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| Adventure
House - HIGH ADVENTURE #68 has pages missing HIGH ADVENTURE #68 featuring the Phantom Detective was inadvertently published with several pages in a backup story left out. Visit the Adventure House website to download the missing pages in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. | |
| Adventure House Mike Chomko is now accepting reservations for: UNCOVERED: The Hidden Art of the Girlie Pulps by Doug Ellis UNCOVERED will contain approximately 400 full color reproductions from the girlie and spicy pulps (such as PEP STORIES, LAPAREE STORIES, TATTLE TALES, BEDTIME STORIES, SPICY ADVENTURE STORIES, SPICY SCREEN STORIES, SAUCY MOVIE TALES, etc.), and will trace the history of the girlie pulps from their earliest days through their heyday in the 1930's. In addition to discussions of the various publishers (Doug will be tying together for the first time several publishing companies that most have viewed as separate before now) and artists (such as Earle Bergey, H.J. Ward, Enoch Bolles, Norman Saunders, Peter Driben and George Quintana), there will also be discussion of the various censorship groups that fought against these magazines (and, for example, succeeded in banning them from NYC newsstands). Many of the covers reproduced are very rare, and even a collector of this type of material should find plenty that they've never seen. This is a hardcover publication, 12" X 9", 400 plus images, 200 pages for $40.
BELARSKI: PULP ART MASTERS Contact
Mike Chomko at chomko@enter.net to reserve
your copy today. |
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| Alias J.J. Abrams confirmed to TV Guide that discussions are taking place to bring Alias and Jennifer Garner's character to a feature film. Likely though Alias will not hit the full screen until it's finished it run on the small one. Abrams is optimistic that ABC will renew the series for a third season. Sundays Superbowl broadcast (feature Rutger Hauer) really scored for the series earning 8.3 or 17.4 million viewers. That's double the ratings the series has earned this season. The season one DVD boxed set of Alias will leap into retail stores on September 2nd. It should be loaded with tons of stuff. When the pilot was being done a friend of J.J. Abrams shot about nine hours of behind the scenes footage. The best parts are likely to be included in the boxed set. | |
| BLOOD 'N' THUNDER BLOOD 'N' THUNDER issue 3 went to press this week. This issue contains a terrific article by Anthony Tollin on not one but two mid-'30s Shadow radio shows, one written by Walter Gibson himself, that incorporate characters and locations from the pulp and feature Lamont Cranston. These predate the Blue Coal-sponsored 1937 series with Orson Welles by two and three years, respectively. Tony has even uncovered the identity of radio's first Lamont Cranston, and BLOOD 'N' THUNDER is running a great picture of the guy. He looks exactly like somebody you'd expect to bump into at the Cobalt Club! | |
| Comic Book Marketplace
- Cowboy issue Comic Book Marketplace #98 (January 2003) is now available. This issue features a salute to cowboys in the comics and pulps. Of
special interest is an article by Will Murray, The Cowboy Age of Comics! Comic
Book Marketplace is profusely illustrated in color and black and white. Comic
Book Marketplace is available in comic shops. |  |
| E-texts on the net this
week The Shadow Magazine: Quetzal (02/15/37)
Robert Mullen's Shadow PDF: The Shadow Magazine Interior Artwork: Doc Savage PDF: NEW
URL!!!!! Blackmask Online: Nothing new this week. Larry Estep-Online Pulps: | |
| Girasol Collectables - New Pulp Replicas! Girasol Collectables is pleased to announce two more issues in its ongoing series of Pulp Replicas. Click here or on the image to the right for look at some Pulp Replica covers. The Shadow for this month is a Replica of The Voice from November 1st 1938. This replica features some great Edd Cartier interior illustrations as well as a great read. The story has not been reprinted in paperback so grab your chance to own a pristine Replica of the whole magazine including that great cover. The second Replica for this month is WEIRD TALES #2. Many WEIRD TALES collectors will tell you that this issue is even rarer than #1! In its original form it clocked in at a whopping 192 pages, like the first issue, but was a smaller format, about 6.375" X 9.25". Girasol agonised over making it a regular 7" X 10" edition and eventually polled some die-hard collectors. The feedback was strong and unanimous so we are offering it at its original, reduced sized to stay true to the name Replica. 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. |  |
| Here is a complete listing of the Pulp
Replicas currently available for $25 each postpaid within North America. Overseas
will be a few dollars more. THE
SHADOW SPICY
DETECTIVE SPICY
ADVENTURE STRANGE
TALES SPICY WESTERN WEIRD
TALES April 1923:WEIRD TALES #2 Email Girasol
Collectables at: girasol@interlog.com to purchase any
of these Pulp Replicas. All
payments must be made in $US payable to Girasol Collectables and mailed to: |  |
| Halloween
Horror Fest Owl Goingback has posted photos from Halloween Horror Fest II, held last October in Winter Park, Florida, on his website. The photographers include K. K., Bob Yazel, Arlene Ambrose and Nancy Goingback. See shots of such luminaries as the legendary Hugh B. Cave, Edward Lee and many, many others. http://www.owlgoingback.com/HalloweenFest/index.html | |
| Hugh B. Cave - Come Into
My Parlor: Tales From Detective Fiction Weekly Crippen & Landru have announced that Hugh B. Cave's Come Into My Parlor: Tales From Detective Fiction Weekly is now available. This volume contains great stories by a Living Legend of the Pulps, who has been writing professionally since 1929. It is available in a signed and numbered clothbound edition and a trade softcover edition. $42.00 for the signed (by Hugh) numbered (by Hugh) clothbound edition with additional story in separate pamphlet. $17.00 for the trade paperback. Here
is the Crippen & Landru solicitation information: Contact
Mike Chomko at chomko@enter.net to order
your copy today. |  |
| Indiana Jones Steven Spielberg says we will see the Indy trilogy definitely by the end of this year. Spielberg wanted to release the films one DVD at a time, but Paramount was keen on a box-set. Steven Spielberg apparently indicated in France that he'll start shooting Indy 4 in June and then helm another project with Tom Hanks at the end of the year. | |
| Jurassic
Park IV Here's the latest storyline for the fourth film (from the Dark Horizons website) 12 years after the first movie, John Hammond's dinosaurs have apparently become urban legend. Most of the public has become skeptical they ever existed. Part of the plot involves the discovery of previously unidentified lizard-like animals showing up on mainland Costa Rica and conflicting with the locals (killing them?). To find out what the heck is going on, a team of experts chart an expedition to one of the off-shore islands. They find out the dinosaurs are thriving and breeding at an uncontrollable rate, so much so that it poses a threat to the nearby continent. They must find a way to curb the spread of the dinos or face an ecological disaster. Speilberg seems very eager to get Sam Neil and Jeff Goldblum to return as part of the experts. | |
| Mad Max 4 The studio has set a July 23, 2004 release date for the fourth and final Mad Max film. | |
| Moonstone Books Diamond Comic Distributors is shipping Jack Hagee, Private Eye to comic shops to arrive on 05 February. The story is by C.J. Henderson with art by Richard Clark. The art is painted in grey tones by The Phantom colorist Ken Wolak. Finally, the cover is by Doug Klauba. Here
is the Moonstone solicitation information: Hagee's Manhattan is the one the tourists don't get to see. It's those small twisty back streets in Chinatown, the reeking dumpster-filled alleys of midtown, the crumbling docks, the beer-drenched bars that stink of rotting foam and their patron's indifference. It is a lump of land 14 miles long stuffed with seven million people every day--which is apparently five and half million more than it can handle. It is a violent, twisted, thieving, scumhole. It isn't really hell on earth, it's more what you get when you put too many rats in a cage and slam the door. Imagine
that world with a hangover, a crime that doesn't want to be solved, and the pain
of from a capped tooth that doesn't like being in your mouth. That's the comic
we're offering you here. Violence, anger, and the rest of those sissy deadly sins
make anappearance, but Haggee's not above shooting them in the back if they get
too careless with him. Welcome to Jack Haggee's world, gentle reader. Hang on,
and watch your step. 48
pages, squarebound, self-contained, painted grey scale, $5.50 |  |
| Operator 5 - New reprints due in
April from Wildside Press! Operator 5 has been licensed to Wildside Press from issue 12 through the end. They will be releasing them several per month starting in April 2003. These will be 6x9 trade paperbacks, completely retypeset and with the original covers and art in place. The first title should go to the printer next week; it's almost finished. Wildside Press will also be reprinting all of the Wu Fang and Dr. Yen Sin novels. | |
| Richard Matheson - The Kolchak Scripts available for
pre-order Gauntlet publisher Barry Hoffman has been working for 2 ½ years to secure all the rights and permissions to publish Richard Matheson’s three KOLCHAK SCREENPLAYS. Contracts have been signed and next fall (2003) we will see the FIRST release of The Night Stalker, and The Night Strangler (two “Movies of the Week” in 1972 and 1973, respectively, which led to the Kolchak series 1974-1975), plus The Night Killers (an unproduced script whose rights are still retained by Dan Curtis, and may one day become a feature film). Acclaimed Kolchak chronicler Mark Dawidziak will edit the book, which will include interviews with Matheson, William Nolan (who co-wrote “The Night Killers”), Dan Curtis and Jeff Rice (creator of the Kolchak character). Our agreement with ABC-TV allows us to publish JUST a signed limited edition of 552 copies (numbered and lettered). As a collectible, these scripts will rival the limited edition of RICHARD MATHESON’S THE TWILIGHT ZONE SCRIPTS. In addition, ABC-TV has not granted permission for a trade edition of this book.
THE KOLCHAK SCRIPTS comes in two editions: Traycased
lettered edition. | |
| ThrillerUK #13 - Now Available! The latest issue of ThrillerUK (#13) is now available and features: Sherlock Holmes: The Contradictory and the Criminal: The 'Crimes' of Sherlock Holmes Remembrance: The first adventure of John Shade, Consulting Detective Inspector Jipps and The Cult of Death: An Inspector Jipps of the Yard mystery Philip Wylie's Gladiator: Philip Wylie's influential novel Flight into Secrecy: A Netherby Chase WWI adventure The Silver Mistress and The Xanadu Talisman: A critical review by Chris Howarth Traitors and Terrorists: A Sister Skull adventure Price:
£3.95 + 0.55p P&P (overseas shipping + £1.55) Please
make cheques, postal orders or international money orders payable to: T. Fountain
and send to: Visit the ThrillerUK website at http://www.thrilleruk.fsnet.co.uk/index.htm |  |
| Virginia Heinlein Virginia Heinlein, who gave her husband, science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein, the idea for his acclaimed 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land and inspired many of the strong female characters in his stories, died Jan. 18 at a retirement community in Atlantic Beach, Fla. She was 86. Heinlein died in her sleep after a long struggle with respiratory illness and a broken hip suffered on Thanksgiving, said David M. Silver, secretary-treasurer of the Heinlein Society. She was the model for many of the superwomen who crop up in her husband's stories, such as Maureen Johnson Smith, the mother of the immortal Lazarus Long in Time Enough for Love, published in 1973. The female characters tend to have red hair, like Virginia's, as well as great wit and an ability to overcome adversity with aplomb. The Heinleins had no children. Her ashes will be scattered in the Pacific Ocean, as were her husband's. | |
| VISCO - The Visual Index of Science Fiction Cover
Art VISCO Version 1.2 dated January 31st 2003 is now available online at http://visco.users.btopenworld.com. 136 new images this week - no new titles, but the run of INTERZONE is now completed and added six more years of FANTASY &SCIENCE FICTION, up to 1966, including many-more wrap-around covers. Nearly 1200 magazines are now featured. | |
| WALTER B. GIBSON AND THE SHADOW Coming in the Spring 2003 from McFarland & Company is WALTER B. GIBSON AND THE SHADOW. Here
is what McFarland has to say about the book: Walter B. Gibson’s life and career come out from behind The Shadow in this biography. It covers his youth in Philadelphia, his development as a writer and magician, his wives, including the third, (Litzka, who was a harpist and magician in her own right), his time living in Maine and upstate New York, and his later years and death. In addition to being credited with creating The Shadow (he used the pseudonym Maxwell Grant), Gibson wrote 187 books, contributed 668 articles to periodicals, created 282 stories for The Shadow Magazine, wrote 48 separate syndicated feature columns, reported the adventures of The Shadow and Blackstone the magician in 394 comic books and newspaper strips, and helped develop 147 radio scripts and many other works under numerous pseudonyms. Gibson has invented many widely used magic tricks and traveled with and befriended Harry Houdini, Howard Thurston, Harry Blackstone, Sr., and Joseph Dunninger. The
book is written by Thomas J. Shimeld with a Foreword by Robert W. Gibson. Contact
Mike Chomko at chomko@enter.net to reserve
your copy today. |
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| Wildside
Press The following titles are now available from Wildside Press (http://www.wildsidepress.com/): TOLD IN THE EAST by Talbot Mundy TOLD
IN THE EAST is a collection of three Talbot Mundy novellas: Hookum Hai,
For the Salt He Had Eaten, and Machassan Ah, all set, like much
of Mundy's work, in India and Arabia. If you haven't read Mundy before, 236
pages | |
| Windy City Pulp & Paperback Convention Progress
Report #1 The third Windy City Pulp & Paperback Convention is just over two months away! Last year, over 300 pulp and paperback fans gathered for the show, and browsed through 100 tables of pulp goodies. We've outgrown the hotel used the last two years and as a result, we've shifted hotels this year. THE HOTEL - Our new hotel, the Radisson Lincolnwood,
not only has a larger main ballroom (which will accommodate all dealers within
one room), it's also much closer to the City of Chicago and O'Hare airport (an
airport shuttle is available if you call the hotel), which will make it much easier
for folks flying in, as well as easier to travel EVENTS - The website (http://www.pulpshow.com) has been newly
updated, and please be sure to check it regularly for updates between now and
show time. While the dealer's room opens on Saturday morning, the show festivities
begin Friday night (April 4), with the con suite being open, some rare, pulp-related
films being shown in one of the GUESTS OF HONOR - This year we have four Guests of Honor,
two authors and two artists. Hugh B. Cave (also known as Justin Case) will
be marking his 75th anniversary as a published author at our show; he has several
new books and a biography coming out this year. Frank Robinson, well-known
to regular Pulpcon attendees, will be happy to discuss his work from the pulp
days and his more recent writings, including his historical works PULP CULTURE
and SCIENCE FICTION OF THE 20TH CENTURY (and speaking of the latter tome, as most
of you know DEALER TABLES - We will have approximately 100 dealer tables again. Wall space is sold out, but about one-third of the island tables are still available. The current dealer list is posted on the website, and includes many Pulpcon regulars as well as several dealers who don't usually do the summer con. Full tables (6') are $55 each and half tables (3') are $35. If you haven't reserved one yet, reserve one soon. PROMOTIONAL - Promotional posters for the show are now available; if you have a retail shop and would like to help promote the show, please let us know how many you'd like and we'll ship them to you pronto! Also please feel free to crosspost this report to appropriate newsgroups. ATTENDEES & PROGRAM BOOK - Attendees who pre-register by March 15, 2003 will receive their badges in the mail, avoiding the need to stand in line at the convention. As in each of the past 2 years, there will be a souvenir booklet for the show, which will be given to each attendee. This will be an approximately 80 page digest sized booklet (now with full color cover!) containing a mix of genre articles and reprints, including stories by Hugh Cave and Frank Robinson. ADVERTISING - We are also accepting advertising for the booklet. Rates are as follows: full page size ads (4 1/8" x 6.75") @ $ 60.00 half page size ads (4 1/8" x 3 3/8") @ $ 35.00 business card size ads (3.25" x 2") @ $ 20.00. The deadline for submitting and paying for ads is Febuary 15, 2003. Please contact Tom Roberts at tom.roberts2@verizon.net for all matters relating to the show booklet. AUCTION - There will also be an auction Saturday night. To encourage dealers and collectors to place items in the auction, no fee will be charged by the convention; all auction proceeds will go to the consignor. If you have material you'd like to submit to the auction, please contact John Gunnison at gunnison@adventurehouse.com. CON SUITE & OTHER DINING - Finally, as mentioned, there will be a con suite open on Friday and Saturday nights, so stop by for some free munchies and conversation about our favorite hobby! The hotel features 2 restaurants as well as a sports bar and a martini/cigar bar and there are plenty of other dining choices are located nearby. While it's unlikely to be in the 80's, springtime in Chicago has its fair share of sun, and temps generally around 60. We look forward to seeing you at the third Windy City Pulp & Paperback Convention! Doug Ellis & Cat Jaster Contact:
Cat Jaster, PO Box 45495, Madison, WI 53744 | |
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| Adventure House UNCOVERED: The Hidden Art of the Girlie Pulps by Doug Ellis has been rescheduled for June 2003. UNCOVERED will contain approximately 400 full color reproductions from the girlie and spicy pulps (such as PEP STORIES, LAPAREE STORIES, TATTLE TALES, BEDTIME STORIES, SPICY ADVENTURE STORIES, SPICY SCREEN STORIES, SAUCY MOVIE TALES, etc.), and will trace the history of the girlie pulps from their earliest days through their heyday in the 1930's. A
sample page spread is now available for viewing. | |
| Adventure
House Adventure House has updated their webpage dedicated to BELARSKI: PULP ART MASTERS. A sample two page spread is now available for viewing. This is a softcover, 12" x 9" in size with 400 plus images. The retail price is $20 plus shipping. The scheduled publication date is Summer 2003. Visit the Adventure House website for the latest information. |  |
| Back
Numbers Can Be Easily Procured Warren Harris's apa-zine, BACK NUMBERS CAN BE EASILY PROCURED #5 (January 2003) is now available. It can now be downloaded on Bill Burns' eFanzines website at http://efanzines.com/ Bill has many great efanzines on his site. Click on over and check it out. | |
| Clark Ashton Smith The late Clark Ashton Smith was honored with a plaque in the town of Auburn, California, where he was known as "The Bard of Auburn." The plaque was mounted on a boulder beside which Smith's ashes were once buried. Construction on the site of Smith's old cabin prompted the city to move the landmark boulder into Bicentennial Park in Old Town, Auburn, where a public plaque dedication took place on 11 January 2003. It was followed by a reading of Smith's works at the Placer County Library, Auburn, California. | |
| E-texts on the net this week The Shadow Magazine: Lingo (04/01/35)
Robert Mullen's Shadow PDF: The Shadow Magazine Interior Artwork: Doc Savage PDF: They Died Twice (11/42) Blackmask Online: Doc Savage
in They Died Twice (11/42) Larry Estep-Online Pulps: | |
| Fritz Leiber - Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser FAFHRD AND THE GRAY MOUSER BOOK 2: SWORDS AGAINST DEATH by Fritz Leiber featuring cover art and design by internationally acclaimed artist Jim Steranko will be available in April. Their hearts altered by the loss of their first true love, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser embark on a long and winding path of drunken debauchery and womanizing until they cross paths with two devious wizards, Sheelba of the Eyeless Face and Nigauble of the Seven Eyes, the backstabbing Thieves of Lankhmar, and The Slayer's Brotherhood! This is a mass market paperback published by Pocket Books. It runs 240 pages for $6.99 and will be available in May 2003. | |
| Jack Williamson Jack Williamson's Terraforming Earth is a February mass-market paperback release from TOR Books. The novel is 352 pages for $6.99. ISBN: 0765344971 The latest
issue of LOCUS reports that Williamson sold a new novel, The Stonehenge Gate,
to TOR Books. |  |
| Moonstone Books Moonstone Books is planning an ongoing comic format Phantom series. It will be a thirty-two page color comic format priced at $3.50, and it will contain twenty-eight pages of story. There have been three graphic novels so far with two more to go before the start of the ongoing series. Those two upcoming graphic novels are: The Hunt by Ben and Lou Manna and The Valley of the Golden Men by Tom DeFalco, Lou Manna, and Art Nichols. The Hunt is slated for release in March. The ongoing series is tentatively planned to start in the Summer. The
creative team is: | |
| Quiet Vision Publishing In October 2001, Quiet Vision Publishing began publishing a new Burroughs collection. All the books in this collection have the original cover artwork and all interior illustrations from the first hardcover editions. There are presently thenty-three books completed in the collection. These editions are faithful reproductions of the original hardcover editions from 1917-1923 by A.C. McClurg, including the front dustjacket artwork and all interior illustrations. Each book is available in trade paperback format. Prices range from $8.99 to $14.99. There are also electronic collections available on CDROM for $19.99. Bud Plant Comic Art just added many of
the Quiet Vision Burroughs titles to their inventory. Quite
Vision Publishing also has available titles by Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Jack
London, and the Tom Swift series by Victor Appleton. |  |
| Wildside
Press The following titles are now available from Wildside Press (http://www.wildsidepress.com/): THE GRAND CHAM By Harold Lamb THE
GRAND CHAM, originally published in ADVENTURE magazine in 1922 but never before
in book form, is a real page-turner; a grand story of revenge that begins in the
camp of the Turkish lord, Bayezid, but quickly moves on 138 pages, Trade Hardcover, ISBN: 1-59224-022-4, $35.00 |  |
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| Adventure House - HIGH ADVENTUE #68 is now available! High Adventure #68 featuring The Phantom Detective in The House of Murders by Robert Wallace is now available. Death stalks menacingly through a mysterious mansion of ghastly, blood-curdling horrors as crime takes its grim toll! $7.95 plus $2.50 shipping (Media Mail) for a single copy. |  |
| Arkham
House Arkham House is now accepting advance orders for A Rendezvous in Averoigne by Clark Ashton Smith. This reprint edition has a new book jacket illustration. The retail price is $32.95. Coming soon from Arkham House are Selected Letters of Clark Ashton Smith, a Hugh B. Cave biography, and more from Nelson Bond! |  |
| Burroughs
- Tarzan of the Apes Facsimile Edition American Web Books may be publishing a facsimile edition of the McClurg first edition of Tarzan of the Apes. This publication will be a hardcover with dustjacket, 401 pages, 5"X7.5" for $24.95. Before
the book can be published, American Web Books needs
to have 100 pre-orders for the book. To pre-order this book, visit the American Web Books website or call 800-277-5312. |  |
| Doc Savage Ever wonder what the Italian Editions of the Doc Savage books look like? Wonder no more! The Italian Doc Savage Books' index with all the titles and covers is available for viewing. Here's the link : http://users.skynet.be/Doc_Savage/Italiens.html | |
| ERBville Press - The Land That Time Forgot ERBville Press announced the forthcoming publication of the second volume in the Edgar Rice Burroughs' Uniform Edition Hardcover Collection: THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT. First published in the BLUE BOOK for August, September, and October 1918, the trilogy comprising this book is taken from the AMAZING STORIES version, including the original illustrations, published in hardcover for the first time. The
pre-publication order deadline is February 15, 2003. The
cost per book is: $40.95 postpaid in the United States; $42.95 postpaid in Canada; Checks
should be payable to Jerry L. Schneider. | |
| E-texts on the net this week The Shadow Magazine: The Triple Trail (04/15/35)
Robert Mullen's Shadow PDF: The Shadow Magazine Interior Artwork: Doc Savage PDF: Blackmask Online: Nothing new this week. Larry Estep-Online Pulps: | |
| Hugh B. Cave - Come Into
My Parlor: Tales From Detective Fiction Weekly Crippen & Landru have announced that Hugh B. Cave's Come Into My Parlor: Tales From Detective Fiction Weekly will be published in about a week, in (belated) honor of Hugh's 92nd birthday. This volume contains great stories by a Living Legend of the Pulps, who has been writing professionally since 1929. It will be available in a signed and numbered clothbound edition and a trade softcover edition. | |
| Illustration Magazine ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE #7 will contain features on Gerald Gregg and the Dell Mapbacks, Enoch Bolles, Ernest Chiriacka, Raphael DeSoto, William George, Howard Pyle, Robert Fawcett, H.J. Ward, Walter Baumhofer, Wm. Mead Prince, Al Parker, The Cooper Studio,The Famous Artist's School, The History of the Society of Illustrators, and many more! This issue will be available in June. ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE #5 is now available. ILLUSTRATION
MAGAZINE #6 will be available in March. ILLUSTRATION
MAGAZINE, 540 Wooddell Court,Kirkwood, MO 63122. ILLUSTRATION
MAGAZINE is also available from: |  |
| Indiana Jones 4 At the annual New York Film Critics Awards dinner, George Lucas reported that he wrote the story for Indiana Jones 4 last summer and expects to shoot it sometime this year with Steven Spielberg. | |
| IRISH OF THE JUNGLE Now available from AC Comics is IRISH OF THE JUNGLE. This book is a tribute to gorgeous pin-up queen, Irish McCalla, who portrayed "Sheena" on television in the 1950's. In the savage African jungle Irish combats giant reptiles and conniving white hunters in a thrilling, full-color comic-style adventure. The story is written by Bill Black, with art by Brad Gorby and Mark Heike. Color reprints of the Golden Age Sheena are also included as drawn by Robert Webb in her original 1940's Fiction House Comics title, JUMBO COMICS. Black and white photos of Irish McCalla's acting and modelling careers, and a remembrance of the woman and her career by fan and friend J. M. Bembaron round out the package. Much of the material in this book has seen print previously in the "TV's Sheena, Irish McCalla" trade paperback. 40 pages, color and black and white; 8.5" X 11", $9.95. If your local comic shop does not carry this comic, it is available from AC Comics online. |  |
| The League of Extraordinary
Gentlemen Volume II #5 DC Comics has announced that The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume II #5 that was originally scheduled to be in comic shops on 12/26/02 and was then delayed until January is now being delayed again. The new in-store date is 26 February. | |
| Legends of Radio: The Shadow Now available from Radio Spirits is LEGENDS OF RADIO: THE SHADOW. For the first time, this exclusive 10-hour collection captures all six major radio voices of The Shadow-with rare episodes starring Orson Welles, Bill Johnstone, John Archer and Bret Morrison and featuring early Shadows Frank Readick and James LaCurto in supporting roles. Step backstage with Shadow historian Anthony Tollin and enjoy surprising anecdotes and rare photographs. His all-new 32-page booklet is included in this special collector's set. STARRING ORSON WELLES: The Temple Bells of Neban (10-24-37), The Phantom Voice (2-6-38), The Bride of Death (3-6-38), and The Firebug (4-10-38). STARRING BILL JOHNSTONE: The Black Abbot (10-2-38), Prelude to Terror (1-29-39), The Man Who Murdered Time (8-39), Dead Men Talk (9-24-39), The Phantom Fingerprints (10-29-39), The Curse of Shiva (12-1-40), The Leopard Strikes (1-5-41), and Death Gives an Encore (2-22-42). STARRING JOHN ARCHER: The Little Man Who Wasn't There (4-8-45). STARRING BRET MORRISON: The Curse of the Cat (1-20-46), Etched With Acid (3-17-46), Death in a Minor Key (6-2-46), Murders on the Main Stem (12-15-46), The Fine Art of Murder (12-22-46), The Shadow's Revenge (5-11-47), and Reflection of Death (5-9-48). This
collection is available on
CD or
cassette. |  |
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The Lone Ranger Telefilm The WB will premiere its new potential series, The Lone Ranger, during the February sweeps on the 26th of the month. The two hour pilot stars Luke Hartman (Chad Michael Murray) as the 19th century law student who takes a secret identity as the Lone Ranger. The role of Tonto will be played by Nathaniel Arcand and Anita Brown will play his sister Alope. This version of the Lone Ranger takes a look at the character in the years before he became a legend. Set in the 19th century, the saga begins with the introduction of Luke Hartman, a 20-year old Boston law student whose life is turned upside down when he is wounded in an ambush after witnessing the murder of his brother, a Texas Ranger. Rescued by an Apache named Tonto, Luke is instantly captivated by Tonto's beautiful sister Alope. Luke assumes the guise of a mysterious masked champion to avenge his brother's death and fight the scourge of injustice. The telefilm will get a little sexing up with Tonto's sister Alope creating a love triangle between her tribe's chief and Luke. Also included is a hot tub scene that takes place in a teepee! The two-hour telefilm is a pilot opportunity, but the WB options with the actors have expired. Click here or on the picture for a larger image. |  |
| Moonstone
Books Diamond Comic Distributors is shipping Kolchak the Night Stalker: Fever Pitch to comic shops to arrive on 22 January. This title is written by Stuart M. Kaminsky, penciled by Christopher Jones, inked by Barbara Schulz, colored by Andre Maitland and has a cover by Doug Klauba. Moonstone's first all-original Kolchak story. For three nights straight, some poor innocent spontaneously combusts in front of a horrified witness. Like chain links, the previous night's witness is the following evening's victim. But who's behind these deaths? The Wolfman? An Anaconda? A Giant Spider? According to police reports, these three monsters were spotted at the scene. Kolchak, hot with the flu, makes a little report of his own that adds up to some life saving advice- never turn your back on fear. 48 pages, color, $6.95. Click here for a preview on the Moonstone Books website. Moonstone Books are also available from Ed Bond Books after publication. |  |
| Night Shade Books Sin's Doorway and Other Ominous Entrances, the 4th volume of the Manly Wade Wellman series is at the printer now, and should begin shipping in a few weeks. The Trade Hardcover will retail for $35. Owls Hoot in the Daytime &
Other Omens, the 5th (and final) volume, is headed for the printer this
month. Boats of the "Glen Carrig" and Other Nautical Adventures, the first volume of the William Hope Hodgson series, should be at the printer within a couple of weeks. The Trade Hardcover will retail for $35. Night Shade will be releasing the Collected Jorkens stories of Lord Dunsany! Originally published as five separate volumes, Night Shade will be publishing them as a 3-volume set. And even better, the Dunsany family has recently unearthed an unpublished sixth volume, The Last Book of Jorkens, which Night Shade will be publishing for the first time. Night Shade is offering a subscription to the series for $100, which includes all three volumes, a slipcase, free shipping, and a copy of The Last Book of Jorkens: Special Edition. Visit the Night Shade Books website for details. This deal is only being offered until the first volume is released. Each individual volume will retail for $35 Coming
in 2003 is The Midnight Sun: The Collected
Stories and Poetry of Kane. As with Gods in Darkness, Night
Shade will be issuing a trade hardcover and a slipcased limited edition, signed
by artist Ken Kelly. | |
| Pirates
of the Caribbean Set in the Caribbean Sea in the 17th century, this is the story of a gentleman rogue of a pirate, Jack Sparrow (Depp), who teams up with the daughter (Knightley) of a governor (Pryce) to stop the evil plan of a ship of dangerous pirates (led by Rush) who are trying to reverse an ancient curse that leaves them stuck between life and death, with the light of the moon revealing their skeletons, like some kind of undead monsters. The film is scheduled for release on 09 July 2003. Click here for a look at some of the concept artwork and the movie trailer. | |
| Steranko - Arte Noir Diamond Comic Distributors is shipping Steranko - Arte Noir to comic shops to arrive on 22 January. Steranko - Arte Noir is published by Vanguard Productions. This is the largest, most comprehensive volume of the controversial creator's work ever published, packed with hundreds of color and black-and-white images — some never before collected in book form! This massive publication incorporates eleven chapters of behind-the-scenes stories and analytical insights about the controversial artist/writer/performer in a high-quality, perfect-bound deluxe format edition, printed on 80lb coated matte stock with a heavy, full-color, laminated cardstock cover with flaps, and housed in a hard-surfaced leatherette, crimson-foil embossed slipcase. Each copy will be autographed by Steranko. Limited to 3,000 copies worldwide, with no other editions planned. Softcover,
8"x10", 200 pages, $50.00 |  |
| VCI
Entertainment - SECRET AGENT X-9 VCI Entertainment is preparing to release the Universal serials SECRET AGENT X-9 (1937) and SECRET AGENT X-9 (1945) in early 2003. Both serials were long thought to be lost. SECRET AGENT X-9 (1937) can now be pre-ordered
at Deep Discount DVD for $16.20 postpaid. The release date for SECRET AGENT X-9 (1945) is 02/25/2003. SECRET AGENT X-9 (1937) SECRET AGENT X-9 (1945) |  |
| Tarzan Telefilm The WB series in development, "Tarzan," might be named for the jungle-raised boy, but The WB's Entertainment President, Jordan Levin, says it's more about second banana Jane. "It's not really about the mythology of the character. If anything, it's more of a romantic drama with a bit of a cop franchise revolving around the Jane character, who is a NYPD detective," he says. "It feels more to me like 'Beauty and the Beast.' [Tarzan] is more of an inciting character, and it's really the exploration of her life and the choices she's going to make." Set in the present day, the brother of Tarzan's tragically killed parents becomes obsessed with tracking down his nephew and bringing him to the Greystoke estate in New York. While his uncle has good intentions, Tarzan is out-of-place in his new home and through a series of circumstance meets Jane in a heated moment. "Spider-Man" producer Laura Ziskin is actively involved in the project, and Levin says the network has high hopes for it finding a place on the fall 2003 schedule. "It's our big project with Warner Bros. this season. We got the script early. We're casting. There's some really exciting people we're looking at. So, that one we're betting on." | |
| V
the Second Generation NBC may be interested in a return to the V mini-series franchise according to Kenneth Johnson, in a V: The Second Generation type project. | |
| VISCO - The Visual Index of Science Fiction Cover
Art VISCO Version 1.11 dated January 16th 2003 is now available online at http://visco.users.btopenworld.com. Covers from the British reprint editions of Amazing were added, 41 issues in three series. In addition, more covers from Fantasy & Science Fiction and Interzone were added. Interzone is now up to #120, mid- 1997, and hopefully it will be completed in the next week or so. Fantasy & Science Fiction is now up to 1960 and you can see some of the wonderful wrap-around covers that the magazine carried from the 50s onwards. | |
| Wildside Press The following titles are now available from Wildside Press (http://www.wildsidepress.com/): THE CHESSMEN OF MARS by Edgar Rice Burroughs Tara, Princess of Helium, John Carter's impetuous and headstrong daughter, flies into one of Barsoom's rare but fierce storms defying the elements. But the Martian storm is only the beginning: hurled half a planet off course, she's threatened by grotesque flesh eating monsters and barbarous warriors. Is the mysterious Panthan warrior friend or foe? As hero battles for maiden in a deadly game of living chess, the pieces are fighting men and the stakes are life and death! 260 pages, Trade Hardcover, ISBN: 1-59224-887-X, $32.95 | |
| 10 January 2003 |
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| Bold Venture Press - THE SPIDER #70 to ship next week! Diamond Comics Distributor is shipping THE SPIDER #70: The Spider and the Slaves of Hell next week to arrive in comic shops on 15 January! Bold Venture Press has informed
me that work on THE SPIDER #5: Empire of Doom is complete and it is ready
for printing. THE SPIDER #5: Empire of Doom is scheduled to arrive
in comic shops in February/March. | |
| Classic Comic Characters
#40: Wilma Deering Statue When Buck Rogers found himself in the year 2419 A.D., and joined the resistance he discovered a beautiful fellow freedom fighter, Wilma Deering. Once described as "a flapper with a ray gun," Wilma was a sprightly combination of beauty and brains. While Wilma was steady and competent, she also had a sense of humor. Her boyfriend Buck inspired her wild streak, and her costumes typified the space-babe look that was seen later in pop culture from Flash Gordon to Star Wars. 5 1/2" tall, packaged in full-color tin box
w/certificate, pinback button, and info. booklet, limited to 600 copies. The
Wilma Deering Statue can be ordered through your local comics shop. |  |
| E-texts on
the net this week The Shadow Magazine: Death's Harlequin (05/01/39)
Robert Mullen's Shadow PDF: The Shadow Magazine Interior Artwork: Doc Savage PDF: Blackmask Online: Doc Savage in The Laugh of Death (10/42) Larry Estep-Online Pulps: | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Silver Screen Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Silver Screen Volume IV- The Locations by Jerry L. Schneider is planned for Summer 2003. | |
| Del Rey Books to Publish Robert E. Howard The Del Rey Internet Newsletter (DRIN) announced that Del Rey has acquired the rights to five books of the best of Robert E. Howard. Referred to as "certainly among the best" writers of heroic fantasy by Charles de Lint, Howard's work has been praised by such varied sources as Harry Turtledove, Stephen King and Eric Nylund. To be included in the Del Rey editions are all of the Conan stories in three volumes, all of the Solomon Kane stories in one volume, and all of the Bran Mak Morn stories in one volume. These will reprint the contents of the beautifully illustrated editions published out of England by Wandering Star Books, and will include all of their black and white illustrations by Gary Gianni and Mark Schultz. The first book, CONAN OF CIMMERIA, is slated for Fall 2003, with Solomon Kane scheduled for Spring 2004. Thanks to Martin Andersson for sending in this story. | |
| Girasol Collectables - New Pulp Replicas! Girasol Collectables is pleased to announce two more issues in its ongoing series of Pulp Replicas. Click here or on the image to the right for look at some Pulp Replica covers. The Shadow for this month is a Replica of
the very desirable The Black Hush from August 1st 1933. The fantastic,
classic Shadow image on this cover plus the predominantly black background makes
this pulp, in decent condition, The second Replica for this month is the May 1935 issue of SPICY ADVENTURE. This early issue, #8 if you're counting, features a hot cover of a desert damsel, delectable and dangerous. 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. |  |
| Here is a complete listing of the Pulp
Replicas currently available for $25 each postpaid within North America. Overseas
will be a few dollars more. THE
SHADOW SPICY
DETECTIVE SPICY
ADVENTURE STRANGE
TALES SPICY WESTERN WEIRD
TALES Email
Girasol Collectables at: girasol@interlog.com to purchase any
of these Pulp Replicas. All
payments must be made in $US payable to Girasol Collectables and mailed to: |  |
| Hugh B. Cave - The Restless Dead The Restless Dead from Dorchester Publishing (Leisure Books) is now available. A curse lingers over the Everol mansion, a voodoo curse, born of evil, steeped in blood. The tormented family who lives in this house of horrors is beset by insanity, visions and death. They have shut themselves off from the world, allowing no one to trespass on their blighted property. No one except Jeff Gordon, a university professor with a special knowledge of voodoo and the occult. Reluctantly, in desperation, the Everol family has permitted Gordon to enter the mansion. But all Gordon's experience could never prepare him for the unearthly creatures that await him there or the ultimate terror of the mysterious caves beneath the house. You
can read the first chapter online at the
Dorchester Publishing website. |  |
| Illustration Magazine -
NOW AVAILABLE ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE #5 features The Preliminary Studies of Frank Frazetta, The Art of Roy G. Krenkel, and The Art of Nell Brinkley. The Preliminary Studies of Frank Frazetta presents five previously unpublished preliminary paintings as full-page illustrations. They are reproduced from the original art in full color. The Art of Roy G. Krenkel is perhaps the most in-depth article on Krenkel yet published and is illustrated with scores of reproductions taken directly from the original art. Also included is a checklist of Krenkel's entire published works. The Art of Nell Brinkley features the great female cartoonist from the early 1900's and includes scores of reproductions in full color. Also in this issue is an article on Albert Staehle by Dr. Donald Stoltz. Staehle was the creator of Smokey the Bear and a prolific illustrator of comical animal subjects for Colliers, The Saturday Evening Post, and other publications of the 1940's and 1950's. ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE, 540 Wooddell Court,Kirkwood,
MO 63122. ILLUSTRATION
MAGAZINE is also available from: |  |
| Moonstone Books Coming from Moonstone Books in April. KOLCHAK
THE NIGHT STALKER: LAMBS TO THE SLAUGHTER 48 pages, full color, $6.95 LAMBS
TO THE SLAUGHTER can be ordered through your local comics shop. | |
| Ray Bradbury - One More
For The Road A mass-market paperback edition of Ray Bradbury's One More For The Road is now available.. This assemblage of 25 of Bradbury's short pieces constitutes a worthwhile addition to most sf and fantasy collections. It contains 18 brand-new stories and seven previously uncollected stories. The 368 page collections will be published by Avon Books and retail for $6.99. |  |
| Science Fiction
List Science Fiction List is a website that has lots of science fiction pulp and paperback covers available to view. You can perform searches for your favorite paperback author, title, publisher, or cover artist. You can also perform searches for your favorite pulp and pulp cover artist. You can even catalog your collection by setting up a free collectors account. This website is worth checking out! Thanks to Robert Thompson for sending in information on this website. | |
| Serial Squadron The Serial Squadron has put together a 2003 calendar that features prototype posters for serials that were never filmed! Included are posters for Doc Savage, The Avenger, John Carter of Mars, The Black Hood, The Slithering Shadow, Captain America, Batman, The Spirit, The Phantom Lady, The Sub-mariner, Superman and Wonder Woman. The calendar is a free download in PDF format on the Serial Squadron website at http://www.serialsquadron.com/. | |
| SKYLARK OF SPACE by E. E. "Doc" Smith The Science Fiction Book Club has indicated that they hope to publish an omnibus edition of E. E. "Doc" Smith's Skylark series if they can obtain the rights. | |
| VISCO
- The Visual Index of Science Fiction Cover Art VISCO Version 1.10 dated January 7th 2003 is now available online at http://visco.users.btopenworld.com. The first installment of images (91 total) from the leading US and British magazine titles, "Fantasy & Science Fiction" and "Interzone" have been added with more to follow. | |
| XENA Universal Pictures has coaxed Lucy Lawless to once again don the leathers. As part of her incentive to return was Universal agreed to include Xena's cohorts from the series plus some new faces. The picture is budgeted for around $55 to $60M. No word if Kevin Sorbo will make an appearance as Hercules. | |
| 03 January 2003 |
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AC Comics - Best of the West featuring Zorro Diamond Comic Distributors is shipping Best of the West #33 featuring a Zorro story by Warren Tufts to comic shops to arrive on 08 January. Zorro crosses swords with the fat sergeant to learn the secret of Garcia's Package. Also
in this issue are stories of The Durango Kid by Fred Guardineer, The Haunted Horseman
by Dick Ayers, This
is a 44 page, black and white comic for $6.95. |  |
| Arkham
House Arkham House has announced that their next project, Rendezvous in Averoigne by Clark Ashton Smith, will be available in February 2003. | |
| Chariots
of the Gods Chariots of the Gods is a new, upcoming sci-fi series based on the best-selling works of Erich von Daniken. This fictional series follows a team of young adventurers on a mission to uncover the extraterrestrial history of mankind. The show is a hybrid of smart docu/reality and sexy special effects driven sci-fi. Visit the Chariots of the Gods website at http://www.chariotsofthegods.com | |
| E-texts on the net this week The Shadow Magazine: The Fate Joss from THE SHADOW MAGAZINE (07/01/35) The Shadow Magazine Interior Artwork: Doc Savage PDF: Blackmask Online: The Gray Ghost (05/01/36) (actually posted last week) Larry Estep-Online Pulps: | |
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The Eerie Mr. Murphy Back in October, I posted information that Amazon Books was listing The Eerie Mr. Murphy by Howard Wandrei as a December 2002 release. Unfortunately, the Amazon Books listing was in error. I have no information on when this title will be available. This is a planned companion volume to Time Burial which gathers the rest of Wandrei’s short horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Included are a liberal selection of previously unpublished stories and the largest selection of Wandrei’s artwork published to date. Fedogan & Bremer is the publisher. |  |
| The
Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers Facts on File Inc. has published THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PULP FICTION WRITERS by Lee Server. THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PULP FICTION WRITERS covers the entire spectrum of pop literature’s greatest entertainers and artists, the multimillion-copy bestsellers, and the inventors of the modern genres, such as the western, the hardboiled detective novel, the spy thriller, science fiction, horror, the legal thriller, crime fiction, and the erotic/romance novel. The book also profiles colorful but lesser-known underground figures, as well as a wide variety of talented paperback authors who were never given their due. Each of the 200 entries includes a brief biography along with a list of the author’s writing credits. Authors covered include: V. C. Andrews, Ray Bradbury, Jackie Collins, Lester Dent, Ian Fleming, Erle Stanley Gardner, David Goodis, Zane Grey, Chester Himes, Louis L’Amour, H. P. Lovecraft, Mario Puzo, Jacqueline Susann and many more. Lee Server is the author of the critically acclaimed Danger is My Business: The Illustrated History of the Fabulous Pulp Magazines (Chronicle Books, 1993); Over My Dead Body: The Sensational Age of the American Paperback (Chronicle Books, 1995); and the biography Robert Mitchum: Baby, I Don't Care (St. Martin's Press, 2001). He also was the co-editor of The Big Book of Noir (Carroll & Graf, 1998), a collection of articles on the world of noir in movies, television, and literature. The
book is available in hardcover ($60) and softcover editions ($19.95). Contact
Mike Chomko at chomko@enter.net to reserve
your copy today. |  |
| Fading Shadows - Now
Available Action Adventure Stories #121 featuring The Lone Eagle in Doom Over Paris from June 1938 Behind the Mask #63 featuring: Vindex in Vengeance of Vindex by Tracey French The Mongoose in The Voice From Nowhere by Johnston McCulley Marty Quade in Killer's Club Car by Emile C. Tepperman Alien Worlds #34 Double Danger Tales #58 featuring The Return of the Eagle by Erwin K. Roberts Detective Mystery Stories #32 Each issue is 5.5 by 8.5 inches in size and
runs approximately 80 pages. | |
| Haffner Press At long last, MARTIAN QUEST: THE EARLY BRACKETT by Leigh Brackett is finished and is at the printer for immediate release! Nearly 500 pages of Brackett's first 20 published science fiction, fantasy (and one horror) stories from pulp magazines such as ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION, STARTLING STORIES, ASTONISHING STORIES, COMET, STRANGE STORIES, SCIENCE FICTION, and of course, PLANET STORIES. Contents: Martian Quest, The Treasure of Ptakuth, The Tapestry Gate, The Stellar Legion, The Demons of Darkside, Water Pirate, Interplanetary Reporter, The Dragon-Queen of Venus, Lord of the Earthquake, No Man’s Land in Space, A World is Born, Retreat to the Stars, Child of the Green Light, The Sorcerer of Rhiannon, Child of the Sun, Out of the Sea, Cube from Space, Outpost on Io, The Hafling, The Citadel of Lost Ships. Award-winning author Michael Moorcock provides a revealing and erudite introduction, and the author's autobiographical essay from AMAZING STORIES (1941) serves as an afterword. MARTIAN
QUEST: THE EARLY BRACKETT is a smythe-sewn 6" x 9" hardcover bound in Black Holliston
Roxite B on 55# Booktext Natural. The endpapers are decorated with the interior
line art from the PLANET STORIES MARTIAN QUEST:
THE EARLY BRACKETT by Leigh Brackett is available in two editions. 100-copy
slipcased limited hardcover edition ******************************************************** | |
| Haffner Press is also proud to bring
to print STARK AND THE STAR KINGS in February 2003! A collection of the classic adventures of Edmond Hamilton and Leigh Brackett's signature characters, together for the first time. And with good reason--the final story of this collection (which has remained unpublished for nearly 30 years) brings the far-future heroes of Hamilton's THE STAR KINGS into an alliance with Brackett's stellar adventurer Eric John Stark. Contents: The Star Kings, Queen of the Martian Catacombs, Enchantress of Venus, Black Amazon of Mars, Return to the Stars, Stark and the Star Kings. Best-selling author John Jakes has agreed to provide an introduction, and the dustjacket, endpapers, and interior artwork is by Alex Ebel. Ebel's accomplished work has been featured on vintage sf digest and pulps like Space Science Fiction and Science Fiction Quarterly. He also provided the artwork for the 70s paperback edition of John Jakes' "When the Star Kings Die" as well as Phantasia Press' editions of Philip Jose Farmer's "Behind the Walls of Terra" and "A Barnstormer in Oz." STARK
AND THE STAR KINGS by Edmond Hamilton and Leigh Brackett is available in two editions. 100-copy
slipcased limited hardcover edition Ordering
information: STARK
AND THE STAR KINGS Haffner
Press accepts checks and money orders made payable and sent to: These
Haffner Press titles are also available from Mike Chomko. | |
| Killraven - War of the
Worlds Diamond Comic Distributors is shipping the fourth book in the Marvel Comics Killraven mini-series to comic shops to arrive on 08 January. This is a six issue mini-series written and pencilled by Alan Davis with Mark Farmer inking and Gregory Wright coloring. Each issue is 32 pages with ads for $2.99. |  |
| Lovecraft
- Waking Up Screaming Now available is Waking Up Screaming, a new H. P. Lovecraft antholgy, from Del Rey Books. The anthology includes Cool Air, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Terrible Old Man, Herber West - Reanimator, The Lurking Fear, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, and ten other spine-chilling tales. This is a 384 page mass market paperback for $6.99. |  |
| Pulpdom Pulpdom #32 (December 2002) is now available. The contents include: Golden Peril by Chester D. Cuthbert. This story was written in the early 1930s and was previously published in RETURN TO WONDER, an amateur journal from 1969 with a very limited print run. The author published two stories in WONDER STORIES in 1934. THE POPULAR MAGAZINE, 1925, 24 issues by Caz. The Other "Adventure" Pulps by Caz. Reviews of Grimes, Outlaw! and The White Shark published by Black Dog Books. This issue has full color front and back covers and is profusely illustrated with full color and black & white illustrations throughout. Copies are
$6 each (postpaid) anywhere in USA. Six issue subscriptions are $30. Pulpdom #33 will contain an E. E. "Doc" Smith science fiction story from an old Ackermansion fanzine. |  |
| Shadow
Magazine - New Premium Offer The Shadow Magazine web site, in cooperation with The First Generation Radio Archives, is offering a FREE special limited edition audio CD; you only pay shipping/handling! Each CD is individually numbered and is limited to a production run of only 200. In this special sampler CD direct from the First Generation Radio Archives library, you will hear a radio adventure of THE SHADOW entitled "The Plot That Failed" and a radio mystery from the pen of pulp writer Raymond Chandler, THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP MARLOWE, entitled "The Easy Mark." These are not low quality mp3 data files; the disc is a high-fidelity audio CD. The First Generation Radio Archives is known for their high quality audio restorations. This sampler CD will show you how good The Shadow can sound! This
is not available in any store and not available from any catalogue. There is no
toll-free number to call. | |
| Shadow
Magazine Interior Art - Scans Needed The Shadow Interior Art website needs your help to obtain scans of the interior artwork from numerous issues of THE SHADOW MAGAZINE. If you have access to any of the Shadow pulps listed here and would like to contribute artwork, please contact Rebecca A. Thomson at contribute@theshadowmagazine.com . To avoid duplication of effort and ensure that no one else has already volunteered to scan your issue, please contact Rebecca before sending any artwork. If you do not own a scanner, you can still contribute by photocopying the artwork and mailing the artwork to Rebecca. Again, please contact Rebecca first before doing anything to avoid duplication of effort. The best way to photocopy a pulp is using the John Olsen method documented at http://www.spaceports.com/~deshadow/scanning/index.html. Thanks in advance for your help. | |
| Shadow
Stories in PDF Format - New Website The Shadow Interior Art website is sponsoring a webpage for Robert Mullen who has converted several Shadow stories to PDF format complete with the original artwork. The website is located at http://www.theshadowmagazine.com/RMullenPDF.htm Now available are: Shadowed Millions (01/01/33), Fingers of Death (03/01/33) and The Silent Death (04/01/33). Nine more stories will follow at three a week for the next few weeks. | |
| Windy
City Pulp & Paperback Convention The time is now to make your plans for attending the 3rd Windy City Pulp & Paperback Convention. The Con is April 4-6, 2003 in Lincolnwood, IL (right outside Chicago). Pulp author Hugh B. Cave (aka Justin Case) will be attending as a Guest. 2003 will mark Cave's 75th year as an author (congratulations!); later in 2003, Arkham House will be publishing his biography by Milt Thomas, who will also be attending the con. Hugh joins previously announced guests Frank Robinson (pulp & sf author and author of "Pulp Culture" and "Science Fiction of the 20th Century"), and artists Joel Naprstek and Rick Larsen. More details on the show are expected soon. Updates are available at the official con website, http://www.pulpshow.com. | |
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