Previously announced and upcoming issues of High Adventure and G-8 are:
High Adventure #68 features The Phantom Detective in The House of Murders by Robert Wallace.
This issue ships in January 2003.

High Adventure #69 features The Black Bat in The Black Bat and the Red Menace by G. Wayman Jones.
This issue ships in March 2003.

High Adventure #70 features The Green Lama in The Green Lama by Richard Foster. 
This issue ships in May 2003.

G-8 AND HIS BATTLE ACES #7 features Squadron of Corpses by Robert Hogan.
This issue ships in January 2003.

G-8 AND HIS BATTLE ACES #8 features The Invisible Staffel by Robert Hogan.
This issue ships in April 2003.

THE SPIDER #70: The Spider and the Slaves of Hell is apparently running late and has not yet been released.

The Shadow Magazine Interior Artwork: 
The Prince of Evil (04/15/40) and The Murder Genius (07/01/40)

Doc Savage PDF:  Nothing new this week.

Blackmask Online:  Nothing new this week.

Larry Estep-Online Pulps: 
Grizzly Gallagher, Santa Claus by Reginald C. Barker from the 12/20/1924 issue of WESTERN STORY MAGAZINE
His Day of Days by Edgar White from the 12/15/1917 issue of TOP-NOTCH
Blood Flame for the Judu by Al Storm from the Fall, 1945 issue of JUNGLE STORIES

This collection is scheduled to be in comic shops on 04 June.
The retail price is $75.
It can be ordered through your local comics shop.
The Diamond order code is JAN03 0270.

SECRET AGENT X-9 (1937) 
When the crown jewels of Belgravia are stolen, Secret Agent X-9 (Scott Kolk) is sent to investigate. With the help of Shara Graustark (serial icon Jean Rogers) our hero soon discovers this to be no ordinary heist but the work of a mysterious master criminal known only as Blackstone.  12 chapters, 240 minutes, B&W, Rated NR. 
Available on DVD or VHS.  Both versions are $29.99.  The release date is 01/28/2003. 

SECRET AGENT X-9 (1945) 
The 1945 serial stars Lloyd Bridges as X-9 and Keye Luke as a Chinese cohort. 
The exact release date has not been announced. 

THE BEASTS OF TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs 
Tarzan returns to civilization, only to find betrayal when his wife and son are kidnapped in this third book in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan series.  This library (jacketless) hardcover features a new introduction. 

240 pages, Library (Jacketless) Hardcover, ISBN: 1-58715-621-0,  $29.95 

THE WARLORD OF MARS by Edgar Rice Burroughs 
In this conclusion to Edgar Rice Burroughs' original Mars trilogy, John Carter travels to the far, frozen north to rescue his love, Dejah Thoris, encountering dangers unknown to man along the way. 

212 pages, Library (Jacketless) Hardcover, ISBN: 1-58715-622-9,  $29.95 

Also featured at AdventureStrips.com is Red Kelso By Gary Chaloner and Haunted Horseman By Dick Ayers.

AdventureStrips.com provides 56 all-new pages of comics by professional creators to its readers every month, for the price of one average 22 page print comic. At the Annual rate, subscribers receive the equivalent of nearly THIRTY full-length comics for the price of TEN print comic books. What's more, if you're already subscribed to our sister site Modern Tales, add AdventureStrips.com to your package for only $1.95/month or $19.95/year!
There's no better deal in comics. 

Also coming in Spring 2003 are:
Gullivar of Mars by Edwin L. Arnold with a new introduction by Richard A. Lupoff and illustrations by Thomas Floyd
Skylark Three by E. E. "Doc" Smith and illustrated by A. J. Donnell with an introduction by Jack Williamson

January 2003 solicited items are scheduled to ship in March/April.
The Diamond order code is JAN03 2599H

Click here for more details.
 

The Shadow Magazine Interior Artwork: 
The Chinese Disks (11/01/34), Murder Town (06/15/36), Gems of Doom (07/15/40), Reign of Terror (07/48)
The Man Who Died Twice (09/15/40), The Taiwan Joss (09/45), Room 1313 (05/47)
Model Murders (07/47), The Television Murders (03/48), Murder on Main Street (05/48)

Doc Savage PDF:
The Three Wild Men (08/42)

Blackmask Online:  The Shadow in The Voodoo Master  (03/01/36)

Larry Estep-Online Pulps: 
Raw, Medium and Well-Done by Thomas Thursday from BLUE RIBBON WESTERN (06/46)
Three Smart Silks by H. Bedford-Jones from DETECTIVE-DRAGNET (12/30)
What Ball Players Do After Dark by Christopher Tompkins from ALL-AMERICAN SPORTS (12/33)

Here's how DC describes the issue: 
"While felonious friends Mr. Hyde and Captain Nemo lend their most needed aid in the defense of London and Mother England, Allan Quatermain and our Miss Mina head for a strange and memorable meeting on South Downs. For your further reading pleasure, and at no additional cost to you, dear reader, the publisher has most generously included an amusing almanac of fantastic places." 

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol. II #4 will be 32 pages and will cost $3.50. 

Click here or on the image at the right for a preview.
 

THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT by Edgar Rice Burroughs 

When adventurer Bowen Tyler was taken captive aboard an enemy submarine, he never dreamed that his voyage would end in the land that time forgot.  It is a land called Caspak, a land of myth and fable: located somewhere on a mountainous island in the South Pacific, populated with winged, humanlike creatures, dinosaurs, ferocious beasts of prey, Neanderthals, "wild ape-men," and monstrous reptiles who all terrorize one another -- and Bowen Tyler, and the submarine's mixed crew of World War I-era adventurers. Stranded on the beach, they fight their way across the island, through dinosaurs and Bronze Age warriors, saber-toothed tigers and cunning beast-men. They dine on Plesiosaurus steaks and face incredible dangers, meet and fall in love with a jungle princess -- and unravel the incredible secret of Caspak. 

132 pages, Trade Hardcover, ISBN: 1-59224-994-9,  $26.95 

Visit the Adventure House website for the latest information and a larger image of the picture to the right.

BACK NUMBERS CAN BE EASILY PROCURED #3 (July 2002) and #4 (Oct. 2002) can now be downloaded.

Conan of Cimmeria Volume 1 contains the following stories: The Phoenix and the Sword, The Frost Giant’s Daughter, The God in the Bowl, The Tower of the Elephant, The Scarlet Citadel, Black Colossus, Xuthal of the Dusk, The Pool of the Black One, Rogues in the House, The Vale of Lost Women, Iron Shadows of the Moon, Queen of the Black Coast, and The Devil in Iron.

Conan of Cimmeria Volume 1 is available in three editions:
Signed and Numbered Slipcased Limited Edition of 1950 - $195

Artists Edition limited to 100 copies - $270
The Artist's Edition includes additional preliminary drawings

Ultra limited deluxe edition limited to 100 copies - $390
The Ultra limited deluxe edition is leatherbound and comes with an extra colour plate and additional preliminary drawings.

The Book Palace now reports that this book is expected in January 2003.
The Book Palace is now accepting advance orders for Conan of Cimmeria Volume 1.
Visit their website at http://www.bookpalace.com/.

Conan of Cimmeria Volume 1 will be available from Bud Plant and Diamond Comic Distributors in the U.S.

The Doc Savage Newsletter is six pages long and contains the latest news on Doc Con 5 as well as information on new Doc Savage items, fan created items, radio play projects, artwork from previous Doc Cons and information on the Fall 2003 Doc Con, VI.  Most importantly, it gets the ball rolling on Doc Savage's upcoming 70th Anniversary commemoration.  Don't miss out on the latest Doc Savage news.  You will want to save your copy for future reference.  It will be mailed immediately upon receiving your response. 

Should you not wish to receive any future emails concerning Doc Savage, please respond as such and your information will be removed from our email list.  If you know someone who would appreciate receiving a free copy of the newsletter but, do not know their address please send their email address to us so that we can include them.

Doc Con, VI, will be held November 8, 2003. 

Please email your information to:  JRyanDS@aol.com

The Shrevnitz Memorial Library
Crime Country from THE SHADOW MAGAZINE (09/01/40)

The Shadow Magazine Interior Artwork: 
The White Column (03/15/41), The Muggers (11/43), The London Crimes (09/15/35)
Crime Country  (09/01/40) [Note: added late last week]

Doc Savage PDF:   Note: New Temporary Site
Pirate of the Pacific (07/33)
The Man Who Fell Up (07/42)

Blackmask Online:  The Shadow in Death By Proxy (10/15/36)

Larry Estep-Online Pulps: 
Parking Simplified by William Brunner (writing as George M. Rock) from FORTUNE STORY MAGAZINE (07/29)
Tight Spot by C. S. Montanye.  This is a story featuring The Canary Kid from COMPLETE STORIES (09/15/31)
Score Another for Barnum by Thomas Thursday from ARGOSY ALL-STORY (11/91920)

Peter described the book as follows:
The book is 316 pages and includes 90 pages of essays about HB-J's life, writings and pseudonyms; the long sweated-over bibliography compiled with Darrell C. Richardson and Victor A. Berch; two rare chapters of autobiography written by B-J in 1947 at the request of his long-time friend Vincent Starrett (originally published in 1981 in an edition of 86 copies); a Sherlock Holmes pastiche B-J wrote in 1934 to perpetrate a hoax on Alexander Woollcott and the Baker Street Irregulars; a newly discovered John Solomon adventure novelette (found as were going to press), and 46 pages of pulp magazine and select book covers--not counting rare photos of HB-J, his parents and grandfather, the Rev. Thomas Bedford-Jones, who began the Canadian dynasty in 1870. The Canadian branch is still active in the Anglican Church with the Rt. Rev. Michael H. H. Bedford-Jones, Bishop of York-Scarborough and Assistant Bishop of Toronto.

The book has been published in a quality paperback edition on very good paper, and will retail for US $25, plus shipping.

Contact Mike Chomko at chomko@enter.net to reserve your copy today.

The trade paperback retails for $9.95.  ISBN: 0-8129-6629-5
It can be ordered from Amazon Books or Barnes & Noble. 
 

Now IGN FilmForce is reporting that Conan Properties, Inc. has reached an agreement with Warner Brothers allowing the studio to renew their option on the Conan characters. Whether or not Milius and Schwarzenegger will still be involved with the film remains unclear but the story indicated that the Wachowski brothers are definitely no longer involved with the film. 

TheArnoldFans.com established an online petition to keep Milius and Arnold Schwarzenegger involved with the film.  Nearly 5,000 signatures were gathered within three days!

TheArnoldFans.com also interviewed John Milius about his involvement with KING CONAN. 
Milius informed the site that, if he does indeed make the film, then he's considering casting wrestler "Triple X" as
the titular barbarian's estranged son, Kon. While Milius likes The Rock, he doesn't see him as Kon. Vin Diesel is also no longer under consideration for the role. 

Should KING CONAN proceed, Milius has already decided that it will be shot in Turkey and Croatia. Also, Conan will wield a new weapon in this film (if Milius' vision wins out): a specially designed battle-axe dubbed "The qualonean Spatha." Conan's sword from the original films, created by Jody Samson, is now reportedly in the Smithsonian Museum as one of "the most recognized film swords of all of cinema's history."

Read the complete interview at TheArnoldFans.com.
 

PIRATE TALES is available from Bud Plant Comic Art.

New at The Pulp Rack
More entries to the Biography section from the AdventureFiction.com site: 
Merle Constiner and H. Bedford-Jones. 
Both of these men were excellent writers for the pulps, and Peter Ruber has done a great job of shedding more light on their lives and work. Peter has a book-length biography in the works about Bedford-Jones. 
See H. Bedford-Jones above for more information.

More entries to the new Bibliography section, also from the AdventureFiction site: 
A listing for Merle Constiner; one for hard-boiled writer Norbert Davis; two checklists for the prolific Erle Stanley
Gardner -- one according to Magazine Title and the other by Series Character; and a listing for Garrett P. Serviss.

More entries in the Links section:
A selection of Pulp Conventions in the Links section.
A link to the Black Horse Westerns site on the Western Links list.
A link to the Popular Culture Library site of Bowling Green State University in Ohio to the "General Pulp
Links & News" list. 

Ancient relics. Hidden tombs. Religous icons. Boring stuff for 17-year-old rebel Nikko Zond. But when he's kicked out of yet another boarding school and delivered to his archeologist father, Nikko starts to learn the truth about Solomon Zond's life work.  Behind the academic cover, Zond's "company" is investigating the mysteries of the ancient world, and protecting its secrets at all costs.  Together, father and son are swept up in a race to uncover this past before a mysterious brotherhood can stop them. 

From the creators of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, and the Emmy Award-winning producers of Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows and Annie, this hour combines the thrills of Indiana Jones with the intrigue of the world's greatest unsolved mysteries. 

Cast:   Ryan Merriman: Nikko      Alex Carter: Solomon     Arnold Vosloo: Vincent
           Cobie Smulders: Juliet     Eric Balfour: Calvin         Cynthia Martells: Maggie

Visit the VERITAS website at http://abc.abcnews.go.com/primetime/preview/veritas.html

BACK NUMBERS CAN BE EASILY PROCURED Issue 3 (July 2002) can now be downloaded at http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/backnumbers/

This issue also features an article by Michelle Nolan, The Prolific Pines Company!
The article briefly covers the history of Ned Pines publications including pulps, comics, and paperbacks.
The article also praises The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps by Doug Ellis, John Locke, and John Gunnison and The Ultimate Guide to the Pulps by Tim Cottrill.
Comic Book Marketplace is profusely illustrated in color and black and white.
The retail price is $5.95.

Comic Book Marketplace is available in comic shops.
Copies are also available from Gemstone Publishing (800-322-7978) for $8 postpaid.

Visit Diceman Creations website for a closeup look at these products.

The Shadow Magazine Interior Artwork: 
City of Fear (10/15/40), Death By Proxy (10/15/36), and Crime Under Cover (06/01/41)

Doc Savage PDF:   Nothing new this week.

Blackmask Online:  The Shadow in Brothers of Doom (06/01/37)
                              Doc Savage in The Fiery Menace (09/42)

Larry Estep-Online Pulps: 
Left fer the Buzzards - A Shorty Masters story by Allan Bosworth from WILD WEST WEEKLY (10/21/33) 
Girlie by Kingsley Moses - A toboganning story from SPORT STORY MAGAZINE (01/22/24)
Clip-Joint Chisellers by Mat Rand from TEN STORY GANG (08/28)

Each issue is 5.5 by 8.5 inches in size and runs approximately 80 pages.
One issue is $6.30 postpaid. Two or more issues are $6 each postpaid.
Not responsible for packages lost in the mail. 
Insurance is $1.10 per $50.00 value and highly recommended.
Order from: Fading Shadows, Inc., 504 E. Morris Street, Seymour, TX 76380-2212

You can download GOLDEN PERILS #27 on the Golden Perils webpage at http://www.howardhopkins.com/page4.htm.
Back issues of GOLDEN PERILS (#21 through #27) are available in PDF format on a CD for $15 postpaid.
Contact GOLDEN PERILS at goldenperils@aol.com for ordering instructions. 

GOLDEN PERILS needs articles for future issues. 
Any and all aspects of the pulps and Old Time Radio--all genres.
Articles should be in RTF format. Contact goldenperils@aol.com

THE PLACE CALLED DAGON By Herbert Gorman
Edited by S. T. Joshi,  Paperback: $15.00
Daniel Dreeme has come to the small Massachusetts town of Marlborough to pursue his medical practice; but he quickly discovers that there is more beneath the surface of this placid-seeming farming community than meets the eye. The mystery seems to center around Jeffrey Westcott, a sardonic figure who has filled his house with strange books and speaks ominously of summoning up "old gods" at some region he terms "the place called Dagon." And what role does his wife, the dark beauty Martha Westcott, play in this scenario? And is the saturnine preacher George Burroughs really as pious as he seems? When the Westcotts' hired man is killed in a particularly brutal fashion, Dreeme knows that he has become ineluctably enmeshed in a horror that may engulf both his body and his soul.

H. P. Lovecraft spoke highly of this novel in "Supernatural Horror in Literature," and for good reason. THE PLACE CALLED DAGON (1927) uncannily reflects many of the themes in Lovecraft's own fiction, and probably influenced HPL's "The Shadow over Innsmouth" and "The Dreams in the Witch House." This novel, whose very title is Lovecraftian, has waited too long to find a new generation of readers. As the latest in our Lovecraft's Library series, it 
is now reprinted uncut and unabridged, with an introduction by S. T. Joshi.

Contact Hippocampus Press, P.O. Box 641, New York, NY 10156, 
Phone: 212-681-9120, Fax: 212-681-9126.
Visit the Hippocampus Press website at http://www.hippocampuspress.com/

ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE, 540 Wooddell Court,Kirkwood, MO 63122.
80 pages in black and white and full color for $9.
Four issue subscriptions are available for $36. 

This issue focuses on one of the most important and prolific illustrators of the 20th century, Robert Peak. 
Peak comletely revolutionized advertising in the film industry in the 1960s, and transformed the approach to movie advertising from basic collages of film stills or head shots to flamboyant artistic illustrations.  His innovative poster design for West Side Story in 1961 - painting characters and scenes into a single montage - became the first of over 100 such posters, among them My Fair Lady, Camelot, Star Trek, Superman, and Apocalypse Now and earned Peak the title "Father of the Modern Movie Poster."  Peak's45 covers for TIME MAGAZINE (most notably the portrait of Mother Teresa), and numerous other commercial assignments redefined the look of illustration in the 1960s and 1970s, and influenced contemporary illustrators more than anyone since J. C. Leyendecker or Al parker.  No other book on Peak exists in print today. 

ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE, 540 Wooddell Court,Kirkwood, MO 63122.
100 pages in black and white and full color for $9.
Four issue subscriptions are available for $36. 

The original I, ROBOT contained nine short stories that Asimov wrote for various magazines throughout the 1940s, brought together thematically by the author's three laws of robotics. Those laws hold that a robot may not injure a human or, through inaction, allow a human to come to harm; a robot must obey orders given to it by a human, 
except where it would conflict with the first law; and a robot must protect itself, as long as that protection doesn't violate either the first or second law.

The movie is a futuristic thriller in which a detective investigates a crime that might have been perpetrated by a robot, even though that seems an impossibility given those three prevailing rules.

You can also order both editions from Mike Chomko.
Mike is offering the softcover for $19 postpaid and the clothbound for $45 postpaid.
Contact Mike Chomko at chomko@enter.net to reserve your copy.
 

This particular scene not only reveals the film's final moments but a MAJOR SPOILER about the fate of one of the main characters as well. The coda introduces Campion Bond as "an elegant gentleman" who greets the League after their climatic battle with the villainous "Fantom." (It should also be noted that this scene closely mirrors the ending of the original comic book series and hints at what the sequel might be about.)

Fox Movies revealed that rather than having Campion Bond round up the team in the film, Richard Roxburgh will serve as "the League's enigmatic recruiter, M."  Thus, since Roxburgh is playing "M", a larger role for a shady character like Campion Bond didn't appear necessary. IGN FilmForce reports that while Bond's role will be minor in this film, he will be integral to the sequel.

While the role of Campion Bond is currently uncast,  IGN FilmForce  reports that Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid from the Harry Potter series, FROM HELL) is under consideration to portray Campion Bond but nothing has happened yet. In other words, Coltrane is being sought after but he might opt not to do it. 

League continues filming in Prague (sans Sean Connery, who wrapped up his role earlier this month). We will see a teaser trailer running before STAR TREK: NEMESIS when it debuts December 13. League opens July 11, 2003.

This title is written by Jay Faerber with art by Eric Yonge and a cover by Tim Seelig.
The Hat Squad is four tough cops who deliver justice their way on the streets of Chandler's LA. When actress Sheila Rivers calls "The Squad" because she fears a hit has been put out on her, they blow her off as a flake who watches too many Edward G. Robinson movies. When she ends up murdered, they snap, and put a heat on the city's underworld that would make the devil burn.  48 pages, black and white, $5.50.

Click here for a preview on the Moonstone Books website.

Moonstone Books are available from Ed Bond Books after publication. 

The shambles of Gein, the murders of Holmes, and the bounty of Bloch are explored in The Lost Bloch, Volume 3 - Crimes and Punishments -- a monstrous mix of true crime and made-up mystery, spiced with a dash of the supernatural in the fetching form of a belle from Hell. The centerpiece of Crimes and Punishments is the novella-length study, Dr. Holmes' Murder Castle -- the closest Bloch ever came to writing a true-crime book, chronicling the homicidal reign of terror perpetrated by H. H. Holmes, America's most outrageous (and least-known) serial killer. Bob's prodigious output for the classic mystery pulps is represented by It's Your Own Funeral and other selections, while his more fanciful and fantastic side gives vent to the novella Hell's Angel. The chaser? A stiff shot of Bob's observations on another real-life murderer, The Shambles of Ed Gein. There's also an interview with Bob in his own words, conducted by Douglas E. Winter, plus an expository piece by series editor David J. Schow, and a celebrity foreword by world-famous author, critic and illustrator Gahan Wilson.

There will be two editions:
Limited: 1000 autographed and numbered copies bound in full cloth, with a full-color dustjacket: $40 
Lettered: 26 autographed copies bound in deluxe cloth, housed in a handcrafted traycase: $150 
Visit the Subterranean Press website to place your order.

To order your very own Shadow's Sanctum magic trick, send ten cents, along with a self-addressed, stamped envelope (business size, or No. 10) to:  John Olsen, P.O. Box 181, Newberg, Oregon 97132.
Please be sure to specify what you are ordering. 
Say "I want The Shadow's Sanctum magic trick!" 
And don't forget that business sized SASE.
Your order can't be completed without it.
Limit one (1) Shadow's Sanctum trick per address, please. 

Visit John Olsen's Shadow Premium website at http://www.spaceports.com/~deshadow/premium/index.html

Terry has now added a wants list page to consolidate in one place the images he is looking for to complete existing titles or new ones to be added in the immediate future. Please take a look to see if there are any gaps there you
can help to fill.

CHARLIE CHAN IN THE TEMPLE OF THE GOLDEN HORDE 
By Michael Collins (writing as Robert Hart Davis) 

Charlie Chan, visiting San Francisco to make a speech, finds himself swept into one of his most puzzling-and dangerous-cases!  A cult known as the Golden Horde is running a spiritual retreat, helping the disturbed and the depressed find inner peace. Benny Chan, who worked for the Golden Horde, is dead . . . but the priceless treasure he carried has been recovered. Benny's sister is searching for the truth, and Chan agrees to help her. The rarest of scrolls from the days of Ghengis Khan, shadowy villains, and an ancient organization with ties to modern organized crime are just the start. For this case will take Chan across the Pacific in search of answers . . . and to the edges of the human psyche! 

Over some four decades, Dennis Lynds (who also writes as Michael Collins, Mark Sadler, John Crowe, William Arden, and Carl Dekker) has published more than 60 novels and won many mystery and literary awards, both nationally an internationally, including the Edgar, awarded by the Mystery Writers of America, and the Marlowe, the 
Lifetime Achievment Award of the SoCal Chapter of MWA, given to him in 2002.  CHARLIE CHAN IN THE TEMPLE OF THE GOLDEN HORDE originally appeared in Charlie Chan Mystery Magazine. 

MICHAEL COLLINS (writing as Robert Hart Davis) 
CHARLIE CHAN IN THE TEMPLE OF THE GOLDEN HORDE 
128 pages, Trade Hardcover, ISBN: 1-59224-014-3,  $29.95 

KING OF THE KHYBER RIFLES By Talbot Mundy 

During the British Raj, the Khyber Pass -- a perilous mountain bottleneck that separates India from Central Asia -- was a wild place, a refuge of outlaws and a center of banditry. Scene of countless invasions, the pass has long been witness to the struggles of wild, untamed people, conquerors, traders and adventurers. 

This is the tale of one of those adventurers, Athelstan King, Anglo-Indian captain of the Khyber Rifles. King, a hero with the face of a Roman conqueror, is sent to the Khyber Pass to quell a jihad.  He is aided by the beautiful, exotic, and powerful Yasmini in the battle to keep the pass open against the insurgence of a mad mullah and his forces.  "A man and his promise -- a woman and intrigue -- are one!" 

244 pages
Library (Jacketless) Hardcover, ISBN: 1-58715-935-X, $29.95 
Trade Paperback, ISBN: 1-58715-933-3, $19.95