The excellent Pulpcon 2003 Report alone is worth reading this issue!  It includes many black and white photos including a photo of the STERANKO cover for Bold Venture Press's DOMINO LADY coming this Fall.

If you have not read Warren's excellent apa-zine, click on over to Bill Burns' eFanzines website at http://efanzines.com/ and download #1 through #8.  All issues are in PDF format. 

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

Spider #6 is $12 postpaid and can ordered direct from the publisher.
Send a check or money order to:
Bold Venture Press, P.O. Box 64, Bordentown, NJ 08505

THE SPIDER: #5 Empire of Doom is on the fast track and will be coming very soon!

Here is how Dark Horse describes the book:
In the early 1970s, Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian exploded on to the comics scene. Writer Roy Thomas teamed with a young artist named Barry Smith, and together the two mapped out some of the most stirring and memorable Conan adventures to come along since those written by Howard himself. Over the course of their 24 issue run together, Thomas and Smith defined Conan for a generation of comics readers, and now those stories are collected here in a series of trade paperbacks.  Featuring completely remastered color and text corrections, and containing material not available for nearly thirty years, these books are the perfect companions to the upcoming all-new Conan series from Dark Horse. 

Soft Cover, 144 pages, Full Color, and retails for $15.95.

THE CHRONICLES OF CONAN VOL. 3 is 156 pages for $15.95.
THE CHRONICLES OF CONAN VOL. 3 can be pre-ordered from the October PREVIEWS (now available).
The Diamond Item Code is OCT03 0031.

COMIC BOOK MARKETPLACE is available in comic shops or direct from Gemstone Publishing.
MasterCard or VISA orders call 800-322-7978. 

Here is how Dark Horse describes the bust:
This bust is another masterpiece of savagery from sculptor Jeffery Scott and the painting and production team at Gentle Giant Studios. This piece features Robert E. Howard’s immortal warrior intertwined in a fearsome death struggle with a gigantic snake. In a piece that burns with the bloody fury of hell, the hard-to-define but obvious-when-seen quality that is Conan burns brightly. The bust is approximately 7" high, packaged in deluxe full-color box, includes certificate of authenticity signed by the sculptor, limited, numbered edition of 3,500 pieces, and will retail for $49.99.  The on-sale date is December 17.

The Cthulhu Plush Slippers are in the October PREVIEWS (now available). 
You can pre-order them from your local comic shop. 
The Diamond Item Code is OCT033739.
They can also be pre-ordered from Entertainment Earth.

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:   The Three Devils (May 1944) 

The Shrevnitz Memorial Library: 
Coming Soon: The Phantom Detective in The Island of Death  (June 1933)

Blackmask Online: 
War Plans Divided by Robert Leslie Bellem
Bill Barnes in Earmarked Gold by George L. Eaton from BILL BARNES AIR TRAILS (03/38)
There Are No Crooks by Frank R. Adams
Mistress of Snarling Death by Paul Chadwick 
Satan's Faceless Henchmen by Steve Fisher 

Larry Estep-Online Pulps:    Now with over 250 stories online!
Naughty Nightmares by Don Amour from SCREEN SCANDALS (August, 1936) 
Treasure of Su by George Foxhall from ALL-STORY (September, 1913) 
Facing the Mob by Margie Harris from GANGLAND STORIES (February, 1931) 
The Red Devil From Blue Wells by J. R. Johnston from WESTERN OUTLAWS (February, 1930) 
The Talkie Murder by Albert Edward Ullman from THRILLING DETECTIVE (January, 1932) 

Here is how DC describes the book:
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. 

Here is how Dark Horse describes the book:
Continuing Dark Horse Comics' tradition of finer reprint books, the second volume in the archival collection of Mac Raboy's lengthy Flash Gordon run will be available on 25 June. This series marks the first time that Raboy's Flash Gordon strips have ever been collected. Beginning his comics career in 1940, Emanuel "Mac" Raboy is perhaps best known for his work on Captain Marvel, Jr. and the Green Lama in the 1940s. He graduated from a government-funded art class, was heavily influenced by Alex Raymond's style, and, in the Spring of 1948, he signed on with King Features to illustrate the "Flash Gordon" Sunday page. Following in the footsteps of his idol, Mac Raboy's run on this serial was actually longer than Raymond's. Raboy drew the strip until his death in December of 1967, and several of his early wood engravings (from his fine art days) remain in the permanent collection of New York's Metropolitan Museum.  This is a 256 page, black and white, trade paperback for a retail price of $19.95.

GRAPHIC CLASSICS VOLUME 7: BRAM STOKER is available in comic shops.
If your local store does not carry this title, it can be re-ordered for you.
Request Diamond Item Code  JUL032206.

You can also order from the GRAPHIC CLASSICS publisher at http://www.graphicclassics.com/index.htm.
 

Two episodes every Saturday morning, 8-9am Eastern.
There are still no plans for a VHS/DVD release from 20th Century Fox. 

Thanks to Dom Dawes for passing along this information.

Hunter Quatermain’s Story is published by Peter Owen Publisher.
It is available from Amazon Books.

The Phantom: Valley of the Golden Men 
Written by Tom DeFalco and illustrated by Art Nichols, Terry Pallot, and Lou Manna with a cover by Joel Naprstek.  48pgs, color, squarebound, self-contained, $6.95

An airplane crashes in Bangalla, carrying both a much needed vaccine AND Diana Walker. THE PHANTOM wastes no time making his way onto the scene, but a tribe of unusual natives find his quarry first!  The "Golden Men" of whispered legend hold both medicine and Mrs.Phantom as a prize in a bloody competition "The Ghost Who Walks" must be victorious in.  But closing in quick are the Singh pirates, hungry for the riches the vaccine will fetch on the black market!

This title is in the October PREVIEWS (now available). 
You can pre-order it from your local comic shop. 
The Diamond Item Code is OCT032579.

This issue really cranks up the noir, as it dives deep into Kolchak's very soul. He begged Tony for a nice, normal lead, and that's what he got. Seems an Air Force base in upstate New York's engaged in a little cover up, so our man Carl Kolchak high-tails it cross country in a fresh pressed suit and a smile on his face. Using his singular reporting skills, and his annoying interpersonal skills, he gets all the answers allright. Too bad these answers may send him straight to an insane asylum. How cruel is Man? Wanna find out? Carl did, and would love to lay it out for you. Right here. Right now. 

This title is in the October PREVIEWS (now available). 
You can pre-order it from your local comic shop. 
The Diamond Item Code is OCT032578.

Click on the links above for a complete story listing and a look at the covers on the NESFA website.
Both books list for $24 each and are available from Mike Chomko.
Orders over $25 are discounted 10% and shipped postpaid.
Contact Mike at chomko@enter.net.
Michael Chomko, 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA  18104-6542 

Download Printed Poison today at http://members.lycos.co.uk/printedpoison/

The goal of Printed Poison is to gather together original tales of pulse-pounding, two-fisted, spine-tingling action.  Issue 3 is another outstanding effort with an absolutely great cover! 
Click on over and check it out. You won't be disappointed!

In the pulp cover section, there are stunning copies of all four issues of SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE (from 1931-1932), three issues of the THRILL BOOK, some scarce issues of ALL-DETECTIVE, and lots of others, around 50 pulp covers in all.

Visit the website at http://www.robertweinberg.net/

This title is in the October PREVIEWS (now available). 
You can pre-order it from your local comic shop. 
The Diamond Item Code is OCT032925.

Visit the Web Mystery Magazine home page at http://www.lifeloom.com/webmysterymagazine.htm

Now available:
THE BAT by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood

A remote country house filled with suspects, a forbidden romance, a cache of hidden money and a mysterious killer known only as The Bat. . . . 

"You've got to get him, boys -- get him or bust!" said a tired police chief, pounding a heavy fist on a table.  The detectives he bellowed the words at looked at the floor. They had done their best and failed. Failure meant "resignation" for the police chief, return to the hated work of pounding the pavements for them -- they knew it, and, knowing it, could summon no gesture of bravado to answer their chief's. Gunmen, thugs, hijackers, loft-robbers, murderers, they could get them all in time -- but they could not get the man he wanted. 

"Get him -- to hell with expense -- I'll give you carte blanche -- but get  him!" said a haggard millionaire in the sedate inner offices of the best  private detective firm in the country. 

The man on the other side of the desk, man hunter extraordinary, old servant of Government and State, sleuthhound without a peer, threw up his hands in a gesture of odd hopelessness. 

"It isn't the money, Mr. De Courcy -- I'd give every cent I've made to get the man you want -- but I can't promise you results -- for the first time in my life."

252 pages, Trade Hardcover, ISBN: 1-59224-550-1, $32.95
 

JOHN SILENCE, PSYCHICAL INVESTIGATOR, BOOK 2: ANCIENT SORCERIES
by Algernon Blackwood

Dr. John Silence, physician extraordinaire, specializes in a very particular sort of illness - call it a sickness of the spirit. Many of his patients, of course, suffer from mundane concerns, like madness. He knows how to help madmen when he must.  But many others -- require the skills not merely of a physician, but of a spiritual detective; a Sherlock Holmes of the arcane; an M. Pirot of the outré.   Here are the tales of those extraordinary cases, these are the tales of  JOHN SILENCE -- Psychical Investigator!

200 pages
Trade Paperback, ISBN: 1-58715-534-6,  $16.95
Trade Hardcover,, ISBN: 1-58715-535-4,  $29.95

"A fiery curtain of doom draped on the first act of the Phoenix's sinister murder spectacle.  And that curtain eclipsed the drama of the reptile-skinned stowaway from nowhere.  But is was just the first act, for the Phoenix and his barbaric battalions of Python Men were staging a weird welcome for the one man who defied them.  That man was Capt. Hazzard--peer of perilous adventure and master of modern science."

HIGH ADVENTURE #72 will be in comic shops on 24 September.

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

This re-imagining of the classic pulp magazine sports a cover by legendary artists Leo and Diane Dillon, and new fiction by Jeffrey Ford, Caitlin R. Kiernan (DC's The Dreaming), Harlan Ellison, and more! Plus, in the second volume, an all-new novella by Michael Moorcock, illustrated by Jon Foster (DC's The Names of Magic). 

ARGOSY is two volumes in a printed slipcase for $12.95.
The Diamond Item Code is OCT032261.

NIGHT CREATURES by Seabury Quinn
Edited and with an Introduction by Peter Ruber & Joe Wrzos
The eleven stories gathered together for NIGHT CREATURES—only one of which features Quinn's plucky phantom fighter de Grandin—were all published in WEIRD TALES between 1923 and 1947, and few have been reprinted since. They concern werewolves and witches, vampires and demons, and even a conventional ghost or two; but they are far more than variations on standard themes. Quinn was as concerned with the minds and hearts of his characters as he was with the horrors of their situations; and the result is a collection of stories which is as compassionate and poignant as it is chilling and horrifying.  The retail price is $46.50.

CONTENTS: Introduction; The Golden Spider; The Gentle Werewolf; Mortmain; Uncanonized; The Thing in the Fog; Two Shall Be Born; Glamour; Masked Ball; Is the Devil a Gentleman?; There Are Such Things; The Phantom Farm House.

THE GHOST PIRATES by William Hope Hodgson
With an Introduction by A. F. Kidd, and an Afterword by Douglas A. Anderson
THE GHOST PIRATES was first published in 1909, as part of a series including The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig' and The House on the Borderland, and over the years has been overshadowed by the latter novel, as well as the epic The Night Land. However, as A. F. Kidd argues in her introduction, THE GHOST PIRATES is a little masterpiece: a 'small and almost perfectly formed gem' written by an author who, at his best, 'can make your flesh creep like a master'.  The retail price is $21.

Baby Nyarlathotep:
Solicited in the September PREVIEWS.  The Diamond Order Code is SEP03 3235.

Cthulhu furry slippers: 
Solicited in the October PREVIEWS (available 24 September). I will have details next week.

Secret Agent Cthulhu: 
According to Huston, this high concept plush will have Cthulhu in sunglasses and carrying a briefcase. 

The Deep One: a half human, half hybrid that worships Cthulhu. 

Cthulhu backpack

Cthulhu the King: in a white sequin outfit!

Thanks Jacques!

Robert Mullen's Shadow PDF:   Murder Lake (June 1943)

The Shadow Magazine Interior Artwork: Nothing new this week.

ShadowPDF:  Nothing new this week.

Doc Savage PDF:  Quest of Qui (July 1935)  This is an updated and corrected file.

The Shrevnitz Memorial Library: 
Coming Soon: The Phantom Detective in The Island of Death  (June 1933)

Blackmask Online: 
Doc Savage in  The Whisker of Hercules (April 1944)

Larry Estep-Online Pulps:    Now with over 250 stories online!
Haywire Ace by Robert Sidney Bowen from THE LONE EAGLE (April, 1939)
Mr. Clackworthy's Pipe Dream by Christopher B. Booth from DETECTIVE STORY (March 11, 1922)
Whispering Death by Laurence Donovan from ACTION NOVELS (August, 1929)
Uranian Justice by Wilbur S. Peacock from CAPTAIN FUTURE (Fall, 1940) 
Who Killed Gilbert Foster? by E. Hoffmann Price & Ralph Milne Farley from FIVE-NOVELS MONTHLY (01/36) 

Trade Paperback, 374 pages, $25.99, ISBN 1-59109-733-9. 

EL CAZADOR #1 Second Printing will include no interior ads or additional editorial back matter and will feature a new cover (shown at the right) showcasing an iconic image that captures the exotic setting of the pirate adventure. The 32-page Second Printing of the debut issue by writer Chuck Dixon, artist Steve Epting and colorist Frank D'Armata will reach stores on October 8th, the same day that EL CAZADOR #2 goes on sale.

Mike is also establishing an account with Subterranean Press.
Forthcoming is SKELETON IN THE CLOSET AND OTHER DARK SECRETS: THE READER'S BLOCH, VOLUME ONE. Edited by Stefan Dziemianowicz SKELETON is the first of a two-volume set that will collect about 50 stories (25 per volume) that have never been reprinted since their original appearance. Mike will be selling the limited edition which lists for $40.  Visit the Subterranean Press website at http://www.subterraneanpress.com/.

Mike is also now accepting orders for the September Pulp Replicas from Girasol Collectables.

Orders over $25 are discounted 10% and shipped postpaid.
Contact Mike at chomko@enter.net.
Michael Chomko, 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA  18104-6542 

Ghost Hunters & Psychic Detectives: 9 Classic Tales of Sleuthing and the Supernatural
This anthology brings together nine rare and vintage tales of ghost hunters and psychic sleuths. In it you will meet such legendary, and nearly forgotten fictive practitioners as Gordon Acreage's Dr. Munsing in The Exorcist; Seabury Quinn's Jules DeGrandon in Body and Soul; Sax Rohmer's Moris Klaw in The Headless Mummies; E. and H. Heron's Flaxman Low in The Grey House; T. Meade and Robert Eustace's Bell, Master of Mystery in The Warder of the Door; Conrad Richter's Mason Bell in The Toad Man; William Hope Hodgson's Carnacki, Ghost Finder, in The Whistling Room; Victor Rousseau's Ivan Brodsky, Surgeon of Souls, in The Tenth Commandment; and Algernon Blackwood's John Silence in A Victim of Higher Space.

300 pages for $4

Here's how DC describes the issue: 
"S.M.A.S.H.'s return to action has been anything but glorious, as our heroes' advance has been foiled by the null field. Meanwhile, the hunt for Tom Strange takes the Invertica City gang to the coldest reaches of Earth." 

Terra Obscura #4 will be 32 pages and will cost $2.95. 

Van Helsing was inspired by the classic Universal monster films of the 1930s and '40s. The titular monster hunter (Hugh Jackman) travels to Transylvania to face down Dracula, The Frankenstein Monster and The Wolf Man in the tale of ultimate evil against a lone force of good. The film is scheduled to open May 7, 2004.

THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF THE ESCAPIST is published by Dark Horse Comics.
It is 80 pages for $8.95 and is scheduled to be in comic shops on 17 December.
THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF THE ESCAPIST can be pre-ordered from the October PREVIEWS (Available 24 September).

Christian Bale has been cast in the starring role of Bruce Wayne in Warner Bros. Pictures' upcoming Batman movie, to be directed by Christopher Nolan and produced by Emma Thomas. The announcement was made today by Jeff Robinov, President of production for Warner Bros. Pictures.

Principal photography on the film is expected to begin in early 2004. The movie is written by David Goyer and Nolan, and will follow the early career of The Dark Knight.  Said Nolan, "What I see in Christian is the ultimate embodiment of Bruce Wayne. He has exactly the balance of darkness and light that we were looking for." Robinov stated, "Now that we've found the best person to play Batman, we are really looking forward to moving ahead with the rest of our casting, and are excited about the exceptional group we are assembling."

Other casting announcements are expected to be announced shortly.

THE CHRONICLES OF CONAN VOL. 3 is 156 pages for $15.95.
THE CHRONICLES OF CONAN VOL. 3 can be pre-ordered from the October PREVIEWS (Available 24 Sept.)

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: The Whisker of Hercules (April 1944)

The Shrevnitz Memorial Library: 
Coming Soon: The Phantom Detective in The Island of Death  (June 1933)

Blackmask Online: 
Secret Agent X in Legion of the Living Dead by Brant House (September 1935)
Doc Savage in Death Had Yellow Eyes (February 1944)
Doc Savage in The Derelict of Skull Shoal (March 1944)

Larry Estep-Online Pulps:    Now with over 250 stories online!
Heat by Beach Allen from THE SHADOW (April 15, 1936)
Borderland by Arthur J. Burks from THRILLING ADVENTURES (December, 1934)
The Azure Ring by Arthur B. Reeve from SCIENTIFIC DETECTIVE (May, 1930)
Fiction is Stranger Than Truth by Thomas Thursday from LAUGHTER (October, 1925)
Smoky Skies by Raoul F. Whitfield from WEST (December 24, 1927)

The Flash Gordon & Ming the Merciless Mini-bust Set can be ordered from Bowen Designs website at http://www.bowendesigns.com/Flash_Gordon_Ming_Set.html
The retail price is $60.00 plus $8 shipping.

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 published by Pocket Books.
It runs 240 pages for $6.99. ISBN: 0743474651

Both films are directed by Jess Franco and retail for $19.95.

The George Sterling collection, THE THIRST OF SATAN, is going to be delayed two more weeks. A printer glitch, which did not manifest on the proof copy, caused certain pages to print illegibly. After the amount of work that has gone into this book there's no way Hippocampus Press can release the defective copies, so they will be destroyed and the book reprinted. 

PRIMAL SOURCES: ESSAYS ON H. P. LOVECRAFT by S. T. Joshi is on schedule for a December release. The cover will be by Sean Madden, known to us for his depiction of the window scene from Lovecraft's "He" which adorns FROM THE PEST ZONE. 

Jason C. Eckhardt has done his usual outstanding job on the cover and interior illustrations for THE SWORD OF ZAGAN by Clark Ashton Smith, scheduled for release in January 2004. 

Are you ready for 600+ pages of essays by H. P. Lovecraft, on Amateur Journalism and Literary Criticism? We hope so, because 
they're coming your way in March 2004, when Hippocampus Press releases the first two books of their massive COLLECTED ESSAYS series! The discounted advance subscription rate for the series is still in effect. Visit the Hippocampus Press website for details and to order! 

OUT OF THE ORDINARY has been indefinitely postponed, as the COLLECTED ESSAYS series will contain most of that material: CE2 will include all the supplementary items, CE5 the Commonplace Book itself.

David E. Schultz's ANNOTATED FUNGI FROM YUGGOTH has now become a 2005 title. 

MARTIANTHOLOGY is compiled by Forrest J Ackerman and edited by Anne Hardin
MARTIANTHOLOGY is published by Sense of Wonder Press, an imprint of James A. Rock & Co., Publishers.
302 pages, 6"x 9", illustrated
Trade Paper: ISBN 0-918736-45-5 $19.95
Trade Cloth:  ISBN 0-918736-46-32 $34.95

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 Eleven: Flames Of Terror 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.

MIDNIGHT SUN by Karl Edward Wagner. 
MIDNIGHT SUN is now shipping. 
MIDNIGHT SUN is the companion volume to GODS IN DARKNESS, and collects all of the Kane short stories and poetry.  $35 trade/$75 slipcased limited. The limited edition is sold out.

RED WORLD OF POLARIS by Clark Ashton Smith. 
RED WORLD OF POLARIS is at the printers and planned for a mid-to-late September release. 
This book is sold out in both states at Night Shade Books.
 

RAYMOND CHANDLER'S MARLOWE will arrive in comic shops on 17 September.
Diamond did not initailly receive their full order of this book and it is being allocated.

Cruz's character is Eva Rojas, a United Nations scientist marked for death because she is investigating the cause behind mysterious deaths of North Africans and an alarming dropoff of coastal sea life. Breck Eisner will direct; shooting is anticipated to start this fall. 

The Shadow Strikes is available from  DVD Planet

The Shadow Strikes - The owner of a large estate is mysteriously shot and killed and leaves an 11 million dollar fortune. The heirs begin fighting over the inheritance and soon underworld figures move in to steal the prize. The only hope for the innocent heir to the fortune is… The Shadow. 

International Crime - The Shadow becomes involved in the case of a wealthy businessman's murder. The plot thickens when foreign agents appear and begin to extort money from the businessman’s brother.

The retail price of this DVD is $9.99.
It is available from Vintage Library.

The actress will play Kathleen Clayton, a publishing magnate and younger sister of Mitch Pileggi's Richard Clayton, the acting head of Greystoke Industries. Kathleen and Richard have very different ideas of how to handle their recently rediscovered nephew Jack (Travis Fimmel). Richard believes that Tarzan must be rehabilitated and reintroduced to non-simian society, while Kathleen wants to give the monkey man time to find his own way.  Both may have ulterior motives, as they know that whoever controls Tarzan also controls Greystoke. 

Lawless is only signed as a regular for the show's first season. Her deal with The WB also includes an exclusive series development deal for the 2004-2005 season.

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

128 pages, Trade Hardcover, ISBN: 1-59224-014-3,  $29.95

Visit The Serial Squadron webiste at http://www.serialsquadron.com/ to order.

Buena Vista will release ALIAS Season Two on December 2nd (SRP $69.99). 
Like the first season, this six disc set will feature anamorphic widescreen video and Dolby Digital 5.1 audio. Extras will include audio commentaries with the cast and crew, The Telling documentary on the making of the season finale, the Undercover: The Look of Alias featurette, more deleted scenes, another gag reel, the Alias parody seen on Monday Night Football, and a look at the making of the Alias video game. 

The third season of ALIAS premieres on ABC the night of 28 September.
Djimon Hounsou (Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life) is joining ALIAS as a new baddie, reports Variety.

ARGOSY will retail for $12.95.
Contributors for the first issue include:
Benjamin Rosenbaum - The Valley of the Giants
Ann Cummins - Pyromaniac
Caitlin R. Kiernan - Riding the White Bull
Barry Baldwin - VE Knights
Michael Moorcock - The Mystery of the Texas Twister
as well as Adam Roberts interviewing Samuel R. Delany and one or two surprises.

To be informed when ARGOSY is available to receive subscriptions, send an email to subscriptions@argosymag.com.

Visit Coppervale International's website at http://www.coppervaleinternational.com/

Burton's Mars artwork graces the covers of Wild Cat Books STRANGE WORLDS #8 thru #11.
STRANGE WORLDS #7 thru #11 reprinted ERB's A Princess of Mars complete with interior illustrations by David Burton.  Click here to view the covers for STRANGE WORLDS #9 and #11.

LOST WORLDS OF FANTASY & SF #3 is $2.95 and can be ordered in comic shops.
The Diamond Item Number is APR031995.

LOST WORLDS OF FANTASY & SF can also be purchased from the publisher at http://www.mikehoffmanart.com/store.html.

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

The Shadow Magazine Interior Artwork: Murder Lake (06/01/43)

ShadowPDF:  Nothing new this week.

Doc Savage PDF: The Derelict of Skull Shoal (March 1944)

The Shrevnitz Memorial Library: 
Secret Agent X in The Murder Brain by Brant House (April 1935)
Coming Soon: The Phantom Detective in The Island of Death  (June 1933)

Blackmask Online: 
Bill Barnes in The Blood-Red Road to Petra from BILL BARNES AIR TRAILS (09/36)
Secret Agent X in The Golden Ghoul by Brant House (July 1935)
Secret Agent X in The Assassins' League by Brant House (October 1937)
Crash Carringer in Hellion Hunch by Arch Whitehouse

Larry Estep-Online Pulps:    Now with over 250 stories online!
Men of Honor by Will Garth from CAPTAIN FUTURE (Spring, 1940)
Shoulder Straps by C. S. Montanye from THRILLING DETECTIVE (September, 1944)
The Ogre From the Depths by Cyril Plunkett from CLUES (March, 1938)
Servant of the State by Thomas Thursday from SMASHING DETECTIVE (May, 1956) 
Pearl Hunger by Albert Richard Wetjen from ACTION NOVELS (April, 1929)

Writer Chuck Dixon had the following to say at this years Megacon in Florida.

"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. 

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 #40  featuring The Scent of Death by Pam Herman, Good Deed by Dan A. Sproul, Murder for Art’s Sake by Daniel Erickson, Alibi for Murder by Eugene C. Flinn, The Last Supper by James P. Hanley, Integrity Issue by Jason Bobzin, Clear Conscience by Lawrence Harvey, Cleaning by Kenneth M. Austin, A Likely Alibi by R. Ambardar, and Book Review: Egg by James Mc Connell.

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

Universal recently acquired the rights to "Firefly" from 20th Century Fox Television, where Whedon's Mutant Enemy Inc. production company has a television deal. A DVD set of the series, including three episodes filmed but never aired, is due in December.

This month we debut our TERROR TALES offering with issue #1 (Sept. 1934). Not an easy book to find in its original form and not fun to pay for if it's in nice shape either. $35, however, gets you a pristine Replica. Over the next twelve months we will also be doing TERROR TALES  #2, 3 and 4 so let us know what you think.

Our Shadow for this month is another early one; The Creeping Death, Jan. 15th 1933. A truly classic cover with the Shadow's shadow and a menacing skeleton!

Our bonus issue this month is SPICY DETECTIVE Feb. 1935. An early issue with a great H. J. Ward cover and a Dan Turner story.

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  ($25 each postpaid within North America)
The Living Shadow (April 1931)
The Five Chameleons (11/01/32)
The Romanoff Jewels (12/01/32)
The Creeping Death (01/15/33)
The Shadow's Justice  (04/15/33)
The Red Blot (06/01/33)
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  ($25 each postpaid within North America)
May 1935:  Great Middle Eastern motif cover

SPICY DETECTIVE  ($25 each postpaid within North America)
February 1935
October 1936:  Incredible, truly classic HJ Ward cover
August 1940:   Great HJ Ward cover, Dan Turner, Eel stories

SPICY MYSTERY  ($25 each postpaid within North America)
July 1935: a nice Parkhurst cover
February 1936: Batman

DAN TURNER  ($25 each postpaid within North America)
Dan Turner Hollywood Detective No. 1 (January 1942)

STRANGE TALES  ($25 each postpaid within North America)
January 1932: Wolves of Darkness
March 1932
October 1932: Famous 'Worm Monster' cover
November 1932 
January 1933

SPICY WESTERN  ($25 each postpaid within North America)
Dec 37:  Great HJ Ward cover

TERROR TALES  ($35 each postpaid within North America)
TERROR TALES #1 (09/34)

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
February 1924: WEIRD TALES #10

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

STARK AND THE STAR KINGS is a 600-page hardcover available in two editions.
Trade Edition: $40.00 
100-copy Slipcased Limited Edition (signed by Jakes & Ebel): $150.00 
The contents include: 
The Star Kings 
Queen of the Martian Catacombs
Enchantress of Venus 
Black Amazon of Mars 
Return to the Stars 
Stark and the Star Kings

Ordering information is on the Haffner Press website at http://www.haffnerpress.com/
STARK AND THE STAR KINGS will be available to ship approximately six weeks after receipt of the finished artwork. 

Click here to visit the Haffner Press website which includes thumbnails of Alex's excellent first two interior illustrations for STARK AND THE STAR KINGS and links to an Alex Ebel Gallery as well as past covers for Star Kings and Eric John Stark. 

The retail price is $35.

A total of ten adventure novelettes appeared in DIME DETECTIVE MAGAZINE between July 1932 and January 1937 featuring the Necrologist Sleuth, Horatio Humberton. These stories feature elements of the supernatural, and the outrageous, and are collected here for the first time. Unfortunately only one featured a cover illustration for the magazine. You will not be disappointed with these hard-boiled escapades, bordering on humorous escapist detective fiction.  The ten stories are:
1. The Angel of the Damned
2. Eyes of the Dead
3. The Werewolf Horrors
4. The Mill of Horror
5. Seconds of Doom
6. Shoes for the Dead
7. Post Mortem
8. Dead and Buried
9. The Hairy Death
10. The Corpse the Cat Dragged In

Writing in THE DIME DETECTIVES (The Mysterious Press, 1988), Ron Goulart said: "Horatio Humberton...was a part-time dick and a full-time undertaker. 'Though Horatio Humberton earned the principal part of his living by the
direction of funerals," it was explained "another science, the study of crime, was much nearer his heart. When it came to embalming a murdered man, he could do a good job; but he would be far more enthusiastic in the task of
finding the murderer."

LOST TREASURES FROM THE PULPS Volume 3 will retail for $50.

Orders over $25 are discounted 10% and shipped postpaid.
Contact Mike at chomko@enter.net.
Michael Chomko, 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA  18104-6542 

The 2-Disc Disney DVD will include:
3 Audio Commentaries:
-Director Gore Verbinski and Star Johnny Depp
-Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and Stars Keira Knightley and Jack Davenport
-Writers Stuart Beattie, Ted Elliot & Terry Rossio and Jay Wolpert

An Epic At Sea: The Making of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Deleted Scenes
"Moonlight" Scene Progression
Image Gallery
Blooper Reel
Below Deck: An Interactive History Of Pirates

The DVD is in 2.35:1 aspect ratio, enhanced for 16x9 screens, and includes Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. Also available are a French language soundtrack and subtitles.

The publisher is James A. Rock & Co.  It is available in hardcover for $39.95 or trade paperback for $23.95.
The complete contents is listed on the James A. Rock & Co. website at http://www.rockpublishing.com/rainbow.htm.

RAINBOW FANTASIA is also available from Amazon Books.

This book was originally published in 2001, but this is the first that I have heard of it.
Thanks to Charles Cunningham for the information.

If your local comic shop does not stock this item, they can be reorder it for you.
The Diamond Item Code is JUL033172

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Wild Cat Books
6664 Valley Pike
Middletown, VA 22645-1720
wildcatbooks@vcmails.com
Please make all checks payable to Ron Hanna and not Wild Cat Books

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Wild Cat Books
6664 Valley Pike
Middletown, VA 22645-1720
wildcatbooks@vcmails.com

Please make all checks payable to Ron Hanna and not Wild Cat Books