Separate 2-disc versions of each of the films in this box set will be released on DVD on January 6th for $26.98 each.
The 9th bonus disc will ONLY be available in this set).
 

The first issue features The Bronze Dragon and The Vengeful Ghost By Mike Hall, The Only Thing We Have By Bob Elinskas, and Waking Deep By David Wharton.  Story samples in PDF format are available for download on the Ape Entertainment website at http://www.ape-entertainment.com/

THE ATOMIC AGE TREASURY OF PULP ACTION is 128 pages long with a cover price of $12.95. 
This book is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Now available).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC032145.

160 pages, $15.95, in stores on March 31. 
This book is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Now available).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC030015.

The Official Conan website has posted an excerpt from an interview with artist Mark Schultz that appears in the current issue of Spectrum magazine (#34).  The webpage indicates that the second volume of THE COMPLETE CONAN OF CIMMERIA, The Bloody Crown of Conan, is slated to appear next spring.  This is contrary to a previous report from Del Rey Books that the second volume would appear next fall.

Del Rey's present contract with Wandering Star is for five books.  The three volume COMPLETE CONAN OF CIMMERIA, THE SAVAGE TALES OF SOLOMAN KANE, and BRAN MAK MORN.  Amazon.com presently lists THE SAVAGE TALES OF SOLOMAN KANE as a June 29, 2004 release from Del Rey books as a 432 page paperback (ISBN: 0345461509).
 

According to The Howard Reader #8, Ballantine/Del Rey is presently negotiating with Wandering Star for a further package of books.  Editor Joe Marek says that he was told how many volumes are involved, but he declined to mention the quantity in print.  Marek did indicate that this was really exciting news, which leads one to believe many new Howard volumes are on the way.  He also hinted that we should think - King Kull!

The Howard Reader contains extremely rare stories, poetry, letters and essays by Robert E. Howard that were previously found only in obscure fanzines and publications. Originally seven issues were projected.  That number has now been increased to nine with #8 being the most recent. The Howard Reader is highly recommended for Howard fans.  Click here for ordering instructions. Don't delay, the first four issues are now Out-Of-Print!

The greatest warrior of all time. The original epic fantasy hero. One of the best-selling comics writers of all time, Kurt Busiek, who revitalized the superhero world with Marvels and Astro City, turns his attention to one of the greatest heroes of all time. Teaming with Cary Nord, Busiek presents Conan's story from day one, in the manner it was meant to be told. Drawing only on the original Robert E. Howard stories, the legend of Conan is brought to vivid life for the modern audience.

32 pages, $2.99, in stores on Feb. 4. 
This book is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Now available).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC030014.

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

The Shadow Magazine Interior Artwork: Nothing new this week.

ShadowPDF: Murdering Ghost (11/15/42) 
Coming soon: A new Amazon Anne story is coming before the end of the year. 

Doc Savage PDF:  Doc Savage PDF has moved to http://216.234.165.80
Strange Fish (February 1945)
Dust of Death (October 1935)

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

Blackmask Online: 
Doc Savage in  Violent Night (January 1945)

Larry Estep-Online Pulps:    Now with over 350 stories online!
Stand-In For Slaughter by Grover Brinkman  from MOBSTERS (December 1952) 
River Kill by  Arthur J. Burks from  DETECTIVE MYSTERY NOVEL MAGAZINE (Spring 1948)
Gangster in Khaki by  Llewellyn Hughes from BATTLE STORIES (1934) 
Don Juan Visits the Planet Mars by Don Juan from STAGE AND SCREEN STORIES (March, 1936) 
Thubway Tham's Thanksgiving Dinner by Johnston McCulley from DETECTIVE STORY (November 26, 1918)

Visit http://www.howardhopkins.com/page4.htm to download Golden Perils #31 today.

ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE, 540 Wooddell Court,Kirkwood, MO 63122.
48 pages in black and white and full color for $9.
Four issue subscriptions are available for $36. 

This book is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Now available).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC032851.

KOLCHAK: TALES OF THE NIGHT STALKER #1 by Ulanski, Marrinan, Williams, & Wolak
A new, ongoing series featuring the original paranormal investigator! Bust out the crawfish and gumbo as Carl Kolchak heads for New Orleans to look into rumors about a human plant skulking about the hot summer streets. This issue also features a short Mr. Nightmare back-up story by Dave Ulanski, in color for the first time! Covers by Monte Moore and Dave Ulanki. Full Color, 32 pages, $3.50.

Coming later in December is:
PHANTOM #1 by Ben Raab & Pat Quinn; coloring by Wolak; cover by John Cassidy
The Mighty Phantom breaks up a slave camp in his native Bangalla, whose captives are mining a vast diamond field at the command of the vile terrorist Ali Gutalle. A stone-cold killer, his counter strike is set against a black tie state function where Diana Walker is to give the keynote speech. As bullets fly, as time bombs click to detonation, will the Phantom have the power to catch villains with one hand, and save his family with the other? Cover by John Cassiday!  Full Color, 32 pages, $3.50.

THE PHANTOM #2 
Written by Ben Raab, art by Pat Quinn, cover by John Cassaday. 
After the pulse stopping action of our last issue, Diana Walker lies on the knife's edge of life and death. The Phantom enters the jungle, hell-bent on capturing the men responsible for the attack. An army of vile and desperate men await him there, lead by a man who's greed destroys everything in its wake. Will the Phantom keep his cool, and bring down these horrible terrorists, with eyes hot with tears for the woman he loves? The drums cry for Vengeance. 
32 pages, $3.50. 

KOLCHAK: TALES OF THE NIGHT STALKER #2 
Written by Dave Ulannski, art by Chris Marrinan and Keith Williams, colored by Ken Wolak. 
Kolchak heads out to Seattle to investigate the connection between missing teenagers and a Satanic cult... and ends up uncovering a major political scandal that catapults him into the spotlight. But fame and respect aren't all he brings home with him... who is the attractive mystery woman who follows him back to Los Angeles? Now an overnight sensation, Carl must ask himself... was the devil in Seattle? And if so, where is he now? Ships with two covers in a 50/50 split, by Monte Moore and Dave Ulanski.  32 pages, $3.50 

KOLCHAK SIGNED SLIPCASE  with Art by Doug Klauba. 
Put your Kolchak books in one safe place. This sturdy slipcase is a signed/limited edition, featuring all new art by Kolchak cover-painter Doug Klauba. Fits up to five 48-page, prestige-format books. 
$15.95, in stores in March. 

These items are solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Now available).
The Diamond Item Codes are:
Phantom #2: DEC032555.
Kolchak #2:  DEC032551.
Kolchak Slipcase:  DEC032554.

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

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

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

This plush is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Now available).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC033384.

This book is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Now available).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC033014.

Coming soon from Black Coat Press are:
Doc Ardan - The City of Gold and Lepers:  a prophetic science fiction novel written by Guy d'Armen in 1928, probably inspired by Fu-Manchu (1913) and predating Doc Savage (1933), in which a Tibetan mastermind manufactures gold through nuclear fusion.

Edgar Allan Poe on Mars: a new heroic fantasy novel by Randy & Jean-Marc Lofficier teaming up the famous author with swordsman Gulliver Jones.

This plush is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Now available).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC033379.

The series features classic and little-known comic book stories from throughout Moore's career, some hard-to-find tales that have appeared only in comic books outside the U.S., and some surviving stories from the tragically-lost Lovecraftian Moore epic Yuggoth Cultures, which will be seen here in comic book form for the first time. The YUGGOTH CULTURES AND OTHER GROWTHS series will include such gems as the now-completed first part of Moore and Bryan Talbot's important lost classic NIGHTJAR, a story started 20 years ago which was supposed to appear in UK comic book WARRIOR, the legendary anthology where other Moore classics such as MIRACLEMAN and V FOR VENDETTA appeared.

As for the Lovecraftian fragments from the series, those stories are also emerging from a tragically-lost project of a different kind. "Yuggoth Cultures was originally intended as a series of texts that would have been inspired by HP Lovecraft's poem cycle FUNGI FROM YUGGOTH," recalls Alan Moore. "Unfortunately, when the texts were about half completed, I left the only copy of three or four of them in a London taxi cab. Since it was impossible to reconstruct, the work went on hold, remaining incomplete. Originally, THE COURTYARD was part of the proposed Yuggoth Cultures package, but there were some other interesting little fragments left over, and I suppose that what's gathered in this series is a collection of those and other interesting fragments. Things from projects that were, for one reason or another, never completed, which perhaps which hold some interest in their own right. I'm looking forward to seeing what is done with them."

Although several of the stories in this new series were scripted by Moore for comic books, the stories originally written for the Yuggoth Cultures series of texts are being adapted by frequent Moore collaborator Antony Johnston (ALAN MOORE'S THE COURTYARD, ALAN MOORE'S ANOTHER SUBURBAN ROMANCE) in consultation with Moore. "Once again I've risked my health and sanity, channeling the Northampton Bard through my weak plebiscite mind for the sake of entertainment. With each adaptation my grip on reality grows weaker, yet my stubble grows longer; a curious paradox, I hope you'll agree. Stop me if you've heard this one before, but working with Alan on these stories has been an absolute pleasure. The pieces I've handled are some of the strangest, most evocative things I've read, forcing me to think in strange and unnatural ways to get the best results possible. I'm really happy with it."

REGULAR-b&w, 40pg (2 of 3) $3.95
WRAPAROUND-b&w, 40pg (2 of 3) $3.95

A Journey in Other Worlds By John Jacob Astor
What did our ancestors dream of when they gazed up at the stars and looked beyond the present? Wildly imaginative but grounded in reasoned scientific speculation, A Journey in Other Worlds races far ahead of the nineteenth century to imagine what life would be like in the year 2000. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Earth is effectively a corporate technocracy, with big businesses using incredible advances in science to improve life on the planet as a whole. Seeking other planets habitable for the growing human population, the spaceship Callisto, powered by an antigravitational force known as apergy, embarks on a momentous tour of the solar system. Jupiter proves to be a wilderness paradise, full of threatening beasts and landscapes of inspired beauty, where the explorers must fight for their lives. Dangers less tangible but equally deadly await the Callisto crew on Saturn, which yields profound secrets about their fate and the ultimate destiny of mankind.

Thoughtful, adventurous, and replete with a dazzling array of futuristic devices, A Journey in Other Worlds is a classic, unforgettable story of utopias and humankind’s restless exploration of the stars.
This is a trade paperback for $16.95.

Visit the Bison Frontiers of Imagination website at http://unp.unl.edu/BisonFrontiers.html

BLOOD 'N' THUNDER #6 will ship by the end of November.
The BLOOD 'N' THUNDER website is at http://www.geocities.com/poppub/.

First up will be a limited edition set of nine full-color cards from CONAN THE BARBARIAN, all featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger from various scenes in the film. This collection will be issued in an edition of 999 copies and will be available by March 2004.  Next up will be an 100-card art set culled from the pages of the comic magazine Savage Sword of Conan, originally published by Marvel. This unique set of Conan imagery will be released in Spring, ‘04. 

For full details, visit the Official Conan Website.

The statue can be ordered from Entertainment Earth, 1-800-370-2320.

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

The Shadow Magazine Interior Artwork: Nothing new this week.

ShadowPDF: Nothing new this week.

Doc Savage PDF:  Doc Savage PDF has moved to http://216.234.165.80
Violent Night (January 1945) 
The Majii  (September 1935)

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

Blackmask Online: 
Doc Savage in The Lost Giant (November 1944)
Doc Savage in Satan Black (December 1944)

Larry Estep-Online Pulps:    Now with over 350 stories online!
The Yellow Curse by Lars Anderson from THRILLING MYSTERY (April 1936) 
Face Pidgin by James W. Bennett from THE MAGIC CARPET MAGAZINE (January 1933) 
Rope Meat by Ben Conlon from WILD WEST WEEKLY (October 22, 1938) 
Heart of the West by Edna Dusenbery from COWBOY ROMANCES (August 1937)
A Bier for Baby by Dean Evans from MOBSTERS (December 1952)

Volume One focuses primarily on the illustration work of J. Allen St. John, and is replete with color and b&w reproductions of the vast majority of his ERB dustjackets and art. Brilliantly produced, this volume has many full-page illustrations, several fold-out pages, inside gilt and other extra features. Most of the reproductions are from the original art. Also features images from NC Wyeth, Fred Arting, Frank Schoonover, PJ Monahan and others--though the focus is definitely on St John. The cloth cover features an onlaid full-color plate by St. John, and a leather inset with gilt title.

Volume Two focuses on the work of Hal Foster, Studley Burroughs and John Coleman Burroughs, with 16 color reproductions of St. John dustjackets and six Morris Gollub Dell comic covers. Full of color and b&w images throughout, with two full-color gatefolds. Also includes the entire "picturized" version of Tarzan of the Apes, as well as samplings of his Sunday strip from 1932-37 and the "John Carter of Mars" strips. Plus gilt pages and other special features. Same style cover as Volume One, with an onlaid full-color Burroughs illustration.

Published by Russ Cochran, 1976, 1977. 
Hardcover, 9x12, 578 pages.
Fine condition - $325
Very good condition - $250
Good condition - $175

Also available are publisher sample copies of Volume 1 in fine and hurt condition.
I purchased this set of books when they were first published and can say that they are lovely volumes. 

Here's how CrossGen describes the issue: 
Meet Redhand Harry, privateer and pirate hunter!  He'll be Captain Sin's gravest challenge - if he can survive the French gallows!  By order of the English crown, Harry hunts the ship known as El Cazador, but right now he's caught in the hangman's noose!  Click here for a preview.  EL CAZADOR #3 is 32 pages for $2.95. 

EL CAZADOR #4 has an in-store date of December 24.

The EL CAZADOR COLLECTED EDITION collects EL CAZADOR #1-#3 and retails for $5.95. 
The in-store date is December 3. 

Flash Gordon Volume 3 can be ordered online from Things From Another World.

The fourth and final volume is scheduled to be in comic shops on December 24th.

It has been previously announced that Girasol Collectables is adding The Spider to the Pulp Replica roster, starting with issue #1 in December.  The Spider Pulp Replicas will retail for $35 postpaid within North America. 

Shocklines is now accepting pre-orders for the limited edition.  All copies are autographed.
The price is $36 plus $5 shipping.

You can also order direct from Cemetery Dance Publications.  Copies are not autographed.
The price is $40.  Shipping is free on pre-orders. 

With the kind assistance of Richard Layman, William Nolan, and Bill Pronzini, Vince has been able to track down copies of almost all of the pre-EQMM versions. Unfortunately, he has hit a wall and cannot find the first versions of four stories.  Vince is offering to pay $100 each for Xerox copies of any of these four Hammett appearances:
The Barber and His Wife (BRIEF STORIES, December 1922)
The Sardonic Star of Tom Doody (BRIEF STORIES, February 1923)
Laughing Masks(ACTION STORIES, November 1923)
Itchy (BRIEF STORIES, January 1924)

If anyone can help, please contact Vince Emery at vince@emery.com

On another front, John Betancourt of Wildside Press will be reprinting THE COMPLETE ACTION STORIES by Robert E. Howard. This was originally published a couple of years back in a small-edition softcover. Wildside's version will be hardcover which Mike will price at $40 ($39.95 list). The usual discount terms will apply.

Orders over $30 are discounted 10% and shipped postpaid.
Contact Mike at chomko@enter.net.
Michael Chomko, 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA  18104-6542 

Bill Schelly interviewed Binder’s family and colleagues, including Julius Schwartz, Roy Thomas and Al Feldstein. Learn how the death of his daughter caused Binder to abandon the comics field, and much more in this fascinating 80,000-word biography accompanied by dozens of photos and artwork by J. Michael Kaluta, C. C. Beck, Jerry Ordway and more. Cover & photo gallery in full color, with an introduction by SF and mystery writer Richard A. Lupoff.

Hardcover, 6"x9", 264 pages, Full Color.
The retail price will be $18.95 in stores or $21 postpaid from Hamster Press.
This book will be available in comic shops on November 26th.

The Pellucidar Omnibus: At the Earth's Core & Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs
"AT THE EARTH'S CORE" AND "PELLUCIDAR" IN ONE EBOOK! Both books complete and unabridged. In the first book, when David Innes accompanies his friend, the eccentric scientist Abner Perry in his newest invention, a rocketship shaped "mole" designed to penetrate the Earth's crust, he never dreams broken controls will send the two of them all the way to a strange word at the Earth's core. There human beings are still at a primitive state of development, and are enslaved by, and used for food by the Mahars, a race of near-immortal, telepathic pterodactyls. Taken prisoner David and Perry make friends and enemies. Then David falls in love with the primitive, beautiful cave woman, Dian, and finds a reason to lead his fellow prisoners in a hopeless revolt against the Mahars of Pellucidar. But when he attempts to return to the outer world, Dian is kidnapped and he ends up alone on the Earth's surface. In Pellucidar, David and Perry return to the inner world to find Dian, but emerge thousands of miles from their destination. With their "mole" wrecked, they must battle their way across savage Pellucidar – and only then will they be beginning their long search! Both books complete and unabridged – over 900 pages in hardcover. Cover J. Allen St. John.

Dwellers in the Mirage: The Fantasy Classic by A. Merritt
MERRITT'S MASTERWORK – OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! Two men in one body! That's how Lief Langdon had always felt. One part of him was a modern day adventurer, the other was a strange half-memory of another life where he was a High Priest sacrificing living people to Khalk'ru, a demon god from another time and space. Then Langdon stumbled through the mirage into a hidden Arctic valley, where he fell under the spell of Evalie, as beautiful outwardly as she was inwardly, and her friends the Little People, elfin warriors constantly warring with Lur, the Witch-Woman, and her demon riders, who raided the Little People's land for sacrifices to their dark god, the Kraken. Horrified at the thought of their becoming sacrifices, Langdon took up the Little People's cause and wooed Evalie. But when he learned the Kraken was also known as Khalk'ru, memories of his past life – as Lur's lover and High Priest of her sect came rushing back. Soon Langdon was fighting against his other self, a far stronger self that submerges him entirely and eagerly joins Lur, to rain kisses on her lips and weld the bloody knife of sacrifice on his own best friends! An thrilling, uncanny work of magic, myth and mystery that inspired H. P. Lovecraft's work and has sold over one million copies in hard and soft cover – now an ebook exclusively from Renaissance E Books. Saturday Review of Literature named him, "A genius" whose work displayed "a fertility of imaginative resource…unique, eerie, compelling." Cover Virgil Finlay circa 1941

Zero Hour: A Novel of Espionage in WWII by Peter Ruber
PERIL IN WWII THAT RIVALS TOM CLANCY It's September 1939, the Japanese military has already taken the rest of China, now their growing presence in Guangdong Province signals the imminent invasion of the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong. British intelligence, working with Sir Alan Hawkwood, governor of that British Crown Colony, recruits soldier-of-fortune James Hanecy to lead a secret reconnaissance mission into enemy territory. British intelligence hopes to learn how much time the colony might have before the invasion. Joining Hanecy is a Burmese mercenary named Balusa and four Chinese renegades. On a perilous trek into enemy territory to ferret out their top most secret, Hanecy and his band risk discovery by roving Japanese patrols at every step. In a series of brilliant moves, they penetrate the Japanese held Province, uncover the enemy's timetable, and relay it back to British intelligence. Then, mission seemingly accomplished, rather than return to safety Hanecy and his men decide to gamble their lives on a mission of their own – destroy two key Japanese camps that lie together by the shore – and then, if they are successful, fight their way to their own rendezvous with a waiting British airplane, with the entire enemy army at their heels lusting for revenge.

The Problems of Violet Strange: The Classic 1920s Woman Detective by Anna Katharine Green
CLASSIC ROMANTIC MYSTERY FEATURING 1920s WOMAN DETECTIVE Katherine Anna Green was the first woman detective novelist. Her connected stories featuting legendary character Violet Strange has been hailed as the first fictional female detective series. If you love classic mysteries in the Agatha Christie vein, that mix romance, humor, and detection, then you will love Violet Strange. Miss Strange was a young woman from a wealthy family, who was gifted with remarkable detective skills. When her father disowned her sister for choosing a musical career, Violet set out to earn enough money to launch her sister's career and to support them both. But she knew the decision would estrange her from the man she loved. Soon she was facing such baffling cases as "The Problem of the Second Bullet," "The Problem of the Grotto Spectre," "The Problem of the Missing Page Thirteen," and finally a mystery whose solution will either will either reunite her with the man she loves and reunite her broken family, or destroy her love and family for ever in "Violet's Own Problem." Read all the thrilling Violet Strange adventures in this inexpensive ebook edition.

"Atlantis" will follow a new team that discovers the remains of a secret base built by the Stargate's creators -- on Earth, of all places, in the lost city of Atlantis. The team's discovery eventually leads it to a faraway galaxy where a less-advanced human civilization faces a threat to its existence.

Casting for "Stargate Atlantis" hasn't been announced yet. The new series will launch with a two-hour movie that features some crossover with characters from "SG-1."  Following its premiere, "Atlantis" will run in tandem with "Stargate SG-1," which will begin its third season on Sci Fi and eighth overall (it began as a Showtime series) next summer. "SG-1's" current season will resume in early 2004. 

This issue retails for $5.95 ($7.50 Canada) and is available in better bookstores.
Subscriptions are available from DNA Publications and Wildside Press.

Click here for a list of contributors for the first issue and to place your order.

ARGOSY will also be available in comic shops. 
Request Diamond Item Code OCT032261.

The first issue features The Bronze Dragon and The Vengeful Ghost By Mike Hall, The Only Thing We Have By Bob Elinskas, and Waking Deep By David Wharton.  Story samples in PDF format are available for download on the Ape Entertainment website at http://www.ape-entertainment.com/

THE ATOMIC AGE TREASURY OF PULP ACTION is 128 pages long with a cover price of $12.95. 

THE ATOMIC AGE TREASURY OF PULP ACTION will be solicited in the December issue of Diamond's PREVIEWS (available November 26th). 
 

THE COMING OF CONAN THE CIMMERIAN repackages the contents of Wandering Star's limited edition hardcover THE COMPLETE CONAN OF CIMMERIA Volume 1 in a more affordable format. 
The Science Fiction Book Club will be offering an edition of THE COMING OF CONAN THE CIMMERIAN as an alternate choice with their Winter Selections 2004.

THE BLOODY CROWN OF CONAN is the title of Volume 2 of THE COMPLETE CONAN OF CIMMERIA. 
It is presently scheduled for next Fall and will feature three of the longest Conan adventures, including his one Conan novel, Hour of the Dragon, which will be produced from the original version that appeared in the legendary pulp magazine WEIRD TALES; a version which has been unavailable for about sixty years. Also included, The People of the Black Circle and A Witch Shall be Born will be produced from carbon copies of Howard's original manuscript, and thus will appear in this form for the first time ever.

Sculptor Jeffery Scott, well-known for his long tenure at Gentle Giant Studios, has captured the true essence of Conan. Exacting in its details, this piece brings forward a sculptural interpretation of Conan that delivers the goods.
The mini-bust is 7" high, packaged in a deluxe full-color box, a limited edition, and retails for $49.99.

Mark Verheiden, the Timecop creator who now serves as co-exec producer of the WB's hit Smallville, is set to write the pilot. Details of the new take are under wraps, with all parties involved declining comment since a formal deal is still being hammered out.  The franchise has been collecting dust since 1991, when NBC attempted its own Dark Shadows remake starring Ben Cross.

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

The Shadow Magazine Interior Artwork: Nothing new this week.

ShadowPDF: Nothing new this week.

Doc Savage PDF:  The Lost Giant (December 1944) 

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

Blackmask Online: 
Nothing new this week.

Larry Estep-Online Pulps:    Now with over 250 stories online!
The History of the Argosy by Frank Munsey from ARGOSY (December, 1907) 
The Sheriff's Daughter by William MacLeod Raine from FAR WEST STORIES (June, 1930) 
Keepers of the Treasure by Edgar Wallace from EVERYBODY'S (February, 1929) 
A Voice From the Fog by Ben Ames Williams from ALL-STORY (September 15, 1917) 
Bogus Gems by Gordon Young from ADVENTURE (December 18, 1919)

The retail price is $14.99. 

The retail price is $14.99. 

KING SOLOMON'S MINES: Production has been completed on Robert Halmi, Jr.'s four-hour mini-series, a new adaptation of H. Rider Haggard's novel. Steve Boyum directed the project which stars Patrick Swayze as famed adventurer Allan Quatermain, recently portrayed by Sean Connery in the feature film "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen." Hallmark plans to air the mini-series some time in 2004.

Hardcover: $32.95

Paperback, $15.00

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

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

RED WORLD OF POLARIS  is a stories written by Clark Ashton Smith that was previously believed to be lost. It was originally written for WONDER STORIES in August 1930. A sequel to Marooned in Andromeda, this 13,000 word adventure of Captain Volmar features some fine poetic and atmospheric writing, and was rejected by editor David Lasser for "not enough action."

This book is sold out at the publisher in both the limited and lettered states.
Possible sources are The Stars Our Destination (773-338-1650), Bloodletting Books, Clarkesworld Books.

Far Below and Other Horrors from the Pulps, edited by Robert Weinberg
ISBN: 0-91396-005-5 ($29.95, hardcover)
ISBN: 1-59224-168-9 ($15.95, trade pb)

H. Rider Haggard 
ISBN: 1-59224-163-8 Allan Quatermain in Finished ($19.95, trade pb)
ISBN: 1-59224-164-6 Allan Quatermain in Finished ($29.95, hardcover)
ISBN: 1-59224-165-4 Love Eternal ($29.95, trade pb)
ISBN: 1-59224-166-2 Love Eternal ($19.95, hardcover)

The Weird Tale, by S.T. Joshi (reference)
ISBN: 0-809-53122-4 ($24.95, tpb)
ISBN: 0-809-53123-2 ($39.95, hardcover)

The King Was In His Counting House, by James Branch Cabell 
ISBN: 0-809-53062-7 ($19.95, trade pb)
ISBN: 0-809-53063-5 ($35.00, hardcover)

The Mark of Zorro McCulley, Johnston 
ISBN: 0-809-53070-8 ($14.95 trade pb)

Limehouse Nights, by Thomas Burke
ISBN: 0-809-53093-7 ($15.99, trade pb)
ISBN: 0-809-53094-5 ($23.99 hardcover)

Facsimile reprints of early Terminus Publishing Company issues of WEIRD TALES:
ISBN: 0-809-53206-9 Weird Tales 290 (Spring $1988) - $12.99
ISBN: 0-809-53207-7 Weird Tales 291 (Summer 1988) - $12.99
ISBN: 0-809-53208-5 Weird Tales 292 (Fall 1988) - $12.99
ISBN: 0-809-53210-7 Weird Tales 294 (Fall 1989) - $12.99
ISBN: 0-809-53211-5 Weird Tales 295 (Winter 1989/1990) - $12.99
ISBN: 0-809-53212-3 Weird Tales 296 (Spring 1990) - $12.99
ISBN: 0-809-53213-1 Weird Tales 297 (Summer 1990) - $12.99
ISBN: 0-809-53215-8 Weird Tales 299 (Winter 1990/1991) - $13.99
ISBN: 0-809-53216-6 Weird Tales 300 (Spring 1991) - $12.99
ISBN: 0-809-53217-4 Weird Tales 301 (Summer 1991) - $12.99
ISBN: 0-809-53218-2 Weird Tales 302 (Fall 1991) - $12.99
ISBN: 0-809-53220-4 Weird Tales 304 (Spring 1992) - $12.99
ISBN: 0-809-53221-2 Weird Tales 305-6 (Winter 1992/Spring 1993) - $16.95
ISBN: 0-809-53222-0 Weird Tales 307-8 (Summer 1993/Spring 1994) - $16.95
ISBN: 0-809-53223-9 Weird Tales 309-12 (Summer 1994-Summer 1996) - $24.95 (4-in-1)
ISBN: 0-809-53224-7 Weird Tales 313-16 (Summer 1998-Summer 1999) - $24.95  (4-in-1)
ISBN: 0-809-53225-5 Weird Tales 317-320 (Fall 1999-Summer 2000) - $24.95 (4-in-1)

Edgar Rice Burroughs
ISBN: 0-809-59975-9 The Son of Tarzan ($19.95, trade pb)
ISBN: 0-809-59976-7 The Warlord of Mars ($18.95, trade pb)
ISBN: 0-809-59977-5 A Princess of Mars ($19.95, trade pb)
ISBN: 0-809-59978-3 At the Earth's Core ($16.95, trade pb)
ISBN: 0-809-59979-1 Jungle Tales of Tarzan ($19.95, trade pb)
ISBN: 0-809-59980-5 Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar ($19.95, trade pb)
ISBN: 0-809-59981-3 Tarzan of the Apes ($19.95, trade pb)
ISBN: 0-809-59982-1 Tarzan the Terrible ($19.95, trade pb)
ISBN: 0-809-59983-X Tarzan the Untamed ($19.95, trade pb)
ISBN: 0-809-59984-8 The Beasts of Tarzan ($19.95, trade pb)
ISBN: 0-809-59985-6 The Gods of Mars ($19.95, trade pb)
ISBN: 0-809-59986-4 The Return of Tarzan ($19.95, trade pb)

HIGH ADVENTURE #73 is also available from Mike Chomko for $8.
Girasol Collectables Pulp Replicas and Bold Venture Press Spider reprints are also available from Mike.
Orders over $30 are discounted 10% and shipped postpaid.
Contact Mike at chomko@enter.net.
Michael Chomko, 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA  18104-6542 

HIGH ADVENTURE #73 can also be procured from Vintage Library.

Coming Soon:
HIGH ADVENTURE #74 will feature The Phantom Detective in The Grim Shadow of Hate (January 2004)
HIGH ADVENTURE #75 will feature The Green Lama in Crosesus of Murder  (March 2004)
HIGH ADVENTURE #76 will feature KI-GOR in The Sword of Sheba and Lost Priestess of the Nile (May 2004)

Separate 2-disc versions of each of the films in this box set will be released on DVD on January 6th for $26.98 each.
The 9th bonus disc will ONLY be available in this set).
 

S.T. Joshi ed.; Cover by H.E. Fassl. 312 pages. Trade Paperback, $14.95

160 pages, $15.95, in stores on March 31. 
This book will be solicited in the December PREVIEWS (available November 26th).

The greatest warrior of all time. The original epic fantasy hero. One of the best-selling comics writers of all time, Kurt Busiek, who revitalized the superhero world with Marvels and Astro City, turns his attention to one of the greatest heroes of all time. Teaming with Cary Nord, Busiek presents Conan's story from day one, in the manner it was meant to be told. Drawing only on the original Robert E. Howard stories, the legend of Conan is brought to vivid life for the modern audience.

32 pages, $2.99, in stores on Feb. 4. 
This book will be solicited in the December PREVIEWS (available November 26th).

The 32-page, full color comic—which is bargain priced at 25 cents— features a 16-page "prelude" story that gives readers their first real taste of the upcoming Conan series, which will launch in first quarter, 2004. Also featured is a sketchbook gallery of Cary Nord's stunning work and an interview with writer Kurt Busiek.

For a sneak peak, click here.
 

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

The Shadow Magazine Interior Artwork: Nothing new this week.

ShadowPDF: Nothing new this week.

Doc Savage PDF:    Satan Black (November 1944) and Spook Hole (August 1935)

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

Blackmask Online: 
Doc Savage in Jui San (October 1944)

Larry Estep-Online Pulps:    Now with over 250 stories online!
The Strength of Men by James Oliver Curwood from COMPLETE NORTHWEST NOVEL (March, 1936) 
White Lady by Sophie Wenzel Ellis from STRANGE TALES (January, 1933) 
Silvertip Settles It by Austin Hall from WESTERN STORY (June 6, 1925) 
The Ball of Fire by S.B.H. Hurst from ORIENTAL STORIES (Summer 1931)
Killer's Cue by William O'Sullivan from RANGE RIDERS WESTERN (January, 1948)

BEHIND THE MASK #66 featuring:
  The Hornet and the Vulture by Sam Merwin from WORLD ADVENTURER, February 1934
  The Hawk and the Yellow Dragon by John Seabrooke from TOP NOTCH MAGAZINE, March 01, 1934
  Dice of Death by Carl MckSaunders from TEN DETECTIVE ACES, April 1936
  The Hawk's Double by John Seabrooke from TOP NOTCH MAGAZINE, April 15, 1930
  Fall Guy by Jack D'Arcy from FEDERAL AGENT, August 1936

DETECTIVE MYSTERY STORIES #42  featuring Fake Eyes by Carlos Queen, The Girl in Green by D. Martin Fine, Saving Kathy by Barbara Custer, The House at the End of the Road by Branley A. Branson, Murder at the Fair by Carol Gursky, His in the End by Kent Robinson, and Hold-up Man by John Bruni.

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

Each issue is 5.5 by 8.5 inches in size and runs approximately 80 pages.
One issue is $6.30 postpaid. Two or more issues are $6 each postpaid.
Not responsible for packages lost in the mail.
Insurance is $1.10 per $50.00 value and highly recommended.

Order from: 
Fading Shadows, Inc.
504 E. Morris Street
Seymour, TX 76380-2212

Please do not order at this time.
The Spider #1 - The Spider Strikes! will not be available until December. 

For November, Girasol Collectables is pleased to offer Pulp Replicas of the final instalment of STRANGE TALES, with the first issue Sept/31. The set of all seven issues is now available in Replica form... we said it would be out before year end, and here it is! Also up this month, is another SPICY ADVENTURE from Nov/36, with another terrific HJ ward cover, and also contains one of Robert E. Howard's 'Wild Bill Clanton' stories, written under his Sam Walser pseudonym. Those issues are hard to come by in original form, so here's a chance at one of these classic issues, $25 each postpaid within North America.

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

THE SHADOW  ($25 each postpaid within North America)
The Living Shadow (April 1931)
The Five Chameleons (11/01/32)
The Romanoff Jewels (12/01/32)
The Creeping Death (01/15/33)
The Shadow's Justice  (04/15/33)
The Red Blot (06/01/33)
The Black Hush (08/01/33)
Gray Fist  (02/15/34)
The Green Box  (03/15/34)
The Plot Master (02/01/35)
Bells of Doom (03/15/35)
The Chinese Tapestry (11/01/35)
Strange Disappearance of Joe Cardona (11/15/36)
Intimidation Inc(12/15/36)
House of Silence  (07/15/37)
The Golden Dog Murders  (09/01/38) 
The Voice (11/01/38)
House of Shadows (12/15/39) 
The Book of Death (01/15/42)
Death About Town  (07/15/42) 

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

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

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

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

STRANGE TALES  ($25 each postpaid within North America)
#1 - September 1931
#2 - November 1931
#3 - January 1932: Wolves of Darkness
#4 - March 1932
#5 - June 1932 
#6 - October 1932: Famous 'Worm Monster' cover
#7 - January 1933

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

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

WEIRD TALES  ($35 each postpaid within North America)
March 1923:  WEIRD TALES #1 
Available in 2 cover choices: the 'regular' cover, or the recently discovered 'rarer' version. 
Exactly the same, except the black and orange of the cover illustration are switched.

April 1923: WEIRD TALES #2
July/August 1923: WEIRD TALES #5
February 1924: WEIRD TALES #10

Email Girasol Collectables at: girasol@interlog.com to purchase any of these Pulp Replicas.
A complete listing, along with other items such as books, fanzines and of course pulps, can be found on
the Girasol Collectables website at http://www.girasolcollectables.com/

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

Last Months Replicas

ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE, 540 Wooddell Court,Kirkwood, MO 63122.
48 pages in black and white and full color for $9.
Four issue subscriptions are available for $36. 

ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE #8 will be available in comic shops on 12 November.

ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE is also available from:
Adventure House
Bud Plant Comic Art
Michael Chomko (chomko@enter.net )

ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE, 540 Wooddell Court,Kirkwood, MO 63122.
48 pages in black and white and full color for $9.
Four issue subscriptions are available for $36. 

Unfortunately, 'it' also discovers them, and the four occult adventurers soon find themselves beset by unnamable terrors and dread creatures in both the real world and the astral plane, not to mention the added complication that one of the four may not be all he seems. The story builds to a savage climax, where not just the group's lives, but also the continued existence of the world and indeed reality, are at stake.

Necronauts will be available in comic shops on November 12th.

Necronauts will be released in a high quality European-format paperback edition with a brand new cover image by Frazer Irving, plus a six-page sketchbook, script and covers gallery.
Price: $12.95, Black and white paperback, 64 pages

Coming soon from Black Coat Press are:
Doc Ardan - The City of Gold and Lepers:  a prophetic science fiction novel written by Guy d'Armen in 1928, probably inspired by Fu-Manchu (1913) and predating Doc Savage (1933), in which a Tibetan mastermind manufactures gold through nuclear fusion.

Edgar Allan Poe on Mars: a new heroic fantasy novel by Randy & Jean-Marc Lofficier teaming up the famous author with swordsman Gulliver Jones.

Tarzan, through five telecasts, recorded a household rating of 2.6, considerably lower than its lead-in, Charmed, which is averaging a  3.6, according to Nielsen Media Research data.  Tarzan is also averaging only a 1.7 in both the 18-49 and 18-34 demos; the latter of which is particularly important to the WB.  Charmed is averaging a 2.9 in 18-34, 41 percent better than Tarzan, which is losing nearly 30 percent of the Charmed viewers.