Duck Dodgers was created by Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese in the classic 1953 Merrie Melodies short. 
The new series is created, written and directed by Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone with Paul Dini (Batman the Animated Series) and Tom Minton serving as producers and writers.  In the new show, Duck Dodgers (Daffy Duck) is a hapless soul who was accidentally frozen inside a spacecraft in the 21st century and thawed out 351 years later. Through his scheming and lies, Duck has convinced the Earth's Defensive Protectorate that he is a hero from the 21st century and has been given a starship and crew - an adoring and eager young Space Cadet (Porky Pig).  Together they form a "galactic force" that must team up against Earth's major foe, Mars, and its Martian Commander X-2 (played by Marvin the Martian).  Each episode will revolve around Duck Dodgers' adventures, blundering successes and "day-saving" defeats.

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

The Shadow Magazine Interior Artwork: Nothing new this week.

ShadowPDF:  Nothing new this week.

Doc Savage PDF: Secret of the Su (November 1943)

The Shrevnitz Memorial Library: Murder Stalks the Big Top from BLACK BOOK DETECTIVE (Spring 1951)

Blackmask Online: The City at World's End by Edmond Hamilton

Larry Estep-Online Pulps:    Now with over 250 stories online!
Fragile Evidence by Lee Fredericks from the June, 1943 POPULAR DETECTIVE.
The Killing Flash by Hugo Gernsback from the November, 1929 issue of SCIENCE WONDER STORIES.
Fifty-Grand Funeral by David X. Manners from the December, 1942 issue of TEN DETECTIVE ACES.
Never Again by Frank L. Packard from the January 15, 1920 issue of TOP-NOTCH.
The Gargoyle Speaks by Alfred I. Tooke from the March, 1933 issue of NICKLE DETECTIVE.

In the fourth issue, The War of the Ages has begun! No one outside Camp Forever is aware that dinosaurs have returned to reclaim the Earth. With Rick and Samantha behind bars and Jamal and the others on the run from the creatures, can anyone warn the world of the impending doom? 

This five issue miniseries is illustrated by Brett Booth and Sal Regla with covers by Brett Booth.
Full Color, 32 pages, $2.50, the fourth issue is scheduled to be in comic shops on 01 October. 
It can be preordered through your local comic shop from the August PREVIEWS (now available). 
The Diamond order code is AUG03 0254.

This book is solicited in the August PREVIEWS (now available) and can be pre-ordered from your local comic shop.  The Diamond Order Code is AUG03 2762.

The Table of Contents  for the first issue of H.P. LOVECRAFT'S MAGAZINE OF HORROR (Spring 2004) has been posted on the Wildside Press Bulletin Board.  Click here to view the Table of Contents. 
A four issue (one year) subscription (U.S. only) is $19.95.
An eight issue (two years) subscription (U.S. only) is $36.
Click here to subscribe.

Although Schwarzenegger is willing to make King Conan his next film, the project remains in a holding pattern over at Warner Brothers. This is because the studio apparently wants to see how the Wachowskis' Matrix Revolutions fares (and because the Wachowskis themselves refuse to work on King Conan until they're done with their Matrix trilogy). 

Apparently there is a power struggle between the Arnold/Milius camp and the Wachowskis. Each faction is said to have a different vision for King Conan. Should Matrix Revolutions be deemed a box office disappointment like Matrix Reloaded, then the Wachowskis would lose clout and, thus, control over the development of King Conan. 

Arnold is apparently eager to cast Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as Conan's estranged son, Kon. The Rock has long been rumored for that role but now Schwarzenegger himself is keen on landing the wrestler-turned-actor. 

Send check or money order to:
Mad Kings Publishing, 1909 Chestnut Street, Holt, MI 48842.

Full Color, 32 pages, $2.95, and scheduled to be in comic shops on 22 October. 
It can be preordered through your local comic shop from the August PREVIEWS (now available). 
The Diamond order code is AUG03 0258.

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.

At-the-door registration for two days is $40.  At-the-door registration for one day is $25. 
Visit the Pulpcon website for complete information.

Lots of new pulp related product is expected to be available at the show.
Adventure House: UNCOVERED: The Hidden Art of the Girlie Pulps and Belarski: Pulp Art Masters
Adventure House: ROSCOES IN THE NIGHT by Robert Leslie Bellem (Hopefully!)
Adventure House: HIGH ADVENTURE #71: featuring Ki-gor and G-8 AND HIS BATTLE ACES #9.
Battered Silicon Dispatch Box:  LOST TREASURES FROM THE PULPS Volume 1- Compleat Peter the Brazen
Battered Silicon Dispatch Box:  LOST TREASURES FROM THE PULPS Volume 2- Minions of the Shadow
Blue Mushroom Books: GUNS IN THE SHADOWS (Hopefully!)
Bold Venture Press:  COMPLIMENTS OF THE DOMINO LADY
Girasol Collectables: NEW PULP REPLICAS: STRANGE TALES #4 (03/32), WEIRD TALES #10 (02/24)
Girasol Collectables: NEW PULP REPLICAS: The Shadow in The Red Blot (June 01, 1933)
MGT Media Services: BLOOD 'N THUNDER #5
Michael Chomko:  PURPLE PROSE #17
Wild Cat Books: WORLDS OF WONDER: A Pictorial Guide of Science Fiction and Fantasy in the Pulps
Wild Cat Books: The New and Updated CAPTAIN FUTURE HANDBOOK by Chuck Juzek
Wildside Press: The first book in the new Operator 5 reprint series (Hopefully!)
Wildside Press:  H.P. LOVECRAFT'S MAGAZINE OF HORROR book paper edition
                         Mike Chomko will have a couple for sale at his table.

The Shoggoth plush is solicited in the August PREVIEWS (now available) and can be pre-ordered from your local comic shop.  The Diamond Order Code is AUG03 3194.

SKELETON IN THE CLOSET AND OTHER DARK SECRETS: THE READER’S BLOCH, Volume One by Robert Bloch.

The Reader’s Bloch is a two-volume set which will collect roughly 50 stories (25 per volume) that have never reprinted since their original appearance, or have not previously appeared in a Bloch collection.  The collection is edited by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz and is available in two editions:
Limited: 750 numbered hardcover copies signed by the editor: $40
Lettered: 26 deluxe traycased copies signed by the editor: $150

RETRO PULP TALES Edited by Joe R. Lansdale
These stories are all pulp-inspired, hoping to capture the story-telling ability and fast pace of tales from 30, 40, 50 years ago and more. In Retro Pulp Tales, the hunt for a serial killer plays out in a pulp-magazine letters column (Chet Williamson), mishaps haunt a helicopter crash simulator (Stephen Gallagher), and a real-life "Gidget" sees things in space alien terms (Melissa Mia Hall).  Joe Lansdale hasn’t weighed in with a story yet, and many more are expected soon.  The collection is available in three editions:
Trade: Sewn hardcover bound in full-cloth: $40
Limited: 250 numbered copies, signed by all contributors: $65
Lettered: 26 signed copies, bound in full leather, housed in a handcrafted traycase: $150

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). 

Full Color, 32 pages, $2.95, and scheduled to be in comic shops on 22 October. 
It can be preordered through your local comic shop from the August PREVIEWS (now available). 
The Diamond order code is AUG03 0269.

THE EFFICIENCY EXPERT by Edgar Rice Burroughs 
In this contemporary story, Burroughs weaves the tale of Jimmy Torrance, who graduated from college without a hope -- he'd spent his hours at the university learning how to box, how to swim, how the hit a baseball and lead a football team. He set out for Chicago with all the enthusiastic eagerness oif a man who knows in his heart of heart, that he's on the winning team. But Chicago wasn't Ivy-league college football, a there was no team to captain: What Jimmy found in Chicago was a tough life in a tough place at a miserable wage. He found the decency of folks any ordinary fellow would have branded criminals, and he found the criminality of upstanding citizens who surrounded him. He found a whore with a heart of gold, and a safe-cracker who was also a man a body could rely on. And most important of all, in that freakish, frightful burg, Jimmy found a thing called love. . . . THE EFFICIENCY EXPERT is thought by some to be a roman a clef -- a slightly altered version of Burroughs' own struggling youth. 

212 pages, Trade Hardcover, ISBN: 1-59224-708-3, $32.95 

THE WINDS OF THE WORLD by Talbot Mundy 
Once again, Talbot Mundy returns to the exotic world of which he wrote so excitingly. Fans of KING -- OF THE KHYBER RIFLES will recall Yasmini.  In its own day, this is what critics said:  ". . . the ingenuity of the plot, which leads up to a hair-raising finish . . . Yasmini, more a spirit personified than a person, an incarnation, with her songs and dances and pet cobras, of the charm and sorcery and fascination of the East . . . Mundy has managed to lift his story well of the region of ordinary detective excitement."    -- THE TIMES of London Literary Supplement 

236 pages, Trade Hardcover, ISBN: 1-59224-688-5, $32.95 

TIME AND THE GODS by Lord Dunsany 

Most fantasy enthusiasts consider Lord Dunsany one of the most significant forces in modern fantasy; his influences have been observed in the works of H.P. Lovecraft, L. Sprague de Camp, Fritz Leiber, Jack Vance, and many other modern writers. Time and the Gods is Dunsany at his peak of his talent. The stories here are a lush tapestry of language, conjuring images of people, places, and things which cannot possibly exist, yet somehow ring true. Together with Dunsany's other major collections, The Book of Wonder, A Dreamer's Tales and Tales of Three Hemispheres, they are a necessary part of any fantasy collection. 

120 pages, Trade Paperback, ISBN: 1-59224-025-9, $15.00 

This is a hardcover publication, 12" X 9", 400 plus images, 200 pages for $40.

Softcover, 9"x12", Full Color, $20.00. 

$9.95 plus $2.50 shipping (Media Mail) for a single copy. 

G-8 #9 will be in comic shops on Wednesday, 23 July.

Here is what Adventure House says about the book:
This collection is the result of combing through hundreds of issues of writing journals from the pulp era, mostly WRITER'S DIGEST and AUTHOR & JOURNALIST, but also a variety of lesser-known magazines: THE WRITER, THE EDITOR, WRITER'S REVIEW, and two magazines issued by correspondence schools, WRITERS' MARKETS AND METHODS and WRITER'S MONTHLY. One of the surprises of the project was in discovering how many magazines were devoted to the craft of writing at that time. This speaks, in some measure, to the opportunities presented by the pulps to the freelance writer. With hundreds of pulp magazines publishing thousands of stories, there may never have been a better time for making money selling fiction.

Many of the pulp-related articles in these journals deal with storytelling technique, usually genre-specific, e.g. "Action in Westerns," "Live Your Love Story," or "Why Aren't Your Detective Stories Selling?" Others assess the markets and advise on slanting for specific titles. But another category of article presents behind-the-scenes looks into the pulp world, the rise and fall of the business, the experiences of writers, editors, and publishers. And it is the most interesting and informative of this latter group that PULP FICTIONEERS attempts to gathers together.

Under the Editorial Directorship of James A. Owen, Coppervale is relaunching the century-old arts and culture magazine, International Studio, under the philosophy that a consumer-oriented, advertising-funded arts magazine would thrive in a visually-oriented culture. Owen and his editorial team realized that similar opportunities existed in other markets, and have planned to release Argosy and Words & Pictures in the coming months, basing them on an economic structure and a cohesive editorial vision similar to that of International Studio. Collectively, these magazines constitute the practical expression of the philosophy Coppervale calls the Romantic Underground.

INTERNATIONAL STUDIO is a large format, high quality, full color magazine developed to promote and be an influence within the illustrative and literary arts. The cover-featured illustrator of the debut issue is fantasy artist James Christensen; other features profile Sleeping Beauty conceptual designer Eyvind Earle, landscape artist Ogden Pleissner, designer and painter John Picacio, and British graphic novel illustrator Gary Spencer Millidge. The second issue, due in August, will feature cover artist Barry Windsor-Smith, and longtime Disney painter Herbert Ryman. Two more issues are scheduled for 2003, increasing to ten a year in 2004. At 64 to 96 pages, INTERNATIONAL STUDIO carries advertising, is distributed worldwide to bookstores and galleries, and retails for $14.95.

Over the Halloween weekend of 2003, Coppervale will be reviving the classic fiction magazine ARGOSY under Senior Editor Lou Anders. Contributors include Michael Moorcock, Harlan Ellison, Jeffrey Ford, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Andy Duncan, Kai Meyer, Ann Cummins, and Dr. Jean Houston. Acclaimed illustrators Leo and Diane Dillon will be the cover artists, and Steve Rude (of Nexus comics) will illustrate the interiors. Trade paperback-sized, each issue will be comprised of two volumes-the main magazine, and a seperately-bound novella-and will be packaged in an illustrated slipcase. At 200 pages, ARGOSY will initially ship on a quarterly schedule, carries advertising, and will retail for $12.00.

In the Spring of 2004, Coppervale will be releasing a new monthly magazine called WORDS & PICTURES.  Contributors include Paul Chadwick, Mike Baron, Steve Rude, James A. Owen, and Chris Roberson; and the centerpiece of the magazine will be Bryan Talbot's new tour-de-force work, Alice in Sunderland.

The Coppervale International website, inclusive of all three magazines, will be going online on August 1 2003, and can be found at http://www.coppervale.com. All correspondence, advertising queries, submissions, and retail ordering information may be directed to our principal email address at coppervale@skyboot.com, or by contacting the Coppervale Studio at 313 East Center St., Taylor AZ 85939; Fax: 928-536-4293; Phone: 928-536-3596.

You can reserve a copy from Mike Chomko.
Orders over $25 are discounted 10% and shipped postpaid.
Contact Mike at chomko@enter.net.
Click here to download the latest catalog.

Already available are Doc Savage, Monk Mayfair, Ham Brooks, Renny Renwick, and Pat Savage.
Long Tom Roberts and a rogues' gallery of villains are coming soon.

All of the figures are hand finished resin castings from original sculptures. 
You can purchase painted figures ($39 for Doc, $35 for Doc's aids) or unpainted kits ($20). 

Del Rey will be publishing the first of their Robert E. Howard books this December when THE COMING OF CONAN is released in trade paperback format.

Robert Mullen's Shadow PDF: 
Nothing new posted yet. 
I will update if and when new PDFs become available later Friday night or Saturday.

The Shadow Magazine Interior Artwork: Nothing new this week.

ShadowPDF: Nothing new this week.

Doc Savage PDF: The Spook Legion (corrected PDF file) (April 1935)

The Shrevnitz Memorial Library:  Secret Agent X in The Golden Ghoul (07/1935)

Blackmask Online: 
Thubway Tham's Chrithtmath byJohnston McCulley
Tragedy Trail by Johnston McCulley
Doc Savage in The Spook Legion (April 1935)

Larry Estep-Online Pulps:    Now with over 250 stories online!
Nick Carter at Headquarters from NICK CARTER WEEKLY, October 9, 1897. 
  This is our first story from one of these pre-pulps. 

The Shrieking Pool by G. T. Fleming-Roberts from MYSTERY NOVELS, February, 1936. 
A nice little mystery yarn with some horror overtones. 

Powdersmoke Showdown by Charles M. Martin from REAL WESTERN, November, 1938. 

Trapped by Silver by Horace McCoy from NICKLE DETECTIVE, August, 1933. 

Sinbad the Sailor by Robert H. H. Nichols, FIGHT STORIES, January, 1929. 
  A fun little story.  Somewhat reminiscent of Robert E. Howard's humorous fight stories. 

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 is expected to be available soon after Pulpcon.
The list price is $40 and it can be pre-ordered now by clicking on the link above.
You can also reserve a copy from Mike Chomko.
Orders over $25 are discounted 10% and shipped postpaid.
Contact Mike at chomko@enter.net.
Click here to download the latest catalog.

Keira Knightley, the corseted beauty of Disney's summer blockbuster "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl," may be battling dinosaurs in Steven Spielberg's fourth installment of "Jurassic Park," according to news sources. Spielberg plans to begin shooting in 2004 in California and Hawaii. Expect the film to hit theaters in 2005.

Another all-new original Kolchak story. Carl is sent to investigate the disappearance of business owner Chester Fredersen. On the surface it looks like an open and shut case of embezzlement, with Chester taking off with the company's loot while his brother, and business partner, Barry lies dying in a hospital bed. Kolchak, however, tumbles headlong into a hi-tech horror story, as other members of the Fredersen family begin to vanish, and Barry's case of Lou Gherig's Disease goes into an impossible state of remission... 

These books can be ordered from Wildside Press after publication.
You can also pre-order copies from Mike Chomko.
Orders over $25 are discounted 10% and shipped postpaid.
Contact Mike at chomko@enter.net.
Click here to download the latest catalog.

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.

At-the-door registration for two days is $40.  At-the-door registration for one day is $25. 
Visit the Pulpcon website for complete information.

Lots of new pulp related product is expected to be available at the show.
Adventure House: UNCOVERED: The Hidden Art of the Girlie Pulps and Belarski: Pulp Art Masters
Adventure House: ROSCOES IN THE NIGHT by Robert Leslie Bellem (Hopefully!)
Adventure House: HIGH ADVENTURE #71: featuring Ki-gor and G-8 AND HIS BATTLE ACES #9.
Battered Silicon Dispatch Box:  LOST TREASURES FROM THE PULPS Volume 1- Compleat Peter the Brazen
Battered Silicon Dispatch Box:  LOST TREASURES FROM THE PULPS Volume 2- Minions of the Shadow
Blue Mushroom Books: GUNS IN THE SHADOWS (Hopefully!)
Bold Venture Press:  COMPLIMENTS OF THE DOMINO LADY
Girasol Collectables: NEW PULP REPLICAS: STRANGE TALES #4 (03/32), WEIRD TALES #10 (02/24)
Girasol Collectables: NEW PULP REPLICAS: The Shadow in The Red Blot (June 01, 1933)
MGT Media Services: BLOOD 'N THUNDER #5
Michael Chomko:  PURPLE PROSE #17
Wild Cat Books: WORLDS OF WONDER: A Pictorial Guide of Science Fiction and Fantasy in the Pulps
Wild Cat Books: The New and Updated CAPTAIN FUTURE HANDBOOK by Chuck Juzek
Wildside Press: New Operator 5 reprints (Hopefully!)

IN ADDITION: This year the Downtown Fairborn Sidewalk Sale days exactly coincide with PulpCon-- Thursday through Sunday.  Most of the shops here in downtown will be offering huge discounts on all manner of products (it's sort of like a big garage sale).  Other downtown businesses include Daisy Barrel (a large crafts, needlework and embroidery shop), Yankee Peddler (crafts and art supplies), the nationally-known Foy's Five and Dime (nearly unchanged in appearance since the 1920s), as well as Foy's Halloween and Costume shop, the recently-added Foy's Rock & Roll Diner, Ticket's (a Greek sports bar), two more bookstores and a library (all within a block of us), Lovely's Treasures (models and hobbies), etc.

DIRECTIONS:  From PulpCon go east on either First or Third Streets and merge into Springfield Street.  Come on up past the Air Force Museum.  As you rise up the small hill continue in the same direction (Wright-Patterson AFB is on your left all the way into Fairborn), about 3-4 more miles.  Just inside Faiborn's city limits is a large abandoned cinema on your right (the tallest structure in town).  Turn right onto Main Street (first streetlight past the cinema) and come down a few blocks to the downtown area.  There's 2-hour center-parking in the divided street, but also unlimited parking in the Fifth-Third Bank parking area (it's a free public parking area-- not a private lot for the bank as the name suggests).  You can't miss us on the right (huge 40-foot "Bookery" sign on top of the building).  This is the comics and collectibles part of the business.  Across the street is our games and toys division.  More directions, maps, etc. can be found at the Bookery Fantasy web site.

RED WORLD OF POLARIS will be published in two editions.
The Limited edition (500 copies) will contain all of the stories, edited by Smith scholars Scott Connors and Ron Hilgar, as well as an introduction. Night Shade is also working on artwork and a celebrity afterword, to be announced as soon as it is nailed down. The retail price is $35 plus shipping.

The Lettered edition (26 copies) will be slipcased, and will also contain at least one color plate of Smith's science fiction artwork, perhaps more. Also included will be an unpublished Smith prose poem. This edition is sold out!

Lost Stars: Forgotten Science Fiction from the "Best of" Anthologies 
FORGOTTEN STORIES FROM SF BEST OF ANTHOLOGIES! 

Dawn of Flame & Other Science Fiction Classics by Stanley G. Weinbaum
Dawn of Flame & Other Science Fiction Stories reprints six acknowledged masterpieces by Science Fiction Hall of Fame author Stanley G. Weinbaum, whose short career changed the field forever. 

"Tarzan" is a 21st-century retelling of the classic Edgar Rice Burroughs tale, in which the title character (Travis Fimmel), who survived in the African jungle after his parents died in a plane crash, is brought to New York by his uncle (Mitch Pileggi, "The X-Files"), now the head of powerful Greystoke Industries. Jane (Sarah Wayne Callies) is a detective investigating why the uncle is keeping Tarzan locked away. 

"The original pitch ... catered to a big romantic saga," Levin says. "It had those beauty-and-the-beast elements that really appealed to us." Indeed, Levin initially told reporters that the show would focus more on Jane than on Tarzan.
As the development process wore on, however, the network and the show's producers realized they had something more than a romance on their hands. 

"We felt [the original title] was a little misleading, because it implies that they get together immediately, which they don't, executive producer Laura Ziskin ("Spider-Man") says. On a more prosaic level, she adds, "As we talked about the show, people called it 'Tarzan' anyway."

Levin believes the show has potential as a "big action-adventure franchise" that also includes the romance between Tarzan and Jane. He also hopes the series delves into the struggle for control of Greystoke in a way similar to the exploration of the Luthor family dynamics on "Smallville."  For her part, Callies says having her character's name removed from the title doesn't bother her. "I think it makes a lot of sense, actually," she says. "I think there's a lot they can do with it." 

The Zorro bust will be solicited in the August PREVIEWS (on sale 23 July) and can be pre-ordered from your local comic shop.  The Diamond Order Code is AUG03 3246.

The Zorror bust can also be pre-ordered from Bowen Designs for $45 plus $6 shipping.

HIGH ADVENTURE #71 will be in comic shops on Wednesday, 16 July.

Adventure House: $7.95 plus $2.50 shipping (Media Mail) for a single copy.

Bill Burns has many other great efanzines on his site that you might also want to investigate. 

Universal Studios Home Video is set to release the original on DVD. "Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Epic Series" will reach stores on October 21. The six-disc set includes all 24 episodes of the  original series, fully remastered in 4:3 full screen and Dolby Digital 5.1 surround (the original mono tracks are also included).

Among the plentiful extras are two "making of" featurettes  ("Insight into the Making of Battlestar Galactica," "Creation of Battlestar Galactica: an Interview with creator Glen A. Larson"),  deleted scenes, commentary for selected episodes by the cast   and crew, a visual effects featurette with John Dykstra, the  "Sci-Fi Special: Making of the Show," "Composing the Music: Stu  Phillips and Glen A. Larson," production notes, a sneak preview of the new Sci-Fi Channel mini-series and a trailer for the   forthcoming video game. Retail is set at $119.95. The studio will also re-issue its single-disc "Battlestar Galactica: The Original Movie" on the same date to tie-in with the promotion.

ORIGINAL PRESS RELEASE
Bold Venture Press has reported that COMPLIMENTS OF THE DOMINO LADY is scheduled to debut at Pulpcon 32 on July 31 - August 3.  This new trade paperback from Bold Venture Press features a sensational new cover by JIM STERANKO as well as interior illustrations for the story title pages.  STERANKO is presently finishing the illustrations for the story title pages.

"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. 

The image below is one of the new STERANKO title page illiustrations for this book!

Compiling the early Conan the Barbarian stories by writer Roy Thomas and artist Barry Windsor-Smith, this collection contains some of the most powerful and compelling comic stories ever created. Following Robert E. Howard's pulp hero Conan through the early part of his life, Thomas and Windsor-Smith (then going by the name "Barry Smith") wove together pieces of the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres, all built around the framework of Howard's original fiction. Featuring completely remastered color and text corrections, these stories have been unavailable in color since their original publication, nearly thirty years ago. Volume Two will reprint issues #9-15.
160 pages, $15.95, in stores on November 26. 

Robert Mullen's Shadow PDF: 
Nothing new posted yet. I will update if and when new PDFs become available later tonite or tomorrow.

The Shadow Magazine Interior Artwork: Nothing new this week.

ShadowPDF: Murder Marsh (10/01/34)

Doc Savage PDF: Nothing new this week.

The Shrevnitz Memorial Library:  Nothing new this week.

Blackmask Online: Nothing new this week.

Larry Estep-Online Pulps:    Now with over 250 stories online!
Mr. Clackworthy Tells the Truth by Christopher B. Booth from the October 19, 1920 issue of DETECTIVE STORY MAGAZINE. 

Old-timer by William Bruner from the First April, 1930 issue of SPORT STORY. 
Bruner wrote more stories than most people will ever know.  He was hidden behind many of the Street & Smith house names.  Here's a bicycle racing story under his own name. 

Journey to Doom by Charles N. Heckelmann from the Winter, 1945 issue of RIO KID WESTERN. 

A Burning Clue by E. Hoffmann Price from the May-June, 1933 issue of TEN DETECTIVE ACES. 

Kroom, Son of the Sea by Valentine Wood from the June 15, 1930 issue of TOP-NOTCH. 
John Locke describes this as "Tarzan Meets Jaws". 

"After careful and thorough consideration, we have recommended to the WB that to best ensure the highest quality and attention for 'Fearless' that we launch the series at midseason. We’re extremely grateful to The WB for supporting us and for allowing us this opportunity," executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer and Warner Bros. Television president Peter Roth said in a joint statement.

The duo cited not being able to find the right voice for the show as well as the decision to recast one of the lead Rachael Leigh Cook's two partners on the series. The drama stars Cook as a young F.B.I. agent named Gaia who genetically lacks the basic instinct of fear.  Production on "Fearless" is now expected to resume in October. In its place on the Frog's fall schedule the network has bumped up its midseason drama "One Tree Hill" to a fall start. 

Published by Tor Books
Hardcover,  320 pages, ISBN: 0765308479, $25.95

The Making of the Indiana Jones Trilogy - Part 1: Raiders of the Lost Ark (51 mins)
The Making of the Indiana Jones Trilogy - Part 2: The Temple of Doom (41 mins)
The Making of the Indiana Jones Trilogy - Part 3: The Last Crusade (35 mins)
The Stunts of Indiana Jones (11 mins)
The Light and Magic of Indiana Jones (12 mins)
The Music of Indiana Jones (12 mins)

For complete details, visit the Digital Bits website.

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 6: Something Beyond Our Experience 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.

Here is how Moonstone desribes the book:
The action not only heats up, but boils over in this brand-new, ongoing series featuring the original paranormal investigator! Bust out the crawfish and gumbo as Carl Kolchak heads for New Orleans to look into rumors about a human plant skulking about the hot summer streets. But the Crescent City is a magical and mysterious place, and our hero inadvertantly finds himself in the part of town where human skeletons are starting to pile high in the alleys... victims of a man-eating shadow! Carl would love to get to the bottom of this one, but unfortunately... he's a bit busy turning into a human plant, himself! This issue also features a short Mr. Nightmare back-up story by Dave Ulanski, in color for the first time. Ships with two covers in a 50/50 ratio. The first painted by fantasy artist Monte Moore, the second illustrated by Dave Ulanski.  Full color, 32 pages, $3.50.

"The Mighty Phantom breaks up a slave camp in his native Bangalla whose captives are mining a vast diamond field at the command of the vile terrorist Ali Gutalle. A stone-cold killer, his counter strike is set against a black tie state function where Diana Walker is to give the keynote speech. As bullets fly, as time bombs click to detonation, will the Phantom have the power to catch villains with one hand, and save his family with the other? 
 

Here is what Renaissance E-Books says:
The time is September 1935. The place is Macao (a Portuguese possession) near Hong Kong on the South China Sea. When adventurer Edgar Savage's ship The Black Poppy is attacked by pirates, his quick thinking saves his boat and crew when he tosses a gasoline barrel overboard and explodes it with a bullet from a high- powered rifle. Later he examines a shipment he is carrying for a Dutch cannery owner named Kappie, and discovers false bottoms containing heroin. Determined to smoke the drug-runner out, Savage sets fire to the warehouse where the heroin is stored. Almost immediately, Kappie pressures Savage to pick up another shipment for him. When Savage refuses, he is shot twice by an unknown assassin. Soon Savage and his girlfriend, Amelia De Gama, have devised a plan to take Kappie down – then Amelia is kidnapped. The drug-runner doesn't realize it – but he is about to discover that Savage isn't just a name! The first of a thrilling new series in the blazing tradition of the pulp adventure magazines! 

Duane Spurlock of The Pulp Rack says: "Peter has gotten the pulp style down just right -- the story is set in 1935, and it reads just like a serial that would have fit comfortably in the pages of ARGOSY or BLUE BOOK. In fact, it has a flavor that reminds me favorably of the Peter the Brazen stories written by Loring Brent for ARGOSY in the 1930s."

MURDER IN MACAO is 350 pages for $4. The first chapter is posted online to give you a taste of the novel.

Thanks to Duane Spurlock for this story.

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

THE GHOST PIRATES By William Hope Hodgson

THE INTERPLANETARY HUNTRESS' LAST CASE By Arthur K. Barnes
Gerry Carlyle, the Interplanetary Huntress, who brought 'em back alive from the jungles of Mars, Venus, and the moons of Jupiter in the golden days of the science fiction pulps, returns for a final outing, up against the most dangerous challenge of in the nine planets! 

MADAME STOREY, PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR By Hulbert Footner
Madame Rosika Storey was one of the most celebrated fictional female private investigators during the Golden Age of the mystery (1920-40) The Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection calls her, "a stunningly beautiful young woman who describes herself as 'a practical psychologist – specializing in the feminine." Madame Storey, Private Detective, reprints the very first Madame Storey novel and a bonus Madame Storey mystery short – both from the early-1920s. 

Buck Rogers: ARMAGEDDON 2419 A.D. BY Philip Francis Nowlan

Each of the above novels is available for $4.

The series of 20 shorts is scheduled to premiere at 8 p.m. ET Friday, Nov. 7. The first 10 installments will air at 8 p.m. weekdays through Nov. 21, while the second half of the saga will air in sping 2004. "Samurai Jack" and "Dexter's Laboratory" creator Genndy Tartakovsky is leading the "Clone Wars" team, with cooperation from "Star Wars" creator George Lucas and Lucasfilm.

Verse: 
The Pratfall of Cthulhu by Darrell Schweitzer
Illustrated Limericks by and illustrated by George Barr

Single copies are $5.95 in better bookstores.
A four issue subscription is $18 at the Wildside Press website.
Individual issues can be purchased from The Stars Our Destination/Weinberg Books 773-338-1650.

Season 2 of “24” will hit DVD in the states, September 23. It’ll include all 24 episodes, 44 deleted scenes, alternate endings, commentaries, and assorted making-of featurettes. 

$7.95 plus $2.50 shipping (Media Mail) for a single copy. 
HIGH ADVENTURE #75 will be available in March 2004.

The series features classic and little-known comic book stories from throughout Moore's career, some hard-to-find tales that have appeared only in comic books outside the U.S., and some surviving stories from the tragically-lost Lovecraftian Moore epic Yuggoth Cultures, which will be seen here in comic book form for the first time. The YUGGOTH CULTURES AND OTHER GROWTHS series will include such gems as the now-completed first part of Moore and Bryan Talbot's important lost classic NIGHTJAR, a story started 20 years ago which was supposed to appear in UK comic book WARRIOR, the legendary anthology where other Moore classics such as MIRACLEMAN and V FOR VENDETTA appeared.

As for the Lovecraftian fragments from the series, those stories are also emerging from a tragically-lost project of a different kind. "Yuggoth Cultures was originally intended as a series of texts that would have been inspired by HP Lovecraft's poem cycle FUNGI FROM YUGGOTH," recalls Alan Moore. "Unfortunately, when the texts were about half completed, I left the only copy of three or four of them in a London taxi cab. Since it was impossible to reconstruct, the work went on hold, remaining incomplete. Originally, THE COURTYARD was part of the proposed Yuggoth Cultures package, but there were some other interesting little fragments left over, and I suppose that what's gathered in this series is a collection of those and other interesting fragments. Things from projects that were, for one reason or another, never completed, which perhaps which hold some interest in their own right. I'm looking forward to seeing what is done with them."

Although several of the stories in this new series were scripted by Moore for comic books, the stories originally written for the Yuggoth Cultures series of texts are being adapted by frequent Moore collaborator Antony Johnston (ALAN MOORE'S THE COURTYARD, ALAN MOORE'S ANOTHER SUBURBAN ROMANCE) in consultation with Moore. "Once again I've risked my health and sanity, channeling the Northampton Bard through my weak plebiscite mind for the sake of entertainment. With each adaptation my grip on reality grows weaker, yet my stubble grows longer; a curious paradox, I hope you'll agree. Stop me if you've heard this one before, but working with Alan on these stories has been an absolute pleasure. The pieces I've handled are some of the strangest, most evocative things I've read, forcing me to think in strange and unnatural ways to get the best results possible. I'm really happy with it."

REGULAR-b&w, 40pg (1 of 3) $3.95
WRAPAROUND-b&w, 40pg (1 of 3) $3.95
This title can be ordered from your local comic shop in the July PREVIEWS.
The Diamond Item Code is JUL032020 for the regular cover edition.
The Diamond Item Code is JUL032021 for the wraparound cover edition.

Hardcover,  448 pages,  ISBN: 0399150412, $26.95.
Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
 

If you missed the program, you can catch it when it runs again at these times and dates:
Sunday 06/29  6:00PM;        Monday  07/07 10:00PM;       Tuesday  07/08  2:00AM

Now if only The History Channel would run a similar special on the pulps!

Every Cimmerian longs to drive the intruders out with fire and sword, but they must stay their hands, for the Aquilonians have promised savage reprisals. Then, intolerably, the Aquilonian commander takes a wholly dishonorable interest in the weaver's daughter -- and he's not a man to wait, or even ask permission. It's not a recipe for a peaceable outcome.  Published by Tor Books. 
Hardcover, 256 pages, ISBN: 076530466X, $24.95

Robert Mullen's Shadow PDF: 
Posted on 28 June
Young Men of Death (04/43), The Robot Master (05/43), Murder by Moonlight (12/43), 
Crime Caravan (04/44), Fountain of Death (11/44), No Time for Murder (12/44), 
Five Keys to Crime (03/45), Teardrops of Buddha (05/45), Three Stamps of Death  (06/45), 
and Murder by Magic (08/45)
Posted on 03 July
Hands in the Dark (05/32), The Toll of Death (03/44), The Stars Promise Death (12/45), 
Crime over Casco (04/46), Malmordo (07/46), The Blackest Mail (08/46), 
Dead Mans Chest (Fall 1948), The Black Circle (Spring 1949), The Whispering Eyes (Summer 1949), 
Shadow Beware (01/65), Cry Shadow (04/65), and The Shadows Revenge (10/65)

The Shadow Magazine Interior Artwork: 
Hands in the Dark (05/32), Alibi Trail (01/01/42), Deaths Bright Finger (05/15/42),
Deaths Masquerade (01/15/43), Malmordo (07/46)

ShadowPDF: Nothing new this week.

Doc Savage PDF: The Goblins (October 1943)

The Shrevnitz Memorial Library:  Nothing new this week.

Blackmask Online: 
The Ghost Kings by H. Rider Haggard
Doc Savage in  Hell Below (September 1943)
Doc Savage in The Goblins (October 1943)

Larry Estep-Online Pulps:    Now with over 200 stories online!
Sweet Cheat by Beryle Berle from REAL SPICY HORROR, April, 1937. 
This is actually a parody issue of THE YALE RECORD. 

Premature Obituary by Frederick C. Davis from TEN DETECTIVE ACES, October, 1941. 
The adventures of an obituary solicitor! 

Dr. Varsag's Experiment by Craig Ellis from AMAZING STORIES, January, 1940. 
This is one of those "mad doctor crosses man with animal" stories. 
There's supposed to be a sequel to this story in the August, 1943 issue. 

Lair of the Damned by Eric Lennox from 10 SHORT NOVELS, January, 1939. 
Weird menace stories appeared in the strangest places....

Dead Men Don't Move by Thomas Thursday from SMASHING DETECTIVE, January, 1956. 
Another classic Thursday story!

BEHIND THE MASK #65 featuring:
   Kwa of the Jungle by Paul Regard from THRILLING ADVENTURES, August 1937
   Fangs of the Jungle by Capt. Walt R. Bethel from WORLD ADVENTURER, February 1934

DETECTIVE MYSTERY STORIES #38  featuring Hot August Nights by Derek Muk; Murder In Pocasset by Mary J. Davidson; Trouble In Bent Knee by Tommy Griffin; Incident In South Seward Avenue by Lon S. Cohen; Faux
Graffitiby Edward C. Lynskey; Raw Deal by Donald Sullivan; The Girl Scouts by Kenneth M. Austin; Cold Feet by Kristine Coblitz; A Satin Jacket by Carl Alessi; Saving Grace by R. Ambardar

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

The first new replica for this month is SPICY MYSTERY #3 from July 1935, with a nice Parkhurst cover, the first of the Spicy Replicas not to feature Ward art.

The Shadow for this month is The Romanoff Jewels (12/01/32) a great early issue with some terrific Russian
action featuring The Shadow that explains the origins of the Girasol ring he wears!

Coming soon... TERROR TALES #1!

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 Romanoff Jewels (12/01/32)
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
July 1935: a nice Parkhurst cover
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

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
3501 Glen Erin Drive, Apt. 1409, Mississauga, ON, Canada L5L 2E9

Last Months Replicas

This title can be ordered from your local comic shop in the July PREVIEWS.
The Diamond Item Code is JUL032206.

Eureka, the GRAPHIC CLASSICS publisher, and has a website at http://www.graphicclassics.com/index.htm.

Buried deep in the earth's polar ice cap -- carved into a moving island of ice twice the size of the United States -- is a secret place, the site of a remarkable abandoned experiment that could have frightening ramifications for the planet. The brain trust of the former Soviet Union who created the seventy-year-old Ice Station Grendel would like it simply to melt from human memory. But that becomes impossible when an American undersea research vessel, the Polar Sentinel, inadvertently pulls too close to the hollowed-out iceberg ... and one of the crew sees something alive inside. Something that never should have survived.

It is a discovery that sends shock waves through the intelligence communities of two powerful nations, as American and Russian scientists, soldiers, and unsuspecting civilians are pulled into Grendel's lethal vortex of secrets, violence, and betrayal. To preserve the silence -- to prevent others from uncovering the terrible mysteries locked behind submerged walls of ice and steel -- no measures will be too extreme. For within the station, experiments have blurred the line between life and death. It was a place never meant to be found.

One man already knows too much: Matthew Pike, a former American Special Forces operative, living in seclusion in Alaska on the edge of the Arctic Circle. On the run after rescuing the survivor of a plane crash no one was meant to observe, Pike is relentlessly drawn into the eye of the gathering storm -- even as a Russian nuclear attack submarine draws silently nearer to the men and women on the Polar Sentinel. The covert battle over Grendel is spinning out of control, and the future of all human life on Earth will be altered -- or destroyed -- once its nightmarish truths are revealed.

Hardcover, 416 pages, ISBN: 0060521562, $24.95 
Publisher: William Morrow

Hardcover, Glossy, Full Color Interior, 8x11, 288 pages, $29.95.
This title is available from the publisher Feral House and  Bud Plant.

Also new to the site, check out the Doc Savage section where you will find weekly episodes of the Doc Savage
radio adventure Fear Cay in mp3 format.

The goal of Printed Poison is to gather together original tales of pulse-pounding, two-fisted, spine-tingling action.  Click on over and check it out. You won't be disappointed!

Bob Weinberg has stated that "I believe that a vast majority of the material in this exhibit comes from Bob Lesser's collection.  Since Lesser specializes in lurid SF and spicy pulp covers, if you haven't seen his collection ever, it is 
well worth the trouble and effort going to see it.  It's not the world's best SF Art collection, but it surely is the world's best Pulp Art Collection."

Single issues cost $5.50, postage paid. Send your check or money order to:
Michael Chomko, 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA  18104-6542. 
Payments can also be made via Paypal--CASH ONLY--to chomko@enter.net 
Sorry, but no credit card payments can be accepted. 

Arnold also talked more about his upcoming cameo role in Jackie Chan's Around the World in 80 Days. "It's a remake that they're doing in Berlin right now and I will be over there as a matter of fact this next week, doing a two day shoot, which is like a little cameo that Jackie Chan asked me to do and the director asked me to do and the producer, it’s the same producer that produced 'Terminator 3'. I don't know if they intentionally wrote it for me or not, I cannot tell you, but when I read the four pages, it looked like this perfect thing for me to do."

The next "Conan" film is not out of the question either. "The continuation of the 'Conan' saga, they have been talking about it. Warner Brothers has been talking to me about it. As soon as it gets to the next stage, which is to finalize the deal, then we can move forward with it."

August advised Variety that he's a fan of Burroughs' book and of the 1970s cartoon, calling Tarzan "an enduring cultural myth like Hercules or Robin Hood ... The movie versions of Tarzan always portray him as a sort of jungle hippie. Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan is a much different character. He's more ferocious and wild, like Wolverine without the claws. That's the version we want to use."

Tarzan's aunt, Katherine Clayton, is described as being in her mid-30s and runs Greystoke Industries’ media division. Described as “beautiful, sharp, sophisticated, witty and acerbic, she never passes up an opportunity to be the thorn in her brother’s side (named Richard, he will be played by Mitch Pileggi). She often uses her newspaper and media holdings to expose his corporate scandals and misdeeds. 

Katherine lives in the Clayton ancestral home, a Beaux Art behemoth on Fifth Avenue where Tarzan comes to live as well. She is as surprised as anybody when caring for her long-lost nephew brings up warm, nurturing impulses she never knew she had. When Richard tries to control Tarzan to further his own corporate agenda, Katherine becomes as protective and fierce as a lioness. This character will be signed to appear in 10 out of the initial 13 episodes ordered by the network; should the series do well in the ratings, it will be picked up for the last 9 episodes, bringing it to a full season’s order. 

The other regular character is Nicki Porter, who will be in 7 of the series’ initial order of 13 episodes. Nicki is Jane’s younger sister, roommate and confidante. Described as “cute, fresh and armed with a decidedly “downtown” sensibility,” she’s a college freshman majoring in fashion design— although she’s considering changing majors to photography, or maybe taking a year off and going to Italy. In other words, casting sources say she is “impulsive, free-spirited, and a little irresponsible,” which makes her Jane’s polar opposite. 

Even though they don’t agree on much, the two sisters’ love for each other is remarkably uncomplicated – either sister would walk over hot coals for the other. A firm believer in embracing passion wherever you find it, Nicki is thrilled to see Tarzan enter Jane’s life. In her opinion, Jane could use a little untamed passion. 

The New and Updated CAPTAIN FUTURE HANDBOOK by Chuck Juzek is just being completed and will be available at Pulpcon 32 at the end of July.  The updated edition contains 14 pages of new material and artwork never previously published in earlier editions!  The price is yet to be determined.

Click here or on the image at the right for a larger picture.

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Will Murray also has a short article in the May COMIC BOOK MARKETPLACE (#102) now on sale.
The article, Who the Heck was C.B., is about a Charles Biro comic strip that ran in BOY ILLUSTORIES published by Lev Gleason.