Pulps included in this volume are: THRILL BOOK, DOCTOR DEATH, STRANGE TALES, STRANGE STORIES, TALES OF MAGIC AND MYSTERY and more.  Magazines were deliberately chosen which had short runs and thus tended to be little known and scarce. Not included in this volume are bibliographies of some of the major magazines of supernatural, horror, and weird menace such as WEIRD TALES, GHOST STORIES, HORROR STORIES, TERROR TALES, DIME MYSTERY and THRILLING MYSTERY. These may be covered in future volumes. 
This is a full color, 9x12, 112 page, softbound book for $22.
THOSE MACABRE PULPS can be pre-ordered from the February PREVIEWS (available now). 
The Diamond Order Code is FEB042876.

Allan Quatermain is in Africa on the search for his brother, who is hiding out in some sort of New Age temple looking for a white tribe. Along for the ride is Jesse Huston (Sharon Stone), who only wants to get married and go back to America. There is also James Earl Jones on hand as Allan's sidekick, and a villain played by Henry Silva. 

This film features Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, James Earl Jones and Henry Silva.
The retail price is $14.95.

The date of #6 was changed from Fall 2003 to Winter 2004. It includes the following: "Last Hurrahs," a lengthy article on the waning days of the hero pulps; "Dithering Over Doc," Will Murray's conjectures regarding the timing of Doc Savage's debut; "Reminiscences of Nick Carter," a reprint of a fascinating 1918 piece written by Nick's creator, John R. Coryell; and "A Million Words a Month," a 1935 WRITER'S DIGEST article written by Mort Weisinger based on his interview with the Thrilling Group's Leo Margulies. This issue's "Cliffhanger Classics" column discusses THE JUNGLE GODDESS, a hugely successful 1922 chapterplay. As always, the articles are accompanied by pulp-cover repros, photographs, and b&w illustrations.

The BLOOD 'N' THUNDER website is at http://www.geocities.com/poppub/.

Single issues are $6 postpaid from: 
Ed Hulse, 2467 Route 10 East, Mountain Club, Bldg. 15, Apt. 4B, Morris Plains, NJ 07950
Four issue subscriptions are available for $20. 
Make checks or money orders payable to: 
MGT Media Services, POBox 0174, Baldwin, New York 11510-0174

In the aftermath of The Frost Giant's Daughter, Conan heads into battle with the men of Asgard, never suspecting the treachery they hold in store for him, nor the horror coming down from Hyperborea. Dark Horse's new interpretation of Robert E. Howard's greatest creation. 32 pages, $2.99, in stores on April 28. 

Conan #3 can be pre-ordered from the February PREVIEWS (available now). 
The Diamond Order Code is FEB040020.

Since last week, several websites have confirmed receiving a formal letter via the U.S. mail asking them to remove all copyrighted and trademarked material from their websites.  Numerous websites are now down. A partial listing follows:
Highlights on The Shadow at http://webs.lanset.com/lurch/pulp/shadow.html is down.
The Shrevnitz Memorial Library at http://www.angelfire.com/journal/shrevnitz/  is down.
Marc Sky's shadow pulp poster site at http://members.aol.com/thshadow99/  is down.
The Shadow Fan at www.theshadowfan.com is down and will be redesigned.
Doc Savage PDF at http://216.234.165.80/ has removed all etexts.
Shadow PDF at http://www.shadowpdf.net/ will be removing all etexts and redesigning the site. 
       Non-Shadow material will  remain for your enjoyment.
Shadow Scans at http://www9.brinkster.com/shadowscans/shadow.asp is down.
The Shadow Interior Artwork at http://www.theshadowmagazine.com/ is down.
Robert Mullen's Shadow PDF at http://www.theshadowmagazine.com/RMullenPDF.htm is down.

Next week I will have details on the three new Pulp Replicas for February.

Robert Mullen's Shadow PDF and The Shadow Magazine Interior Artwork: 
Both sites are now down after receipt of a letter from Conde Nast.

ShadowPDF:   The ShadowPDF site has received a letter from Conde Nast. As a result, in the next couple of weeks the ShadowPDF will be changing.  Copyrighted material will be coming down. Non-Shadow material will  remain for your enjoyment.  ShadowPDF still hopes to finish posting the Amazon Anne saga and to transform the site into something about The Shadow that is not objectionable to Conde Nast.

Doc Savage PDF: 
The Doc Savage PDF site has received a letter from Conde Nast.  All etexts have been removed from the site.

The Shrevnitz Memorial Library:
The Shrevnitz Memorial Library website is now down.

Blackmask Online: 
Carnacki, The Ghost Finder  [1912 version (shorter)] by William Hope Hodgson

Larry Estep-Online Pulps: Now with over 350 stories online!
Through the Wall by G.T. Fleming-Roberts from MAMMOTH DETECTIVE (September 1942) 
A Dog-House Detective by Herbert MacAlpine from RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE (March 1912) 
Man From the Wrong Time-Track by Denis Plimmer from UNCANNY STORIES (April 1941) 
The Witch of Venice by Dorothy Quick from THRILLING ADVENTURES (June 1942) 
Crook, Fine, and Stinker by Tom Thursday from SUPER SPORTS (July 1949) 

Master of Elusion, foe of tyranny, and champion of liberation--The Escapist. Operating from a secret headquarters under the boards of the majestic Empire Theater, the Escapist and his crack team of charismatic associates roam the globe, performing amazing feats of magic to aid all those who languish in oppression's chains. The history of his creators, Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay, was recently chronicled in Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. The best of the Escapist's adventures are now collected into one volume. 

This volume of Michael Chabon Presents...The Amazing Adventures of The Escapist collects the first two issues of the comic book and features an original story penned by Michael Chabon, the comics debut of novelist Glen David Gold, a new story written and drawn by Howard Chaykin, the painted artwork of Bill Sienkiewicz, and a wraparound cover by Chris Ware. 

152 pages, $17.95, in stores on April 28.
Escapist TPB can be pre-ordered from the February PREVIEWS (available now). 
The Diamond Order Code is FEB040019.

Dark Horse has provided an advance look at six pages from the first issue.
Click here to check them out!

Girasol Collectables' US Agent, John DeWalt, will have our Replicas on hand as well as few other pulp related goodies. Don't miss it!

Email Girasol Collectables at: girasol@interlog.com for additional information.

However, 10,000 copies are being printed in February for a special promotion.  Everyone who subscribed will get one of those advance copies. (They will be slightly different from the newsstand copies -- no bar code -- so you'll see more of Bob Eggleton's fantastic cover art.)  Bob is also doing the cover for #3. Steve Hickman is doing the cover for #2.  Click here for a look at upcoming material for future issues.

The Necronomicon.  Cthulhu.  A town called Arkham populated by bizarre and insane monstrosities.  These icons of horror were envisioned by one man: Howard Philips Lovecraft.  But were these visions of horror only in his mind, or could he see into a world that couldn't be seen?

From his bizarre childhood, when his mother would dress him as a girl, to his adult days, when he would meet Harry Houdini, Lovecraft was haunted by grotesque visions.  He dedicated his life to writing blood-boiling "fictional" tales, all in an attempt to appease his living nightmares.  But that obsession would take its toll.  His parents both sent to asylums and his loving wife driven away, Lovecraft would spend most of his life as a recluse, his only company being his demons and the occasional visit to his publisher.  Some called him insane.  Some called him a genius.  Either way, the story of America's greatest horror writer is a tale as haunting as the demons that plagued him.

LOVECRAFT is written by Hans Rodionoff; adapted by Keith Giffen; art and cover by Enrique Breccia. 
144 pages, $24.95, in comic shops on February 4, 2004. 

KOLCHAK #3 can be pre-ordered from the February PREVIEWS (available now). 
The Diamond Order Code is FEB042501.

SLAMM! THE HARDBOILED FICTION OF CJ HENDERSON by CJ Henderson & Various; cover by Scott Hanna
Eleven tales of hate, despair, and runaway violence from today's premier writer of hardboiled fiction, novelist and Punisher/Batman scribe CJ Henderson! It's bounty hunters, sex addicts, vampires, and more, set against backdrops of revenge, defiance, and urban madness. This is the man Detective Story Magazine said "knows the mean streets around us today and makes them sing with the blood and sweat of life." Contributors include Fred Harper, Richard Clark, Trevor Von Eeden, and more! 
Soft Cover, 7x10, 96 pages, b&w $10.95

SLAMM! can be pre-ordered from the February PREVIEWS (available now). 
The Diamond Order Code is FEB042505.

Visit Moonstone Books on the web at http://www.moonstonebooks.com/
 

THE PHANTOM #3 
Written by Ben Raab, art by Nick Derington, colors by Ken Wolak, cover by Doug Klauba. 
"Curse of the Phantom," part 1 of 2. All aboard, as Green Lantern scribe Ben Raab blows past all the stops on this time-trippin' crazy-train adventure/ A great evil has haunted the Walker family for hundreds of years: Kua! Kua, the seven-foot-tall devil god stalks Kit Walker, the current Phantom, deep into the woods of Bangalla. Studying the words of his ancestors Kit does his detective work on what motivates this fiend to hate his family so, and also what methods were used to deceive them through the ages. Will he come to grips with this unfathomable mystery in time to save his life? 32 pages, $3.50. 

Both books will be solicited in the March PREVIEWS available February 25th. 
 

The primary focus of MYSTERY*FILE is not to be an up-to-date newsletter for the field, but a place where old and new works co-exist, where older mysteries can be brought up and discussed as well as those by the most recent hot authors, and where the careers of writers can be looked at in perspective.  MYSTERY*FILE is for those fans who love to read and talk about mysteries and series characters, and those who love to make checklists and those who love to have them, and if you can assist in  accomplishing any of these goals, then so much the better.

The efforts of a number of people helped produce each issue, and they'd appreciate your comments, both on their work and on the books and the movies they talk about.  Letters are not only accepted for publication, they are requested, if not demanded.

MYSTERY*FILE #41 is now available.
The first two pages of this issue can be read at http://users.ntplx.net/~lewis/Mfile.htm
The contents include:
LETTER COLUMN - You the readers.
FATAL KISS - Reviews by Steve Lewis
ADDENDA TO CRIME FICTION IV, Part 2, by Al Hubin
THE MYSTERY LIBRARY, by Robert E. Briney
FIRST YOU READ, THEN YOU WRITE - Mystery Commentary by Mike Nevins
THE DALY REPORT, by James Reasoner
DOROTHY B. HUGHES AND HOLLYWOOD, by Jeffrey Marks
THE CRIME OF MY LIFE, by Marv Lachman
Mystery MADness - Reviews by Maddie Van Hertbruggen
THE GOLD MEDAL CORNER, by Bill Crider
ANOTHER HAMMETT FIRST? by Richard Moore
REVIEWS - by Diverse Hands: Michelle Zafron, Nicole LeClerc, Alice Duberry, Kris Carabetta, and Sandi Loper-Herzog

MYSTERY*FILE is published approximately eight times a year (every six weeks) by
Steve Lewis, 62 Chestnut Road, Newington CT 06111. 
Subscriptions are available at $3.50 an issue, or four for $13 U.S.
Canada: $4.00 an issue, or four for $15
Overseas: $5.50 an issue, four for $21

The print can be pre-ordered from the February PREVIEWS (available now). 
The Diamond Order Code is FEB042709.

SHERLOCK HOLMES PURSUIT TO ALGIERS (1945) - Holmes and Watson learn that the King of a Ravenia has been assassinated and his son Nikolas is now a marked man. The great detective and his comrade are pressed into service to protect the life of the soon-to-be crowned monarch.

SHERLOCK HOLMES TERROR BY NIGHT (1946) - The action takes place on a speeding steam train racing from London to Edinburgh. Lady Margaret Carstairs possess a 423 karat diamond, known as the ‘Star of Rhodesia’ and her son employs Holmes to protect the priceless jewel until it reaches its home in Scotland.

SHERLOCK HOLMES: DRESSED TO KILL (1946) - Three identical musical boxes manufactured by an inmate at Dartmoor Prison are sold to three random collectors at an auction house in London. A female antagonist (Patricia Morison) and her accomplices attempt to recover the musical boxes using all means possible, even murder.

The retail price is $69.98.

The retail price of each DVD is $19.98.

The print can be pre-ordered from the February PREVIEWS (available now). 
Regular: Full Color, $20.00  The Diamond Order Code is  FEB042704F
Signed:  Full Color, $40.00  The Diamond Order Code is  FEB042705F

The print features the art used for the cover of THE SPIDER 70TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL.

The print can be pre-ordered from the February PREVIEWS (available now). 
The Diamond Order Code is FEB042707.
This is a resolicitation from last September.

Rumor is that they'll be released as a 4-disc set, with 3 movie discs (1 for each film) and a disc of bonus materials, much like last year's Indiana Jones Trilogy DVD release. Lucas has repeatedly said not to expect the original versions of the films on DVD, so it is anticipated that the release will be much-rumored "Archive Editions", which would basically be the Special Editions released in the 1990s, only with further tweaks, changes, enhancements and additions to bring them more into line with the new prequels. An official announcement is expected by May.

Three amazing tales in one spectacular issue! First, legendary creator Michael Kaluta teams with Alan Moore for a tour of the Golden Age of Millennium City! Next, in Part 1 of a 2-part story by Art Adams and Bruce Timm, Jonni Future faces off against Cancer Blue, a conglomeration of cyber-technology that has kidnapped Jermaal. Finally, on Attabar Teru, Young Tom Strong confronts ghosts from his past.

This is a 32 page  comic for $2.95

THE EFFICIENCY EXPERT by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Jimmy Torrance 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 of 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. . . .

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

This is a unique portrait of the early decades of British civil aviation as seen through the eyes of the men and women who knew it best. Ten veterans of this golden age of flying--pilots, navigators, stewardesses and station commanders--reminisce about the early days of air travel: silver-service meals above the African bush, booming radial engines, terrible turbulence and true seat-of-the-pants flying.

Abundantly illustrated with over 150 period posters, archive photos, and memorabilia, this is a wonderful work of nostalgia and a priceless piece of social history told by those who experienced it firsthand. Aurum, 2003. 
Hard Cover, 8x10, 186 pages, $29.95.

This book is now available from Bud Plant.

G-8 AND HIS BATTLE ACES #12 is solicited in the February PREVIEWS (available January 28th).
Request Diamond Item Code FEB042857
 

ARGOSYcan be pre-ordered from Mike Chomko for $13.
Orders over $30 are discounted 10% and shipped postpaid.
Orders under $30 are no discount and add $2 for shipping and handling.
Contact Mike at chomko@enter.net.
Michael Chomko, 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA  18104-6542 

Debuting to strong ratings, last month's broadcast of the two-part, four-hour BATTLESTAR GALACTICA mini-series earned the Sci Fi Channel its third highest ratings ever for a program. The second night of GALACTICA grabbed a larger share of the audience than the first night. Usually this kind of good news would be enough to launch the program into a full-fledged series but the show's high cost per episode is contributing to cold feet by Sci-Fi Channel suits. It's expected that all of the primary cast members from the mini-series will re-appear in the series version of GALACTICA. 

THE PULP WESTERN by John A. Dinan
THE PULP WESTERN was originally published by the Borgo Press in 1983 and is coming back in print. Fully illustrated, this classic book has been revised with additional material for this new edition. The release date is February 2nd.  THE PULP WESTERN will retail for $12.95 plus $2 shipping and handling. 

The earlier edition, 128 pages long, has long-served as a vital reference concerning the Western pulps. It features chapters on Western dime novels, hero and romance Western pulps, the writers, artists, and editors who worked for the Western pulps, and more. There are also an essays on WILD WEST WEEKLY, plotting the pulp Western story, and Westerns in Europe. Finally, there's autobiographical material from Elmer Kelton and B. M. Bower.

PRIVATE EYES IN THE COMICS by John A. Dinan
PRIVATE EYES IN THE COMICS is a reprint of a book originally published in 1989. It covers private-eye comic books through that year. Ever wondered what role the private eye played in comic books? Now you get your lesson: from master pulp historian John A. Dinan comes the first book on PIs in the Comics! A history and appreciation of the tough guy, the deadly dame and the dog in the trenchcoat. Illustrated.  PRIVATE EYES IN THE COMICS  retails for $14.95 plus $2 shipping and handling. 
 

PRIVATE EYELASHES by Jack French
PRIVATE EYELASHES is a book of lady detectives on radio. The release date is February 14th.  PRIVATE EYELASHES will retail for $16.95 plus $2 shipping and handling. 

THE PULP WESTERN and PRIVATE EYES IN THE COMICS are also available from Mike Chomko.
Orders over $30 are discounted 10% and shipped postpaid.
Orders under $30 are no discount and add $2 for shipping and handling.
Contact Mike at chomko@enter.net.
Michael Chomko, 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA  18104-6542 

Both titles can also be pre-ordered from Mike Chomko.
Orders over $30 are discounted 10% and shipped postpaid.
Orders under $30 are no discount and add $2 for shipping and handling.
Contact Mike at chomko@enter.net.
Michael Chomko, 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA  18104-6542 

Acknowledging that this year marks the 70th birthday of many notable pulp heroes (including Doc Savage, The Spider, G-8, The Phantom Detective, Nick Carter, and Pete Rice), BLOOD 'N' THUNDER #6 pays tribute to the great single-character magazines of yore.  In "Last Hurrahs," Mark Trost and Ed Hulse revisit the waning days of the classic hero titles, analyzing the final issues and commenting on the characters' evolutions (or lack of same). Noted pulp historian and novelist Will Murray makes his first appearance in BnT with "Dithering Over Doc," a slightly expanded version of his PEAPS article postulating that Doc Savage, Pete Rice, and the reconstituted Nick Carter might have been intended to make their pulp-page debuts the year before they actually did. Speaking of Nick, his dime-novel incarnation was believed by many readers to be a real person; this according to his creator, John Coryell, who reminisces about the Great Detective in an article we're reprinting from a 1918 issue of DETECTIVE STORY MAGAZINE. Our latest installment of "Tricks of the Trade" features a 1935 interview with Thrilling Group editor-in-chief Leo Marguiles—an interview conducted by Mort Weisinger, the SF fan who would become one of Leo's proteges in just a few years! And "Cliffhanger Classics" spotlights THE JUNGLE GODDESS, a phenomenally popular silent serial inspired by the stories of H. Rider Haggard and Edgar Rice Burroughs.
The BLOOD 'N' THUNDER website is at http://www.geocities.com/poppub/.

Soft cover, 156 pages, Full color, $15.95.

CONAN COLLECTOR PIN #3 is solicited in the February PREVIEWS (available January 28th).
Request Diamond Item Code FEB042615

PRELUDE TO ARMAGEDDON can also be pre-ordered from Mike Chomko.
Orders over $30 are discounted 10% and shipped postpaid.
Orders under $30 are no discount and add $2 for shipping and handling.
Contact Mike at chomko@enter.net.
Michael Chomko, 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA  18104-6542 

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:   Nothing new this week.

The Shrevnitz Memorial Library:
Coming Soon: The Phantom Detective in The Crime Castle  (December 1934)

Blackmask Online: 
Nothing new this week.

Larry Estep-Online Pulps:    Now with over 350 stories online!
Time Will Tell by Joe Archibald from THE PHANTOM DETECTIVE (September 1934) 
Mis-leading Lady by Mary Mason Beale from HOLLYWOOD LOVE ROMANCES (Spring 1939) 
Peace at Last by George Foxhall from RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE (February 1912) 
The Little Doc by Harrison Hendryx from THRILLING SPORTS (March 1940) 
Gray Magic by Lew York from  POPULAR FICTION MAGAZINE (January 1932) 

THE FANTASTIC WORLDS OF CLARK ASHTON SMITH (edited by James Van Hise) is 8 1/2 x 11, 192 pages with a full color front cover byFrank R. Paul (from WONDER STORIES illustrating The City of the Singing Flame) and full color back cover from the British pulp magazine TALES OF WONDER (also illustrating The City of the Singing Flame). Each book is $17.95 + $7.00 priority shipping or $3.00 media mail (overseas shipping will be more).

SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION: There will be a special hard cover edition (with dust jacket) limited to 500 copies. Pre-publication price is $75.00. A small portion of these will be signed editions (by one or more of the contributing artists, and the editor) and all pre-publication orders of the hard cover will receive the signed edition, which will be otherwise priced at $100.00 upon publication with the unsigned hard covers remaining at $75.00. All hardcover editions will include a special color print of vintage pulp art from a Clark Ashton Smith story (more information forthcoming).

Order from: James Van Hise, 57754 Onaga Trail, Yucca Valley, CA 92284. Email: Jimvanhise@aol.com

Girasol Collectables' US Agent, John DeWalt, will have our Replicas on hand as well as few other pulp related goodies. Don't miss it!

Email Girasol Collectables at: girasol@interlog.com for additional information.

Dark Horse has a free online issue of THE GOON #1 available for reading on their website at http://www.darkhorse.com/profile/preview.php?theid=12-592.

Thanks to Alan Hardy for the recommendation.

Future plans include at least six books collecting over 70 stories by Henry Kuttner.  DETOUR TO OTHERNESS, a collection of his best work, has already been announced.  Other collections include a horror collection edited by Stefan R. Dzienianowicz and Robert Morrish (Cemetery Dance), Fantasy Press-esque books collecting the Hollywood on the Moon series and the "Pete Manx" time traveling farces, and Kuttner's latter day mystery novels including Man Drowning.

The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson is currently projected at eight volumes (and growing).
There will be two more Leigh Brackett collections.

Stephen Haffner and Richard A. Hauptmann, Jack Williamson's bibliographer, have been working for the better part of three years on Seventy-Five: The Diamond Anniversary of a Science Fiction Pioneer - Jack Williamson.
This will be an oversized 600-page hardcover with excerpts from Jack's key novels, classic short stories and essays, plus four never before published stories from across Jack's amazing career.  It includes sidebars with over 300 illustrations and an 18-page full color reprint of his Beyond Mars Sunday comic strip.  Arthur C. Clarke and Connie Willis provide introductory material. 

CEMETERY DANCE MAGAZINE is available in better bookstores and from Cemetery Dance Publications.

JAMES BOND: OCTOPUSSY is solicited in the February PREVIEWS (available January 28th).
Request Diamond Item Code FEB042623
JAMES BOND: OCTOPUSSY can also be ordered from AmazonUK.

RAINBOWFANTASIA: 35 SPECTRUMATIC TALES OF WONDER
Selected and with notes by Forrest J Ackerman, Introduction by Anne Hardin
Trade paperback-$24.00            Hardcover-$40
562 pages, 6x9, paperback, illustrated, A massive anthology of wonderful re-discovered classic stories of the golden age of sci-fi and fantasy pulp fiction, many heretofore unavailable for decades. The selections in this anthology include stunning representatives of practically every type of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror represented in the pre-World War II era of speculative fiction. No anthology gives a better feel for or a more consistently higher caliber of golden age story telling in the genre. Each story has a color in its title, hence the anthology title, RAINBOWFANTASIA.

SCI-FI WOMANTHOLOGY edited by Forrest J Ackerman & Pam Keesey
372 pages, Includes Stories by Andre Norton, Catherine L. Moore, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, and many others. Includes a selection of annotated recommended readings chosen by Forrest J Ackerman and Pam Keesey.
Hardbound:  $34.95        Trade Paper:  $19.95

MARTIANTHOLOGY: Compiled by Forrest J Ackerman, Edited by Anne Hardin
302 pages, 6"x 9", illustrated    Trade Paper: $19.95    Trade Cloth:  $34.95
Years ago, when these stories were composed, life on Barsoom resided solely in the imaginations of certain special inhabitants of Jasoom (E.R. Burroughs-speak for Mars and Earth). This anthology captures the spirit of that "exploration"-long before a rocket from Earth had actually visited the fourth planet and shown it to be a sandy red surface pockmarked by meteor impacts and with no life-sustaining atmosphere.

ACKERMANTHOLOGY: 65 Astonishing Rediscovered Sc-Fi Shorts
Millennium Edition - edited by Forrest J Ackerman, foreword by John Landis
Trade Paper: $16.95      Trade Hardbound: $28.95
Stories by Isaac Asimov, Harry Bates, Ray Bradbury, H. L. Gold, A. Merritt, Catherine L. Moore, H. G. Wells, and more. A sold out wonder, now back-in-print! 

EXPANDED SCIENCE FICTION WORLDS OF FORREST J. ACKERMAN AND FRIENDS
Hardbound: $26.95     Trade Paper: $14.95
The newly expanded version of the long out of print classic is replete with even more of Forrest J Ackerman and his talented friends and collaborators. Joining such notable collaborators as Theodore Sturgeon and A. E. van Vogt are classic authors Catherine L. Moore,  Donald A. Wollheim, and more. Six new treats join the classic greats: Dwellers in the Dust; Micro-man; A Martian Oddity; Confessions of a Science Fiction Addict; The Big Sleep; Metropolis Ueber Alles; Burn, Witch, Burn!; And Then the Cover Was Bare; The Lure and Lore of the "Blind Spot"; In the Year 2012 with J.U. Giesy; Task of the Temponaut with Norbert F. Novotny; Yvala with Catherine L. Moore; The Cosmic Kidnappers with Christian Vallini; The Girl Who Wasn't There with Tigrina, William Nolan and Charles Fritch; The Atomic Monument with Theodore Sturgeon; Nyusa, Nymph of Darkness with Catherine L. Moore; Time to Change w Marcial Souto; Great Gog's Grave with Donald A. Wollheim; The Naughty Venusienne with Morgan Ives; Hollerbochen's Dilemma; It Came to Kill with Jack Jardine; Dhacthwu! Remember? with Robert A. W. Lowndes; Tarzan and the Golden Loin; Count Down to Doom with Charles Nuetzel; The Far-Out Philosopher of Science Fiction; The Lady Takes A Powder with Tigrina; Laugh Clone Laugh with A. E. van Vogt; When Frighthood was in Flower; The Record; The Man Who Was Thirsty; The House in the Twilight Zone; Letter to an Angel; The Radclyffe Effect

These titles can be order from James Rock Publishing at http://www.rockpublishing.com/ and Sense of Wonder Press, an imprint of James Rock Publishing, at http://www.senseofwonderpress.com/.

These titles are also now available from Mike Chomko.
Orders over $30 are discounted 10% and shipped postpaid.
Orders under $30 are no discount and add $2 for shipping and handling.
Contact Mike at chomko@enter.net.
Michael Chomko, 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA  18104-6542 

The Ship of Ishtar by A. Merritt -NEW!
All 6 parts as they originally appeared in ARGOSY ALL-STORY magazine for November 8, 1924 through December 13, 1924.  Includes full color covers and all the original pulp illustrations.
A Fighting Man of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. 
All 6 parts as they originally appeared in 1930 BLUE BOOK. Includes full color covers.
The Land of Hidden Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs. 
All 5 parts as they originally appeared in 1931 BLUE BOOK. Includes full color covers.
This volume includes 20 additional pages on ERB.
The Radio Planet by Ralph Milne Farley.
All 6 chapters as they originally appeared in 1926 ARGOSY. Includes full color covers.
The Planet of Peril by Otis Adelbert Kline.
All 6 chapters as they originally appeared in 1929 ARGOSY. Includes full color covers.

Each reprint is $25 plus shipping ($7 priority mail or $3 media mail).
Jim Van Hise, 57754 Onaga Trail, Yucca Valley, CA 91184. 
Check, money order or PayPal: Jimvanhise@aol.com

John Milius is reportedly still intent on getting the project off the ground, and that's even without original star Arnold Schwarzenegger. The most recent name branded about for the part of the older Conan is wrestler Triple H. 

THE MEMOIRS OF HORATIO HUMBERTON by J. Paul Suter, introduction by Robert Weinberg
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:  The Angel of the Damned, Eyes of the Dead, The Werewolf Horrors, The Mill of Horror, Seconds of Doom, Shoes for the Dead, Post Mortem, Dead and Buried, The Hairy Death, and 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."  The retail price of this 386-page book will be $50.

THE COMPLEAT ADVENTURES OF THE DEAN by Merle Constiner, introduction by Robert Weinberg
The Dean operates a fortune-telling business in a disreputable part of town. He is assisted in his adventures by Benton Matthews, a specialist in locks and guns. He also has the ear of Captain Kunkle, and grudgingly, the assistance of Lieutenant Malloy of the police department. Clients arrive with outrageous problems which generally lead to brilliant solutions. These nineteen unusual and unique stories will be published in THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES OF THE DEAN, by Merle Constiner and introduced by Robert Weinberg. They were originally published in DIME DETECTIVE MAGAZINE from August 1940 through December 1945. A folio-sized hardcover, this "Lost Treasure from the Pulps" will retail for $75.

THE COMPLEAT ADVENTURES OF BILL BRENT by Frederick C. Davis, introduction by Robert Weinberg
Bill Brent works for a newspaper, and as punishment he is assigned the "Lorna Lorne's Lost Lover's Advice Column" by his editor. However, inquiries for advise addressed to Lorna often result in misadventures, murder, and mayhem. The fifteen stories to be published in THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES OF BILL BRENT, by Frederick C. Davis, introduced by Robert Weinberg, were originally published in DIME DETECTIVE MAGAZINE from May 1941 through June 1946. A folio-sized hardcover, this "Lost Treasure from the Pulps" will retail for $75.

Several new titles have been added to the LOST TREASURES FROM THE PULPS series for later in 2004. 
Coming up are:  THE COMPLEAT MOON MAN by Frederick C. Davis - which will include all of the Moon Man stories ever published  and THE MAGICAL MYSTERIES OF DON DIAVOLO by Clayton Rawson - authorized by the Rawson estate, this volume will include the four very scarce Don Diavolo novels from the pulps as well as Rawson's five other pulp detective short stories.  Making it a true collector's item, BSDB hopes to have a new introduction for the book by Clayton Rawson's son.

Mike Chomko is now accepting pre-orders for all three of these volumes.
Orders over $30 are discounted 10% and shipped postpaid.
Contact Mike at chomko@enter.net to reserve yours today.
Michael Chomko, 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA  18104-6542 

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. 

The first Pulp Rack e-text!  A story by Lemuel De Bra, "In Shanghai Alley," from the June 1930 issue of TRIPLE-X MAGAZINE.  Again, this is provided thanks to the generous John Locke.
You'll find the story at this URL: http://pulprack.com/index5.html

STRANGE TALEScan also be ordered from Mike Chomko.
Orders over $30 are discounted 10% and shipped postpaid.
Orders under $30 are no discount and add $2 for shipping and handling.
Contact Mike at chomko@enter.net.
Michael Chomko, 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA  18104-6542 

THE PEOPLE THAT TIME FORGOT by Edgar Rice Burroughs
I am forced to admit that even though I had traveled a long distance to place Bowen Tyler's manuscript in the hands of his father, I was still a trifle skeptical as to its sincerity, since I could not but recall that it had not been many years since Bowen had been one of the most notorious practical jokers of his alma mater. The truth was that as I sat in the Tyler library at Santa Monica I commenced to feel a trifle foolish and to wish that I had merely forwarded the manuscript by express instead of bearing it personally, for I confess that I do not enjoy being laughed at. I have a well-developed sense of humor -- when the joke is not on me.

Mr. Tyler, Sr., was expected almost hourly. The last steamer in from Honolulu had brought information of the date of the expected sailing of his yacht Toreador, which was now twenty-four hours overdue. Mr. Tyler's assistant secretary, who had been left at home, assured me that there was no doubt but that the Toreador had sailed as promised, since he knew his employer well enough to be positive that nothing short of an act of God would prevent his doing what he had planned to do. I was also aware of the fact that the sending apparatus of the Toreador's wireless equipment was sealed, and that it would only be used in event of dire necessity. There was, therefore, nothing to do but wait . . .

136 pages, Trade Hardcover, ISBN: 1-59224-577-3, $26.95

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

HIGH ADVENTURE #75 features The Green Lama in Crosesus of Murder. (March 2004)
HIGH ADVENTURE #76 features Ki-Gor in The Sword of Sheba and Lost Priestess of the Nile. (May 2004)
HIGH ADVENTURE #77 features the Green Ghost in The Case of the Clumsy Cat.  (July 2004)

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

G-8 AND HIS BATTLE ACES #12 features The Panther Squadron. (April 2004)
G-8 AND HIS BATTLE ACES #13 features The Spider Staffel. (July 2004)

Win-Place-and Show by Roger Torrey, BLACK MASK, May 1935
The Corpse in the Doorway by James H. S. Moynahan, DIME DETECTIVE MAGAZINE, January 1st, 1934
Guiana Trap by Tom Curry, DIME ADVENTURE MAGAZINE, October 1935
Death Dines Out by Paul Ernst, DIME MYSTERY MAGAZINE, January 1936
A Death in the Family by R.D. Torrey, DIME DETECTIVE MAGAZINE, June 1st,1934

Thanks to John Locke for passing along this information.

"Greetings from the dead," declares Maxwell Broadbent on the videotape he left behind after his mysterious disappearance. A notorious treasure hunter and tomb robber, Broadbent accumulated over a half a billion dollars' worth of priceless art, gems, and artifacts before vanishing---along with his entire collection---from his mansion in New Mexico.

At first, robbery is suspected, but the truth proves far stranger: As a final challenge to his three sons, Broadbent has buried himself and his treasure somewhere in the world, hidden away like an ancient Egyptian pharaoh. If the sons wish to claim their fabulous inheritance, they must find their father's carefully concealed tomb.

The race is on, but the three brothers are not the only ones competing for the treasure. This secret is so astounding it cannot be kept quiet for long. With half a billion dollars at stake, as well as an ancient Mayan codex that may hold a cure for cancer and other deadly diseases, others soon join the hunt---and some of them will stop at nothing to claim the grave goods.

THE CODEX (ISBN: 0765307006) is a 400 page hardcover from Forge Books for $24.95. 

In the aftermath of The Frost Giant's Daughter, Conan heads into battle with the men of Asgard, never suspecting the treachery they hold in store for him, nor the horror coming down from Hyperborea. Dark Horse's new interpretation of Robert E. Howard's greatest creation. 32 pages, $2.99, in stores on April 28.

This comic will be solicited in the February PREVIEWS available on January 28th.

This collection will be available on February 3rd.  You can pre-order it now for $74.96 (25% off the retail price). 
Visit the Kino Video website to take advantage of this special offer on a great collection of classic films.
Thanks to John Locke for the tip on this collection.

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:  Terror Takes Seven (September 1945)

The Shrevnitz Memorial Library:
Coming Soon: The Phantom Detective in The Crime Castle  (December 1934)

Blackmask Online: 
Nothing new this week.

Larry Estep-Online Pulps:    Now with over 350 stories online!
Pell Street Blues by Achmed Abdullah from THE BLUE BOOK MAGAZINE (March 1935)
Rough Toss by George Allan England from COMPLETE STORIES (May 15th, 1932) 
Whipped by Peter Grant from SPICY WESTERN STORIES (November 1936) 
The Wild Whampoo of the Whampolo by Thomas Thursday from BLUE RIBBON SPORTS (December, 1937) 
Dicks Die Hard by Theodore Tinsley from GOLD SEAL DETECTIVE (March 1936) 

Master of Elusion, foe of tyranny, and champion of liberation--The Escapist. Operating from a secret headquarters under the boards of the majestic Empire Theater, the Escapist and his crack team of charismatic associates roam the globe, performing amazing feats of magic to aid all those who languish in oppression's chains. The history of his creators, Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay, was recently chronicled in Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. The best of the Escapist's adventures are now collected into one volume. 

This volume of Michael Chabon Presents...The Amazing Adventures of The Escapist collects the first two issues of the comic book and features an original story penned by Michael Chabon, the comics debut of novelist Glen David Gold, a new story written and drawn by Howard Chaykin, the painted artwork of Bill Sienkiewicz, and a wraparound cover by Chris Ware. 

152 pages, $17.95, in stores on April 28.
This trade paperback will be solicited in the February PREVIEWS available on January 28th.

FEARLESS, based on a series of books by Francine Pascal, starred Rachael Leigh Cook (SHE'S ALL THAT) as a young FBI agent genetically incapable of feeling fear. The chief criticism of the series was that Cook's character came off more affectless than fearless.

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.

You can order online at the Things From Another World website.

Update:  Warner Bros. has now officially announced the DVD release of The Flintstones: Season One for 3/16!  The 4-disc set will SRP for $64.92 and will feature all the episodes in their original full frame aspect ratio with Dolby Digital mono audio.

Hounds Of Hell by Ron Fortier & Gordon Linzner with spot illustrations provided by Rob Davis, Jim Schumaker and Bradley Walton is a classic pulp tale in 29 chapters.  Chapter 19, Friend Against Friend, is now available on the Modern Pulp website. Visit the Modern Pulp website at http://www.modernpulp.com/ to read this new adventure.

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

Giants from Eternity was first published in the July, 1939 issue of STARTLING STORIES.
Strangers on the Heights was first published in the Summer 1944 issue of STARTLING STORIES.

Price is $10.02 plus postage (Paperback)
Download is $2.00 and CD is $7.00

Order from Lulu Books at http://books.lulu.com/content/30204

Visit Tom Johnson's website at http://www15.brinkster.com/jur1/index.html for information on Tom's other novels including the first three novels in the Jur series, Jur: A Story of Pre-Dawn Earth (with James Reasoner), Savage Land of Jur, and Lost Land of Jur.

Nemesis Magazine #1: Featuring Gun Moll, Undercover Nemesis of Crime
A NEW1930s PULP MAGAZINE! Here is a real thrill for lovers of The Shadow, Doc Savage, The Spider, Operator 5, and other crime-fighting heroes of the heyday of the pulp adventure magazine. NEMESIS MAGAZINE #1 stars the gun-blazing exploits of Gun Moll, the coldly beautiful Undercover Nemesis of Crime. In Tentacles of Evil, Gun Moll uncovers a plot in which the virtue of innocent, young girls is traded in a devilish bargain for the riches of the Orient. Gun Moll vows to bring the fight back from the streets of New York and carry it straight into the Chinatown stronghold of Dr. Sin Lo, a fiendish super-genius who spins a web of crime and intrigue designed to bring the future of civilization itself into his clutches. Her brain constantly working behind an expressionless face like a white, porcelain mask, Gun Moll calls upon the help of Rocky Brannigan, the gangster warlord; Jingles, her loyal, brutish chauffeur; Flynn, the uncompromising old cop who dotes on her like a daughter; Calpurnia, her feisty maid; and the debased slave girls of Sin Lo’s opium den to concoct a plan that will save the ancient celestial’s victims from the burning curse of a fate worse than death, and utterly destroy the vile cult of evil along with the black-hearted Master whose hand guides it. With only her wits, icy determination, and blazing automatics to rely on, the stunning undercover ace thrusts herself directly into a maelstrom of corruption where she must face dismemberment in the shackles of a clockwork torture device, battle for her life against the slavering jaws of ravenous rats, and risk defilement as a slave of the Master of Evil. In the mysterious dens of old Chinatown. Here is the first of Gun Moll’s no-holds-barred battles with the Dr. Sin Lo to save the world from being strangled by his Tentacles of Evil! Plus A Nick Bancroft mystery by Bob Liter, "The Greensox Murders" by Jean Marie Stine, and a classic mystery short reprinted from the heyday of the pulps. Cover: Stephen Adams.  The price is $3.99.  Click here to read a sample chapter.

Fox Red: The Classic Adventures of Grace Culver, PI by Roswell Brown
THE FAST-ACTING, QUICK THINKING 1930S WOMAN PRIVATE EYE IS BACK! A generation or two ago, strong female private detectives were few and far between. Grace Culver of the Noonan Detective Agency is one of those few, and this red-headed investigative dynamo was (literarily) ahead of her time. Grace doesn't cower in the corner, waiting for some he-man to rescue her. She takes charge when she is on a case. Smart, cute, and full of fire, Grace Culver was a ground-breaking heroine who paved the way for today's female private eyes, such as Kinsey Millhone. The six stories in this collection are among the best of the Grace Culver adventures – but there are those who say that the best is yet to come. The price is $4.  Click here to read a sample chapter.

The Eyes of the Shadow: The Shadow #2 by Maxwell Grant
THE KILLER APE AND THE SHADOW The Second mesmerizing novel in the bestselling series. The Shadow, that mysterious avenger of crime and guardian of the innocent, returns – eyes blazing from beneath the brim of his slouch hat, twin automatics blazing bullets at mobsmen and criminal masterminds. When a young man inherits a box containing a fortune in jewels from his uncle, he discovers he is to guard it until the rightful owners appear. But an unscrupulous schemer has learned of the jewels. And aided by both elements of the underworld and a hideous man-ape, the schemer plots the young man's death. Alone in the world and unaware of the deadly forces leagued against him, the naïve young heir is all to vulnerable to trickery, treachery, and assassination. But, little does either he or his hidden enemy dream that a pair of eyes watch protectively, prepared to oppose evil even if it means death – the eyes of the Shadow!  The price is $3.99.  Click here to read a sample chapter.

The Lone Wolf Omnibus: All Four Original Novels Featuring the Sophisticated Jewel Thief by Louis Joseph Vance
THRILLING EXPLOITS OF THE FAMOUS GENTLEMAN CAT BURGLAR Louis Joseph Vance's gentleman jewel thief's rule of working alone gave him the name "Lone Wolf" and the world a new expression in 1914 when the first adventures of Michael Lanyard appeared. Now you can read the first four Lone Wolf novels in one omnibus ebook. In the Lone Wolf rival members of the underworld, jealous of his profits and success, threaten to reveal Lanyard's identity unless he surrenders his independence and joins their "pack." Instead, they cause Lanyard to see his life through new eyes, and he determines to quit his life of crime, only to find the way blocked by his newly discovered love for the dauntless Lucy Shannon. In the False Faces, Germany's sinking of a passenger ship brings Lanyard out of retirement to battle an enemy spy ring. In Alias the Lone Wolf, the reformed thief pits his wits against a ruthless schemer to save an innocent man who has been framed for an infamous jewel theft. And in Red Masquerade, the Lone Wolf's mortal enemy plots to strike at Lanyard through his daughter, without realizing just how much of her father's courage and daring she has inherited. "Entertaining from the first page to the last." New York World, Over 1200 pages in hardcover! First time ever in one ebook. The price is $5.99.  Click here to read a sample chapter.
 

The movie and book follows adventurer Dirk Pitt (Matthew McConaughey) who along with a beautiful UN investigator (Penelope Cruz) and his sidekick (Steve Zahn) must stop a dangerous threat in Africa to the world's oceanic ecosystems.

Be sure to report back to SkyCaptain.com every week as another new desktop image is revealed.  Additional content including the first official screensaver, winamp and windows media skins will be appearing soon. 

The December issue of British entertainment magazine HOTDOG has hit the stands in the U.S., and TheForce.net reports on this passage about Chewbacca actor Peter Mayhew: "No wonder Peter 'Chewbacca' Mayhew is smiling. Not only has he been rescued from obscurity and given the chance to reprise his role as our Wookiee comrade for Episode III, but his contract also stipulates that he'd be required to appear in Episodes 7, 8, and 9."
Stay tuned to TheForce.net for the latest on the sequel rumors.

Price: $12.50

Visit the Wildside Press website to order.

Also streeting on that day will be the Frankenstein: The Legacy Collection, another 2-disc set including Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein and Son of Frankenstein on Disc One, with Ghost of Frankenstein and House of Frankenstein on Disc Two.

Not done yet - you'll also see the 2-disc The Wolf Man: The Legacy Collection on 4/27, which will include The Wolf Man and Werewolf of London on Disc One, and Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman and She-Wolf of London on Disc Two. The SRP on each of these collections will be $26.98.

Finally, 4/27 will also see the release of The Monster Legacy Gift Set 6-disc set (SRP $79.98), which will include all three of the above Legacy collection discs, along with collectible Dracula, Frankenstein and Wolf Man figurines in a boxed set.

THE DEVIL OF HARBOR CITY:  Frank Devlin, aka The Devil, first seen in the pages of various Fading Shadows magazines, has returned in a new edition of THE DEVIL OF HARBOR CITY. This is available in trade paperback, CD-Rom or can be downloaded directly. Writen by John L. French and published by Wild Cat Books. 

BRONZE WAVES:  The Radio Exploits Of Doc Savage from 1934!  All 14 known episodes collected here for your enjoyment!  This is available in trade paperback, CD-Rom or can be downloaded directly. 

Both titles are available from the Wild Cat bookstore at http://my.lulu.com/wildcatbooks

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

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

TARZAN AND THE JEWELS OF OPAR by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Here Tarzan returns to Opar, the source of the gold for lost Atlantis. Ages ago Atlantis sunk beneath the waves -- but the denizens of Opar still mine the gold of this lost colony. Tarzan, following greedy pair -- one Belgian, one Arab -- into the jungle, where they stumble into the lost city. Bad enough -- and then Tarzan injures his head in a fight and loses his memory. That's great news for La, the high priestess for the Flaming God, who's had a serious crush on the apeman since their first encounter. But the priests who work for her have other ideas: they don't intend to allow Tarzan to escape their sacrificial knives a second time. . . .

248 pages 
Trade Paperback, ISBN: 0-8095-9980-5, $19.95
Library (jacketless) hardcover ISBN: 1-59224-959-0, $29.95 

THE ETERNAL SAVAGE by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan is featured in this story that is truly about Nu. "Nu, the son of Nu, his mighty muscles rolling beneath his smooth bronzed skin, moved silently through the jungle primeval. His handsome head with its shock of black hair, roughly cropped between sharpened stones, was high held, the delicate nostrils questioning each vagrant breeze for word of Oo, hunter of men.

"Now his trained senses catch the familiar odor of Ta, the great woolly rhinoceros, directly in his path, but Nu, the son of Nu, does not hunt Ta this day. Does not the hide of Ta's brother already hang before the entrance of Nu's cave? No, today Nu hunts the gigantic cat, the fierce saber-toothed tiger, Oo, for Nat-ul, wondrous daughter of old Tha, will mate with none but the mightiest of hunters.[R] Only so recently as the last darkness, as, beneath the great, equatorial moon, the two had walked hand in hand beside the restless sea she had made it quite plain to Nu, the son of Nu, that not even he, son of the chief of chiefs, could claim her unless there hung at the thong of his loin cloth the fangs of Oo."

268 pages, Trade Hardcover,  ISBN: 1-59224-571-4,  $32.95

TIME FOR SHERLOCK HOLMES by David Dvorkin
Sherlock Holmes wanted to retire . . .
When Holmes gives up the adventurous life of a consulting detective and retires to the Sussex countryside to raise bees, little does he or his old friend Dr. John Watson realize that their greatest adventures lies ahead--an adventure spanning centuries and extending across the solar system . . . for nothing less than human civilization lies at state as Sherlock Holmes finds himself moving inexorably toward the final and most terrible confrontation with his ancient enemy, the time-jumping Napoleon of crime, Professor Moriarty!
"Delightfully preposterous . . . a lot of fun!" -- The Republic

"Professor Moriarty, once reported dead, but now rejuventated by the Time Machine which Moriarty has swiped from H.G. Wells' time traveler . . . Doyle to H.G. Wells to Dvorkin . . . nice triple play!" -- The New York Times 

192 page Trade paperback, ISBN: 1-58715-073-5, $15.95

TALES OF TERROR: BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH by Julian Hawthorne, Editor
In the first decade of the twentieth century, Julian Hawthorne -- son of Nathaniel Hawthorne and not only a talented writer in his own right, but a writer who spent his entire life proving himself, over and over again -- in the first decade of the twentieth century, Julian Hawthorne collected his favorite weird stories from writers around the world and organized them, mostly geographically, for Scribners -- which published them in a series of "mystery" anthologies under the "Lock and Key Library" rubric. More rightly, the anthologies are Weird Fiction -- some of the stories are mystery; some would do well published as modern horror, or SF, or fantasy; all of them exquisite and of interest to modern genre readers.

"Tales of Terror: Between Heaven and the Earth" was published as the Old-Time English Writers volume. It includes stories from early nineteenth century Britain's masters of the weird, including Charles Dickens, Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Charles Robert Maturin, and William Makepeace Thackeray.

296 pages
Trade paperback, ISBN: 1-58715-984-8, $19.95
Library (jacketless) Hardcover, ISBN: 1-58715-985-6, $29.95

GRAVEDIGGER features the hard-boiled adventures of "Digger" McCrae, alias Gravedigger, who is a professional thief, with the emphasis on professional. GRAVEDIGGER is written by Christopher Mills and illustrated by Rick Burchett.

PERILS ON PLANET X is a swashbuckling adventure on a lost planet... join Colonel Donovan Hawke as he travels through time and space to the ancient world of Xylos – home of vicious reptilian predators, ruthless strato-pirates, beautiful princesses, and fantastic dangers!  PERILS ON PLANET X is written by Christopher Mills and illustrated by John Plante.

Both strips were once on the discontinued Adventure Strips website.
The Atomic Pulp website is located at http://www.atomicpulp.com.

If you are a Perry Mason fan, a Star Trek fan, or just looking for something a little different, you can't go wrong spending a few hours devouring this book. This is a 288 page mass market paperpack for $6.99.
It is available in bookstores everywhere or from Amazon.com.

You may also want to checkout the first novel by Ingersoll and Isabella, CAPTAIN AMERICA: LIBERTY'S TORCH.
It features spot illustrations by Mike Zeck and a killer cover by Jim Steranko!

Dark Horse also announced that sales of the Chronicles of Conan graphic novel collections were holding steady. The first volume was the number one selling graphic novel in October, 2003; volume II has just been released, with the third volume at the printers and the fourth volume finishing up production. 
 

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 Wee Ones (August 1945)

The Shrevnitz Memorial Library:
Coming Soon: The Phantom Detective in The Crime Castle  (December 1934)

Blackmask Online: 
Doc Savage in The Wee Ones (August 1945) and King Joe Cay (July 1945)

Larry Estep-Online Pulps:    Now with over 350 stories online!
Sleuth Girl by Don George from TEN DETECTIVE ACES (June 1939) 
Night Scene by Jerome Severs Perry from SPICY DETECTIVE STORIES (May 1935) 
Pallid Mistress by [4 pages, 500K] William B. Rainey from SPICY DETECTIVE STORIES (June 1942) 
Leaf of the Lotus by Guy Russell from SPICY ADVENTURE STORIES (May 1937) 
Hail, the Professor by Thomas Thursday from TOP-NOTCH ( September 1, 1921) 

The July 2003 issue of ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE featured a cover by Norm Saunders which
Tim Cottrill identified as coming from DETECTIVE TALES, October 1952. 

There is a 2004 ERB Serial Wall Calendar for $16.99.  The high quality calendar is printed on glossy 100 lb text weight paper. It measure 8.5" x 11" when folded, and 11" x 17" when hanging on your wall.

There are T-shirts with Burroughs cover art images on the front.  They come in short sleeve and long sleeve with lots of sizes to fit everyone, including toddlers!  Prices range from $9.99 to $20.99.

There are hooded shirts and sweatshirts with Burroughs cover art images on the front.  They come in plenty of sizes to fit most everyone!  The price is $26.99.

There is underware with Burroughs cover art images on the front.  Now you can wear your very own Burroughs thong!  For those less adventurous, there are boxers and camisoles for the ladies.  They come in plenty of sizes to fit most everyone!  The price are $8.99 for thongs, $13.99 for boxers, and $16.99 for camisoles.

There are two mugs, a stein, and a stainless steel travel mug with Burroughs cover art images on the front. 

There is a Tarzan of the Apes ornament ($5.99). 

There is a series of journals ($9.49) and a small Tarzan of the Apes poster ($15.99). 

ERBville Press has something available for everyone!

This week, Barry Kitson announced that "For the immediate future I'm concentrating on a major JSA miniseries written by Kevin Anderson which will give me the opportunity to draw all the original JSAers for the first time and allow me to work again with Senior Editor Peter Tomasi."

Sources at DC indicate that JSA: Lord Dynamo may get a name change, but is targeted for a late summer start.

Now you can read the introduction to the story on the authors website at http://www.jamesrollins.com/books/ss/ss_intro.html

Here's how Moonstone describes the property: 
"I Love a Mystery featured three memorable rough-and-tumble seekers of fun, mayhem and adventure; Jack, Doc and Reggie. A combination of the Three Musketeers and Robin Hood all rolled into one, the three considered themselves Soldiers of Fortune with a difference, ones with a conscience and a morality to adhere to. The three had originally met while fighting for the losing side during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, but they united again stateside after surviving that conflict against seemingly impossible odds. 

"In the carefree early days the stories were basically rough and tumble pulp action stories as the trio literally stumbled into adventure just for the fun of it. As Jack put it, 'We simply weren't cut out for regular working hours, we like to move around too much.' Later, the emphasis was more on mystery, adventure, and the supernatural as the trio took on clients and opened the A-1 Detective Agency in Hollywood; Doc hires Jerry Booker, as the A-1's super-scrumptious spunky secretary/co-adventurer." 

Visit the Renaissance Book website for a complete contents listing and a sample chapter.

While in Cross Plains Bob will be giving the keynote address at the annual Howard Days Banquet, a 20 minute speech entitled “Sacred Ground: My Life With Robert E. Howard”. He’ll also be sitting on several panels expounding on all things Howard, and several of his Howard books will be available at the Robert E. Howard museum for you to purchase and get signed. It’s not every day that Howard fans get to meet and mingle with such a longstanding icon of Howard fandom. 2004 is shaping up to be the best Howard Days ever, with more to see and do than ever before, so be sure to make your reservations early.

In anticipation of Bob’s forthcoming appearance, Project Pride presents here a comprehensive interview conducted especially for this occasion. See y’all in June!  http://www.rehupa.com/weinberg_interview.htm

It contains A Horror in the Night, a fight story by Robert E. Howard, black-and-white illustrations by Stephen Fabian, and several articles by Howard experts. Editor Damon Sasser writes: "the contents of this issue were assembled in 1984 and very nearly published." Due to a cash crunch and "life happening," the issue was put in a box until published in late 2003. Sasser hopes to publish more issues in the future. 

REH: Two Gun Raconteur #5 is 32 pages for $9.50 plus shipping.
It is available from Vintage Library.

BROTHER GRIM: Sworn enemy of the Port Nocturne underworld, the skull-visaged BROTHER GRIM wages an 
unrelenting war against the weird menaces and super-criminals that are beyond the reach of mortal law, dealing blazing justice from the barrels of twin, silver-plated automatics.  BROTHER GRIM is by Ron Fortier, Christopher Mills, and Delfin Barral.

FEMME NOIR features Femme Noir, a very private private eye who works the mean streets and bloody alleys of a city where crime and corruption are the status quo and the nights seem to last forever. Take a midnight stroll down the rain-slick streets of Port Nocturne, where the acrid scent of gunpowder hangs in the air like cheap perfume, where every dark alley comes to a dead end, and justice is blonde!   FEMME NOIR is written by Christopher Mills and illustrated by Joe Staton.

Also featured on the website are are SUPERNATURAL CRIME and NIGHTMARK.

SUPERNATURAL CRIME also features Femme Noir in a comic strip written by Christopher Mills and illustrated by Dario Carrasco.

NIGHTMARK is GIDEON KING, a former New York City cop and wounded Spanish Civil War veteran turned Boston private eye.  This is a hard-boiled detective/horror fiction hybrid comic series in the pulp tradition. NIGHTMARK is written and toned by Christopher Mills and illustrated by Darren Goodhart

Four well done comic strips in the pulp tradition that I think you will enjoy!
The site is located at http://www.supernaturalcrime.com.

To order, go to 
http://www.wildsidepress.com/cgi-bin/miva?Merchant2/merchant.mv+Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=
WP1&Category_Code=pulpreprints
 

Wildside Press has also announced that they will collecting all six issues of Robert Weinberg's long out of print fanzine, The Weird Tales Collector, in one volume. 

The convention features a Pulp Film Festival, Art Room (1900-2004) for sale & display, a Huge Showroom for Dealers with 100+ tables, Autograph Sessions, an Auction, a Hospitality Suite, Guests & more! 
This year SF author/editor/agent FREDERIK POHL will be a guest with more guests to be announced.

The show will be held at:
THE RAMADA PLAZA CHICAGO NORTHWEST (The Purple Hotel)
4500 West Touhy Avenue
Lincolnwood, IL 60712

Visit the shows website at http://webpages.charter.net/pulpadventures/show/ for all the latest information.
Don't miss out on one of the best shows of the year!

The first film's director Martin Campbell and stars Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Anthony Hopkins will be back.  Banderas recently said that "The script is fantastic. Way better than the first one. Everyone will be back." Explaining how Hopkins' character Don Diego will appear, he added that the film "has a supernatural element. He has a lot more to tell me."

The retail price is $19.99
Order from Entertainment Earth.

Universal will re-issue Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Epic Series on 2/10 in new packaging. The inner digipak packaging will now be contained in a smaller slipcase or box that actually fits on your video shelf, rather than the oversized "Cylon helmet" box that's available in stores now. 

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:  King Joe Cay (July 1945)
In addition, the following Doc PDF's that were previously posted, but taken down because of space limits on the old site were uploaded: 086 The Evil Gnome, 087 The Boss of Terror, 088 The Awful Egg, 089 The Flying Goblin, 090 Tunnel Terror, 091 The Purple Dragon, 092 Devils of the Deep, 093 The Awful Dynasty, 094 The Men Vanished, 095 The Devil's Playground, 096 Bequest of Evil, 097 The All-White Elf, 098 The Golden Man, 099 The Pink Lady

The Shrevnitz Memorial Library:
Coming Soon: The Phantom Detective in The Crime Castle  (December 1934)

Blackmask Online: 
The Shadow in Crime County from September 1, 1940
Jimgrim in Affair in Araby by Talbot Mundy

Larry Estep-Online Pulps:    Now with over 350 stories online!
Knife in the Dark by Robert Leslie Bellem from G-MEN DETECTIVE (January, 1949)
Thirty Days on the Island by Raymond J. Brown from ARGOSY (January 3, 1920)
The High-Powerd Corpse by E. C. Marshall from TEN DETECTIVE ACES (June, 1946) 
Coogan's Last Run by Frank L. Packard from TOP-NOTCH (February 1, 1918) 
When Sky Crooks Fall Out by Raoul Whitfield from FLYING STORIES (April, 1929 )

BEHIND THE MASK #67 featuring:
  Sword of Gimshai by Joseph W. Musgrave
  Madman's Trek by Walt Sheldon
  The Fangs of Umkuku by Harlin Messer
  The Crocodile's Saint by Edgar Wallace
  Cover by Ron Wilber

DETECTIVE MYSTERY STORIES #44  featuring Sioux City Sue Sings the Blues by A. B. Larson, Pto Bono by Gerald Browning, Murder Culinaire by Suzanne M. Harding, Deep Six by Ed Lynskey, Pictures by Kenneth M. Austin, Charley Chan, Inc by Anastasia Voight, Four Hours by P. J. Schaefer, Paid in Full by Robert S. Burch, The Fourth Victim by Guy Belleranti, A Hard Headed Detective by Ricky D. Cooper, Evil under the Sun by Lawrence Harvey, and a cover by Ron Wilber.

Click here or on the images to the right for a look at larger cover images.

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

Pulp Replicas now 3 a month! 
Due to the increased demand, Girasol Collectables is pleased to announce that there will be 3 Replicas a month instead of 2. Free up some shelf space! We're tempted to look back on 2003 proudly, but have decided instead to offer even more in '04.

Starting the New Year off with a 'Ka-chow' instead of a Bang is another SPICY DETECTIVE, Sept/35 ($25), featuring not only Dan Turner, but a terrific HJ Ward cover as well. January's Replicas include another early Shadow, June 1/34 The Key ($25), which has not been reprinted in paperback to our knowledge. And rounding out the New Year's reading is another bedsheet WEIRD TALES issue ($35), April/24 with a Houdini story and feature.

The Monthly Special is all 3 for $75, a savings of $10!  As always, the Replica price includes airmail shipping within North America. For outside North America, contact us for additional shipping costs.

We are frequently asked for 'hints' about upcoming Replicas... so here are a few! SPICY MYSTERY Fangs of the Bat. The first Dan Turner. THE SPIDER. TERROR TALES. Plus a few unusual one-shot issues. Our best wishes to everybody for the New Year!"

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)
The Crime Clinic (12/01/33)
Gray Fist  (02/15/34)
The Green Box  (03/15/34)
The Key (06/01/34)
The Plot Master (02/01/35)
Bells of Doom (03/15/35)
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) 

THE SPIDER  ($35 each postpaid within North America)
#1 - The Spider Strikes! (October 1933)

SPICY ADVENTURE  ($25 each postpaid within North America)
#8   (May 1935) featuring a Great Middle Eastern motif cover
#26 (November 1936)

SPICY DETECTIVE  ($25 each postpaid within North America)
#10 (February 1935)
#17 (September 1935) featuring Dan Turner and a terrific HJ Ward cover 
#30 (October 1936) featuring an incredible, truly classic HJ Ward cover
#76 (August 1940) featuring a great HJ Ward cover, Dan Turner, Eel stories

SPICY MYSTERY  ($25 each postpaid within North America)
#3   (July 1935) featuring a nice Parkhurst cover
#4   (August 1935)
#10 (February 1936) featuring 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)
#1 - September 1931
#2 - November 1931
#3 - January 1932: Wolves of Darkness
#4 - March 1932
#5 - June 1932 
#6 - October 1932: Famous 'Worm Monster' cover
#7 - 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
April 1924: WEIRD TALES #12

Email Girasol Collectables at: girasol@interlog.com.
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



 
 

FORTHCOMING TITLES 
THE SWORD OF ZAGAN AND OTHER WRITINGS By Clark Ashton Smith
January 2004: ISBN 0-9721644-5-6: Paper: $15.00
This is a new volume of previously unpublished writings by the young Clark Ashton Smith. The volume will 
contain his recently discovered fantasy/adventure novel THE SWORD OF ZAGAN, plus never-before seen short stories, poems and fragments. Edited by Dr. W. C. Farmer, a close friend of Clark Ashton Smith in his later years, this volume will be a must-have for Smith fans and those who thrilled to THE BLACK DIAMONDS.

The lost pages from THE BLACK DIAMONDS have been found and are now downloadable as a pdf file on the Hippocampus Press website. 

COLLECTED ESSAYS, VOLUME 1: AMATEUR JOURNALISM by H. P. Lovecraft
Edited by S. T. Joshi  and scheduled for March 2004
Cloth: ISBN 0-9721644-1-3: $40.00         Paper: ISBN 0-9721644-2-1: $20.00
Discovering the amateur press in 1914, Lovecraft immediately flooded the many small papers of his friends and colleagues with contributions discussing the nature, purpose, and future of amateur journalism. He also edited his own magazine, The Conservative (1915-23), filling it with additional essays. In these articles Lovecraft discusses the conflict between the United and the National Amateur Press Associations; the "halcyon days" of the amateur movement (1885-95); and the "needs and betterment" of the amateur cause. We read of Lovecraft's bitter feuds with his fellow amateurs; his exhaustive critiques of their writing; and, most poignant of all, his touching affirmation of "What Amateurdom and I Have Done for Each Other," in which he concludes simply: "What Amateur Journalism has given me is—life itself." 

COLLECTED ESSAYS, VOLUME 2: LITERARY CRITICISM by H. P. Lovecraft
Edited by S. T. Joshi and scheduled for March 2004
Cloth: ISBN 0-9721644-4-8: $40.00            Paper: ISBN 0-9721644-9-9: $20.00
Lovecraft's writings in the realm of literary criticism are unfailingly acute and cover a surprisingly wide range. Besides his authoritative early essay on "The Literature of Rome" (1918), other works condemn free verse and simple spelling, and devote attention to neglected poets. Discovering weird fiction as his chosen field, he produced such scintillating essays as "Lord Dunsany and His Work" (1922) and "Supernatural Horror in Literature" (1927), along with essays on Frank Belknap Long and Clark Ashton Smith. Late in life Lovecraft codified his grasp of weird literature by writing such trenchant pieces as "Notes on Writing Weird Fiction" (1933) and "Some Notes on Interplanetary Fiction" (1934). One of his last writings, "Suggestions for a Reading Guide" (1936), is a comprehensive discussion of world literature.

AN H. P. LOVECRAFT ENCYCLOPEDIA By S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz
May 2004: ISBN 0-9748789-1-X: $20.00
Publisher's Weekly called the hardcover edition of this work "an indispensable volume," sure to "please HPL purists." However, its price (nearly $80.00) may have kept some from making the acquisition. At last, an affordable quality paperback edition will be available.

INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES By Algernon Blackwood, Edited by S. T. Joshi
July 2004: ISBN 0-9748789-0-1: $15.00
H. P. Lovecraft regarded Algernon Blackwood as perhaps the greatest weird writer of his day and Incredible Adventures (originally published in 1914) as among Blackwood's finest works. This collection of five novellas is a landmark in the history of weird fiction, and is presented as part of the Lovecraft's Library series in a definitive form, superseding all other editions since the first.

THE EVOLUTION OF THE WEIRD TALE By S. T. Joshi
September 2004: ISBN 0-9748789-2-8: $15.00
S. T. Joshi, a leading authority on supernatural literature, traces the development of weird form. Examining the entire weird output of authors from the "Golden Age" of 1880–1940 as well as contemporaries such as Rod Serling and Poppy Z. Brite, Joshi attempts to grasp their overall literary aims and purposes. A special section on Lovecraft and his influence will appeal to the faithful. 

LETTERS OF GEORGE STERLING AND CLARK ASHTON SMITH
Edited by S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz
November 2004: 0-9748789-3-6: $15.00
Affording the rare opportunity to follow both sides of a correspondence between two men of letters, this volume illuminates their relationship as mentor and protégé. As a bonus to readers previously unpublished illustrations, drawn by Smith and sent to Sterling, enhance the volume. 

Visit the Hippocampus Press website at http://www.hippocampuspress.com/

The first volume in the new series will reprint The Man with the Golden Gun and The Living Daylights.  It also features a new foreward by Ian Fleming's niece.  This is a 80 page, 9 X 12 softcover in black and white.  The retail price is $16.95.  It is scheduled to be in comic shops on February 11th.  The Diamond Item Code is NOV035064. 

This book may also be ordered from Amazon Books U.K.

Hounds Of Hell by Ron Fortier & Gordon Linzner with spot illustrations provided by Rob Davis, Jim Schumaker and Bradley Walton is a classic pulp tale in 29 chapters.  Chapter 18, Sinister Solutions, is now available on the Modern Pulp website. Visit the Modern Pulp website at http://www.modernpulp.com/ to read this new adventure.

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

Frederick Faust's stories frequently seem to defy the traditional plot arc, in which a denouement -- or falling action that wraps up loose ends -- follows the climax. More than one reader has commented with a grumble about the abrupt endings of Faust's stories. With the body of his tale told, the author seems to have no interest in providing a typical sense of closure to his readers. Like a rocket that has expended all its fuel and then falls to earth, a Faust story speeds pell-mell to its climax, and then stops.

This article looks at three possible explanations for the abruptness of Faust's endings for his stories, then explores a fourth reason: that in writing and ending his stories, Faust followed the model of an older sort of literature.
You can read this article at this URL: http://pulprack.com/arch/000156.html#000156

The Wild Cat Store can be found at http://my.lulu.com/wildcatbooks
The Wild Cat Books Website can be found at http://www.cpu-net.com/host/wildcatbooks

Titles currently available in this new format are: THE PULP HERO by Nick Carr, THE QUEST OF THE SACRED SLIPPER by Sax Rohmer, GHOST HUNTER, the Carnacki Tales by William Hope Hodgson, STRANGE WORLDS OF HORROR with Hodgson, Lovecraft, and Blackwood, THE LEGEND OF SPRINGHEELED JACK by Kevin N. Olson, SHADOW: 2099 by Kevin N. Olson, and BUK BAKUS IN 4891 by Kevin N. Olson... with much more to
come!

The second article isAquaman's Creator Paul Norris and is a 14 page, profusely illustrated, examination of this multi-talented artist.  Norris also illustrated Jungle Jim, Flash Gordon, Secret Agent X-9, Tarzan, Brick Bradford, Magnus Robot Fighter, and countless other characters in his career.

This issue of CBM also includes a three page interview with Murphy Anderson on his artistic influences.

COMIC BOOK MARKETPLACE is $6.95 and available in comic shops or direct from Gemstone Publishing.
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