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Now available!
High Adventure #168
WONDER STORIES SPECIAL ISSUE
The Time Annihilator by Edgar Manley and Walter Thode
In a stirring chase through time they saw the race destroyed. but they were powerless in the grip of the destroyer.
The House in the Clouds by Ulf Hermann
The Invulnerable Scourge by John S. Campbell
Lords of the Deep by Henry F. Kirkham
Hornets of Space by R.F. Starzl
Tubby—Time Traveler by Ray Cummings
Martian Heritage by Barry Cord
Cover Artist: Frank R. Paul
7x10, 110 pages, $12.95
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Age of Aces
Now available!
Through the dark night sky, streaking swiftly with their Hisso engines thundering, is the greatest trio of aces on the Western Front—the famous and inseparable “Three Mosquitoes,” the mightiest flying combination that had ever blazed its way through overwhelming odds and laughed to tell of it! At point was Captain Kirby, impetuous young leader of the great trio; on his right was little Lieutenant “Shorty” Carn, the mild-eyed, corpulent little Mosquito and lanky Lieutenant Travis, eldest and wisest of the Mosquitoes on his left! Flying in a V formation through four exciting hell-bent tales from the pages of Popular Publication’s Battle Aces.
Stories Include: The X-Gun Flight (Jan 32), The Iron Ace (Feb 32), The Flying Dreadnought (Jun 32), The 20-Ace Patrol (Jul 32). All illustrated by John Fleming Gould
Captain Philip Strange is back in eight more weird WWI stories spanning the run of the series in the penultimate volume of this series. A mental marvel from birth, who used his talents on stage as a boy, Philip Strange is now known as “The Phantom Ace of G-2? by the Allies during WWI and the verdamntBrain-Devil by the Boche. Just when you thought there were no more ways to die in war, the Germans come up with some even more gruesome ways! if you’re not just being incinerated by the sun’s ray focused through enormous lenses, you’re being gassed with a horribly disfiguring plague; drowned in a sea of blood or injected with a serum that turns you into a hyped up fighting hellion until you keel over dead; maybe you’ll be lucky and just have your own munitions blow up your entire outfit, or simply have your head chopped off and mounted on some psychotic ace’s wings. Thankfully, we have have Captain Philip Strange on our side to stop them in eight of his strangest cases yet from the pages of Flying Aces magazine!
Stories Include: The Code of K-14 (Feb 32), The Masked Marauders (Mar 33), The Sky Torch (Apr 33), Marauders Without Mercy (Oct 33), Legion of the Lost (Aug 34), Valley of Vengeance (Jun 35), Fokkers of the Red Fog (Aug 37), Headsman Strafe (Feb 38).
Age of Aces
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SHERLOCK HOLMES:
CONSULTING DETECTIVE VOLUME 14
Now available!
Airship 27 Productions is thrilled to present the 14th volume in our best selling series of brand new traditional Sherlock Holmes mysteries. In the course of his illustrious career, Sherlock Holmes has been challenged by many bizarre mysteries. In this new volume of adventures, he and Dr. Watson find themselves dealing with a lost treasure from the South Pacific, a ghost that walks on water, an elusive and cunning traitor and lastly a sadistic killer who warns his victims before murdering them.
Airship 27 Productions’ Managing Editor reports, “This volume contains five truly unique stories by writers I.A. Watson, Ray Lovato and David Friend. These are deadly mysteries that test the Great Detectives mental abilities beyond the realms of imagination.” Art Director Rob Davis once again provides the black and white interior illustrations and Ted Hammond the beautiful cover presenting his version of Holmes and Watson. This is classic Holmes and Watson once again on the hunt through the fog shrouded streets of London to capture the guilty and protect the innocent.
Available from Amazon and soon on Kindle.
Airship 27 Productions – Pulp Fiction For A New Generation!
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| | Altus Press / Steeger Books: Pulp Blog - Now online!
Farewell Altus Press, Hello Steeger Books
Announcing the new Altus Press releases premiering at Pulpfest 2019
Announcing the new Altus Press releases premiering at the Windy City Pulp and Paper Show
More Pulp Releases: The Spider #4 and Dusty Ayres #11… At a Discount
More Pulp Releases: The Spider #3 and Operator 5 #2
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The Spider #17: The Pain Emperor
By Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge
In a hundred thousand homes, families sat down together at the supper table. A few hours later, those persons were dead—killed by poison in canned foods! Thousands of women used cosmetics, and acid made their faces forever hideously scarred. A master criminal, daring and clever, was ruthlessly slaughtering Americans to win immense illicit profits for himself. Only one man was powerful enough and wise enough to stop this wholesale murder—Richard Wentworth, champion of oppressed humanity, better known as the Spider. And the Spider was engaged in the bitterest battle of his career, fighting the Avenger, a false, wily crusader who was determined to destroy him!
$13.95 softcover
Operator 5 #9: Legions of Starvation
By Curtis Steele, Frederick C. Davis, John Fleming Gould, John Newton Howitt
Speeding through the silent blackness of the night, a long freight-train was laden with a cargo more precious than fine gold—wheat! Then suddenly, the hirelings of Apocryphos unleashed red destruction, and the great machine lay wrecked, its cars of priceless grain afire… Another blow in the ruthless campaign that was driving a proud people, whimpering, to slavery—overwhelmed by the cruel pangs of hunger! The four horsemen of the Apocalypse, thundered sharp-hoofed over the sterile reaches of a famine-wasted continent, while only one man—Operator 5—realized the ghastly extent of the diabolical plot. And only he—America’s undercover ace—could hope to bring the canny schemer to the justice he deserved—death!
$13.95 softcover
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Joseph T. Shaw: The Man Behind Black Mask
by Milton Shaw
Coming in late November!
Joseph T. “Cap” Shaw enjoyed several distinguished careers—military man and champion fencer, among them—before he assumed the editorial chair of the most significant fiction magazine since The Strand gave the world the immortal Sherlock Holmes.
Between 1926 and 1936, Shaw edited Black Mask magazine. The pioneering first stories of Carroll John Daly and Dashiell Hammett had just begun to appear in its pages. Shaw recognized in their hard-boiled treatment of the American crime story the potential for a new literary school. Working closely with his hand-picked writers, he pulled the magazine back from the brink of cancellation, and transformed the staid detective story into a vigorous and modern genre, discovering and championing important inheritors of this new tradition, among them, Raymond Chandler.
But there is more to Joe Shaw than his editorial career. Here, in the first biography ever written of this editorial giant, his son relates the full fascinating story of the man behind the revolutionary editorial persona….
318 pages | $19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover
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| AMAZING STORIES ANNOUNCES AMAZING SELECTS (TM)
WITH THE RELEASE OF ALLEN STEELE'S CAPTAIN FUTURE IN LOVE
New Imprint Will Feature Novella-Length Works
Now available!
SWASHBUCKLING ACTION, PERILOUS ADVENTURE, AND A LADY TO DIE FOR … ALL IN THE RETURN OF A SPACE LEGEND!"
The Experimenter Publishing Company LLC, publishers of Amazing Stories magazine, is pleased to announce the creation of a new imprint that will feature stand-alone novella-length works, in both print and electronic formats. Amazing Selects will launch with the release of Allen Steele's “Captain Future in Love,” a novella originally serialized in Amazing Stories magazine that continues the adventures of Edmond Hamilton's pulp adventure hero Curt Newton, aka Captain Future, rebooted and updated in Allen Steele's inimitable Neo Pulp style.
Originally introduced in Steele's Avengers of the Moon (Tor, 2017), the new Captain Future brings golden age science fiction into the modern era presenting classic space opera adventure with modern sensibilities.
Amazing Selects' “Captain Future in Love” is more than just the eponymous novella, it also features concept art (by Rob Caswell), interior illustrations by Nizar Ilman and non-fiction features by Allen Steele and others - Overture for a Space Opera Publisher's Introduction Who is Captain Future?
Prologue: The Black Pirate and the King Captain Future in Love
Essay: A Brief History Of Captain Future
About The Author About The Concept Artist
About the Cover Artist “Captain Future in Love” is a rollicking modern space adventure harkening back to classic space opera!
Amazing Selects “Captain Future in Love” is available through Amazon at the link below and through the Amazing Stories store at the link below
For additional information, please contact Steve Davidson at steve@amazingstories.com
Series: Captain Future (Book 1)
Paperback: 129 pages
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5 inches
List price: $6.99
Kindle: $6.99
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Cover Blurb: "The first writer I ever wrote a fan letter to...I'm no less of a fan of his work now" - John Scalzi, author of The Collapsing Empire"
Back Cover Copy: "CAPTAIN FUTURE, THE GREATEST HERO OF SCIENCE FICTION’S PULP ERA, RETURNS IN A NEW STORY BY HUGO AND HEINLEIN AWARD WINNING AUTHOR ALLEN STEELE!Curt Newton and his crew of interplanetary troubleshooters, the Futuremen, respond to an emergency aboard a giant orbital colony above Venus … the very place where Curt, as a lonely teenage boy, met and fell in love with the first girl he ever met.Ashi Lanyr was a thief, but the most precious thing she ever stole was young Curt’s heart. Curt never forgot her, not even after he grew up to become Captain Future, the protector of justice in the 24th century. Yet the past can return in unexpected ways, and even a hero isn’t immune to memories of his first great love.
About Amazing Selects:
Amazing Selects is a new imprint from the Experimenter Publishing Company that will publish original science fiction of novella-length works in both print and electronic formats. About Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future: Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future will publish novella-length works that continue the updated adventures of the legendary Space Hero Curt Newton and his companions, the Futuremen, authored by Hugo and Heinlein award winning author Allen Steele. The first new adventure of Captain Future was published by Tor in 2017 - Avengers of the Moon. The adventures continued with the serialization of Captain Future in Love in Amazing Stories magazine, now an Amazing Selects publication.
About Amazing Stories Magazine:
Amazing Stories is the world's first magazine dedicated to the science fiction genre and began publication in April of 1926. The new Experimenter Publishing Company revived the magazine beginning in 2012 as a website and began publication of a quarterly edition of the magazine in August of 2018. Subscriptions are available at store.amazingstories.com.
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| | American Mythology Productions
Arriving in comic shops November 27!
MONSTER MEN: SOUL OF THE BEAST #1
(Writer) Mike Wolfer (Art/Covers) Roy Allen Martinez & Mike Wolfer
Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic tale of mad science, shocking horror, and monsters galore rages to life in an all-new comic story that begins where "The Monster Men" novel ended! On a secluded, jungle island near Borneo, Professor Maxon and his daughter Virginia barely survived the onslaught of the rampaging, half-human beasts that he created in his laboratory. Now, Virginia and Townsend Harper Jr. return to the island where he originally believed that he was Maxon's mysterious creature, Number 13... But the real Number 13 is very much alive and prowls the steaming, island jungle in search of human victims!
Mike Wolfer and Roy Allan Martinez, the team who brought you Eternal Thirst of Dracula, combine their talents once again to create an unparalleled excursion into terror, officially endorsed by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. as the sequel to the classic horror novel! This special, prelude one-shot leads directly into the upcoming The Monster Men: Heart of Wrath mini-series.
The Monster Men #1 Soul of the Beast is available with three covers - Main Cover by Roy Allan Martinez, Creeping Doom by Mike Wolfer, and Deluxe Limited Edition 1/350 Pulp Horror Cvr also by Martinez!
Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99
Full Color, 32 pages, $6.99 (Limited edition)
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| | American Mythology Productions Coming in February!
CARSON OF VENUS: EYE OF AMTOR #2
(Writer) Mike Wolfer & Various (Art) Vincenzo Carratu, Mike Wolfer (Cover) Vincenzo Carratu
The official comics prequel to Matt Betts' upcoming Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe novel "Carson of Venus: Edge of All Worlds" continues! With their friends held captive by a ruthless king, Carson and Duare have embarked upon a mission to collect the raw materials to build a telescope for the mad ruler... But those raw materials can only be found in the most dangerous locations across wild Amtor (Venus). It's an edge-of-your-seat thrill-ride as Carson and Duare race against the clock and face some of the most savage creatures imaginable in the opening story by Matt Betts and Mike Wolfer, gorgeously illustrated by Vincenzo Carratu. Then, the adventure of explorers Jason Gridley and Victory Harben at the Earth's core continues in the tale "Pellucidar: Dark of the Sun," by novelist Christopher Paul Carey and artist Mike Wolfer!
Carson of Venus Eye of Amtor #2 is available with two covers - Main by Vincenzo Carratu and a limited edition 1 in 350 Pulp cover, also by Carratu.
Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99 (Carratu cover), On sale February 26!
Full Color, 32 pages, $9.99 (Carratu Pulp Limited edition), On sale February 26!
CARSON OF VENUS: EYE OF AMTOR #2 is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Available November 27).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC191363 (Carratu cover).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC191364 (Carratu Pulp Limited cover).
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Sanctum Books has been forced to downsize their existing supply of pulp reprints.
Going on sale, exclusively from Bud's Art Books, will be Doc Savage #1-87 and The Shadow #1-115.
Plus most/all variant cover issues.
These are in the warehouse, and getting this many titles back online is quite the job, but we do have all of The Shadows listed, except issue #29 which is out of print.
Watch for new additions over the next few weeks by searching for SANSALE.
Many individual titles are priced at $5.95 each!
Meanwhile, we prioritized the multi-packs and Super-packs, so they are online now.
Several have bonus cover prints and all are enclosed in special cardboard slipcases.
Get them while they last!
Bud's Art Books
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Now available and coming soon to comic shops (likely December 4)!
THE SHADOW Volume 146: “The Crime Oracle” and “Murder by Moonlight” - Haunted Horror Special!
The Dark Avenger proves that “crime does not pay" in bone-chilling pulp novels by Walter B. Gibson writing as “Maxwell Grant." First, “The Crime Oracle,” a gruesome, disembodied head, dictates instructions for perfect crimes in a bizarre pulp thriller! Then, monstrous murders occur under a blood-red moon, and Lamont Cranston and Margo Lane must visit a strange sanitarium to uncover the deadly secrets lurking behind “Murder by Moonlight.” BONUS: A classic Shadow thriller from the Golden Age of Radio! This instant collectors item leads of with one of George Rozen’s most lurid paintings and also showcases the original interior illustrations by Tom Lovell and Paul Orban and historical commentary by Will Murray and Anthony Tollin. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-264-3 Softcover, 7x10, 128 pages, B&W, $14.95
Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]
Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)
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Coming to online retailers in late December!
Coming to comic shops February 12!
THE SHADOW Volume 150: “Mansion of Crime," "Gems of Jeopardy" & "Twins of Crime”
WOMEN OF THE SHADOW SPECIAL!
The Women of The Shadow are showcased in classic pulp novels by Walter B. Gibson and Theodore Tinsley writing as "Maxwell Grant." First, the pall of death falls over a "Mansion of Crime." Can the Master of Darkness penetrate the cloak of evil to save innocent lives? Next, a ten-million-dollar crime is brewing along the Atlantic Coast, and only The Shadow can prevent the theft of priceless "Gems of Jeopardy." Then, The Shadow seeks to unravel the sinister secret of "Twins of Crime." Finally, Lamont Cranston and Margo Lane's investigation of a five-year-old murder places them in the middle of "The Devil's Feud." This extra-length collectors special leads off with an action-packed cover by George Rozen (reproduced directly from the original painting) and also features classic pulp art by Graves Gladney and Paul Orban, with commentary by pulp historian Will Murray. Softcover, 7x10, 208 pages, B&W, $19.95
THE SHADOW VOLUME 150 is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Available November 27).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC191845.
Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]
Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)
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| | Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Coming to online retailers in late December!
Coming to comic shops February 26!
THE SHADOW Volume 151: “Alibi Trail," "The Golden Doom," "The Television Murders" & "The Whispering Eyes”
FOUR-NOVEL FINAL ISSUE SPECTACULAR!
The Knight of Darkness proves that crime does not pay in thrilling pulp tales by Walter B. Gibson, Theodore Tinsley and Bruce Elliott writing as "Maxwell Grant." First, murder suspects all have iron-clad defenses, leading The Shadow to investigate an "Alibi Trail." Then "The Golden Doom" menaces a great hospital and threatens the life of The Shadow himself! Next, a victim is killed during a live video drama, and only Lamont Cranston can unmask the perpetrator of "The Television Murders." Finally, "The Whispering Eyes" are all victims recall of a sinister master of hypnotism in Walter Gibson's final Shadow pulp novel! This instant collectors item showcases the original cover art by George Rozen and Modest Stein and interior illustrations by Paul Orban and Edd Cartier, with historical commentary by Will Murray and Anthony Tollin. Softcover, 7x10, 192 pages, B&W, $19.95
THE SHADOW VOLUME 151 is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Available November 27).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC191846.
Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]
Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)
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| Art's Reviews Podcasts! - Now online!
Nothing new this week
Past episodes:
Hide and Seek: a reboot of Charlton Comic Heroesfrom the 1960s
Award Winning author Gordon Dymowski discusses his work
Dorian Gray: Darker Shades from Wild Hunt Press
"A Good Man Returns" a Jeff Deischer espionage novel
Airship 27 Update with Ron Fortier and Rob Davis
Audible versions of Bobby Nash's "Abraham Snow" Series with Voice actor Stuart Gauffi
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Now available!
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| | | | Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press Holiday Season Bargains Now Available!
Continuing our series of holiday-season sales focusing on groups of books, this week we offer three must-have reference works for anybody interested in pulp-fiction history. The Blood ‘n’ Thunder Guide to Pulp Fiction (revised and expanded second edition) is our all-time best seller, with more than 2000 copies in print and buyers in 23 countries! With 428 pages and more than 750 reproductions of pulp covers and original paintings, the Guide presents a comprehensive history of rough-paper magazines. It has been used as a text in a half-dozen American universities offering courses in pop culture and popular literature of the 20th century.
The sale also includes both volumes of The Best of Blood ‘n’ Thunder, which reprint the cream from the long-out-of-print first 20 issues of the award-winning BnT. Each book supplies more than 300 pages of text and picture galleries.
Purchased separately these books would lighten a buyer’s wallet by nearly $80. Buying all three together during this sale will cost just $54.95, a 30 percent savings. Don’t miss this opportunity to get the trio for a bargain price. And don’t waste any time ordering if you’re interested, because seasonal demand means slower delivery times from our printer as we get closer to Christmas!
Shipping is included to domestic U.S. buyers. For more information, please consult each book’s individual page.
Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press - Holiday Sale
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We’re beginning the 2019 holiday season a little early.
Today we’re unveiling a separate sale for the four-volume set of Blood ‘n’ Thunder Presents, our well-received series of oversized books covering different aspects of pulp-fiction history. Now you can buy the quartet for just $69.95 (again, shipping included within the continental U.S.), which represents a savings of 30 percent. In other words, it’s like getting one of the four books free and receiving a five-spot in addition.
For information on the quartet’s contents, please consult each volume’s page in our Books section.
We’re urging customers to take advantage of these sales quickly, because seasonal demand generally translates to longer wait times from our printer as Christmas draws closer.
Ordering early ensures faster receipt of merchandise, which is why we’re not waiting for Thanksgiving weekend, as we’ve done in the past.
Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press - Holiday Sale
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| | Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press BLOOD 'N' THUNDER VOLUME 2 NUMBER 2
Now available!
The second issue of the revived Blood 'n' Thunder opens with a special section devoted to Jimmie Dale, alias the Gray Seal, Frank L. Packard's World War I-vintage protagonist whose adventures in Street & Smith's People's Magazine presaged the Depression-era hero-pulp phenomenon. Award-winning writer, editor, documentarian, and pop-culture historian Don Hutchison makes his first appearance in BnT with "Death to the Gray Seal!", an overview of the legendary character. Then editor Ed Hulse offers "The Celluloid 'Seal'," which recounts Jimmie Dale's brief but tumultuous history on film.
Novelist and pulp historian Will Murray is back with "The Spicy Mrs. Schwartz," another of his fascinating examples of literary detective work. This time Will trains his attention on one of Spicy Detective's most unlikely contributors.
BnT presents a long-forgotten short story by Richard Sale, prolific fictioneer who eventually became a Hollywood hyphenate (writer-producer-director) but is best known for his detective yarns in the Munsey pulps. Sale's 1935 "Mellow Drama" is a clever send-up of rough-paper magazines in general and hero pulps in particular.
The making of Republic Pictures' episodic epic Spy Smasher (1942), based on the popular Fawcett Publication comic book and still considered one of the finest chapter plays ever, is fully documented in Ed Hulse's "Anatomy of a Serial," which presents material gleaned from Republic studio files and first-hand interviews with selected cast and crew members. This 8000-word essay chronicles production from the 1941 licensing of screen rights to the efforts of exhibitors to promote the serial while it was in release. Nothing like it has ever been written by the form's historians.
That relentless researcher of all things Old Time Radio, Karl Schadow, contributes "Avenger Addendum," a brief article that supplements last issue's piece on the 1941 series that adapted Street & Smith's character The Avenger.
The latest BnT also includes reviews and reference material sure to be of interest to pulp-fiction aficionados. And, as always, the magazine is profusely illustrated.
First copies ship from the plant late next week. Order yours today at Murania Press » Blood ‘n’ Thunder, Second Series, Number Two.
#2, Second Series
92 pages, paperback, 7x10
Price: $9.95
PURCHASE PRICE INCLUDES SHIPPING AND HANDLING TO U.S. BUYERS. INTERNATIONAL BUYERS MUST INQUIRE FOR SHIPPING RATES BEFORE PLACING ORDERS.
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The 2019 edition of Lone Pine and the Movies, like its recent predecessors, chronicles the history of Western-movie production. Its cover story examines the wave of 1939 hits that brought big-budget “A” Westerns back to box-office prominence, with behind-the-scenes information on the making of Stagecoach, Dodge City, Jesse James, Union Pacific, and others released during Hollywood’s greatest year. Prolific “B”-Western director George Sherman, who began his 40-year career with two inexpensive horse operas shot partially at Lone Pine, is profiled with a detailed survey of his dozens of Westerns made for Republic Pictures. “The Lovely Ladies of Lone Pine” covers three favorite actresses whose careers are inextricably linked to the area: Beth Marion, Grace Bradley Boyd (Mrs. Hopalong Cassidy), and the late Peggy Stewart, a favorite guest at Lone Pine Film Festivals, who passed away earlier in 2019.
“RevisitingFrontier Days” not only takes a detailed look at this favorite 1934 “B”-Western but tells the entire story of its star, Bill Cody, a marginal figure who built a career on Hollywood’s Poverty Row and made a precarious living on the fringes of the film industry. A Don Kelsen photo essay matches present-day pictures of Frontier Days locations with frame captures from the original film. Finally, this issue contains a special section, “The Man Who Loved Westerns,” devoted to the late Packy Smith, who organized the very first film festival devoted entirely to his favorite genre—and who, many years later, was instrumental in getting the Lone Pine Film Festival up and running. Packy, who died in late 2018, is remembered by some of his closest friends and fellow movie buffs.
Introduction by Ed Hulse
136 pages, 8x10, trade paperback
Price: $12.95
PURCHASE PRICE INCLUDES SHIPPING AND HANDLING TO U.S. BUYERS. INTERNATIONAL BUYERS MUST INQUIRE FOR SHIPPING RATES BEFORE PLACING ORDERS.
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| | Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press FORGOTTEN CLASSICS OF PULP FICTION, SECOND SERIES!
Coming soon!
Murania Press is proud to announce that, owing to the success of its recent “Forgotten Classics of Pulp Fiction” reprint line, a second series of ten books will be published soon.
The intent is to have the next ten volumes ready for Christmas-season gift purchases, although we’re making no hard and fast promises along that line.
As with the first series, released this past summer, individual books will be priced at $15.95 (postage included in the U.S.) but the entire set will sell for $100.
Like the earlier “Forgotten Classics” volumes, this second set offers considerable variety as to tone, genre, setting, and time period. In coming weeks we will have more to say about the new additions, but for now here are the titles, listed alphabetically by author:
1. H. Bedford-Jones, Blood, Amber and Jade. Action and intrigue in the Far East with Jim Hanecy, dealer in rare Oriental jewels and artifacts, and his daring associates.
2. Max Brand, The Sword Lover. The overlooked but excellent second novel by this specialist in Westerns is a swashbuckling adventure yarn set in 18th-century England.
3. J. Allan Dunn, The Island. The sequel to Barehanded Castaways is a rousing adventure in its own right and an eminently worthy continuation of Dunn’s original narrative.
4. Clarence E. Mulford, Black Buttes. Almost certainly this author’s best novel not featuring Hopalong Cassidy. Its protagonist spends years combing the West for his sister’s despoiler and becomes involved in a frontier murder mystery.
5. Roy Norton, The Glyphs. After deciphering ancient Mayan hieroglyphs, an eccentric archeologist, a soldier of fortune, and an English sportsman head to Nicaragua in search of a lost city that houses tremendous wealth.
6. Randall Parrish, The Strange Case of Cavendish. A baffling mystery that begins with murder in New York City and the victim’s disappearance, with the only clues directing an intrepid female reporter to the contemporary West.
7. Perley Poore Sheehan, The Copper Princess. The mummy of an ancient Peruvian princess is scientifically revived in early 20th-century New York, and her resuscitation has terrifying ramifications for a curious antropologist.
8. Francis Stevens, Serapion. Combining elements of fantasy, science fiction, and psychological horror, this spine-chilling tale chronicles the efforts of a malevolent spirit to dominate a weak man and his hapless associates.
9. Edgar Wallace, Blind Men. Mysterious events, culminating in murder, seem to have their origins in and around the London headquarters of a charity for the blind. Original pulp-magazine version of a novel later revised and published in book form (and brought to the screen) as Dark Eyes of London.10. Gordon Young, Hurricane Williams’ Vengeance. The best of this author’s Hurricane Williams novels, a South Seas adventure with an unforgettable climax.
10. Gordon Young, Hurricane Williams’ Vengeance. The best of this author’s Hurricane Williams novels, a South Seas adventure with an unforgettable climax.
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| Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press: EDitorial Comments - Now online!
Blood ‘n’ Thunder Guide to Pulp Fiction and The Best of Blood ‘n’ Thunder, Holiday Sale - New!
Holiday Season Bargains Now Available!
Next Week: BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER Volume Two, Number Two
Coming Soon: The Forgotten Classics of Pulp Fiction, Second Series!
Lone Pine and the Movies
The BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER Revival Will Continue!
Permanent Price Reduction for “Forgotten Classics” 10-book set
| | Bold Venture Press Now available!
CLASSIC PULP FICTION
"Death Speaks Softly" by Charles Boeckman
Mr. Pleeber thought it was a bad dream when he awoke to murder!
"The Tunnel Under the World" by Frederick Pohl
June 15: An explosive date with an explosive anti-climax …
"Breath of Allah" by Sax Rohmer
An unusual masquerade, industrial espionage, Egypt ...
"The Story of Misión San Juan Capistrano" by H. Bedford-Jones
NEW PULP FICTION
"New Guy on the Block" by Jack Bludis
Private investigator Ken Sligo had a promising future, but had to make certain he wasn’t killed on his first case!
"An Old Friend" by Michael R. Hayfields
They called him the Death’s Head; those who met him learned why!
"The Pursuit of the Moor" by Teel James Glenn
One last heist ... one reporter had the knowledge to prevent it.
"The Client" by Nils Gilbertson
A lawyer swears to uphold the law, but is forced to bend it.
"Conspiracy Theory" by Carson Demanns
Nut-job in life … Internet legend in death …
"Captain Warwick’s Hand" by Adam Beau McFarlane
A helping hand was all he asked …
Format: Softcover
Pages: 128
Dimensions: 7" x 10"
$9.95
Format: ePub / Mobi Kindle
$2.99
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Edited by R. Allen Leider
(Available in eBook format)
Illustrated by Ed Coutts, design by Rich Harvey
Awesome Tales #11 presents four stories of scintillating science fiction!
All the world — indeed, the galaxy! — knows of Tom Corbett: Space Cadet and his heroic deeds across the heavens. Aboard the Polaris, a sturdy spaceship, his loyal, intrepid crew is ready to face danger and maintain the peaceful status quo of the universe — for all mankind! Tom Corbett’s secret mission leads to unknown danger light years from Earth in "Mystery Mission to Kepler 186f" by R. Allen Leider.
• "Ask Not for Whom the Planet Tolls" by Patrick Thomas — The Startenders are called to duty when one planetary system after another dies by the marauding hands
of the Grim Reaper.
• A child’s nightmares warn of a deadly future in "A Voice in the Dark" by Sandra Lee Rauenzahn
• Agent Archer blasts off for action When the Insectoids stalk hapless space travelers in "Rogue Planet" by DJ Tyrer.
Format: Softcover
Pages: 86
Dimensions: 7" x 10"
$6.00
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Tales of Zorro's Old California
(Available in eBook edition)
In the early 1800s, California — with its warmth, its romance, its peaceful beauties — was still under Spanish rule. While the legend of Zorro grew, stirring the hearts of Californians, this sprawling state was a land of opportunity and adventure — and, oft-times, great danger.
Black Grandee
Down the King’s High Road he came, swift and unsuspected as the evil he would do, bearing the warrant of the Crown for the vengeance that spurred him on.
Satan's Caballero —an additional short story of Old California!
Honor demanded that Don Fernando challenge Marcos Coudillo, but his own death warrant would be written the next time he crossed blades with any man!
Cover by Francisco Silva
Softcover: $14.95
Hardcover: $29.95
Pages: 194
Dimensions: 6" x 9"
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| | Bold Venture Press
(Available in eBook edition)
Kit Carson (1809 – 1868) was a real-life pulp hero in his own manner, an American frontiersman who braved all manner of danger as he carved out a place in history, opening the western states to all America. He was a fur trapper and wilderness guide, Indian agent, and U.S. Army officer. Few people described pulp protagonists, real and fictional, as well as H. Bedford-Jones (1887-1949), referred to by his contemporaries as "the King of the Pulps".
Originally published in 1941 in the Toronto Star Weekly, and never before reprinted, Young Kit Carson is a he-man adventure of the American frontier, high in the Rocky Mountains. Carson battles to maintain peaceful relations between the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes, while maintaining order among the fur-trappers competing for precious pelts.
Bold Venture Press presents this forgotten pulp classic through arrangement with Camille “Caz” Cazedessus, publisher of Pulpdom, the legendary journal documenting pulp fiction history prior to 1931.
This book will be available November 2nd, 2019 — debuting at the annual Pulp Adventurecon in Bordentown, NJ.
50 tables of pulp magazines, golden age comic books, movie memorabilia, vintage paperbacks, and more!
See the Pulp Adventurecon webpage for more information.
Softcover: $12.95
Hardcover: $24.95
Pages: 162
Dimensions: 6" x 9"
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| Broadswords and Blasters - Now online!
Pulp Appeal: The House on the Borderland (Guest Post by J. Rohr)
Issue 11 Is Live!
Pulp Consumption: Tough 2 (Crime Stories)
Pulp Appeal: Penny Dreadful
Pulp Appeal: Storyhack #3
Issue 10 is Live!
| THE BRONZE GAZETTE
Issue #84 is now available and recommended!
Front Cover: Bob larkin
"Scattered Covers" by Chuck Welch
"A Bob Larkin Retrospective" by Courtney Rogers
"The Doc Savage Comics Guide" by Philip Schweier
"The Savage Society of Bronze Remembered" by Jennifer DiGiacomo
"The Cover That Could Have been" by Julián Puga
"The Power of Gold" by Dafyyd Neal Dyar
"The True Origin of Capt. Gideon Argo" by Tony Simmons
"Fifty Years later" by Will Murray
Back Cover: Alvaro Fernandois
Everything, new and old, is beautifully designed by Kez Wilson.
You can order available single issues at: http://www.bronzegazette.com/back-issues/
Subscribe for 2019 (Issues 84 and 85) at: http://www.bronzegazette.com/subscribe/
$25.00 USA
$35.00 Canada (US Dollars)
$40.00 International
(Prices Include Postage)
Click HERE to subscribe!
Click HERE for available back issues!
Coming soon!
Dare Devlin: Stormbirds
by Dafyyd Neal Dyar
The Bronze Gazette
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| CALL OF CTHULHU ILLUSTRATED HC - Coming in February!
(Writer) H. P. Lovecraft (Art) Francois Baranger
H.P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu, first published in 1928, is one of the greatest classics of American horror literature. Cthulhu himself, dreaming and waiting at the bottom of the sea, became a symbol for the entire mythology that Lovecraft created. François Baranger, an illustrator who has previously worked in film and games, was fascinated early on by Lovecraft’s creatures and visions which populated the darkest recesses of fantasy. In this book, he has taken on the work of illustrating Lovecraft’s most iconic novel.
NOTE: This item may be available through other retail outlets before shipping to comic book specialty shops.
NOTE: Available only in US, Canada, and US territories.
Illustrated Prose, Hardcover, 10x14, 64 pages, Full Color, $29.95, On sale February 5.
CALL OF CTHULHU LLUSTRATED is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Available November 27).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC191609.
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| Castalia House Blog - Now online!
Sensor Sweep: Wulfhere, Monster Manual, Heroism, Howard A. Jones - New!
Sensor Sweep: Witherwing, Lankhmar, Mid-List Collapse
Sensor Sweep: Michael Shea, Hugh Cave, Walking Dead
Sensor Sweep: Irish Horror Writers, Robert Jordan, E. C. Comics
Swordsmen in the Sky
Sensor Sweep: E. C. Tubb, Bernie Wrightson, The Professionals
Sensor Sweep: 10/14/2019
Sensor Sweep: 10/7/2019
| CLASSIC PULP DETECTIVES ONE SHOT - Coming in February!
(Writer/Art) Various
Joshua Werner curates this collection of vintage tales of crime and mystery featuring cunning detectives, all digitally remastered to their original colors and quality!
Loaded with pulse-pounding thrills, this is a must-have for fans of the crime genre and classic pulp comics!
Full Color, 32 pages, $4.00, On sale February 26.
CLASSIC PULP DETECTIVES is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Available November 27).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC191861.
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CONAN
CONAN 2099 #1 - Arriving in comic shops November 27!
Gerry Duggan (Writer)
Roge Antonio (Art)
Geof Shaw (Cover)
EONS FROM HOME, THE BARBARIAN BATTLES THE CIVILIZATION OF 2099!
In the far flung future of 2099, will barbarism finally triumph over an endangered civilization? When CONAN THE BARBARIAN entered the Marvel Universe with the SAVAGE AVENGERS, he stayed to conquer and claim his kingship in modern times. Now cursed by a mystic to live beyond his years, when Conan’s new kingdom is threatened, he swings his blade once more! But as the calamity in 2099 bears down on his secluded realm, will the future shock unseat the barbarian king? An unforgettable chapter unlike anything you’ve ever seen in the saga of Conan!
Full Color, 40 pages, $4.99
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| CONAN THE BARBARIAN #13 - Coming in February!
Written by Jim Zub
Art by Roge Antonio
Cover by E.M. Gist
INTO THE CRUCIBLE AS THE MARCH TO KHITAI BEGINS!
Conan has faced many foes since leaving Cimmeria, but the greatest challenge lies ahead! A perfect jumping-on point for new readers as Conan finds himself in a city in the mystical Uttara Kuru, further on the eastern border than the young barbarian has ever traveled. And with the new city comes new dangers! Unfamiliar with the language, Conan inadvertently agrees to be the latest entrant to the Great Crucible. The people of the city support their foreign champion...but what deadly traps does the Crucible hold, and what will Conan sacrifice to overcome his ordeal?
Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale February 19.
CONAN THE BARBARIAN #13 is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Available November 27).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC190960.
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| CONAN: BATTLE FOR THE SERPENT CROWN #1 (OF 5) - Coming in February!
Saladin Ahmed (Writer) • Luke Ross (Art)
Cover by Mahmud Asrar
Variant Cover by Luke Ross
Variant Cover by Tony Daniel
Hidden Gem Variant Cover by John Buscema
A DEADLY QUEST AND A DARING HEIST…IN THE AGE OF MARVELS!
CONAN wanders the desert, and as he reaches the city, no Stygian temple nor Vendyhan fortress greets him. No, something far stranger: the lights of fabulous Las Vegas! Conan is far from home, and it’s time for him to tread the thrones of the Marvel Universe under his sandaled feet!
The City of Sin is just the beginning for Conan’s solo jaunt by Eisner award-winner Saladin Ahmed (BLACK BOLT, MILES MORALES: SPIDER-MAN) and Luke Ross (STAR WARS: ALLEGIANCE, SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN), as the barbarian finds himself on a quest for a relic that predates even his Hyborian Age: the Serpent Crown of Atlantis! But will his battle for this crown earn Conan his own kingdom, or doom him to a nefarious trap set forth by MEPHISTO? Featuring a wide array of Marvel heroes and villains, this is an adventure you can’t afford to miss!
Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale February 5.
CONAN: BATTLE FOR THE SERPENT CROWN #1 is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Available November 27).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC190953.
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| DARK AGNES #1 (OF 5) - Coming in February!
Becky Cloonan (Writer) • Luca Pizzari (Art)
Cover by Stephanie Hans
Variant Cover by Becky Cloonan
Variant Cover by Alan Davis
ROBERT E. HOWARD’S SWORDSWOMAN IN HER FIRST SOLO COMIC SERIES!
Forced into an arranged marriage, Agnes de Chastillon took matters into her own violent hands to free herself from the yoke of a life she never wanted. Now, the woman known as DARK AGNES, along with her mercenary partner ETIENNE VILLIERS, make their way through 16th century France as sellswords on their way to join the wars in Italy, where the real money is! But when Etienne is captured by the DUKE OF ALENCON’s forces and set for execution, it’s up to Dark Agnes to save the day! But what evil designs are being enacted on Agnes, and will she doom herself by saving Etienne?
An all-new story following up Robert E. Howard’s tales, the swashbuckling saga of DARK AGNES in Marvel Comics starts here!
Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale February 5.
DARK AGNES #1 is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Available November 27).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC190957.
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| SAVAGE AVENGERS #10 (Featuring Conan) - Coming in February!
Gerry Duggan (Writer) • Patch Zircher (Art)
Cover by Valerio Giangiordano
The Quest to Kill Kulan Gath Part 2
Dr. Strange, Dr. Doom and Conan the Barbarian set out to kill Kulan Gath before he grows stronger! The team-up you never knew you couldn’t live without concludes. We hope you’ll be okay.
Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale February 12.
SAVAGE AVENGERS #10 is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Available November 27).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC190925.
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| CONAN THE BARBARIAN VOLUME 2: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF CONAN BOOK TWO TPB - Coming in March!
Written by Jason Aaron
Penciled by Mahmud Asrar, Gerardo Zaffino & Garry Brown
Cover by Esad Ribic
Conan is dead! Long live Conan! “The Life and Death of Conan” concludes! Beyond his lusts for ale, battle and gold, many women have captured Conan the Barbarian’s heart over the years. But nothing is sacred when the Crimson Witch strikes — and twists what is truly best in life! Then, Conan returns home to Cimmeria…but things aren’t exactly as he remembers them! Is he that out of touch — or is he falling into the trap of the wizard Thoth-Amon?! Beasts from the past rear their fearsome heads, and the Barbarian meets his ultimate fate — but what lies beyond? Could it be…Crom?! Conan comes face-to-face with his god, but Crom does not care for the fate of any mortal — unless that mortal forces him to! Prepare for the literal battle of a lifetime!
Collecting CONAN THE BARBARIAN (2019) #7-12.
Full Color, 136 pages, $17.99, On sale March 18.
CONAN THE BARBARIAN VOLUME 2 is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Available November 27).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC190993.
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| Davy Crockett's Almanak of Mystery, Adventure, and the Wild West - Now online!
Pulp Gallery: STRANGE DETECTIVE MYSTERIES - New!
Movie Posters of 1928 Strikes Again! - New!
NERO WOLFE Comic Strip - Weeks 5 & 6 (1956-57) - New!
NERO WOLFE Comic Strip - Weeks 3 & 4 (1956)
Pulp Gallery: G-8 AND HIS BATTLE ACES
Pulp Gallery: SHORT STORIES
NERO WOLFE Comic Strip - Weeks 1 & 2 (1956)
Four Adventures of ZORRO (circa 1959)
CHARLIE CHAN in "Here Comes Trouble" (1948)
Pulp Gallery: FANTASTIC NOVELS
The First LONE RANGER Sunday Strips (1938)
| DEJAH THORIS #3 - Coming in February!
(Writer) Dan Abnett (Art) Vasco Georgiev
Cover A: Lucio Parrillo
Cover B: Kunkka
Cover C: Joseph Michael Linsner
Cover D: Sanya Anwar
Cover E: Cosplay
The saga continues from superstar DAN ABNETT (Guardians Of The Galaxy) and VASCO GEORGIEV (Xena)!
The clock is ticking on Dejah and her family, to learn the secrets of the evil Barsoom regime…ticking, because they are being hunted by THE JEWELED KILLERS.
Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale February 12.
DEJAH THORIS #3 is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Available November 27).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC191131 (Parrillo cover).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC191132 (Kunkka cover).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC191133 (Linsner cover).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC191134 (Anwar cover).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC191135 (Cosplay cover).
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| | The Digest Enthusiast #10
Now available!
The tenth edition of The Digest Enthusiast is now available in print and digital on amazon.com featuring an interview with James Reasoner covering his stories for Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine; PIs Cody, Delaney, and Markham; his Redemption series, the Wind River series with L.J. Washburn; and much more.
Interviews
Author, editor, and publisher James Reasoner delves into his stories for Mike Shayne; PIs Cody, Delaney, and Markham; his Redemption series, the Wind River series with L.J. Washburn; and much more.
Articles
Ward Smith remembers Armed Services Editions—digests that are not digests
Peter Enfantino tackles Startling Mystery Stories No. 1–18, and a keen assessment of Manhunt 1954 July–Oct
Vince Nowell, Sr. dissects Sol Cohen’s tactics to save Amazing Stories
Richard Krauss examines Charlie Chan’s media empire, with special emphasis on Renown Publications’ digest magazine
Steve Carper reports on the one, the only, Bronze Books and trailblazers Luke Roberts and Jesse Lee Carter
Tom Brinkmann exposes The Creature from the Black Lagoon with The Seven Year Itch.Fiction
Fiction
Robert Snashall and Joe Wehrle, Jr., with art by Carolyn Cosgriff
Also includes
News updates from the newsstand giants and the digital darlings of today’s genre fiction digests, straight from their editors and publishers
In-depth reviews of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May/June 2019 and Broadswords & Blasters No. 9
Plus over 100 digest magazine cover images, cartoons by Bob Vojtko, art by Brian Buniak, a poem by Clark Dissmeyer, first issue factoids, and more.
Includes over 100 digest magazine cover images
160 pages, 5.5" x 8.5" digest
Print version, $8.99
Kindle version, $2.99
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| | The Digest Enthusiast Blog - Now online!
Captain Future in Love - New!
X MARKS THE DOT
PAPERBACK PARADE NO. 105
Broadswords and Blasters No. 11 Fall 2019
Mystery Weekly Magazine Oct. 2019
Western Magazine No. 4
| DMR Books Blog - Now online!
The DMRtian Chronicles, 10/17/2019 - New!
The DMRtian Chronicles, 11/10/2019
The Savage Swords of Howard Pyle
The DMRtian Chronicles, 11/3/2019
Walter Baumhofer: Pulp Art Master
Bejeweled in Weirdness — Michael Shea’s The Pearls of the Vampire Queen
The Macabre Art of Stephen Fabian: The 1970s
The DMRtian Chronicles, 10/27/2019
| | Edgar Rice Burroughs Books
A PRINCESS OF MARS by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Deluxe Manuscript Edition!
Now available for pre-order!
Shipping December 2019!
The Deluxe Manuscript Edition of A Princess of Mars is the fifth title in the ERB Limited Edition Collection.
The set is published by Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc. and includes an leather bound book in dust jacket, manuscript portfolio, handcrafted dip pen and Dejah Thoris medallion all housed in a 7”x10” custom decorated case.
We think this will be the most elaborate and unique edition of A Princess of Mars ever published.
Each set features:
• A Leather Bound Book limited to 500 numbered copies signed by the artists and contributors with a corrected text, new foreword and preface.
• 20 Color Plates featuring the original (5) color Schoonover paintings and works by Frazetta, Abbett, Whelan, Manchess, Miller and including..
(4-6) New Paintings commissioned for this edition (Artists like Iain McCaig, Dave Dorman, Thomas Gianni, Tom Grindberg, Doug Klauba and others.)
• A Custom Case covered in Cialux cloth, with spine titling and decorations debossed in gold and 1st edition dust jacket illustration inlaid on the lid.
• ERB Manuscript Portfolio (1911-1912) for 'Under the Moons of Mars" containing replica manuscript pages, editor letters, the Munsey check to ERB for UMM, and first publication pulp cover and pages.
• Manuscript Pen (1911-1912)- replica of the dip pen used by ERB to write the holographic manuscript for Under the Moons of Mars.
• 2" Dejah Thoris Medallion - 3D portrait design in antique silver accented in gold, numbered to match the book and inserted inside the custom case.
• New Dust Jacket artwork and color Barsoom Map endpapers.
• 30+ Black and White Illustrations by Tom Yeates and others…
In addition:
• The Deluxe Manuscript Edition of A Princess of Mars does not include a Grosset & Dunlap printing since the ERB Limited Edition Collection only publishes titles in G&D that have not previously been available.
So far that includes 1st G&D printings of Back to the Stone Age, Land of Terror, Savage Pellucidar and John Carter of Mars.
• The text has been proofed by Frank Puncer and reset with corrections for this new edition. (One notable mistake was discovered in the 1st edition text that has been carried over to every later edition.)
• The decorated box, dust jacket, book cover and title and chapter page designs are by Zavier Cabarga with the book bound in brown Cromwell leather with red/orange stamping
in a style reminiscent of the first edition published by A. C. McClurg.
• The custom case features a drop spine and houses the book, manuscript portfolio and a die cut tray for the medallion and pen.
• This vintage-style document portfolio is a 6”x9” gusseted custom envelope made of heavy kraft paper and secured by a button and string.
We have taken great care to source antique and vintage papers to match the original pages or documents.
• The first publication pulp cover and pages are from the Feb. 1912 All-Story Magazine and include two-sided replicas of the color cover, contents page and first story page.
• The handmade Italian wooden/pewter pen comes with an original 100 year-old Esterbrook 788 Oval gold-plated nib and is mounted in a base tray with the Dejah Thoris medallion.
• Limited: 500 numbered copies signed by the contributors and artists, in slipcase
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In the kingdom of Vendhya, when the king has just been defeated by the spells of the black prophets of Yimsha, his sister, Yasmina, decides to avenge her ... She decides, to take care of it, to make contact with Conan, then head of afghuli tribe. But while many of his warriors have just been killed by the men of the kingdom of Vendhya, he has other plans in mind. The princess believed she could use the Cimmerian, it is rather she who will serve her interests ...
Sylvain Runberg and the prodigious draftsman Jae Kwang adapt one of Robert E. Howard's most ambitious and complex narratives. An adventure where epic battles, witchcraft and plots mingle in a fantasy, mystical and scary Orient.
Scriptwriter: Sylvain Runberg
Designer: Park Jae Kwang
Format: 240 x 320 mm
Pages: 80
14.95 €
Coming November 27!
Scriptwriter: Sylvain Runberg
Designer: Park Jae Kwang
Format: 275 x 365 mm
Pages: 72
29.50 €
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Status Update
Work is 100% complete on The Michael Gray Mysteries (including definitive proof of the nature and depth of the collaboration between Kuttner & Moore on these works!) and it would be nice to send both Michael Gray and Ivy Frost to the printer together. We'll see. In the meantime, we're happy to announce that there will be a slipcased edition of this title. The link will go up in a few days and we hope that those who desire such editions will be very happy with the bonus content we've generated. Certainly, you'll want to frame your own copy of Michael Gray's diploma for his M.A. in Psychology from California State College:
Edited by Stephen Haffner Introduction by Ed Gorman Cover Art by Lawrence Noble
A massive omnibus of four novels from the late 1950s all featuring the amateur sleuthing of San Francisco psychoanalyst Michael Gray.
The Murder of Eleanor Pope —Psychoanalyst Michael Gray leads police to a three-time killer!
The Murder of Ann Avery —Psychoanalyst solves brutal slaying!
Murder of a Mistress —Psychoanalyst Michael Gray solves the killing of a girl who knew too much about too many men who had too damned much to lose.
Murder of a Wife —Marked for Murder! No one believed her—not even the police!
Hardcover
$45
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| Haffner Press
The Complete Ivy Frost
by Donald Wandrei
Cover Art by Raymond Swanland
Now available for pre-order!
Status Update
The Complete Ivy Frost is, well, nearing completion!
Actually, the book is 100% ready to go, but we're going to release The Vampire Stories of Robert Bloch and The Complete John the Balladeer ahead of it.
To entice you to place your $45 PREORDER (the 700+ page book will be at least $50 on publication), all advance orders will receive an exclusive 4" x 6" postcard* (see above) reproducing the portrait of author Donald Wandrei by Minnesota artist Clem Haupers.**
It may come as a surprise to some that Donald Wandrei wrote more mysteries than all his horror, fantasy, and science fiction tales combined. This volume collects all eighteen adventures of Wandrei’s ratiocinative detective I.V. Frost, who is ably assisted by his beautiful and tough female assistant, Jean Moray. A scientist and inventor, Frost has his own approach to solving mysteries. Rather than following the usual hard-drinking, trench-coated style of many of his contemporaries, Frost’s strategy was to mix the logic of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes with the technology of Lester Dent’s Doc Savage. In 2000, D.H. Olson edited a volume published by Fedogan and Bremer collecting the first eight of Frost’s adventures. A second volume of the remaining 10 tales was promised but never materialized.
Contents of THE COMPLETE IVY FROST:
Introduction by D. H. Olson
"Frost," Clues Detective Stories Sep '34
"Green Man—Creeping," Clues Detective Stories Nov '34
"They Could Not Kill Him," Clues Detective Stories Feb '35
"Bride of the Rats," Clues Detective Stories Apr '35
"The Artist of Death," Clues Detective Stories Jun '35
"Death Descending," Clues Detective Stories Aug '35
"Impossible," Clues Detective Stories Oct '35
"Merry-Go-Round," Clues Detective Stories Dec '35
"Giants in the Valley," Clues Detective Stories Feb '36
"Bone Crusher," Clues Detective Stories Apr '36
"Panda," Clues Detective Stories Jul '36
"The Lunatic Plague," Clues Detective Stories Aug '36
"Killer’s Bait," Clues Detective Stories Nov '36
"Stolen from the Morgue," Clues Detective Stories Jan '37
"Blood in the Golden Crystal," Clues Detective Stories Mar '37
"A Beetle or a Fox," Clues Detective Stories Jun '37
"Skeletons, Inc," Clues Detective Stories Aug '37
"Electric Devils," Clues Detective Stories Sep '37
Decorated Endsheets
18 Double-page Chris Kalb-designed Chapter Spreads
Hardcover, 700+ pageSmythe-sewn pages
$45
Place your order for THE COMPLETE IVY FROST
before publication and receive an *exclusive* postcard reproducing this portrait of author Donald Wandrei
by Minnesota artist Clem Haupers.
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| Hermes Press: THE PHANTOM COMPLETE DAILIES HC VOLUME 17 1961 -1962 - Arriving in comic shops November 27!
(Writer) Lee Falk (Art) Seymour Sy Barry
The critically acclaimed, best selling complete reprint of The Phantom continues!
Referred to by comic strip historian Maurice Horn as the "granddaddy of all costumed superheroes," The Phantom hit the funny pages of newspapers well before the Dark Knight or Superman made their first appearances andset the standard for action, adventure, intrigue, and romance in adventure comic strips and comic books. This exciting volume begins the Sy Barry years! Reprinted in all its black and white glory, journey with Hermes Press as we bring you four complete continuities drawn by Sy himself: "The Slave Market of Mucar," "The Epidemic," "The Wharf Rats," and "The Mysterious Ambassador." Strips from this issue are taken directly from King Feature's proofs.
Hardcover, 13x9, 288 pages, B&W, $60.00
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| Hermes Press: JOHNNY HAZARD DAILIES HC VOLUME 7 1954 - 1956 - Arriving in comic shops November 27!
(Writer/Art/Cover) Frank Robbins
Frank Robbins' masterpiece, one of the all-time greatest action/adventure newspaper comic strips, Johnny Hazard, returns with Volume Seven of the series! See more trend-setting artwork by comics legend Frank Robbins in one of the most important adventure strips ever to grace newspapers. Includes the following stories: "What's my name?," "A little birdie told me," "It's a snap," "Death at the Opera," "There's no hiding place," "The Car Thief," "Project Heat-Barrier," and "Hazard vs Hawkes." Reproduced entirely from original King Features press proofs.
Hardcover, 10x6, 288 pages, B&W, $50.00
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| Hermes Press: THE PHANTOM: THE COMPLETE AVON NOVELS: VOLUME 11 SWAMP RATS - Arriving in comic shops November 27!
(Writer) Lee Falk (Cover) George Wilson
The critically acclaimed, best selling complete reprint of The Phantom continues! Who would dare to venture into the deadly reaches of the Great Swamp? Few who had entered into its mists had emerged to tell of their experiences. Yet, if no one knew the Great Swamp, what better hiding place could he find? So it is that a pack of ruthless escaped convicts set up their headquarters in the Great Swamp, leaving them free to plunder the surrounding areas. They call themselves the Swamp Rats - and only one man can meet the dual challenge of this evil gang and the treacherous swamp. He is the Phantom.
Softcover, 6x9, 144 pages, B&W, $14.99
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| Hermes Press: THE PHANTOM: THE COMPLETE AVON NOVELS: VOLUME 12 VAMPIRES & WITCH - Arriving in comic shops November 27!
(Writer) Lee Falk (Cover) George Wilson
The critically acclaimed, best selling complete reprint of The Phantom continues! A plague of human vampires - a 300-year-old witch who, legends says, can only be freed from her chains and returned to youth and beauty by a Phantom kiss. Incredible in the twentieth century? Yet a tiny nation is terrorized by these ghastly beings who inhabit a medieval torture change beneath an ancient castle ruin. Follow the Phantom through a chilling web of superstition, fear, and deadly danger.
Softcover, 6x9, 144 pages, B&W, $14.99
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| Hermes Press: THE PHANTOM: THE COMPLETE AVON NOVELS: VOLUME 13 ISLAND OF DOGS - Coming in March!
(Writer) Lee Falk (Cover) George Wilson
The Avon editions of The Phantom are back in print! Hermes Press proudly presents their complete republishing of all fifteen Avon paperback novels featuring The Phantom! Volume 13 offers the classic Lee Falk tale: "The Island of Dogs!" Why is the supposedly uninhabited "Island of Dogs" surrounded by an electrified fence which protects miles of rail tracks and concrete barracks? Those who venture to this island are confronted with warnings to leave and a shower of gun fire. Who controls this island and what is their purpose? Only The Phantom can successfully penetrate its deadly mystery!
Softcover, 6x9, 144 pages, B&W, $14.99
THE PHANTOM: THE COMPLETE AVON NOVELS VOLUME 13 is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Available November 27).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC191735.
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| Hermes Press: THE PHANTOM: THE COMPLETE AVON NOVELS: VOLUME 14 ASSASSINS - Coming in March!
(Writer) Lee Falk (Cover) George Wilson
The Avon editions of The Phantom are back in print! Hermes Press proudly presents their complete republishing of all fifteen Avon paperback novels featuring The Phantom! Volume 14 offers the classic Lee Falk tale: "The Assassins!" An airplane is skyjacked, a millionairess kidnapped, and an assassination attempt made on a king and princess during a diplomatic visit to the United States. The Phantom rushes to the rescue and, in his efforts to solve these crimes, comes face-to-face with an ancient religious cult, "The Assassins", whose goal is the destruction of Western civilization. Once again, The Phantom finds himself in deadly peril as he rallies to outwit and destroy evil!
Softcover, 6x9, 144 pages, B&W, $14.99
THE PHANTOM: THE COMPLETE AVON NOVELS VOLUME 14 is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Available November 27).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC191736.
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| Hermes Press: THE PHANTOM: THE COMPLETE AVON NOVELS: VOLUME 15 THE CURSE OF THE TWO-HEADED BULL - Coming in March!
(Writer) Lee Falk (Cover) George Wilson
The Avon editions of The Phantom are back in print! Hermes Press proudly presents their complete republishing of all fifteen Avon paperback novels featuring The Phantom! Volume 15 offers the classic Lee Falk tale: "The Curse of the Two-Headed Bull!" To touch this ancient treasure can mean death, yet the safety and well-being of an entire people depends on their remaining possession of it. What is the mystery of the priceless two-headed bull for which men fight and die? When the priceless object suddenly disappears, the Phantom and his beautiful sweetheart, Diana, are drawn into a fantastic adventure that leads from the jungle to the harem of a potentate!
Softcover, 6x9, 144 pages, B&W, $14.99
THE PHANTOM: THE COMPLETE AVON NOVELS VOLUME 15 is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Available November 27).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC191737.
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STANLEY MELTZOFF
Coming in February!
Stanley Meltzoff was one of the first paperback cover artists to be noted for his work in the science fiction field, painting dramatic images that escaped the pulp influence evident in most other science fiction covers of the period. Along with paperback cover paintings in numerous genres, Meltzoff also produced work for slick magazines, including Scientific American, Life, Fortune, and the Saturday Evening Post. The winner of 25 awards from the Society of Illustrators, he was also one of the first, and certainly most preeminent, fish painters. His underwater images were a regular feature in National Geographic and other publications. This book features scores of paintings reproduced from Stanley's original art, as well as rare photos and tear sheets.
Standard Edition
224 pages, 9"x12", full color, hardbound with dust jacket. Limited to 900 copies!
Deluxe Edition
224 pages, 9"x12", full color, hardbound with dust jacket, shipped in a blue slipcase with white printing. Bookplate insert signed and numbered by publisher Daniel Zimmer. Limited to just 100 copies!
To see a preview of the book, follow this link: https://issuu.com/illomag/docs/meltzoff
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| ILLUSTRATORS SPECIAL #7: PIRATES - Coming in February!
(Writer) Peter Richardson (Art) Various
Avast, me hearties! Hoist high the Jolly Roger for a perilous voyage through 100 years of piracy illustrations from comics, magazines and books!
Divided into 5 sections: "Under the Black Flag", "Sweep the Spanish Main", "Swashbucklers of the Seven Seas", "Four Fabled Sea Raiders", and "The Sea-Faring Man with One Leg", along with special sections on Howard Pyle and Norman Mills Price.
Featured artists include Ron Embleton, NC Wyeth, Frank Schoonover, Cecil Glossop, Graham Coton, James McConnell, DC Eyles, Sep Scott, Fortunino Matania, Will Eisner, Edward Mortelmans, Peter Jackson, Alex Nino, Jose Salinas, Reed Crandall, Wally Wood and many more! A showcase some of the greatest pirate art ever published in comics, books, magazines, posters, including many versions of Treasure Island.
Magazine, 128 pages, Full Color, $34.99, On sale February 5.
ILLUSTRATOR'S SPECIAL #7 - PIRATES is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Available November 27).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC191577.
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| JAMES BOND #3 - Coming in February!
(Writer) Vita Ayala, Danny Lore (Art) Eric Gapstur (Cover) Jim Cheung
The first arc concludes, from VITA AYALA (Morbius), DANNY LORE (Queen of Bad Dreams) and ERIC GAPSTUR (The Flash).
Bond is in over his head. What started as a "punishment" assignment has expanded into a world of international crime that Bond can't wrap his mind around.
Will 007 accept that the mission is too big for one spy, and seek assistance…or will pride be his downfall?
Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale February 5.
JAMES BOND #3 is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Available November 27).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC191109.
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| JAMES BOND: REFLECTIONS OF DEATH HC - Coming in February!
(Writer) Greg Pak & Various (Art) Luca Casalanguida & Various (Cover) Fay Dalton
128 stunning pages of nonstop thrills and intrigue! An ALL-NEW, ALL-ORIGINAL James Bond graphic novel, by a cavalcade of superstars!
* GREG PAK (Star Wars, Darth Vader)!
* ANDY DIGGLE (Daredevil, Green Arrow)!
* BENJAMIN PERCY (X-Force, Wolverine)!
* GAIL SIMONE (Deadpool, Wonder Woman)!
* MARK RUSSELL (Red Sonja, The Flintstones)!
* VITA AYALA & DANNY LORE (James Bond ongoing series)!
Six stunning stories, featuring the world’s greatest spy!
Moneypenny has been kidnapped, and the mystery of who has her, and what they want, will only be revealed when (if?) 007 is able to complete his incredible missions.
Hardcover, Full Color, 128 pages, $24.99, On sale February 19.
JAMES BOND: REFLECTIONS OF DEATH is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Available November 27).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC191096.
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| Jerry Schneider Enterprises Now available!
MAGAZINE OF HORROR #21
CONTENTS
KINGS OF THE NIGHT by Robert E. Howard
THE CUNNING OF PRIVATE ROGOFF by David A. English
THE BRAIN-EATERS by Frank Belknap Long
A PSYCHICHAL INVASION by Algernon Blackwood
NASTURTIA by Col. S. P. Meek
THE DARK STAR by G. G. Pendarves
Digest, 5.5 x 8.5 inch, 130 pages
$12.95
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| Martin Grams' Blog - Now online!
The History of Time Travel
The Return of Blood "N" Thunder Magazine
Amazon is not stealing your business
Old Dark House: A Chilling Genre
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The Robert E. Howard Newsline
Now online!
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Avenger Double Feature!
Now available for pre-order!
Coming in December 2019!
In the jungle of southern Mexico, people are struck down by mysterious obsidian spearheads, a gigantic winged serpent appears in the skies, and a golden giant claims to be an Aztec god reborn. When Nellie Gray and Cole Wilson go missing investigating the mysterious Sons of the Feathered Serpent, the Avenger is drawn into one of the most bizarre and dangerous adventures of his career. His life, the lives of his associates, and the Aztec treasure that sustains Justice Inc. are all endangered by the curse of Kukulkan.
Hardcover: $25.99
Softcover: $10.99
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| Mystery*File - Now online!
Pulp SF Stories I’m Reading: PHILIP K. DICK “The Gun.” - New!
Reviewed by David Vineyard: IAN FLEMING – Thunderball.- New!
Pulp Stories I’m Reading: ERIC TAYLOR “Kali.”
Pulp SF-Fantasy Stories I’m Reading: THEODORE STURGEON “The Ultimate Egoist.”
THE AVENGER IN RADIO: RICHARD BENSON vs. JIM BRANDON, by Michael Shonk.
Reviewed by Walker Martin: LAURIE POWERS – Queen of the Pulps: The Reign of Daisy Bacon and Love Story Magazine.
A Pulp Fiction Mystery Review: JOHN JAY CHICHESTER – The Bigamist.
Pulp Stories I’m Reading: L. M. MONTGOMERY “The House Party at Smoky Island.”
A Movie Review by Dan Stumpf: SHERLOCK HOLMES FACES DEATH (1943).
| The New Pulp Heroes - Now online!
Birdman
Bounty
The Scarlet Claw
The Midnight Phantom
Australis Incognito
The Henchmen
| PAPERBACK PARADE #105 - Now available!
PAPERBACK PARADE #105, the magazine for paperback readers and collectors -- 104 pages in Full Color!
Contents
Gary Lovisi: Paperback Talk
Gary Lovisi “A Look at the Cherry Delight Books”
Tom Lesser “British Pedigree Books”
Morgan A. Wallace “Swan’s Detective Thriller Library”
Richard Greene “Matchless Paperbacks: The Cost of Living”
Gary Lovisi “What in the Hell . . . !?” The ‘Heroes in Hell’ Books
Tom Cantrell “Leslie Edgley (aka Robert Bloomfield): A Writer on the Edge of the Blacklist”
Richard L. Kellogg “Uncle Abner: Seeker of Justice”
Philip Harbottle “Remembering A.A. Glynn”
Kathy Godfrey & Kenneth R. Johnson “Regency Fantasies”
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George Vanderburgh has been named the winner of the 2019 Munsey Award. Nominated by the general pulp community, George was selected by previous winners of the Lamont, Munsey, and Rusty Awards. The award is a fine art print created by David Saunders and published by Dan Zimmer of The Illustrated Press. It is presented annually to an individual or institution that has bettered the pulp community. Bill Lampkin — winner of the 2018 Munsey Award — presented this year’s award.
Our 2019 Munsey Award winner, GEORGE VANDERBURGH has published over 600 books through his Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, many of them directly related to the pulps. He was largely responsible for finally getting all of Fred Davis’ classic Moon Man stories back into print. And what about his Peter the Brazen series, his five volumes featuring the work of Seabury Quinn, THE COMPLEAT ADVENTURES OF THE PARK AVENUE HUNT CLUB, his Green Ghost set, THE COMPLEAT SAGA OF JOHN SOLOMON, THE ADVENTURES OF THE GOLDEN AMAZON, THE COMPLEAT ADVENTURES OF THE SUICIDE SQUAD, and others? He has also given us numerous collections of detective fiction, including volumes featuring the Thinking Machine, Dr. Thorndyke, and Martin Hewitt. Looking at his website, his future plans include several books reprinting pulp authors who have been unjustly forgotten. Along with the late Robert Weinberg, George served as the co-editor of Arkham House Publishers until the death of April Derleth. A regular attendee of pulp conventions, George has helped both longtime and new fans to collect the tales of some of the most fantastic heroes from the pulps. At this year’s PulpFest, George was part of our presentation, “The Game’s Afoot: Sherlock Holmes and the Pulps.”
Congratulations to George for this most deserved award.
PulpFest Blog Posts
Contribute to THE PULPSTER - New!
Register Now for PulpFest 2020 - New!
Tom Johnson
Ten Months to PulpFest
The Countess of PulpFest
Coming Soon! Pulp AdventureCon and Classicon! Get Your Copy of THE PULPSTER
Thanks to Everyone Who Helped with PulpFest 2019
| Pulpgen-Online Pulps - Now online!
New this week
"For a Woman" by H. A. Woodbury from RANCH ROMANCES, September, 27, 1929
Steve is a cow hand with a past. Someone knows about his past and tried to blackmail him and things would have gotten worse but for Ginger, the rancher's tomboy daughter who knows Steve is the man for her.
"The Heat Ray" by O. L. Beckworth from AIR WONDER STORIES, April, 1930
A man invents a heat-ray which is stolen from him and used to rob passenger airplanes. The man's son finds himself in the position to avenge his father's murder and end the terror of the heat ray.
"Getting the Sheriff's Number" by William H. Greene from ARGOSY, March, 1912
A droll story about a Sheriff who lost his nerve and what became of him.
| | PULPSTER #28
Now available!
Copies of THE PULPSTER #28 — the annual PulpFest program book — are available for purchase through Mike Chomko, Books, one of the leading purveyors of pulp-related publications in the field.
Echoing the “Children of the Pulps” portion of our PulpFest 2019 theme, THE PULPSTER takes a look at how characters and fictioneers from the pulpwood paper magazines influenced other characters, television, movies, and more that came after them.
Fronting the magazine is art by Rudolph Belarski from the cover for the September 1939 BLACK BOOK DETECTIVE magazine. It illustrates one aspect of how the pulps influenced the creation of the superhero in comics, with a decidedly Batman-looking Black Bat. That leads into the first of our cover stories.
Will Murray recalls how he and Anthony Tollin pieced together how the creators of Batman lifted elements from THE SHADOW MAGAZINE for their Dark Knight. Will also writes about Johnston McCulley, whom he calls the grandfather of the superhero. Meanwhile, D. Kepler looks at how McCulley’s most famous character — Zorro — on the 100th anniversary of his debut, has been portrayed on screens around the world.
Scott Tracy Griffin surveys how Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan begat generations of jungle men, women, and children in popular culture.
Three articles examine the pulp magazines’ influence on movies and television: Aaron H. Oliver writes about the 1960s western/spy TV series THE WILD WILD WEST; Jess Terrell looks at the original STAR WARS trilogy; and Sara Light-Waller details how Japanese anime (animated) and tokusatsu (live-action special effects film) drew from the pulps.
THE PULPSTER also celebrates the 100th anniversaries of two pulp magazines: ROMANCE and THE THRILL BOOK. Doug Ellis writes about how ROMANCE struggled for a year with its name and its place in the adventure field, while Richard Bleiler looks at the ambitious oddity that was THE THRILL BOOK.
Then editor emeritus of THE PULPSTER, Tony Davis, writes about Bertrand Sinclair and his nearly 50-year career in the pulps. And THE PULPSTER reprints a letter from fictioneer G. T. Fleming-Roberts in which he reflects on the influence of Sherlock Holmes on his career.
Of course, this issue has the regular departments: “Final Chapters,” by Davis, which notes those of the pulp community who have passed away during the last year; and columns by publisher Michael Chomko and editor Bill Lampkin. And we would be remiss without noting assistant editor Peter Chomko’s help with this issue.
If you’d like to order a copy of THE PULPSTER #28, please write to Mike Chomko at mike@pulpfest.com or 2217 W. Fairview St., Allentown, PA 18104-6542. The cost of the issue is $13, postage paid in the United States. Buyers from outside the United States should inquire about shipping charges, prior to placing an order.
Back issues of THE PULPSTER are also available through Mike Chomko, Books. A limited number of copies of THE PULPSTER #26 and 27 are available. The cost of each is $13, postage paid. Reduced postage is available on orders for multiple books. These prices are good only in the United States. Buyers from outside the United States should inquire about shipping charges, prior to placing an order. All other issues of THE PULPSTER are out of print.
Please note that all issues of THE PULPSTER — included this year’s number — are in very short supply. Order your copies before they are gone!
Mike will accept payments made via check or money order or through Paypal. Please write to him at mike@pulpfest.com or 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA 18104-6542 for further instructions.
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| The Pulp Archivist - Now online!
The Avenger: Justice, Inc. - New!
Interplanetary Graveyard and Horror on the Links
The Lair of the Grimalkin
The Iron God and Cardigan: Death Alley
In Another World with CEOs
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| Pulp Den by Tom Johnson - Now online!
Hatteras Island Mystery
Sunken Treasure Lost Worlds
Shadow of The Dagger
Welcome To Miskatonic University
Boundless
King Ra Ra: Carrots For Sale
The City Burns At Night
| Pulp Flakes - Now online!
A new pulp blog on pulp magazines, authors and their stories, adventure and detective pulps.
New blog for pulp deals - New!
Pulpfest 2019 trip report - photos
Walker Martin: Pulpfest 2019 report - August 15-18, 2019, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The dark side of the pulps
Pulp links roundup - July 2019 edition
| The Pulp Hermit by Tom Johnson - Now online!
INTRODUCING NEW PULP AUTHOR THOMAS V. POWERS
INTRODUCING NEW PULP AUTHOR STEPHEN PAYNE
INTRODUCING NEW PULP AUHOR TERRY NUDDS
INTRODUCING NEW PULP AUTHOR WILLIAM PATRICK MURRAY
Introducing New Pulp Author Tom Johnson
A New Artist Comes to ECHOES
Introducing New Pulp Author Ginger Johnson
Betty Dale, Charlotta & Leanne Manners
A Piece of Something Big
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The Pulp.Net - Now online!
Eleven new episodes of ThePulp.Net's Pulp Event Podcast—
featuring nearly seven-and-a-half hours of programming from PulpFest 2019 — are now online.
You can listen to them on the web at ThePulp.Net’s PulpFest 2019 page,
or on your favorite mobile device by subscribing to the free podcast at the iTunes App Store or Google Play store.
The Pulp.Net
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| The Pulp.Net - Now online!
The Pulp.Net features three ongoing blogs!
Pulp Super-Fan blog written by Michael R. Brown, That's Pulp by John Olsen, and the long-running Yellowed Perils written by William Lampkin.
| | QUEEN OF THE PULPS
by Laurie Powers
Now available!
QUEEN OF THE PULPS, the definitive biography of Daisy Bacon and the untold story of LOVE STORY MAGAZINE!
Daisy Bacon, the opinionated, autocratic and complex editor of Love Story Magazine from 1928 to 1947, chose the stories that would be read by hundreds of thousands of readers each week. The first weekly periodical devoted to romance fiction and the biggest-selling pulp in the early days of the Great Depression, Love Story sparked a wave of imitators that dominated newsstands for more than twenty years.
Disparaged as "love pulp," the magazine actually championed the "modern girl," bringing its heroines out of the shadows of Victorian poverty and into the 20th century. With Love Story'ssuccess, Bacon became a national spokesperson, declaring that the modern woman could have it all-in love, in marriage and in the business world.
Yet Bacon herself struggled to achieve that ideal, especially in her own romantic life, built around a long-term affair with a married man. Drawing on exclusive access to her personal papers, this first-ever biography tells story behind the woman who influenced millions of others to pursue independence in their careers and in their relationships.
Softcover: $39.95
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Forged in war, The Phantom Detective wages a one-man battle on crime! Solving impossible mysteries and delivering his own justice, he is the underworld’s masked nightmare!
The Phantom Detective runs a mad race with death in this action-packed mystery of a sinister killer’s fiendish, diabolical crimes. The Phantom Detective knows no fear, admits no failure! Boldly facing perils that would make the bravest of men quail, he dares to pursue his chosen career as Nemesis of Crime despite the bitterest, most formidable foes ever faced by man. He is the Scourge of the Underworld, dedicated to the annihilation of the lawless! His genius intellect and agile body are his two greatest weapons in fighting crime!
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Ned Pines was the man behind a publishing company that went under many names during its existence. Known at different times as Better, Standard, and Thrilling Publications, it’s the company’s tenure as Thrilling that saw the birth of one of Pulp’s greatest heroes, The Phantom Detective! Taking a cue from the success of Street & Smith’s The Shadow magazine, the first such magazine to feature a hero as its title and lead feature, Pines imagined that following suit might prove lucrative for his own endeavor. Putting this intent into action, Thrilling Publications released the first issue of The Phantom Detective magazine in February 1933, just a scant thirty or so days before Street & Smith delivered another soon to be legend, Doc Savage in his own magazine. Keeping up with both his predecessor and the hero that followed him by a month, The Phantom Detective ran in his own magazine for 170 issues, just behind the other two characters’ achievements. Pines’ masked sleuth also set a record the other two did not, his magazine being published for a total of twenty years!
‘The Tick-Tack-Toe Murders’ was originally published in the March 1934 issue of The Phantom Detective Magazine and is read with pulse pounding intensity by award winning voice actor Milton Bagby.
5 hours - $9.99 Download / $19.98 Audio CDs
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G-8 and His Battle Aces #20 Audiobook
The Gorilla Staffel
by Robert J. Hogan
Read by Nick Santa Maria
Now available!
They called G-8 the Flying Spy. History never recorded his exploits—and for good reason! No one would ever believe World War I was that wild!
“You cannot kill me,” the spy shouted. “Your execution squad has just shot me, yet here I stand, as much alive as ever. There are many more like me in Germany. Bullets cannot kill them!” And G-8, listening, knew this strange man spoke the truth — in part at least. All up and down the Front that terrible news spread. For a strange staffel had taken to war skies — a staffel of pilots who could not be killed. Bullets went into them — through them; they only laughed and fought on. Horror gripped the Allies as three Yanks set out, pledged to pit fighting wings against invincible aces! How could G-8 and his aces dare hope to conquer an enemy that could not die?
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From its debut in 1933, G-8 and His Battle Aces was a success, finding fans especially with children and teenagers. Originally just writing these fantastical aviation yarns to feed himself, author Robert J. Hogan found himself a successful author, thanks to America’s Master Spy. Penning a full length adventure monthly, Hogan was one of the top earning pulp authors at the height of G-8’s popularity, making as much as $1000.00 a tale. He wrote other pulp tales too, westerns and the like, even creating another series character, The Mysterious Wu Fang. Eventually leaving pulps to write western novels and for the Saturday Evening Post, Hogan was known to comment that the one character that fans talked to him about more than any other until his death was a pilot, like himself, yet different than anyone who’d flown before him, G-8!
Nick Santa Maria brings G-8, Nippy and Bull to thrilling life in their desperate struggle to defeat a deadly nemesis unlike anything they have ever before encountered in ‘The Gorilla Staffel’. Originally published in the May 1935 issue of G-8 and His Battle Aces magazine.
Nick DeGregorio composed the music for the G-8 and His Battle Aces series of audiobooks.
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Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine.
The Phantom Detective! The name alone conjures up action and adventure. From the same publisher that brought you The Black Bat, Captain Danger, The Crimson Mask and The Green Ghost came one of pulpdom’s best-known detectives. Scourge of the underworld, The Phantom, as he was called, aided the Law with his sweetheart Muriel Havens. His first adventure was published in February 1933 and they continued for 170 thrilling exploits until the Summer 1953 issue. The Phantom Detective returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
A Full Book-Length Novel
The Tick-Tack-Toe Murders
by Robert Wallace
The Phantom Detective runs a mad race with death in this action-packed novel of a sinister killer’s fiendish, diabolical crimes.
The Missing Man — Gripping Short Story
by George H. Coxe
Sergeant John Ross scents a murder
Mirrors Of Doom — Gripping Short Story
by Donald Bayne Hobart
A dead man in an eerie house of mystery
The One O’Clock Ear — Gripping Short Story
by Syl MacDowell
Charley Noble had some new ideas in detection
On The Lam — Gripping Short Story
by C.K.M. Scanlon
Angel-Face is framed to take a murder rap
The Phantom Speaks — A Department
Radio Archives Pulp Classics line of eBooks are of the highest quality and feature the great Pulp Fiction stories of the 1930s-1950s. All eBooks produced by Radio Archives are available in ePub and Mobi formats for the ultimate in compatibility. If you have a Kindle, the Mobi version is what you want. If you have an iPad/iPhone, Android, or Nook, then the ePub version is what you want.
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Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine.
G-8 and His Battle Aces rode the nostalgia boom ten years after World War I ended. These high-flying exploits were tall tales of a World War that might have been, featuring monster bats, German zombies, wolf-men, harpies, Martians, and even tentacled floating monsters. Most of these monstrosities were the work of Germany’s seemingly endless supply of mad scientists, chief of whom was G-8’s recurring Nemesis, Herr Doktor Krueger. G-8 battled Germany’s Halloween shock troops for over a decade, not ceasing until the magazine folded in the middle of World War II. G-8 and His Battle Aces return in vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Introduction to G-8 and His Battle Aces
by Will Murray
Book-Length Sky Novel
The Gorilla Staffel
As told by G-8 to Robert J. Hogan
“You cannot kill me,” the spy shouted. “Your execution squad has just shot me, yet here I stand, as much alive as ever. There are many more like me in Germany. Bullets cannot kill them!” And G-8, listening, knew this strange man spoke the truth — in part at least. He had already met a Boche staffel whom bullets could not injure! Who were these invincible pilots? How could G-8 and his aces dare hope to conquer an enemy that could not die?
Bull’s-Eye Kiwi — Smashing Short Story
When a guy like Marty wants to fight Germans it takes more than a college degree to stop him!
Cover
painted by Frederick Blakeslee
The gorilla grabbed G-8
Radio Archives Pulp Classics line of eBooks are of the highest quality and feature the great Pulp Fiction stories of the 1930s-1950s. All eBooks produced by Radio Archives are available in ePub and Mobi formats for the ultimate in compatibility. If you have a Kindle, the Mobi version is what you want. If you have an iPad/iPhone, Android, or Nook, then the ePub version is what you want.
Regular price: $3.99 Discounted 50% the first week: $1.99
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The first three jackets are all reconstructed using scans of the original paintings for those covers.
THE WAR CHIEF alternate is based on art by noted western artist Maynard Dixon and you can read more about it here.
Please take a moment to read the four-page article about the publishing of THE WAR CHIEF and why it meant so much to Ed Burroughs. I think you’ll be interested to find out that the book was one of the most well-researched novels he ever wrote (besides I AM A BARBARIAN), and, considering its point of view and many of the statements about white settlers, the US Army and the reasons for the Apache’s explicit savagery, certainly his most controversial.
| RED SONJA #13 - Coming in February!
(Writer) Mark Russell (Art) Mirko Colak
Cover A: Jae Lee
Cover B: Joseph Michael Linsner
Cover C: Bob Q
Cover D: Marc Laming
Cover E: Cosplay
Cover F: Sanya Anwar
Year Two of MARK RUSSELL's epic tale kicks off here, joined by artist BOB Q (Captain America, Fantastic Four). In this issue: Sonja The Red has won. Now comes the impossible part…
And, because it's February, we're celebrating Valentine's Day with a special variant by artist Sanya Anwar!
Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale February 5.
RED SONJA #13 is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Available November 27).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC191163 (Lee cover).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC191164 (Linsner cover).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC191165 (Bob Q cover).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC191166 (Laming cover).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC191167 (Cosplay cover).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC191168 (Anwar cover).
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| | | ROY G. KRENKEL: FATHER OF HEROIC FANTASY - A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION - Now available!
by Andrew Steven Damsits and Barry Klugerman
Roy G. Krenkel was one of the most renowned fantasy artists of the 20th century.
His far-reaching influence on artists like Frank Frazetta, Al Williamson, Michael Kaluta and Jeffrey Jones--to name but a few--was immeasurable and cannot be overerstated.
Krenkel illustrated numerous works by Edgar Rice Burroughs, as well as Robert E. Howard, Lin Carter, and more. But many of Krenkel's works--what he called his "Doodles," in a characteristically self-effacing manner--were rarely seen by even his biggest fans. And while many of Roy's doodles were simple drawings, many were finished illustrations done for the pure pleasure of creating art.
Most of the images in this book are published here for the very first time (courtesy of and with the full cooperation of the Krenkel Estate), and nearly all have been painstakingly scanned from the original art (in a manner akin to IDW's Eisner Award-winning Artist's Edition series) with the goal being to showcase Krenkel's gorgeous original art in a way it has never been seen before. While the realms of science-fiction, heroic fantasy, paleontology, and historical reconstruction were particular specialties of Roy's, his pen, brush, and palette knew no boundaries.
Hardcover, 9 x 13 inches, 304 pages
$59.99
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Now shipping!
CAPTAIN AMERICA
THE MOVIE SERIAL
FEATURING DICK PURCELL
ADRIAN BOOTH and LIONEL ATWILL
Blu-Ray/DL-DVD Upgrade
A remastering of the original Squadron-produced transfer with complete, correct chapter openings, stabilized, and offered in HD with improved sharpness and motion.
Also includes new and upgraded extras.
Watch for information on how to preorder and when the title will ship.
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SON OF THE GUARDSMAN
THE MOVIE SERIAL
DL-DVD Upgrade
Coming in November!
FEATURING BOB SHAW, DAUN KENNEDY, BUZZ HENRY, CHARLES KING and WHEELER OAKMAN
THE CRIMSON GHOST
THE MOVIE SERIAL
BLU-RAY Upgrade or DL-DVD
Coming in December!
FEATURING CHARLES QUIGLEY, LINDA STIRLING, CLAYTON MOORE, KENNE DUNCAN and ? as THE CRIMSON GHOST (Voice by I. Stanford Jolley)
ROCKETMAN IN THE COMICS AND THE MOVIES
Book
Coming soon!
The history of Rocketman/Commando Cody in the serials and related characters including Bulletman in the comics. Includes a brand NEW Rocketman story.
THE HOUSE OF HATE
Blu-Ray/DL-DVD
Coming in January!
New upgraded transfer of the amazing, massively influential Pearl White mystery serial, with solid leading man Antonio Moreno,
and, introducing The Hooded Terror, most fearsome and deadly of the early serial villains.
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| The Shadowcast #1 - THE LIVING SHADOW - Now online!
The Shadowcast: Season 1, Episode 3 - 'LINGO' and 'DEATH TO THE SHADOW' - New!
Season 1, Episode 2 - 'THE SHADOW/GREEN HORNET: Dark Nights'
Season 1, Episode 1 - The Living Shadow
In this first episode, we explore the origins of the Dark Avenger with the very first pulp story: THE LIVING SHADOW, and review The Knight of Darkness's first film appearance in the rare 1931
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| | Shadowridge Press LONELY VIGILS by Manly Wade Wellman
Illustrated by George Evans
Coming later this month!
The long-awaited reissue of Manly Wade Wellman's LONELY VIGILS, a collection of his supernatural sleuths including all of the original John Thunstone pulp stories.
This is a companion volume to WORSE THINGS WAITING and will also be a large 7 x 10 trade paperback format and running 500 pages, including all of the original art by George Evans.
It will be available for Halloween from Amazon for a mere $19.99.
The title page is shown at the right.
Also in the works
CREEP, SHADOW by A. Merritt
BURN, WITCH, BURN! by A. Merritt
WOMAN OF THE WOOD by A. Merritt
FROM THE TIDELESS SEA by William Hope Hodgson
DEMONS OF THE SEA by William Hope Hodgson
THE GHOSTS OF GLEN DOON by William Hope Hodgson
DEEP WATERS by William Hope Hodgson
THE HAUNTED JARVEE by William Hope Hodgson
UNCLE SILAS by Sheridan Le Fanu
THE HOUSE BY THE CHURCHYARD by Sheridan Le Fanu
IN A GLASS DARKLY by Sheridan Le Fanu
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| SPECTRE LIBRARY: THE PULP AND PAPERBACK FICTION READER - Now online!
Love Traffic by Gaston Lamond
“Murder Mayhem” by Ray Stahl (aka: Bart Carson)
Murder Gets Around by Robert Sidney Bowen
Spider Pete by Claude Stewart
The Finger of Death by Henry Keyworth
| Tellers of Weird Tales - Now online!
Terence Hanley has created a blog in which he researches and writes about the contributors to Weird Tales magazine and its companion titles, Oriental Stories and The Magic Carpet Magazine.
From Things To Come into The Space Trilogy-Part Two
From Things To Come into The Space Trilogy-Part One
July: We, The Moon, and Things to Come-Part Two
July: The Moon, We, and Things to Come-Part One
July: Geismar and Fiedler-The Science Fiction Connection
July: Hemingway and Lovecraft-Part Two
July: Hemingway and Lovecraft-Part One
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| Tragon of Ramura - Now available!
by John M. Whalen
A dream starts Tragon of Ramura and his friend/bodyguard Yusef Ahmed on a search for an amulet said to be the source of the most powerful magic in the universe, Their search leads them to the lost city of Caiphar and the beautiful and mysterious Sai-Ul-San, high priestess of the cult of Zoth-Amin. Tragon finds the Crimson Eye of Caiphar, but the city holds dark secrets of an evil a thousand years old that threaten to unleash a demon intent on destroying the world. Can Tragon defeat the ancient forces that rule Caiphar, or will he remain trapped forever in the Tower of Lost Souls?
Paperback: 200 pages
Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 inches
$12.99
Kindle - $2.99
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| | WEIRDBOOK #41
Softcover edition now available at Amazon!
Prose
Tonight I Wear My Crimson Face, by Adrian Cole
The House of the Witches, by Darrell Schweitzer
The Bones, by Erica Ruppert
-The Idols of Xan, by Steve Dilks
Conjurings, by Marlane Quade Cook
Matriarch Unbound, by Glynn Owen Barrass
The Mouth at the Edge of the World, by Luke Walker
"An Autumn Settling", by Alistair Rey
I Know How You'll Die, by K.G. Anderson
Fair Shopping, by Jack Lee Taylor
Black Aggie, by Marina Favila
The Chroma of Home, by Arasibo Campeche
The Last Resort, by Dean MacAllister
The Crypt Beneath the Manse, by S. Subramanian
A Winter Reunion, by C.M. Muller
The Stravinsky Code, by Leonard Carpenter
She Talks to Me, by Matthew Masucci
Wings of Twilight, by L.F. Falconer
A Pantheon of Trash, by Thomas C. Mavroudis
Juliet's Moon, by D.C. Lozar
The Gargoyle's Wife, by Jean Graham
The Melting Man, by Justin Boote
Dead Waves, by Sean McCoy
The Proposal, by J.D. Brink
Dark Energy, by Kevin Hayman
Christmas at Castle Dracula, by S. L. Edwards
There Was Fire, by M. Ravenberg
Them, by Sharon Cullars
For Love of Lythea, by C. I. Kemp
Poetry
Beltane, by K.A. Opperman
Twin Hungers, by Scott J. Couturier
The Jackal, by Ashley Dioses
Our Family Ghost, by Joshua Gage
Le Gargoyle, by Russ Parkhurst"
Amazon.com Kindle Wildside Press: Softcover Wildside Press: eBook
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| | Will Murray
Tarzan, Conqueror of Mars
The Wild Adventures series of novels is pleased to announce that award-winning illustrator Romas Kukalis has agreed to paint the cover for its next release, Tarzan, Conqueror of Mars.
Known professionally as Romas, Kukalis has for several decades specialized in fantasy and science fiction art. Best known for his colorful covers for Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover books and Anne McCaffrey's Rowan series, he won the World Fantasy Award in 1991. For this lo ng-awaited crossover adventure, which finds Edgar Rice Burroughs' immortal ape-man marooned on the planet Mars, Romas is working on a wraparound cover depicting Tarzan attired in Barsoomian regalia, wielding a sword of exotic metal, two of his savage Martian allies looming in the background.
Author Will Murray says, "I just approved the color comp, and believe me, it is breathtaking.
Fans of Tarzan have always wanted to see him tested on Mars, and tested he is. His adventures will bring him into conflict with Burroughs' other great hero, John Carter, Warlord of Warlords. This is an epic story of survival and a desperate quest to return to Earth. Romas's fantastic art depicts planetary elements and creatures of Mars both classic and previously unseen." "It is a very great honor to be depicting this iconic character," the artist adds, "and humbling to follow the many fine artists who have done so." Fully authorized by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Tarzan, Conqueror of Mars, will be released through Altus Press by Christmas, 2019 in softcover, hardcover and e-book editions.
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