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17 May 2013

’24′ - New Limited Series is a GO on Fox!

Jack Bauer is back! Deadline has learned that, after marathon negotiations, Kiefer Sutherland has closed a deal for a new installment of 24 on Fox. With him on board, Fox has greenlighted the real-time drama as a limited series. The continuation is a brain child of longtime 24 showrunner Howard Gordon, now executive producer of Showtime’s Homeland.


Adventure House
HIGH ADVENTURE #130
Now available!


Globe Spanning Action Special
 Great tales from such scarce pulp titles as
Danger Trail, Far East Adventure Stories and more. 
Authors include: Murray Leinster, Raymond Spears,
Chester Saxby and William Byron Mowery. 

7x10, 110 pages, $9.95




Adventure House
G-8 and His Battle Aces #44

Now available!

"Flight of the Dragon" by Robert J. Hogan
 

"Death rode like the wind across the sky, in the guise of a monster such as no man had seen before. 
The flames of destruction are closing about the Master Spy, his men have lost courage in the face of the Dragon's fire. 
How long can one man fight on his courage alone; what price will he pay for his country's salvation?"

7x10, $9.95



Adventure House - Now available!

The Phantom Detective - 10/38

"Graduates of Murder" by Robert Wallace
"Brutal mass murder is a tocsin call to the Phantom in this grim manhunt!  A sinister genius of crime hurls defiance at public and police as he carries on a campaign of banditry which shocks a nation."
 
"Prize Title Contest Story" by Charles S. Strong
"Death Watch" by Owen Fox Jerome

Cover Artist: Rudolph Belarski
7x10, 128 pages, $14.95
Thrilling Wonder Stories - 03/41

 "The Lost Planet" by Barry Cord
"Stranger From the Stars" by Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr.
"Out of the Years" by Ivan Sandrof
"The Indestructible" by Robert Arthur
"The Little Man Who Wasn't There" by Arthur K. Barnes
"Plastic Pigskin Daze" William Morrison
"Dead End" by Malcolm Jameson

Cover Artist: Earle Bergey
7x10, 128 pages, $14.95
Spicy Detective Stories - 09/41

"Homicide Pay-Off" by C.A.M. Donne
"The Corpse Goes Calling" by William B. Rainey
"Barmecide Bride" by Robert Leslie Bellem
"Sally the Sleuth" by Barreaux
"The Lady and the Heel" by Randolph Barr
"Safety Gag" by Walton Grey
"Missing Or Dead" by Bob Leeson
"Death Watch" by Stan Warner
 
7x10, 128 pages, $14.95




Airship 27 Productions
ALL-STAR PULP COMICS #2
(Portion of Profits Goes to Boston Red Cross)
Now available!

Airship 27 Productions has once again teamed with Redbud Studio comics to release the second in their on-going pulp comics anthology.  The first giant issue in this series won the coveted Pulp Ark Award for Best Pulp Comic of 2010.

Volume two of the series, co-edited by creators Ron Fortier and Rob Davis, is even bigger than that stellar premier issue.  Contained here are eight stories featuring both modern and classic pulp heroes; Ki-Gor the Jungle Lord, the Black Bat, Cain, Robin Hood, Lance Star, Brothers Bones, Dillon and Domino Lady. 

The cover is by Will Meugniot and features Ki-Gor’s lovely mate, Helene, battling back to back with Derrick Ferguson’s modern day adventurer, Dillon.  Other creators represented are Russ Anderson, Fortier, Davis, Ian Watson, Thomas Deja, Michelle Sciuto, Sean Taylor, Aaron Meade, Todd Jones, Lee Oaks, James Gaubatz, Van Plexico,
Andrew Salmon and Kelly Everaert. 

The book is available from Indy Planet.com and part of the proceeds are being donated to the Boston Red Cross.  “We were the last stages of assembling the book,” explains Editor Foriter, “when the Patriots’ Day bombings occurred in Boston.  All of us, like the rest of the country, were in shock and felt helpless to do anything.”  It was writer Van Plexico who contacted Fortier about possibly offering some of the sales proceeds to help those injured in the terror attack.  “The second Van brought up, I knew it was something we had to do,” Fortier continues.  He contacted Davis and all the creators and the decision was made to take all the profits earned by the book during its first six months in print and donate them to the Boston Red Cross.

“We truly hope our fans, when they learn of this idea, will want to rally around a truly good cause and help us put sales over the top,” adds co-editor Rob Davis.  “We really want this to be the best selling title Redbud Studio has ever produced.”


Airship 27 Productions – Pulp Fiction For A New Generation!


THE ALLURING ART OF MARGARET BRUNDAGE
(Writer) Stephen D. Korshak, J. David Spurlock (Art) Margaret Brundage

Now available and arriving in comic shops May 22!


Margaret Brundage changed the look of fantasy, science-fiction, and horror with her alluring sensationalistic covers for the legendary pulp magazine, WEIRD TALES. Brundage was the first female cover artist of the pulp era and the first to paint Conan!.Decades before the gothic fetish craze, Brundage's provocative paintings featuring semi-nude young women bearing whips, became a major controversy.

In this, the first book devoted to this noted artist, authors Korshak and Spurlock spotlight artwork along essays by noted artists Rowena, Robert Weinberg, and more. All editions feature big, 9" x 12" lavish illustrated, full-color pages with art and text. The Deluxe edition features an extra 16 page art folio not included in the standard hardcover.

HARDCOVER: 8.5x11, 134 pages, Full Color, $39.95 (Top illustration)
SLIPCASED DELUXE: 8.5x11, 150 pages, Full Color, $69.95 (Bottom illustration)








Altus Press
Now available!
WEST OF GUAM: THE COMPLETE CASES OF JO GAR
 by Raoul Whitfield
Introductions by E.R. Hagemann and R.H. Miller


In the February 1930 issue of Black Mask Magazine a new character was introduced to the American detective story. Jo Gar is both a classic “thinking” sleuth and a tough man of action who inhabits the exotic noir world of the Philippines between the two World Wars. Jo Gar faces a rogue’s gallery of colorful villains from mixed-race Chinese to high society American exiles.
In these Jo Gar stories, Whitfield creates a vivid world where typhoons threaten the harbor, criminals escape from the local prison, and the waterfront is home to cutthroats from all countries. Manila’s great international seaport is home to luxury liner travelers of all classes from all around Asia, and the world.

This new, expanded edition of the long out of print, very collectable 2002 anthology, contains every word written about Jo Gar, and presents every story, novella, and novel. It includes two legendary Nagasaki novelettes not seen since 1930 as well as the only Jo Gar novel, The Rainbow Murders, complete and unabridged!

Edited by the Black Mask Library Series General Editor, Keith Alan Deutsch, this new volume includes two important, critical, biographical essays about Whitfield and Jo Gar by Black Mask scholar E.R. Hagemann, and a portrait of Professor Hagemann by his colleague, Dr. R.H. Miller. The new book is richly illustrated with line drawings by the greatest dry brush illustrator of the pulp age, Arthur Rodman Bowker.

All these extras, and now at a new, low, popular price, too!
580 pages, approx. 6"x9"


Order the paperback from Amazon: $29.95
 Order the limited edition hardcover: $44.95 (only 100 made)


Altus Press
Coming soon and available for PulpFest!
HIDDEN GHOSTS: THE LOST STORIES OF PAUL S. POWERS
 
Introduction by Laurie Powers


Paul S. Powers (1905-1971) is known for his long-standing career as a western writer and as the creator of Wild West Weekly’s most popular heroes, Sonny Tabor and Kid Wolf. But Paul was a talented and versatile writer who loved to write in other genres, such as horror, noir, animal, romance, and historical accounts. Here, together in one volume for the first time are his famous stories published in Weird Tales in 1925-26, as well as other stories that were published in Real Detective Tales & Mystery Stories, Thrilling Wonder Stories, Range Rider Western, Ranch Romances, and the modern Beat to a Pulp anthologies.  Four of the stories in this collection have never been published before, and one was co-written by Powers’ eldest son John. Together these provide a rare glimpse into the thoughts of a writer who, while churning out westerns that were loved by thousands of readers, battled many demons. He shares his struggles with us through these suspenseful, surprising, and sometimes very emotional stories.

258 pages, approx. 5.5"x8.5", $19.95 softcover 




The Book Cave - New podcast now available online!
Episode 230: The Scarlet Jaguar
Win Eckertt and Mike Croteau visit the Book Cave to chat about their newest novel along with some great news every Doc Savage fan will want to hear.

Episode 229: Small Press Alternative Comics Expo
Episode 228: Win Scott Eckert
Episode 227: Mike Baron
Episode 226: One Foot In My Grave
Episode 225: Bigfoot Blues
Episode 224:  Doc Savage: Skull Island

 
Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
Blood 'N' Thunder #36/37
Now available!

This double issue boasts the greatest variety of articles, reviews, pulp reprints, and pictorial features in BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER’s history. Articles include: the 20 most underrated Doc Savage novels, chosen by a blue-ribbon panel of experts; a celebration of the Fu Manchu centennial by Bill Maynard, the Devil Doctor’s current chronicler; the making of M-G-M’s 1934 smash THE THIN MAN, by eminent film historian Richard Bann; the early career of AMAZING STORIES editor Raymond A. Palmer; H. Bedford-Jones on writing for the pulps; Will Murray establishes the true identity of a long-forgotten hero-pulp writer; silent-era movie serials made by Vitagraph Company of America; a Spanish-language Zorro simulacrum called El Coyote; and much more. Also, a pictorial feature with the stylings of pulp’s new pinup queen, Mala Mastroberte, who adorns our cover. Plus: reprints of rare, uncollected pulp stories (including the overlooked first entry in the popular Jimmie Cordie series), a gallery of pulp cover paintings (scanned from the originals), pulp and book reviews, and more. There’s truly something for everyone in this issue, which can be purchased for $19.95 (shipping included) at the Murania Press website.





Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
Now available!

The Best of Blood ‘n’ Thunder: Volume Two

The Best of Blood ‘n’ Thunder: Volume Two, a trade paperback priced at $24.95, reprints material from long out-of-print issues of BnT.

For more than a decade, Blood ‘n’ Thunder has explored American popular culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries as manifested in its mass-market fiction—dime novels, nickel weeklies, pulp magazines—and such complementary storytelling forms as stage melodramas, motion pictures, and Old Time Radio thrillers. The first 21 issues of this limited-circulation journal are long out of print, and collectors have been known to pay as much as ten times the original cover price for back numbers that infrequently turn up on eBay.

A follow-up to 2011’s The Best of Blood ‘n’ Thunder, this deluxe volume reprints the finest reviews and articles that appeared in issues 11 through 21—more than 100,000 words of history, biography, criticism, and commentary. In these pages you’ll read about such popular characters as The Shadow, Doc Savage, and Sam Spade. You’ll read about such legendary pulp magazines as Adventure, Black Mask, and Short Stories. And you’ll read about such famous authors as Talbot Mundy, Dashiell Hammett, and L. Ron Hubbard. Like its predecessor, The Best of Blood ‘n’ Thunder: Volume Two is a one-volume encyclopedia for aficionados of vintage adventure, mystery, and melodrama.

Wilderness Trail, by H. Bedford-Jones

Murania’s second March release is the fourth volume in our Classic Pulp Reprints series: Wilderness Trail, by H. Bedford-Jones. Also published in trade-paperback format, it contains an introduction by Ed Hulse and carries a retail price of $19.95.

In 1810, the still-young United States of America continues its westward expansion as a national economy begins to flourish. But the country’s commerce is seriously disrupted in Kentucky, at the juncture of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, by daring pirates who strike from nowhere and then disappear into the wilderness. Captain John Norton, a young military officer working undercover, mounts a secret campaign against the buckskinned brigands, who are led by a mystery man known as Blacknose. Along the way Norton receives aid from such legendary figures of early American history as rugged pioneer Daniel Boone, future President Zachary Taylor, prominent naturalist John J. Audubon, and Shawnee Indian chief Tecumseh. Yet the clever Blacknose and his followers continue to evade their would-be captors.

The Wilderness Trail originally appeared in the February 1915 issue of Blue Book and was the first of more than 370 fictional works—novels, novelettes, and short stories—H. Bedford-Jones wrote for that distinguished pulp magazine over a period of 33 years. It was also his first historical novel with an American setting. Issued in hard covers many decades ago by the British firm of Hurst & Blackett, The Wilderness Trail has never been published in the United States as a book—until now.






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CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT #2 - Coming in August!
Joshua Williamson (Writer), Fernando Dagnino (Art), Ego (Color), and Felipe Massafera (Cover)

It's only been seventy-two hours since he appeared in the present, but three people have already tried to kill Captain Midnight! When faced with an FBI agent tasked with his capture, a fanboy pilot who knows his history, and the badass granddaughter of his lost love, the time-traveling hero must decide if he can trust these unlikely allies as he attempts to take on one of his oldest enemies!

32 pages, $2.99, in stores on August 28.




Carnacki, The New Adventures - Now open for submissions!

Later this year, an all new collection of Carnacki stories will be published and the publisher is currently looking for submissions!
 
Carnacki remains one of Hodgson’s most popular creations with not only new stories about the character appearing but he has been included in comic books as well as novels from other writers.  The publisher is looking for a fresh crop of writers to tackle the stories of this intrepid Ghost-Hunter!
 
So here’s the details: stories should be between 3,000-6,000 words (anything longer, please query first); stories should feature Carnacki in some aspect; no explicit gore, violence or sex, please; payment will be in 2 contributors copies; DEADLINE for submissions is May 1, 2013 so, yes, this will be closing quickly.
 
CARNACKI: THE NEW ADVENTURES is planned for an August, 2013, release at the Necronomicon convention in Providence, RI.



CHARLIE CHAN COLLECTION VOLUME 6 - Coming on DVD August 6!

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment brings back the legendary master of crime in the Charlie Chan Collection -- four beloved films making their DVD debut, and now available for the first time, newly remastered, as a single collection.
Included are Shadows Over Chinatown, starring  in one of his last Chan films, plus Docks of New Orleans, Shanghai Chest, and The Golden Eye starring, the last actor to play the detective on film. The 4-disc set will sell for $39.92 SRP.


Thanks to John Olsen for the tip!


THE CHRONICLES OF KING CONAN VOLUME 6: A DEATH IN STYGIA AND OTHER STORIES TP
Coming in October!
Alan Zelenetz (Writer), Marc Silvestri (Pencils/Inks), Mike Docherty (Pencils), Geof Isherwood (Inks), Art Nichols (Inks),
George Roussos (Color), and Michael Kaluta (Cover)

"The queen is troubled." After the loss of the barbarian king's son, Conan's dark mood draws him further each day from his kingdom and his beloved queen. Can twenty years of regal life quell Conan's savage nature, or will he abandon hearth and home for the call of the wild? Collects Conan the King #26-30.

208 pages, $19.99, in stores on October 9.



CONAN THE BARBARIAN #19 - Coming in August!
Brian Wood (Writer), Paul Azaceta (Art), Dave Stewart (Color), and Massimo Carnevale (Cover)

Conan and Bêlit find themselves the unlikely couriers to a mysterious and ancient religious relic. They are soon beset on all sides by the feuding factions that wish to exploit the artifact's power. Can they reach their destination while keeping their prize--and themselves--intact?

32 pages, $3.50, in stores on August 21.



CONAN: THE PEOPLE OF THE BLACK CIRCLE - Coming in October!

Dark Horse has announced that two of the hottest names in comics, writer Fred Van Lente and artist Ariel Olivetti, will reunite for a Conan epic like no other!
 
In Conan and the People of the Black Circle, a four-issue miniseries set a decade after the current Conan ongoing series, fans will find Conan like they’ve never seen him—fully painted by Olivetti!
 
“I’m thrilled to be working from one of the best Conan stories Howard ever wrote, with the most interesting female lead and one of the Cimmerian’s most compelling adversaries,” stated Van Lente. “But what I’m most excited about is seeing what Ariel Olivetti does with my scripts—he was born to draw Conan, and his painted artwork should attract anyone who doesn’t know anything about Conan or Robert E. Howard but just loves things that are awesome.”
 
Assassins, dark magic, and a beautiful noblewoman mean trouble for the Cimmerian barbarian unlike he’s ever seen in this full-tilt escapade through the mountains of Afghulistan!
 
With The Legend of Conan in development with Universal Studios, Dark Horse’s Conan is essential reading.
 
Conan and the People of the Black Circle #1 is on sale October 16 in comic shops everywhere.



Davy Crockett's Almanak of Mystery, Adventure, and the Wild West - Now online!

Forgotten Books: SPICY DETECTIVE STORIES (1989) - New!
TARZAN of the Pulps - New!
Comic Gallery: GHOST Comics (1952-53) - New!
Forgotten Books: GANGLAND'S DOOM (The Shadow of the Pulps) by Frank Eisgruber Jr. (1974)
DOC SAVAGE COMICS (1940-41)
Overlooked Films: Flynn, Rathbone & Niven in THE DAWN PATROL (1938)
Pulp Gallery: DIME DETECTIVE
Forgotten Books: WHAT PRICE MURDER by Cleve F. Adams (1942)



E-texts on the net this week
The Shadow in Review:
This weeks new Shadow review is  "Happy Death Day" from the September 1946 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
 
Pulpgen-Online Pulps:   Now with over 1000 stories online!

"They Had to Flee Paris" by Joe Archibald from AMERICAN EAGLE, April, 1942
Featuring: Ambrose Hooley & Muley Spink
Armed With Meatless Sausages and Bad Intentions, Muley and Ambrose Make Krauts of Themselves - While the Guardhouse Waits!
"Stickup at Stafford's" by Hapsburg Liebe from SHORT STORIES, February 10, 1949
Young Sheriff Curt Brennan was new to the job, and had to contend with a puzzling stage robbery.


Edgar Rice Burroughs.com
Adding a CARSON OF VENUS comic strip June 1!
Written by Martin Powell and illustrated bt Tom Floyd!
More new strips are also in the works!


Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. is substantially expanding its Sunday Comic Strip Subscription website. Over the next several months, at no increased cost to you, we will be adding four or five new exciting comic strip series for your enjoyment. Beginning June 1, we will be adding a CARSON OF VENUS comic strip written and drawn by extremely gifted and experienced professionals to complement our existing TARZAN strip.


With Martin Powell as our Writer and Tom Floyd and Diana Leto as our Artists, CARSON OF VENUS will begin with the story of Carson Napier's "The Greatest Wrong Turn in History" and take off from there. Be prepared for an exciting journey.
 
Our intent is to bring new life to the many classic literary creations of Edgar Rice Burroughs and honor his writing career that encompassed such a great variety of genres. We intend to build the finest comic strip site of highly entertaining stories not be found anywhere else in the world. Our writers and artists are committed to bringing their best ideas to you because they truly enjoy their subject matter. They will help us visualize what was in the vivid imagination of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and we will all be truly entertained. 
 
Below are brief bios of our new writer and artists that will describe the tremendous talent and experience they will bring to our comic strip subscription service.

 
WRITER: MARTIN POWELL
Martin Powell has been a professional writer since 1986, having written hundreds of stories in numerous genres, for Disney, Marvel, DC, and Sequential Pulp/Dark Horse Comics, among others. Nominated for the prestigious Eisner Award for his work with Sherlock Holmes, he has written for some of the most popular characters in the industry, including Superman, Batman, Popeye the Sailor, and Tarzan of the Apes. He’s also the author of many children’s books and is co-creator of the acclaimed Halloween Legion, with illustrator Diana Leto. Powell’s The Tall Tale of Paul Bunyan won the coveted Moonbeam Children’s Book Award for Best Graphic Novel of 2010.
 
ARTIST: TOM FLOYD
Tom Floyd is a self-professed jack of all trades. He has been everything from a Texas oilfield roustabout, a mechanic, a soldier, a printer, and a public school art teacher.  Finally settling down some 14 years ago as a graphic designer-illustrator-animator for a PBS station. He has worked on productions from local programs to Reading Rainbow, NOVA science NOW, and American Experience.  But throughout all of this he remained a comic fan, artist and writer working for companies such as Elite Comics, Eternity, Moonstone, and Marvel. He was honored in 2010 to receive the Burroughs Bibliophiles Golden Lion Award for his illustrations for new Bison Books editions of the Moon Maid, Pellucidar, The Eternal Savage, and Pirates of Venus.  He has also written and illustrated an on-line web comic Captain Spectre and the Lightning Legion, which is a pulp/serial/adventure comic. Captain Spectre is located on the web at http://www.captainspectre. com. You can also follow along with other of his projects at his sketchblog (http://www.lightning legionblogspot.com) .        
ARTIST: DIANA LETO
Diana Leto has been a professional artist and graphic designer for over a decade. Her illustration has illuminated projects at institutions including The Jim Henson Legacy, Sesame Street and Sequential Pulp/Dark Horse Comics. She is co-creator and illustrator of the Halloween Legion, a critically acclaimed all-ages mystery/adventure series featuring “The Worlds’ Weirdest Heroes.” Presenting contemporary design at Adobe MAX, addressing teachers and children about being a woman in the arts at KIDS’ COMIC CON and helping refresh beloved characters for a cultural institution, Diana’s artwork stands at the intersection of education and inspiration.
Now online at Edgar Rice Burroughs.com
Tarzan by Roy Thomas & Tom Grindberg
Now onine!


All New Tarzan Comic Strips created exclusively for ERB, Inc.
You can subscribe for only $1.99 / month.
Login any time to see the latest Tarzan Comic Strip [with Bonus Material included].

Read All About It at:  www.ERBzine.com/tarzan

Subscribe at the ERB, Inc. Corporate Site
http://www.edgarriceburroughs.com/




HALF PAST DANGER #1 (of 6) - Arriving in comic shops May 22!
Stephen Mooney (Writer/Artist)

DAMES. DINOSAURS. DANGER.
Summer, 1943, and in the midst of a war waged by monsters, Staff Sergeant Tommy ‘Irish’ Flynn never expected to encounter a real one.
But on a remote island in the South Pacific, Flynn and his squad come face-to-fanged-face with creatures long thought dead.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99








Hermes Press
THE PHANTOM: THE COMPLETE SERIES:
THE CHARLTON YEARS VOLUME 2

Arriving in comic shops May 22!
(Writer) Joe Gill (Art) Pat Boyette

The early 1970s comic book adventures of The Phantom return in full, glorious color!  Hermes Press is collecting all 74 issues of The Phantom comic books which ran from 1962-1977, and this is the second volume of the Charlton years. The Charlton comic book version of the grand-daddy of costumed heroes, The Ghost Who Walks, is available again, digitally remastered to look better than the original books. Reprints issues #39-47.

Hardcover, 7x10, 224 pages, Full Color, $49.99





Hermes Press
BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY #1 (of 4) 
Howard Chaykin’s revival of the first, best, and original sci-fi hero returns in August
with an all-new four book story-line!

(Writer/Artist) Howard Chaykin

Buck Rogers, the first, best, and original Sci-Fi hero returns with Howard Chaykin drawing and writing this action packed incarnation of this iconic title. Over eighty years after the creation of the newspaper strip that become a household word, Howard Chaykin has returned the character and his universe back to basics: Buck Rogers, former World War I ace is accidentally suspended in time only to awaken to new and different earth, 500 years in the future, fragmented by war and ruled by an omnipotent force — the Chinese. Now, Buck along with Colonel Wilma Deering, begins a new fight, to free the United States!

7x10, 32 pages, Full Color, $3.99





The James Bond Collection - Arriving in book stores May 21!

Dr. No: Dispatched by M to investigate the mysterious disappearance of MI6’s Jamaica station chief, Bond was expecting a holiday in the sun. But when he discovers a deadly centipede placed in his hotel room, the vacation is over. On this island, all suspicious activity leads inexorably to Dr. Julius No, a reclusive megalomaniac with steel pincers for hands. To find out what the good doctor is hiding, 007 must enlist the aid of local fisherman Quarrel and alluring beachcomber Honeychile Rider. Together they will combat a local legend the natives call “the Dragon,” before Bond alone must face the most punishing test of all: an obstacle course — designed by the sadistic Dr. No himself — that measures the limits of the human body’s capacity for agony.

Casino Royale: In the novel that introduced James Bond to the world, Ian Fleming’s agent 007 is dispatched to a French casino in Royale-les-Eaux. His mission? Bankrupt a ruthless Russian agent who’s been on a bad luck streak at the baccarat table. One of SMERSH’s most deadly operatives, the man known only as “Le Chiffre,” has been a prime target of the British Secret Service for years. If Bond can wipe out his bankroll, Le Chiffre will likely be “retired” by his paymasters in Moscow. But what if the cards won’t cooperate? After a brutal night at the gaming tables, Bond soon finds himself dodging would-be assassins, fighting off brutal torturers, and going all-in to save the life of his beautiful female counterpart, Vesper Lynd. Taut, tense, and effortlessly stylish, Ian Fleming’s inaugural James Bond adventure has all the hallmarks that made the series a touchstone for a generation of readers.

Diamonds are Forever: An international diamond-smuggling pipeline has opened up and the British Treasury wants to know who’s controlling it. Impersonating a captured courier named Peter Franks, Bond infiltrates the criminal ring and finds an unlikely ally in Tiffany Case, a gorgeous American with a dark past. As the ring’s stateside go-between, she may be just another link in the chain, but Tiffany is also Bond’s best shot at finding the elusive figure at the head of the operation—a syndicate boss known only by the initials “ABC.” But if Bond’s cover gets blown, he’ll find that the only thing harder than a diamond is surviving the payback of a pair of murderous henchmen. With a sparkling trail of smuggled gems as bait, Diamonds Are Forever leads Bond on a globe-hopping mission where deadly assassins lurk behind every corner.


Paperback: 677 pages
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer (May 21, 2013)
ISBN-10: 1477807543
ISBN-13: 978-1477807545




KING CONAN: HOUR OF THE DRAGON #4 - Coming in August!
Timothy Truman (Writer), Tomás Giorello (Pencils), José Villarrubia (Color), and Gerald Parel (Cover)

Betrayed, deposed, and in hiding, Conan rides for his old capital of Tarantia with bloody vengeance in his heart--but the devious wizard Xaltotun has spies in the sky and soldiers on the ground. The solitary barbarian is forced to seek counsel from an unlikely ally . . . who has a few beastly servants of her own!

32 pages, $3.50, in stores on August 28.



LORDS OF MARS #1 - Coming in August!
(Writer) Arvid Nelson (Art) Roberto Castro
 
An epic crossover event starring the two greatest heroes of pulp fiction begins this June! The legendary Ape-Man has claimed his title as Lord of Greystoke, but his very life is threatened when a hunting excursion with his fellow “gentlemen” goes disastrously wrong. Meanwhile, on Mars, John Carter is forced to respond to a veiled threat from his defeated enemies. Mars and Earth might be separated by millions of miles, but a sinister force is at work on both planets, setting the two champions on a deadly collision course. It all starts with Lords of Mars #1: The Hunting Party. Set phasers for “mayhem”!


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99





MASKS #7 - Arriving in comic shops May 22!
Written by Chris Roberson, art by Dennis Calero, covers by Alex Ross, Ardian Syaf, Francesco Francavilla, Stephen Segovia

All hope seems lost. The Shadow, Green Hornet, and the other masked heroes are outnumbered, outgunned, and surrounded by the Black Legion forces of the Justice Party, who are bent on expanding their chokehold on the surrounding countryside. Even the arrival of the new Zorro and Black Bat is not enough to turn the tide. But what of the Spider?


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99





Meteor House
THE SCARLET JAGUAR by Win Scott Eckert
Now available for pre-order!   Coming in July!


When we last saw Patricia Wildman, daughter of Doc Wildman, the bronze champion of justice, six months had passed since the main events of The Evil in Pemberley House. She and her associate Parker, an ex-Scotland Yard Inspector, had set up Empire State Investigations at her Pemberley House estate—and she just received a mysterious phone call from her supposedly late father . . .
 
Several months later, Pat receives a visitor, a young girl named Emma Ponsonby, whose father, a British diplomat to a small Central American country, has been kidnapped by the Scarlet Jaguar. Pat, following in her father’s footsteps of righting wrongs and assisting those in need, agrees to help, but before they can set off on their quest the Scarlet Jaguar sends a gruesome warning.
 
Undeterred, the investigation takes Pat, Parker, and their young charge from Pemberley House in the Derbyshire countryside . . . To New York, where they battle agents of the Scarlet Jaguar and meet Pat’s old friend, the icy, pale-skinned beauty Helen Benson, who agrees to join them on their quest . . . To the small nation of Xibum, where the Scarlet Jaguar’s reign of uncanny assassinations threatens to expand to the rest of Central America—and beyond!
 
Now, it’s a race against time deep in the wilds of the Central American jungle, as Pat Wildman and her crew search for Emma’s father, and confront the Scarlet Jaguar’s weird power to eliminate his enemies from afar, marked only by a wisp of crimson smoke—smoke resembling nothing so much as the head of a blood-red screaming jaguar. But who—or what—is the Scarlet Jaguar? A power-mad dictator determined to reclaim power? A revolutionary movement bent on taking over the country, and the rest of Central America?
 
Or a front for something even more sinister . . .?

The Scarlet Jaguar is the second in our series of signed limited edition novellas.
Just like (the now sold out) Exiles of Kho, the print run will be determined by the number of copies preordered.
Also, if you preorder before June 30th, your name will appear in the book on the acknowledgements page.
You know you want to see your name near the top of that list, so don’t delay, preorder your copy now!

US $15.00
 5×8 tpb, TBD pages
 LIMITED EDITION of TBD signed copies




Moonstone Books
Now available and arriving in comic shops May 22!
The Avenger: Roaring Heart of the Crucible 
The greatest crime-fighter of the 40's returns in a third thrilling collection of original, action-packed tales of adventure, intrigue, and revenge.

Editors: Nancy Holder, Joe Gentile

Authors: Matthew Baugh, James Chambers, Greg Cox, Win Scott Eckert, Joe Gentile, CJ Henderson, Nancy Holder, Michael May, Matthew Mayo, Will Murray, Bobby Nash, Barry Reese, Chris Sequeira, John Small, David White Cover: E. M. Gist

Life was bliss for millionaire adventurer Richard Henry Benson until that fateful day crime and greed took away his wife and young daughter... and turned him into something more than human. Driven by loss, compelled by grief, he becomes a chilled impersonal force of justice, more machine than man, dedicated to the destruction of evildoers everywhere. A figure of ice and steel, more pitiless than both, Benson has been forged into an avatar of vengeance, possessed of superhuman genius supernormal power. His frozen face and pale eyes, like a polar dawn, only hint at the terrible force the underworld heedlessly invoked upon itself the day they created... The Avenger!

Exclusive HC BONUS material:
An Avenger timeline, plus solo tales of the Avenger's aides by Howard Hopkins!

Hardcover: 330 pages
ISBN-10: 1936814420
ISBN-13: 978-1936814428
$32.95

Paperback: 314 pages
ISBN-10: 1936814412
ISBN-13: 978-1936814411
$18.95




Pulp Flakes - Now online!
A new pulp blog on pulp magazines, authors and their stories, adventure and detective pulps.

Review: The Adventures of Jehannum Smith by Gordon MacCreagh  - New!
Map of Adventure
New photo and some information about Hapsburg Liebe
Nothing but the truth - short story by Albert R. Wetjen
Albert R. Wetjen - Sailor, Writer
Editor's Choice - Harry E. Maule of Short Stories on his criteria for selecting stories
Hugh Pendexter on making his first fiction sale
Free pulp stories at Munsey's - selected authors
Biography of Warren Hastings Miller - author, outdoorsman, sailor, editor
Interview with Johnston McCulley (creator of Zorro)
Pulp in the mainstream - two sports pulp articles
Pulp in the mainstream - article on Margaret Brundage in The Atlantic magazine
Johnston McCulley - special exhibit being planned at his birthplace, Chillicothe, Ohio



Quickdraw Books
WARBIRDS OF MARS: STORIES OF THE FIGHT
Now available!


Bomber pilot Jack Paris. Lounge singer Josie Taylor. Bandaged avenger Hunter Noir. Mysterious hybrid Mr. Mask. Together they will stop at nothing to undermine the Martian occupation of Earth. From daring action in the South China Sea to explosive chaos on the frozen glaciers of Greenland. Watch a man transformed into a vigilante hero, as the world he knows crumbles around him. See an alien-human abomination discover self-worth in the death of a man who extends him kindness. What are the resistance plans for combating the Martian threat? Discover an awakening as two young boys journey from distant farms to the big city, to get in on the life of battle. Just what are the creeping monsters threatening the small southwestern town of Adobe Wells?

Scott P. Vaughn's vision of a world ruled by three-eyed invaders from the popular webcomic comes to life in this anthology, with fourteen tales of intrigue, horror, and desperate action. The stories run the gamut from the air war, to the horseback of the wild west and the nocturnal alleys of battle-torn 1940s urban America. Brought to you by some of the best names in the horror, action & adventure, supernatural thriller, and comics genres. Relive the glory of the Pulp era with these stories of the fight.


With stories from the following authors:
Sean Ellis
Ron Fortier
Kane Gilmour
Stephen M. Irwin
J. H. Ivanov
David Lindblad
Jeffrey J. Mariotte
Alex Ness
Chris Samson
Megan E. Vaughn
Scott P. Vaughn

Illustrations by the following artists:
Jean Arrow
Andy Carreon
Mike DeBalfo
Bill Farmer
Matthew Goodall
Christian Guldager
Robert Hack
Rob Hicks
John Lucas
Paul Roman Martinez
Nathan Morris
Dan Parsons
Nik Poliwko
Richard Serrao
Doc Vaughn
Jason Worthington



Paperback: 476 Pages
Publisher: Quickdraw Books
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.1 inches
ISBN-10: 0984954813
ISBN-13: 978-0984954810

$18.99

RED SONJA #75 - Arriving in comic shops May 22!
Written by Eric Trautmann; Art by Marcio Abreu
Covers by Mel Rubi (Cover A), Erik Jones (Cover B), Walter Geovani (Cover C)

On the snowy steppes of Hyrkania, Red Sonja faces off against an army bent on crushing her homeland. Old scores are settled, alliances are broken, and rest assured, with the She-Devil With A Sword entering the fray, blood will surely flow.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99




Renaissance E Books - Deerstalker Editions
THE EMPEROR'S GAMBIT by Charles Lee Jackson
Now available!

AN UNDERGROUND PULP MAGAZINE AND COMIC BOOK SENSATION FOR OVER 40 YEARS!
THE CLIFFHANGER ACTION ADVENTURES OF CHARLES LEE JACKSON II's LEGENDARY HERO - "THE EMPEROR"
AVAILABLE TO THE READING PUBLIC FOR THE FIRST TIME!


CODE NAME: The Emperor
Head of a secret network of agents, he fights evil where ever it may arise. Able to pass unsuspected through any security or fortification, he has outwitted and out-fought the cleverest and most deadly enemies. The Emperor’s exploits put those of Doc Savage, The Shadow, Batman, James Bond, and even those two guys from UNCLE to shame. From the pages of the limited edition pulp 'zine, Amazing Adventures.

THE UNDERGROUND PULP AND COMIC SENSATION!
For forty years, Charles Lee Jackson II has been producing a body of work unprecedented in the annals of pulp magazines and comics. He has garnered a fanatic body of followers and admirers - but his work has never been made available to a mass audience before! Begin the adventure here, with the first volume of stories featuring Jackson's legendary cliffhanger hero, in his fight against the forces of evil.

eBook Download: $3.99
Trade Paperback $8.99
ISBN: 9781615082964


Renaissance E Books - Futures-Past Editions
Leland Hale Galactic Conman
Now available!
FIRST EVER COLLECTION OF MULTIPLE HUGO, NEBULA AND LOCUS AWARD NOMINEE
RANDALL GARRETT'S "LELAND HALE, GALACTIC CONMAN" STORIES
FROM THE 1950S PULP SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINES

Leland Hale thought the universe owed him a living--and he was collecting on the installment plan! Here is master science fiction humorist Randall Garrett's rarest and never before reprinted series. Introducing Leland Hale, who will steal your heart - and all your money! Fraud, larceny and murder are all in the day's work for this master interstellar confidence man. He is about to descend on the planet Cardigan's Green with a planetary scam designed to make him rich at the population's expense. What Hale doesn't know is that he is about to become a savior! And if he survives this one, he has two more brilliant schemes in mind. For the first time ever, here are all three Leland Hale capers in one volume. As a special bonus this edition features the original magazine illustrations for the stories by the Hugo winning Artists: Ed Emsh, Virgil Finlay, and John Schoenherr. Randall Garrett (1927-1987) worked as an industrial chemist before turning his hand to science fiction, a happy decision for everyone, as it turned out. During the 1950s and '60s he was a stalwart of the U.S. science fiction magazines, producing well over a hundred short stories and novelettes and writing for virtually every title on the stands, but primarily for Astounding (now Analog). A noted humorist, famed for his delightful Lord Darcy series, even Garrett's most serious works (Anything You Can Do, for example) contain comic or satirical undertones. He was one of the first writers to appreciate the importance of conventions and an ingratiating personality in building a strong fan base. "[These] stories, which have never been reprinted since their one and only appearance on cheap pulpwood paper ... ensure that readers will remember his work at least a little longer. They will have an opportunity to encounter that sly sense of humor, those brilliant mystery and detective problems and that almost unmatched ability to work complex scientific principles into exciting stories." -Mark Cole, Internet Review of Science Fiction

EBOOKS EDITION
The three short novels in this series have been released individually as ebooks in Kindle, Nook, iBook and other formats.
TO MAKE A HERO [LELAND HALE, GALACTIC CONMAN #1]
RESPECTFULLY MINE [LELAND HALE, GALACTIC CONMAN #2]
DRUG ON THE MARKET [LELAND HALE, GALACTIC CONMAN #3]
Author: Randall Garrett
Format: eBook $3.99 each

ILLUSTRATED PAPERBACK EDITION
All three have also been collected as LELAND HALE, GALACTIC COMAN in a single trade paperback volume – with the original magazine illustrations by the award winning pulp artists Ed Emsh, Virgil Finlay, and John Schoenherr.
Author: Randall Garrett
Format: Paperback $14.99





The Robert E. Howard Foundation
Now available for pre-order!

THE COLLECTED BOXING FICTION OF ROBERT E. HOWARD VOLUME 1 (OF 4): FISTS OF IRON


The first of four volumes of Robert E. Howard’s fight fiction (with some nonfiction thrown in for good measure).
Cover art by Tom Gianni.


The REH Foundation Press is proud to present Fists of Iron, the first volume of a four-volume series that presents the Collected Boxing Fiction of Robert E. Howard. The first round measures in at 420 pages, and will be printed in hardback with dust jacket, in a limited quantity of 200 copies, each individually numbered. Cover art by Tom Gianni and introduction by Christopher Gruber. The book is expected to ship by the end of May or early June 2013. Other volumes will follow as their covers are completed. Pre-order yours today.
 
Price and Numbering
To guarantee that you receive volumes with the same number, order the complete set. Members pay $165, plus shipping; non-members pay $182, plus shipping.
 
If ordering one at a time, we cannot guarantee that volume numbers will match (we will, of course, hold used numbers as long as possible). The price for Volume 1, the largest book in the collection, is $45 for REHF Members, $50 for non-members, plus shipping. Volumes 2 through 4 are somewhat smaller, and cost $40 apiece for REHF members, $44 apiece for non-members. (How to become a member? See here.)


Shipping (rates updated as of 04/30/13)
If ordering only one book, include one of the following shipping costs:
Domestic via USPS Priority: $9 Domestic via USPS Book Rate: $3 Canada via Global Priority: $23 Australia via Global Priority: $33 Europe via Global Priority: $33
If ordering all four books, to have them sent one at a time as they are completed, include the following shipping costs:
Domestic via USPS Priority: $36 Domestic via USPS Book Rate: $12 Canada via Global Priority: $92 Australia via Global Priority: $132 Europe via Global Priority: $132
If ordering all four books and you don’t mind waiting to have them sent all in one package when they are all published, include the following shipping cost:
Flat-Rate Priority in U.S.A. = $13.00 Flat-Rate Priority to Canada = $40.95 Flat-Rate Priority to Australia = $59.95 Flat-Rate Priority to Europe = $59.95 Flat-Rate Priority to UK = $59.95
 
Insurance to any US location is $2 extra when shipping a single book, or $3.05 for the set. For international shipments (including Canada), insurance is not available for 1st Class, but is automatically included in Global Priority; insurance on Flat-Rate Priority (for the set) is an additional $4.75. All books will be securely packed. REH FOUNDATION PRESS IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR LOSS BY THE POST OFFICE. PURCHASE INSURANCE IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO TAKE THE RISK. Those wishing to ship via some other carrier (UPS, FedEx, etc.) will need to contact us at info@rehfoundation.org to make arrangements and determine costs.


Ordering and payment
To order, pay directly via PayPal at their website, www.paypal.com. Send the appropriate amount to paypal@rehfpress.com. Be sure to include a note explaining your order and shipping option. To order via check (personal or cashier’s) or money order send to: The REH Foundation Press, PO Box 251242, Plano, TX 75025. ALL PAYMENTS MUST BE IN US DOLLARS. Be sure that all the necessary shipping information is included and accurate, and that the total price includes correct shipping and insurance (if wanted). NO FOREIGN MONEY ORDERS. Books will not be shipped prior to checks clearing the bank. If you have any questions or comments regarding pricing or shipping, please contact us at info@rehfoundation.org.
 
Numbering
If you desire a specific number, please notify us with your order, and we will do our best to accommodate your preference. Those not requesting specific numbers will receive lowest numbers available. Those wishing to obtain numbers to match other REHFP volumes they have purchased should let us know as soon as possible.

Contents of Volume 1
The full list of contents for Volume 1 is here.

Become a member of the REH Foundation!

Support the Foundation by becoming a member. The Foundation will use annual membership fees to reach its missions and goals. The different levels of membership are:
 $20 – as a Supporting Member you will receive a 10% discount on REHF and REH Foundation Press (REHFP) books and merchandise.
 $50 – as a Friend of REH you will receive the member discount above as well as the REHF newsletter, and your name posted (if wanted) on the website.
 $100 – Legacy Circle members will receive all the above, along with invitations to special events, plus a yearly REHF pin. Legacy Circle members might also get other additional benefits during the year.
 
To become a member, pay either with PayPal to paypal@rehfoundation.org, or by sending a check to The Robert E. Howard Foundation, PO Box 251242, Plano, TX, 75025.
Your membership will be valid for one full year from the date you sign up.



SENTINELS: WHEN STRIKES THE WARLORD - New Trade Paperback Edition!
The Original Volume in “The World’s Greatest Superhero Novel Series” is back in an “Anniversary Edition!”

White Rocket Books proudly announces the release in trade paperback format of a newly revised and updated edition of Van Allen Plexico’s SENTINELS: WHEN STRIKES THE WARLORD, the original adventure in the famed and very popular cosmic superhero saga!

Originally appearing in 2008 from Swarm Press, When Strikes the Warlord has only been available as an e-book or as part of the Grand Design Omnibus for over a year.  Now White Rocket brings it back into print as a stand-alone trade paperback, with all the original interior artwork by famed series artist Chris Kohler.

When Strikes the Warlord gets the Sentinels saga off with a bang, as teenaged college student and “science nerd” Lyn Li is attacked by shadowy members of the US Defense Department. Teaming up with beloved but mysterious national hero Ultraa and renowned inventor and billionaire Esro Brachis, she enters a new world of androids, aliens, cosmic space gods, interdimensional conquerors, and more.  When at last they all clash atop the Warlord’s floating city, the existence of the universe itself is at stake!

This new edition has been meticulously re-edited by the author.  Says Plexico, “Because this book is the entryway for many readers to discover my work, I’ve always wanted it to be as strong of a presentation as it could be.  This new Anniversary Edition from White Rocket allowed me to tighten things up in many places—but not one bit of the overall story has been changed!”

The Kindle edition has also been updated to match the Anniversary Edition paperback.

"I've already bought the next Sentinels book! Van's got me hooked!" says Percival Constantine, author of Fallen.
"Spectacular.  Action-packed. Imaginative and wonderful,” adds Pulp Fiction Reviews.  “If you grew up loving the Avengers comic books from Marvel, these books are for you in a big, big way.”

White Rocket Books is a leader in the New Pulp movement, publishing exciting action and adventure novels and anthologies since 2005, in both traditional and electronic formats.  
White Rocket books have hit the Amazon.com Top 15-by-Genre and reached as high as #2 on the New Pulp Bestsellers List, and have garnered praise from everyone from Marvel Comics Vice-President Tom Brevoort to Kirkus Reviews.

SENTINELS: WHEN STRIKES THE WARLORD is a $14.95, 6x9 format trade paperback from White Rocket Books.
Other volumes in the series are available in two omnibus paperbacks, and each is a $2.99 or $3.99 e-book for Kindle and other e-readers. 
164 pages; 5 full-page illustrations by Chris Kohler
ISBN-13:   978-0-61580987-8  (6x9” Trade Paperback)




The Serial Squadron - Coming June 1 - Now accepting pre-orders!
THE LONE RANGER
Restored, Complete and Unsubtitled -- and Upgraded!


Our restoration of THE LONE RANGER (1938), long-considered a lost serial in complete form, is the only complete unsubtitled version of the serial in existence. And soon we will be offering an upgraded version of a restoration many already consider to be great with a new transfer of a considerable amount of higher-resolution unsubtitled footage which we are currently marrying to the audio tracks and otherwise blending into the existing restoration. This new transfer is much sharper than the original content of much of the serial and does show some wear but the upgrade in picture quality is well worth the effort of incorporating it and will make the Squadron LONE RANGER serial the definitive edition of this classic serial.

Let's face it -- we here all know that Tonto doesn't wear a dead bird on his head, and that this is the real, first, original and "real" story of the Lone Ranger. And one of Republic's most-beloved serials for a good reason. It's worth having the very best possible DVD version of it in your collection.

Target release date for the upgraded restoration is June 1.


NOW ACCEPTING PREORDERS
For projected release date of June 1, 2013

IF YOU ORDER A COPY OF THE SERIAL BEFORE JUNE 1 We will offer you a $5 discount from the list price of $29.95.

IF YOU ALREADY HAVE A COPY OF THE RESTORATION AND WOULD LIKE THE UPGRADE
We'll send you the upgraded DVDs (DVDs only, no case) for 12.95, less than half the list price.
No cheating on this, now, the Lone Ranger may be watching.



Sexton Blake - Licensed by Obverse Books, new story and a golden age reprint are coming soon!

Obverse Books, have licensed Sexton Blake from IPC Media. We'll be relaunching the Sexton Blake Library with a new novella by best selling genre author George Mann, combined with a reprint of a golden age Blake story.

The Shadow Fan's Podcast - Now online!
A Dynamite Look at The Shadow

The Shadow Fan returns for his 31st episode! This week, Barry focuses on the newest from Dynamite Comics. He talks up their July 2013 solicitations, takes a hard look at Masks # 6 and then talks about the end of the Victor Gischler run in The Shadow # 12. Barry holds nothing back in talking about the disappointments that have accompanied Masks - and he wonders about the future direction of The Shadow under Chris Roberson's control.
 
If you love pulp's greatest crimefighter, then this is the podcast for you!

 
The Shadow - Under the Blue Light - Now online!

The Salamanders - New!
The Ghost Makers - New!
Crime Under Cover
Atoms of Death  
Crooks Go Straight
Battle of Greed
Charg, Monster!
Solomon Kane - Coming on Blu-ray and DVD July 16!

Anchor Bay Entertainment and RADiUS-TWC announced the Blu-ray™ and DVD release of SOLOMON KANE. The film was directed by Michael J. Bassett (“Da Vinci’s Demons” and Silent Hill: Revelation 3D) and stars James Purefoy (“The Following”), the late Pete Postlethwaite (In the Name of the Father), Rachel Hurd-Wood (Peter Pan), and Max von Sydow (The Exorcist). The character Solomon Kane was created by pulp-era writer and mind behind Conan the Barbarian, Robert E. Howard. SOLOMON KANE heads to retail on July 16, 2013 for an SRP of $26.99 for the Blu-ray™ and $22.98 for the DVD.



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.

Before the Golden Age-John Russell Fearn - New!
Before the Golden Age-Arthur Leo Zagat and Nathan Schachner - New!
Before the Golden Age-Stanton A. Coblentz  - New!
Before the Golden Age-Murray Leinster - New!
Before the Golden Age-Ralph Milne Farley
Before the Golden Age-Ray Cummings
More Authors from the Golden Age of Science Fiction-Introduction
J.B.S. Fullilove (1912-1966)
Weird Tales in Ohio-Tonight
J.U. Giesy (1877-1947)
Weird Tales in Ohio
Happy Birthday to Weird Tales


Tom Johnson - Now available!
CITY OF PHANTOMS by Tom Johnson

When An Old Case Resurfaces, The World's Greatest Detective Is Pulled Back Into A New Battle With A Deadly Enemy, While Ex-Fighting District Attorney Tony Quinn's Lovely Secretary, Carol Baldwin Is Kidnapped By A Vicious Mob, Hoping To Force The Prosecution To Drop Its Case Against Their Boss. Two Champions Of Justice Meet In A Race Against Time!


now available on Kindle for $0.99



Tom Johnson - Now available!
THE SOUL STEALERS by Tom Johnson

The Soul Stealers now available from FADING SHADOWS in paperback, $12.00 plus postage from fadingshadows40@gmail.com

Angels have walked among mankind since the dawn of civilization. Although we may not recognize them, or even see their presence, they are always with us. Perhaps they whisper advice in our dreams, or guide our governments without their knowledge, angels are moving us towards a higher good. Some even protect us in our final day, when violent death reaches out for our very soul – these are the Soul Stealers.




Tom Johnson Now available!
NEW CLASSIC PULP FICTION STORIES by Tom Johnson

NEW CLASSIC PULP FICTION STORIES is now available from FADING SHADOWS in paperback at an introductory price of $12.00 plus postage.
The price will eventually have to be raised because of cost, but order now at the lower price from 
fadingshadows40@gmail.com
 
Here are five stories in the pulp tradition. 200 pages, featuring the Moon Man, Secret Agent X, Colonel Jeremiah Custer (originally written as a Thaddeus C. ‘Doc’ Harker story), plus two more.
 
The books are perfect bound, and beautifully produced in 5 x 8 paperback format.
Now available for $12.00
The price is likely to rise to at least $12.95 or more later.
So order now while they are at cost.



Tom Johnson Now available!
THE SPIDER'S WEB by Tom Johnson
 
In 1980, a treacherous Chinaman created a web of events that culminated thirty years later in a reign of terror and death. As the streets of his city run red with blood, The Black Ghost searchers for the mysterious killer, who is motivated by revenge, and this time the city's paladin may be faced by his greatest foe, the Spider! An evil mastermind, trained in the deadly mysteries of the Ninja, with a desire to kill!


Wraparound cover by Teresa Tunaley

Hardback from Lulu at $22.78.
Still available in paperback for $13.95
Still available as an eBook for $4.99.










10 May 2013

’24′ - May Return as a Limited Series On Fox!

Fox is looking to bring back its signature real-time drama 24 as a limited series. Kiefer Sutherland is in talks to reprise his Emmy-winning role as Agent Jack Bauer. No deals are in place, but Fox is eying 24 as part of its recent push in limited event series. The idea to do another 24 chapter on TV came from longtime 24 showrunner Howard Gordon, now executive producer on Showtime’s Homeland. He pitched the plan, which would start from scratch with a new story arc, to 24 producers 20th Century Fox TV and studio-based Imagine TV as well as Fox, which all jumped on board.

THE ABOMINABLE - Coming October 22!
By Dan Simmons

It's 1924 and the race to summit the world's highest mountain has been brought to a terrified pause by the shocking disappearance of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine high on the shoulder of Mt. Everest. By the following year, three climbers -- a British poet and veteran of the Great War, a young French Chamonix guide, and an idealistic young American -- find a way to take their shot at the top. They arrange funding from the grieving Lady Bromley, whose son also disappeared on Mt. Everest in 1924. Young Bromley must be dead, but his mother refuses to believe it and pays the trio to bring him home.

Deep in Tibet and high on Everest, the three climbers -- joined by the missing boy's female cousin -- find themselves being pursued through the night by someone . . . or something. This nightmare becomes a matter of life and death at 28,000 feet - but what is pursuing them? And what is the truth behind the 1924 disappearances on Everest? As they fight their way to the top of the world, the friends uncover a secret far more abominable than any mythical creature could ever be. A pulse-pounding story of adventure and suspense, The Abominable is Dan Simmons at his spine-chilling best.


Hardcover: 704 pages
ISBN-10: 0316198838
ISBN-13: 978-0316198837

$28.00


Anachron Press: THE FIST OF THE FAE - The second Bob Howard Adventure by Teel James Glenn is now available!

A trip to the Emerald Isle is one Howard will remember forever.
Texan writer, Bob Howard, travels to Ireland, the home of his ancestors, and quickly finds himself in a local pub and in the thick of trouble.
Befriending a curious father and son pair, the Mac Tirs, Howard is exposed to a world of amateur wrestling.
When the young Mac Tir is accused of throwing a match and is sucker-punched to the ground, Howard steps in against the bully.
Making an enemy of the outraged brute, Howard marks himself as a target. His opponent threatens him and makes suggestion of an upcoming fair.

Howard soon learns more about the fair and is transported into a parallel world full of mythological creatures.
The rivalry with the bully has carried over, and Howard is challenged to defend his, and his friends’, honor in the ring under the observation of Morgana, the Fae Queen.

Can Howard perform in the ring, beat the bully, and uphold the respect of his friends?

This follows the critically acclaimed ‘The Harker Legacy’ from the same company.


Paperback: 70 pages
ISBN-10: 1484831918
ISBN-13: 978-1484831915
Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.2 inches
$6.99
 

Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
At the printers and shipping later this month!
THE WHISPERER #6: "The Satanic Seven," "The Lost Face Murders" and "Two Many Ghosts"
The double life of Police Commissioner James Gordon is revealed in a pair of two-fisted thrillers by Doc Savage ghost Lawrence Donovan writing as "Clifford Goodrich." First, Wildcat Gordon follows a trail of wholesale murder that begins with a prison break and leads to "The Satanic Seven." Then, The Whisperer must uncover the horrific mystery behind "The Lost Face Murders." GOLDEN AGE OF COMICS BONUS: the debut Norgil the Magician comic book adventure by Walter Gibson and Vernon Greene from Shadow Comics #3! This stunning collector's item showcases both original color pulp covers by Spider artist John Newton Howitt, the classic interior illustrations by Paul Orban and historical commentary by Will Murray and Anthony Tollin. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-106-6 Softcover, 7x10, 112 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
Twelve issues for $167 (first class) or $155 (media mail) [postpaid]
(includes bonus variant and ring premium)
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]

Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)
Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
At the printers and shipping later this month!
THE SHADOW Volume 73: "Seven Drops of Blood" and "Death from Nowhere"
The Knight of Darkness proves that crime does not pay in two pulp classics by Walter B. Gibson writing as "Maxwell Grant." First, The Shadow follows a trail of murder to retrieve the priceless rubies known as "The Seven Drops of Blood." Then, to prove the innocence of a man accused of an impossible crime, the Dark Avenger must uncover the strange secret behind "Death from Nowhere." BONUS: The Whisperer brings true sight to "The Eye of Zion" in a thriller by Alan Hathway writing as "Clifford Goodrich." This instant collector's item features the classic color pulp covers by Graves Gladney and George Rozen, the original interior illustrations by Tom Lovell and Edd Cartier, and commentary by popular culture historian Will Murray. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-115-8 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
Twelve issues for $167 (first class) or $155 (media mail) [postpaid]
(includes bonus variant and ring premium)
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]

Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)
BEB Books - Now available!
THE HOUSE WITH A BAD NAME by Perley Poore Sheehan
X.T.X. by Perley Poore Sheehan

This week Beb Books announces the release of two great novels from Perley Poore Sheehan, The House With a Bad Name and X. T. X.

X,T.X. is a tale of espionage set behind the lines in Germany. Gordon Kent, British chemist, has developed a new kind of poison gas. Before the war no one wanted it, now everyone wants him. Because he had been traveling in Germany when the war broke out Kent has been taken prisoner and tortured to force him to reveal the formula. American spy and aviator, Robert Wayne, hopes to fly his experimental plane into Germany and rescue Kent. And if he’s lucky he’ll also rescue Grace Sherwood, one of the many spies who have gone into Germany and never returned. While Wayne’s ambitious plan work? What of Kent, after a year of torture, does he desire life... or death. 95 pages of unexpected action for $9.00

What gives a house a bad name? in this case it was the suspicion that at one time the master of this house had kept a woman there. In 1920 ‘keeping’ a woman meant prostitution. Following the death of the master a woman comes to the door and demands her share of the fortune, being the daughter of the ‘kept’ woman. But is she really the late Tyrone’s daughter, what will happen to Tyrone’s actual daughter, and what can Buckhannon, a young man in love with the Tyrone girl, do to end the Bad Name that affects the old house in a remote part of New York. A tales about morality, redemption and a good and faithful servant. 118 pages for just $9.00!


And don’t forget our other recent releases:

Stephan Chalmers is a writer of  many wonderful stories, always with a beautiful, lyrical voice, and thoughtful, imaginative situations. Beb Boobs is proud to present two of Stephen Chalmer’s long forgotten novels.

In Treasure of the World Philip Sand, a young man born to wealth but now living in poverty finds that he has TB and is expected to live no more than a year. What would you do in such a situation? Sand’s decision was to mortgage his life for $20,000, hire a yacht and go treasure hunting. He even has a map, found in an old book of his grandfathers. But Fate has a few curveballs for him and he soon finds himself marooned on a island with no hope of rescue, a cave full of pirate loot, a beautiful girl to protect, and a scurvy pack of sailors anxious to steal his treasure. Even as time ticks away on the clock of his life, Philip Sand finds he has a lot he wants to do.

Treasure of the World was a four part serial that appeared in, of all places, Railroad Man’s magazine from October, 1909 to January 1910. 63 pages of thrillings for just $6.00 (plus postage)


WANTED — TWENTY-FIVE BRAVE MEN!
(For Immediate Service.)

Applicants will be required to undergo a test of courage. Further particulars will be given to those who are chosen. Apply between 10 and 11 AM. to-day at — West Forty-fourth Street.


Bored millionaire Penryhn Masefield has been convinced by his mysterious servant Ahmed Aziz that with 25 brave men and his (heavily armed) private yacht he can remake the face of the world. But Aziz won’t say where they are going or what they will do when they get there! Thus starts an incredible adventure leading into the Sargasso Sea and a kingdom lost from history and the goal of world peace! But just as the Garden of Eden came equipped with a viper so there’s a snake among the 25 Braves of Masefield’s crew.

The Cataclysm is a wonderful tale of adventure, romance, high ideals and great betrayals.


And don’t forget our other recent releases:
Safe and Sane and the collected stories from The Thrill Book by Tod Robbins ($6.00)
The Whimpus, The Living Portrait and Wild Wullie, The Waster: Three Novelets by Tod Robbins. ($6.00)
Secret Agent X #35, Plague of the Golden Death ($6.00) and
Secret Agent #36, Curse of the Mandarin’s Fan. ($6.00)

Beb Books are always set in new, readable type and printed on 8.5 by 11 inch paper and side stapled.
All the original art, when it exists, is included.  Postage is just $3.00 for the first three books and 25 cents more per additional book


My website is over a year out of date.
But I can send you a brief catalog of what we've reprinted.
Just write to beb01@sprynet.com and ask for a catalog.

Have a question? Would like to see our complete list of titles? Write to me at beb01@sprynet.com.

To order, send check or money order (sorry, no Paypal) made payable to Brian Earl Brown to:

Brian Earl Brown
11675 Beaconsfield
Detroit, MI 48224

Have a question? Would like to see our complete list of titles? Write to beb01@sprynet.com.








Black Coat Press - Now available!

THE IMMORTAL WOMAN
by Pierre-Alexis Ponson du Terrail
adapted by Brian Stableford

In 1675, a female vampire possessing the secret of immortality was burned alive. Forty-five years later, during a dinner at the table of the French Regent, her then-lover, Marquis de la Roche-Maubert, discovers that another guest, Chevalier d'Esparron, is in love with the same immortal woman. However, her attraction to him is not to satisfy her hunger for blood, but to implement one of the greatest secrets of alchemy: the transmutation of lead into gold!

Pierre-Alexis Ponson du Terrail (1829-1871) was a French popular writer and a master of the serialized novel, having penned over 200 such works in 20 years. He is justly famous for his character of Rocambole and his ground-breaking horror novel, The Vampire and the Devil's Son (1852). The Immortal Woman (1852) is a forgotten masterpiece of early vampire fiction, and another of Ponson's classic flirtations with the supernatural.


US $26.95 / GBP £18.99
5x8 trade paperback, 384 pages

THE CASTAWAYS OF EROS
by Théo Varlet
adapted by Brian Stableford

At that moment, we represented the genius of human beings and the Earth before that court, the elite of a planetary civilization of evolved lizards that was at least the rival of ours.

Aurore Lescure, the first woman astronaut, who starred in The Xenobiotic Invasion, returns in this ground-breaking novel about the first successful interplanetary flight to the planetoid Eros. There, the intrepid explorers discover that evolution on Eros has taken a different turn than on Earth, producing a species of intelligent dinosaurs...

The notion of a Japanese-financed rocket piloted by a French female astronaut was a radical one in 1932, when this daring and original novel was written. With The Castaways of Eros, Théo Varlet hoped to promote the potential of rocket technology to launch a "Space Age" of interplanetary colonization. Sadly, the advent of WWII and his untimely death in 1938 put an end to that dream, leaving only this remarkable roman scientifique as a witness to a future that never was.


US $20.95 / GBP £12.99
5x8 trade paperback, 244 pages


THE RESURRECTION OF MADAME ATOMOS
by André Caroff
adapted by Michael Shreve

After the disappearance of Atomia, Madame Atomos had recovered her health. Then she stopped thinking about her body. Until the day she happened to look into a mirror.
It was something that did not happen often, but this time the terrible woman experienced the biggest surprise of her life. For, she was growing younger!
             
Contents:
- The Resurrection of Madame Atomos [Mme Atomos Change de Peau] (1968)
- The Seduction of Madame Atomos [Mme Atomos Fait Du Charme] (1969)
- On an Ill Wind... (short story by François Darnaudet)

In this seventh volume, Madame Atomos is miraculously rejuvenated into a woman twenty years younger than her former self! She uses her newly-regained beauty to seduce Akamatsu and plot a deadly revenge against Smith Beffort and his wife Mie, the former Miss Atomos, for whom she plans a hideous death...


US $22.95 / GBP £14.99
5x8 trade paperback, 320 pages

Madame Atmos E-Books

Each e-book includes the translation of ONE French volume (i.e.: paper book volume 1 = e-books 1 and 2); e-books do not include the addituional short stories included in the paper books.

1. THE SINISTER MADAME ATOMOS by André Caroff - adapted by Brian Stableford
The sinister Madame Atomos is a brilliant but twisted Japanese scientist who is out to avenge herself against the United States for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where she lost her family. Opposing her are Smith Beffort of the FBI, Dr. Alan Soblen, and Yosho Akamatsu of the Japanese Secret Police. This classic 18-volume French sci-fi thriller series from the 1960s and 1970s is presented here in English for the first time. In Volume 1, Madame Atomos unleashes radioactive zombies in New York.

2. THE TERROR OF MADAME ATOMOS by André Caroff - adapted by Brian Stableford
The deadly Madame Atomos is a brilliant but twisted Japanese scientist who is out to avenge herself against the United States for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where she lost her family. Opposing her are Smith Beffort of the FBI, Dr. Alan Soblen, and Yosho Akamatsu of the Japanese Secret Police. This classic 18-volume French sci-fi thriller series from the 1960s and 1970s is presented here in English for the first time. In Volume 2, Madame Atomos takes her war to Texas where she unleashes giant spiders.
           
3. MADAME ATOMOS STRIKES BACK by André Caroff - adapted by Michael Shreve
The deadly Madame Atomos is a brilliant but twisted Japanese scientist who is out to avenge herself against the United States for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where she lost her family. Opposing her are Smith Beffort of the FBI, Dr. Alan Soblen, and Yosho Akamatsu of the Japanese Secret Police. This classic 18-volume French sci-fi thriller series from the 1960s and 1970s is presented here in English for the first time. In Volume 3, Madame Atomos threatens to destroy California.
 

4. MISS ATOMOS by André Caroff - adapted by Michael Shreve
The deadly Madame Atomos is a brilliant but twisted Japanese scientist who is out to avenge herself against the United States for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where she lost her family. Opposing her are Smith Beffort of the FBI, Dr. Alan Soblen, and Yosho Akamatsu of the Japanese Secret Police. This classic 18-volume French sci-fi thriller series from the 1960s and 1970s is presented here in English for the first time. In Volume 4, after her apparent demise, Madame Atomos unleashes an even deadlier threat -- the diabolical Miss Atomos!

5. MISS ATOMOS VS. THE K.K.K. by André Caroff - adapted by Michael Shreve
The deadly Madame Atomos is a brilliant but twisted Japanese scientist who is out to avenge herself against the United States for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where she lost her family. Opposing her are Smith Beffort of the FBI, Dr. Alan Soblen, and Yosho Akamatsu of the Japanese Secret Police. This classic 18-volume French sci-fi thriller series from the 1960s and 1970s is presented here in English for the first time. In Volume 5, Miss Atomos fights to the death against the K.K.K.
 
6. THE RETURN OF MADAME ATOMOS by André Caroff - adapted by Michael Shreve
The deadly Madame Atomos is a brilliant but twisted Japanese scientist who is out to avenge herself against the United States for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where she lost her family. Opposing her are Smith Beffort of the FBI, Dr. Alan Soblen, and Yosho Akamatsu of the Japanese Secret Police. This classic 18-volume French sci-fi thriller series from the 1960s and 1970s is presented here in English for the first time. In Volume 6, after Miss Atomos' betrayal, Madame Atomos returns, deadlier than ever!

7. THE MISTAKE OF MADAME ATOMOS by André Caroff - adapted by Michael Shreve
The deadly Madame Atomos is a brilliant but twisted Japanese scientist who is out to avenge herself against the United States for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where she lost her family. Opposing her are Smith Beffort of the FBI, Dr. Alan Soblen, and Yosho Akamatsu of the Japanese Secret Police. This classic 18-volume French sci-fi thriller series from the 1960s and 1970s is presented here in English for the first time. In Volume 7, Madame Atomos challenges the full might of the U.S. Army with her invincible flying fortress.


8. MADAME ATOMOS PROLONGS LIFE by André Caroff - adapted by Michael Shreve
The deadly Madame Atomos is a brilliant but twisted Japanese scientist who is out to avenge herself against the United States for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where she lost her family. Opposing her are Smith Beffort of the FBI, Dr. Alan Soblen, and Yosho Akamatsu of the Japanese Secret Police. This classic 18-volume French sci-fi thriller series from the 1960s and 1970s is presented here in English for the first time. In Volume 8, Madame Atomos unleashes a deadly bacteriological attack upon the State of Rhode Island.
 
9. THE MONSTERS OF MADAME ATOMOS by André Caroff - adapted by Michael Shreve
The deadly Madame Atomos is a brilliant but twisted Japanese scientist who is out to avenge herself against the United States for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where she lost her family. Opposing her are Smith Beffort of the FBI, Dr. Alan Soblen, and Yosho Akamatsu of the Japanese Secret Police. This classic 18-volume French sci-fi thriller series from the 1960s and 1970s is presented here in English for the first time. In Volume 9, Madame Atomos continues waging war on the United States by turning the hapless residents of Baltimore into blood-thirsty monsters.

10. MADAME ATOMOS SPITS FIRE by André Caroff - adapted by Michael Shreve
The deadly Madame Atomos is a brilliant but twisted Japanese scientist who is out to avenge herself against the United States for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where she lost her family. Opposing her are Smith Beffort of the FBI, Dr. Alan Soblen, and Yosho Akamatsu of the Japanese Secret Police. This classic 18-volume French sci-fi thriller series from the 1960s and 1970s is presented here in English for the first time. In Volume 10, Madame Atomos unleashes uncontrollable wild fires over Nevada.






Black Dog Books
Windy City Pulp Stories No.13
Now available!

A collection of articles and studies by some of the leading scholars in the field examining Adventure magazine and why it was considered the top of the line in the pulp magazine field.
 
A must have for anyone interested in the history of the pulp magazine field!
 
Included are:
 
Fu Manchu and Sax Rohmer
 • "Fu Manchu: The First Hundred Years" by William Patrick Maynard
 • "Sax Rohmer . . . Says Gangsters Doomed" (1931 interview) by Gene Cohn
 • Fu Manchu Photo Gallery
 • "The Art of Making Villains" (1924 Rohmer article)
 • "The Fraudulent Fu Manchu" by Rick Lai
 
Weird Tales
 • Editors You Want To Know: Farnsworth Wright by E. Hoffmann Price
 • "Printing Company Occupies Washington Street Plant" (Weird Tales printer in 1924)

 • Farnsworth Wright: Correspondence to Donald Wandrei, 1932
 • Weird Tales Club Card
 • "The Psycho-Mystic, Horror and Weird Story Field" by Joseph Lichtblau
 • Market Requirements Pseudo-Scientific Magazines, 1936  The Science Fiction Magazines
 • "Novelty—The Essential of Science Fiction" by Charles D. Hornig
 • "The Science Fiction Field" by Leigh Brackett
 • E.E. "Doc" Smith Correspondence to Jack Darrow, 1931-38 by Doug Ellis  Art Focus
 • "J.C. Coll: A Retrospective Gallery" by Tom Roberts
 • "Margaret Brundage" by Robert Weinberg / R.A. Everts
 
Special Fiction Section—
 • "Ooze" by Anthony Rud (reprinted from Weird Tales, Vol.1, No.1)
 
Film focus—
 • Pulp to the Silver Screen, 2013 by Ed Hulse
 
Trade paperback
138 pages

ISBN: 978-1-884449-41-3
Price: $14.95


The Book Cave - New podcast now available online!
Episode 230: Not online as of  posting time.


Episode 229: Small Press Alternative Comics Expo
Episode 228: Win Scott Eckert
Episode 227: Mike Baron
Episode 226: One Foot In My Grave
Episode 225: Bigfoot Blues
Episode 224:  Doc Savage: Skull Island

 
Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press: EDitorial Comments - Now online!

Thanks To Our Loyal Subscribers! - New!
DISTRESSED DAMSELS & MASKED MARAUDERS: The Final Update
Coming Soon: BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER GUIDE TO PULP FICTION

BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER #36/37: Subscriber Copies Have Shipped
Windy City 2013 Convention Report
Murania Press Sale at the Upcoming Windy City Pulp/Paper Expo
Wuxtry, Wuxtry: Hot Off The Press! THE BEST OF BnT: VOLUME TWO



CONAN THE BARBARIAN #16 - Arriving in comic shops May 15!
Brian Wood (Writer), Davide Gianfelice (Art), Dave Stewart (Color), and Massimo Carnevale (Cover)

After a series of trials that nearly tore them apart, Conan and Belit use a brief respite to embark on a vision quest. But with violence, pain, and death their constant companions, the vision quickly becomes a nightmare!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.50, in stores on May 15.









Davy Crockett's Almanak of Mystery, Adventure, and the Wild West - Now online!

Forgotten Books: GANGLAND'S DOOM (The Shadow of the Pulps) by Frank Eisgruber Jr. (1974) - New!
DOC SAVAGE COMICS (1940-41) - New!
Overlooked Films: Flynn, Rathbone & Niven in THE DAWN PATROL (1938) - New!
Pulp Gallery: DIME DETECTIVE - New!
Forgotten Books: WHAT PRICE MURDER by Cleve F. Adams (1942)
Pulp Gallery: HORROR STORIES (1935)
Overlooked Films: THE SHADOW in "International Crime" (1938)  
The Life-Size Lone Ranger
Art Gallery: ELLERY QUEEN Comics (1949)
Pulp Gallery: STARTLING STORIES
Comic Gallery: PHANTOM LADY (1947)


Doc Savage Feature Film - Sony closes deal to make a feature film!
 
Sony has closed a deal with Shane Black to co-write and direct DOC SAVAGE.
Black co-wrote the screenplay with Anthony Bagarozzi and Charles Mondry, and Columbia Pictures says he’s eyeing it as his next project.
Neal H. Moritz is producing the project with Ori Marmur through his Original Film banner. Michael Uslan will also be a producer.

Sony is prepping to go all out with Doc Savage and make it its next big franchise.
Shane Black directed IRON MAN 3 which is now in theaters.


E-texts on the net this week
The Shadow in Review:
There is no new Shadow review this week.

 
Pulpgen-Online Pulps:   Now with over 1000 stories online!

"Teacher From Mars" by Eando Binder from THRILLING WONDER STORIES, February, 1941
The old professor from the crimson planet feared Earth's savagery ... until humanity taught him a profound secret!
"The Tenth Question" by George Allan England from ALL-STORY WEEKLY, December 18, 1915
Dr. Nasmyth visits a new patient of his who turns out to be a madman who imprisons him and asks him a series of ten questions.  The madman has a hatred of doctors and captures one doctor after another for his questioning, which none so far have survived.
"Blind Man's Fluff" by Robert Leslie Bellem from THRILLING DETECTIVE, February, 1950
Featuring: Nick Ransom
Private investigator Nick Ransom gets involved in a strange case when he is called by a blind movie scriptwriter to take a case. When a lethal trap is ready to be sprung, blind Griff Borlund hears whispers in the darkness - whispers that rise to a roar of violence as a fetching blonde meets death.


Fringe #1: The Zodiak Paradox - Arriving in book stores May 14!
By Christa Faust

Critically acclaimed Fringe explores new cases with endless impossibilities. Set in Boston, the FBI's Fringe Division started when Special Agent Olivia Dunham enlisted institutionalized "fringe" scientist Walter Bishop and his globe-trotting, jack-of-all-trades son, Peter, to help in investigations that defy all human logic - and the laws of nature. The first in an all-new series of tie-in novels!

Author Christa Faust (Choke Hold, Supernatural) is working hand-in-hand with the television writers to create new adventures uncovering the secrets of the series.
The first novel reveals how Walter Bishop and William Bell discovered the drug Cortexiphan--and the alternate universe!


Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
ISBN-10: 178116309X
ISBN-13: 978-1781163092
$7.99




GREEN HORNET #2 - Arriving in comic shops May 15!
(Writer) Mark Waid; (Art) Daniel Indro; (Cover) Paolo Rivera

Britt Reid has always been a hero to the people, whether in his civilian identity as a newspaper publisher, or as his costumed alter-ego. But in one terrible moment, the Green Hornet turns on the city that he’d sworn to protect, becoming their worst enemy!



Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99





GREEN HORNET LEGACY #36 - Arriving in comic shops May 15!
Written by Jai Nitz, art by Jethro Morales, cover by Stephen Sadowski.

Snowfall blankets the city and peace is restored. The aftermath of the Hornet's Reign arc leaves Century City without heroes and villains alike. That's why there's no one to stop the madman who is stealing bodies from the city's morgues and funeral homes. Who can stop the dead from rising when the Green Hornet is dead?

32 pages, $3.99.






Grimm: THE ICY TOUCH - Coming November 5!
By John Shirley

Portland homicide Detective Nick Burkhardt discovers he is descended from an elite line of criminal profilers known as "Grimms", charged with keeping balance between humanity and the mythological creatures of the world.

Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
ISBN-10: 1781166544
ISBN-13: 978-1781166543

$7.99



THE HOGBEN CHRONICLES by Henry Kuttner
New Kickstarter Campaign to publish Kuttner collection!


Henry Kuttner wrote the humorous Hogben series for THRILLING WONDER STORIES. 
The four story series is about an ill-assorted family of weirdly gifted Mutant hillbillies and has never been collected into one volume.
"Exit the Professor" (October 1947 Thrilling Wonder)
"Pile of Trouble" (April 1948 Thrilling Wonder)
"See You Later" (June 1949 Thrilling Wonder)
"Cold War" (October 1949 Thrilling Wonder)


Borderlands Press is celebrating its first project with Kickstarter! They have initiated a Kickstarter Campaign to finance the publication of Kuttner's Hogben stories in one volume which will be illustrated by British comic book artist, Steve Parkhurst.
THE HOGBEN CHRONICLES is edited by Pierce Watters and F. Paul Wilson, with an introduction by Neil Gamain!
Planned editions include an ebook, trade paperback, hardcover limited edition, and a leather-bound hardcover in a traycase lettered edition.
The editors and Mr. Gaiman have agreed to sign 600 copies of the various editions.
This book has the full cooperation of the Kuttner estate so that his heirs will share in the proceeds.


This project will only be funded if at least $30,000 is pledged by Sunday May 26, 9:55am EDT.
Complete details can be found at the link below.


Laurie's Wild West - Now online!

DOC SAVAGE MOVIE ON TRACK WITH IRON MAN 3'S DIRECTOR: WILL MURRAY'S THOUGHTS - New!
The Relationship Between Pulp Editor and Writer: Fantastic Article Out Now
Upcoming Paul Powers Stories and Articles
Daisy Bacon's First Love Story In Its Entirety
Pulp Fest 2012 Report
"Dear Mrs. Browne"; Daisy's First Job at LOVE STORY
"To Steal A Ranch," A Complete Paul Powers Story
The EXCITING series of pulps
MAGAZINES I REMEMBER by Hugh Cave: An Appreciation
Happy Holidays from Daisy Bacon


LORD OF THE JUNGLE #15 - Arriving in comic shops May 15!
Arvid Nelson (Writer); Roberto Castro (Art); Lucio Parrillo (Cover)

Before they return to civilization, the Jungle Lord and Jane Porter plan to explore the forbidden recesses of Opar, a lost city of gold hidden in the heart of Africa. But they are not alone in the ancient ruins! A shadowy beast stalks their number, picking off their compatriots one by one… a creature more savage and deadly than any ever before encountered!


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99





The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Tom Cruise's Female Lead Cast!

Rising Swedish actress Alicia Vikander is in negotiations for the female lead opposite Tom Cruise and Armie Hammer in Warner Bros.’ Man From U.N.C.L.E. movie.

Vikander appeared with Keira Knightley in Joe Wright’s adaptation of Anna Karenina, which led to work in several American productions.
Guy Ritchie is on board to direct the adaptation of the classic 1960s TV series.


Martin Grams' Blog - Now online!

The Original 1964-65 Jonny Quest Cartoons and the Rick Brant Novels - New!
The Lone Ranger Rides Again
The Shadow Unmasked
The Shadow: The 1934-1940 Cliffhanger Serial


Mystery*File - Now online!

Review: MAX BRAND — The Phantom Spy  - New!
Collecting Pulps: A Memoir, Part Eight: The Night Pulpcon Almost Ended With a Drunken Brawl, by Walker Martin - New!
Movie Review: THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU (1967)
WINDY CITY PULP CONVENTION 2013 REPORT by Walker Martin 
Dan Stumpf on WALTER PIDGEON, Bulldog Drummond & Nick Carter.
A Western Fiction Review: J. ALLAN DUNN – The Girl of Ghost Mountain
Pulp Fiction Review: FREDERICK NEBEL – East of Singapore
ADVENTURES IN COLLECTING: Thoughts on a December Evening, by Walker Martin


The Nostalgia Merchant
The Shadow Collection - Classic Movies

Now available!


The Shadow had it's beginnings on radio in 1930 and became one of the most popular shows in history. "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!" The opening lines of the program captivated listeners and are instantly recognizable even today. At the end of each episode, The Shadow reminded listeners, "The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay.... The Shadow knows!"Over the years, six motion pictures were made featurning the exploits of The Shadow. This collection includes these six films.(There could be more films that we don't know about.)

Starring: Kane Richmond, Rod La Rocque, Richard Derr
6 Classic Movies on 6 DVDs.
$36.95


This 6 DVD set includes the following full-length titles:
The Shadow Strikes - The cloaked hero, Lamont Cranston (aka The Shadow), goes after a group of murderous racketeers... (1937)
International Crime - The great crime fighter returns to thwart a gang of foreign saboteurs.... (1938)
The Shadow Returns - People are literally flying off balconies to their deaths as Lamont Cranston tries to make sense out of a confusing jumble of murders... (1946)
Behind the Mask - Lamont Cranston, aka the Shadow, has his hands full as the murder of blackmailing reporter Jeff Mann is blamed on him.. (1946)
The Missing Lady - A jade statue, the "missing lady", is stolen and its owner killed. Lamont Cranston, aka The Shadow, sets out to catch the killer but is blamed for the murders himself... (1946)
Invisible Avenger - Lamont Cranston, aka The Shadow, hunts the murderer of his "confidante" and uses his ability to become invisible in solving the crime. (1958)



The Nostalgia Merchant
The Shadow - 15 Chapter Columbia Serial

Now available!

The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his death ray.
This was Columbia's ninth serial and it was based on the famous radio series and pulp magazine character of the same name.

Starring: Victory Jory, Veda Ann Borg
15 Chapters on 2 DVDs
$17.95



THE OMEGA PROJECT - Coming August 6!
By Steve Alten

On the brink of a disaster that could end all human life on earth, tech genius Robert Eisenbraun joins a team of scientists in Antarctica on a mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa to mine a rare ore that would provide for Earth’s long-term energy needs. But as he and the rest of the team train under the ice shelf in preparation for the long journey, trouble erupts, and before they embark Eisenbraun is the odd man out, put into cold sleep against his will….

When Robert wakes, he finds the ship deserted and not functional. He escapes to the surface of an Earth terribly changed. The plan has gone horribly wrong, but as he adapts to a hostile environment, he realizes that there is still a way to accomplish what his mission had set out to achieve. But he also discovers that he faces a new adversary of the most unlikely sort. For now,  his own survival and that of the woman whose love has sustained him in his darkest hours depend on the defeat of a technological colossus partly of his own making. Confronting a foe that knows him almost as well as he knows himself, he faces the prospect of depending on resources that he has reason to believe will be available on one particular night of a full moon, a night foretold by a myseterious unseen ally to be a pivotal moment for the fate of the earth. The game has changed, and Earth’s future depends on him and him alone.

The Omega Project is yet another edge-of-your-seat thriller by bestselling author, Steve Alten, leaving readers looking for more.


Hardcover: 336 pages
ISBN-10: 0765336324
ISBN-13: 978-0765336323
$25.99



Pro Se Press: CHARLES BOECKMAN PRESENTS JOHNNY NICKLE - Now available!

It isn’t often in the modern market that a Publisher gets the opportunity to work with the characters of a Pulp Writer from the Classic era of Pulp Fiction with the involvement of the author.  Pro Se Productions, a leading Publisher of cutting edge Genre Fiction both looking to the future and firmly rooted to the past, proudly announces the debut of a new imprint bringing new life to characters created by prolific Pulp Author Charles Boeckman!
 
“CHARLES BOECKMAN PRESENTS…” states Tommy Hancock, Partner in and Editor in Chief of Pro Se Productions, “came from the source itself, honestly.  Charles Boeckman, now 92 years old, was a writer of many stories back in the heyday of Pulp and beyond, mostly suspense/mystery and western tales.   Due to his publishing of a collection of his mystery stories, I became aware of his work and absolutely fell in love with the characters he created.  Not only were the stories taut and exciting, but the characters, all of them just appearing the one time, so many of them had series potential.  So, an email or three later to Charles and his wonderful wife, Patti, and I asked about his permission to have modern writers take on some of the characters he’d written into life.  He was enthusiastic and encouraging and now we have the debut of CHARLES BOECKMAN PRESENTS JOHNNY NICKLE!”


Originally appearing in Boeckman’s story, ‘Run, Cat, Run,’ Johnny Nickle was a trumpet player on the run from his own past.  And now, in CHARLES BOECKMAN PRESENTS JOHNNY NICKLE, this unlikely hero makes a return engagement to perform TWO exciting new hits.  NOTES IN THE FOG written by Richard White and THE DEVIL YOU KNOW authored by Brad Mengel push Johnny into mystery and out of it hopefully on a high note.

“This character,” Hancock explained, “is neat on several levels.  A sort of sub genre that is very popular among Pulp and Crime fans is that of the Musician Detective/Hero, usually a Jazz type, like Jack Webb’s Pete Kelly.  Mr. Boeckman’s work is replete with these sorts of characters and each one stands apart, no cardboard cutouts.  Johnny has an edge to him in the original story that both of our authors have maintained, utilizing the rich background Johnny has a trumpet player as well as his own personal background.  It’s even more wonderful that Mr. Boeckman is a professional Jazz Musician and band leader as well, so the original stories come with an authenticity that definitely influenced Richard and Brad.”

CHARLES BOECKMAN PRESENTS JOHNNY NICKLE features a fantastic cover by Adam Shaw as well as cover design and print formatting by Sean Ali and ebook formatting by Russ Anderson! Edited by David White, these two tales are your backstage pass to see Charles Boeckman’s Johnny Nickle tackle mystery and murder with a soundtrack that cooks with red hot women, ice cold killers, triple time thrills and smokin’ jazz!  From Pro Se Productions!




PULP ARK 2013 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD GIVEN TO PULP WRITER CHARLES BOECKMAN!

Pulp Ark 2013, a Convention/Creators Conference centering around all aspects of New Pulp, was held April 26-28, 2013 in Springdale, AR.  As a part of the convention, the Pulp Ark Awards were given for the third year in a row.  The only comprehensive awards in the Pulp field chosen specifically by anyone wishing to nominate writers, creators, etc. for an award, The Pulp Ark Awards are given in a variety of categories.

Only one category within the Pulp Ark Awards is determined, not by the vote of the public, but by a committee selected to determine the winner.  The Pulp Ark Lifetime Achievement Award is given to a Person involved in Pulp that has devoted much of their life to participating in the production of and/or furthering the promotion and preservation of and education in Classic Pulp as well as supporting New Pulp either by being a participant or providing encouragement other ways.
 
This year’s Pulp Ark Lifetime Achievement Award Winner as selected by the Committee began his Pulp involvement in the 1930s, finding many of his stories printed in the 1940s and 50s and moving onto other publications with fiction after the Pulps faded away in the mid 1950s.   Born in Texas, this year’s recipient learned much about life that he later translated into great western tales.  Being a self taught Jazz Musician, he saw much in his travels that informed his mystery and suspense stories, many with a Jazz background.  Writing for digests as well as penning his own books well after Pulps left the bookshelves, this author recently collected his stories and has released two date two volumes of work, with the assistance and support of his wife, Patti.  This work has so inspired writers today that a New Pulp Publishing company, Pro Se Productions, has licensed and began an imprint utilizing characters originally written by the author in his early career.
 
The recipient of the Pulp Ark 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award is Charles Boeckman. 

Upon notification of receiving the award, Charles Boeckman provided the following statement-
“I am very honored to receive the Pulp Ark Convention 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award. This was so unexpected and so gratifying. Until a couple of years ago, I thought the pulps were just a faded memory in the minds of anyone still alive who read them back in their hey day. Then I discovered the vibrant community of pulp and new pulp fans and writers, and my life suddenly took on new meaning. Connecting with pulp fans, republishing some of my vintage stories in anthologies, and finding some of my forgotten manuscripts in an old trunk have reawakened my passion to write, and at age 92, I am once again pounding on the keyboard.
 
It means so much that I will have concrete recognition of my contribution to pulp fiction, something that I can proudly display and eventually leave to my progeny. Maybe it will help inspire them in some way.

Thank you so much, Pulp Ark Convention 2013.”


Pulp Flakes - Now online!
A new pulp blog on pulp magazines, authors and their stories, adventure and detective pulps.

Map of Adventure  - New!
New photo and some information about Hapsburg Liebe  - New!
Nothing but the truth - short story by Albert R. Wetjen
Albert R. Wetjen - Sailor, Writer
Editor's Choice - Harry E. Maule of Short Stories on his criteria for selecting stories
Hugh Pendexter on making his first fiction sale
Free pulp stories at Munsey's - selected authors
Biography of Warren Hastings Miller - author, outdoorsman, sailor, editor
Interview with Johnston McCulley (creator of Zorro)
Pulp in the mainstream - two sports pulp articles
Pulp in the mainstream - article on Margaret Brundage in The Atlantic magazine
Johnston McCulley - special exhibit being planned at his birthplace, Chillicothe, Ohio


Pulp Magazines Project - Now online!
The Pulp Magazines Project is an open-access digital archive dedicated to the study and preservation of one of the twentieth century's most influential literary & artistic forms: the all-fiction pulpwood magazine. The Project also provides information on the history of this important but long neglected medium, along with biographies of pulp authors, artists, and their publishers.

At the heart of the Project's mission is the archive itself. In summer 2011, it began with a modest library of five representative first-generation pulp titles from the early twentieth century. Over time, the archive will expand, new magazines will be digitized, and contextual materials added. Eventually, the archive will feature a broad range of pre-1923 titles, post-1923 titles where copyright has lapsed, and full volume runs of select titles from 1896 to 1946.

The Project is dedicated to fostering ties between communities of collectors, fans, and academics devoted to pulp magazines, and will offer opportunities for research and collaboration to both scholars and enthusiasts alike. We will provide information on upcoming conferences and conventions, and promote new working relationships between academics and the hundreds of pulp fans and collectors beyond the college and university.


Now Availabler Online!
10 STORY BOOK July 1934

ADVENTURE October 1915
ADVENTURE August 3 1919
AIR STORIES August 1927
AIR WONDER STORIES July 1929
AIR WONDER STORIES August 1929
AIR WONDER STORIES December 1929
AIR WONDER STORIES May 1930
ALL-STORY MAGAZINE May 1907
ALL-STORY MAGAZINE August 1909
ALL-STORY WEEKLY June 5 1915
ALL-STORY WEEKLY February 3 1917
ALL-STORY WEEKLY January 25 1919
ALL-STORY WEEKLY June 14 1919
ALL-STORY WEEKLY June 21 1919
ALL-STORY WEEKLY June 19 1920
AMAZING STORIES April 1926
AMAZING STORIES May 1926
AMAZING STORIES June 1926
AMAZING STORIES July 1926

AMAZING STORIES August 1926
AMAZING STORIES September 1926
AMAZING STORIES October 1926
AMAZING STORIES November 1926
AMAZING STORIES December 1926
AMAZING STORIES August 1927
AMAZING STORIES April 1928
AMAZING STORIES May 1934
ARGOSY August 1905
ARGOSY November 1908
ARGOSY AND RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE April 5 1919
ARGOSY October 21, 1922
ASTOUNDING STORIES February 1932
ASTOUNDING STORIES November 1932
ASTOUNDING STORIES November 1933
ASTOUNDING STORIES January 1936
ASTOUNDING STORIES August 1938
 
BASKETBALL STORIES Winter 1937
BEDTIME TALES circa 1935
BLUE BOOK August 3 1916
BREEZY STORIES March 1916
 
CAVALIER September 28 1912
 
DETECTIVE STORY MAGAZINE March 5 1916
DETECTIVE STORY MAGAZINE October 5 1916
DETECTIVE STORY MAGAZINE January 5 1917
DETECTIVE STORY MAGAZINE August 27 1921
DYNAMIC SCIENCE STORIES February 1939
DYNAMIC SCIENCE STORIES April-May 1939

 
FAMOUS FANTASTIC MYSTERIES Sept/Oct 1939
FAMOUS FANTASTIC MYSTERIES November 1939
FAMOUS FANTASTIC MYSTERIES December 1939
FIGHT STORIES June 1928
FIGHT STORIES September 1930
FIGHT STORIES August/October 1949
FLYING STORIES May 1929
FOLLIES Winter 1933
FRONTIER STORIES May 1926
FRONTIER STORIES May 1927
 
GAY LIFE STORIES circa 1939
GHOST STORIES January 1927
GINGER STORIES June 1929
GINGER STORIES February 1930
GREEN BOOK MAGAZINE March 1912
 
HOLLYWOOD NIGHTS May 1937
HUTCHINSON'S STORY MAGAZINE July 1919
HUTCHINSON'S STORY MAGAZINE September 1919
 
I CONFESS January 12, 1923
INDIAN STORIES January 1950
 
JUNGLE STORIES Summer 1950
 
LIVE STORIES May 1919
LIVE STORIES July 1919
LOVE STORY MAGAZINE May 10 1934
LOVE STORY MAGAZINE October 20 1934
LOVE STORY MAGAZINE March 30 1935

 
MERRY MAGAZINE March 1929
 

NEW LOVE MAGAZINE March 1943
NIGHT LIFE TALES Winter 1940
NEW STORY MAGAZINE July 1914
NORTH-WEST ROMANCES Winter 1950
 
OUT OF THIS WORLD ADVENTURES July 1950
OUT OF THIS WORLD ADVENTURES December 1950
 
LA PAREE November 1935
PEOPLE'S November 1915
PEOPLE'S MAGAZINE November 25 1922
PEP STORIES April 1932
PLANET STORIES November 1939
PLANET STORIES Fall 1944
PLANET STORIES Spring 1946
PLANET STORIES November 1950
PLANET STORIES January 1951
POPULAR MAGAZINE December 1908
POPULAR MAGAZINE November 23, 1912
POPULAR MAGAZINE July 1, 1913
POPULAR MAGAZINE November 7, 1914
POPULAR MAGAZINE February 23, 1915
POPULAR MAGAZINE July 23, 1915
POPULAR MAGAZINE October 20, 1915
POPULAR MAGAZINE January 7, 1916
POPULAR MAGAZINE November 7, 1916
POPULAR MAGAZINE December 20, 1916
POPULAR MAGAZINE April 20, 1917
POPULAR MAGAZINE April 20, 1918
 
RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE October 1909
RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE November 1909
RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE December 1909
RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE January 1910
RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE February 1910
RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE March 1910
RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE April 1910
RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE May 1910
RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE June 1910
RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE July 1910
RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE August 1910
RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE September 1910
RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE October 1910
RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE November 1910
RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE December 1910
RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE January 1911
RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE February 1911
RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE March 1911
RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE April 1911
RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE May 1911
RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE October 1912
RANCH ROMANCES September 1 1933
RANCH ROMANCES March 1 1943
RANCH ROMANCES February 11 1944
ROMANCE January 1920
ROMANCE October 1920
 
SAUCY STORIES May 1919
SAUCY STORIES August 22 1922
SEA STORIES August 1929
SHORT STORIES April 1916
SHORT STORIES August 10 1926
SNAPPY November 1937
SNAPPY STORIES March 4 1916
SPICY ADVENTURE STORIES September 1939
SPICY STORIES September 1936
SWEETHEART STORIES August 1942

THRILLING ADVENTURES July 1932
THRILLS INCORPORATED March 1950
THRILLS INCORPORATED April 1950
THRILLS INCORPORATED May 1950
THRILLS INCORPORATED June 1950
THRILLS INCORPORATED July 1950
THRILLS INCORPORATED November 1951
THRILLS INCORPORATED June 1952
TOP NOTCH MAGAZINE October 17 1917
 
WEIRD TALES August/September 1936
WEIRD TALES October 1936
WEIRD TALES July 1937
WESTERN STORY MAGAZINE November 25 1922
WESTERN STORY MAGAZINE June 5 1926
WIDE AWAKE MAGAZINE January 10 1916
WONDER STORIES December 1930
WONDER STORIES January 1931
WONDER STORIES February 1931
WONDER STORIES March 1931
WONDER STORIES April 1931
WONDER STORIES May 1931
WONDER STORIES June 1931
WONDER STORIES July 1931
WONDER STORIES August 1931
WONDER STORIES October 1931
WONDER STORIES August 1932
WONDER STORIES August 1934
WORLD FICTION November 1922


Thanks to David Lee Smith for the listing!

The Pulp.Net  - Now online!
The Pulp.Net features two ongoing blogs!

Pulp Super-Fan blog written by Michael R. Brown and the long-running Yellowed Perils written by William Lampkin.

Pulp Super-Fan blog written by Michael R. Brown

Sar Dubnotal: occult detective - New!
Here come the bad guys: villain pulps - New!
Belphegor, the Phantom of the Louvre - New!
Pulp-thrillers of Preston & Child - New!
The pulp adventures of The Black Hood
A spy named The Red Finger
Diamondstone: Magician-Sleuth
Seekay and other forerunners to The Avenger
Om! Ma-ni pad-me Hum! The Green Lama
Jim Anthony: Super-Detective
Early pulp pastiches of Doc Savage
Doc Ardan: A Doc Savage predecessor

The techno-pulp of Clive Cussler
Book review: ‘Fragment’
Lester Dent’s ‘gadget heroes’
The other pulp characters of Johnston McCulley
Judex: A Shadow predecessor  
Amusement Inc. vs. The Scarlet Ace


Yellowed Perils by William Lampkin

Before the ‘Planet of the Apes’ - New!
A history of ‘pulp magazine’ - New!
A ‘pulp’ mystery continues…
Random thoughts on ‘Doc Savage’ covers
‘Doc Savage’ movie gets 90 days…
The mystery of ‘Cowboy Thrill Magazine’
Taking pulp art on the road
Battling the stigma of ‘pulp’
The pulps and modern-day stereotyping
‘Amazing Stories’ (July 1940)
Remembering Lovecraft
Remembering Lester Dent


Radio Archives
Will Murray's Pulp Classics #25
Unabridged Audiobook

Terror Tales Volume 2
Read by Michael C. Gwynne, Joey D'Auria, Nicholas Camm,
and John Doyle.  Liner Notes by Will Murray

Now available!

When we released our first Terror Tales audiobook last Autumn, we weren’t sure if Radio Archives customers would be enthralled––or repulsed! It turned out you experienced both reactions. And in that realization, we see the appeal of stories of the supernatural and tales of bone-chilling horror. People are fascinated by the emotions of fear, horror, terror, and the like.
 
Hence, Terror Tales, created in 1934 and lasting until 1941. Weirder than Weird Tales, more mysterious than Dime Mystery Magazine––which gave it birth––it pushed the boundaries of pulp fiction so far it shattered them. When Terror’s editors went too far, the censors shut them down.

 
For our second Terror Tales collection we have again taken the anthology approach. Most of these stories were considered for our first release. They range from the purely supernatural to the horrifically horrible. The authors include Popular Publications’ star scribes such as Norvell Page, John Knox and Carl Jacobi, sprinkled with stand-out stories penned by lesser lights.
 
Here is the lineup:
 
Laurence Donovan’s “Swamp Madness” opens this dark carnival of doom. What is the dismal thing that emerged from a cursed swamp? And what does it want? In a tale of lunatic revenge, Norvell W. Page offers “Blood on the Moon.” John Knox chills with “The Ice Maiden,” a story of supernatural siege. James Duncan takes us “Where the Black Cats Ruled” and unmasks the inner tigress hiding within one man’s lover. William Barrett explains why “It is Dark in My Grave!” in a yarn that out-creeps Poe’s “Premature Burial.” Carl Jacobi invites us into “Satan’s Roadhouse” for a cold repast of gore and grue. Finally, Raymond Whetstone introduces us to...”Mistress of the Damned.” Is she ghost, succubus, or lamia?
 
We have invited back the acclaimed readers of our inaugural Terror Tales gorefest, Michael C. Gywnne and Joey D’Auria, as well as newcomers Nicholas Camm and John Doyle. Let them thrill and chill you with their sepulchral storytelling. And try to get a good night’s sleep before you start in. You’ll need it for the wide-awake nights that follow....  8 hours $31.98 Audio CDs / $15.99 Download.



Radio Archives
Will Murray's Pulp Classics
Coming soon!

The first G-8 and His Battle Aces audiobook, The Bat Staffel!




Radio Archives
Will Murray's Pulp Classics #20
Unabridged Audiobook
Strange Detective Mysteries When the Death-Bat Flies
Read by Michael C. Gwynne, Roy Worley, and Roger Price
Very Special Offer from Will Murray’s Pulp Classics!

RadioArchives.com and Will Murray are giving away the downloadable version of the newly released Strange Detective Mysteries #1 audiobook for FREE.


Strange Detective Mysteries #1 is one of my favorite pulps and I am excited to produce it as an audiobook with my good friends at Radio Archives. It leads off with Norvell W. Page's bizarre novelette, "When the Death-Bat Flies," and includes thrilling stories by Norbert Davis, Paul Ernst, Arthur Leo Zagat, Wayne Rogers and others. Popular Publications went all-out to make this 1937 debut issue a winner. And they succeeded!

If you prefer the Audio CDs to play in your car or home CD player, the coupon code will subtract the $11.99 price of the download version from the Audio CDs. That makes the Audio CDs half price.

It is easy to get you get your copy.  Go to:
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Add Strange Detective Mysteries to the shopping cart and use the Coupon Code PULPCA

You can download the 6 hour audiobook immediately.

Happy listening
Tom Brown and Will Murray


Radio Archives
Will Murray's Pulp eBook Classics
Now available!

The best of timeless Pulp now available as cutting edge eBooks! Will Murray's Pulp Classics brings the greatest heroes, awesome action, and two fisted thrills to your eReader! Presenting Pulp Icons such as the Spider and Operator #5 as well as wonderfully obscure characters like the Octopus and Captain Satan. Will Murray's Pulp Classics brings you the best of yesterday's Pulp today!
 
The Spider #67: Blight of the Blazing Eye
Strange, flaming death had come to New York where screaming mortals died, burned to a charred crisp! Everywhere ran the terrified rumor that an exploring party, returned from Asia, had brought with them a stolen Hindu treasure and the curse of Genghis Khan. It was from this horror that there was born, in Chinatown, a sinister Brotherhood of Murder — composed of all the Eastern races and sworn to found an evil empire. Before such a tidal wave of terror and plundering, the metropolitan police were powerless. Only Richard Wentworth, as the Spider, dared challenge the rule of this new and fearful crime-master who had blanketed Manhattan in the human ashes of his helpless victims! 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. $2.99.
 
Dime Mystery Magazine: Arthur Leo Zagat Book 1
In 1934 a new type of magazine was born. Known by various names — the shudder pulps, mystery-terror magazines, horror-terror magazines — weird menace is the sub-genre term that has survived today. Dime Mystery Magazine was one of the most popular. It came from Popular Publications, whose publisher Harry Steeger was inspired by the Grand Guignol theater of Paris. This breed of pulp story survived less than ten years, but in that time, they became infamous, even to this day. This ebook contains a collection of stories from the pages of Dime Mystery Magazine, all written by Arthur Leo Zagat, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format. $2.99.
 
Terror Tales: George Alden Edson
In 1934 a new type of magazine was born. Known by various names — the shudder pulps, mystery-terror magazines, horror-terror magazines — weird menace is the sub-genre term that has survived today. Terror Tales magazine was one of the most popular. It came from Popular Publications, whose publisher Harry Steeger was inspired by the Grand Guignol theater of Paris. This breed of pulp story survived less than ten years, but in that time, they became infamous, even to this day. This ebook contains a collection of stories from the pages of Terror Tales magazine by George Alden Edson, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format. $2.99.

99 cent eBook Singles
Each 99 cent eBook Single contains a single short story, one of the many amazing tales selected from the pages of Terror Tales and Rangeland Romances.
These short stories are not included in any of our other eBooks.


Terror Tales: It Is Dark In My Grave by William E. Barrett
What would you do if you knew the ones you loved were doomed to die horribly in your defense? In 1934 a new type of magazine was born. Known by various names — the shudder pulps, mystery-terror magazines, horror-terror magazines — weird menace is the sub-genre term that has survived today. Terror Tales magazine was one of the most popular. It came from Popular Publications, whose publisher Harry Steeger was inspired by the Grand Guignol theater of Paris. This breed of pulp story survived less than ten years, but in that time, they became infamous, even to this day. This ebook contains a classic story from the pages of Terror Tales magazine, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format. $0.99.
 
Terror Tales: Master of the Serpent Women by Donald Dale
Lester Emery feared that his body remained in the laboratory, while his disembodied spirit was driven forth to murder — slave to the grim genius of a madman... In 1934 a new type of magazine was born. Known by various names — the shudder pulps, mystery-terror magazines, horror-terror magazines — weird me most popular. It came from Popular Publications, whose publisher Harry Steeger was inspired by the Grand Guignol theater of Paris. This breed of pulp story survived less than ten years, but in that time, they became infamous, even to this day. This ebook contains a classic story from the pages of Terror Tales magazine, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format. $0.99.
 
Terror Tales: Parcels from Hell by E. G. Morris
From nowhere came the hand — bringing with it a lingering death... In 1934 a new type of magazine was born. Known by various names — the shudder pulps, mystery-terror magazines, horror-terror magazines — weird me most popular. It came from Popular Publications, whose publisher Harry Steeger was inspired by the Grand Guignol theater of Paris. This breed of pulp story survived less than ten years, but in that time, they became infamous, even to this day. This ebook contains a classic story from the pages of Terror Tales magazine, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format. $0.99.
 
Rangeland Romances #10: Dreams Are Expensive, Cowboy by Bill Severn
Warm and lovely was Vangie... but coolly wise. For she wanted no part of Bart’s beautiful, empty dreams that might come true — some day. One of the most popular settings for romance stories was the old west, where men were men and women were women. As many a swooning damsel could attest, "There's something about a cowboy." The western romance became one of the most popular types of magazines sold during the early and mid-twentieth century. $0.99.
 
Rangeland Romances #17: Salty But Susceptible by Kenneth Fowler
Beth didn’t mind being an empty-headed flirt — if her arms were full of Jimmy. Jimmy’s intoxicatin’ caressin’ had her dizzy in the head — until she learned the luscious reason why he was practicin’ his technique. One of the most popular settings for romance stories was the old west, where men were men and women were women. As many a swooning damsel could attest, "There's something about a cowboy." The western romance became one of the most popular types of magazines sold during the early and mid-twentieth century. $0.99.

All eBooks produced by Radio Archives are available in ePub, Mobi, and PDF formats for the ultimate in compatibility. When you upgrade to a new eReader, you can transfer your eBook to your new device without the need to purchase anything new.
 
Find these legendary Pulp tales and more in Will Murray's Pulp Classics, available in the Kindle store and coming very soon to the iBook Store! The best Pulp eBooks now available for only $2.99 each from Radio Archives!






Ray Harryhausen - June 29, 1920 to May 7, 2013

Special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen, whose work influenced filmmakers such as Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Peter Jackson and George Lucas, died Tuesday, May 7, in London. He was 92.

Harryhausen’s fascination with animated models began in the early 1930s after watching Willis O’Brien’s creations in King Kong with his childhood friend, the late Ray Bradbury. He began his lifelong adventure in filmmaking with his own home movies that featured his first attempts at model animation. His genius was in bringing his models to life, becoming characters in their own right. The signature technique he devised blending rear projection and stop-motion animation came to be known as Dynamation and was applied in the majority of his other major works, which include Mighty Joe Young (1949), It Came From Beneath The Sea (1955), 20 Million Miles To Earth (1957), Mysterious Island (1961), One Million Years B.C. (1966), The Valley Of Gwangi, (1969), The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad (1973), Sinbad And The Eye Of The Tiger (1974) and Clash Of The Titans (1981).

Check out a compilation of every Ray Harryhausen creature, in chronological order, and Turner Classic Movies salute to Ray Harryhausen at the links below.


ROCKETEER ADVENTURES TREASURY EDITION - Now available!

Mark Waid, Marc Guggenheim, David Lapham & more (Writers) • John Cassaday, Darwyn Cooke, Stan Sakai & more (Art) • Darwyn Cooke (Cover)

The first new stories of Dave Stevens’ The Rocketeer in nearly 20 years appeared in the The Rocketeer Adventures anthology volumes 1 and 2. Full of great stories and art by a virtual who’s who of comic creators, both series’ became hits with fans and critics alike. Now, in the classic IDW treasury format, we are proud to present a selection of outstanding individual stories. Each is a loving tribute to Stevens and his enduring creation.

Full Color, 72 pages, 9.25” x 14.25”,  $9.99







THE SHADOW #13 - Arriving in comic shops May 15!
Written by Victor Gischler, art by Aaron Campbell, cover by Alex Ross, Sean Chen, Tim Bradstreet, Francesco Francavilla.

A grisly string of random murders has left the authorities baffled, but The Shadow believes there is method to the killer’s madness. At each crime scene, eyewitnesses have spotted the spectral figure of a woman in white. Is “The Light” behind the murders, or a victim’s lost spirit? The Shadow must unravel the mystery before the killer strikes again!


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99





The Shadow Fan's Podcast - Now online!
A Dynamite Look at The Shadow

The Shadow Fan returns for his 31st episode! This week, Barry focuses on the newest from Dynamite Comics. He talks up their July 2013 solicitations, takes a hard look at Masks # 6 and then talks about the end of the Victor Gischler run in The Shadow # 12. Barry holds nothing back in talking about the disappointments that have accompanied Masks - and he wonders about the future direction of The Shadow under Chris Roberson's control.
 
If you love pulp's greatest crimefighter, then this is the podcast for you!

 
The Shadow - Under the Blue Light - Now online!

"The Strike" - New!
Crime Under Cover - New!
Atoms of Death  - New!
Crooks Go Straight
Battle of Greed
Charg, Monster!

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.

Before the Golden Age-Ralph Milne Farley - New!
Before the Golden Age-Ray Cummings - New!
More Authors from the Golden Age of Science Fiction-Introduction - New!
J.B.S. Fullilove (1912-1966)
Weird Tales in Ohio-Tonight
J.U. Giesy (1877-1947)
Weird Tales in Ohio
Happy Birthday to Weird Tales




Tom Johnson - Now available!
CITY OF PHANTOMS by Tom Johnson

When An Old Case Resurfaces, The World's Greatest Detective Is Pulled Back Into A New Battle With A Deadly Enemy, While Ex-Fighting District Attorney Tony Quinn's Lovely Secretary, Carol Baldwin Is Kidnapped By A Vicious Mob, Hoping To Force The Prosecution To Drop Its Case Against Their Boss. Two Champions Of Justice Meet In A Race Against Time!


now available on Kindle for $0.99



Tom Johnson - Now available!
THE SOUL STEALERS by Tom Johnson

The Soul Stealers now available from FADING SHADOWS in paperback, $12.00 plus postage from fadingshadows40@gmail.com

Angels have walked among mankind since the dawn of civilization. Although we may not recognize them, or even see their presence, they are always with us. Perhaps they whisper advice in our dreams, or guide our governments without their knowledge, angels are moving us towards a higher good. Some even protect us in our final day, when violent death reaches out for our very soul – these are the Soul Stealers.




Tom Johnson Now available!
NEW CLASSIC PULP FICTION STORIES by Tom Johnson

NEW CLASSIC PULP FICTION STORIES is now available from FADING SHADOWS in paperback at an introductory price of $12.00 plus postage.
The price will eventually have to be raised because of cost, but order now at the lower price from 
fadingshadows40@gmail.com
 
Here are five stories in the pulp tradition. 200 pages, featuring the Moon Man, Secret Agent X, Colonel Jeremiah Custer (originally written as a Thaddeus C. ‘Doc’ Harker story), plus two more.
 
The books are perfect bound, and beautifully produced in 5 x 8 paperback format.
Now available for $12.00
The price is likely to rise to at least $12.95 or more later.
So order now while they are at cost.








03 May 2013

2013 Film Release Dates
May 3, 2013
May 17, 2013
May 31, 2013
IRON MAN 3
STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS
THE PURGE
June 7, 2013
June 7, 2013
June 14, 2013
June 21, 2013
June 21, 2013
June 28, 2013
AFTER EARTH
NOW YOU SEE ME
MAN OF STEEL
WORLD WAR Z
MONSTER'S UNIVERSITY
WHITE HOUSE DOWN
July 3, 2013
July 12, 2013
July 26, 2013
THE LONE RANGER
PACIFIC RIM
THE WOLVERINE
August 9, 2013
ELYSIUM
September 13, 2013
September 27, 2013
I, FRANKENSTEIN
THE TOMB
October 18, 2013
CARRIE
November 1, 2013
November 8, 2013
November 22, 2013
ENDER'S GAME
THOR: THE DARK WORLD
THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE
December 13, 2013
December 25, 2013
THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG
JACK RYAN

17th Annual Fantastic Pulps Show & Sale
Saturday, May 11, 2013, 10am to 5pm!

Canada's premier pulp event!

The show is a small but pulp specific event,
with lots of great stuff for the collector and the curious alike.

From 10am to 5pm, located at the Lillian H. Smith branch of the Toronto Public Library,
239 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.



For more information, contact us at:

info@girasolcollectables.com

Girasol Collectables Inc.
3501 Glen Erin Drive, Suite 1409
Mississauga, ON, Canada L5L 2E9
905.820.7572


There are numerous hotels in the Toronto downtown, in various price ranges, and if you are an autoclub member,
pick up one of their tourbooks for Toronto, Ontario, and you will find many additional options and attractions.

We look forward to seeing you there.




The 2013 Edgar Rice Burroughs Chain of Friendship (ECOF) Gathering - May 17-19, 2013!

The 2013 Edgar Rice Burroughs Chain of Friendship (ECOF) Gathering will be held 17-19 May in Morris, Illinois. Morris is about 60 miles southwest of Chicago, at the junction of Interstate 80 and Illinois Route 47. The Chicago regional chapter of The Burroughs Bibliophiles, The Muckers, are hosting. Artist Mike Hoffman will be guest of honor. Registration rate is still to be determined.
 
If you plan on attending, book your room at the Quality Inn, 200 Gore Rd, Morris, Illinois, 60450, (815) 942-6600. A small block of rooms is being held for us until 15 April. Book under the event code “The Muckers” for an $85 plus tax room rate, single, double, or triple occupancy. This is $10 less than their normal rate. If four persons will be occupying one room, the hotel will charge an additional $6 for the room. The hotel offers a free hot breakfast entry along with standard continental breakfast fare, as well as free wi-fi. The convention organizer recommends you book early, as the ECOF will coincide with graduation time in the area.
 
There is a restaurant/bar concession in the building which opens at 4:00 p.m. Drinks purchased there can be brought into the hotel breakfast area. Also, there is a Chili’s and an IHOP within walking distance of the hotel.
 
The dealers’ room setup will start at 8:00 a.m. on Friday morning. We must be out of the room by 4:00 pm on Saturday. The Saturday evening unofficial “banquet” will be from 5:00 to 10:30 p.m. at the Lakewood Trails Clubhouse in Minooka, about 15 minutes east of the hotel. A Sunday morning farewell breakfast will be at the hotel. For attendees who stay longer, there will be a post-convention get-together at the home of the ECOF organizer, with an opportunity to view her collection.





They were STRANGE ENEMIES! Once they were just two young lovers, pledging their devotion in a Mecklenberg garden. Now they are reluctant rivals enmeshed in the biggest conflict the world has ever seen. While the Great War had forged him into the so-called Brain-Devil, America’s top agent, she had become the famous Fraulein Doktor, Germany’s most alluring and elusive spy. When love and loyalty collide in eight epic tales of WWI aviation and intrigue, the bullets—and the sparks—are going  to fly.

$16.99 Trade paperback
 6″x9″ trade paperback | 460 pages | ISBN: 978-098209509-6

Available from:  AmazonMike Chomko Books, and Adventure House

Still available:  Captain Philip Strange: Strange War

Coming soon - Captain Philip Strange: Strange Operators


Airship 27 Productions
AIRSHIP 27 PATCH PREMIUM
Now available!

The Flight Crew of Airship 27 Productions is very happy to announce they will be offering a cloth patch premium featuring the company’s dirigible logo for sale starting at this year’s Windy City Pulp & Paper Con.   Anyone buying two of the company’s titles at regular prices will receive a “free” patch.  They will sell for $3 each for those wishing them purchase them separately.

“Premiums are fun things to help promote one’s brand,” stated Managing Editor Ron Fortier.  “Art Director Rob Davis and I have wanted to offer something like this to thank all our great fans for their support over the past years.  The patch seemed like a very cool way to allow them to join in the fun by becoming official members of the Airship 27 Crew.”

After the con, the patch will be sold via mail, with an additional mailing fee, and be available at Pulp Fest in July.  The patch is 3” high and 3.75” wide featuring the colors, red, white, black and gray.

Airship 27 Productions – Pulp Fiction For A New Generation!




Altus Press
Coming in time for PulpFest!
The Complete Adventures of Hazard & Partridge by Robert J. Pearsall
 Introduction by Nathan Vernon Madison

 
Join adventurers Hazard and Partridge as they battle Koshinga, the evil “spirit of the East, past all Western understanding” for the freedom of China.
 In the sprit of Sherlock Holmes and Watson, writer Robert J. Pearsall mixed in the menace of early 1900s Chinese tongs to produce a unique pulp magazine epic.
 
Never before reprinted, this series originally appeared in 1919-20 in the pages of Adventure, the greatest of all pulps.
Published with the cooperation of the Pearsall family, it contains several photos of the author,
and it's rounded out with an all-new introduction by Nathan Vernon Madison, writer of Anti-Foreign Imagery in American Pulps and Comic Books, 1920-1960.
 
516 pages, approx. 6"x9"



Andrew Offutt: 1934 - 2013
Writer Andrew Offutt, 78, died April 30, 2013. Offutt wrote and edited more than 75 books, including fantasy and science fiction. In the ’70s and ’80s he wrote several novels about Robert E. Howard’s characters Conan and Cormac Mac Art, and contributed significantly to the Thieves’ World shared universe in the ’80s and ’90s. He also edited several volumes of the Swords Against Darkness anthology series in the late ’70s.


BEB Books - Now available!
"Treasure of the World" by Stephan Chambers
"The Cataclysm" by Stephan Chambers

Stephan Chalmers is a writer best known for his novels The White Waterfall and The Spotted Panther, but he wrote many stories, always with a beautiful, lyrical voice, and thoughtul, imaginative situations. Beb Boobs is proud to present two of Stephen Chalmer’s forgotten novels.

In Treasure of the World Philip Sand, a young man born to wealth but now living in poverty finds that he has TB and is expected to live no more than a year. What would you do in such a situation? Sand’s decision was to mortgage his life for $20,000, hire a yacht and go treasure hunting. He even has a map, found in an old book of his grandfathers. But Fate has a few curveballs for him and he soon finds himself marooned on a island with no hope of rescue, a cave full of pirate loot, a beautiful girl to protect, and a scurvy pack of sailors anxious to steal his treasure. Even as time ticks away on the clock of his life, Philip Sand finds he has a lot he wannts to do.

Treasure of the World was a four part serial that appeared in, of all places, RAILROAD MAN'S magazine from October, 1909 to January 1910.

WANTED — TWENTY-FIVE BRAVE MEN!
(For Immediate Service.)

Applicants will be required to undergo a test of courage. Further particulars will be given to those who are chosen. Apply between 10 and 11 AM. to-day at — West Forty-fourth Street.


Bored millionaire Penryhn Masefield has been convinced by his mysterious servant Ahmed Aziz that with 25 brave men and his (heavily armed) private yacht he can remake the face of the world. But Aziz won’t say where they are going or what they will do when they get there!

Thus starts an incredible adventure leading into the Sargasso Sea and a kingdom lost from history and the goal of world peace! But just as the Garden of Eden came equipped with a viper so there’s a snake among the 25 Braves of Masefield’s crew. The Cataclysm is a wonderful tale of adventure, romance, high ideals and great betrayals.

And don’t forget our other recent releases:
In the 1910s All-Story Weekly would frequently feature a “different” story - - a story that didn’t fit into any of the standard genres of fiction. If ever there was an author born to write “different” stories it would be Tod Robbins.

In Safe and Sane and the collected stories from The Thrill Book by Tod Robbins you will find stories where genius Must die so rich people won’t have to think;  A man lives his life in reverse; the ghost of a miser tells of a trick he has played on his heir; what do you do when you have written your greatest composition; within a haunted house there is a crying man; a sibling rivalry that extends beyond life, and a strange revenge a father has on his wicked son....
Safe and Sane is a three-part serial from All-Story that’s never been reprinted before. The other six stories comprise every one of his stories published in the hard to find Thrill Book (March to October 1919). 68 pages of the rare and unusual for only $6.00.

But wait there’s more!
The Whimpus, The Living Portrait and Wild Wullie, The Waster, Beb Books companion piece to Safe and Sane, reprrints three “different” novelets from All-Story Weekly. The Whimpus us a mermaid like creature with a fondness for gold and jewelry but don’t try to steal from them. they defend their treasure with a power no man can resist. Who killed the rival - - the famous chemist or, as he claims, a malevolent portrait that captures his every gross and evil thought? And finally Wullie was the black sheep of a Scottish family whose only passion was for billiards. When he inherits the family estate he envisions are life of contented billiards playing  but being only competitive costs Wullie his life. Now he’s another of the family ghosts but the new heir has caught Wullie’s passion for the game. Now it’s up to Wullie to break the cycle, but how do you do that when you’re only a ghost?  Three great stories. 62 pages of enjoyment for only $6.00

Stay tuned to this site as more volumes in The Thrill Book Library series are released.

Beb Books are always set in new, readable type and printed on 8.5 by 11 inch paper and side stapled.
All the original art, when it exists, is included.  Postage is just $3.00 for the first three books and 25 cents more per additional book


My website is over a year out of date.
But I can send you a brief catalog of what we've reprinted.
Just write to beb01@sprynet.com and ask for a catalog.

Have a question? Would like to see our complete list of titles? Write to me at beb01@sprynet.com.

To order, send check or money order (sorry, no Paypal) made payable to Brian Earl Brown to:

Brian Earl Brown
11675 Beaconsfield
Detroit, MI 48224

And don’t forget our other recent releases!
Secret Agent X #35, Plague of the Golden Death and Secret Agent #36, Curse of the Mandarin’s Fan. $6.00 each!






 


Black Gate - Now online!

Vintage Treasures: An Earth Man on Venus by Ralph Milne Farley - New!
Who is the Daughter of Fu Manchu?
Kirkus Looks at Astounding Science Fiction
Affair of the Bear: The Oakdale Affair by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Pro Se Presents – the Eclectic Voice of New Pulp by William Patrick Maynard
Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Mars, Part 10: Llana of Gathol
Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Mars, Part 9: Synthetic Men of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Mars, Part 8: Swords of Mars
Re-Discovering Sax Rohmer by William Patrick Maynard

The Book Cave - New podcast now available online!
Episode 229: Small Press Alternative Comics Expo
Ric and Bruce discuss Bruce's recent visit to the S.P.A.C.E. (Small Press Alternative Comics Expo), but of course it's not long before we go off on various digressions

Episode 228: Win Scott Eckert
Episode 227: Mike Baron
Episode 226: One Foot In My Grave
Episode 225: Bigfoot Blues
Episode 224:  Doc Savage: Skull Island
Episode 223:  The Lazarus Paradigm by Mark Eidemiller
Episode 222:  Ed Erdelac
Episode 221:  Mark Ellis / The Justice Machine
Episode 220:  1933!
 
Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press: EDitorial Comments - Now online!

DISTRESSED DAMSELS & MASKED MARAUDERS: The Final Update - New!
Coming Soon: BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER GUIDE TO PULP FICTION
- New!
BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER #36/37: Subscriber Copies Have Shipped
Windy City 2013 Convention Report
Murania Press Sale at the Upcoming Windy City Pulp/Paper Expo
Wuxtry, Wuxtry: Hot Off The Press! THE BEST OF BnT: VOLUME TWO



THE CHRONICLES OF KING CONAN VOLUME 5:
THE BLACK DRAGONS AND OTHER STORIES TP
Arriving in comic shops May 8!
Alan Zelenetz (Writer), Geof Isherwood (Art), Dave Simons (Art), Marc Silvestri (Pencils),
George Roussos (Colors), and Michael Kaluta (Cover)

Blinded by grief and rage, Conan the king has let matters of state fall by the wayside as he mourns the apparent death of his son and heir, Conn. The barbarian king's erratic behavior and the void of leadership is troubling, but where some see a kingdom on the brink of chaos, others see an opportunity to seize the moment and pull the reins of power from the preoccupied monarch's hands. Dead hands, that is! Collects Conan the King #21-#25.

Featuring early work of superstar artist Marc Silvestri.


Trade Paperback, 7" x 10", Full Color, 208 pages. $18.99, On sale May 8




The Collected Pulp Era Volume 1 - Now available!
Back in print after nearly 50 years, The Collected Pulp Era Volume 1 reprints the first half of this classic fanzine, shot straight from the original pages.

Volume 1 collects JD Argassy #60 (Winter 1963) through The Pulp Era #67 (May/August 1967).

The Pulp Era was the 1st fanzine dedicated to the pulps.
This book was done in Lynn's memory to keep his love of the pulps going and hopefully get more people interested in the pulps.
Volume 2 is planned to be available for Windy City 2014.

Order from Amazon.com or direct from the author.
Books are $25.00 plus postage if interested contact Mark Hickman at mah43567@yahoo.com


Paperback: 406 pages
ISBN-10: 1483908933
ISBN-13: 978-1483908939
Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.9 inches
$24.95



Davy Crockett's Almanak of Mystery, Adventure, and the Wild West - Now online!

Forgotten Books: WHAT PRICE MURDER by Cleve F. Adams (1942)  - New!
Pulp Gallery: HORROR STORIES (1935)  - New!
Overlooked Films: THE SHADOW in "International Crime" (1938)  - New!
The Life-Size Lone Ranger - New!
Art Gallery: ELLERY QUEEN Comics (1949) - New!
Pulp Gallery: STARTLING STORIES
Comic Gallery: PHANTOM LADY (1947)
Pulp Gallery: The Spider 10, 11 & 12 (1934)
Comic Gallery: MURDEROUS GANGSTERS (1951-52)
Comic Book Crime: GANG BUSTERS 1, 2 & 3 (1947-48)
Pulp Gallery: WEIRD TALES 19, 20 & 21 (1925)
Overlooked Films: Frank Sinatra in Richard Sale's SUDDENLY (1954)
Art Gallery : John Carter of The Funnies (1939-40)
LONE RANGER Comics: The Painted Covers Ride Again! (1951)





E-texts on the net this week
The Shadow in Review:
This weeks new Shadow review is "Hidden Death" from the March 15, 1937 issue of The Shadow Magazine.

 
Pulpgen-Online Pulps:   Now with over 1000 stories online!

"Bloody Monkey Business" by Ralph Powers from SECRET AGENT "X", August, 1937
Stolen ice and a dead man are strange roommates. Throw a monkey, a hophead, and a pretty girl in the picture - and what have you? Detective Dan Shelby didn't know, but he had the brawn to blaze enough light for his brain to try to solve this.... Bloody Monkey Business
"Morgue Reunion" by Norman A. Daniels from 10-STORY DETECTIVE, November, 1946
Nobody knew who had called Attorney Peter Reed to that gathering. But when homicide broke up the party early, Reed realized that his invitation had been phoned in from the Hades exchange.



  Now online!

New on Famous (and forgotten) Fiction!

April 2013
In Writings
The Good Angel
A reprinting of the 1910 story by P. G. Wodehouse featuring Keggs, a butler who predates Wodehouse's Jeeves, with an introduction by Dan Neyer and the original Strand illustrations by Chas. Crombie.
Climax for a Ghost Story
The famous short-short story with an exhaustive exploration into the history of the elusive I. A. Ireland by Bob Gay.


March 2013
In Writings
The Adventure of The Dying Detective by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A complete reprinting of the Holmes tale that includes the Walter Paget illustrations and an introduction by Dan Neyer that discusses the story, its publication history and Walter Paget
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The complete novel from the 1917 edition that includes the Schoonover illustrations placed with their respective chapters and an introduction by Bob Gay that explores the creation of the novel and its importance in the history of science fiction.
In Pictures
Images of John Carter
A sizable collection of images, with background commentary, that show how various artists have envisioned John Carter over the years: in books, comics and film.


February 2013
In Writings
The Ginger King
A rare tale of Inspector Hanaud from the pages of Strand Magazine.

In Pictures
Two new annotated collections of Bob's Stuff

Famous (and forgotten) Fiction is a new site featuring familiar and obscure fiction along with articles, pictures and essays.  In the Writings section, we have fiction by H. C. Bailey (the first Reggie Fortune story), Carl Stephenson, Sinclair Lewis and a large selection of Kipling, including the complete Mowgli stories and "The Man Who Would Be King."  We've also added an article about Sleeman's An Account of Wolves Nurturing Children in Their Dens, that includes a complete reprinting of the work.

In Comics, there is an overview of Superman #205 ("The Man Who Destroyed Krypton!") and a look at a Steve Ditko illustrated story that bears a strong resemblance to a well-known story by Carl Stephenson.The Pictures section starts with a group of collectible (and some not so) items and is the first of 24 collections.

The site is hoping for subscribers to keep it going and future plans call for more stories, more articles and there are a number of novels  we also intend to add to the mix.
New material will be appearing on the last Friday of each month (which means we'll have more new stuff at the end of February). 
In a few months, we will also be offering ebooks: on the site (in PDF) and at Amazon and B&N in their proprietary formats.


Girasol Collectables - May Pulp Replicas!

Girasol Collectables is pleased to announce three more issues in its ongoing series of Pulp Replicas.

Terror Tales and Operator 5 are now at six (6) issues per year,
so that those two titles and the Spider will be completed around the same time in late 2015.
We'll also be tackling the complete 1926 year of Weird Tales over the next 2 or 3 years, as well as other 1930s issues of interest.


Monthly Special: All three for $95 ($10 off)
THE SPIDER #92 from May 1941 - $35
Featuring  "
The Devil's Paymaster"

OPERATOR 5 #35 from September/October 1937 - $35
The Purple Invasion continues!

WEIRD TALES #132 from December 1934 - $35
Featuring  Robert E. Howard's Conan
    
    
    
Click here for covers of previous months Pulp Replicas

Girasol accepts checks, International money orders, and Paypal as methods of payment.
Other than Replicas, please confirm availability first before ordering items such as pulp magazines or other books.
Paypal payments can be made to our regular info@girasolcollectables.com email address.

As always, these reprints are exact copies including the illustrations, ads, and back-up stories and have been printed on off-white paper, staple-bound and finished off with a high quality reproduction of the original cover.
The only thing missing is the smell (alas) and the flaking newsprint.

Email Girasol Collectables at: info@girasolcollectables.com.
A complete listing, along with other items such as books, fanzines and of course pulps, can be found on
the Girasol Collectables website at http://www.girasolcollectables.com/

All payments must be made in $US payable to Girasol Collectables and mailed to:
Neil Mechem c/o Girasol Collectables
3501 GlenErin Drive, Apt. 1409,
Mississauga, ON, Canada L5L 2E9

Back issues - Still available!

ALL DETECTIVE MAGAZINE  ($25 each postpaid)
#27 January 1935

BLACK MASK MAGAZINE ($35 each postpaid)
April 1920 - First issue!
June 1,1923 - The rare KKK issue


CIVIL WAR STORIES ($25 each postpaid) 
Spring 1940


DAN TURNER  ($25 each postpaid)
Dan Turner Hollywood DetectiveNo. 1 (January 1942)
Dan Turner Hollywood Detective No. 2 (April 1942)

DIME MYSTERY BOOK ($35 each postpaid)
#1 December 1932

DOCTOR DEATH  ($25 each postpaid)
#1 February 1935
#2  March 1935
#3  April 1935

DR. YEN SIN  ($35 each postpaid)
#1 May/June 1936
#2 July/August 1936
#3 September/October 1936

EERIE TALES ($20 eachpostpaid)
#1 July 1941

GOLDEN FLEECE  ($25 each postpaid)
#1 October 1938
#2 November 1938
#3 December 1938
#4 January 1939
#5  February 1939
#6  March 1939
#7  April 1939
#8 May 1939
#9 June 1939

HORROR STORIES ($35 each postpaid)
#1 January 1935
#2 February 1935

#5  July 1935

MAGIC CARPET ($25 each postpaid)
#1 January 1933
#2 April 1933
#3 July 1933
#4  October 1933
#5  January 1934

THE MYSTERIOUS WU FANG ($35 each postpaid)
#1  September 1935

#2  October 1935
#3  November 1935
#4  December 1935
#5  January 1936
#6  February 1936
#7  March 1936

MYSTERY ADVENTURE MAGAZINE  ($25 each postpaid)
November 1936 with a rare Domino Lady cover appearance


THE OCTOPUS ($35 each postpaid)
February/March 1939

OPERATOR 5  ($35 each postpaid)
#1  The Masked Invasion (April 1934)
#2  T
he Invisible Empire (May 1934)
#3  The Yellow Scourge (June 1934)
#4  The Melting Death (July 1934)
#5  Cavern of the Damned (August 1934)
#6  Master of Broken Men (September 1934)
#7  Invasion of the Dark Legions (October 1934)
#8  The Green Death Mists (November 1934)
#9  Legions of Starvation (December 1934)
#10 The Red Invader (January 1935)
#11 
The League of War Monsters (February 1935)
#12  The Army of the Dead (March 1935)
#13  
March of the Flame Marauders (April 1935)
#14 Blood Reign of the Dictator (May 1935)
#15 Invasion of the Yellow Warlords (June 1935)
#16 Legions of the Death Master (July 1935)
#17  Hosts of the Flaming Death (August 1935)
#18 Invasion of the Crimson Death Cult (September 1935)
#19 Attack of the Blizzard Men (October 1935)
#20 Scourge of the Invisible Death (November 1935)
#21 Raiders of the Red Death (December 1935)
#22  War-Dogs of the Green Destroyer
(January 1936)
#23 Rockets From Hell (February 1936)
#24  War Masters from the Orient (March 1936)
#25 Crimes Reign of Terror (April 1936)
#26 Death's Ragged Army (June-July 1936)
#27
Patriot's Death Battalion (August-Sept. 1936)
#28 The Bloody Forty-Five Days (Oct.-Nov. 1936)

#29 America's Plague Battalions (December 1936)
#30 Liberties Suicide Legion (January 1937)
#31 Seige of the Thousand Patriots (February 1937)

#32 Patriot's Death March (March-April 1937)
#33 Revolt of the Lost Legions (May-June 1937)
#34 Drums of Destruction (July-August 1937)
#35 The Army Without a Country (Sept-Oct 1937)

ORIENTAL STORIES ($25 each postpaid)
#1  October / November 1930                        
#2  December 1930 / January 1931
#3  February / March 1931
#4  Spring 1931
#5  Summer 1931

#6  Autumn 1931
#7  Winter 1932

#8  Spring 1932
#9  Summer 1932

PIRATE STORIES ($25 each postpaid)
#1  
November 1934

THE PHANTOM DETECTIVE ($25 each postpaid)
#1  
February 1933

SAUCY MOVIE TALES  ($25 each postpaid)
#3   December 1935 (#1 after a title change)
#4   January 1936  (#2 after a title change)
#5   March 1936
#9   July 1936
#11 September 1936

#17 March 1937

THE SCORPION ($35 each postpaid)
April/May 1939

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ($25 each postpaid)
October 1931

SPICY-ADVENTURE STORIES  ($25 each postpaid)
#2  November 1934 [#1 after the ashcan]
#3  December 1934
#4  January 1935
#5  February 1935

#6  March 1935
#7  April 1935
#8  May 1935
#9 June 1935
#10 July 1935
#11 August 1935
#12 September 1935
#13
October 1935
#14 November 1935
#15 December 1935
#16 January 1936
#17
February 1936
#18 March 1936
#19 April 1936
#20 May 1936

#21 June 1936
#22 July 1936
#23 August 1936
#24 September 1936
#25 October 1936

#26 November 1936
#27 December 1936
#28 January 1937
#36 
September 1937
#39
December 1937

SPICY-DETECTIVE STORIES  ($25 each postpaid)
#1  May 1934
#3  July 1934
#4  August 1934
#5  September 1934
#6  
October 1934
#7  November 1934
#8  
December 1934
#9  January 1935
#10 February 1935
#11 March 1935
#12  April 1935
#13 May 1935
#14 June 1935
#15 July 1935
#16 August 1935
#17 September 1935
#18
October 1935
#19 November 1935
#20 December 1935

#21 January 1936
#22 February 1936
#23 March 1936

#24 April 1936
#25 May 1936
#26 June 1936
#27 July 1936
#29 September 1936              
#30 October 1936
#31 November 1936
#32 December 1936
#33 January 1937

#76 August 1940
SPICY-MYSTERY STORIES  ($25 each postpaid)
#2  June 1935
#3  July 1935
#4  August 1935
#5  September 1935
#6  October 1935
#7  November 1935

#8  December 1935
#9  January 1936
#10 February 1936
#11 March 1936

#12 April 1936

#13 May 1936
#14 June 1936
#15 July 1936
#16
August 1936
#17 ­ September 1936
#18 October 1936
#19 November 1936
#20 December 1936
#21
January 1937
#22 February 1937
#23 March 1937
#26 June 1937

SPICY WESTERN STORIES  ($25 each postpaid)
#2   December 1936 
#3   January 1937
#4   February 1937

#14 December 1937 

THE SPIDER  ($35 each postpaid)
#1  The Spider Strikes! (October 1933)
#2  The Wheel of Death (November 1933)
#3  Wings of the Black Death (December 1933)
#4  City of Flaming Shadows (January 1934)
#5  Empire of Doom (February 1934)
#6  Citadel of Hell (March 1934)
#7  Serpent of Destruction (April 1934)
#8  The Mad Horde (May 1934)
#9  Satan's Death Blast  (June 1934)
#10 The Corpse Cargo  (July 1934)
#11 Prince of the Red Looters (August 1934)
#12 Reign of the Silver Terror (September 1934)
#13  Builders of the Black Empire (October 1934)
#14  Death's Crimson Juggernaut (November 1934)
#15
 The Red Death Rain (December 1934)
#16 The City Destroyer (
January 1935)

#17 The Pain Emperor  (
February 1935)

#18  The Flame Master (March 1935)
#19 Slaves of the Crime Master
(April 1935)
#20 Reign of the Death Fiddler (May 1935)
#21 Hordes of the Red Butcher (June 1935)
#22 Dragon Lord of the Underworld (July 1935)
#23 Master of the Death Madness (August 1935)
#24 King of the Red Killers (September 1935)
#25 Overlord of the Damned (October 1935)
#26 Death Reign of the Vampire King (November 1935)
#27 Emperor of the Yellow Death (December 1935)
#28 The Mayor of Hell (January 1936)
#29
Slaves of the Murder Syndicate (February 1936)
#30 Green Globes of Death (March 1936)
#31 The Cholera King (April 1936)

#32 Slaves of the Dragon (May 1936)
#33 Legions of Madness (June 1936)
#34 Laboratory of the Damned (July 1936)
#35 Satan's Sightless Legion (August 1936)
#36 The Coming of the Terror (September 1936)
#37 The Devil's Death Dwarfs (October 1936)
#38 City of Dreadful Night (November 1936)
#39 Reign of the Snake Men (December 1936)
#40 Dictator of the Damned (January 1937)
#41
The Mill-Town Massacres (February 1937)
#42 Satan's Workshop (March 1937)
#43 Scourge of the Yellow Fangs (April 1937)
#44 The Devil's Pawnbroker (May 1937)
#45
Voyage of the Coffin Ship (June 1937)
#46 The Man Who Ruled in Hell (July 1937)
#47
Slaves of the Black Monarch (August 1937)
#48
Machine Guns Over the White House (Sept 1937)
#49 The City That Dared Not Eat (October 1937)
#50 Master of the Flaming Horde (November 1937)
#51 Satan's Switchboard (December 1937)
#52 Legion of the Accursed Light (January 1938)
#53
The City of Lost Men (February 1938)
#54 The Grey Horde Creeps (March 1938)
#55
City of Whispering Death (April 1938)
#56 When Thousands Slept in Hell (May 1938)
#57 Satan's Shackles (June 1938)
#58
The Emperor from Hell (July 1938)
#59  
The Devil's Candlesticks (August 1938)
#60  
The City That Paid to Die (September 1938)
#61  The Spider at Bay (October 1938)
#62  
Scourge of the Black Legions (November 1938)
#63  
The Withering Death (December 1938)
#64  
Claws of the Golden Dragon (January 1939)
#65  
The Song of Death (February 1939)
#66  The Silver Death Rain (March 1939)
#67  
Blight of the Blazing Eye (April 1939)
#68  
King of the Fleshless Legion (May 1939)  
#69  Rule of the Monster Men (June 1939)
#70  The Spider and the Slaves of Hell (July 1939)
#71  
The Spider and the Fire God (August 1939)
#72  The Corpse Broker (September 1939)
#73  The Spider and the Eyeless Legion (Oct. 1939)
#74  The Spider and the Faceless One (Nov. 1939)
#75  
Satan's Murder Machines (December 1939)
#76  The Spider and the Pain Master (January 1940)
#77 Hell's Sales Manager (February 1940)
#78 Slaves of the Laughing Death (March 1940)

#79 The Man From Hell (April 1940)
#80 The Spider and the War Emperor (May 1940)
#81 Judgement of the Damned (June 1940)
#82
Dictator's Death Merchants
(July 1940)
#83 Pirates From Hell (August 1940)
#84 Master of the Night-Demons (Sept. 1940)
#85 The Council of Evil (October 1940)
#86 The Spider and his Hobo Army (November 1940)
#87 The Spider and the Jewels of Hell (Dec. 1940)
#88 Harbor of Nameless Dead (January 1941)
#89 The Spider and the Slave Doctor (February 1941)
#90 The Spider and the Sons of Satan (March 1941)
#91  Slaves of the Burning Blade (April 1941)
#92  The Devil's Paymaster (May 1941)

STRANGE DETECTIVE STORIES
($25 each postpaid)
#2 December 1933

STRANGE STORIES  ($25 each postpaid)
#1 February 1939

STRANGE TALES  ($25 each postpaid)
#1 September 1931
#2 November 1931
#3 January 1932
#4  March 1932
#5 June 1932
#6 October 1932
#7 January 1933

TERROR TALES  ($35 each postpaid)
#1  September 1934
#2  October 1934
#3  November 1934
#4  December 1934
#5  January 1935
#6  February 1935
#7 March1935
#8 April 1935

#9 May 1935
#10 June 1935
#11 July 1935
#12  August 1935
#13  
September 1935
#14  October 1935
#15  November 1935
#16  December 1935
#17 January 1936
#18 February 1936
#19
March 1936
#20 April 1936
#21 May 1936
#22 June 1936
#23
July/Aug 1936
#24
Sept-Oct 1936
#25 Nov-Dec 1936

#26 Jan-Feb 1937

#27 March/April 1937
#28 May-June 1937
#29
July-August 1937
#30 September-October 1937

#31 November-December 1937
#32 January-February 1938
#33 March-April 1938
#34 May-June 1938

#35 July-August 1938
#36 September-October 1938

THRILLING MYSTERY ($25 each postpaid)
#1 October 1935

WEIRD TALES  ($35 each postpaid)
#1  March 1923
#2  April 1923
#3
  May1923
#4  June 1923

#5  July/August 1923
#6  September 1923
#7  October 1923

#8   November 1923

#9   December 1923/January 1924 
#10  February 1924
#11  March 1924
#12  April 1924
#13  Anniversary Issue May/June/July/24 ($50)
#14  November 1924 - One of the rarest WT's
#15  December 1924

#16  January 1925
#17 February 1925
#18
March 1925
#19 April 1925
#20 May 1925
#21 June 1925
#22  July 1925
#23  August 1925
#24
 September 1925
#25  October 1925
#26  November 1925
#27  
December 1925
#28 January 1926
#29 February 1926
#31  April 1926
#40
 January 1927
#53  February 1928
#59  August 1928
#96 December 1931
#107 November 1932
#108 December 1932
#114 June 1933

#117 September 1933
#118 October 1933
#125
May 1934
#128 August 1934
#132 December 1934

#143 November 1935
#173 June 1938


Gotham Pulp Collectors Club - May 11, 2013!
Gotham Pulp Collectors Club
 is a club for pulp collectors to meet in the NYC/Metro area.
It meets the 2nd Saturday of every month.

Name:  Gotham Pulp Collectors Club
Time: 1-4 PM
Place: Hudson Park Library, 66 Leroy Street, Manhattan (WestVillage)

Contact:  Mark Halegua at msh@pulps1st.com


Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan [Blu-ray] - Coming June 25!

A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captaine Phillippe D'Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.
 
Director:  Hugh Hudson
Writers: Edgar Rice Burroughs (novel), Robert Towne
Stars: Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm, Christopher Lambert

Format: Letterboxed
Language: English (DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1)
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number of discs: 1
Run Time: 137 minutes
$21.99



Hard Case Crime - Coming in 2013!

June 2013

JOYLAND by Stephen King
Cover art by Robert McGinnis, Glen Orbik

Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, JOYLAND tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever. JOYLAND is a brand-new book and has never previously been published. One of the most beloved storytellers of all time, Stephen King is the world’s best-selling novelist, with more than 300 million books in print.

Stephen King commented, "I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts. That combo made Hard Case Crime the perfect venue for this book, which is one of my favorites. I also loved the paperbacks I grew up with as a kid, and for that reason, we’re going to hold off on e-publishing this one for the time being. Joyland will be coming out in paperback, and folks who want to read it will have to buy the actual book."


JOYLAND will feature new painted cover art by the legendary Robert McGinnis, the artist behind the posters for the original Sean Connery James Bond movies and "Breakfast At Tiffany’s," and by Glen Orbik, the painter of more than a dozen of Hard Case Crime’s most popular covers, including the cover for The Colorado Kid.

September 2013

CATCH AND RELEASE by Lawrence Block
Cover art by Ken Laager

THE MASTER RETURNS WITH NEVER-BEFORE-COLLECTED TALES OF MURDER AND DESIRE
One of the most highly acclaimed novelists in the crime genre, Lawrence Block is also a master of the short story, with award-winning work ranging from the macabre to the slyly comic, from heart-stopping tales of revenge to memorable explorations of lust and greed, all told in Block’s unmistakable style. The sixteen stories (and one stage play!) collected here feature appearances by some of Block’s most famous characters, including gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr and alcoholic private detective Matt Scudder, as well as glimpses into the minds of a rogue’s gallery of frightening killers, dangerous sociopaths, crooked cops, and lost souls whose only chance to find themselves may be on the wrong side of a gun.

You’ll meet a compulsive hoarder whose towering piles of trash and treasures hide disturbing secrets...a beautiful young tennis star with a rather too possessive secret admirer...a dealer in stolen art who is unwilling to part with his most prized possession at any price...poker players with agendas that have nothing to do with the cards in their hands...and a catch-and-release fisherman whose preferred catch walks on two legs. Terror and passion, cruelty and vindication—itÕs all here, in a collection that will thrill you, scare you, and remind you why Lawrence Block is still the best there is at what he does.

FIRST PUBLICATION ANYWHERE!
The first major new collection of Block’s uncollected short stories in ten years Block has won more awards for mystery fiction than almost any author in the genre’s history

October 2013

THE SECRET LIVES OF MARRIED WOMEN by Elissa Wald

Cover art by Glen Orbik

"YOU CAN RID YOURSELF OF THE WOLF AT YOUR DOOR, BUT WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN THE WOLF IS IN YOUR BED...?"
Two identical twin sisters—one a sexually repressed defense attorney, the other a former libertine now living a respectable life in suburbia—are about to have their darkest secrets revealed, to the men in their lives and to themselves.

As one sister prepares for the toughest trial of her career and the other faces a stalker who knows details of her life that even her husband doesn’t, both find themselves pushed to the edge, and confronted by discoveries about their husbands that shock and disturb them. THE SECRET LIVES OF MARRIED WOMEN is an intense, psychologically penetrating tale of fears and fantasies, the desires that drive us, and how far men will go for the women they love.

First publication ever!
Elissa Wald’s first new book in 12 years
Only the second female author ever to pen a novel for Hard Case Crime
  




Hermes Press
JOHNNY HAZARD DAILIES 1946-1948 VOLUME 2
Arriving in comic shops May 8!
(Writer) Paul S. Newman; (Art) Frank Bolle & Various; (Cover) George Wilson

Continuing the adventures of Johnny Hazard and Brandy, Frank Robbins' masterpiece, one of the all-time greatest action/adventure newspaper comic strips, Johnny Hazard, returns with Volume 2 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, reproduced entirely from original King Features press proofs.


Hardcover, 240 pages, Black & White, $49.99






THE HOGBEN CHRONICLES by Henry Kuttner
New Kickstarter Campaign to publish Kuttner collection!


Henry Kuttner wrote the humorous Hogben series for THRILLING WONDER STORIES. 
The four story series is about an ill-assorted family of weirdly gifted Mutant hillbillies and has never been collected into one volume.
"Exit the Professor" (October 1947 Thrilling Wonder)
"Pile of Trouble" (April 1948 Thrilling Wonder)
"See You Later" (June 1949 Thrilling Wonder)
"Cold War" (October 1949 Thrilling Wonder)


Borderlands Press is celebrating its first project with Kickstarter! They have initiated a Kickstarter Campaign to finance the publication of Kuttner's Hogben stories in one volume which will be illustrated by British comic book artist, Steve Parkhurst.
THE HOGBEN CHRONICLES is edited by Pierce Watters and F. Paul Wilson, with an introduction by Neil Gamain!
Planned editions include an ebook, trade paperback, hardcover limited edition, and a leather-bound hardcover in a traycase lettered edition.
The editors and Mr. Gaiman have agreed to sign 600 copies of the various editions.
This book has the full cooperation of the Kuttner estate so that his heirs will share in the proceeds.


This project will only be funded if at least $30,000 is pledged by Sunday May 26, 9:55am EDT.
Complete details can be found at the link below.


iPulpFiction.com
NEWORLD PAPERS

Now available!



Through May 15th, read the entire Neworld Papers novel for free!
Neworld Papers is a fast-paced science fiction adventure for readers 17 and older.
The people of Neworld have no concept of war, or murder, or even love. It is a world without hunger or strife.
Yet the world is a fiction — based on lies and omissions.
Fallon is a young man with secret talents and the willingness to explore and learn.
He is pulled from a sheltered life to become a chronicler of discoveries that challenge the very fabric of
Neworld’s society and its core beliefs. Is revealing the truth worth the disruption of a society?







JUDEX: THE MYSTERIOUS SHADOW (1917) - To be serialized on Turner Classic Movies!
The first four episodes of the French silent serial about dashing pulp avenger,Judex will be broadcast on Turner Classic Movies Sunday, May 5.
The next four episodes will be broadcast on Turner Classic Movies Sunday, May 12.



Lady Sabre & The Pirates of the Ineffable Aether - Now online!

Lady Sabre & The Pirates of the Ineffable Aether delivers new adventures every Monday and Thursday, with additional content appearing irregularly through the week.
By Greg Rucka and Rick Burchett.



THE MAN FROM MARS - Coming June 13!
 

Who is Ray Palmer? Chances are you either don’t know or—if you’re a comic book fan—you think of DC Comics character, The Atom.
 
Although he was the namesake for one, Ray Palmer—the man—was no superhero. Standing at just four feet tall (the result of a crippling childhood injury), he hardly cut an imposing figure. But what he lacked in height, he would make up for in his legacy.
 
THE MAN FROM MARS: Ray Palmer’s Amazing Pulp Journey by Fred Nadis is the first-ever biography of the man who shaped science fiction and changed our perception of the universe as we know it. As the editor of the groundbreaking pulp magazine Amazing Stories, as well as Fate, Mystic and Flying Saucers, Palmer made invaluable contributions to popular culture, like jumpstarting the flying saucer craze; popularizing “hollow earth” theory; and publishing stories by some of sci-fi’s biggest players, including Ray Bradbury and the first professional story by a young Isaac Asimov.
 
Ray Palmer is the godfather of every person who “wants to believe” in the X-Files, owns the complete Battlestar Galactica box set, or has whiled way hours arguing Kirk versus Picard. In THE MAN FROM MARS, Nadis paints a portrait as sensational as the covers of the pulp magazines to which Palmer dedicated his life, and shows us how one man’s vision of sci-fi’s potential created the “geek” we know today.








Johnny Crawford from The Rifleman will be among the celebrity guests for September!

If you don’t recall Johnny Crawford as one of Walt Disney’s original Mouseketeers in 1955, you certainly remember him in the role of Mark McCain, Chuck Connors’ sensitive young son on television’s The Rifleman. Connors became an acting mentor for Crawford, who later recalled: “He was my hero. I enjoyed being with him. He wasn’t as stern as he was on camera. He was like a kid around me.” By the spring of 1958, Crawford made three pilots for television series. The third pilot, “The Sharpshooter,” which was made as an episode of Zane Grey Theater and scripted by the legendary Sam Peckinpah, was picked up by ABC and the first season of The Rifleman began filming in July 1958. (Oddly, the script was originally written and submitted to the producers of Gunsmoke, promptly rejected.) Crawford was nominated for an Emmy Award at the age of 13 for his role as Mark McCain, the son of Lucas McCain (played by Chuck Connors) in The Rifleman, which originally aired from 1958 to 1963. During this time, Crawford had wide popularity with American teenagers and a recording career that generated five Top 40 hits, including the single, “Cindy’s Birthday,” which peaked at #8 on Billboard’s Top 40 in 1962. His other hits included “Rumors” (#12, 1962), “Your Nose is Gonna Grow” (#14, 1962), and “Proud” (#29, 1963).

2013 Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention


Mike Chomko -  May / June 2013 newsletter is now available!
Mike's May / June 2013 newsletter is now available.
Orders over $20 are discounted approximately 10%.
Shipping is between $2-6, depending on the weight of your order (media mail or bound printed matter). 
Michael Chomko, 2217W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA  18104-6542


Mike has established a website where you can download his current and past newsletters.
The website is located at http://sites.google.com/site/mikechomkobooks/




Mike Hammer - Complex 90 - Arriving in book stores May 7!

Hammer accompanies a conservative politician to Moscow on a fact-finding mission. Arrested and imprisoned by the KGB on a bogus charge; he quickly escapes, creating an international incident by getting into a fire fight with Russian agents.

On his stateside return, the government is none too happy with Hammer. Russia is insisting upon his return to stand charges, and various government agencies are following him. A question dogs our hero: why him? Why does Russia want him back, and why was he singled out to accompany the senator to Russia in the first place?


Hardcover: 272 pages
ISBN-10: 0857684663
ISBN-13: 978-0857684660

$22.99


Moonstone Books
Now available from Moonstone Books online store!
The Avenger: Roaring Heart of the Crucible 
The greatest crime-fighter of the 40's returns in a third thrilling collection of original, action-packed tales of adventure, intrigue, and revenge.

Editors: Nancy Holder, Joe Gentile

Authors: Matthew Baugh, James Chambers, Greg Cox, Win Scott Eckert, Joe Gentile, CJ Henderson, Nancy Holder, Michael May, Matthew Mayo, Will Murray, Bobby Nash, Barry Reese, Chris Sequeira, John Small, David White Cover: E. M. Gist

Life was bliss for millionaire adventurer Richard Henry Benson until that fateful day crime and greed took away his wife and young daughter... and turned him into something more than human. Driven by loss, compelled by grief, he becomes a chilled impersonal force of justice, more machine than man, dedicated to the destruction of evildoers everywhere. A figure of ice and steel, more pitiless than both, Benson has been forged into an avatar of vengeance, possessed of superhuman genius supernormal power. His frozen face and pale eyes, like a polar dawn, only hint at the terrible force the underworld heedlessly invoked upon itself the day they created... The Avenger!

Exclusive HC BONUS material:
An Avenger timeline, plus solo tales of the Avenger's aides by Howard Hopkins!

This book will be availabe from Amazon.com and in comic shops in the coming weeks.

Hardcover: 330 pages
ISBN-10: 1936814420
ISBN-13: 978-1936814428
$32.95

Paperback: 314 pages
ISBN-10: 1936814412
ISBN-13: 978-1936814411
$18.95




Off-Trail Publications - Now available!
Three South Seas Novels
By J. Allan Dunn
Introduction by John Locke

Three early novels from legendary pulp writer, J. Allan Dunn, all South Seas sagas published in ADVENTURE magazine, 1915-16. These are the stories that made Dunn one of the magazine’s marquee names.

They are stories of modern-day buccaneers—who behave a lot like their olden-day counterparts—smoothly-plotted tales, with high adventure, exotic locations, perilous predicaments, motley collections of characters, understated violence and heavy romance—the epitome of pulp adventure of the era.

Includes: THE ISLAND OF THE DEAD (April 1915), Dunn’s rousing first novel; THE GOLD LUST (November 1915), which follows a treasure from the Sierras to an uncharted island hideaway; and its sequel, BEYOND THE RIM (July 1916), which cemented Dunn as one of ADVENTURE readers’ favorite authors.

6x9-inch perfect bound; 358 pages, $20.00

Available on Amazon.com

Checkout  earlier titles by clicking on the link below.
Off-Trail Publications  



PAPERBACK CONFIDENTIAL: CRIME WRITERS OF THE PAPERBACK ERA - Coming in September and MAY be available at Pulp Fest!

This book contains over 130 profiles "of the men and women who wrote the books that became the backbone of the Pulp and Paperback Era from the 1930s through the 1960s. Here you will find information on the acknowledged masters like Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain and Cornell Woolrich... the rack mainstays like Gil Brewer, Brett Halliday, Day Keene, and Charles Williams... and the unjustly forgotten like Malcolm Braly, Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, Ennis Willie and Douglas Sanderson."

Right now, this book is scheduled for September publication. However, Mike Chomko mentioned to the publisher that it's a shame it would not be ready for PulpFest and was asked "How many copies can you sell?"
Mike thinks the book would do well at PulpFest, considering that it will be around 375 pages long and cost $20 in the softcover format.
If there's enough interest, the publisher will work hard to get the book out for PulpFest.
If you'd like a copy--whether or not you plan to attend PulpFest this summer--please let Mike Chomko know.
If enough of you want a copy,Stark House will "burn the midnight oil" and work to get the book out before the end of July.



Perils On Planet X - Now online!

Perils On Planet X is a swashbuckling adventure on a lost planet… join Colonel Donovan Hawke of Terra as he travels through time and space to the ancient emerald world of Xylos – home of vicious reptilian predators, ruthless strato-pirates, beautiful princesses, and innumerable fantastic dangers!
 
Perils On Planet X is high adventure on alien worlds – classic space opera in the Edgar Rice Burroughs and Alex Raymond traditions, revived for a new millennium!
 
The adventure begins today at the link below!






Pulp Flakes - Now online!
A new pulp blog on pulp magazines, authors and their stories, adventure and detective pulps.

Nothing but the truth - short story by Albert R. Wetjen
Albert R. Wetjen - Sailor, Writer
Editor's Choice - Harry E. Maule of Short Stories on his criteria for selecting stories
Hugh Pendexter on making his first fiction sale
Free pulp stories at Munsey's - selected authors
Biography of Warren Hastings Miller - author, outdoorsman, sailor, editor
Interview with Johnston McCulley (creator of Zorro)
Pulp in the mainstream - two sports pulp articles
Pulp in the mainstream - article on Margaret Brundage in The Atlantic magazine
Johnston McCulley - special exhibit being planned at his birthplace, Chillicothe, Ohio


The Pulp.Net  - Now online!
The Pulp.Net features two ongoing blogs!

Pulp Super-Fan blog written by Michael R. Brown and the long-running Yellowed Perils written by William Lampkin.

Pulp Super-Fan blog written by Michael R. Brown

The pulp adventures of The Black Hood - New!
A spy named The Red Finger - New!
Diamondstone: Magician-Sleuth - New!
Seekay and other forerunners to The Avenger
Om! Ma-ni pad-me Hum! The Green Lama
Jim Anthony: Super-Detective
Early pulp pastiches of Doc Savage
Doc Ardan: A Doc Savage predecessor

The techno-pulp of Clive Cussler
Book review: ‘Fragment’
Lester Dent’s ‘gadget heroes’
The other pulp characters of Johnston McCulley
Judex: A Shadow predecessor  
Amusement Inc. vs. The Scarlet Ace


Yellowed Perils by William Lampkin

A ‘pulp’ mystery continues… - New!
Random thoughts on ‘Doc Savage’ covers - New!
‘Doc Savage’ movie gets 90 days…
The mystery of ‘Cowboy Thrill Magazine’
Taking pulp art on the road
Battling the stigma of ‘pulp’
The pulps and modern-day stereotyping
‘Amazing Stories’ (July 1940)
Remembering Lovecraft
Remembering Lester Dent

Pulp Magazines Project - Now online!
The Pulp Magazines Project is an open-access digital archive dedicated to the study and preservation of one of the twentieth century's most influential literary & artistic forms: the all-fiction pulpwood magazine. The Project also provides information on the history of this important but long neglected medium, along with biographies of pulp authors, artists, and their publishers.

At the heart of the Project's mission is the archive itself. In summer 2011, it began with a modest library of five representative first-generation pulp titles from the early twentieth century. Over time, the archive will expand, new magazines will be digitized, and contextual materials added. Eventually, the archive will feature a broad range of pre-1923 titles, post-1923 titles where copyright has lapsed, and full volume runs of select titles from 1896 to 1946.

The Project is dedicated to fostering ties between communities of collectors, fans, and academics devoted to pulp magazines, and will offer opportunities for research and collaboration to both scholars and enthusiasts alike. We will provide information on upcoming conferences and conventions, and promote new working relationships between academics and the hundreds of pulp fans and collectors beyond the college and university.



Pulp Newsgroups - Now online!
There are numerous pulp newsgroups that are of potential interest to pulp fans. 
Information on several of these groups and a link to sign up is posted below.

Abraham Merritt:
This group is dedicated to all of the fiction of ABRAHAM MERRITT. Merritt's novels, short stories, paperbacks, hardcovers, pulps, reprints, and any movies based on these works can all be discussed here. Also, any artwork from any of the above pertaining to Merritt's writing can be discussed and displayed. If interested, questions and statements about other authors that copied or imitated Merritt's style can be posted.  
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ABEMERRITTFANS/

CoverUps: Sharing and trading of Pulp Fiction covers. Discussion not only allowed, but encouraged! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Cover_Ups/

Doc Con:
  The annual Doc Savage Convention gathered together for the first time on October 24, 1998. The convention also known as Doc Con is the brainchild of Rob Smalley who together with Jay Ryan, Paul Cook and Courtney Rogers have hosted the event each year in Arizona. Traditionally held the second Saturday of each November, Doc Con attracts residents from around the country, for a weekend of planned Doc Savage events as well as discussions and camaraderie. Follow along with the planning each year by participating in this group.  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Doc_Con/

Edgar Rice Burroughs Group:
This group is dedicated to the study and appreciation of one of the greatmasters of literary adventure, Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950). Creator of numerous famous characters, such as Tarzan, Carson Napier, and John Carter of Mars, and exciting worlds, such as Venus, Barsoom, and Pellucidar, Burroughs is widely recognized as one of the fathers of the Pulp Era and modern heroic fiction.  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edgarriceburroughs/


FictionMags: The purpose of this mailing list is to discuss the history of fiction magazines, and to exchange information about magazines which have carried fiction, past or present. Particular emphases are on the "Gaslight" magazines of circa 1880-1914, the pulp magazines of the first half of the 20th century, the "Big Slick" magazines of the mid-20th century, the digest-sized magazines of the 1950s and 1960s -- and any other areas of magazine publishing which have been important for fiction. Discussion may cover aspects of the publishing history of the magazines concerned, their editors and editorial policies, the authors they published, and so on.

http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/fictionmags/

Flearun: This group is for fans of all the incarnations of Doc Savage. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flearun/

H.R. Haggard: This group is dedicated to one of the greatest of adventure/fantasy writers , H.R. Haggard.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/masterofadventureriderhaggard/


Justice Inc.: This group is dedicated to the [1940's pulp version] of Richard Benson and his group of crime fighting adventurers , Justice Inc. Everything about this group can be discussed [ comics, pulps, radio shows, paperbacks, current news]also if anyone is interested in Paul Ernst---In the roaring heart of the crucible...... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JUSTICEINC/

Otis Adelbert Kline: This group is devoted to Otis Adelbert Kline. His works in the science fiction, weird and historical fiction genre and his general biography can also be discussed here.
Visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OTISKLINE/
to join!

Pulp Fiction Uncensored: is for all fans of Pulp Fiction!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pulp_Fiction_Uncensored/

PulpMags: If you're interested in the old pulp magazines, this forum is the place to be. We deal with OLD pulps only! If you're looking for something dealing with modern "pulp fiction" style writing, you'd be bored here.This moderated list is setup along the lines of PEAPS, the Pulp Era Amateur Press Society, and all pulp fans across the world are welcome. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PulpMags/

Pulp Swap Group:  Place your swappable pulps and digest, plus wants, in the file section or individual messages. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PulpSwap/

REH Comics Group: This group is dedicated to the characters created by Robert E Howard that have appeared in comic book form from Marvel Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Cross Plains Comics, Dynamite Entertainment etc. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheREHcomicsgroup/

Vintage Paperbacks:  A forum for readers and collectors of classic paperback books, primarily from the "vintage era" of 1939 to 1960 (roughly speaking). Ace Doubles, Dell Mapbacks, L.A. Bantams, Gold Medal, Avon, Handibooks, and many more - we cover them all. Discussion of all genres is welcome and we particularly want to hear about any rare and unusual paperbacks or stories *about* paperbacks that you might be able to share. We discuss the cover artists, the writers, the publishers, and anyone and everyone connected with the great world of vintage paperback books. Read a great old book lately? Come on in and tell us about it! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VintagePaperbacks/

Western Pulps: This list is dedicated to the discussion of Western pulp magazines -- the characters, the authors, the stories, the paperback reprints, and anything else connected with Western pulps. Though the primary emphasis is on pulps, we also discuss non-pulp Western novels, movies, comics, etc. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WesternPulps/

Raven's Head Press - New Classic Pulp Fiction publisher!

Raven's Head Press is a boutique publisher bringing you the very best in classic crime and adventure. Our books run the gamut from forgotten classics to pulp with novels from literary greats of old to up and coming writers of today. All of our books will feature gorgeous original cover art with the look and feel of yesteryear's classic paperback stylings.

Raven's Head Press is proud to include authors such as Gilbert Collins, Dorothy B. Hughes, Ramona Stewart , E. R. Punshon, Samuel Taylor, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, and Lionel White. You'll also be seeing some surprises coming from masterful European suspense and crime authors such as Boileau/Narcejac.


Coming soon: THE STARKENDEN QUEST by Gilbert Collins


RED SONJA ANNUAL #4 - Arriving in comic shops May 8!
(Writer) Scott Beatty (Art) Edu Menna (Cover) Jose Malaga

 The She-Devil with a Sword… captured and infected by the bite of a loathsome creature of the night! Offered as a human sacrifice to the vampire’s dark god, Red Sonja must defeat both monster and its master… or be transformed into a bloodthirsty predator

Full Color, 40 pages, $4.99






The Robert E. Howard Foundation
Now available for pre-order!

THE COLLECTED BOXING FICTION OF ROBERT E. HOWARD VOLUME 1 (OF 4): FISTS OF IRON


The first of four volumes of Robert E. Howard’s fight fiction (with some nonfiction thrown in for good measure).
Cover art by Tom Gianni.


The REH Foundation Press is proud to present Fists of Iron, the first volume of a four-volume series that presents the Collected Boxing Fiction of Robert E. Howard. The first round measures in at 420 pages, and will be printed in hardback with dust jacket, in a limited quantity of 200 copies, each individually numbered. Cover art by Tom Gianni and introduction by Christopher Gruber. The book is expected to ship by the end of May or early June 2013. Other volumes will follow as their covers are completed. Pre-order yours today.
 
Price and Numbering
To guarantee that you receive volumes with the same number, order the complete set. Members pay $165, plus shipping; non-members pay $182, plus shipping.
 
If ordering one at a time, we cannot guarantee that volume numbers will match (we will, of course, hold used numbers as long as possible). The price for Volume 1, the largest book in the collection, is $45 for REHF Members, $50 for non-members, plus shipping. Volumes 2 through 4 are somewhat smaller, and cost $40 apiece for REHF members, $44 apiece for non-members. (How to become a member? See here.)
 



Shipping (rates updated as of 04/30/13)
If ordering only one book, include one of the following shipping costs:
Domestic via USPS Priority: $9 Domestic via USPS Book Rate: $3 Canada via Global Priority: $23 Australia via Global Priority: $33 Europe via Global Priority: $33
If ordering all four books, to have them sent one at a time as they are completed, include the following shipping costs:
Domestic via USPS Priority: $36 Domestic via USPS Book Rate: $12 Canada via Global Priority: $92 Australia via Global Priority: $132 Europe via Global Priority: $132
If ordering all four books and you don’t mind waiting to have them sent all in one package when they are all published, include the following shipping cost:
Flat-Rate Priority in U.S.A. = $13.00 Flat-Rate Priority to Canada = $40.95 Flat-Rate Priority to Australia = $59.95 Flat-Rate Priority to Europe = $59.95 Flat-Rate Priority to UK = $59.95
 
Insurance to any US location is $2 extra when shipping a single book, or $3.05 for the set. For international shipments (including Canada), insurance is not available for 1st Class, but is automatically included in Global Priority; insurance on Flat-Rate Priority (for the set) is an additional $4.75. All books will be securely packed. REH FOUNDATION PRESS IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR LOSS BY THE POST OFFICE. PURCHASE INSURANCE IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO TAKE THE RISK. Those wishing to ship via some other carrier (UPS, FedEx, etc.) will need to contact us at info@rehfoundation.org to make arrangements and determine costs.


Ordering and payment
To order, pay directly via PayPal at their website, www.paypal.com. Send the appropriate amount to paypal@rehfpress.com. Be sure to include a note explaining your order and shipping option. To order via check (personal or cashier’s) or money order send to: The REH Foundation Press, PO Box 251242, Plano, TX 75025. ALL PAYMENTS MUST BE IN US DOLLARS. Be sure that all the necessary shipping information is included and accurate, and that the total price includes correct shipping and insurance (if wanted). NO FOREIGN MONEY ORDERS. Books will not be shipped prior to checks clearing the bank. If you have any questions or comments regarding pricing or shipping, please contact us at info@rehfoundation.org.
 
Numbering
If you desire a specific number, please notify us with your order, and we will do our best to accommodate your preference. Those not requesting specific numbers will receive lowest numbers available. Those wishing to obtain numbers to match other REHFP volumes they have purchased should let us know as soon as possible.

Contents of Volume 1
The full list of contents for Volume 1 is here.

Become a member of the REH Foundation!

Support the Foundation by becoming a member. The Foundation will use annual membership fees to reach its missions and goals. The different levels of membership are:
 $20 – as a Supporting Member you will receive a 10% discount on REHF and REH Foundation Press (REHFP) books and merchandise.
 $50 – as a Friend of REH you will receive the member discount above as well as the REHF newsletter, and your name posted (if wanted) on the website.
 $100 – Legacy Circle members will receive all the above, along with invitations to special events, plus a yearly REHF pin. Legacy Circle members might also get other additional benefits during the year.
 
To become a member, pay either with PayPal to paypal@rehfoundation.org, or by sending a check to The Robert E. Howard Foundation, PO Box 251242, Plano, TX, 75025.
Your membership will be valid for one full year from the date you sign up.




Robert E. Howard Days - June 7-8, 2013!
Tim Truman is the Guest of Honor at Howard Days 2013


Robert E. Howard Days will take place June 7-8, 2013, at the the Robert E. Howard House & Museum in Cross Plains, Texas.

This annual gathering of fans of Ol’ Two-Gun Bob Howard is presented by the fine folks of Project Pride of Cross Plains, sponsored by the Robert E. Howard Foundation with the help of the members of REHupa, the Robert E. Howard United Press Association.

The REH Foundation is proud to announce the 2013 Guest of Honor is Tim Truman, artist and author from Dark Horse Comics. Tim is currently at work on adapting The Hour of the Dragon for Dark Horse.

All of the regularly scheduled events will be taking place again this year: the Howard House and Gift Shop open on Friday & Saturday (and for a short while on Thursday), panels of interest to everyone, the Friday night Celebration Banquet and Silent Auction, the special postal cancellation, the REH Swap Meet at the Pavilion, bus tours of the town + surrounding area, the Saturday night Barbeque at the Caddo Peak Ranch, plus (maybe most importantly) the gathering of friends and fans to honor the Legacy of REH.
Cross Plains Barbarian Days festival is also that Saturday, and the REH Foundation will host a Legacy Circle Members Luncheon.

The detailed information will be posted soon at www.rehupa.com and at the REH Foundation site as well as at Two-Gun Raconteur. (You can check out 2012's info at the REHupa website by clicking on the REH DAYS 2012 bar at the top.)
But now’s the time to make your plans on being there for the best 2+ days in Howard Fandom. If you’re a returning attendee, you know what a great time it is – and if you’ve never been, come to Cross Plains and find out! There’s plenty of room for everyone – it’s TEXAS!
 
Hope to see you there. We’re in the process of getting the details ironed out, so check back soon. Any questions? Let me know at 2cavaliers@sbcglobal.net.

Tim Truman is the Guest of Honor at  Robert E. Howard Days this year. Come and meet Tim at the Robert E. Howard Museum in Cross Plains, Texas on June 7th & 8th.
Since 2006, Timothy has been a leading writer for Dark Horse Comics’ bestselling Conan titles. He is currently scripting the massive, 12-issue adaptation of Robert E. Howard’s King Conan novella, Hour of the Dragon.

ROCKETEER: HOLLYWOOD HORROR #4 - Arriving in comic shops May 8!
(Writer) Roger Langridge (Art) Jason Bone (Cover) Walter Simonson

Betty in deadly danger! The great and the good of Hollywood under the control of Otto Rune! And the Rocketeer without the jet-pack he’s come to depend upon! And, just when Cliff Secord thought things couldn’t get any worse… enter the Dark Lord himself, Sh’oggoth! The thrilling climax… in the grand pulp tradition!


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99






The Saint
Amazon Publishing Acquires Classic Series from British Master Leslie Charteris
Thomas & Mercer imprint will begin publishing in North America in late 2013
 
Amazon Publishing announced that it has acquired the North American publication rights to the classic British series, The Saint by Leslie Charteris. The books will be published in digital and, where rights permit, print formats by the Thomas & Mercer imprint beginning in late 2013. This is the first time many of these titles will be made available digitally in North America.

Leslie Charteris' books featuring criminal-turned-hero Simon Templar - known as The Saint - became cult classics when originally published between 1928 and 1983. The series has spawned fifteen feature films, including a 1997 version starring Val Kilmer as Templar; a popular 1960s British television series starring Roger Moore; a number of radio series; and a comic strip that was syndicated to newspapers around the world for over a decade. Under the agreement negotiated by Jane Gelfman of Gelfman Schneider Literary Agents, Amazon Publishing has acquired the exclusive rights to publish 49 titles in the Saint series, including Enter the Saint (1930), The Saint in New York (1935), Follow the Saint (1938), and Salvage for the Saint (1983).

A pilot for a new television series based on the Saint books, co-starring former Saints Moore and Ian Ogilvy as well as Eliza Dushku (Buffy The Vampire Slayer), is currently in production.


Thanks to Ian Dickerson for the tip!

THE SAINT - Five new titles are now available!

Mulholland Books is bringing out thirty-five of Leslie Charteris’s solo novels over the course of the year.
 
A lot of people will know the Saint from the Roger Moore series, and the books are just as action-packed and delightful.
Templar is a man of a thousand disguises, always ready with a plan, a quip, and if all else fails, a swift upper-cut.
He lives for adventure, dispensing his own unique brand of justice along the way.
 

Now available!



Coming in June!

Saint in London    The Saint Intervenes  The Saint Goes on  The Saint in New York  The Brighter Buccaneer

There will be five more releases in August, October, December, and February 2014
until the series is complete!

Thanks to Ian Dickerson for the tip!




Sequential Pulp To Publish
Edgar Rice Burroughs' JUNGLE TALES OF TARZAN Graphic Novel



Acclaimed TARZAN illustrator Thomas Yeates has joined our team of thirteen visionary artists as a special contributor to JUNGLE TALES OF TARZAN. To be published by Sequential Pulp/Dark Horse Comics, based on the classic book by Edgar Rice Burroughs and is authorized by the ERB, Inc.
 
Written by Martin Powell and breathtakingly illustrated by Daren Bader, Pablo Marcos, Terry Beatty, Will Meugniot, Nik Poliwko, Antonio Romero Olmedo, Mark Wheatley, Diana Leto, Steven E Gordon, Lowell Isaac, Thomas Floyd, and Jamie Chase.


Sequential Pulp Comics is proud to announce a new graphic novel based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ classic novel, Jungle Tales of Tarzan.

The one hundred and forty four page graphic novel will be authorized by ERB, Inc. through Sequential Pulp’s distribution arrangement with Dark Horse Comics. The book will be designed as an anthology collecting the twelve loosely connected short stories written by Edgar Rice Burroughs chronicling the life of his most famous character, Tarzan of the Apes. All the events of the original work take place within chapter eleven of Tarzan of the Apes between Tarzan’s avenging of his ape foster mother’s death and his becoming the leader of his ape tribe. The original stories ran in Blue Book magazine from September 1916 through August 1917 prior to the book’s publication in 1919.

Writer Martin Powell will helm the graphic novel. Powell is well known for his work as the author of hundreds of science fiction, mystery, and horror stories. He has worked in the comic book industry since 1986, writing for Marvel, DC, Malibu, Caliber, Moonstone, and Disney, among others, and has been nominated for the coveted Eisner Award. He is also a respected and award winning author of children’s books, and frequently contributes prose for many short story anthologies. He resides in Saint Paul, MN.

Along with Powell, Sequential Pulp is bringing a veritable who’s who of exciting illustration talent. With an amazing cover and specialty art by Daren Bader to exciting story art by Pablo Marcos, Terry Beatty, Will Meugniot, Nik Poliwko, Antonio Romero Olmedo, Mark Wheatley, Diana Leto, Steven E. Gordon, Lowell Isaac, Tom Floyd and Jamie Chase. Each story has been matched up with an artist whose passion and love for Burroughs’ Tarzan and specifically for the story selected will go a long way towards making this one highly anticipated book in the Tarzan canon.

Each story will run twelve pages in length and the book will be in full color. Sequential Pulp is planning a standard trade paperback and a very limited signature deluxe signed edition.


 
© Thomas Yeates


The Shadow Fan's Podcast - Now online!
Crime Rides the Sea

The Shadow Fan returns for his 30th episode! This week he talks "Crime Rides the Sea" (January 15, 1939) and The Shadow Year One # 2 from Dynamite Comics!
 It's another fun discussion about pulp's greatest hero -- The Shadow!

 
The Shadow : 1941: Hitler's Astrologer - Coming October 8!
Denny O'Neil and Mike Kaluta

On Easter Sunday of April 1941, a young woman pushes through the holiday crowds, racing for her life through the streets of Manhattan. It's a chase that leads from the bustling American metropolis all the way to Berlin, the dark heart of the Nazi regime... a chase of screeching taxis and motorcycle escapes, of a fantastic battle between a German U-boat and an autogyro over Coney Island! Like marionettes dangling from invisible hands, neither Allies nor Axis agents can tell if they are the puppeteers... or the dolls whose strings get cut! Behind it all, The Shadow looms, a master of men with cold, hollow laughter and blazing .45 pistols! The acclaimed, complete Shadow 1941: Hitler's Astrologer collaboration of Batman scribe Denny O'Neil and artist Mike Kaluta, available for the first time in over two decades, completely remastered!

Hardcover: 200 pages
ISBN-10: 1606904299
ISBN-13: 978-1606904299

$24.99



The Shadow - Under the Blue Light - Now online!

Crooks Go Straight - New!
Battle of Greed - New!
Charg, Monster! - New!


Tarzan by Roy Thomas & Tom Grindberg
IT'S HERE!
All New Tarzan Comic Strips created exclusively for ERB, Inc.
You can subscribe for only $1.99 / month.
Login any time to see the latest Tarzan Comic Strip [with Bonus Material included].

Read All About It at:  www.ERBzine.com/tarzan
Subscribe at the ERB, Inc. Corporate Site
http://www.edgarriceburroughs.com/



Tom Johnson - Now available!
CITY OF PHANTOMS by Tom Johnson

When An Old Case Resurfaces, The World's Greatest Detective Is Pulled Back Into A New Battle With A Deadly Enemy, While Ex-Fighting District Attorney Tony Quinn's Lovely Secretary, Carol Baldwin Is Kidnapped By A Vicious Mob, Hoping To Force The Prosecution To Drop Its Case Against Their Boss. Two Champions Of Justice Meet In A Race Against Time!


now available on Kindle for $0.99


Tom Johnson - Now available!
THE SOUL STEALERS by Tom Johnson

The Soul Stealers now available from FADING SHADOWS in paperback, $12.00 plus postage from fadingshadows40@gmail.com

Angels have walked among mankind since the dawn of civilization. Although we may not recognize them, or even see their presence, they are always with us. Perhaps they whisper advice in our dreams, or guide our governments without their knowledge, angels are moving us towards a higher good. Some even protect us in our final day, when violent death reaches out for our very soul – these are the Soul Stealers.




Tom Johnson Now available!
NEW CLASSIC PULP FICTION STORIES by Tom Johnson

NEW CLASSIC PULP FICTION STORIES is now available from FADING SHADOWS in paperback at an introductory price of $12.00 plus postage.
The price will eventually have to be raised because of cost, but order now at the lower price from 
fadingshadows40@gmail.com
 
Here are five stories in the pulp tradition. 200 pages, featuring the Moon Man, Secret Agent X, Colonel Jeremiah Custer (originally written as a Thaddeus C. ‘Doc’ Harker story), plus two more.
 
The books are perfect bound, and beautifully produced in 5 x 8 paperback format.
Now available for $12.00
The price is likely to rise to at least $12.95 or more later.
So order now while they are at cost.



Tom Johnson - Coming soon!
THE SPIDER'S WEB by Tom Johnson

Coming soon to hardback edition, with a new wraparound cover by Teresa Tunaley from NTD. The Spider's Web by Tom Johnson
 
In 1980, a treacherous Chinaman created a web of events that culminated thirty years later in a reign of terror and death. As the streets of his city run red with blood, The Black Ghost searchers for the mysterious killer, who is motivated by revenge, and this time the city's paladin may be faced by his greatest foe, the Spider! An evil mastermind, trained in the deadly mysteries of the Ninja, with a desire to kill!







Tom Strong and the Planet of Peril #1 (of 6) - Coming in July!
Written by Peter Hogan
Art and cover by Chris Sprouse and Karl Story

At last, it’s the return of Tom Strong—too bad he’s powerless! The lives of his daughter Tesla and her unborn child both hang in the balance, and there’s nothing Tom can do to save them…until he remembers the one thing that just might. To find it, he and Val Var Garm must journey to the far side of the galaxy, and the mysterious world known as…TERRA OBSCURA!


32 page, Full Color, $2.99,
On sale July 31




Upcoming Modern Hero - Pulp Novels
by
Christopher R. Yates

(New publications to the list are in bold)

Now available!
Necessary Evil, Ian Tregillis, Tor, $25.99, April 16, 2013
Iron Man: Extremis, Marie Javins, Marvel, $24.99, April 16, 2013  
Ex-Patriots, Peter Clines, Broadway, $14.00, April 23, 2013            
World Divided, Mercedes Lackey, et al., Baen, $7.99, April 30, 2013
All My Friends Are Superheroes, [10th Anniversary Ed.], Andrew Kaufman, Coach House Books, $15.95, April 23, 2013

Coming soon!
Man of Steel: The Official Movie Novelization, Greg Cox, Titan, $7.99, June 18, 2013
Rogue Touch, Marta Acosta, Hyperion, $14.99, June 18, 2013
The She-Hulk Diaries, Christine Woodward, Hyperion, $14.99, June 18, 2013

Astonishing X-Men: Gifted, Peter David, Marvel, $7.99, June 25, 2013
The Coldest War, Ian Tregillis, Tor, $14.99, July 9, 2013
Turbulence, Samit Basu, Titan, $14.95, July 9, 2013

Ex-Communication, Peter Clines, Broadway, $14.00, July 13, 2013
Super Stories of Heroes & Villains, ed. Claude Lalumiere, Tachyon Publications, $15.95, August 01, 2013
Velveteen vs. The Multiverse!, Seanan McGuire, ISFic Press, $25.00, August 02, 2013
Warbound: Grimnoir Chronicles Book III, Larry Correia, Baen, $25.00, August 6, 2013
Only Superhuman, Christopher L. Bennett, Tor, $7.99, August 27, 2013
New Avengers: Breakout, Alisa Kwitney, Marvel, $7.99, October 14, 2013
Wild Cards II: Aces High, ed. George R.R. Martin, Tor, $7.99, November 1, 2013

Dreams of the Golden Age, Carrie Vaughn, Tor, $25.99, January 07, 2014
Revolution: Secret World Chronicles Book III, Mercedes Lackey, et al., Baen, $25.00, January 07, 2014
The Deadline Man [Max August], Steve Englehart, Tor, February 15, 2014
S.C.P.D.: Avenging Amethyst, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Crossroad Press, $12.99,  April 18, 2014
Wild Cards XXII: Lowball, ed. George R.R. Martin, Tor, $25.00, June 13, 2014
Wild Cards III, ed. George R.R. Martin, Tor, $15.99, December 01, 2014


WARLORD OF MARS #24
Arriving in comic shops May 8!
Written by Arvid Nelson 
Art by Leandro Oliveira
Covers by Joe Jusko (50%), Lucio Parrillo (50%)

John Carter is a prisoner of the brutal tyrant Salensus Oll. His princess is still in the clutches of the ever-sleazy Matai Shang. But Carter's a lucky guy! A friendly fleet is approaching Salensus Oll's domed fortress. There's just one little hitch: the ships are doomed if Carter can't escape and shut down the terrible Guardian of the North that renders Salensus Oll invincible. Even if he breaks free, Carter will have to face the guardian of the Guardian – the greatest swordsman Mars has ever known!

32 pages, Full Color, $3.99





WARLORD OF MARS: DEJAH THORIS #25  
Arriving in comic shops May 8! 
Written by Robert Place Napton, art by Carlos Rafael, covers by Paul Renaud, Fabiano Neves

A mysterious stranger poses a grave threat to Dejah as she becomes the target of a vendetta that goes back to a time before she was born!  A pivotal turning point in the life of Dejah Thoris!

32 pages, $3.99.









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