The 9-disc set includes audio commentaries, documentaries and lots more. Each film will get 2-disc treatment (a disc for the film and a disc of extras), along with a 9th bonus disc of just supplementary material (including the Alien Legacy documentary, "Alien Evolution" BBC Documentary, Darkhorse Alien and Alien vs. Predator comics, and the complete collection of Laser Disc features which weren't on the previous DVD box-set). The set is tentatively due for a December 2003 release.

Dark Horse has described the collections as featuring remastered color.  They are using the latest technology to give the art the best possible treatment; it'll stand up to anything else that's out there right now.  Current Dark Horse plans call for a three volume trade paperback series reprinting the Windsor-Smith issues only.  If these books prove as successful as Dark Horse hopes, the company is willing to consider continuing the line with non BWS issues featuring art by Neal Adams, Howard Chaykin, Gil Kane, and John Buscema.  Trade paperbacks are the format of choice in order to keep costs down. 

Dark Horse stated that there are no plans at the moment to reprint Red Sonja, Kull, and other classic Robert E. Howard creations that were featured in Marvel books in the 1970s. Dark Horse does not presently hold the rights to these characters, but if the numbers are there for the Conan collections, anything's possible.

The Chronicles of Conan Volume One, a $15.95 trade paperback, is scheduled for September 17th release. 
It can be pre-ordered now at your local comic shop. The Diamond Item Code is JUN030023.

Busiek recently offered up a few details of what readers will find in the new ongoing series. "We're starting off with the young Conan, just after he leaves Cimmeria and heads out to explore the civilized lands. We'll be following him through his varied and violent career, as a thief, a mercenary, a soldier, a pirate and more. With any luck, I'll be writing the series all the way until he becomes King of Aquilonia, and beyond. "We'll be staying very faithful to Conan's 'history' as depicted by Robert E. Howard-adapting the Howard stories as we come to them in the progression of events, and building on the hints and references dropped in those stories to flesh out the adventures he has in between." How much will Busiek draw from Robert E. Howard's original Conan canon? "As much as humanly possible. What I've been told by both the editors and the CEO of Conan Properties is, 'Be faithful, faithful, faithful. We want this to be as much like the real Conan, the true Conan, the original Conan as possible.' And since that's exactly what I want to do, we have no trouble there." 

The first issue of the new Conan series is slated to debut in the last quarter of 2003. 

Dark Horse plans to follow this release with a full line of busts depicting the barbarian at other stages in his life. 
 

Thanks to ShadowPDF for this story.

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

The Shadow Magazine Interior Artwork: Nothing new this week.

ShadowPDF: 
Doc Savage in The Fiery Menace (September 1942) - Complete with interior artwork!

Doc Savage PDF: Nothing new this week.

The Shrevnitz Memorial Library:  Nothing new this week.

Blackmask Online: 
Gladiator  by Philip Wylie
The People of the Pit by Abraham Merritt
Through the Dragon Glass by Abraham Merritt
Three Lines of Old French by Abraham Merritt

Larry Estep-Online Pulps:    Now with over 200 stories online!
The Golden Trail by J. Allan Dunn from the July 7, 1928 issue of WILD WEST WEEKLY. 
Check out this story and find out why Bud Jones was one of the longest running characters in WILD WEST WEEKLY. 

Satan's Boneyard by Leon Dupont from the October, 1939 issue of 12 ADVENTURE STORIES. 

Single Arrest Dugan by Paul Hawk from the March, 1933 issue of TEN DETECTIVE ACES.
This is a short, short story about a cop who always got the right man the first time.

Legion of the Living Dead by House Brant from the September, 1935 issue of SECRET AGENT "X". 

City of the Living Dead by Laurence Manning & Fletcher Pratt from the May, 1930 issue of SCIENCE WONDER STORIES.  If you're a fan of The Matrix, you should check this one out!  It's a somewhat Matrix-like story written 70 years before the movie.  It tells more of a story about how the machines manage to take over than about the struggle to be free of the machines.

"El Cazador is set in the 1600s, and is a period pirate adventure set on earth in the past – so we’ll be seeing the Caribbean, the African Coast, the pirate rounds – all of that,” Dixon said. “We’re in the middle ground between strict historical accuracy and an Errol Flynn movie. We’ll be buckling many swashes.”

Given the slight confusion that can arise when seeing the name El Cazador (with the male-referring El) in front of the Spanish word for ‘hunter,’ Dixon explained what everything referred to. 

“El Cazador is the name of the ship of Captain Sin, a lady prate,” Dixon said. “She’s a Spanish Donessa who turns to the pirate trade when some of her family is kidnapped by a villainous pirate, Blackjack Tom. So El Cazador is what she renames her ship, because she is hunting for her family.”

Sin won’t be alone in her adventures, Red Hand Harry, a disgraced English nobleman who has turned to privateering will play a role in the series as well – with his own ship. But even though the goal of Captain Sin sounds simple – finding her family – Dixon said that it’s not going to be any easy task. 

“It’s the 1600’s, and the main mode of large-scale transportation is sailboats, so, it’s going to take a while,” Dixon said. “But along the way, of course, there will be all kinds of pirate adventure – maroonings, headhunters, boarding parties and all of that.” 

Dixon also stressed that El Cazador will be a strict historical adventure – there will be no fantasy or supernatural elements to it at all. Given that, the writer said that he and artist Steve Epting are hip deep in researching the elements of the series. “We’re trying to get into the difficulties of fighting under sail, and all the period detail,” Dixon said. “Right now, the language is the challenge for me.”

Finally, Dixon added that, due to it being historically accurate, at first, El Cazador may be a little disillusioning to some whose only experience with pirates or sea-based adventures has been in the realm of fiction. The life was brutal, the battles were savage, the travel was at times wildly unpredictable, and the ship maneuvering was a science unto itself. In short – not many will be singing “Yo ho, yo ho, a pirates life for me!” after the series gets rolling. 

Here's how DC describes the issue: 
"What if humans weren't the first intelligent species on Earth? Since the dawn of time, man has believed himself to be the most advanced species to ever inhabit the planet. We were wrong. When a Texas earthquake unearths evidence of an advanced civilization thousands of years old, a team of specialists is dispatched to investigate. But what they find will turn this mission into an adventure of Jurassic proportions." 

Click here for a four page preview and scroll down the page.

Extinction Event #1 is 32 pages and will cost $2.95. 

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen novelization by Kevin J. Anderson is now available for $6.99.

There is just two weeks remaining until The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen film opens on 11 July.

DC Comics has again delayed the sixth and final issue of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Originally scheduled to be in stores 06/11/03, it was delayed until July, and is now pushed back to 13 August.

PULP ART by Bob Lesser is available from Bud Plant Comic Art.

This title can be ordered from your local comic shop in the July PREVIEWS.
The Diamond Item Code is JUL032311.

Note:  This is a re-solicitation.  This book was originally solicited in the April PREVIEWS.
All previous orders have been cancelled.

This item can be ordered from your local comic shop in the July PREVIEWS.
The Diamond Item Code is JUL033172
Superhero Cthulhu is scheduled to be in comic shops on 29 October.

THE WORLD OF TOMORROW is set in 1939 (the title comes from the New York World's Fair of that year) and owes much to the Saturday-morning serials. It is split into seven "chapters," with titles like "Winged Terror" and "Shadow of Tomorrow."  The story begins in New York City, where Polly Perkins (Paltrow), crack reporter for the Chronicle newspaper, wonders why so many world-famous scientists are missing. Around this time, strange flying machines threaten Manhattan, and gigantic walking robots tramp down the city's streets, crushing everything in their path. Polly joins forces with her old flame and sometime adversary Capt. Joseph Sullivan (Law), also known as Sky Captain. He commands the Flying Legion, battling bad guys in his Warhawk P-40. He and Polly fly to a remote part of Nepal (think Shangri-La) to track down the crazed mastermind Dr. Totenkopf, who seems to want to destroy the world. The movie was written and is being directed by Kerry Conran.

"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.  COMPLIMENTS OF THE DOMINO LADY can be ordered from Bold Venture Press after publication.

Mike Chomko is now accepting pre-orders for COMPLIMENTS OF THE DOMINO LADY.
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.

In the third issue, the Extinction Event is in full swing, but which species will prevail?  The Dinosaurs have been awakened and are running rampant through the camp.  Who will survive, and who will fall prey to the most advanced predators ever to inhabit the earth?  More secrets about the species are revealed in the third chapter of this incredible story about human survival.

This five issue miniseries is illustrated by Brett Booth and Sal Regla with covers by Brett Booth.
Full Color, 32 pages, $2.50, the third issue is scheduled to be in comic shops on 03 September. 
It can be preordered through your local comic shop from the July PREVIEWS on sale the 25th of June. 
The Diamond order code is JUL030226.

Robert Mullen's Shadow PDF: 
Deaths Bright Finger (05/15/42), The Devils Feud (06/15/42), Judge Lawless (08/15/42), 
The Devils Partner (10/01/42), Trail of Vengeance (11/01/42), The Murdering Ghost (11/15/42), 
The Hydra (12/01/42), The Museum Murders (01/01/43), Deaths Masquerade (01/15/43), 
and The Devil Monsters (02/01/43)

The Shadow Magazine Interior Artwork:
The Devil Master (09/15/41), Dictator of Crime (10/15/41), and The Blackmail King (11/01/41)

ShadowPDF:  Nothing new this week.

Doc Savage PDF: Hell Below (September 1943)

The Shrevnitz Memorial Library:  Nothing new this week.

Blackmask Online: Nothing new this week.

Larry Estep-Online Pulps:    Now with over 200 stories online!
Dad Simms Strikes Pay by Frank Richardson Pierce from the May 1, 1926 issue of WESTERN STORY. 
The Night of the Thirteenth by J. Allan Dunn from the December 5, 1926 issue of WEST. 
Latin Blood by Robert Leslie Bellem from the August, 1946 issue of SPEED DETECTIVE. 
   A Dan Turner story.  If you like gats and gams and over the top hard-boiled stuff, this one is for you. 
Only a Sucker Bites by J. C. Stanley from the July, 1947 issue of MAMMOTH ADVENTURE. 
You'll Die Laughing by William Lawrence Hamling from the July, 1946 issue of MAMMOTH DETECTIVE. 
  This is a murder mystery where the pulp authors and editors are the victims and suspects. 

Variety reports that Cromwell (L.A. Confidential, Star Trek: First Contact) plays Dr. Lanning, "the eccentric creator of the most advanced robot ever built."  Greenwood (Thirteen Days, Double Jeopardy), portrays Lance Robertson, "the bullish top exec at U.S. Robotics who tries to impede a murder investigation."  The picture recently began principal photography in Vancouver.  Fox currently has the film set for a Summer 2004 release.

With pen lines of varied thickness-from the finest hair to bold and distinctive blacks-Joseph Clement Coll created dynamic visual images that exude a totality of the romantic and exotic. Selected from a near complete run-from 1904 to 1917-over 220 of Coll's finest drawings for Associated Sunday Magazines are reproduced here, many for the first time since their original publication, complete with corresponding source information and a bibliography. 

This book is published by Flesk Publications. Visit their website at http://www.fleskpublications.com/.
The book can be pre-ordered from Flesk Publications or it can be ordered through your local comic shop from the July PREVIEWS, which will go on sale the 25th of June. 
The Diamond order codes are: Hardcover - JUL032719; Softcover - JUL032720.

168 pages, 8.5”x 11”, over 220 illustrations
$19.95 softbound trade edition, ISBN 0-9723758-1-3
$39.95 hardbound limited edition of 800 copies, ISBN 0-9723758-2-1

This book arrived in comic shops this week. 
The book can also be purchased through Amazon.com or via the publisher's web site at: 
http://www.monkeybrainbooks.com/Heroes_and_Monsters.html

Future books by Jess Nevins include:
An encyclopedia of characters from Victorian genre (sf, fantasy, detective, horror, Gothics, story papers, dime novels) fiction. That'll be out fall/winter 2004. 

An encyclopedia of genre heroes who appeared from 1902-1944 (including sf, fantasy, and detective fiction but focussing primarily on the pulps, including international pulps). That'll be out in winter 2005.

Jess Nevins has a great website that provides information on hundreds of Pulp and Adventure Heroes of the Pre-War Years. The website is located at http://www.geocities.com/jjnevins/pulpsintro.html.

John has posted 300+ covers (most in both low-res ~30k and higher-res ~100k versions) on the Ellis Parker Butler website at http://www.ellisparkerbutler.info/epb/coverart.asp.

When you join PulpMags, you will be asked to post a short introductory message to the list that reveals your name and something about your interest in pulp magazines. You might mention what titles you are particularly interested in, whether you consider yourself a collector or are just interested in learning more about the pulps, and so on. If you have any questions about this or desire to join, contact e-mail moderator Curt Phillips at Absarka@naxs.com.

There are three articles about author William Makin from the pages of BLUE BOOK. These contributions come from Peter Ruber.

The Max Brand Photo-Bibliography was updated. This is a work in progress and Frederick Faust was so prolific, this project might never be complete. If you have cover scans for issues that are missing and that you would be willing to contribute, they will be gladly accepted with gratitude.

The C.H. New bibliography has also been updated, thanks to Victor Berch.

Here's how DC describes the issue: 
"A new ABC adventure begins. The heroes of Terra Obscura continue to adjust to life after 30 years in suspended animation - their world has become a different place. Can they come together to defeat a mysterious threat that could overtake the western United States?" 

TERRA OBSCURA #1 will be 32 pages and will cost $2.95. 

The characters who appeared in the story (Pyroman, Miss Masque, The American Crusader, The Black Terror, the Fighting Yank, and Doc Strange) are real comic characters that were published in the 1940s by Ned Pines under the Standard/Better/Nedor imprint(s). 

Money Orders sent to:
Michael Bare
11870 Mansa Court
Fountain Valley, CA 92708

Robert Mullen's Shadow PDF: 
The Death Sleep (10/15/34), The Mardi Gras Mystery (09/01/35), The Chinese Tapestry (11/01/35), 
The Wasp Returns (02/01/41), The Crimson Death (08/01/41), Dictator of Crime (10/15/41), 
Temple of Crime (11/15/41), Murder Mansion (12/01/41), Room of Doom (04/01/42), and 
The Northdale Mystery (05/01/42)

The Shadow Magazine Interior Artwork:
The Chinese Tapestry (11/01/35), The Wasp Returns (02/01/41), 
The Shadow Meets The Mask (08/15/41), and The Toll of Death (03/44)

ShadowPDF:  Nothing new this week.

Doc Savage PDF: Land of Always Night (March 1935)

The Shrevnitz Memorial Library:  Nothing new this week.

Blackmask Online: Nothing new this week.

Larry Estep-Online Pulps:    Now with over 200 stories online!
A Meal For the Devil by K. Christopher Barr from the October, 1930 issue of ACTION NOVELS. 
Private War by Norman A. Daniels from the Summer, 1943 issue of ARMY-NAVY FLYING STORIES. 
The Moon Riders by Laurence Donovan from the October, 1936 issue of THE FEDS. 
   Undercover agents battle a KKK-like menace. 
Don't Frame a Red Head by Clarence E. Mulford from the August, 1935 issue of WESTERN FICTION MONTHLY. 
   A Hopalong Cassidy story. 
The Big Squawk by Thomas Thursday from the July, 1956 issue of SMASHING DETECTIVE. 

Flash Gordon Volume 4 can be ordered at your local comic shop from the July PREVIEWS, which will go on sale the 25th of June.

PRIMAL SOURCES: ESSAYS ON H. P. LOVECRAFT
By S. T. Joshi
December 2003: 0-9721644-0-5: Paper, $15.00
Acclaimed Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi's best pieces on H. P. Lovecraft are collected for the first time in one volume, resulting in an exciting tour-de-force for fans and scholars alike.

THE SWORD OF ZAGAN AND OTHER WRITINGS
By Clark Ashton Smith
January 2004: 0-9721644-5-6: Paper: $15.00
We are working hard in preparing this new volume of previously unpublished writings by the young Clark Ashton Smith. The volume will contain his recently discovered fantasy/adventure novel THE SWORD OF ZAGAN, plus never-before seen short stories, poems and fragments. Edited by Dr. W. C. Farmer, a close friend of Clark Ashton Smith in his later years, this volume will be a must-have for Smith fans and those who thrilled to THE BLACK DIAMONDS. It will be released in a uniform edition with THE BLACK DIAMONDS, complete with new original artwork by Jason C. Eckhardt. 

THE ANNOTATED FUNGI FROM YUGGOTH
By H. P. Lovecraft
Edited by David E. Schultz
March 2004: 0-9721644-7-2: Paper: $15.00
This book is a real marvel! David Schultz has been working on it for decades, and it will be a monument of scholarship. We're assembling an all-star team of artists to illustrate the sonnets, including Robert H. Knox, Joe Shea aka The Joey Zone, Allen Koszowski, and Jason C. Eckhardt. 

COLLECTED ESSAYS I: AMATEUR JOURNALISM
COLLECTED ESSAYS II: LITERARY CRITICISM
By H. P. Lovecraft
Edited by S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz
2004: Cloth: $40.00/Trade paper: $20.00
The first two volumes of our COLLECTED ESSAYS series by H. P. Lovecraft will roll out simultaneously in 2004. 
Hippocampus Press is offering the chance to purchase the entire set in advance for a discounted price, and receive each volume as it is released. 

COLLECTED ESSAYS will be a five volume series:
Volume I. Amateur Journalism
Volume II. Literary Criticism 
Volume III. Travel
Volume IV. Science
Volume V. Philosophy; Autobiography

After the entire series has been published, Hippocampus Press will also be releasing a CD-ROM of the entire 5-volume set. This CD-ROM will also have, as a bonus, a complete text of all 13 issues of HPL's amateur magazine, THE CONSERVATIVE (not just the portions HPL wrote, but the entire text). 
Visit the Hippocampus Press website to purchase a subscription package:

5 volumes (hardcover): $150
5 volumes (hardcover + CD-ROM): $175
5 volumes (softcover): $80
5 volumes (softcover + CD-ROM): $100
CD-ROM only: $50

OUT OF THE ORDINARY: NOTES ON WRITING WEIRD FICTION
By H. P. Lovecraft
Edited by David E. Schultz
2004: 0-9673215-6-5: Paper, $15.00
This annotated volume will contain all of Lovecraft's "commonplace book" plus all his other writings on the craft of weird fiction, including Lovecraft material published here for the first time. 

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/

The first issue is being published in a special book paper edition for distributors. 
Wildside Press will produce a few extras to meet any early reader demand. 
The price of this special book paper edition is $15. 
Prior to 31 July, you may use coupon code HPL to save 20% on the first issue's book paper edition. 

A four issue (one year) subscription (U.S. only) is $19.95.
An eight issue (two years) subscription (U.S. only) is $36.

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 )

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 )

Whisked away to the legendary red planet, the intrepid Lieutenant Gullivar Jones is caught up in the adventure of a lifetime. To win the love of a beautiful princess, he fights his way across a dying and savage planet of desolate cities, lost races, utopian societies, and the haunting and unforgettable River of Death.

This classic, influential tale of Mars, written in the utopian tradition of H. G. Wells’s THE TIME MACHINE, is also considered a possible inspiration for the immortal Barsoom of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Both reflective and imaginative, GULLIVAR OF MARS celebrates the acuity and storytelling power of science fiction writers of the early twentieth century and continues to influence writers and to entertain readers today. 

This commemorative edition includes the full text of the classic 1905 edition, a new introduction by Richard A. Lupoff, an illustration by Thomas Floyd, and an afterword by Gary Hoppenstand. The retail price is $15.95.

In this exhilarating sequel to THE SKYLARK OF SPACE, momentous danger again stalks genius inventor and interplanetary adventurer Dr. Richard Seaton. Seaton’s allies on the planet Kondal are suffering devastating attacks by the forces of the Third Planet. Even worse, the menacing and contemptuous Fenachrones are threatening to conquer the galaxy and wipe out all who oppose them. And don’t forget the dastardly machinations of Seaton’s arch-nemesis, DuQuesne, who embarks on a nefarious mission of his own. Against such vile foes and impossible odds, how is victory possible? 

Featuring even more technological wizardry, alien worlds, and all-out action than its predecessor, SKYLARK THREE is hailed by many as the imaginative high point of the Skylark series.

The book is illustrated by A. J. Donnell with an introduction by Jack Williamson. The retail price is $12.

Robert Mullen's Shadow PDF: 
The Wasp (10/01/40), City of Fear (10/15/40),  Forgotten Gold (01/01/41), 
The Green Terror (01/15/41),  The Chinese Primrose (02/15/41), 
Mansion of Crime (03/01/41),  The Time Master (04/01/41), The Blur (07/15/41),
The League of Death (05/01/41),  and The Thunder King (06/15/41)

The Shadow Magazine Interior Artwork:
The Death Sleep (10/15/34), The Mardi Gras Mystery (09/01/35), and The League of Death (05/01/41)

ShadowPDF:  Nothing new this week.

Doc Savage PDF: The Mental Monster (August 1943)

The Shrevnitz Memorial Library:  Nothing new this week.

Blackmask Online: Nothing new this week.

Larry Estep-Online Pulps:    Now with over 200 stories online!
The Thing That Killed by Paul Chadwick from the May, 1940 issue of THRILLING WONDER STORIES. 
Death Takes the Wheel by G. Wayman Jones from the April, 1939 issue of THRILLING DETECTIVE. 
Greased Brakes by Barry Lyndon from the January, 1929 issue of EVERYBODY'S. 
   An auto-racing story of the French Grand Prix. 
Kwa and the Ape People by Paul Regard (Perley Poore Sheehan) from the January, 1933 issue of 
   THRILLING ADVENTURES.  This is actually the second in a series. 
Top It Off With Death by Basil Wells from the June, 1946 issue of TEN DETECTIVE ACES. 
    A locked room mystery with an odd solution. 

Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Silver Screen is an exhaustive illustrated multi-volume history of the fifty-six feature length films and serials, the television films, and over 185 television episodes that have been created based on the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs. It is the FIRST book to deal with all the authorized American films and television shows based on his writings. The author has gone to original sources for much of the material in the book: the films, the filming scripts, the media trade papers, the newspapers, and other sources.

Volume 4 - The Locations is a hardbound book with an illustrated color cover, and contains over 300 pages and over 350 illustrations. You will find histories and information (including driving directions to many of the locations) on over 85 locations utilized in the films and television shows including the movie ranches and the studios and their backlots. Illustrated with then and now photos, 10 maps, and 10 pages of color photographs.  Click here for a list of the locations covered in Volume 4.

The book retails for $75 plus shipping and handling.
Shipping and handling is $6 for U.S. & Canada and $20 for All Other Orders 

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 #39 featuring Percom-5 (serial, part 2 of 2) by Shawn Madison, Justice as a Diamond by Douglas Empringham, The Severn Sink by Lionel Butcher, Circuits by Michael Bracken, The Waters Above by Mary Streblow, The Queen of Jur (serial part four of four) by Tom Johnson, and A Partial Listing of the Ape Language of Jur.  FINAL ISSUE

DOUBLE DANGER TALES #63 featuring The Scarlet Claw by John Zukaitis, Feast of the Devil by Kasper Hauser, Midnight Phantom by Jemir Johnson.  FINAL ISSUE

DETECTIVE MYSTERY STORIES #37  featuring Hank Bledsoe, Private Eye by Mark Broucek, Death Casts No Shadow by Robert Difrancesco, Death in Russia by Gay Toltl Kinman, A Watchful Eye by John M. Floyd, Payment in Kind by Carol Gursky, Memento by Sandra Levy Ceren, and A Matter of Teamwork by Patricia Harrington

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

Calling all Dan Turner fans and those who don't know they are …yet. Girasol Collectables is offering issue #1 of Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective in Replica format. This is not a book you see every day and a great way to get a collection of Dan Turner stories in one magazine. We also are carrying John Wooley's excellent book on Dan and our Aug. /40 Spicy Detective Replica also has a Dan Turner story in it.

The Shadow for this month is The Book of Death (01/15/42) featuring skeleton cover artwork reminiscent of the earlier great covers.l

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)
The Chinese Tapestry (11/01/35)
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) 
The Book of Death (01/15/42)
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

DAN TURNER
Dan Turner Hollywood Detective No. 1 (January 1942)

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   ($35 each postpaid within North America)
March 1923:  WEIRD TALES #1 
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
July/August 1923:WEIRD TALES #5

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A complete listing, along with other items such as books, fanzines and of course pulps, can be found on
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Last Months Replicas

 

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 5: The Blue Roadster 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.

Harry Houdini must join three famous aficionados of the uncanny - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Fort and H.P. Lovecraft - to defeat an evil force which wants to enslave humanity. But this intrepid group must not only face the enemy's terrifying agents on Earth, but also a traitor in their midst.

Necronauts will be released in a high quality European-format paperback edition with a brand new cover image by Frazer Irving, plus a six-page sketchbook, script and covers gallery.
The publication date is 28 August 2003
Price: $12.95
Format: Black and white paperback, 64 pages

Visit the artist's website for a sample of his artwork at http://www.frazerirving.com/folio/necronauts.html

NECRONAUTS can be pre-ordered at your local comic shop from the June PREVIEWS. 
The Diamond Item Code is JUN032472.

Next month Night Shade hopes to start shipping The Midnight Sun, the Collected Kane stories of Karl Edward Wagner.  Ken Kelly is wrapping up the cover now, and it's 440 pages of rippling manflesh!

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame was founded in 1996 by the J. Wayne and Elsie M. Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction (at the University of Kansas) and the Kansas City Science Fiction and Fantasy Society. The induction will take place at the University of Kansas on July 11th, as part of the same ceremony as the awarding of the John W. Campbell and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Awards.

Information obtained from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America web site. 

Joe L  Hensley
Mystery and science fiction author, Joe's short story "Eyes of the Double Moon" in the May, 1953 Planet Stories was followed by many others in science fiction pulps and digests, numerous appearances in mystery and detective titles including Alfred Hitchcock and Ellery Queen, and a long series of novels about attorney-detective Robak.

James Steranko
Illustrator, editor and publisher, Jim early became a stage magician and escape artist and enjoyed a close friendship with fellow prestidigitator Walter Gibson, an early Pulpcon guest.  He is a self-taught artist who has worked as illustrator and art director for an ad agency, as a movie illustrator and as a writer-illustrator in comics. He has painted dozens of cover illustrations for paperback reprints of hero pulp novels. His love for those heroes is much in evidence in Mediascene, which he edits and publishes to widely cover the entertainment field.

Registrations prior to July 20 are $30.  Registrations received after July 21 will be held for at-the-door registration -$40.  A one-day registration in advance for Saturday only is $20.00 (at the door it will be $25).

Visit the Pulpcon website for complete information.

OUT OF TIME'S ABYSS by Edgar Rice Burroughs

This is the tale of Bradley after he left Fort Dinosaur upon the west coast of the great lake that is in the center of the island. Upon the fourth day of September 1916, he set out with four companions through the heavy Caspakian air. About them upon the ground, among the trees and in the air over them moved and swung and soared the countless forms of Caspak's teeming life. They had taken a dozen steps, perhaps, when a hideous growl broke from a dense thicket ahead, the leafy branches parted, and the hideous head of a gigantic bear emerged. "Lie still!" shouted Bradley. "Can't waste ammunition." Like a bolt of lightning the bear flashed down upon the Englishman. "Now run!" Bradley called to Tippet and himself turned in flight toward a nearby tree. The other men, now safely ensconced upon various branches, watched the race with breathless interest. Would Bradley make it? It seemed scarce possible. And if he didn't. . . ! 

136 pages, Trade Hardcover,  ISBN: 1-59224-781-4.  $27.95