ROSCOES IN THE NIGHT can be pre-ordered at your local comic shop from the May PREVIEWS.
The Diamond Item Code is MAY032626. 
 

G-8 AND HIS BATTLE ACES #8 will be available in comic shops on 30 April.

THE STINGING 'NTING AND OTHERS by Hugh B. Cave---Four rare short stories of adventure taken from
(the "impossible" to find pulps) FAR EAST ADVENTURE STORIES and MAN STORIES.

GALLOWS HERITAGE by Robert Leslie Bellem, THE SURGEON OF SOULS COLLECTION, Vol. 2---
The final installments of Dr. Zarkov, the mysterious Surgeon of Souls from SPICY MYSTERY.

These are the same format as previous Black Dog Book publications, 5.5 X 8.5 inches in size.
These books are are priced at $9 each, due to increased printing costs.

Order from Mike Chomko at chomko@enter.net  and Adventure House.

Advances in digital imaging tools have made it possible for all collectors to have reproduction jackets gracing the volumes in their libraries, and indeed, there has been quite a proliferation of "laser-copies" and color photocopies in the book collecting market. When it comes to reproducing painted artwork, these methods suffer from the limitations of the equipment in being able to adjust colors for the greatest range and balance.

Normand Design painstakingly adjusts the color and cleans each image to assure brightness and detail. They work from several sources to obtain the best reproduction available. The type is completely reset with digital fonts to match the originals—even to kerning and typos. The jackets are complete and printed in one piece on glossy paper. 

Each jacket comes with a free, specially produced bookmark detailing the date when the story was written, the first magazine publication, the first edition publisher, the print run, the original price of the book and the cover illustrator.  All jackets are $25.00 each, except the alternate jackets which are $40.00 each.

Bookmarks are available separately in sets of four.

Postage is $5.00 per package/order in the U.S. and $10 U.S. Overseas Air. 
All shipments are Priority Mail in sturdy flat doublewall board.

Visit Normand Design's website at http://www.recoverings.com/ to view these lovely reproductions.

This book is part of an expanding collection of Cthulhu Mythos horror fiction and related topics. Call of Cthulhu fiction focuses on single entities, concepts, or authors significant to  readers and fans of H.P. Lovecraft.
Includes 13 new works of fiction based upon the Cthulhu Mythos of H.P. Lovecraft.

Contents: 
Editor's Preface -- Edward P. Berglund
The Bookseller's Second Wife -- Walter C. DeBill, Jr.
Eldritch -- Brad Linaweaver and Fred Olen Ray
The Web -- Gary Myers
Passing Through -- Robert Weinberg
The Idol -- Scott David Aniolowski
Time in the Hourless House -- A. A. Attanasio
Special Order -- Henry Lee Forrest
Lujan's Trunk -- Donald R. Burleson
The San Francisco Treat -- C. J. Henderson
Acute Spiritual Fear -- Robert M. Price
The Eldridge Collection -- Will Murray
An Arkham Home Companion -- Brad Strickland
The Last Temptation of Ricky Perez -- Benjamin Adams

Trade Paperback, 5.25 X 8.5 inches, 240 pages, $13.95.
You can now order Chaosium books online at http://chaosium.com/online-store/scstore/ 

The trades reported last year that Liu would star in and executive produce an update of the classic detective tales. She'll portray the granddaughter of the titular Chinese/Hawaiian sleuth. John Woo and Terence Chang will produce the film under their Lion Rock Productions banner.

This is an oversized, softbound book with a total of 125 photos, many never seen before.
It includes 30 Tarzan photos and 44 photos from the 1936 Olympic Games.

THE GOLD AND THE GLORY is $19.95 per copy plus shipping.
Shipping is $5 for one book, plus $2 for each additional book.
Send to: Culture House Books, P.O.Box 293, Newton, IA 50208.

Robert Mullen's Shadow PDF: 
The Cup of Confucius (05/01/37), House of Silence (07/15/37), Serpents of Siva (04/15/38), 
The Rackets King  (06/15/38), Silver Skull (01/01/39), Crime Rides the Sea (01/15/39), 
Realm of Doom (02/01/39), The Vindicator (03/15/39), Death Ship (04/01/39), 
Battle of Greed (04/15/39),Deaths Harlequin (05/01/39), and Smugglers of Death (06/01/39)

The Shadow Magazine Interior Artwork:
Charg, Monster (07/01/34), Death From Nowhere (07/15/39), Murder by Moonlight (12/43)

Doc Savage PDF: Nothing new this week.

The Shrevnitz Memorial Library:  Nothing new this week.

Blackmask Online: Doc Savage in The Running Skeletons (June 1943)

Larry Estep-Online Pulps: 
Headache Hurler by Michael Avallone from the October, 1955 issue of TEN-STORY SPORTS. 
Stamp of Doom by Ray Cummings from the March, 1946 issue of CRACK DETECTIVE. 
Red Bamboo by Jason Lyttell from the June, 1935 issue of SPICY MYSTERY. 
Thubway Tham's Inthane Moment by Johnston McCulley from the November 19, 1918 issue of DETECTIVE STORY. 
Storm Over the Americas by Capt. Kerry McRoberts from the Fall, 1939 issue of THRILLING SPY STORIES. 
This story features "The Eagle" (NOT "The Lone Eagle") who was featured in the lead novels of this short lived 
pulp.  I thought this one was pretty good.  Lots of action, particularly at the end of it.

This is a 256 page, black and white, trade paperback for a retail price of $19.95.
Click here to order a copy online.

Swords in the Mist is volume three of the chronicles of the adventures of Fafhrd and The Grey Mouser, the two greatest swordsmen ever seen in the kingdom of Lankhmar. The two heroes forfeit a peaceful new way of life in favor of adventure on the high seas and the promise in a sorcerer's gambit, and are lead into unfamiliar territory and unequal contests against crafty magicians and tempting enchantresses. Yet not even two such erstwhile swordsmen could have predicted the abruptly strange paths they would be taking into the heart of the kingdom, through its dark alleys and mist-shrouded shores. In a forgotten tomb lies many secrets, and only the greatest duel of The Grey Mouser's life will help to reveal them. 

This is a mass market paperback to be published by Pocket Books in August.
It runs 240 pages for $6.99.  ISBN: 0743474651

Ms. Rice had been working with editors Stefan Dziemianowicz and Jim Rockhill on the preparation of a volume that would collect all of her weird and macabre tales in one massive tome. The Idol of the Flies is a massive retrospective of Jane Rice's sixty-year career in weird fiction. From her earliest stories for John Campbell's UNKNOWN WORLDS, through the 1950's tales written for CHARM and THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY & SCIENCE-FICTION, to the recent novelette The Sixth Dog, all of Ms. Rice's macabre fiction is collected in this book. Editors Stefan Dziemianowicz and Jim Rockhill have done a splendid job of tracking down stories from a wide variety of sources. Ms. Rice herself did revisions on several pieces to restore previously excised supernatural elements. 

Rumor has long been rampant of "missing" Jane Rice stories written for Campell's UNKNOWN WORLDS. Midnight House is pleased to report that those stories have been found and while not restored exactly to their original form, they now represent the author's preferred version. 

The Idol of the Flies will be available in a month or two from Midnight House.
The list price is $40 and it can be pre-ordered now by clicking on the link above.

Here's how IDW describes the book: 
"Civilization and savagery collide in SouthAmerica's uncharted jungles!  "South America, 1916. When a young blue eyed girl is reported to be leadingIndian insurrections against the Putamayo rubber companies, Nicholas Carston, a representative of the English House of Commons, is sent to investigate. He needs to determine if she is a British citizen and if so, extract her from this volatile region without causing an international incident. There's only one problem. "She won't wear clothes, she can't speak English and she attacks any whiteman who comes near her…." 

"The way I have been describing it to people is Tarzan meets Apocalypse Now," Harvey said. "In the early 20th century, the Peruvian Rubber Company basically enslaved and decimated over half of the native indian population of the Putamayo region. In JUNGLE GIRL, the only vocal European proponent of the rights of these indians - a guy from the British Foreign Office - is 'disappeared' by the rubber companies. However, his infant daughter grows up in the care of a local tribe and comes back to haunt them with a vengeance. And that's what sets up the chain of events that takes place in the story. 

"It's two-fisted action adventure, and I'm overjoyed that it's found a home at IDW. The IDW team has been a dream to work with, and they've taken every care to make sure that the comic is the best it can be. So I feel very lucky." 

Editor-in-chief Jeff Mariotte said, "Most modern comics seem to be set in New York City, so some artists never have to learn how to draw any othersetting. But JUNGLE GIRL is rich in historical detail and accuracy, and we wanted it to be visually accurate as well. So I turned to a Brazilian Studio called Magic Eye, and the work we got back by Eduardo Müller blew us away. Between Janet's thrilling script and Eduardo's compelling art,this comic is sure to please adventure fans everywhere." Janet Harvey's JUNGLE GIRL is a standard format, 32-page comic book for $3.99.

JUNGLE GIRL can be pre-ordered at your local comic shop from the May PREVIEWS.
The Diamond Item Code is MAY032308. 

Hounds Of Hell by Ron Fortier & Gordon Linzner with spot illustrations provided by Jim Schumaker and Bradley Walton is a classic pulp tale in 29 chapters. Chapter Two: A Strange Transformation is now availableon the Modern Pulp website. Visit the Modern Pulp website at http://www.modernpulp.com/index.htm to read this new adventure.

Hounds Of Hell is copyright © 2003 Ron Fortier and Gordon Linzner.

According to an interview with the Comics2film website, "Steven De Souza is a 'Phantom' junkie. He is passionate about the Phantom and wants to be as loyal to the character as is possible," our source told us. "The most important element of 'The Phantom' is his supposed immortality -- the idea that a crime fighting 'responsibility' is passed down from generation to generation.  One of the challenges the filmmakers face is updating the almost-seventy-year-old character for today's moviegoers. "That was the biggest issue for us," the spokesperson told Comics2film. "We have worked hard to create a contemporary Phantom while remaining faithful to the source material. Certain elements are being updated to appeal to a modern audience." 

The Phantom's trademark purple tights with the blue and black striped trunks may be a particular hard sell. Crusader said the character will wear his costume, but it'll be an updated version of it. Howard Baldwin's Crusader Entertainment and Ashok Armitraj's Hyde Park Entertainment announced that they'd picked up the film rights to the classic comic strip last fall. 

ROBERT E. HOWARD'S CONAN: DRAWINGS & SKETCHES can be pre-ordered at your local comic shop from the May PREVIEWS. The Diamond Item Code is MAY032287. 

Over 65 million years ago, mutated, intelligent raptors ruled the globe.  When they discovered that a gigantic meteor was on a collision course with Earth, they tunneled far beneath the planet's surface and entered cryogenic sleep, planning to return once the globe had reccovered.  But their wake-up mechanism failed and the dinosaurs slept...until now.  The've awakened, and they want their world back.  Three men and three women are all that stands between intelligent, carnivorous dinosaurs and the survival of humanity.  It's going to be an extinction event, but for which species?

This five issue miniseries is illustrated by Brett Booth and Sal Regla with covers by Brett Booth.
Full Color, 32 pages, $2.50, the first issue is scheduled to be in comic shops on 02 July. 

EXTINCTION EVENT #1 can be pre-ordered at your local comic shop from the May PREVIEWS. 
The Diamond Item Code is MAY030211.

For a look at the artwork from this series, visit Robert Weinberg's website at http://www.robertweinberg.net/.

The Shadow PDF website has moved to a new location.
The new site is located at http://www.shadowpdf.net/

"I'm delighted to return as Chewbacca," Mayhew was quoted as saying on Lucasfilm's website. "I think his re-appearance in this film is a fitting way to tie the whole saga together, especially for Wookiee fans." 

Also confirmed for EPISODE III were Anthony Daniels as C-3PO and Kenny Baker as R2-D2. 

A second edition is planned for 2004.

HIGH ADVENTURE #73 will feature Secret Agent X in Ambassador of Doom by Brant House.
HIGH ADVENTURE #73 will be available in November 2003.

HIGH ADVENTURE #74 will feature The Phantom Detective in The Grim Shadow of Hate by Robert Wallace. 
HIGH ADVENTURE #74 will be available in January 2004.

The cover story of our Spring 2003 issue is “Disposable Heroes,” an article chronicling the all-too-brief careers of delightfully offbeat heroes whose one-shot adventures appeared in Popular Publications’ detective pulps of the ‘30s. For our second feature article, Rex W. Layton offers an inside look at L. Ron Hubbard’s 1937 Hollywood sojourn, during which he wrote the screenplay for THE SECRET OF TREASURE ISLAND, a Columbia serial based on his unpublished story, “Murder at Pirate Castle.” Rex has unearthed fascinating, behind-the-scenes information on Hubbard’s screenwriting stint, including heretofore unpublished letters and transcripts in which the author discussed the adaptation of “Pirate Castle.”

Our departments this issue include “From the Top Shelf,” in which we review the only pulp magazine to include stories by both Ayn Rand and Franz Kafka (!); “Tricks of the Trade,” which features a 1931 WRITERS DIGEST profile/interview of prolific Western writer William MacLeod Raine; and the “Blood ‘n’ Thunder Reprint,” which is “The Taking of Cloudy McGee,” a gently humorous W. C. Tuttle yarn from a 1924 issue of SHORT STORIES. 

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BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER #4 is available for $6.00 postpaid from: 
Ed Hulse, Mountain Club, Bldg. 15, Apt. 4B, Morris Plains, NJ 07950. 
The first two issues are now sold out and very few copies of #3 remain in stock.

Work has already begun on #5 (Summer), which will be available at Pulpcon.
As always, BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER is looking for articles and suggestions for articles.

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McConaughey will executive produce the project with Gus Gustawes, his producing partner in their j.k. livin prods. There are 13 Pitt books in Cussler's series, and Crusader hopes that "Sahara" will be the beginning of a franchise with McConaughey at the center. 

Robert Mullen's Shadow PDF: Nothing new this week.

The Shadow Magazine Interior Artwork: 
The Death Giver (05/15/33) and The Shadow's Rival (06/15/37)

Doc Savage PDF: The Talking Devil (May 1943)

The Shrevnitz Memorial Library:  Nothing new this week.

Blackmask Online: The Moon Maid by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Quetzal (02/15/37), Death's Bright Finger (05/15/42), The Devil Monsters (02/01/43), Messenger of Death  (08/01/43), The Shadow's Justice (04/15/33), Shadow over Alcatraz (12/01/38), Three Stamps of Death (06/45), Trail of Vengeance (11/01/42), The Isle of Doubt (08/15/33), Lingo (04/01/35), Mardi Gras Mystery (09/01/35), and Tower of Death (05/01/34)

Larry Estep-Online Pulps: 
When Super-Apes Plot by Anthony Wilder from the December 15, 1919 issue of TOP-NOTCH. 
Satan's Faceless Henchmen by Steve Fisher from the May, 1936 issue of ACE MYSTERY. 
Gun Guile by Goeffrey North from the February, 1934 issue of GREATER GANGSTER STORIES. 
A Long Rope by Archie Oboler from the April, 1933 issue of TEN DETECTIVE ACES. 
Pay Out West by Thomas Thursday from the December, 1929 issue of WESTERN OUTLAWS.

Here is what McFarland has to say about the book:
Robert W. Fenton's 1967 biography of Burroughs has been long out of print, but it reappears from McFarland & Company this Fall as a wonderful source for a new generation of readers.   This book includes letters, documents, synopses, lists of characters, and plots and themes Burroughs used in his work, and also reveals his interest in and ready observations on such issues as women’s suffrage, prohibition, morality in Hollywood, and the Scopes trial in Tennessee. The book has a Foreword by George T. McWhorter, 272 pages, 7 x 10 in size, 65 photographs, appendices, notes, an index, and illustrated case binding. The retail price is $35 plus shipping.

McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Box 611, Jefferson, North Carolina 28640
Telephone (336) 246-4460. Fax (336) 246-5018. Orders 800-253-2187.
http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/

Cover art is copyright © 2003 by McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers.

ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE #6 will be in comic shops on 23 April.
Click here for information on this issue.
 

Larry has informed me that both projects are progressing, just not as quickly as hoped for.
More news as these projects reach completion. 

Orders over $25 are discounted 10% and shipped postpaid.
Contact Mike at chomko@enter.net.
Click here to download the full catalog.

STC is the world's largest professional association for technical communicators. With more than 20,000 members across the globe, STC provides unparalleled opportunities for continuing education and peer networking. Members include every kind of technical communicator, including technical writers, editors, and illustrators as well as Web designers, technical translators, and managers and teachers of technical communication. They work in industries as diverse as computer software, medicine, aviation, manufacturing, and entertainment. STC has 150 local chapters on six continents -- anywhere people need technical information, STC members are there.

Ms. Gresh, a member of the Society’s Rochester Chapter, attended the dinner and was caught completely by surprise by the double honor. In her short, impromptu, acceptance speech, she thanked the Society for the two Awards and promised to keep up the good work, as she and Mr. Weinberg are hard at work on their new science book, THE SCIENCE OF SUPERVILLAINS.

Here's how DC describes the issue: 
"Part 1 of a new 3-part adventure. 'What might have been' - just four melancholy words that conjure so many emotions. Four words that suddenly take on new meaning when Tom Strong learns what would have happened - who he would be - if things had been a fraction different. Journey back to the last days of the 19th century, to a time before Tom Strong was born, and learn what can happen in the blink of an eye in a tale called How Tom Strong Got Started!

Tom Strong #20 will be 32 pages and will cost $2.25. 

Here is what McFarland has to say about the book:
“Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? . . . The Shadow knows!” And who knew The Shadow better than his creator, Walter B. Gibson. Relatively few people have heard of Gibson, but many more are familiar with The Shadow having heard the program on the Blue Coal Radio Program in the 1930s and read the Street & Smith Shadow novels.

Walter B. Gibson’s life and career come out from behind The Shadow in this biography. It covers his youth in Philadelphia, his development as a writer and magician, his wives, including the third, (Litzka, who was a harpist and magician in her own right), his time living in Maine and upstate New York, and his later years and death.

In addition to being credited with creating The Shadow (he used the pseudonym Maxwell Grant), Gibson wrote 187 books, contributed 668 articles to periodicals, created 282 stories for The Shadow Magazine, wrote 48 separate syndicated feature columns, reported the adventures of The Shadow and Blackstone the magician in 394 comic books and newspaper strips, and helped develop 147 radio scripts and many other works under numerous pseudonyms. Gibson has invented many widely used magic tricks and traveled with and befriended Harry Houdini, Howard Thurston, Harry Blackstone, Sr., and Joseph Dunninger.

The book is written by Thomas J. Shimeld with a Foreword by Robert W. Gibson.
It is 7" X 10", 152 pages with photographs, appendices, references, an index, and illustrated case binding.
The book retails for $45 plus shipping.

McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Box 611, Jefferson, North Carolina 28640
Telephone (336) 246-4460. Fax (336) 246-5018. Orders 800-253-2187.
http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/

Cover art is copyright © 2003 by McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers.

THE MAD KING by Edgar Rice Burroughs 
Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote this tale of confused identity and royal intrigue in 1914 and 1915, as World War I was getting ready to happen: it means to be an homage to Anthony Hope's PRIZONER OF ZENDA. But, of course, it isn't Hope writing, but Burroughs: the events that led to the war inform the book, and it speaks to the real events happening as Burroughs wrote. That makes it a very different story from Hope's almost-whimsical novel. Part of the reason Burroughs left such a lasting mark on the world is because he was engaged in the events that surrounded him; the news troubled him deeply and personally. As well it might! He was writing, as he always did, on fantastical topics; but it is the fantastic nature of the twentieth century that is the real text of the man's career. The events that shape our own times now inform the work at hand: Edgar Rice Burroughs is generally described as a "Pulp Writer" -- that's code for a successful hack -- but the truth is that he was much, much more. 

296 pages, Trade Hardcover ISBN: 1-59224-933-7, $32.95 
 

LOVE AT ARMS by Rafael Sabatini 
There was no question to any patriotic man of Babbiano that Caesar Borgia meant to invade; he meant to make the tiny nation into a province of his growing empire. And who had the stomach for that? 

Gian Maria, Babbiano's playboy Duke, was no match for the crisis. And so when the people of Babbiano foresaw the war they called for Count Aquila. 

But Aquila was having none of it. 

"I tell you, Fanfulla, that were I at present in my cousin's shoes, I would cast crown and purple at whomsoever had a fancy for them ere they crushed the life out of me and left me a poor puppet. Sooner than endure that hollow mockery of a life I would become a peasant or a vassal; I would delve the earth and lead a humble life, but lead it in my own way, and thank God for the freedom of it; choose my own comrades; live as I list, where I list; love as I list, where I list, and die when God pleases with the knowledge that my life had not been altogether barren. And that poor girl, Fanfulla! Think of her. She is to be joined in loveless union to such a gross, unfeeling clod as Gian Maria. Have you no pity for her?" 

Fanfulla sighed, his brow clouded. 

"I am not so dull but that I can see why you should reason thus today," said he. "These thoughts have come to you since you have seen her." 

Franceseo sighed deeply. 

"Who knows?" he made answer wistfully. "In the few moments that we talked together, in the little time that I beheld her, it may be that she dealt me a wound far deeper than the one to which she so mercifully sought to minister." 

220 pages
Library (Jacketless) Hardcover, ISBN: 1-59224-974-4,  $29.95 
Trade Paperback, ISBN: 1-58715-649-0,  $19.95 

"[The original Alien] holds a special classic niche as one of the great terrifying experiences. And the trick is you don't go crazy and make a $150-million movie because you don't want to have to compromise, you don't want to try to do a PG-13 Alien that is all things to everyone." With Alien 5, Cameron would like to return to Alien's roots as a psychological horror. "It's got to still maintain its roots in this kind of cinematic id. Ridley did it really beautifully. He just kind of put you into this Freudian nightmare space."

Cameron told the Houston Chronicle that he and Ridley Scott have talked about doing an Alien film together, with Cameron writing and producing and Scott directing. 

Later this year, Cliffhanger Productions will be making the first ever TALES OF THE DARK AVENGER feature length movie, entitled STAR WITNESS.  It will run in between 65 and 80 minutes in length and be in black and white.

Cliffhanger Productions can be found on the web at http://cliffhangerproductions.8m.com

To order, visit the Crippen & Landru website at http://www.crippenlandru.com/

Robert Mullen's Shadow PDF: Nothing new this week.

The Shadow Magazine Interior Artwork: 
The Key (06/01/34), The Third Shadow (03/15/36), and Intimidation Inc. (12/15/36)

Doc Savage PDF: The Annihilist (December 1934)

The Shrevnitz Memorial Library:  Nothing new this week.

Blackmask Online: The Talking Devil (May 1943) 

Larry Estep-Online Pulps: 
King of the Pod & Kelly the Sea Dog by J. Allan Dunn from  TOP-NOTCH, November 15, 1917 & December 1, 1917 
The Seventh Man by Joel Rogers from WINGS, Spring, 1936 
The Green Shiver (Captain Trouble #4) by Perley Poore Sheehan from THRILLING ADVENTURES, October, 1932 
Pay For Your Peanuts byThomas Thursday from CRACK DETECTIVE, May, 1943
Great Minds Run-- by Harold Ward from BLACK MASK, January, 1922 

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

ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE is also available from:
Adventure House
Bud Plant Comic Art
Michael Chomko (chomko@enter.net )

Cover © 2003
The Estate of Bob Peak

Writer Frank Darabont contacted Dark Horizons last week to debunk some rumors that have been floating around on the Internet about the fourth Indiana Jones picture. Contrary to scuttlebutt, Ford has yet to see or comment on the script, since it's not even completed yet. Darabont is about 80 pages into the first draft so far. He describes it as "entertaining and adventurous."
 

"Industrial Light and Magic are working on the Indy DVD Trilogy right now. Hard to believe, isn't it? Hopefully, it will be worth the wait. Here's what I do know – apparently ILM is having to conduct a major restoration of the original print. There's quite a bit of digital film cleanup they're conducting as well."

It should be stressed that they are not making a "special edition" with added or modified footage, merely cleaning up the old celluloid and tweaking or removing distracting and errant elements.

Additionally, Indyfan.com quotes this relevant paragraph from the March edition of Hotdog magazine:

"Good news concerning the Indiana Jones trilogy; It's definitely happening this year, and about bloody time too. Details are scarce, but so far stunt coordinator Vic Armstrong has been confirmed as providing a commentary for each film, which will be recorded shortly. It does look as though Raiders may have the prefix added, but hopefully Spielberg will refrain from any CGI additions, like replacing Indy's whip with a walkie-talkie."

The Arnold Fans also reports that writer-director John Milius wants Oscar-winner Sean Connery (LXG) to co-star in King Conan: Crown of Iron. The role would be that of "Alba Metallus Fortunas, Conan's commander and tyrannical Emperor."  The site also claims that wrestlers Triple H and Chyna are up for the villainous roles of "Felexio" and "Carnifexia," respectively.

King Conan has yet to be officially green-lighted by Warner Brothers. Perhaps the studio wishes to see how T3 does before they shell out too much money on either Schwarzenegger or the film.

The second Lone Ranger DVD Box Set is scheduled for June. 

Hounds Of Hell by Ron Fortier & Gordon Linzner with spot illustrations provided by Jim Schumaker and Bradley Walton is a classic pulp tale in 29 chapters.  Chapter One: The Dark Angel is now available on the Modern Pulp website. Visit the Modern Pulp website at http://www.modernpulp.com/index.htm to read this new adventure.

Hounds Of Hell is copyright © 2003 Ron Fortier and Gordon Linzner.
 

KOLCHAK THE NIGHT STALKER: LAMBS TO THE SLAUGHTER will be in comic shops on 16 April.
Written by Joe Gentile, art by Trevor Von Eden, and a cover by Doug Kiauba. 
Kolchak investigates a spree of "typical" missing persons cases in Hollywood.  Tinseltown dreams led the poor kids astray, right?  It's an old story told here, but exactly how old is sure to come as a shock to Carl - as will the genetic experiments covered up by unknown forces.

48 pages, full color, $6.95

PULP ART is available from Bud Plant Comic Art and Amazon.com.

Pitt voices Sinbad, a daring rogue who has spent his life sailing the seven seas looking for trouble. The film tells the story of what happens when trouble answers... in a big way.  Sinbad has been framed for stealing one of the world's most priceless and powerful treasures – the Book of Peace.  Sinbad must find the book and return it or his best friend Proteus (Fiennes) will die.  But the swashbuckler opts for leisure over adventure and sets sail for the fun and sun of the Fiji Islands.  He doesn't know that Proteus' girlfriend, Marina (Zeta-Jones), has stowed away on the ship to make sure that he fulfills his mission.  And Sinbad's woman problems get even worse when Eris, the goddess of chaos (Pfeiffer), starts to wreak havoc by putting storms and sea monsters in his way. Tim Johnson directed the animated adventure from a screenplay by John Logan (Gladiator, Star Trek Nemesis).
 

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THE IVORY TRAIL by Talbot Mundy 
Sometimes, a great adventure is about fabulous wealth. There were one hundred million pounds of ivory just waiting for them! But of course the ivory was secreted in the darkest heart of feral Africa, and if they got it out of the continent they'd have to deal with the avaricious colonial government. But what's a great adventure without a challenge? 

336 pages, Library (Jacketless) Hardcover,  ISBN: 1-59224-874-8,  $29.95 

For those who couldn't make the show, the promotors should have available for sale at Pulpcon a limited number of videotapes of Hugh Cave's and Frank Robinson's Guest of Honor interviews. 

"We'll revive the Domino Lady in the beauty and style with which she was created," Steranko says. "When I accepted the assignment, I already had most of the image composed on the canvas of my imagination: dangerous, elegant, mysterious--and sexy!  She's the quintessential '30s pulp vixen, a masked manhunter in a noir deco world, right out of a Warner Bros. thriller." The Steranko portfolio is a virtual Who's Who of classic fictional icons. For Marvel comics, he set the pace for Captain America, the X-Men, and Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. In other media, he redefined such characters as The Green Hornet, Sherlock Holmes, James Bond, Philip Marlowe, Indiana 
Jones, Mike Hammer, and The Phantom, plus a phalanx of pulp heroes, including Conan, Doc Savage, G-8 and his Battle Aces, Norgil the Magician, Buck Rogers, and The Shadow, for which he painted 30 covers and created the definitive paperback version of the character. Now, he'll add another credit to his line-up.

The Domino Lady incorporates four Steranko favorites: pulp fiction, mystery, art deco, and beautiful women. One of a handful of series femme fatales depicted on pulp covers, she starred in six stories, originally published in SAUCY ROMANTIC STORIES and MYSTERY ADVENTURE STORIES--two of the infamous "spicy" pulps from Fiction Magazines Inc.

Author Lars Anderson pitted the Domino Lady against vicious gangsters and secret societies, while maintaining the breezy, light-hearted style of a romantic cinematic comedy. As the Domino Lady, socialite Ellen Patrick devoted her life to fighting the politicians and criminals responsible for her father's murder--but still makes time for penthouse parties, bubble baths, ballroom dances, and romantic evenings with handsome playboys on both sides of the law. 

COMPLIMENTS OF THE DOMINO LADY marks the first time that her lethal adventures have been collected in a single volume. The new 96-page edition will retail for $12.95 and goes on sale in August.

Mike Chomko is now accepting pre-orders for this title.
Orders over $25 are discounted 10% and shipped postpaid.
Shipping will be $1-$2 for orders of $25 or less.
Contact Mike at chomko@enter.net.
Click here to download Mike's latest product catalog.

The CD-ROMs are available from The Eldrich Dark for a $5 donation to cover costs.
Visit The Eldrich Dark website at http://www.eldritchdark.com/misc/video.html for details.

Buck Rogers, a hero whose name came to define a genre, first appeared in an original story entitled Armageddon-2419, written by Philip Francis Nowlan. The main character was a pursuit pilot, who in an unlikely turn of events stepped into a cloud of radioactive gas inside an abandoned mine and disappeared into 500 years of suspended animation. When he emerged, Anthony - soon to be "Buck" - Rogers, found himself in a land of rocket pistols, hovercrafts, paralysis rays, and electo-hypno mentalaphones. Artist Dick Calkins made the strip rich with sidebar features, designing scores of odd aliens, sleek rayguns, and streamlined rocketships. 

5 1/2" tall, packaged in full-color tin box w/certificate, pinback button, and information booklet.
This piece is limited to only 600 numbered copies and retails for $49.95. 
Click here to order.

When Buck Rogers found himself in the year 2419 A.D., and joined the resistance he discovered a beautiful fellow freedom fighter, Wilma Deering. Once described as "a flapper with a ray gun," Wilma was a sprightly combination of beauty and brains. While Wilma was steady and competent, she also had a sense of humor. Her boyfriend Buck inspired her wild streak, and her costumes typified the space-babe look that was seen later in pop culture from Flash Gordon to Star Wars.

5 1/2" tall, packaged in full-color tin box w/certificate, pinback button, and info. booklet, limited to 600 copies.
The retail price is $49.95.  Click here to order.

Robert Mullen's Shadow PDF: Nothing new this week.

The Shadow Magazine Interior Artwork: 
The Python (11/15/35), The Cup of Confucius (05/01/37), and Racket Town (12/15/37)

Doc Savage PDF: The King of Terror (April 1943)

The Shrevnitz Memorial Library:  Nothing new this week.

Blackmask Online: 
The King of Terror (04/43)
Seven Slayers by Paul Cain

Larry Estep-Online Pulps: 
That Finished Product by C. S. Montanye from the September 1, 1918 issue of TOP-NOTCH. 
A humorous story of a bumbling inventor.  This idea has been around for a long time, hasn't it?  Not one of Montanye's better stories.

Hair of the Cat by Robert Turner from the June, 1947 issue of CRACK DETECTIVE. 
So what's a guy to do when he comes home to find his cat dead and his wife accused of murder? 

The Road Runner by Arthur J. Burks from the November, 1938 issue of THE LONE EAGLE. 
A nice WWII era "the kid can do it" type of story. 

Escape by Georges Surdez from March, 1937 issue of THE POPULAR. 
An escaped convict has more on his mind that just escaping.

The Electric Warden by Peter Singer from the March, 1931 issue of PRISON STORIES.

BEHIND THE MASK #64 featuring:
   Vindex in Mask of Vindex by Tracey French
   The Creeps by G. T. Fleming Roberts
   The Griffin in The Seventh Griffin by J. Allan Dunn

ALIEN WORLDS #37 featuring The Devil World by Tom Condarcure; Walt’s Matrix by Barbara Custer; The Queen of Jur (Part 2 of 4) by Tom Johnson; A Partial Listing of the Ape Language of Jur

DOUBLE DANGER TALES #61 featuringThe Voice in Plutonium Nightmare (Part 2) by Erwim K. Roberts; The Dark Avenger in King of Crime (Part four) by T. J. Moore; Puck’s Posse by Douglas Roome; The Vampire Murders by Jeff Deischer

DETECTIVE MYSTERY STORIES #35  featuring Cypress Dawn by Dan A. Sproul; Saint Valentine’s Revenge by Lucille Cali; Angel Eyes by Byron Quertermous; Paula Manning by Barbara Custer; Satisfaction Guaranteed by Robert DiFrancisco; Root of Evil by Eli Farkas; Triple Target by Don Hornbostel; The Virus by Rick Jankowski

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

At last! Due to popular demand, Girasol Collectables is pleased to announce the cover you've all been waiting for... the Feb/36 'Batman' SPICY MYSTERY issue! This classic HJ Ward cover is the stuff the Spicy titles are famous
for, and high grade copies of the original pulp are going well over four figures, so don't miss your chance to own the Replica at a fraction of the price of the pulp. $25 including postage within North America.

Also this month, the Jan/32 issue of STRANGE TALES (#3), with Jack Williamson's Wolves of Darkness, among other great stories. $25 including postage within North America.

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.
The only thing missing is the smell (alas) and the flaking newsprint.

THE SHADOW
The Living Shadow (April 1931)
The Five Chameleons (11/01/32)
The Shadow's Justice  (04/15/33)
The Black Hush (08/01/33)
Gray Fist  (02/15/34)
The Green Box  (03/15/34)
The Plot Master (02/01/35)
Strange Disappearance of Joe Cardona (11/15/36)
Intimidation Inc (12/15/36)
House of Silence  (07/15/37)
The Golden Dog Murders  (09/01/38) 
The Voice (11/01/38)
House of Shadows (12/15/39) 
Death About Town  (07/15/42) 

SPICY ADVENTURE
May 1935:  Great Middle Eastern motif cover

SPICY DETECTIVE
October 1936:  Incredible, truly classic HJ Ward cover
August 1940:   Great HJ Ward cover, Dan Turner, Eel stories

SPICY MYSTERY
February 1936: Batman

STRANGE TALES
January 1932: Wolves of Darkness
October 1932: Famous 'Worm Monster' cover
November 1932 
January 1933

SPICY WESTERN
Dec 37:  Great HJ Ward cover

WEIRD TALES
March 1923:  WEIRD TALES #1 ($35 each postpaid within North America)
Available in 2 cover choices: the 'regular' cover, or the recently discovered 'rarer' version. 
Exactly the same, except the black and orange of the cover illustration are switched.

April 1923:WEIRD TALES #2

Email Girasol Collectables at: girasol@interlog.com to purchase any of these Pulp Replicas.
A complete listing, along with other items such as books, fanzines and of course pulps, can be found on
the Girasol Collectables website at http://www.girasolcollectables.com/

All payments must be made in $US payable to Girasol Collectables and mailed to:
Neil Mechem c/o Girasol Collectables
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Last Months Replicas

THE PLACE CALLED DAGON By Herbert Gorman
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.  Edited by S. T. Joshi,  Paperback: $15.00

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/

Director Peter Jackson has finally gotten his precious. 

After earning critical and commercial acclaim for two LORD OF THE RINGS films, Universal Pictures has agreed to allow Jackson to remake the classic 1933 RKO Radio Pictures KING KONG. Jackson wrote the script for his version of KONG about five years ago (together with RINGS writing partners Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens) but at the time Universal passed on the notion of greenlighting the film. See how things change when your previous two films make a billion dollars at the box office? 

"No film has captivated my imagination more than KING KONG," Jackson said in a press release yesterday. "I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old. It has been my sustained dream to reinterpret this classic story for a new age. 

"The story of Kong offers everything that any storyteller could hope for: an archetypal narrative, thrilling action, resonating emotion and memorable characters. It has endured for precisely these reasons and I am honored to be a part of its continuing legacy." 

Universal wants to release the film sometime around the holiday 2005 period. As with his RINGS films, Jackson's company, Wingnut Films, will produce the new KONG movie and the WETA special effects company will create the movie's FX. Jackson wrote his version of KONG just as the original film was set in the 1930s, and the movie will be set in that same period. 

"Anyone who has seen the first two installments of THE LORD OF THE RINGS knows that Peter will bring Kong to life as a real character," said Stacey Snider, Chairman, Universal Pictures. "His vision for the tragic tale of the misunderstood creature, with its poignant character development and technological wonder, will make KING KONG compulsory viewing for any real movie lover." 

The SECOND McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of THRILLING TALES is in the works.

Boats of the "Glen Carrig" and Other Nautical Adventures, the first volume of the William Hope Hodgson series, will begin shipping around the first or second week of May. The Trade Hardcover will retail for $35. 

Copies are $6 each (postpaid) anywhere in USA.  Six issue subscriptions are $30.
Contact C. Cazedessus II, P.O. Box 2340, Pagosa Springs, Colorado 81147, email: cazbooks@frontier.net

This will be our first year in our new hotel, the Radisson Lincolnwood, having outgrown the old one.  In addition to a larger dealer room, there will be a large display of original illustration art (among them covers to Doc Savage, The Avenger, Operator 5 and The Phantom Detective, and artists such as Finlay, Belarski, Rozen and Emsh), and much better facilities for the pulp film fest (16 mm prints, not video), a collection of 1930's and 1940's films based on pulp stories.  The hotel is also much closer to the airport, and an airport shuttle is available (please call the hotel in advance for this).  It's also closer to downtown if significant others are bored with the show and want to see some of the city.  The hotel's phone number, and other info, can be found at the con's website, http://www.pulpshow.com.

The program book has full color covers (a Spicy Mystery themed front cover and Barsoomian back cover, both by Fastner and Larson) and perfect binding.  The book will contain, among other things, pulp fiction by both author GoH's, Hugh Cave and Frank Robinson.