management Group (CMG), an international sales company based in West Hollywood, headed by sales veteran Edward Noeltner, will be taking CONAN: RED NAILS to the Cannes Film Festival where it will be looking to set-up international pre-sales on the feature. CONAN has previously been adapted into feature films, and television, but this is the first full-length animated feature film based on Conan the Cimmerian, a character Howard created in 1932. The feature film is being directed by animation veteran Victor Dal Chele, (SPIDER-MAN, GHOSTBUSTERS, THE REAL ADVENTURES OF JOHNNY QUEST, BUTT-UGLY MARTIANS and ROBOCOP: ALPHA COMMANDO). Comics, animation and superheroes expert Steve Gold is onboard as the film's writer/producer while Larry Houston (THE X-MEN: THE ANIMATED SERIES, BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES, HBO'S SPAWN and DISNEY'S GARGOYLES) is animation director. CONAN: RED NAILS, one of Howard's most famous stories, is both a sprawling epic and an equally engaging love story. When Conan and the pirate queen, Valeria, are betrayed in battle, they flee across harsh desert and trackless jungle only to confront the mystery and horror of a fabulous lost city. Conan becomes embroiled in a feud between the city's factions, and must triumph over dragons, demons and a host of human and magical foes to end the war and win Valeria's love. "Steve Gold is an incredible cinematic storyteller, and renown Conan expert," said producer Jonathan Bogner. "We're all thrilled at this opportunity to bring his vision of Conan to life and work with some of the best artists in the world." Gold and Dal Chele have assembled an impressive team of award-winning visual artists and tapped legendary illustrator Michael Kaluta as the key concept designer for the film. "Michael has been associated with CONAN and the works of Robert E. Howard for more than 30 years. He brings an amazing scope and pedigree to the film," said Dal Chele. Mark Schultz (CADILLACS & DINOSAURS) who recently illustrated THE COMING OF CONAN THE CIMMERIAN: VOLUME 1 for publishing house Ballentine and Del Ray, will add additional concept designs, as will leading fantasy painter and book cover artist, Donato Giancola. Greg Horn, a longtime Conan fan, and a hot young artist for comics and videogames will also be contributing artwork for the project. "I couldn't be more pleased with the creative and business teams we've assembled for this film. We all feel a tremendous respect and responsibility to the Conan franchise and Conan's legions of fans around the world," said Gold. "This is going to be an incredible ride!" he added. Exec producers are David Schwarcz, a founder of Swordplay Ent. (http://www.conanrednails.com), the company overseeing the production; Peter Sederowsky, chairman of Paradox Entertainment, the owners of Conan Properties International Llc., which owns the underlying rights to the Conan franchise; Frederik Malmberg, exec director of Conan Properties Int'l and Patricia Gillum (MIRACLE DOGS) while Nicholas Temple is onboard as co-executive producer. Howard's Conan is about to celebrate his 75th birthday and is still going strong as one of the most successful entertainment franchises. Conan has sold more than $1 billion dollars through film, television and merchandise. Conan Properties licenses include Ballentine/Del Rey Books, McFarlane Toys - now releasing its CONAN: Series 2 action figures, Dark Horse Comics and Funcom, the online gaming house preparing to launch the MMOG AGE OF CONAN. Conan Properties Int'l. is developing a live-action Conan feature film with Warner Bros., most likely as a major summer tentpole for 2007. | |
| Cthulhu: Gug Plush -
Now Available! One of the most popular of the Cthulhu monsters, this 12" long Gug Plush was designed by the fervid imagination of Ron Spencer, based on the description by HP Lovecraft himself. "The eyes jutted two inches from each side, shaded by bony protuberances overgrown with coarse hairs. But the head was chiefly terrible because of the mouth. That mouth had great yellow fangs and ran from the top to the bottom of the head, opening vertically instead of horizontally." First time ever released. Limited production. Plush SRP: $29.95 Cthulhu: Gug Plush can be ordered from Entertainment Earth. |  |
| Cthulhu:
Moon Beast Plush - Now Available! The Moon Beasts are slippery white toad-like beings whose only sensory organs are pinkish tentacles protruding from their snouts. Designed by Ron Spencer, this 13-inch tall and 12-inch wide "corpse like" plush is a servant of Nyarlathotep who can serve your evil purposes as well! Price: $29.99. Cthulhu: Moon Beast Plush can be ordered from Entertainment Earth. |  |
| DANCE
OF DEATH - New Agent Pendergast novel in June! DANCE OF DEATH by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child will be available June 14th. Agent Pendergast has become one of crime fiction’s most endearing characters. His greatest enemy is one who has stalked him all of his life, his cunning and diabolical brother Diogenes. And Diogenes has thrown down the gauntlet. Now, several of the people closest to Pendergast are viciously murdered, and Pendergast is framed for the deeds. On the run from federal authorities, with only the help of his old friend NYPD Lieutenant Vincent D’Agosta, Pendergast must stop his brother. But how can he stop a man that is his intellectual equal--one who has had 20 years to plan the world’s most horrendous crime? Hardcover: 464 pages Publisher: Warner Books ISBN: 0446576972 $25.95 |  |
| DARK
HORSE BOOK OF THE DEAD - Available in comic shops May 18th! Mike Mignola (W/A), Jill Thompson (W/A), Kelley Jones (W/A), Eric Powell (W/A), Gary Gianni (W/A), and others Mike Mignola presents a Hellboy yarn combining Shakespeare and graverobbing in this followup to Dark Horse's Eisner-nominated Books of Hauntings and Witchcraft. Also returning this volume are Jill Thompson, who won a 2004 Eisner for her painted work in Hauntings, and her collaborator Evan Dorkin, with another occult canine adventure. New additions for this volume include Goon creator Eric Powell, celebrated B.P.R.D. artist Guy Davis, and the artist who spent the last twenty years making superhero comics more scary—Kelley Jones. Cover artist Gary Gianni also returns, mixing prose with comics, with a tale by Conan creator Robert E. Howard. The tale is REH's great zombie-western, "Old Garfield's Heart." Hard Cover, 96 page, Full Color, 6" x 9", $14.95 |  |
| E-texts
on the net this week The Shadow Magazine: There's no new review this week. Next week's review will be "Realm of Doom" from February 1, 1939. Flames of Doom by Jarret Buse is this week's Two-Minute Shadow Mystery. Shadows of the Pulps: Nothing new this week. Blackmask Online: Nothing new this week. Larry Estep-Online Pulps: Now with over 550 stories online! Nothing new this week. | |
| ERBville Press - Now available! THE RADIO MAN RETURNS by Ralph Milne Farley First time in paperback! The original text of "The Radio Man Returns" from the AMAZING STORIES pulp magazine and "The Radio Minds of Mars" from SPACEWAY magazine, plus the original illustrations. 126 pages, 6x9 trade paperback, $9.95 THE RALPH MILNE FARLEY COLLECTION BOOK 1 by Ralph Milne Farley Three stories are included in this first collection of stories: The Immortality of Alan Whidden (a time travel story), City of Lost Souls (a Foreign Legion tale set on Mars), and Who Killed Gilbert Foster? (a detective tale). Also included is a short biography from ARGOSY magazine. Illustrated. 174 pages, 6x9 trade paperback, $11.00 THE VACANT WORLD by George Allan England This is the first book in the Darkness and Dawn trilogy of books which relate the story of two people who suddenly find themselves 1,000 years in the future. 184 pages, 6x9 trade paperback, $11.00 ERBville Press has lots more pulp reprints available with more on the way. Click here for a listing. | |
| Howard Days - June
10 and 11, 2005 If you could not make it to last years Howard Days, Guest Speaker Robert Weinberg now has an article about his visit as Guest Speaker at Howard Days up on his website at http://www.robertweinberg.net/rehoward.htm. The REHupa website has the latest information regarding this years schedule of events including panels, tours, a silent auction, and The "Barbarian Festival". Information is also available on registration, accomodations, places to eat, and travel tips. | |
| King Kong Weta Collectibles of New Zealand, a division of Weta Workshop (four-time Academy Award® winner), and Dark Horse Comics, Inc., have announced an agreement for Dark Horse to act as the exclusive sales agent for Weta's program of licensed consumer products. The initial offerings, slated for release beginning in October, will include statues, busts, graphic art, and specialty products based on Universal Pictures' December 14th release of Kong: 8th Wonder of the World. Weta has won worldwide acclaim for its unsurpassed work in creating a wide range of props, creatures, armaments and environments for film productions, most notably their extensive collaboration with fellow New Zealander Peter Jackson on The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. Weta's talented team of sculptors, painters, and technicians have labored mightily to create prototypes, maquettes, and other materials for these films. The following are scheduled to go on sale October 15. They will be solicited in the June PREVIEWS (available May 25th). Kong: V-Rex vs. Kong statue, 7” tall, fully painted, limited edition, $350.00 Kong ‘s Last Stand, 9” tall, fully painted, limited edition, $200.00 Kong with Ann Bust, 5” tall, fully painted, limited edition, $280.00 Kong: V-Rex Bust, 4”, tall, fully painted, limited edition, $225.00 Kong: Venatosaur Skull, 7” tall, fully painted, limited edition, $30.00 Kong: V-Rex Skull, 7” tall, fully painted, limited edition, $30.00 Kong: Ferrucutus Skull, 7” tall, fully painted, limited edition, $30.00 Kong: V-Rex and Kong bookends, 5” tall (each), fully painted, limited edition, $175.00 For an advance look, click on the links below. http://img-nex.theonering.net/images/scrapbook/orig/15408_orig.jpg http://img-nex.theonering.net/images/scrapbook/orig/15409_orig.jpg | |
| The
Legend of Zorro - Preview trailer, teasers, posters, pictures
now available online! The Latino Review website has two one-sheet posters for LEGEND OF ZORRO available online. Click here to view them along with two teaser trailers and several photos from the film. A trailer for the upcoming LEGEND OF ZORRO starring Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones is now available for online viewing. Visit Yahoo! Movies to see the film clip. | |
| Mike Chomko -
May 2005 newsletter is now available! Mike's May 2005 newsletter is now available. Click here to view/download it. Orders over $20 are discounted 10%. Shipping is between $2-6, depending on the weight of your order (media mail or bound printed matter). Michael Chomko, 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA 18104-6542 Contact Mike by email at chomko@enter.net | |
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Princess of Mars William Stout, Bernie Wrightson, and Michael W. Kaluta were hired to be key designers on the team designing Edgar Rice Burroughs' "A Princess of Mars" movie for Paramount. The director is Kerry Conran; the production designer is Kevin Conran. Together they created the astounding "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" feature. After working for six hours on the film, Stout had to walk away. Paramount would not allow him to keep his original art nor would they allow him to reproduce any of the original art during his lifetime --- even in retrospectives of his career! After making over 30 feature films, Stout was not about to start cutting himself worse deals on a movie. Stout has been keeping his original art on films from the very start of his film career, even when he was unknown in the business. Stout is at the point in his career where the art he produces for a film can be sold for more than he was hired to draw and paint it in the first place. Bernie Wrightson is still on "A Princess of Mars", Michael Kaluta is not! Kaluta worked on the show for about as long as Stout did and left for similar reasons. | |
| Robert Bloch - The
Skeleton in the Closet: the Reader's Bloch, Volume 2 Subterranean Press is now accepting pre-orders for The Skeleton in the Closet: the Reader's Bloch, Volume 2. It's no secret that a hefty helping of Robert Bloch's fiction remains unreprinted or uncollected since its original publication in pulp magazines, digests and anthologies of original stories. These stories run the full gamut of genres for which Bloch wrote--fantasy, horror, science fiction, mystery--and all showcase Bloch's inimitable style. Subterranean Press's The Reader's Bloch series was conceived to give these stories a well-deserved nesting place. It is currently planned to run to two, possibly three volumes, containing approximately fifty stories spanning Bloch's career from the late 1930s to the early 1990s. The series will stand independent of The Lost Bloch series, which concentrated primarily on novella and short-novel length works, but readers who enjoyed those volumes will find the same fun and thrills in these books. Visit the Subterranean Press website for a look at the tentative Table of Contents: Cover illustration by Gahan Wilson Limited: $40 Lettered: $150 | |
| Vintage Library -
A new Spider reprint is now available! The Spider: Dragon Lord of the Under World by Grant Stockbridge from THE SPIDER Magazine, July, 1935 is now available in PDF format. The price is $3.95. In the heart of New Yorks Chinatown, on his imperial throne, guarded by swordsmen and gunmen and a labyrinth of death traps, sat the Arch-Criminal of all time. Master of life and death, of disease, of horrible, crawling things--the Emperor of Vermin released destruction over city and nation. The SPIDER, Master of Men, champion of humanity, fought with every ounce of his cunning, against the monster who personified evil incarnate--while one faithful servant gave his life in this, the SPIDERs most bitter, hopeless battle, and Nita herself was faced with a doom more ghastly than any criminal mind had conceived before! Norvell Page is at his writing best in this Spider adventure during the peak of the Spider series. Due to technical difficulties, Vintage Library has extended their 9th year anniversary sale. Get An Extra 10% Off Store Wide Sale Now Through Sunday May 15th 11:59 PM EST. Vintage Library also has a special offer on Spider paperback reprints. Click here for the details. | |
| Wild Cat Books -
Now available! GLADIATOR by PHILIP WYLIE Presenting the classic pulp fiction novel that inspired the creations of Doc Savage and Superman! HUGO DANNER was a product of his father's scientific experiments, and his odyssey through the times and trials of his life is an adventure beyond belief... How does a superhuman man exist in a human world? The answers may surprise you! Cover art by acclaimed artist David Burton! 6"x9" Trade Paperback, 164 pages, $10.99 Available at: http://www.lulu.com/wildcatbooks |  |
| Wild
Cat Books - Now available! THE HOUNDS OF HELL by Ron Fortier and Gordon Linzner Written by acclaimed writers RON FORTIER ("Brother Grim", "Green Hornet", and "Terminator") and GORDON LINZNER, this is the long-awaited meeting of THE MOON MAN and DOCTOR SATAN! This hero and villain from the old pulp magazines finally cross paths in a full-length novel of thrilling adventure and fantastic perils! This is a book that no pulp fan can be without, a definite collector's item! Illustrated by Rob Davis ("Brother Grim", "Star Trek") and Bradley Walton, with a stunning wrap-around cover painting by Thomas Floyd ("Brother Grim", "Captain Spectre") this is pulp fiction at it's finest... This edition also includes 2 short stories by Ron Fortier: "Lady Arcane - Mistress of Magic" and "Angel In His Sights" to round out this wonderful book! 144 pages, 6"x9" Trade Paperback, $12.99 Available at: http://www.lulu.com/wildcatbooks  |  |
| Wonder
Woman Season 3 on DVD - Coming June 7th! Megalomaniacs. Spies. Thieves. Phantoms. Mad scientists. The world is full of dangerous people. But don't fear -- Wonder Woman is here! Lynda Carter returns as Wonder Woman for all 24 episodes of the third and final thrill-packed season of the series. Teamed with flint-jawed government agent Steve Trevor (Lyle Waggoner) and using the alias of Diana Prince, Wonder Woman whips out her bracelets and lariat to battle evil. And what a battle it is. Her foes include a time traveler from the year 2155, a brain with no body, a dating service that's serving up death, bazillions of hungry ants and a sculptor whose statues come to life and become his partners in crime. Wonder Woman saved the best adventures for last! Special Features: "Wonder Woman: The Ultimate Feminist Icon" -- A featurette on Wonder Woman's influence as a female role model - includes interviews w/ Lynda Carter "Wonder Woman"; Dawn Heinecken, Author of "The Women Warriors of Television"; Nina Jaffe, Author of Wonder Woman children's books; Karen Berger- VP/Executive Editor Vertigo and Wonder Woman Editor 1986-1991; Lillian Robinson, Author of "Wonder Women: Feminisms and Superheroes" Retail Price: $39.95. Release Date: 6/7/2005 |  |
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| Adventure House -
Coming in November! HIGH ADVENTURE #85 featuring The Black Bat in The Maniac Murders from the pages of BLACK BAT DETECTIVE MYSTERIES. Two Men Murdered By A Crazy Loon And One Woman Almost Killed. The Black Bat Is Called In And Gives Hines The Biggest Jolt Of His Life! Soft Cover, 7x10, 112 pages, B&W, SRP: $7.95 Previously announced and scheduled to ship May 10th: HIGH ADVENTURE #82 May 2005: THE CONQUEST OF AMERICA Is America Doomed? Will the Asian Hordes of Wu Fang descend upon a helpless America and claim United States soil as their own? Has America gone too far in disarming after the Great War? Find out in the pages of the stunning novel The Conquest of America by Frederick Painton, as reprinted from the pages of the late 20s era pulp BATTLE STORIES. Coming Soon: HIGH ADVENTURE #83 July 2005: SNATCH - featuring Dan Fowler is his first great adventure in the pages of G-MEN. HIGH ADVENTURE #84 September 2005: The Green Lama in The Wave of Death by Richard Foster. |  | ||
| Adventure House -
Coming in August! G-8 and His Battle Aces #17: Squadron of the Scorpion - Soft Cover, 7x10, 112 pages, B&W, SRP: $9.95 Their insignias were signs of the Zodiac . . . they fought only when ordered by the Stars! Yet G-8 had a hunch that this apparently superstitious staffel was important, that somehow it was playing death stakes in one of the most deadly war schemes ever laid—and he followed his hunch on a lone daring patrol! Previously announced and scheduled to ship May 10th: G-8 and His Battle Aces #16: The X-Ray Eye - May, Soft Cover, 7x10, 112 pages, B&W, SRP: $9.95 "Scientist murdered in Berlin." It was that headline in a German newspaper that sent G-8 on the trail of one of the most ghastly war schemes that ever blasted fighting skies. Intelligence was not impressed by the news story; but G-8 suspected the motive behind the crime, knew that it promised a horror campaign that might destroy the world— and grimly he set out to combat it! | | ||
| Adventure House -
Coming in November! G-8 and His Battle Aces #18: The Death Monsters Only a fiendishly brilliant scientist like Herr Doktor Krueger could create these monsters. Only men who laughed at death could dare defy their poison coils. The things marched along the Front, nightmare creatures whose tentacles crushed any planes that came within their reach. What were they? How could G-8 and his sky buddies fight them—destroy them before they threatened the entire world with destruction? Soft Cover, 7x10, 112 pages, B&W, SRP: $9.95 |  | ||
| Alien
vs. Predator 20th Century Fox rep Tom Rothman said to Sci-Fi Wire at the Saturn Awards that a sequel to Alien vs. Predator is happening - "We will do another one of those for sure. It was a big success. In the new Alien vs. Predator they will finally actually really come to our world... It's likely that we will bridge the gap, and the beginning of that will be setting it in our contemporary universe." | |||
| Blood 'N' Thunder Guide to Collecting
Pulps - Coming in July! Now that they have assumed their proper place in the history of American popular culture, pulp magazines are increasingly sought after by enthusiasts entranced with the vigorous, sometimes outré fiction contained in their coarse pages. Some collectors are attracted by the vibrant, often lurid covers these periodicals sport. Overall, interest in pulps is at an all-time high. But where to begin? How does one determine which pulps are worthwhile, or how much they are worth? The BLOOD 'N' THUNDER GUIDE TO COLLECTING PULPS addresses these questions - and many others - by outlining the scope of the field and identifying, genre by genre, the most desirable issues of the hottest titles. In this informative volume you'll learn everything you need to know about assembling a pulp-magazine collection, whether you're interested in obtaining a smattering of representative titles or building a comprehensive library. This book retails for $19.95 plus $5 shipping. Please send payments to: Ed Hulse, 2467 Rt 10 East, Bldg 15, Apt 4B, Morris Plains, NJ 07950 |  | ||
| Brother
Men: The Correspondence of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Herbert T. Weston Brother Men is the first published collection of private letters of Edgar Rice Burroughs, the phenomenally successful author of adventure, fantasy, and science fiction tales, including the Tarzan series. The correspondence presented here is Burroughs's decades-long exchange with Herbert T. Weston, the maternal great-grandfather of this volume's editor, Matt Cohen. The trove of correspondence Cohen discovered unexpectedly during a visit home includes hundreds of items—letters, photographs, telegrams, postcards, and illustrations—spanning from 1903 to 1945. Since Weston kept carbon copies of his own letters, the material comprises a record of a lifelong friendship that had begun in the 1890s, when the two men met in military school. In these letters, Burroughs and Weston discuss their experiences of family, work, war, disease and health, sports, and new technology over a time period spanning two World Wars, the Great Depression, and widespread political change. Their exchanges provide a window into the personal writings of the legendary creator of Tarzan and reveal Burroughs's ideas about race, nation, and what it meant to be a man in early-twentieth-century America. The Burroughs-Weston letters trace a fascinatingly interwoven emotional and business relationship that evolved as the two men and their wives engaged in joint capital ventures, traveled frequently, and navigated the difficult waters of child-rearing, divorce, and aging. Brother Men includes never-before-published images, annotations, and a critical introduction in which Cohen explores the significance of the sustained, emotional male friendship evident in the letters. Rich with insights related to visual culture and media technologies, consumerism, the history of the family, the history of authorship and readership, and the development of the West, these letters make it clear that Tarzan was only one small part of Edgar Rice Burroughs's broad engagement with modern culture. 328 pages with 17 black and white photos ISBN 0-8223-3529-8 Cloth - $74.95 ISBN 0-8223-3541-7 Paperback - $21.95 This title can be ordered from Duke University Press. | |||
| Captain Spectre and
the Lightning Legion - Update! The Captain Spectre online pulp/serial comic, by Tom Floyd, has reached the end of Chapter 1, 'The Mark of Death', consisting of 24 episodes complete with the thrilling cliffhanger. Read the complete Chapter from start to finish for free at http://www.captainspectre.com. And stay tuned for the next exciting Chapter "The Electric Soldier" starting in a couple of weeks. Join the Lightning Legion....it's free, just download your free Legionnaire Membership Card and you are in! | |||
| Chaosium -
The Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen The Terror & Other Stories: The Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen, Volume 3 is now available. Arthur Machen produced some of the most evocative weird fiction in all literary history. Written with impeccably mellifluous prose, infused with a powerful mystical vision, and imbued with a wonder and terror that he felt with every fiber of his being, his novels and tales will survive when works of far greater technical accomplishment fall by the wayside. Edited by S.T. Joshi. Cover by H.E. Fassl, 342 pages, Trade Paperback, $15.95 Visit the Chaosium website to order. | |||
| CONAN AND THE JEWELS OF GWAHLUR #2 (of 3)
- Available May 11th in comic shops! P. Craig Russell (Writer/Artist) - A preview is now online at Dark Horse Comics. For once, it’s not Conan doing the beheading—and he doesn’t like it. Conan manages to play everyone into the positions he needs them in order to steal the coveted jewels, but he’s still victim to the mystical fortress in which they’re contained, and the primitive thugs who worship the dead oracle watching over the Teeth of Gwahlur. P. Craig Russell has proved himself not only one of the greatest fantasy artists in the history of comics, from his early work on Elric through collaborations with Neil Gaiman, and the only man to make a reputation adapting stories from other media, including his award-winning Ring of the Nibelung. His adaptation of Howard is a real masterpiece, as inventive and intricate as anything he’s done to date. On sale May 11, Full Color, 32 pages, $2.99 |  | ||
| E-texts
on the net this week The Shadow Magazine: There's a brand new review of "The Devil's Feud" from the June 15, 1942 . The Steel Box by John Olsen is this week's Two-Minute Shadow Mystery. Shadows of the Pulps: Nothing new this week. Blackmask Online: Nothing new this week. Larry Estep-Online Pulps: Now with over 550 stories online! Black John Thinks Fast by James B. Hendryx from Short Stories, February 10, 1936 So You Want To Write a Mystery by Michael Avallone from Writer's Digest, January 1963 | |||
| ERBville Press - The Illustrated Edgar Rice Burroughs Series The Illustrated Edgar Rice Burroughs Series reprints illustrations used in ERB's works. The Magazine Covers I reprints many of the original magazine covers in full color. The individually titled booklets reprint the illustrations which accompanied his stories in the newspapers. The following titles are now available. The Magazine Covers 1 The Eternal Lover Tarzan of the Apes The Return of Tarzan The Son of Tarzan Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar Jungle Tales of Tarzan | |||
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Fading Shadows -
Now Available! The titles listed below are the final publications from Fading Shadows, Inc. Back issues of Fading Shadows publications will remain available until the supply is exhausted. Use the link below to visit the Fading Shadows website. ACTION ADVENTURE STORIES #144 and #145 featuring: 144: The Phantom Detective in Merchant For Murder by Robert Wallace 145: The Phantom Detective in Death Rides the Winner by Robert Wallace BEHIND THE MASK #71 featuring: DETECTIVE MYSTERY STORIES #55 featuring Marriage Gone Bad by W. S. Bachman; Eykiltimac Stump Acres by Jeffrey B. Burton; Seatbelts by Kenneth M. Austin; Prairie Justice by Eric Wilder; The Tiger’s Tale by Sheila Sowder; The Eye Witness by Gerald Browning; Rub-a-Dub-Dub by Branley Allan Branson; The Ringmaster by Larry K. Wellman; It Can Never Be Easy by Bryan Schingle; Seven for Thirty by Keith Bodayla; and Too Many Suspects (part 3 of 3) by A. J. Mason Click here or on the images to the right for a look at larger cover images. Each
issue is 5.5 by 8.5 inches in size and runs approximately 80 pages. Order
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| Girasol
Collectables - New Robert E. Howard collection is now
available! Blood of the Gods and Other Stories by Robert E. Howard, edited by Paul Herman Girasol Collectables Inc. is pleased to announce the release of a collection of 5 of Robert E. Howard's great adventure stories. These tales, long out of print, are collected together for the first time in a handsome new 220 page softcover edition limited to 1,000 copies. Great care and attention has been given to keep this edition faithful to the original text. Included are: The Country of the Knife, Hawk of the Hills, The Daughter of Erlik Khan, Blood of the Gods, and Swords of Shahrazar These stories all take place in the desert or the Himalayas, and offer the kind of heroic action-adventure only Howard could muster. Due to differences in Canadian copyright laws, these stories are public domain in Canada, but not in the USA. This means that Girasol will be the EXCLUSIVE distributor of the book. NO RETAILERS IN THE US will be able to carry it for resale. Individual copies can be ordered and shipped without issue, but no wholesalers will be accepted. The retail price will be $13.95 US plus $4.05 s&h, for a total of $18.00 US. We accept checks or International Money Orders made payable to 'Girasol Collectables', as well as Paypal payments to: 'info@girasolcollectables.com'. Please be sure to include your shipping address with your order. Send checks or Money Order's to: Neil Mechem c/o Girasol Collectables 3501 Glen Erin Drive, Suite 1409 Mississauga, ON Canada L5L 2E9 |  | ||
| Girasol
Collectables - May Pulp Replicas! Girasol Collectables is pleased to announce three more issues in its ongoing series of Pulp Replicas. Click here or on the images to the right for a look at larger Pulp Replica cover images. For May, Girasol Collectables offers their usual special: all 3 for $75! We lead off this month with THE SPIDER #11 featuring Prince of the Red Looters (August 1934). This is the third of eight SPIDER's that will appear this year in rotation with four issues of OPERATOR 5. Our second Replica is GOLDEN FLEECE #1 (October 1938). GOLDEN FLEECE #1 is $25. Our third Replica for May is SPICY DETECTIVE #2 from June 1934 featuring Dan Turner's first appearance! SPICY DETECTIVE #2 is $25. We're frequently
asked for 'teasers' of what's to come: how about more of the titles we're already
doing, including SPICY WESTERN #1, ORIENTAL STORIES, SAUCY MOVIE TALES, OPERATOR
#5, and THE SPIDER. Plus we'll be adding GOLDEN FLEECE to the lineup and possibly
DOCTOR DEATH! That should keep everybody from being bored! As
always, these reprints are exact copies including the illustrations, ads and back-up
stories and have been printed on off-white paper, staple-bound and finished off
with a high quality reproduction of the original cover. Here
is a complete listing of the Pulp Replicas currently available for $25, $35, or
$50 each postpaid within North America. Overseas will be a few dollars more. CIVIL WAR STORIES ($25 each postpaid within North America) DAN TURNER ($25 each postpaid within North America) #1 July 1941 GOLDEN FLEECE ($25 each postpaid within North America) #1 (October 1938) |    | ||
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HORROR STORIES ($35 each postpaid within North
America) November 1936 with a rare Domino Lady cover appearance THE OCTOPUS ($35 each postpaid within North America) OPERATOR 5 ($35 each postpaid within North America) #1 (Oct./Nov. 1930) featuring the Robert E. Howard story, TheVoice of El-Lil. #2 (Dec. 1930/Jan. 1931) #3 (February/March 1931) featuring the Robert E. Howard story, Red Blades of Black Cathay. PIRATE STORIES ($25 each postpaid within North America) #1 (November 1934) SAUCY MOVIE TALES ($25 each postpaid within North America) #3 December 1935 (#1 after a title change) - Terrific Saunders cover, spicier than the Spicy's! #11 September 1936 THE SCORPION ($35 each postpaid within North America) SPICY ADVENTURE ($25 each postpaid within North
America) SPICY DETECTIVE ($25 each postpaid within North
America) SPICY MYSTERY ($25 each postpaid within North America) SPICY WESTERN ($25 each postpaid within North America) THE SPIDER ($35 each postpaid within North America) #1 (February 1939) STRANGE TALES ($25 each postpaid within North America) TERROR TALES ($35 each postpaid within North America) WEIRD TALES ($35 each postpaid within North America) Email
Girasol Collectables at: girasol@interlog.com. All
payments must be made in $US payable to Girasol Collectables and mailed to: | Last Months Replicas    | ||
| Harold
Lamb - Update! Bison Books has agreed to publish the complete adventures of Khlit the Cossack, along with all the tales of Khlit's companions and standalone Cossack stories. Four large volumes are slated for publication. The first two will be printed in the spring of 2006, and the final volumes will be printed in fall of 2006. Provided that they sell well, other volumes of Lamb work will follow, including the proposed Swords of the West Crusader story collection. The text for the first two Bison Books Khlit the Cossack volumes are now in the hands of Bison, including introductions by S.M. Stirling and David Drake. Research for volumes 3 and 4 will begin in the next month or so, and editing has already begun on those texts. Visit The Curved Saber - The Official Harold Lamb Site for the latest developments. | |||
| Howard Days - June 10 and 11,
2005 The Guest of Honor this year will be publisher Marcelo Anciano of Wandering Star. Marcelo will hopefully provide a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the Wandering Star volumes and a look at what is to come. The REHupa website has the latest information regarding the schedule of events including panels, tours, a silent auction, and The "Barbarian Festival". Information is also available on registration, accomodations, places to eat, and travel tips. | |||
| HOWARD WORKS: The Works of Robert E.
Howard - New web address! The Howard Works website has been moved to a new server. The URL is http://howardworks.com/. The new site has a new look, no ads, and updates are slowly being made. Howard books published since 2001 are presently being added. Updates are planned for Howard verse, letters, an audio section, and foreign publications. Additionally, the tiny cover reproductions are being replaced with larger images and many more cover images will be added to the site for anthologies, periodicals, and fanzines featuring work by REH. Click here for an example. The old Howard Works website was abandoned and has not been updated since 2001. | |||
| ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE #13
- Now available! Featured on the inside are the works of legendary illustrator Alex Schomburg, known for his groundbreaking comic book covers, and for his slick science fiction magazine cover illustrations. The article is profusely illustrated with scores of never-before-seen artworks, sketches and photographs. Also featured this issue is a long article on John R. Neill, known for his fantastic pen and ink illustrations for the numerous Oz books. Rounding out the issue is an extensive feature on W.T. Benda, known for his exquisite theater masks, and pastel paintings of glamourous women. Also included are book reviews, and a guide to events and exhibitions and much more! Magazine, 8x11, 80 pages, Full Color SRP: $9.00 ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE,
3640 Russell Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63110 The Art of John Walter Scott, Jr.; The Art of A. Leslie Ross; The Artists of Film Fun; and much more! Expected Release Date: July 2005 IN THE WORKS: James Bama, Harold W. McCauley, Bernie Fuchs, Mort Kunstler, John R. Neill, Harvey Dunn, and many more! |  | ||
| King
Conan: Crown of Iron "Sin City" co-director Robert Rodriguez, will direct a new take on author Robert E. Howard's Cimmerian warrior, "CONAN", for Warner Bros. Pictures. "It was the breasts and bloodlust of 'Sin City' that clinched it for Rodriguez," said one studio insider. Director John Milius' script for "King Conan: Crown of Iron" has been put on hold. The studio says that if Rodriguez can get Arnold Schwarzenegger to star, the project would still be called "King Conan" but would have a new script. | |||
| King Solomon's Mines DVD
- Available May 10th! The 2004 remake of King Soloman's Mines for the Hallmark Channel starring Alison Doody and Patrick Swayze will be available on DVD May 10th. No one knew if the fabled tomb existed. Those who have searched for it never returned. It's been said that whoever finds it will become the richest soul on the face of the earth - some say, the most cursed. Now, one brave man has been hired to find out what is true, what is myth, and what is really buried in the darkness of King Solomon's Mines. | |||
| The
Legend of Zorro - Preview trailer now available online! A trailer for the upcoming LEGEND OF ZORRO starring Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones is now available for online viewing. Visit Yahoo! Movies to see the film clip. | |||
| McFarland Publishing - Coming
soon! Talbot Mundy, Philosopher of Adventure, A Critical Biography by Brian Taves This critical biography chronicles both the actual travels and the philosophical meanderings of Talbot Mundy, one of the pioneers of the fantasy and adventure genre. Less celebrated than his contemporaries Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Conrad, Mundy was no less gifted when it came to the literary portrayal of faraway lands. He was one of the first western writers to show an appreciation of eastern culture, and his writing became an outlet for his radical ideas on religion and philosophy. At the age of sixteen, Mundy left his native England to begin his life of adventure—a journey that took him from India to the Middle East to Tibet and finally to America, which became his adopted home. The American spirit of adventure matched Mundy’s own, and it was here that he found a true audience for his work. This book explores Mundy’s oeuvre—much of it set in exotic locales through which he himself had traveled—and considers both his novels and his lesser known writing, as well as his film and radio work. Books such as Rung Ho!, King-of the Khyber Rifles, Caves of Terror, Purple Pirate and Tros of Samothrace are discussed and placed within the framework of Mundy’s life and philosophy. The final chapter evaluates the enduring value of his writings. Appendices include a comprehensive list of Mundy’s works and a chronological listing by their original publication dates. ISBN 0-7864-2234-3 photographs, notes, appendices, bibliography, index, 344pages, softcover (7 x 10), $39.95 Available Fall/Winter 2005 | |||
| Mission: Impossible 3 "Lost" and "Alias" executive producer J.J. Abrams recently spoke briefly about how his plans to direct "Mission: Impossible 3" are going. First he confirmed Carrie-Anne Moss and Scarlett Johansson are no longer part of the cast - "The script was rewritten. I'm a huge fan of each actor that they cast originally, but to have kept the actors when we are reinventing the story would have been an odd process, to say, 'Write a script with these people in mind for characters that haven't been written.' It just felt like we had to start over with a clean slate." Pre-production is heavily underway with shooting to start in July. Paramount is aiming for a Summer 2006 release. | |||
| Moonstone Books -
Available May 11th in comic shops! KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER EVE OF TERROR GN by Lord & Kozoll; Adapted by Gentile, Figueroa, Hunt & Hale Moonstone has done it again! We have uncovered another Kolchak TV script that was never produced! Carl Kolchak is hot on the story of a scientist who is mysteriously, and quite violently, murdered. With his patented skills as a world class snoop, he discovers that the laboratory, and the shadowy figures that fund its experiments, have much to hide. But when a seemingly unrelated murder takes place with Kolchak as its only witness, there is no power on earth than can stop our man from uncovering the horrible truths behind these deaths. Cover: David Michael Beck Soft Cover, 7x10, 48 pages, Full Color SRP: $5.95 |  | ||
| PULPCON
34 PULPCON 34 will be held July 7-10, 2005 at the Dayton Convention Center in Dayton, Ohio. Guests of Honor Martin H. Greenberg (confirmed) PULPCON is pleased that editor/anthologist Martin H. Greenberg has accepted our invitation to be Guest of Honor at Pulpcon 34 in July. In recent years he has become the most prolific anthologist in several fields. Greenberg has worked with different co-editors to produce many anthologies designed for classroom teaching in various fields (chemistry, history, anthropology, engineering, etc) using science fiction as background. His work as editor of collections such as The Asimov Chronicles and as co-editor with recent Pulpcon Guest Bill Pronzini, Robert Silverberg, Asimov, Pulpcon regular Robert Weinberg and numerous others of dozens of anthologies has brought back into print hundreds of stories lost in the files of old pulp magazines or last seen in hard-to-find collections. Martin H. Greenberg - Bibliography Summary. Ed Hoch (confirmed) Edward D. Hoch was born February 22, 1930, in Rochester, New York. His first story, Village of the Dead, was published in the December 1955 issue of FAMOUS DETECTIVE. Hoch has published nearly 900 short stories and is the leading contemporary writer of true puzzle plot mysteries. Much of Hoch's work centers on series detectives, many of which have been featured in long-running sequences of short stories. Many of Hoch's series detectives tend to personify different mystery subgenres. Captain Leopold tales are police procedurals; Dr. Sam Hawthorne, impossible crimes; Nick Velvet, Rogue thieves who turn detective; Jeffery Rand, the mystery tale based in espionage; Ben Snow, the historical mystery. Hoch can shift to any of these genres simply by altering his series protagonist. Hoch is a winner of the Edgar Award, former President of the Mystery Writers of America, and the 2001 Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America. Click here for more on Hoch's detective series. Several of Hoch's detective series anthologies are available from Crippen & Landru. Edward D. Hoch - Bibliography Summary Pulp Room: PULPCON will have approximately 100 tables of pulps and related materials in the Pulp Room which will be open 1 PM - 8 PM on Thursday and 10 AM - 5 PM on Friday and Saturday. All tables are first-come, first-served. Tables are not to be moved without permission. Tables are for the use only of those who rent them and renters must be present to sell their own goods (or forfeit them to Pulpcon for auctioning) unless arrangements are made with Pulpcon in advance. Memberships: Memberships are $20 until April 15. Registrations arriving in PO Box 90424 April 16 through June 20 are $30. Those arriving later will be held for at-the-door registration: $40. A one-day registration for Saturday only is $20. At-the-door registration for Saturday only is $25. Click here for the registration form in PDF format. Send the registration form (required) to: PULPCON PO BOX 90424 DAYTON, OH 45490-0424 Questions may be mailed to the address above or emailed to reg@pulpcon.org. To eliminate complications, Pulpcon requires separate checks and separate registration forms for each Pulpcon member except married couples living at the same address. In this case, both names are to appear on the registration form. Please do not use cards, letters, notes, etc. as they are easily separated from the files and buried or lost. If we have to return checks, forms for multiple registrations or non-forms to be properly re-registered, a $2 per person postage and handling charge will be added. Also, please note the space on the form to be marked if this is your first Pulpcon. Watch the PULPCON website for the latest information as it becomes available. | |||
| SerialFest 2005 - May 13 to 15, 2005! SerialFest 2005 is a go! Send in your registration now and see THE MASKED RIDER, THE SECRET CODE, HOPE DIAMOND MYSTERY and more all on the big screen May 13-15 at the Newtown Theater! Also featuring tributes to JOHN MACK BROWN, JEAN ROGERS and RICHARD GREENE as Robin Hood, and a and a special eagerly awaited LOST SOUND SERIAL presentation! Location: The Newtown Theater (Daytime film screenings) 120 N. State Street, Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 215-968-3859 Films to be screened Friday 10am-5:30pm / Saturday 10am-5:30pm / Sunday 10am-2pm Dinners & additional activities Thursday/Friday/Saturday evenings. Visit the Serial Squadron website for the complete film schedule and registration details. | |||
| The Stories of Clifford D. Simak: Volume
One: Eternity Lost & Other Stories - Now available! Clifford D. Simak produced over 140 short stories during his long and illustrious career. Until now, there has never been an attempt to collect his entire output in book form. Darkside Press is pleased to announce the first in a project twelve-volume series which will at long last gather all of the short fiction of Clifford D. Simak into book form. Editor Phil Stephenson-Payne has painstakingly assembled twelve volumes with an eye toward each book serving as an overview of the great author's output. Each volume will contain approximately 125,000 words and feature a mix of the well-known and the obscure. Each volume will feature a guest introduction by a well-known author in the genre and each volume is strictly limited to 500 copies (as are all of our Darkside Press titles). Volume one is now shipping (just prior to the centenary anniversary of the author's birth). Obviously this project will take several years for completion as these titles will be interspersed with the other Darkside Press releases. For those wishing to support this project and guard against possible price increases, we are offering a subscription plan. $400.00 will guarantee a full set of matching numbered volumes. You get two books free and a matched set! For payment instructions e-mail jpelan@cnw.com. Eternity Lost & Other Stories is available at $45.00 per copy. |  | ||
| Upcoming
Modern Hero-Pulp Novels by Christopher R. Yates Green Lantern: Sleepers Book 1 (softcover), Christopher Priest, ibooks, $6.99, April 1 - Now Available! Crisis on Infinite Earths, Marv Wolfman, ibooks, $22.95, April 1 - Now Available! - Sold out at the publisher! Those Who Walk in Darkness (softcover), John Ridley, Warner Books, $6.99, April 8 Rising Stars Combo: Book 1 & 2 Collected, Arthur Byron Cover, ibooks, $7.99, May 1 Strontium Dog: Ruthless, Jonathan Clements, Black Flame, $6.99, May 1 Forensic Files of Batman, Doug Moench, ibooks, $7.99, May 1 Justice League of America: Superman: Never-ending Battle, Roger Stern, Pocket Star, $6.99, June 1 Judge Dredd: Swine Fever, Andrew Cartmel, Black Flame, $6.99, June 1 Durham Red: The Omega Solution, Peter Evans, Black Flame, $6.99, June 1 Fantastic Four (movie novelization), Peter David, Pocket Star, $6.99, June 1 Batman Begins (movie novelization), Dennis O’Neil, Del Rey, $6.99, June 14 Fantastic Four: War Zone, Greg Cox, Pocket Star, $6.99, July 1 ABC Warriors: Rage Against the Machines, Mike Wild, Black Flame, $6.99, July 1 Wild Cards: Death Draws Five, John J. Miller, ibooks, $23.00, July 29 Astounding Hero-Tales, James Lowder, ed., $15.99, Hero Games, August Strontium Dog: Day of the Dogs, Andrew Cartmel, Black Flame, $6.99, August 1 Nikolai Dante: Imperial Black, David Bishop, Black Flame, $6.99, September 1 Wild Cards: Deuces Down (softcover), George R.R. Martin, ed., ibooks, $6.99, July 29 Justice Society of America: Book 1, Geoff Johns & Paul Kupperberg, ibooks, $6.99, September 1 Spiderman: Down These Mean Streets, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Pocket Star, $7.99, September 1 Rising Stars: Book 3; Change the World, Arthur Byron Cover, ibooks, $6.99, September 1 It’s Superman, Tom De Haven, Chronicle Books, September 1 Forensic Files of Batman (softcover), Doug Moench, ibooks, $7.99, September 9 On Earth As It Is In Hell (Hellboy), Brian Hodge, Pocket Star, $6.99, October 1 Judge Dredd: Whiteout, James Swallow, Black Flame, $6.99, October 1 Rogue Trooper: The Quartz Massacre, Rebecca Levene, Black Flame, $6.99, October 1 DC Universe #1: Last Sons, Alan Grant, Warner Books, $6.99, October 1 City of Heroes: The Web of Arachnos, Robert Weinberg, CDS Books, $7.99, October 30 Green Lantern: Sleepers Book 3, Christopher Priest, ibooks, $22.95, November 1 Strontium Dog: A Fistful of Strontium, Jaspre Park, Black Flame, $6.99, November 1 Weapon X (Wolverine) (softcover), Marc Cerasini, Pocket Star, $7.99, November 1 Durham Red: The Encoded Heart, Peter J. Evans, Black Flame, $6.99, December 1 Fathom: Book 2: Tides of Destiny, Kevin Andrew Murphy, ibooks, $6.99, January 1, 2006 The Outcast Empire (X-Men), Marjorie M. Liu, Pocket Star, $7.99, January 1, 2006 Hellboy: The New Ark, Tim Lebbon, Pocket Star, $6.99, January 1, 2006 Batman: (untitled), Michael Reaves, Del Rey, $6.99, March 28, 2006 |   | ||
| Vintage
Library - A new Spider reprint is now available! The Spider: Dragon Lord of the Under World by Grant Stockbridge from THE SPIDER Magazine, July, 1935 is now available in PDF format. The price is $3.95. In the heart of New Yorks Chinatown, on his imperial throne, guarded by swordsmen and gunmen and a labyrinth of death traps, sat the Arch-Criminal of all time. Master of life and death, of disease, of horrible, crawling things--the Emperor of Vermin released destruction over city and nation. The SPIDER, Master of Men, champion of humanity, fought with every ounce of his cunning, against the monster who personified evil incarnate--while one faithful servant gave his life in this, the SPIDERs most bitter, hopeless battle, and Nita herself was faced with a doom more ghastly than any criminal mind had conceived before! Norvell Page is at his writing best in this Spider adventure during the peak of the Spider series. Vintage Library is also running a sale on Spider paperback reprints. Click here for the details. | |||
| William Hope Hodgson -
Now available from Shocklines! The Wandering Soul: Glimpses of a Life: A Compendium of Rare and Unpublished Works by William Hope Hodgson Compiled and Introduced by Jane Frank & with a Foreword by Mike Ashley The Wandering Soul is the book admirers of William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) have been waiting for. Tragically killed in action at the end of World War One, Hodgson has acquired a formidable reputation for his classic weird writings, which include the monumental novel The Night Land, and atmospheric tales of maritime terror fuelled by his early adventures as an apprentice in the Merchant Navy. In The Wandering Soul, Jane Frank has compiled much previously unpublished and uncollected material, gleaned from editor and science-fiction historian Sam Moskowitz's 'Hodgson Archive'. Presented here are 'Coasts of Adventure', a collection of stories never before published in book form; Hodgson's 'Ship's Log' from one of his early sea voyages; photographs of Hodgson and his family; newly-discovered poetry; Hodgson's wonderful and historically important sea-going photographs; factual articles from contemporary newspapers and journals; and an unpublished slide lecture, all augmented by Jane Frank's carefully researched Introduction and a critical appreciation of the fiction and poetry. The wide-ranging elements of the book are melded together by William Hope Hodgson's uniquely potent imagination and vigorous approach to life, and their publication can only enhance our understanding and appreciation of his life and work. The Wandering Soul is published by PS Publishing and Tartarus Press in the form of a limited trade edition (500 copies), and a special limited edition (150 copies which will be slipcased along with a volume of Hodgson's unpublished poetry.) Please visit the PS Publishing website for further details. Please note: Copies are available from PS Publishing and Shocklines. | |||
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