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31 August 2012

The 24th Annual New York City
Collectible Paperback & Pulp Fiction Expo

Our big 2012 book show will be held Sunday, October 14, 2012
Holiday Inn at 440 West 57th Street in NYC in the BIG ROOM on the first floor.

COME TO THE BOOK SHOW!

A limited number of 6' tables available but email for tables asap, as they go fast.
Admission: Preview (8am) $10; General (9am - 3pm) $5; After 3pm FREE


Confirmed Guest authors and artists:  (Please note all signing times are approximate)
CHARLES ARDAI:  1PM, award-winning crime author and editor of the Hard Case Crime series.
LAWRENCE BLOCK: 1PM, legendry mystery and crime author, creator of the Matt Scudder series & more! (Please note Mr. Block's signing policy is that he will sign any three books for each one of his new ones you purchase.)
ED BALCOURT: 11AM, renown artist rep who was a key player in paperback cover art and pb publishing.
VICTOR BANIS: 10AM, vintage 60s soft-core author of classic gay eroticia and sleaze paperbacks!
ANN BANNON: NOON, vintage Gold Medal author of classic lesbian pulp novels!

MARCUS BOAS: 10AM to end, fabulous fantasy artist who will display some of his wonderful paintings!
CAROLE BUGGE: 11AM, author of many fine Sherlockian pastiches, aka C.E. Lawrence for her fine Lee Campbell mystery thrillers!
RON GOULART: 1PM, master storyteller, SF writer, pulp and comic book scholar.
C.J. HENDERSON: 10AM to end, well-known hard-boiled crime, fantasy and horror author.
MORRIS HERSHMAN: 1PM, original Manhunt author and also Midwood Books author as Arnold English.
MARVIN KAYE: 1PM, famous fantasy author and renown anthologist, editor of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine and Weird Tales.
MARIJANE MEAKER: NOON, Classic Gold Medal author who wrote crime as Vin Packer and lesbian novels as Ann Aldrich, and many other fine bestsellers!
ANNETTE & MARTIN MEYERS:
NOON, mystery author couple, who also write as Maan Meyers.

JOHN NORMAN: 1PM, Bestselling science fiction author and creator of the famous GOR series!
S.J. ROZAN: NOON. crime author and creator of the famous Lydia Chin series and much more.
JASON STARR: NOON, author of many excellent crime and noir thrillers.
STAN TRYBULSKI: 10AM to end, hard-boiled crime author with many fine books to his credit.
F. PAUL WILSON: 1PM, famed science fiction & horror author, creator of the Repairman Jack series!
GERALD A. WINTER: 10AM to end, hard crime and noir writer, author of Hemingway's Trunk and more!
KEN WISHNIA: NOON, hard crime writer, as well as popular historical mystery author.

Guest signing times will also be posted on our website, www.gryphonbooks.com and also on the Program given out at the day of the show.



The Adventures of the Rio Concho Kid: Bullet For A Virgin!
Now available and FREE through Sunday!

ALL THE PULP WESTERN ROMANCE
AND VIOLENCE OF YESTERYEAR
MADE NEW AGAIN BY MEAN PETE PRESS!

In this first of a new series of spicy pulp western stories (roughly 50 printed pages) written exclusively as ebooks by Peter Brandvold and published by his own Mean Pete Press, the Rio Concho Kid must save a young Mexican girl from the savage intentions of the lusty General Constantine San Gabriel, who forced her into marriage.

On their wedding night, Tomasina De La Cruz sticks a stiletto in the General’s guts and flees his sprawling hacienda with the help of the half-Apache drifter, Johnny Navarro, a.k.a., “the Rio Concho Kid.”

The Kid and Tomasina race toward a rendezvous with the young man to whom Tomasina’s heart really belongs. In so doing, Tomasina and the Kid must avoid a deadly trap set by the man whom the dishonored General hired to bring his young bride back so he could have her tortured and gunned-down by firing squad.

That man is the infamous, deadly bounty killer known only as El Leproso, the Leper!

Can the Kid prove victorious over his fiercest enemy and avoid falling in love with Tomasina, who is as beguiling as she is beautiful but who also harbors a bizarre, bone-chilling secret?





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

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

Available from:  AmazonMike Chomko Books, and Adventure House

Still available:  Captain Philip Strange: Strange War

Coming soon - Captain Philip Strange: Strange Operators

Age of Aces
Now available!

Streaking swiftly through Hell skies, their three Hisso engines thundering, we find the famous and inseparable “Three Mosquitoes”. They were the mightiest flying combination that had ever blazed its way through overwhelming odds and laughed to tell of it! Captain Kirby, the impetuous leader of the great trio flew point with little mild-eyed “Shorty” Carn and lanky Travis, the eldest and wisest, filling out the “V” formation. With their customary battle cry, “Let’s go!”—they’re off on another dangerous mission in perilous skies!

From the pages of Popular Publications’ air war pulp magazines, author Ralph Oppenheim brings us four more unforgettable adventures of this reckless trio from 1932 and 1933:
The Invisible Circle, The Dynamite Flight, The Thunderbolt Ace, and The Iron Mask Patrol.

$16.99 Trade paperback
 6″x9″ trade paperback | 290 pages | ISBN: 978-0982095072

Available from:  AmazonMike Chomko Books, and Adventure House



Airship 27 Productions - Now available!
THE BAT IS BACK!

Airship 27 Productions
is super thrilled to announce the release of BLACK BAT MYSTERY, Volume Two. This is the second in their anthology series featuring all brand new adventures of one of pulpdom’s most loved heroes, the Black Bat!

Crusading Attorney Anthony Quinn believed his career was over when a criminal threw acid into his face blinding him. Months later, desperate to regain his sight, Quinn underwent a unique transplant operation which gave him the eyes of a slain lawman. Not only did the procedure work, but it also gave Quinn the ability to see in the dark.  Using this fantastic gift, he created the Black Bat, a justice seeking vigilante able to battle those villains beyond the reach of the law. Aided by his team of loyal crime-fighters, Carol Baldwin, Silk Kerby and Butch O’Leary, the Black Bat is once again on the prowl, his target, the depraved and evil denizens of his beloved city.

“This new collection of stories are so much fun,” stated Managing Editor, Ron Fortier.  “We knew after the success of Volume One, we needed to really find other unique and original stories that our readers would appreciate.”  New pulp writers, Aaron Smith, Joshua Reynolds, Jim Beard and Frank Byrns offer up a deadly quartet of fast pace action thrills.  There are traditional pulp themed plots that pit the Black Bat against super human Nazis monsters and mysterious aircrafts terrorizing a small town.  But at the same time there is Frank Byrn’s yarn about corrupt politicians involved with Major League Baseball.  “The idea of using a 1930s baseball background for a Black Bat adventure was extremely exciting for us,” Fortier continued.  “And then there’s Reynolds story that has him teaming up with another classic pulp legend, Jim Anthony the Super Detective.  Now who doesn’t love a good pulp team-up?”


The book features a stunning cover by Ingrid Hardy and Rob Davis based on Byrn’s story and has gorgeous interior illustrations by Andres Labrada.  BLACK BAT MYSTERY Vol. Two is another great pulp collection from the high flying
Airship 27 Productions you won’t want to miss.

Airship 27 Productions – Pulp Fiction For A New Generation!


Altus Press - Now available!
Each volume in this series will present three novels from the great weird menace pulps from Popular Publications. Dime Mystery Magazine, Terror Tales, and Horror Stories frequently ran lengthy pieces of 20,000 words or more that have sadly been ignored by anthologists due to their length.

This series will present for the first time in book form notable works by authors such as Hugh B. Cave, Wyatt Blassingame, Wayne Rogers and others. Noted horror author and pulp scholar, John Pelan has assembled a series of books that will bring back into print some of the most notable works in the genre. Don’t miss a single volume!  
$14.95 each

186 pages, approx. 6"x9"x0.4", approx. 0.8 lbs.



Altus Press - Now available!

Fighting the aerial forces of evil for nearly ten years in the pages of Flying Aces, Kerry Keen AKA The Griffon finally returns to print! This edition continues the complete reprinting of the series. Volume 2 contains the next six stories: “Clue of the Cockpit Clock,” “Death Flies the Electra!,” “Trans-Atlantic Intrigue,” “Sky Gun Snare,” “Zeppelins Vanish!” and “Sea Hangar Snare.” This also includes an article by pulp historian Will Murray.



Altus Press
E-Book editions are now available!


The Complete Cases of the Crime Magnet
by Sax Rohmer
introduction by Will Murray


Best known for his thrilling tales of Dr. Fu Manchu, author Sax Rohmer also penned the adventures of the resourceful Major Bernard de Treville, known better as "The Crime Magnet," a roving adventurer who encounters intrigue in every corner of the globe. With his companion, Digger, he follows in the footsteps of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Originally published in This Week magazine between 1937 to 1945, only a handful of these rare tales have ever been reprinted. Here, for the first time, are all fifteen short stories, plus the exciting serial, "The Panama Plot." Accompanied by an all-new introduction by Will Murray, historian of popular literature, this is the most significant Sax Rohmer collection in decades. Authorized by the Rohmer estate.

 


Altus Press - Now available!

Echoes 30
Three Decades of Pulp Fandom’s Greatest Magazine

by Ginger Johnson, Tom Johnson, and Will Murray

Echoes, the longest-running pulp fanzine of all time,
is back
for a special 30th anniversary issue,
and it's the largest single-issue pulp fanzine ever published.


Enjoy over 300 pages of articles on pulps as well as a pair of classic reprints, written by a variety of pulp experts.

The following fiction is included:
“The Green Ghost” by Johnston McCulley
“The Red Sword” by John Drummond
“The Black Shadow”, a Dorus Noel story by Tom Johnson

Articles on The Black Hood, Red Finger, Pulp Ladies, Lone Wolf Detective Magazine, The Octopus & Scorpion, Captain Future, Captain Satan, Masked Detective, Dr. Zeng, Green Ghost, Secret Service Smith, The Shadow’s Ladies, The Spider, Belmont Shadows, Red Mask, Secret Agent X, Dan Fowler, Moon Man, Bronze Shadows, Johnston McCulley, and many, many more; including new pulp characters as well.
304 pages, approx. 8"x10", approx. 1.8 lbs.




Altus Press - Coming soon!

Doc Savage in
DEATH'S DARK DOMAIN by Will Murray

Cover art by Joe DeVito



Blogging Sax Rohmer’s DAUGHTER OF FU MANCHU Part 4 - Now Online!
Sax Rohmer’s Daughter of Fu Manchu was originally serialized as Fu Manchu’s Daughter in twelve weekly installments of Collier’s from March 8 to May 24, 1930. It was published in book form the following year by Cassell in the UK and Doubleday in the US. Rohmer divides the novel into four sections comprising three chapters each. This week we examine the fourth and final installment

The rest is at the links below.
Next week:  A look at Rohmer's Nayland Smith stories without Fu Manchu.

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

The Shadow Strikes . . . 75 Years Later! - New!
The Return of Pulp AdventureCon - New!
PulpFest Report
Gone fishing….
PulpFest, Here We Come!  
Special Murania Press Sale At PulpFest: 20% Off All Books, New And Old!
Dark Knight, Meet The Spider  


The Book Cave - New podcast now available online!
Episode 194: Caine Dorr - New!
Caine Dorr joins the Book Cave crew to chat about his stories.

Episode 193: Captain Action
Episode 192: Penny Dread Tales
Episode 191: Bill Preston
Episode 190: Pamela Foster
Episode 189: Jim Beard
Episode 188: The Ruby Files
Panel Fest Episode 1: PulpFest - John Locke
Welcome to the first episode of Panel Fest, the podcast for panels from the past and present. Credit goes to Jason Aiken for recording this episode.
The Rise and Fall of the Pulps (Retitled from Gunslinging Writers: The Fast-Typing Working-Class Authors of the Pulps)


Panel Fest Episode 2: PulpFest Rick Lai
Thanks go to Art Sippo for PulpFest welcome and Jason Aiken for Rick Lai's The French Connection

Clive Cussler: THE TOMBS - Arriving in book stores September 4!
With Thomas Perry

Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are intrigued when an archaeologist friend requests their help excavating a top secret historical site.  What they find will set them on a hunt for a prize greater than they could ever imagine.  The clues point to the hidden tomb of Attila the Hun, the High King who was reportedly buried with a vast fortune of gold and jewels and plunder . . . a bounty that has never been found.  As they follow the trail through Hungary, Italy, France, Russia, and Kazakhstan—a trail that they discover leads them not to one tomb, but five—the Fargos will find themselves pitted against a thieving group of amateur treasure hunters, a cunning Russian businessman, and a ruthless Hungarian who claims direct descent from Attila himself . . . and will stop at nothing to claim the tombs’ riches as his own.

Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Putnam Adult
ISBN-10: 0399159266
ISBN-13: 978-0399159268

$27.95

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

Forgotten Books: CONTRABAND by Cleve F. Adams (and Robert Leslie Bellem)
Forgotten Stories: a complete DAFFY DILL mystery by Richard Sale
Overlooked Films: Adventures of (ALMOST the Phantom) Captain Africa
TOUGH AS NAILS: Frederick Nebel's complete Donahue series from Black Mask
King Corrigan's Treasure - Another great ADVENTURE collection from Black Dog Books
Overlooked Films: ZORRO is "The Bold Caballero" (1936)


FLASH GORDON: ZEITGEIST #6 - Arriving in comic shops September 5th!
Writer: Eric Trautmann; Artist: Daniel Indro
Covers: Alex Ross (75%), Paul Renaud (25%), Francesco Francavilla (1-in-10)

As Earth burns beneath the might of a Mongo-allied Third Reich, Ming the Merciless's domination plans are on the cusp of success. With two universes at stake, the only hope lies with Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov. Allegiances are forged and battle lines are drawn as Dynamite adds to the legend of the greatest space fantasy hero of all.


32 pages, Full Color, $3.99





Go Hero: 1:6 scale collectible figures - Coming soon!



Gotham Pulp Collectors Club - September 8, 2012!
Gotham Pulp Collectors Club
 is a club for pulp collectors to meet in the NYC/Metro area.
It meets the 2nd Saturday of every month.

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

Contact:  Mark Halegua at msh@pulps1st.com


THE HOUSE OF SILK  by Anthony Horowitz
New Sherlock Holmes novel is now available!

Authorized by Conan Doyle's estate

THE GAME'S AFOOT ...It is November 1890 and London is gripped by a merciless winter. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are enjoying tea by the fire when an agitated gentleman arrives unannounced at 221b Baker Street. He begs Holmes for help, telling the unnerving story of a scar-faced man with piercing eyes who has stalked him in recent weeks. Intrigued, Holmes and Watson find themselves swiftly drawn into a series of puzzling and sinister events, stretching from the gas-lit streets of London to the teeming criminal underworld of Boston and the mysterious 'House of Silk' ...

Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Orion Paperbacks
ISBN-10: 1409135985
ISBN-13: 978-1409135982

$11.92

Still available in hardcover.



Laurie's Wild West - Now online!

Pulp Fest 2012 Report  - New!
"Dear Mrs. Browne"; Daisy's First Job at LOVE STORY
"To Steal A Ranch," A Complete Paul Powers Story
The EXCITING series of pulps
MAGAZINES I REMEMBER by Hugh Cave: An Appreciation
Happy Holidays from Daisy Bacon

THE LONE RANGER #9 - Arriving in comic shops September 5th!
Writer: Ande Parks; Artist: Esteve Polls
Cover: Francesco Francavilla

The tragic arc that will forever redefine Tonto's origins rolls on in Native Ground, Part Three of Six. As Tonto lies near death in 1870, the story of how he came to be a rogue brave unfolds. In the past, all that Tonto loved has been destroyed, leaving him shattered... empty, but for a single purpose: Revenge. Tonto rides as a warrior, drenched in blood, and with nothing left to lose.

32 pages, Full Color, $3.99







McFarland Publishing
Anti-Foreign Imagery in American Pulps and Comic Books, 1920-1960
by Nathan Vernon Madison
Coming this Fall!

This book’s purpose is to demonstrate, via the examination of popular youth literature (primarily pulp magazines and comic books) from the 1920s through to the 1950s, that the stories therein drew their definitions of heroism and villainy from an overarching, nativist fear of outsiders that had existed before the Great War, but intensified afterwards. These depictions were transferred to America’s "new" enemies both following the United States’ entry into the Second World War as well as during the early stages of the Cold War. This transference of nativist imagery displays a growing emphasis on ideological, as opposed to racial or ethnic, differences found in anti-foreign narratives, both showing early signs of modern American multiculturalism and indicating that pure racism was not the sole reason for the appearance of nativist rhetoric in popular literature. The process of change in America’s nativist sentiments, so virulent after the First World War, are explained by the popular, inexpensive escapism of the time, the pulp magazines and comic books of the early to mid-twentieth century.

Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-7095-2
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4766-0136-6
ca. 75 photos, notes, bibliography, index
softcover (6 x 9) 2012




Pulp Fest 2012 Report by Laurie Powers

Pulp Fest 2012 Report by Nathan Madison


Pulpville Press - Now available!
TAHARA: BOY KING OF THE DESERT by Harold M. Sherman

Harold M. Sherman has provided an unexcelled series of exciting adventures in the four volumes on "Tahara" which are sure to appeal to the thousands of Sherman fans as well as those coming by his stories for the first time.

Order Dust Jacketed Hardcover Here, 6x9, 182 Pages, $29.95
Order Trade Paperback Here6x9, 182 Pages, $15.00



Pulpville Press - Now available!
TAHARA AMONG AFRICAN TRIBES by Harold M. Sherman

Tahara, an American boy, son of an internationally known scientist and explorer, sees his father wounded and carried away by roaming bandit bands and he, himself, is captured by a fierce desert tribe. Because of the boy's courage and resourcefulness, he is given the name "Tahara" and adoped by the tribe, becoming eventually boy king of the desert.

Order Dust Jacketed Hardcover Here, 6x9, 174 Pages, $29.95
Order Trade Paperback Here6x9, 174 Pages, $15.00



Pulpville Press - Now available!
A PULPVILLE PRESS DOUBLE FLIP BOOK:
THE MUCKER and THE RETURN OF THE MUCKER,
back to back in a double flip book,
featuring the complete book texts of each story.

Trade paperback, 6x9, 328 Pages 
Price: $20.00




Pulp AdventureCon
Pulp Collector Mecca in November in New Jersey
November 10th, 2012

On Saturday, November 10th, 2012, the annual Pulp AdventureCon will convert the Ramada Inn in of Bordentown, NJ into a Pulp Collectors Mecca.  There will be vendors with rare pulp magazines, movie posters, and vintage paperbacks. 
There are also several new publications that are reviving both the heroes and tradition of pulp fiction.

Pulp magazines were an inexpensive form of entertainment in the days before the internet, cell phones, and even television. 
They first appeared with Argosy in 1897, flourished in the 1930s, and ultimately died or reinvented themselves in the 1950s.
Vendors and guests will be announced over the coming weeks.

Dealers: Cost is $45 for one table, and  $40 for additional tables.

The Pulp AdventureCon will be held at the Ramada Inn, 1083 Route 206, Bordentown, NJ.
The show runs from 10AM to 5PM. Admission is $5.00.
For more information, www.boldventurepress.com (coming soon) or boldventurepress@aol.com.



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

The rise and fall of the pulps - a timeline  - New!
Terrible Lady - Short story by Theodore Roscoe  - New!
Theodore Roscoe - Traveller, Historian, Pulp Writer  - New!
Bandit Lawman - novelette by Luke Short
Luke Short - Western story writer
Everett, Commissioner of Justice - short story by Gordon MacCreagh
The Jade Hunters - short story by Gordon MacCreagh
Gordon MacCreagh – Adventurer, Explorer, Big game hunter, Writer

Robert E. Howard Days -  Panels Online!
If you didn’t make it out to Cross Plains Texas for Robert E. Howard Days this past June, you can experience the panels through the magic of Youtube. Videographer Ben Friberg filmed several of the panels and generously posted them for public consumption. They’re all interesting and fun.

Black Gate.com has posted a very handy index to the various panels which can be accessed at the link below.



 
Coming soon!

KING SOLOMON'S MINES
Another beautiful PABLO MARCOS page from the KING SOLOMON'S MINES graphic novel adapted by Mark Ellis and coming soon from
Sequential Pulp/Dark Horse.

THIS version of H. Rider Haggard's classic tale
will set a new standard.
 
Artwork © Pablo Marcos.




Solomon Kane - Coming to Netflix!
Netflix on Wednesday said it struck a deal for streaming movies from RADiUS-TWC, the new label within The Weinstein Co. that focuses on multi-platform distribution. The label's inaugural slate includes acquisitions like Bachelorette and Only God Forgives as well as the upcoming Pusher, The Expatriate and Solomon Kane.

Tellers of Weird Tales - Now online!
Terence Hanley has created a blog in which he researches and writes about the contributors to Weird Tales magazine and its companion titles, Oriental Stories and The Magic Carpet Magazine.

Fritz Leiber and the Problem of the Weird Tale-Part 2 - New!
Fritz Leiber and the Problem of the Weird Tale-Part 1 - New!
Fritz Leiber, Jr. (1910-1992) - New!
Weird Tales Books: Night's Black Agents by Fritz Leiber, Jr. - New!
Weird Tales Books: The Spell of Seven edited by L. Sprague de Camp - New!
Weird Tales Books: Swords & Sorcery edited by L. Sprague de Camp - New!
Weird Tales Books: Worlds of Weird edited by Leo Margulies - New!
Weird Tales Books: Weird Tales edited by Leo Margulies
Nineteenth Century American Authors
Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908)

Tom Johnson
QUEEN OF JUR (Kindle Editon)
Coming soon!

QUEEN OF JUR by Tom Johnson, the fourth novel in
Tom’s popular Jur series will soon be released on Kindle.


Lost in a prehistoric land that time forgot, a twentieth century couple must survive the dangers of savage beasts and dinosaurs. Jack Richards, captured by the flying birdmen, is a prisoner of She-la, the self-proclaimed queen of this unknown land. Far to the east, a strange rescue party consisting of wild men and half apes, led by the beautiful French girl, marches through wild, uncharted jungle searching for the lost city where Jack is held. Action and adventure at its best.



Tom Johnson
SAVAGE LAND OF JUR (Kindle Editon)
Now available!

“Savage Land of Jur” by Tom Johnson, the sequel to “Jur: A Story of Pre Dawn Earth”, with a new cover by talented artist, Teresa Tunaley. Originally written in 1970, this has been newly edited, and tightened from the previous editions. Searching for the Ancient Ones, Aaron and Odette must face great dangers in this savage land. And when they do find the Ancient One, will they find a way home, or fall into even greater danger?

Now Available on from Amazon on Kindle for $3.99.
Now available from NTD!

Coming soon to B&N Nook.







24 August 2012

Adventure House Frank M. Robinson Auction continues Sunday, August 26!
Now after many delays, we are finally offering the remaining stock from the Frank M. Robinson Auction. 
The auction will be live starting at 9:00 pm this coming Sunday, August 26, 2012. 

To reach that auction, go to the main website at: www.adventurehouse.com and click on the auction logo near the top of the page. 
This will take you to the Calendar, and simply click on the BUYNOW auction. 
This auction page will not appear until 9:00 PM Sunday, so don't go looking for it now. 
There are no Buyer Premium for this BUYNOW sale, so the price you see is the price you pay....plus shipping.

See you at the sale on Sunday!


Item No.
Title
Date
Condition
Notes
2006
2039
2095
2106
2108
2109
2110
2200
2206
2207
2208
2209
2210
2212
2213

BILL BARNES AIR ADVENTURER
POPULAR MAGAZINE, THE
THRILLING MYSTERY
ACE-HIGH MAGAZINE
ACE-HIGH MAGAZINE
ACE-HIGH MAGAZINE
ACE-HIGH MAGAZINE
A. MERRITT'S FANTASY MAGAZINE
ACE-HIGH MAGAZINE
ACE-HIGH MAGAZINE
ACE-HIGH MAGAZINE
ACE-HIGH MAGAZINE
ACE-HIGH MAGAZINE
ACE-HIGH MAGAZINE
ACE-HIGH MAGAZINE

Sep-34
9/20/2025
Sep-36
9/3/2028
7/3/2029
8/3/2029
4/18/1930
Feb-50
7/31/1931
8/14/1931
9/4/1931
12/11/1931
12/25/1931
Jul-32
Oct-32

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FN-VF
FN
FN-VF
VG-FN
VG
FN
FN
FN-VF
FN-VF
FN-VF
FN-VF
VG
FN
FN

VANISHING DIRIGIBLE-TAPE-EDGE BRWN
DWYER-WALLACE-OFF WHITE PGS
CUMMINGS-WILLIAMSON-HAMILTON-KUTTNER-TAPE
WOODS-PIERCE-NEAR WHITE PGS
McCULLEY-WOODS-EDGE BRWN-SOILED
SCHISGALL-EDGE BRWN-SOILING-SP TEARS/DMGE
McCULLEY-BARKER-LT TAN PGS-SM STAIN
MERRITT-CHALLIS-MINOR TAPE
RYERSON JOHNSON-ROAN-OFF WHITE PGS
RYERSON JOHNSON-OFF WHITE PGS
McCULLEY-MINOR EDGE TEARS/CREASES
HAYCOX-RYERSON JOHNSON-MINOR EDGE TEARS
HOG DOLLAR RANCH-MINOR STAIN-OFF WHITE PGS
SILVER ACES-GORDON-EDGE TEARS/BRWN
THE GUN BOSS-TAYLOR-SOILING-EDGE BRWN

2333
2334
2362A.
2366
2371
2373
2380A.
2380B.
2380C.
2384
3057B.
3062
3068B.

3076
3078
3171
3172
3180
3182
3204

ARGOSY ALL-STORY WEEKLY
ARGOSY ALL-STORY WEEKLY
ADVENTURE
ADVENTURE
ADVENTURE
ADVENTURE
ADVENTURE
ADVENTURE
ADVENTURE
ADVENTURE
ADVENTURE
ADVENTURE
ADVENTURE

ADVENTURE
ADVENTURE
DETECTIVE STORY MAGAZINE
DETECTIVE STORY MAGAZINE
DIME DETECTIVE MAGAZINE
DIME DETECTIVE MAGAZINE
FIFTEEN WESTERN TALES

3/5/2021
3/12/2021
2/1/2027
3/1/2027
5/1/2027
5/15/2027
9/1/2027
8/15/2027
10/15/2027
10/1/2027
10/20/2024
2/10/2025
3/30/2025

6/20/2025
6/30/2025
12/19/1931
8/13/1932
11/1/1933
2/15/1934
Feb-48

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FN
VG-FN
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VG-FN
FN

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BURROUGHS [Pt 4]-PACKARD-DINGLE
BURROUGHS [Pt 5]-MINOR TAPE
WETJEN-FRIEL-PENDEXTER-CVR SOILED
TUTTLE-ST. MARS
DINGLE-LAMB-PENDEXTER
FIGHT-CARSE-TUTTLE
TUTTLE-FRIEL-SURDEZ-SP DMGE
LAMB-FRIEL-BEDFORD JONES-CARSE
HELLWARD-DINGLEMINOR TAPE
WHEELER NICHOLSON-TUTTLE-PENDEXTER
OM-MUNDY-(PT 2)-TUTTLE-SURDEZ-MINOR STAIN
MUNDY-FRIEL-SURDEZ-EDGE TEARS/CREASES
TUTTLE-PENDEXTER-ADAMS-DUST SHADOW-EDGE TEARS/CREASES
GREENE-ADAMS-PENDEXTER
SURDEZ-PENDEXTER
McCULLEY-GREY
HOT RODS-WHITMORE-SP CHIP
THE DEATH MASK-DALY-LT SP FADE
THE CLOCK-TOWER MURDERS-FLYNN-MINOR TAPE

DONOVAN-ARCHIBALD-POWELL-LT TAN PGS
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THE CRIME CULT-BRWN PGS/FLAKING
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THE BLACK HUSH-CREASES-EDGE TEARS
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ENDICOTT-WOODS-STEVENS-MINOR TAPE
THE RANNY KID'S BURNING BOOTS-WOODS-ENDICOT
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DUNN-COBURN [PT3]-PACKARD [PT2]
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Captain Philip Strange: Strange Enemies by Donald E. Keyhoe

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

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Streaking swiftly through Hell skies, their three Hisso engines thundering, we find the famous and inseparable “Three Mosquitoes”. They were the mightiest flying combination that had ever blazed its way through overwhelming odds and laughed to tell of it! Captain Kirby, the impetuous leader of the great trio flew point with little mild-eyed “Shorty” Carn and lanky Travis, the eldest and wisest, filling out the “V” formation. With their customary battle cry, “Let’s go!”—they’re off on another dangerous mission in perilous skies!

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$16.99 Trade paperback
 6″x9″ trade paperback | 290 pages | ISBN: 978-0982095072

Available from:  AmazonMike Chomko Books, and Adventure House



Age of Aces

If you are a fan of the air war pulps, or have read some of Age of Aces’ pulp reprints, you have heard the name Sid Bradd. He has been writing articles about the air pulps for over 40 years. Many people know him from his essay in Nick Carr’s The Flying Spy, which detailed the life and adventures of G-8 and His Battle Aces. He was a supporter and contributor to our work here at Age of Aces. But more importantly, he was our friend.  

Age of Aces have posted the above remembrences on their web site.



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

Coming in January!

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

In this, the first book devoted to this noted artist, authors Korshak and Spurlock spotlight artwork along essays by noted artists Rowena, Robert Weinberg, and more. All editions feature big, 9" x 12" lavish illustrated, full-color pages with art and text.

THE ALLURING ART OF MARGARET BRUNDAGE 
is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 29).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP121230.



Andy McDermott: RETURN TO ATLANTIS
 Arriving in books stores August 28!

Nina Wilde and Eddie Chase have stunned the world with their discoveries, from the legendary sword Excalibur to the golden city of El Dorado. Now, by bringing together three ancient statues from three different continents, Nina is about to tap into a colossal energy source—one not felt since the days of Atlantis.
 
But when the statues are stolen and Eddie is falsely accused of murder, forcing him to go on the run to hunt the man responsible, a violent struggle erupts among a secret, vastly powerful group that wants to control Nina and the earth energy. From a glittering, high-tech skyscraper in Japan to a harrowing chase beneath the Vatican and an underground military vault in Nevada, she and Eddie must piece together an astounding puzzle. For Nina Wilde is the key to a plot that will change the world forever. And Eddie is the key to keeping her alive.


Mass Market Paperback: 496 pages
Publisher: Bantam (August 28, 2012)
ISBN-10: 0553593668
ISBN-13: 978-0553593662
$9.99



Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
THE SHADOW #64 and DOC SAVAGE #61

The August releases are delayed at the printer because of the August school textbook glut,
but should ship to Diamond (and other Sanctum Books wholesale customers) late next week.



Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Coming in October!
THE AVENGER Volume 8:
"House of Death," "The Hate Master" and "A Coffin for The Avenger"

The Pulps' original "Man of Steel" returns in three action-packed tales by Paul Ernst and Emile Tepperman writing as "Kenneth Robeson." First, The Avenger enters a "House of Death" to unravel the mysterious murders befalling the owners of strange gold medallions! Then, the fate of the nation hangs in the balance as Dick Benson attempts to prevent "The Hate Master" from winning the presidential election! Finally, a single misstep could result in "A Coffin for The Avenger" in an exciting novelette by Spider-wordsmith Emile Tepperman. BONUS: a Nick Carter mystery by Bruce Elliott! This classic pulp reprint leads off with a knockout color cover by Graves Gladney, and also features Paul Orban's classic interior illustrations and commentary by pulp historian Will Murray. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-095-3  Softcover, 7x10, 128 pages, B&W, $14.95

THE AVENGER VOLUME 8 is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 29).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP121409.

Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Twelve issues for $167 (first class) or $155 (media mail) [postpaid]
(includes bonus variant and ring premium)
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]

Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)


Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Coming in October!
THE SHADOW Volume 66:
"The Ghost of the Manor" and "Foxhound" - SPECIAL MOVIE EDITION
The Knight of Darkness crushes crime in the classic pulp novels that inspired Hollywood's first two Shadow feature films! First, the bizarre terms of a dead man's will lead to a series of murders that will condemn an innocent man unless The Shadow can unmask the true killer in Walter Gibson's "The Ghost of the Manor," the inspiration for the 1937 film, "The Shadow Strikes." Then, the Dark Avenger hunts a sadistic blonde murderess and the masked supervillain known as "Foxhound" in Theodore Tinsley's violent novel that was filmed in 1938 as "International Crime." BONUS: Film historian Ed Hulse unearths rare secrets behind the making of the first Shadow feature films! This instant collector's item showcases the original pulp covers by George Rozen and the classic interior illustrations by Tom Lovell, with historical commentary by Will Murray. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-094-6 Softcover, 7x10, 128 pages, B&W, $14.95

THE SHADOW VOLUME 66 is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 29).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP121410.

Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Twelve issues for $167 (first class) or $155 (media mail) [postpaid]
(includes bonus variant and ring premium)
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]

Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)


APE-MAN
THE UNOFFICIAL AND UNAUTHORIZED GUIDE TO 100 YEARS OF TARZAN
Now available and arriving in comic shops August 29!
(Writer) Sean Egan (Cover) Boris Vallejo

In October 1912, readers of The All-Story magazine were enthralled by Edgar Rice Burroughs' tale of John Clayton, an orphaned English lord given a simian upbringing in the African jungle who went on to reclaim his birth-right in civilisation while maintaining one foot in the savage land he had conquered. This book traces Tarzan's history in prose, film, comic strips, comic books, radio, stage, television, computer games and merchandise, charting the rise of one of the most popular and iconic characters in fiction. The book also examines the massive changes in public attitudes towards Africa, race, hereditary peers and wildlife conservation over the past century.

Softcover, 6x9, 500 pages, $32.99





Black Dog Books
BLACK DOG BOOKS ANNOUNCES NEW EDITIONS BY L. PATRICK GREENE
 
Black Dog Books announced an exclusive agreement with the heirs of L. Patrick Greene to represent the L. Patrick Greene Literary Trust and issue new collections of works by the author.

"We are extremely honored to enter into this agreement with the family to represent and publish these collections," said Black Dog Books publisher Tom Roberts. "A large portion of Greene¹s fiction was collected in a series of three dozen hardcover editions published solely in his native England. Long out of print, these will now be made available readers worldwide in both print and ebook editions."
 
Prior to undertaking a career as an author, L. Patrick Greene (1891-1971) spent four years 'in-country' as a member of the Rhodesian Mounted Police. His experiences as a self-reliant constable fueled much of the African-set adventure fiction he would later pen, appearing in the all-fiction pulp magazines such as Short Stories, Adventure or Blue Book.


"While many writers followed in the footsteps of Kipling and other authors with their representation of British Colonial Africa, Greene is nearly unique in the fiction of the period in that he took a sympathetic viewpoint towards the plight of the indigenous peoples in his writings while Northern Europeans, seeped in the racially superior doctrine of the day, chose to exploit and belittle them," shared Roberts.

This viewpoint by Greene was not without reason. "As a young policeman Greene was injured while on patrol," Roberts continued, "and would likely have died were it not for the intersession of the Africans, who, at great personal hardship, transported Greene one hundred miles by foot to the nearest medical facility equipped to treat and save his life. Greene never forgot the debt he owed to the Africans, praised and uplifted the native people whenever possible for their generosity and knowledge of their land."
 
Black Dog Books¹ first release of Greene¹s fiction will be BARTERING THE SOULS OF MEN, the first of a two-book set collecting the adventures of South African mounted policeman 'Dynamite' Drury. BARTERING THE SOULS OF MEN will be released in 2013 with a foreword by Stephen Greene.
 
A second volume of Greene¹s stories is now in preparation by Black Dog Books. Subsequent collections will follow.

Visit www.blackdogbooks.net for further updates.



Black Dog Books - Now available!
Dan Fowler, G-Man: Bring 'Em Back Dead
by George Fielding Eliot writing as C. K. M. Scanlon

Depression-era newspaper headlines screamed of the crime sprees of bank robbers John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Pretty Boy Floyd, Bonnie and Clyde and Baby Face Nelson. To combat this wave of crime, the U.S. Department of Justice trained agents such as Elliot Ness and Marvin Purvis as field operatives.

Standard Magazines jumped on the public fascination of this timely subject and brought forth the magazine G-Men in late 1935, featuring the exploits of Agent Dan Fowler.

Included are:
• Snatch
• Bring 'Em Back Dead
• Hot Money

With an introduction by Matt Hilton, author of the Joe Hunter series.
Cover art by Emery Clarke.
Trade paperback / 290 pages / Price: $24.95 US



Black Dog Books - Now available!
Dusty Ayres—Invasion of the Black Lightning
Three Exciting Novels of America’s Battle Ace!

A steel fist pounded against the gates of Paris, battering to ruin the last stronghold of freedom on the continent. For three long years all Asia and Europe has been a seething inferno of war.
The great wave of destruction makes its sweep westward. Rising up from Central Asia, the Black Lightning invaders, under the command of the mysterious Fire-Eyes, seek to annihilate the civilized world.

Now the path across the Atlantic is open. The United States will be the next to fall unless its troops can rally behind Dusty Ayres, America's Battle Ace, and stop—the Invasion of the Black Lightning!

For the first time, the initial three novel-length adventures of Dusty Ayres are brought together in one unparalleled volume. Packed with thrills and excitement, this is sure to be the "don't miss" item of the season!

Included are:
• Black Lightning
• Crimson Doom
• Purple Tornado
With an introduction by Tom Roberts.
Cover art by Frederick Blakeslee.


Trade paperback / 266 pages / Price: $24.95 US

"Dusty Ayres and His Battle Birds" is a trademark
and is the property of Argosy Communications, Inc. Used with permission.




Black Dog Books Now available!
A Hindu prince seeks retribution for an ancient offense.
Now four men have been marked for murder!
Does the prince carry out his threat?
Or can his revenge be thwarted?
Find out the thrilling answers in The Rajah From Hell!

FIRST BOOK PUBLICATION
With an introduction by James Reasoner.
Included are:
•The Thunderbolt of Indra
•The Diamond Death
•The Devil's Fire
•He Who Sets A Trap (novelette)


"These are superb yarns of suspense, written in terse, hardboiled prose."

"The stories that make up The Rajah From Hell possess an added appeal. As Dashiell Hammett did in The Maltese Falcon, Bedford-Jones has taken a basic storyline that's pure pulp—Mysterious, sinister Indians! Obscure murder methods! A vengeance quest that lasts for years!—and couched it in modern, realistic terms, producing a highly entertaining amalgam. Take a look and you'll see what I mean. I think you'll be thoroughly entertained."—James Reasoner from his introduction.

Price: Trade paperback / 100 pages / Price: $10.00 US




Black Dog Books Now available!
In the Name of Honor by Albert Payson Terhune

A Prisoner of Honor!

Pleading desperate need to settle a matter of his family's honor, Civil War hero Guy Bruce wins special dispensation from President Abraham Lincoln for a 90-day furlough to England. Just as a final resolution of the affair is in his grasp, Bruce finds himself framed for a crime, humiliated and disgraced before the woman of his dreams, and deported as a common criminal to a brutal Australian penal colony.

Now he must fight his way back—to regain his personal honor—to honor his commitment to the President—and to once more win the heart of the woman he loves.

Best known for his heart-warming stories of dogs, Albert Payson Terhune began his career as an author of historical adventure novels.

FIRST BOOK PUBLICATION

Acclaim for the work of Albert Payson Terhune:
"His stories are of surpassing merit, in selection of historical period, development of plot, and purity of English."—H.P. Lovecraft

"Wholly enjoyable reading."—Salt Lake Tribune

ISBN: 978-1-928619-48-2
Price: Trade paperback / 168 pages / Price: $16.95 US



Blogging Sax Rohmer’s DAUGHTER OF FU MANCHU Part 3 - Now Online!
Sax Rohmer’s Daughter of Fu Manchu was originally serialized as Fu Manchu’s Daughter in twelve weekly installments of Collier’s from March 8 to May 24, 1930. It was published in book form the following year by Cassell in the UK and Doubleday in the US. Rohmer divides the novel into four sections comprising three chapters each. This week we examine the third part.

The rest is at the links below.
Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press: EDitorial Comments - Now online!
PulpFest Report
Gone fishing….
PulpFest, Here We Come!  
Special Murania Press Sale At PulpFest: 20% Off All Books, New And Old!
Dark Knight, Meet The Spider  


The Book Cave - New podcast now available online!
Episode 193: Captain Action - New!
Jim Beard, author of the best selling Captain Action novel is joined by publishers Ron Fortier and Rob Davis to chat about the first Captain Action novel.

Episode 192: Penny Dread Tales
Episode 191: Bill Preston
Episode 190: Pamela Foster
Episode 189: Jim Beard
Episode 188: The Ruby Files
Panel Fest Episode 1: PulpFest - John Locke
Welcome to the first episode of Panel Fest, the podcast for panels from the past and present. Credit goes to Jason Aiken for recording this episode.
The Rise and Fall of the Pulps (Retitled from Gunslinging Writers: The Fast-Typing Working-Class Authors of the Pulps)


CONAN THE BARBARIAN #10 - Coming in November!
Brian Wood (Writer), Declan Shalvey (Art), Dave Stewart (Color), and Massimo Carnevale (Cover)

Conan and Bêlit are the undisputed masters of the Western Ocean, their names whispered in fearful awe all along the Black Coast. But when Conan spots a mysterious, derelict ship following them, its horrifying cargo threatens to destroy everything they’ve built and tear them apart!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.50, On sale November 14


CONAN THE BARBARIAN #10 is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 29).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP120046.


CONAN VOLUME 12: THRONE OF AQUILONIA
Coming in January!

Roy Thomas (Writer), Mike Hawthorne (Pencils), Dan Panosian (Art), John Lucas (Inks),
and Dan Jackson (Cover)

Conan finds himself wrapped up in a plot to unseat the king of Aquilonia as his journey down the Road of Kings concludes. But when everything goes wrong, the Cimmerian and his coconspirators become lost in the catacombs beneath the city, surrounded by zombies and monstrous insects, all while a civil war brews above their heads! Also in this volume, an encounter at a tavern lands Conan at the end of every sword in a small port city, in a story leading directly into Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan’s acclaimed Conan the Barbarian!

Collecting Conan: Road of Kings #7–#12!


Trade Paperback, 7" x 10", Full Color, 152 pages, $19.99, On sale January 23

CONAN VOLUME 12 is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 29).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP120048.


CONAN VOLUME 13: QUEEN OF THE BLACK COAST
Coming in January!
Brian Wood (Writer), Becky Cloonan (Art), James Harren (Art), Dave Stewart (Color),
and Massimo Carnevale (Cover)

Kicking off Dark Horse’s sweeping adaptation of Robert E. Howard’s “Queen of the Black Coast,” Conan turns his back on the civilized world and takes to the Western Ocean. Finding first danger and then passion in the arms of the pirate queen Bêlit, the Cimmerian begins a new life of pleasure and pillage along the Black Coast, in this epic of romance and terror! Collect issues #1-#6 of the Conan the Barbarian series.

Hardcover, 7" x 10", Full Color, 152 pages, $24.99, On sale January 16

CONAN VOLUME 13 is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 29).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP120047.



David W. Menefee: SECRET SOLDIER MASTER OF  DISGUISE - Now available!

Secret soldier Isador Messing lives up to the title  “Master of Disguise,” when terror strikes suddenly and Hitler’s SS troops arrest  his fiancé on the day they plan to furtively escape Nazi occupied Berlin. He  believes that love, determination, and ingenuity can overcome all obstacles, and  he lights the fuse for an epic, countdown battle of good against evil. Alone and  stoic in the face of utter malevolence, he launches a bold, daring, and  desperate plan to liberate her from the clutches of doom. Can the remarkable Mr.  Messing's one-man army triumph against all odds and win in a war-torn world gone  mad?

Pulitzer nominated author David W. Menefee is an American author, ghost writer, screenwriter, book editor, and film historian.

Paperback: 298 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN-10: 1478329912
ISBN-13: 978-1478329916

$14.95


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

Forgotten Books: CONTRABAND by Cleve F. Adams (and Robert Leslie Bellem) - New!
Forgotten Stories: a complete DAFFY DILL mystery by Richard Sale
Overlooked Films: Adventures of (ALMOST the Phantom) Captain Africa
TOUGH AS NAILS: Frederick Nebel's complete Donahue series from Black Mask
King Corrigan's Treasure - Another great ADVENTURE collection from Black Dog Books
Overlooked Films: ZORRO is "The Bold Caballero" (1936)



DEJAH THORIS & THE WHITE APES OF MARS TP
Coming in November!
(Writer) Mark Rahner (Art) Lui Antonio (Cover) Brandon Peterson

The most harrowing survival-horror tale in the annals of Barsoom! Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, leads an archeological field trip to unearth the dark secret of the ancient battle site beneath the fabled “face of Mars” formation. Without John Carter or Tars Tarkas, Dejah Thoris must call upon all her nerve, cleverness and endurance in a relentless chase and horrifying bloodbath. You’ve never seen a Mars epic like this! No swashbuckling. No swordplay. It’s like a white-knuckle ’70s horror flick – on steroids!

Collecting one of the most harrowing horror stories in the annals of Barsoom, this trade paperback features the 4-issue mini-series, complete with a cover gallery by Brandon Peterson and Ale Garza.


96 pages, Full Color, $16.99

DEJAH THORIS & THE WHITE APES OF MARS is solicited in the
September PREVIEWS (Available August 29).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP121028. 



E-texts on the net this week
The Shadow in Review:
This weeks new Shadow review is "City of Ghosts" from the November 15, 1939 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
 
Pulpgen-Online Pulps:   Now with over 1000 stories online!

"Five Tickets to Hell" by Wallace Umphrey from TEN DETECTIVE ACES, December, 1939
Detective Al Marble found that being a friend to a cadaver has its trigger price. For when he tried to rundown the vanished killer, he ran himself into a homicide parade.
"Cops Are Smart, Too" by George Armin Shaftel from SHORT STORIES, August 10, 1942
Officer Ryan's flashlight showed up something he certainly didn't expect.


FLASH GORDON: KING OF THE IMPOSSIBLE
(Writer) Brendan Deneen (Art/Cover) Eduardo Garcia

It's all been leading up to this!  Ardden Entertainment's four-year Flash Gordon storyline reaches its dramatic conclusion! After the (literal) Earth-shattering events of Flash Gordon: The Vengeance of Ming, Flash finds himself back on Mongo, but with no memory of who he is.  "Adopted" by a barbarian clan in Tropica, Flash is soon drafted into Ming's Legion of the Doomed, only to realize that if he wants his freedom — and that of all of Mongo — he must fight back!

Softcover, 80 pages, Full Color, $12.99


RESOLICITATION - PREVIOUS ORDERS ARE CANCELLED

FLASH GORDON: KING OF THE IMPOSSIBLE is solicited in the
September PREVIEWS
(Available August 29).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP120811.



GREEN HORNET #27 - Arriving in comic shops August 29!
Writer: Ande Parks; Artist: Igor Vitorino
Covers: 
Stephen Sadowski (50%), Phil Hester (50%)

The Outcast arc reaches its thunderous conclusion! Green Hornet has been set up for murder. He's seen his entire city turned against him. He's seen the foundations of everything he and his father have built in Century City damaged. Now, it's time to strike back. With the aid of a new hero, Green Hornet and Kato fight back to save their city, and their own legacies. Will Britt Reid reclaim his role as Century City's mysterious avenger, or will he be permanently labeled an outcast?


32 pages, Full Color, $3.99

 



GREEN HORNET #34 - Coming in November!
(Writer) Jai Nitz (Art) Jethro Morales (Cover) Stephen Sadowski

Welcome to Century City, the home of the Green Hornet! The new Green Hornet has the support of the police and City Hall and the people love him. Will that be enough to stop a terrorist group bent on detonating a dirty bomb? The new Green Hornet may need a new partner!


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99

GREEN HORNET #34 is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 29).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP121017.



Hermes Press: THE PHANTOM: THE COMPLETE SERIES: THE KING YEARS
Arriving in comic shops August 29!
Writer: Dick Wood; Art/Cover: Bill Lignante

The mid-1960s comic book adventures of The Phantom return in full, glorious color! Hermes Press collects all 74 issues of The Phantom comic books which ran from 1962-1977, and this volume features the King years. This volume picks up with The Phantom #18, the first King issue, and features all The Phantom stories from issues #18-#28. The King years features cover and interior art by Bill Lignante and is digitally remastered to look better than the original books.

Hardcover, 7x10, 256 pages, Full Color, SRP: $49.99



Hermes Press
ALEX TOTH'S ZORRO: THE COMPLETE DELL COMICS ADVENTURES
Coming in December!

Comics legend Alex Toth's piece de resistance, the complete Dell adventures of Zorro, is finally available in a full color archival hardcover reprint!  Toth, who defined how action/adventure stories are told, set the standard for comic book storytelling with his Zorro tales. Cited by comic book artists, historians, and fans as some of Toth's best work these stories have been painstakingly digitally reconstructed to look better than the original Dell comic books in this deluxe reprint which also includes tons of supplemental material.

Hardcover, 7x10, 240 pages, Full Color, $49.99


ALEX TOTH'S ZORRO: THE COMPLETE DELL COMICS ADVENTURES is solicited in the
September PREVIEWS (Available August 29).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP121126.


 
Hermes Press
THE PHANTOM: THE COMPLETE NEWSPAPER DAILIES VOLUME 5: 1943-44
Coming in December!
(Writer) Lee Falk (Artist) Wilson McCoy

The first and original masked hero to ever grace the pages of comic strips and comic books returns with the next in Hermes Press' complete reprint of The Phantom. Referred to by comic strip historian Maurice Horn as the "granddaddy of all costumed superheroes," The Phantom was created in 1936 by Lee Falk with artwork by Ray Moore. This volume presents five complete continuities: "Bent Beak Border," "The Phantom's Engagement," "High Seas Hijacker," "The Spy Gang," and "The Crooner."

Hardcover, 12x9, 272 pages, $49.99


THE PHANTOM: THE COMPLETE NEWSPAPER DAILIES VOLUME 5 is solicited in the
September PREVIEWS
(Available August 29).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP121127.



THE LONE RANGER: SNAKE OF IRON #2 - Arriving in comic shops August 29!
Writer: Ande Parks; Artist: Esteve Polls
Cover: 
Dennis Calero

The Ranger and Tonto face long odds on the lawless badlands of the Texas panhandle. The Masked Rider of the plains outnumbered by dangerous Comancheros on his way to stop a Kiowa uprising. At the same time, Tonto finds himself in the middle of a hostage situation aboard a train stranded in a raging blizzard. Chuck Dixon and Esteve Polls re-unite to bring you more blistering frontier action hotter than a prairie fire!

32 pages, Full Color, $3.99


 




THE LONE RANGER #11 - Coming in November!
(Writer) Ande Parks (Art) Esteve Polls (Cover) Francesco Francavilla

As Tonto’s gunshot wound festers, the Lone Ranger will do whatever it takes to save his friend. The Ranger joins forces with a band of Ute Indian braves, on a daring mission to save the tribe’s healer from the settlers who kidnapped him. The gods who foresaw a fortune of blood and suffering for Tonto may now claim them as their own. Part five of the epic and character-defining Native Ground arc.


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99

THE LONE RANGER #11 is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 29).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP121022.



LORD OF THE JUNGLE #7 - Arriving in comic shops August 29!
(Writer) Arvid Nelson (Artist) Roberto Castro
(Covers) Lucio Parillo (50%), Paul Renaud (50%)

Tarzan has lost Jane Porter, his true love, to his rival John Clayton. All he wants is to slink back to his jungle home in Africa. Before he can do that, however, he'll have to deal with the menace of Robert Canler, a notorious gangster whom Tarzan ran afoul of. Tarzan didn't kill Canler when he had the chance, a fact which he'll come to regret. And he'll have to face Canler on his own turf – not in the African jungle, but on the mean streets of Baltimore, where none of Tarzan's jungle instincts will help him. Or will they?

32 pages, Full Color, $3.99



LORD OF THE JUNGLE #12 - Coming in November!
(Writer) Arvid Nelson (Art) Roberto Castro (Cover) Lucio Parillo

At long last, the Lord of the Jungle finds the fabled treasure-city of Opar. Unfortunately for him, his arch-nemesis Nicholas Rokoff arrives at the exact same time. But a little surprise is in store for both men – turns out Opar isn’t exactly a ghost town, and the locals aren’t too keen on outsiders! Hot jungle babes, savage beasts, and a mountain of gold await the ape-man in Lord of the Jungle #12: The Treasure Vaults of Opar!


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99

LORD OF THE JUNGLE #12 is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 29).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP121034.



MARS ATTACKS #5 - Coming in November!
John Layman (writer) • John McCrea (art)

The Martian mayhem continues! The first story arc comes to a close as a warrior from Earth’s past joins the fray, and the Martians bring out the really big guns. Don’t miss any of the action in this runaway hit series!


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99

MARS ATTACKS #5 is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 29).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP120296.


Masks #1 - Coming in November!
(Writer) Chris Roberson (Art) Alex Ross (Cover) Alex Ross & Various

Starring The Shadow, The Green Hornet, Kato, and The Spider, in a story that only Dynamite could tell!
Before superheroes, there were Masks! They’ve always said it can’t happen here… but what if it did? It’s 1938, and the Justice Party has swept into office in New York State. But the newly-elected officials are in the control of powerful criminals, who quickly corrupt the law to their own advantage. When a fascist police state is instituted, the only ones who stand in defense of the innocent are masked vigilantes like the Shadow, the Green Hornet, Kato, and the Spider. Also, look forward to future appearances of Black Bat, Miss Fury, Black Terror, Green Lama and more!
When the law is unjust, justice must be an outlaw!


MASKS #1 is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 29).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP120970.





Hundreds of years before the hero Hadon sailed forth from his shining city of gold and jewels upon his legendary adventures, the heroine-priestess Lupoeth set out upon the decree of the oracle to discover a new land upon the untamed shores of ancient Africa’s southern sea. But Lupoeth finds herself little prepared for the trials ahead, as well as those that follow upon her heels—for the jealous queen who wants her rival banished has appointed a worshiper of the sun god with a criminal past as the expedition’s priest, hoping to undermine the mission and seal its doom.

Now, lost in the deep jungle, Lupoeth must fight to keep her ill-equipped band of followers alive in the face of deadly beasts, savage Neanderthals, and conspiring enemies. Soon she finds the most accursed deity of her people’s faith, exiled from the empire by the Great Goddess Kho Herself, may be her only ally in this wild land. But Sahhindar, the god of Time and bronze, has a mysterious agenda of his own—one that Lupoeth fears might spell doom not only for her expedition, but for the entire world…

This limited edition novella will be signed by the author, Christopher Paul Carey, coauthor with Philip José Farmer of the third novel in the Khokarsa series. The print run will be determined by the number of preorders we receive by June 30, 2012. A very limited number of copies beyond the preorders will be printed.

Cover art and interior illustrations by Mike Hoffman!


US $15.00 + shipping
5×8 tpb - pp. tba
Signed Limited Edition

Meteor House - Now available!

It is hard to describe the amount of awesome in this collection: the secrets revealed, the heartfelt tributes, the mysteries you can help solve, the tricks that may or may be played on you, the secrets revealed, the never before seen material by Farmer, the stories continued (with even more secrets revealed)… The most exciting volume of The Worlds of Philip José Farmer yet!

Publication will be in late summer, hopefully in time for FarmerCon VII, August 9 – 12.
Here is the working table of contents (subject to change).

Foreword by Frederik Pohl
Peoria-Colored Worlds

Missing the Wit and Creativity by Michael Bailey
Down in Phil Farmer’s Basement by Steven Connelly
Over All, After All by Philip José Farmer

Of Friendships and Influences
The Holy Spirit of Science Fiction by Bruce Sterling
The Robert Traurig Letters by Philip José Farmer
A Box of Influence by Chris Garcia
Wild Weird Clime by Philip José Farmer
To Be, or Not to Be by Tom Wode Bellman


Worlds in Disguise
Trout Masque Rectifier by Jonathan Swift Somers III
Kilgore, Kurt, and Me by David M. Harris
The Many Dooms of Harold Hall by Charlotte Corday-Marat
Desires Denied by Leo Queequeg Tincrowdor

Classic Worlds
Osiris on Crutches by Philip José Farmer & Leo Queequeg Tincrowdor
The Genuine Imposter by Rick Lai
The Long Wet Dream of Rip van Winkle by Philip José Farmer
Up, Out, and Over, Roger by Philip José Farmer

Expanded Worlds
The Wild Huntsman by Win Scott Eckert
Dakota’s Gate by Heidi Ruby Miller
The Last of the Guaranys by Octavio Aragão & Carlos Orsi
Trickster of the Apes by S.M. Stirling

Of course, if you already own a copy of The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 1 and 2 with matching numbers, we will send you the same number of volume 3.
 


Mulholland Books - The Saint Returns in December!  
Hodder's crime and thriller imprint Mulholland Books is bringing the Saint books by Leslie Charteris (right) back into print, and making them available as e-books for the first time in the UK.

Mulholland Books editor Ruth Tross acquired British Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, in the 35 titles from Jane Gelfman of Gelfman Schneider New York. They all feature the debonair sleuth, Simon Templar, nicknamed "the Saint" because of his initials-and likened by Tross to Robin Hood, "master of disguise, always getting in and out of scraps". The series was made into a televsion programme in the 1960s featuring Roger Moore in the title role.


The first batch of titles will be released on 6th December, with Enter the Saint, The Saint Closes the Case, The Avenging Saint, and Featuring the Saint all published in e-book and paperback, priced £8.99. Mulholland will then release four or five titles each month through to July 2013.

The books will each have new introductions by other thriller writers and Saint fans, with the introduction to Enter the Saint to be written by Patricia Charteris Higgins, the author's daughter. Ian Dickerson, who runs The Saint fan dub and moderates a number of Saint internet forums, is also in the process of compiling extra material to run in the e-books, to give the novels context.


Tross said: "The Saint has always been published by Hodder. So while it made sense for us to do this through Mulholland, because we have that focus on crime, we wanted to keep it within Hodder. I think all publishers are moving towards looking at backlists, and the advantage digital gives us to get those to a new audience. There is a serious group of people who are mad keen fans of the original TV series, and also a whole generation of fans who are aware of the character, but not the source material."

On the look of the series, Tross said: "It is going to have a fairly consistent branding image, using the stick man with the halo and gun. Certainly in series publishing it is going to have a strong style and image across the whole series that the reader will recognise across all the titles. I think lots of people will recognise the image already, perhaps some without knowing exactly why."


Look out for the first four titles in December, just in time for a Saintly Christmas.

Thanks to Ian Dickerson for the tip!

Mystery*File - Now online!

Reviewed by Marv Lachman: SHELDON JAFFERY, Editor – Selected Tales of Grim and Grue from the Horror Pulps
CON REPORT: PulpFest 2012, by Walker Martin
RICHARD DEMING’s Manville Moon series, by Jon L. Breen
Reviewed by Walker Martin: FREDERICK NEBEL – Tough As Nails: The Complete Cases of Donahue from the Pages of Black Mask
Reviewed by Walker Martin: DAVID GOODIS – Five Noir Novels of the 1940′s and 1950′s

PARKER THE HUNTER Softcover - Coming in November!
Darwyn Cooke

The Hunter is the story of a man who hits New York head-on like a shotgun blast to the chest. Betrayed by the woman he loved and double-crossed by his partner in crime, Parker makes his way cross-country with only one thought burning in his mind-to coldly exact his revenge and reclaim what was taken from him!

Richard Stark (AKA Donald Westlake) was a master writer of crime fiction and Parker is arguably his greatest Creation-having been featured in more than a dozen novels and several well-regarded films (including Point Blank with Lee Marvin and Payback with Mel Gibson), and an upcoming one starring Jason Statham and Jennifer Lopez that will be released this fall.

Master storyteller Darwyn Cooke has won nearly every award available to comics creators. His DC: The New Frontier was turned into an Emmy-nominated animated feature. The Hunter is the first in a series of Parker graphic novels that Cooke is adapting, the first two earning the comics Auteur more Eisner and Harvey awards for his already crowded mantle.


Trade paperback, 6x9, 160 pages, Full Color, $17.99

PARKER THE HUNTER is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 29).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP120377.




The PulpRack - Now online!

Post-PulpFest 2012 - New!
The Adventures of Captain Hatteras: Verne Lays the Foundation for Fictional Pulp Adventures to Foreign Lands
Atomic Robo is a Shadow fan!
Pulp Cover: BLUE BOOK May 1935
Jules Verne: Pre-Pulp Pioneer Extraordinaire
Edgar AllanPoe and the Road to Pulp Fiction
Pulpville Press - Now available!
Part One: A strange light blinks on Venus, and over old Earth hovers a mysterious visitant—dread harbinger of Interplanetary War.

Part Two: It is war. Interplanetary War. And on far-distant Venus two fighting Earthlings stand up against a whole planet run amuck.

Part Three: Two fighting Yankees—war-torn Earth’s sole representatives on Venus—set out to spike the greatest gun of all time.

Part Four: From Earth and Sub-Venus converge a titanic offensive of Justice on the unspeakable Man-Things of Torg.

This book originally appeared as 4 3-part serial in Astounding Stories of Super-Science in November and December 1930, and January and February 1931.


Trade paperback, 6x9, 208 Pages 
Price: $15.00



Pulpville Press - Now available!
THE ART TREASURE MURDERS by John L. Benton

STEPHEN DUANE, FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
He had a justly famous record with the F.B.I., and through a maze of violent action and stealthy murder, he traces the ART TREASURE MURDERS to their startling denouement. Some of the greatest of the world’s paintings—slit from their frames in the great museums of Europe by the deft hand of the “Surgeon”, so-called because the stroke of his knife is as deft and unerring as that of the greatest in the medical world. Then a wealthy art dealer of Boston is stabbed to death by the single thrust of a needle-pointed knife. A New York portrait painter meets the same dark death. A collector, a gallery clerk, an art salesman… Through the American art world strikes the terror of the needle-pointed knife. Is it the knife of the “Surgeon”? Special Agent Stephen Duane of the F.B.I. stepped into the case when Charles Francis Coleman was found in his car stabbed to death.
Originally published in 1940 by Gateway Books


Trade paperback, 6x9, 204 Pages 
Price: $15.00


Hardcover, 6x9, 204 Pages 
Price: $30.00



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

Bandit Lawman - novelette by Luke Short - New!
Luke Short - Western story writer - New!
Everett, Commissioner of Justice - short story by Gordon MacCreagh
The Jade Hunters - short story by Gordon MacCreagh
Gordon MacCreagh – Adventurer, Explorer, Big game hunter, Writer


Radio Archives
Will Murray's Pulp Classics #13
Unabridged Audiobook

The Octopus
“The City Condemned to Hell”

 
Now available!

One of the most bizarre pulp magazines ever published was titled The Octopus.
 
Released in 1939 by Popular Publications, it turned the formula of The Spider on its head. Instead of centering on a fearless avenger of crime, it focused on the master criminal himself!
 
His true identity unknown, The Octopus is a denizen of the underworld, bent on bringing America's greatest city to its knees through a campaign of terror and horror never before seen.


Writers Norvell W. Page of Spider fame, backed by Edith and Eljir Jakobsson produced this weird epic under the name of Randolph Craig. Evidently they were attempting to duplicate the success of The Spider—with a weird twist. But there was more to The Octopus than an archfiend who dressed like a cuttlefish. Just as no pulp series can last long without a worthy villain, they understood that without a formidable foe, The Octopus would flop. So they created a hero with three identities. Jeffrey Fairchild is a wealthy medico. By day, he masquerades as kindly old Dr. Skull, treater of the sick in New York's East Side slums. But at night, he dons a more sinister guise and becomes the sworn foe of all crime—The Skull Killer! Branding his kills on the forehead like the Spider, The Skull Killer takes on The Octopus and his purple-eyed minions in the wildly over-the-top story, The City Condemned to Hell.
 
Backing up this masterpiece of weird menace are three novelettes torn from the pages of the only issue of The Octopus ever published. This audiobook is narrated by the talented brothers of Doug Stone and Glen Stone.



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

Bringing the best of Classic Pulp to Fans today, Radio Archives presents Will Murray’s Pulp Classic’s line of top notch Pulp Fiction eBooks! 
 
New to Will Murray’s Pulp Classics, two new eBooks featuring the epic exploits of America’s best-loved pulp-fiction character of the 1930s and 1940s: The Spider — Master of Men!
 
Richard Wentworth — the dread Spider, nemesis of the Underworld, lone wolf anti-crime crusader who always fights in that grim no-man’s land between Law and lawless — returns in vintage pulp tales of the Spider, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and feature the original full color cover. Will Murray’s Pulp Classics line of eBooks are of the highest quality and feature the great Pulp Fiction stories of the 1930s-1950s.

The Spider #17: The Pain Emperor
In a hundred thousand homes, families sat down together at the supper table. A few hours later, those persons were dead — killed by poison in canned foods! Thousands of women used cosmetics, and acid made their faces forever hideously scarred. A master criminal, daring and clever, was ruthlessly slaughtering Americans to win immense illicit profits for himself. Only one man was powerful enough and wise enough to stop this wholesale murder — Richard Wentworth, champion of oppressed humanity, better known as the Spider. And the Spider was engaged in the bitterest battle of his career, fighting the Avenger, a false, wily crusader who was determined to destroy him! Another epic exploit of America's best-loved pulp-fiction character of the 1930s and 1940s: The Spider — Master of Men!

The Spider #18: The Flame Master
Richard Wentworth was playing the most dangerous game in the world — a man-hunter outside the law; a righteous lone-wolf avenger of the weak; a scourge of the evil, the wicked and the corrupt! Loathed by the organized armies of the underworld, hunted ruthlessly by the forces of the law, he was ever between two raking cross-fires... Seldom, however, had the Spider, Master of men, faced the odds which challenged him when the man called Aronk Dong summoned all the underworld to serve him in the most ghastly campaign of rampant crime and wholesale slaughter this country had ever experienced. Armed with a weapon which struck through stone walls at victims sleeping peacefully in their beds, it was small wonder that criminals everywhere hailed the new leader — and flocked in evil glee to his dark banner! Another epic exploit of America's best-loved pulp-fiction character of the 1930s and 1940s: The Spider — Master of Men!

As a special Bonus, Will Murray has written “Meet the Spider” especially for this series of eBooks.

All eBooks produced by Radio Archives are available in ePub, Mobi, and PDF formats for the ultimate in compatibility. When you purchase this eBook from RadioArchives.com you receive all three formats in one ZIP file: PDF for PC or Mac computer; Mobi for Kindle; and ePub for iPad/IPhone, Android, Sony eReader, and Nook. When you upgrade to a new eReader, you can transfer your eBook novels to your new device without the need to purchase anything new.
 
Fight alongside the Master of Men as the Spider takes on Evil in these two latest Ebooks from Will Murray’s Pulp Classics, only $2.99 each! 
 

New Spider titles will be released every two weeks!
 
With the addition of The Spider eBooks, The Pulp Book Store is quickly becoming the best place to find everything Spider. From audio books by Radio Archives to exquisite Pulp reprints and replicas from Girasol Collectables and new tales of the Spider from Moonstone Books, The Master of Men is alive and well in The Pulp Book Store!
 
Stay tuned, Pulp fans, for the best in Pulp eBooks from Will Murray’s Pulp Classics and Radio Archives!


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

Operator 5 #13: ​March of the Flame Marauders
Oil — black gold — the blood of Mother Earth! America had squandered its precious reserves and a syndicate of skilled saboteurs was destroying the remaining store! With all National defense rendered helpless for want of it, bitter despair gripped the hearts of the country’s millions. Pillage, slaughter, and slavery — misery and death — threatened each American! And Jimmy Christopher, Operator 5 of the United States Intelligence, was gambling his life recklessly in a valiant effort to save his native land from extinction!



Captain Future #18: Red Sun of Danger
From the archives of the mighty Ancients, Curt Newton brings back forgotten Denebian science to balk a greed-maddened schemer who seeks to loose unspeakable terror on the Universe! Captain Future… the Ace of Space!

Born and raised on the moon, Curt Newton survived the murder of his scientist parents to become the protector of the galaxy known as Captain Future. With his Futuremen, Grag the giant robot, Otho, the shape-shifting android and Simon Wright, the Living Brain, he patrols the solar system in the fastest space ship ever constructed, the Comet, pursuing human monsters and alien threats to Earth and her neighbor planets.

Doctor Death #3: The Shriveling Murders
Giants shrivel to doll-size in Death’s most horrible scientific coup! Washington is about to collapse! Jimmy Holm uses the sinister scientist’s own gory weapons to battle the learned monster. This saturnalia of science is filled with bloodshed and terror.
 
The maddest of the Mad Scientists — Doctor Death — starred in his own bizarre pulp magazine in early 1935. He consorted with demons, elementals, zombies, disinterred mummies, and other unclean denizens of Hell. Standing against him were the Secret Twelve, a band of the top U. S. civil and business leaders, headed by Jimmy Holm, a millionaire criminologist and occultist. One of the rare unabashedly supernatural series the pulps ever produced.



When you purchase these beautifully reformatted eBooks from RadioArchives.com you receive all three formats in one ZIP file: PDF for PC or Mac computer; Mobi for Kindle and ePub for iPad/IPhone, Android, Sony eReader, and Nook. When you upgrade to a new eReader, you can transfer your eBook novels to your new device without the need to purchase anything new.
 
Find these legendary Pulp tales and more in Will Murray's Pulp Classics, available in the Kindle store and coming very soon to the iBook Store! The best Pulp eBooks now available for only $2.99 each from Radio Archives!



RED SONJA #68 - Arriving in comic shops August 29!
Writer: Eric Trautmann; Artist: Walter Geovani
Cover: Walter Geovani (50%), Fabiano Neves (50%)

Khitai, the kingdom of jade. A land of rigid honor codes, and fanatical warriors loyal to their god-emperor. Where better for Red Sonja to ply her trade than a nation of master swordsmen?


32 pages, Full Color, $3.99





RED SONJA #74 - Coming in November!
(Writer) Eric Trautmann (Art) Edgar Salazar (Cover) Walter Geovani

A time-lost, crumbling ruin, a centuries old blood feud, and old enemies and allies colliding on the crimson-stained ground of Hyrkania's most storied battlefield. Add Red Sonja to the mix and you have a recipe for sharp-edged savagery.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99


RED SONJA #74 is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 29).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP121040.



RED SONJA: ATLANTIS RISES #4 (OF 4) - Coming in November!
(Writer) Luke Lieberman (Art) Max Dunbar (Cover) Lucio Parrillo

It's time for the main event!  Red Sonja and Thulsa Doom collide and the fate of Atlantis and Hyborea hangs in the balance.  Can Sonja close the pandora's box that Thulsa has opened, or will Doom spread the power of the dreaming God across the waters and the lands beyond!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99

RED SONJA: ATLANTIS RISES #4 is solicited in the September PREVIEWS
(Available August 29).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP121041.



Robert E. Howard Foundation - Coming soon!
The Robert E. Howard Foundation has announced that they have got lots of new REH volumes in the works. These include several volumes of Boxing Stories, Western Stories, a collection of Howard’s autobiographical work (including the novel Post Oaks and Sand Roughs), and a book entitled PIRATE TREASURY. PIRATE TREASURY is the closest to being published and includes the first book publication of the Malachi Grim version of “Blades of the Brotherhood” (Legacy Circle REHF members received a facsimile copy of this story in 2007). It will also include the world premiere of the incomplete, untitled story that begins “Help! Help! They’re murderin’ me!” This story was not located until very recently. There are other goodies included as well, all items taken from Howard’s original typescripts or manuscripts. Contents listed below (subject to change):

PIRATE TREASURY
The Pirate (verse)
A Pirate Remembers (verse)
A Buccaneer Speaks (verse)
The Isle of Pirates Doom
A Song of the Anchor Chain (verse)
Blades of the Brotherhood
Buccaneer Treasure (verse)
Swords of the Red Brotherhood
Flint’s Passing (verse)
Black Vulmea’s Vengeance
A Dying Pirate Speaks of Treasure (verse)

Miscellanea:
List of Names (The Treasure of Henry Morgan)
The Treasure of Henry Morgan
Untitled, “So there I was . . .”
Untitled, “Help! Help! . . .”
Untitled Synopsis (The Shadow in the Well)
The Shadow in the Well—unfinished draft

Humor:
A Pirut Story
Bill Boozy was a pirate bold (verse)
At the Inn of the Gory Dagger (verse)



ROBERT E. HOWARD’S SAVAGE SWORD #6
Coming in January!
Matt Kindt (Writer), Paul Tobin (Writer), Ian Edginton (Writer), Francesco Francavilla (Art/Color/Cover), Richard Pace (Art), and Keu Cha (Pencils)

Multi-Eisner Award nominee Matt Kindt teams with comic-book superstar Keu Cha to bring you a familiar Conan story with a twist! Paul Tobin and Francesco Francavilla deliver the second exciting installment of Dark Agnes: Sword Woman, while Ian Edginton and Richard Pace show us why the Picts are such a formidable fighting force in part 2 of Bran Mak Morn: Men of the Shadows. This and much more in Robert E. Howard’s Savage Sword #6!


Full Color, 80 pages, $7.99, On sale January 30

ROBERT E. HOWARD'S SAVAGE SWORD #6 is solicited in the
September PREVIEWS (Available August 29).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP120049.


ROBERT E. HOWARD’S SAVAGE SWORD VOLUME 1 TP
Coming in January!
Paul Tobin (Writer), Scott Allie (Writer), Mark Finn (Writer), Mark Andreyko (Writer), Joe Casey (Writer), Jeremy Barlow (Writer), David Lapham (Writer), Joshua Williamson (Writer), Dave Land (Writer), Peter Doree (Writer), Wellington Alves (Art), Ben Dewey (Art), Tim Bradstreet (Art), Robert Atkins (Art), Pop Mhan (Art), Tim Seeley (Art), Tony Parker (Art), Fabio Cobiaco (Art), Patric Reynolds (Art), M.S. Corley (Art), Sean Phillips (Art), Rebecca Buchman (Inks), Michael Atiyeh (Color), Dave Stewart (Color), Grant Goleash (Color), Michelle Madsen (Color), José Villarubia (Color), Brian Miller (Color), Dan Jackson (Color), and Gerald Parel (Cover)

From the mind of pulp titan Robert E. Howard comes a slew of thrilling tales of savage heroism and brutal adventure! This collection features larger-than-life Howard heroes like Dark Agnes, El Borak, the Sonora Kid, and, of course, Conan, and showcases some of today’s top creators like Sean Phillips, Tony Parker, Joe Casey, Paul Tobin, and many, many more! This trade paperback collects all the original material from Robert E. Howard’s Savage Sword #1 – #4, along with a cover and pin-up gallery.

Trade Paperback, 7x10, Full Color, 144 pages, $17.99, On sale January 2

ROBERT E. HOWARD'S SAVAGE SWORD VOLUME 1 is solicited in the
September PREVIEWS
(Available August 29).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP120050.


THE ROCKETEER: CARGO OF DOOM #4 (OF 4) - Coming in November!
Mark Waid (writer) • Chris Samnee (art) • Samnee, Dave Stevens (cover)

Cliff Secord, AKA, the Rocketeer, finds himself flying high over the smog-drenched skies of Los Angeles, locked in mortal combat with an ancient and terrifying creature... and then it all starts to go to Hell! Plus, the ultimate truth about Peevy's niece is revealed! The final issue of Mark Waid and Chris Samnee’s Rocketeer series is going full throttle and the thrills show no signs of slowing down—miss this comic at your own peril!


Full Color,  32 pages, $3.99


THE ROCKETEER: CARGO OF DOOM #4 is solicited in the
September PREVIEWS
(Available August 29).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP120370. 




 
Coming soon!

AT THE EARTH'S CORE
Sequential Pulp Comics upcoming graphic novel adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic sci-fi adventure.  AT THE EARTH’S CORE is written by Martin Powell with artwork by Jamie Chase. This project is authorized by ERB, Inc., and published by Sequential Pulp/Dark Horse Comics. Artwork © Jamie Chase.





THE SHADOW #8 - Coming in November!
Written by Victor Gischler • Art by Aaron Campbell
Covers by Alex Ross (25), Mike Mayhew (25%), Tim Bradstreet (25%), Francesco Francavilla (25%)

Revolutionary Part 1 (of 4) – The Shadow traveled to Nepal to investigate a strange glitch in his mystic powers. He left with only partial answers. Now The Shadow and Miles Crofton, his pilot and sidekick, pause in Paris to take on some gun runners who are smuggling weapons bound for Spain. But a dark-eyed Spanish beauty named Esmeralda complicates matters when Cranston is unable to determine her intentions. The Shadow finds himself smack dab in the middle of the Spanish Civil War as he juggles the fate of a single solider who might help shape the future of humanity.


32 pages, Full Color, $3.99

THE SHADOW #7 is solicited in the
September PREVIEWS (Available August 29).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP120987. 



SHADOW TP VOL 01 FIRE OF CREATION - Coming in November!
(Writer) Garth Ennis (Art) Aaron Campbell (Cover) Alex Ross

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows! It’s 1938 and The Shadow returns in a tale of blazing action and deadly intrigue, as a night of carnage on the New York waterfront plunges the mysterious vigilante into a conspiracy involving the fate of the world itself. As storm clouds gather across the globe, American Military Intelligence meets with a certain Lamont Cranston, determined to beat a host of spies and assassins to the greatest prize of all… but what that might be, only the Shadow knows.

Collecting the first six issues of the hit series written by Garth Ennis and drawn by Aaron Campbell, featuring Garth Ennis’ script to issue #1 as well as a complete cover gallery featuring art by Alex Ross, Jae Lee, John Cassaday, Ryan Sook, Howard Chaykin, and more.


Trade paperback, 7x10, 176 pages, Full Color, $19.99

THE SHADOW VOLUME 1 is solicited in the
September PREVIEWS (Available August 29).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP120990. 



Solomon Kane - Film poster!

The poster for the U.S. release of SOLOMON KANE is shown at the right.
SOLOMON KANE is released as Video-On-Demand today.
A limited theatrical run is scheduled for late September.




TARZAN 100TH ANNIVERSARY STATUE
Coming in November!


For a century the mighty Lord of the Jungle has captured the hearts and the imagination of people of all ages who love action and adventure. In this special Centennial Anniversary statue, internationally acclaimed artist Joe DeVito captures the rugged essence of Edgar Rice Burroughs' creation: Tarzan's perfectly coordinated form, sculpted by nature, radiates power and animal grace. His blade, as always, is ever ready to protect and defend his beloved realm and its animals from all who would harm it. Intertwined in the base that supports Tarzan, we see the key characters in his saga: Jane, the love of his life; Kerchak, his mortal enemy; D'Arnot, who introduced him to European civilization; and his noble jungle companions, Tantor the elephant and the Golden Lion. Riding a trusted vine, secure in his iron grip, the Jungle Lord symbolically arcs with them into a new century!

This Centennial Edition statue of  Tarzan of the Apes brings to vibrant life, in three kinetic dimensions, the spectacular hero that Edgar Rice Burroughs created in literature so many years ago. Each statue uniquely hand-painted in amazing life-like detail, standing 15" tall including the base.

SRP - $255.00

TARZAN 100TH ANNIVERSARY STATUE is solicited in the
September PREVIEWS (Available August 29).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP1266.

Also available are:
Limited Edition (100 pieces) Numbered & Signed Cold-Cast Bronze sculpture - $425
Limited Edition (10 pieces) Signed and Numbered Cast Bronze sculpture - $7500

Orders can be placed at Edgar Rice Burroughs.com.



Tellers of Weird Tales - Now online!
Terence Hanley has created a blog in which he researches and writes about the contributors to Weird Tales magazine and its companion titles, Oriental Stories and The Magic Carpet Magazine.

Weird Tales Books: Weird Tales edited by Leo Margulies -New!
Nineteenth Century American Authors
Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908)
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Weird Tales on Film: Weird Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

Tom Johnson
LOST LAND OF JUR (Kindle Editon)
Coming soon!

LOST LAND OF JUR by Tom Johnson, the third novel in
Tom’s popular Jur series will soon be released on Kindle.


Bush pilot, Jack Richards, seeking adventure, steps through the time portal, taking him back a hundred and fifty million years to the Jurassic period where he encounters terrible dinosaurs, horrific beasts, and wild savages.

After Jack rescues Mai Ling, another time traveler, she is recaptured and carried off to an ancient city. Jack must trail the savages and rescue the girl once more, since he now knows he has fallen in love with her.

Their quest is filled with many dangers as they search for the fabled domed city of the First Ones. If they can survive, the domed city offers a way home for Mai Ling, even though Jack Richards does not wish to leave Jur.



Tom Johnson
SAVAGE LAND OF JUR (Kindle Editon)
Now available!

“Savage Land of Jur” by Tom Johnson, the sequel to “Jur: A Story of Pre Dawn Earth”, with a new cover by talented artist, Teresa Tunaley. Originally written in 1970, this has been newly edited, and tightened from the previous editions. Searching for the Ancient Ones, Aaron and Odette must face great dangers in this savage land. And when they do find the Ancient One, will they find a way home, or fall into even greater danger?

Now Available on from Amazon on Kindle for $3.99.
Now available from NTD!

Coming soon to B&N Nook.



WARLORD OF MARS #26
Coming in November!
(W) Arvid Nelson (A) Leandro Oliveira (CA) Joe Jusko, Lucio Parrillo

John Carter might be the brand-new Warlord of Mars, but his his honeymoon’s gonna be real short. The savage green Martians start running amok the moment he ascends the throne, threatening to smash the fragile peace he has fought so hard to win. What’s behind the uptick in violence? Only John Carter and his old pal Tars Tarkas can find the truth. Warlord of Mars #26 is the first installment of the thrilling Savages of Mars story arc. John Carter’s exploits on the Red Planet are just beginning!

32 pages, Full Color, $3.99

WARLORD OF MARS #26 is solicited in the
September PREVIEWS (Available August 29).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP121024. 





WARLORD OF MARS: DEJAH THORIS #14
Arriving in comic shops August 29!
Writer: Robert Place Napton; Artist: Carlos Rafael
Covers: Paul Renaud (50%), Fabiano Neves (50%)

The Boora Witch has possessed Dejah and brought her people to edge of destruction.  Her family makes the impossible decision to assassinate their daughter rather than have Dejah live as a puppet.  Kantos Kan, determined to save his princess, becomes embattled in the marshes in a desperate attempt to destroy the Witch's body and break the psychic link.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99






WARLORD OF MARS: DEJAH THORIS #21
Coming in November!
Written by Robert Place Napton
Art by Carlos Rafael
Covers by Paul Renaud (50%), Fabiano Neves (50%)

Dejah and the weapons master infiltrate the deepest levels of the Barsoomian criminal underworld and are introduced to the “Red Circle” — the organization they believe will lead them to Mortus. But can Dejah survive the battle to the death initiation process to reach the Red Circle’s inner sphere?!


32 pages, Full Color, $3.99

WARLORD OF MARS: DEJAH THORIS #21 is solicited in the
September PREVIEWS (Available August 29).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP121026. 









17 August 2012

The 24th Annual New York City
Collectible Paperback & Pulp Fiction Expo

Sunday, October 14, 2012

The 24th annual New York City Collectible Paperback & Pulp Fiction Expo, our big 2012 book show will be held Sunday, October 14, 2012, at the Holiday Inn at 440 West 57th Street in NYC in the BIG ROOM on the first floor.  

A limited number of 6’ and 8’ tables available but email for tables asap, as they go fast.  
Admission: Preview (8am) $10; General (9am - 3pm) $5; After 3pm FREE 

Confirmed Guest authors and artists so far include:
CHARLES ARDAI:  award-winning crime author and editor of the Hard Case Crime series.  
LAWRENCE BLOCK:  legendry mystery and crime author, creator of the Matt Scudder series & more!
ED BALCOURT:  renown artist rep who was a key player in paperback cover art and pb publishing.  
VICTOR BANIS:  vintage 60s soft-core author of classic gay eroticia and sleaze paperbacks!  
ANN BANNON:  vintage Gold Medal author of classic lesbian pulp novels!
MARCUS BOAS:  fabulous fantasy artist who will display some of his wonderful paintings!  
CAROL BUGGE:  author of many fine mystery novels and fine Sherlockian pastiches!
RON GOULART:  master storyteller, SF writer, pulp and comic book scholar.
C.J. HENDERSON:  well-known hard-boiled crime, fantasy and horror author.
MORRIS HERSHMAN:  original Manhunt author and also Midwood Books author as Arnold English.
MARVIN KAYE:  famous fantasy author and renown Sherlockian anthologist and editor of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine and Weird Tales.   MARIJANE MEAKER:  Classic Gold Medal author who wrote crime as Vin Packer and lesbian novels as Ann Aldrich, and many other fine bestsellers!
ANNETTE & MARTIN MEYERS:  mystery author couple, who also write as Maan Meyers.  
JOHN NORMAN:  Bestselling science fiction author and creator of the famous GOR series!
S.J. ROZAN:  crime author and creator of the famous Lydia Chin series and much more.  
JASON STARR:  author of many excellent crime and noir thrillers.
STAN TRYBULSKI:  hard-boiled crime author with many fine books to his credit.  
F. PAUL WILSON:  famed science fiction & horror author, creator of the Repairman Jack series!
KEN WISHNIA:  hard crime writer, as well as popular historical mystery author.  

Guest signing times will be posted on our website, www.gryphonbooks.com and also on the Program given out at the day of the show.



Age of Aces
Now available!
Captain Philip Strange: Strange Enemies by Donald E. Keyhoe

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

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

Available from:  AmazonMike Chomko Books, and Adventure House

Still available:
 Captain Philip Strange: Strange War

Coming soon: Captain Philip Strange: Strange Operators


Age of Aces
Now available!

Streaking swiftly through Hell skies, their three Hisso engines thundering, we find the famous and inseparable “Three Mosquitoes”. They were the mightiest flying combination that had ever blazed its way through overwhelming odds and laughed to tell of it! Captain Kirby, the impetuous leader of the great trio flew point with little mild-eyed “Shorty” Carn and lanky Travis, the eldest and wisest, filling out the “V” formation. With their customary battle cry, “Let’s go!”—they’re off on another dangerous mission in perilous skies!

From the pages of Popular Publications’ air war pulp magazines, author Ralph Oppenheim brings us four more unforgettable adventures of this reckless trio from 1932 and 1933:
The Invisible Circle, The Dynamite Flight, The Thunderbolt Ace, and The Iron Mask Patrol.

$16.99 Trade paperback
 6″x9″ trade paperback | 290 pages | ISBN: 978-0982095072

Available from:  AmazonMike Chomko Books, and Adventure House



Age of Aces

If you are a fan of the air war pulps, or have read some of Age of Aces’ pulp reprints, you have heard the name Sid Bradd. He has been writing articles about the air pulps for over 40 years. Many people know him from his essay in Nick Carr’s The Flying Spy, which detailed the life and adventures of G-8 and His Battle Aces. He was a supporter and contributor to our work here at Age of Aces. But more importantly, he was our friend.  

Age of Aces have posted the above remembrences on their web site.


Altus Press - Now available!

The Complete Cases of the Crime Magnet
by Sax Rohmer
introduction by Will Murray


Best known for his thrilling tales of Dr. Fu Manchu, author Sax Rohmer also penned the adventures of the resourceful Major Bernard de Treville, known better as "The Crime Magnet," a roving adventurer who encounters intrigue in every corner of the globe. With his companion, Digger, he follows in the footsteps of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Originally published in This Week magazine between 1937 to 1945, only a handful of these rare tales have ever been reprinted. Here, for the first time, are all fifteen short stories, plus the exciting serial, "The Panama Plot." Accompanied by an all-new introduction by Will Murray, historian of popular literature, this is the most significant Sax Rohmer collection in decades. Authorized by the Rohmer estate.

 

Altus Press - Now available!

Echoes 30
Three Decades of Pulp Fandom’s Greatest Magazine

by Ginger Johnson, Tom Johnson, and Will Murray

Echoes, the longest-running pulp fanzine of all time,
is back
for a special 30th anniversary issue,
and it's the largest single-issue pulp fanzine ever published.


Enjoy over 300 pages of articles on pulps as well as a pair of classic reprints, written by a variety of pulp experts.

The following fiction is included:
“The Green Ghost” by Johnston McCulley
“The Red Sword” by John Drummond
“The Black Shadow”, a Dorus Noel story by Tom Johnson

Articles on The Black Hood, Red Finger, Pulp Ladies, Lone Wolf Detective Magazine, The Octopus & Scorpion, Captain Future, Captain Satan, Masked Detective, Dr. Zeng, Green Ghost, Secret Service Smith, The Shadow’s Ladies, The Spider, Belmont Shadows, Red Mask, Secret Agent X, Dan Fowler, Moon Man, Bronze Shadows, Johnston McCulley, and many, many more; including new pulp characters as well.
304 pages, approx. 8"x10", approx. 1.8 lbs.




Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Coming in November!
DOC SAVAGE Volume 63:
"The Awful Dynasty," "The Angry Canary" & "The Swooning Lady"

The pulp era's greatest superman returns in three exotic tales by William Bogart and Lester Dent writing as "Kenneth Robeson." First, a glowing scarab from "The Awful Dynasty" brings horrific deaths to financiers while a priceless scroll sends Doc and Patricia Savage to Egypt in search of the lost secret of the pyramid of Cheops! Then, the deadly mystery of "The Angry Canary" leads Doc and his aides to India. Finally, Monk Mayfair encounters "The Swooning Lady" during a trek through Central Park, in a tale newly illustrated by DICK TRACY's Joe Staton! This triple-novel collector's edition features both original color pulp covers by Emery Clarke, Paul Orban's classic interior illustrations and historical commentary by Will Murray, writer of ten Doc Savage novels. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-097-7 Softcover, 7x10, 128 pages, B&W, $14.95

Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Twelve issues for $167 (first class) or $155 (media mail) [postpaid]
(includes bonus variant and ring premium)
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]

Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)

Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Coming in November!
NICK CARTER Volume 1: "Marked for Death" and "The Impossible Theft"
The premier detective hero returns in two intriguing pulp thrillers by Richard Wormser and T.C. McClary writing as "Nick Carter." First, the legendary American sleuth who predates Sherlock Holmes is reborn into the hard-boiled 1930s in "Marked for Death," the debut novel from the rare first issue of DOC SAVAGE's sister pulp! Then, what is the bizarre connection between an East Indian idol and the disappearance of a quarter-million dollars within a bank? Nick Carter needs all his sleuthing skills to uncover the truth. BONUS: Nick Carter confronts "The Strange Dr. Devolo" in the first radio script by THE SHADOW's Walter Gibson, plus a Golden Age comic book classic from SHADOW COMICS! This double-novel collector's edition includes both classic color pulp covers by Jerome Rozen, Amos Sewell's original interior illustrations and historical commentary by J. Randolph Cox, Will Murray and Anthony Tollin. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-098-4 Softcover, 7x10, 128 pages, B&W, $14.95

Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Twelve issues for $167 (first class) or $155 (media mail) [postpaid]
(includes bonus variant and ring premium)
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]

Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)


Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Coming in November!
THE SHADOW Volume 67: "Death Clue" and "Xitli, God of Fire"
The Master of Darkness investigates baffling mysteries in two classic pulp thrillers by Walter B. Gibson writing as "Maxwell Grant." First, a hidden "Death Clue" secreted by Joe Cardona prevents the Master of Darkness from stopping serial murders! Then, guised as Kent Allard and Lamont Cranston, The Shadow travels from Mexico City to New Orleans to defeat an Aztec murder cult devoted to "Xitli, God of Fire." This instant collector's item showcases the original pulp covers by George Rozen and Graves Gladney plus the classic interior illustrations by Tom Lovell and Earl Mayan, with historical commentary by pulp historian Will Murray. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-096-0 Softcover, 7x10, 128 pages, B&W, $14.95

Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Twelve issues for $167 (first class) or $155 (media mail) [postpaid]
(includes bonus variant and ring premium)
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]

Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)


Arizona Doc Con 2012 - October 20, 2012!
Doc Con 15 will be held Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012 in Glendale, Ariz., at the Comfort Suites located at 9824 W Camelback Rd, Glendale, AZ, US, 85305. Call to reserve your room (623) 271-9005 and mention "Doc Savage Convention" for our reduced group rate.

Things kick off the night before with dinner and an evening activity, so plan on being there Friday, Oct. 19, and all day Saturday, Oct. 20. There's usually a breakfast/early lunch on Sunday.

If you haven't checked out the teaser video yet, head over to 
YouTube or look for the Arizona Doc Con page on Facebook.


Blogging Sax Rohmer’s DAUGHTER OF FU MANCHU Part 2 - Now Online!
Sax Rohmer’s Daughter of Fu Manchu was originally serialized as Fu Manchu’s Daughter in twelve weekly installments of Collier’s from March 8 to May 24, 1930. It was published in book form the following year by Cassell in the UK and Doubleday in the US. Rohmer divides the novel into four sections comprising three chapters each. This week we examine the second part.

The rest is at the links below.
Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press: EDitorial Comments - Now online!
PulpFest Report - New!
Gone fishing….
PulpFest, Here We Come!  
Special Murania Press Sale At PulpFest: 20% Off All Books, New And Old!
Dark Knight, Meet The Spider  



Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER #34

Now available & shipping to subscribers!


Murania Press hits next week’s PulpFest with several new publications, beginning with BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER #34. This jumbo-sized Tenth Anniversary Issue boasts something unique in pulpzine history: the reprinting of a complete, book-length (60,000 words) novel. The yarn is Francis Lynde’s “B. Typhosus Takes a Hand,” originally published in a 1922 issue of THE POPULAR MAGAZINE.

In addition to this 80-page bonus feature, the anniversary issue contains the usual complement of high-quality articles and departments. There’s a history of Chandu the Magician on radio and in film; a lengthy examination of the “New Pulp” publishing phenomenon; a 1940 WRITER’S DIGEST piece by pulp writer Nelson Bond on the importance of snappy starts to manuscripts; a revisiting of science-fictional continuities from the 1940s Superman radio show; a celebration of pulp writer Frederick Nebel’s hardboiled detectives Donahue and Cardigan; a look back at the trend-setting 1914 movie serial THE PERILS OF PAULINE; and a pictorial review of this year’s Windy City Pulp and Paper Expo. Additionally, BNT editor Ed Hulse acknowledges the magazine’s tenth anniversary in a long, incisive essay.
 

This special issue of BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER -- at 162 pages it’s half again as long as an average issue -- is illustrated with the usual array of pulp covers, original art, and rare photos and posters from movies. Although priced at $15.95 for single-copy buyers, it will count as a regular issue for subscribers. Subscription copies will be mailed later this month.


Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
PIRATES OF THE PINES by A. M. Chisholm
Now available!


Also making its debut at PulpFest is A. M. Chisholm’s PIRATES OF THE PINES, #3 in Murania’s Classic Pulp Reprints series. Originally published in the October 20, 1915 issue of Street & Smith’s POPULAR MAGAZINE as “Fur Pirates,” this rousing adventure yarn is set in the wilderness fringing northwestern Canada’s great Carcajou River. It features as protagonist and narrator the 18-year-old Bob Cory, who lives with his sister Peggy on their uncle’s modest homestead.
 
While out one day with Jim Dunleath, an invalid who has gone north to recover his health, Bob unearths a buried letter written by notorious fur thief Angus McNab to his brother, revealing the location of a fortune in stolen pelts cached on one of the small islands that dot the nearby Burntwood Lakes. Since the 20-year-old missive never reached its intended recipient, Dunleath reasons that the treasure must still be in its hiding place. He confides in a wealthy Eastern sportsman named Fothergill, who agrees to bankroll an expedition to find the cache.
 
It’s giving away no secret to report that Chisholm quite deliberately patterned his tale on TREASURE ISLAND. (POPULAR’s editor Charles Agnew MacLean hinted as much in his introductory blurb to the story, which is included in Murania’s reprint.) Nearly every element in “Fur Pirates” corresponded to something in Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale. And yet Chisholm’s yarn is no slavish imitation. It’s a brilliantly executed pastiche, a genuine tour de force. The characters have personalities all their own, the settings are vividly described, and the yarn is suffused with verisimilitude. The story works magnificently on its own terms; you don’t have to be familiar with Stevenson’s immortal classic to appreciate Chisholm’s exhilarating homage. But if you are, well, that’ll just enhance the experience.



Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
CLIFFHANGER CLASSICS
Now available!

BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER’S CLIFFHANGER CLASSICS, also available at PulpFest, collects 20 informative essays that originally appeared in the pages of BNT and deal with the great movie serials. There are no gushy, repetitive fanboy puff-pieces in this book; each essay is the product of solid research and interviews with the actors, writers and directors involved.
 
Titles covered at length include THE IRON CLAW (1916), PATRIA (1917), THE GREEN ARCHER (1925), THE HOUSE WITHOUT A KEY (1926), JUNGLE MYSTERY (1932), THE RED RIDER (1934), NEW ADVENTURES OF TARZAN (1935), TIM TYLER’S LUCK (1937), SECRET OF TREASURE ISLAND (1938), THE LONE RANGER (1938), THE SHADOW (1940), DRUMS OF FU MANCHU (1940), and DAREDEVILS OF THE WEST (1943). Serial performers and technicians interviewed specifically for these articles (over a period of several decades) include Kay Aldridge, Henry Brandon, Herman Brix, Yakima Canutt, George DeNormand, Rose Hobart, Iris Meredith, Cecilia Parker, Barry Shipman, Frank Leon Smith, Frankie Thomas, and William Witney.
 
Nearly 100,000 words long and over 300 pages, the book is illustrated with two lengthy galleries including dozens of rare stills, posters and lobby cards from the serials under discussion.



The Book Cave - New podcast now available online!
Episode 192: Penny Dread Tales - New!
David Boop, Peter Wacks and Chris Ficco visit the Book Cave to introduce their books Penny Dread Tales Vol. 1 and 2.

Episode 191: Bill Preston
Episode 190: Pamela Foster
Episode 189: Jim Beard
Episode 188: The Ruby Files

Classic Heroes Publishing
ZORRO - THE MASTER'S EDITION Volume 1

Rescheduled for September 10!
Now available for pre-order!


The schedule delay is to allow the original pulp artwork to be included in the book. Thanks to Zorro Productions, this will now become a reality! As a little reimbursement for the delay, all pre-orders will include a collectors print from Joel´s great cover work with the book. Also, the second issue is now planned for December 2012!

Classic Heroes Publishing proudly announces the launch
of their all new ZORRO - The Masters Edition Line.
Officially licensed by Zorro Productions Inc.

ZORRO - THE MASTERS EDITION is back - from a new publisher - in a new format - and this time it looks like the dream of seeing the complete Zorro canon published in matching volumes will become a reality.

Classic Heroes of Hohenfurch, Germany, has been granted permission by Zorro Productions Inc to publish the entire series (all five novels and 59 shorter adventures) in both English and German editions. The books will be limited edition hardcovers (5.8 x 8.3 inches) featuring all of the original pulp art, plus new covers by Joel F. Naprstek.

Leading off the series will be The Further Adventures of Zorro, the sequel to The Mark of Zorro that first appeared in Argosy All-Story Weekly in 1922. The novel finds Don Diego Vega ready to get married and give up adventuring for good, until his betrothed is kidnapped by pirates. Zorro vs. Pirates. What could be better?

The book will sell for $24.95 plus $8 postage, and be available ONLY through the Classic Heroes website.
They're now taking orders, and offering the option to subscribe to the whole series. You can also sign up for their free newsletter.

Aside from these great story's, we offer you classic Zorro comic adventures. Our “Comic Edition” presents selected ZORRO adventures, many reprinted for the first time. You will find classic highlights like “Zorro vs. Dracula,“ “Zorro´s Renegade,“ the all new complete “Alex Toth collection” and—for the first time ever—the second and final year of “Zorro - The Dailies.”

As fellow fans and collectors, we also need your support: Please let us know what you think.
All comments, suggestions, praise and criticism welcome!
Further information will be given in time. So stay tuned.

We hope to welcome you to our ZORRO program soon. Have fun with our all new ZORRO creations. Please spread the word and enjoy.



CONAN THE BARBARIAN #10 - Coming in November!
Brian Wood (Writer), Declan Shalvey (Art), Dave Stewart (Color), and Massimo Carnevale (Cover)

Conan and Bêlit are the undisputed masters of the Western Ocean, their names whispered in fearful awe all along the Black Coast. But when Conan spots a mysterious, derelict ship following them, its horrifying cargo threatens to destroy everything they’ve built and tear them apart!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.50, On sale November 14




CONAN VOLUME 12: THRONE OF AQUILONIA TP
Coming in January!

Roy Thomas (Writer), Mike Hawthorne (Pencils), Dan Panosian (Art), John Lucas (Inks),
and Dan Jackson (Cover)

Conan finds himself wrapped up in a plot to unseat the king of Aquilonia as his journey down the Road of Kings concludes. But when everything goes wrong, the Cimmerian and his coconspirators become lost in the catacombs beneath the city, surrounded by zombies and monstrous insects, all while a civil war brews above their heads! Also in this volume, an encounter at a tavern lands Conan at the end of every sword in a small port city, in a story leading directly into Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan’s acclaimed Conan the Barbarian!

Collecting Conan: Road of Kings #7–#12!


Trade Paperback, 7" x 10", Full Color, 152 pages, $19.99, On sale January 23


CONAN VOLUME 13: QUEEN OF THE BLACK COAST HC
Coming in January!
Brian Wood (Writer), Becky Cloonan (Art), James Harren (Art), Dave Stewart (Color),
and Massimo Carnevale (Cover)

Kicking off Dark Horse’s sweeping adaptation of Robert E. Howard’s “Queen of the Black Coast,” Conan turns his back on the civilized world and takes to the Western Ocean. Finding first danger and then passion in the arms of the pirate queen Bêlit, the Cimmerian begins a new life of pleasure and pillage along the Black Coast, in this epic of romance and terror! Collect issues #1-#6 of the Conan the Barbarian series.

Hardcover, 7" x 10", Full Color, 152 pages, $24.99, On sale January 16



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

Forgotten Stories: a complete DAFFY DILL mystery by Richard Sale - New!
Overlooked Films: Adventures of (ALMOST the Phantom) Captain Africa
TOUGH AS NAILS: Frederick Nebel's complete Donahue series from Black Mask
King Corrigan's Treasure - Another great ADVENTURE collection from Black Dog Books
Overlooked Films: ZORRO is "The Bold Caballero" (1936)



The Devil's Bride: Mysteries of Jules de Gandin
Now available!

THE DEVIL'S BRIDE was the only full-length mystery featuring French occult detective Jules de Grandin. Inspired by Aleister Crowley, and rich with Lovecraftian visions of a gibbering xenomorphic evil from the "dark” continents, THE DEVIL'S BRIDE is an epic tale of black magic, murder and mutilation, rape and torture, and genocidal race war.

This new edition of THE DEVIL'S BRIDE also includes a bonus story, HOUSE OF GOLDEN MASKS, in which vicious white slavers are abducting young girls and subjecting them to bizarre rituals of torture and sexual degradation. Seabury Quinn's tales of Jules de Grandin were amongst the most popular to appear in Weird Tales magazine, with over 90 episodes appearing between 1926 and 1938. The stories were notable not only for their supernatural overtones, but also for strong elements of sadistic violence, misogynistic torture and cruelty, negative racial profiling, and frequent scenes of female nudity. In fact, Quinn was sure to include at least one scene of a naked girl under duress in every piece, so that resident cover artist Margaret Brundage was provided with suitably lurid visual material. As relics from a less enlightened age, Quinn's stories can only now be read at face value, and by doing so the reader will enter a weird, sexually perverse world of murder, mayhem, and machine-gun diplomacy.

Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Creation Oneiros
ISBN-10: 1902197526
ISBN-13: 978-1902197524

$14.95
Amazon.com


Doc Savage Fantasy Cover page - Updated!
New Doc Savage fantasy covers are now online!


Edgar Rice Burroughs Commemorative Stamp
First Day of Issue: August 17, 2012

The U.S. Postal Service honors one of the most prolific authors of the early 20th century and inventor of the iconic character Tarzan with the issuance of the Edgar Rice Burroughs Forever Stamp.

The stamp issuance coincides with the 100th anniversary of the publication of Burroughs’ first story, Under the Moons of Mars, and his first Tarzan story, Tarzan of the Apes, in 1912.

The Edgar Rice Burroughs Forever Stamp was dedicated August 16 at 11:30 a.m. PT at the Tarzana Community and Cultural Center in Tarzana, CA, and is now on sale at Post Offices nationwide, online at usps.com and by phone at 800-782-6724.

Best known for inventing the legendary character Tarzan, Burroughs wrote more than 70 books, including historical fiction and several popular series of science fiction tales.

“At the Postal Service, we’re proud to honor wonderful writers like Mr. Burroughs,” said Giselle Valera, vice president and managing director, Global Business. “These creative geniuses make lasting contributions to our cultural heritage, and we want more Americans to learn about them. Our stamp featuring Mr. Burroughs continues this tradition.”





E-texts on the net this week
The Shadow in Review:
There is no new Shadow review this week.
 
Pulpgen-Online Pulps:   Now with over 1000 stories online!

"Long Sam Makes a Deal" by Lee Bond from TEXAS RANGERS, April, 1947
Featuring: Long Sam Littlejohn
Outlaw Long Sam Littlejohn takes on the job of cleaning two-gun bandits out of the quiet Border town of Firefly!
"Socks and Blondes" by Joe Archibald from POPULAR DETECTIVE, August, 1941
Featuring: Willie Klump
The Hawkeye Hawkshaw Runs Smack into a Baffling Hold-Up Case - and Gets Stuck in a Medical Bottleneck!


Go Hero
THE SHADOW 1/6-SCALE FIGURE

Now available and
arriving in comic shops August 22!!

Lamont Cranston, aka the Shadow, fought against evil forces with his mysterious ring, his guns, and two fists! In 1930, The Shadow started out on Detective Hour for American radio and became a world-famous pulp magazine. For the first time ever, the Shadow is available as a detailed 1:6-scale figure.  Now you can fight evil with the Shadow's poseable scarf and cape, black suit and hat, guns, and holster. Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows! Limited to 750 pieces worldwide. 

Pre-orders that were placed directly with Go Hero are shipping from their Los Angeles-area warehouse, and other retailers and distributors are starting to receive their shipments as well.


SRP: $129.99




GREEN HORNET #34 - Coming in November!
(Writer) Jai Nitz (Art) Jethro Morales (Cover) Stephen Sadowski

Welcome to Century City, the home of the Green Hornet! The new Green Hornet has the support of the police and City Hall and the people love him. Will that be enough to stop a terrorist group bent on detonating a dirty bomb? The new Green Hornet may need a new partner!


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99




THE LONE RANGER #11 - Coming in November!
(Writer) Ande Parks (Art) Esteve Polls (Cover) Francesco Francavilla

As Tonto’s gunshot wound festers, the Lone Ranger will do whatever it takes to save his friend. The Ranger joins forces with a band of Ute Indian braves, on a daring mission to save the tribe’s healer from the settlers who kidnapped him. The gods who foresaw a fortune of blood and suffering for Tonto may now claim them as their own. Part five of the epic and character-defining Native Ground arc.


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99




LORD OF THE JUNGLE #12 - Coming in November!
(Writer) Arvid Nelson (Art) Roberto Castro (Cover) Lucio Parillo

At long last, the Lord of the Jungle finds the fabled treasure-city of Opar. Unfortunately for him, his arch-nemesis Nicholas Rokoff arrives at the exact same time. But a little surprise is in store for both men – turns out Opar isn’t exactly a ghost town, and the locals aren’t too keen on outsiders! Hot jungle babes, savage beasts, and a mountain of gold await the ape-man in Lord of the Jungle #12: The Treasure Vaults of Opar!


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99



MARS ATTACKS #3 - Arriving in comic shops August 22!
John Layman (writer) • John McCrea (art)

The invasion has begun! The first stories of an all-new MARS ATTACKS universe are here, bringing outrageous action and dark humor to the comics page. Eisner-winning writer John Layman (Chew) is joined by Eisner-winning artist John McCrea (Hitman) to sound the alarm. Beware! The Martians are here! And they’ve brought giant, mutated insects with them!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99



MARS ATTACKS #5 - Coming in November!
John Layman (writer) • John McCrea (art)

The Martian mayhem continues! The first story arc comes to a close as a warrior from Earth’s past joins the fray, and the Martians bring out the really big guns. Don’t miss any of the action in this runaway hit series!


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99



Masks #1 - Coming in November!
(Writer) Chris Roberson (Art) Alex Ross (Cover) Alex Ross & Various

Starring The Shadow, The Green Hornet, Kato, and The Spider, in a story that only Dynamite could tell!
Before superheroes, there were Masks! They’ve always said it can’t happen here… but what if it did? It’s 1938, and the Justice Party has swept into office in New York State. But the newly-elected officials are in the control of powerful criminals, who quickly corrupt the law to their own advantage. When a fascist police state is instituted, the only ones who stand in defense of the innocent are masked vigilantes like the Shadow, the Green Hornet, Kato, and the Spider. Also, look forward to future appearances of Black Bat, Miss Fury, Black Terror, Green Lama and more!
When the law is unjust, justice must be an outlaw!






Moonstone Books
GREEN HORNET STILL AT LARGE
Arriving in comic shops August 22!

The Green Hornet and Kato return for new adventures in a brand new anthology of stories! Witness the Green Hornet and Kato's final showdown with the notorious Yellowjacket! Discover "Clicker" Binney's shocking origin story! See Mike Axford pull a sting on The Hornet! Watch as the Hornet and Kato take on homegrown terrorists! Plus, in the hardcover edition, get a timeline of all 3 volumes of Moonstone stories fit into the chronology of the TV episodes, plus a bonus story by Batman producer Michael Uslan and Joe Gentile in which the radio era Green Hornet meets Richard Benson, The Avenger! Available in Softcover and Hardcover editions.

Edited by Joe Gentile, Win Scott Eckert, and Matthew Baugh, this third anthology featuring the 1960s Green Hornet, based on the television program starring Van Williams and Bruce Lee, follows The Green Hornet Chronicles and The Green Hornet Casefiles, and will ship in two editions.

The softcover trade paperback features a cover by Douglas Klauba, while the limited edition hardcover boasts a cover by Ruben Procopio. It is anticipated that as with the prior books, the third volume will also see an eBook edition, although the specific date has not been announced.


Softcover, 288 pages, B&W, $17.95
Hardcover, 302 pages, B&W, $29.99


Contents:
"Hero" by S.J. Rozan
"The Black Torpedo" by Will Murray
"The World Will End in Fire" by Richard Dean Starr
"The Man Inside" by Matthew Baugh
"Death from Beyond" by Ron Fortier
"Play the Game" by Thom Brannan
"The Gauntlet" by Bobby Nash
"Chaos and the Year of the Dog" by Bobbie Metevier
"Axford's Sting” by Dan Wickline
"Revenge of the Yellowjacket" by Howard Hopkins
"The Man in the Picture" by Patricia Weakley
"Masks" by C.J. Henderson
"Bad Man's Blunder" by John Allen Small
"Losers, Weepers" by Rich Harvey
"Stormfront" by Greg Gick
"The Night I Met The Hornet" by Mel Odom
"Progress" by Win Scott Eckert




The limited edition hardcover will also feature:
“The Green Hornet Timeline,” a chronology of the Moonstone stories from the three anthologies, fit into the timeline of the original television episodes, by Win Scott Eckert

A bonus story featuring the 1930s-40s Green Hornet from the radio show and serials, “The Green Hornet Meets The Avenger” by Michael Uslan


Pre-ordering information:
Amazon.com (trade paperback)  
Amazon.com (limited hardcover)  
B&N.com (trade paperback)  
B&N.com (limited hardcover)

Mystery*File - Now online!
Reviewed by Marv Lachman: SHELDON JAFFERY, Editor – Selected Tales of Grim and Grue from the Horror Pulps - New!
CON REPORT: PulpFest 2012, by Walker Martin - New!
RICHARD DEMING’s Manville Moon series, by Jon L. Breen - New!
Reviewed by Walker Martin: FREDERICK NEBEL – Tough As Nails: The Complete Cases of Donahue from the Pages of Black Mask
Reviewed by Walker Martin: DAVID GOODIS – Five Noir Novels of the 1940′s and 1950′s
A 1001 MIDNIGHTS Review: PAUL CAIN – Fast One
Reviewed by Walker Martin: PAUL CAIN – The Complete Slayers
Reviewed by Walker Martin: FREDERICK NEBEL – The Complete Casebook of Cardigan, Volume 1
Movie Commentary by Walker Martin: JOHN CARTER (2012)

PARKER THE HUNTER SC - Coming in November!
Darwyn Cooke

The Hunter is the story of a man who hits New York head-on like a shotgun blast to the chest. Betrayed by the woman he loved and double-crossed by his partner in crime, Parker makes his way cross-country with only one thought burning in his mind-to coldly exact his revenge and reclaim what was taken from him!

Richard Stark (AKA Donald Westlake) was a master writer of crime fiction and Parker is arguably his greatest Creation-having been featured in more than a dozen novels and several well-regarded films (including Point Blank with Lee Marvin and Payback with Mel Gibson), and an upcoming one starring Jason Statham and Jennifer Lopez that will be released this fall.

Master storyteller Darwyn Cooke has won nearly every award available to comics creators. His DC: The New Frontier was turned into an Emmy-nominated animated feature. The Hunter is the first in a series of Parker graphic novels that Cooke is adapting, the first two earning the comics Auteur more Eisner and Harvey awards for his already crowded mantle.


Trade paperback, 6x9, 160 pages, Full Color, $17.99




Popular Mechanics The Amazing Weapons That Never Were
Robots, Flying Tanks & Other Machines of War

Coming November 6!

Between 1910 and 1970, scientists and military experts made hundreds of predictions in Popular Mechanics about the future of warfare. Some of those prophecies were downright nuts, while others veered eerily close to reality. This collection of vintage articles, with their stunning original art, will spark the imagination of every military buff, retrophile, and futurist. And the jacket unfolds into an amazing 24” x 19” poster of fantastic machines, blasters, and flying tanks. Astrophysics professor, science-fiction author, and NASA advisor Gregory Benford provides an introduction to every chapter.


Hardcover: 200 pages
Publisher: Hearst
ISBN-10: 158816862X
ISBN-13: 978-1588168627

$16.47


THE 2012 MUNSEY AWARD & RUSTY HEVELIN SERVICE AWARD

Matt Moring has been named the winner of the 2012 Munsey Award. Nominated by the general pulp community, Matt was selected by a panel consisting of all the living Lamont and Munsey Award winners. The award is a fine art print by Dan Zimmer of a painting by David Saunders. It is presented annually to a deserving person who has given of himself or herself for the betterment of the pulp community.

In relatively few years, Matt’s  Altus Press has published many rare pulp stories as well as non-fiction books dealing with the characters and history of the pulps. To date he has published all of Kendell Foster Crossen’s Green Lama stories, half of the adventures of Secret Agent X, Les Savage’s Senorita Scorpion stories, Fred Nebel’s Tough Dick Donahue private eye adventures, and collections of lesser known characters such as Johnston McCulley’s The Man in Purple, Paul Ernst’s Seekay, and Lester Dent’s The Blond Adder. His Dime Detective Companion is a superb reference to one of the leading detective magazines of the pulp era, while The Revised Complete Chronology of Bronze, written by Rick Lai, dissects the adventures of Doc Savage. Recently issued  is the thirtieth anniversary issue of Echoes, one of the best pulp history fanzines of all time. Together with Will Murray, Matt revived the Doc Savage series, publishing brand new stories featuring “The Man of Bronze” after a twenty-year absence. The Altus Press website is also an excellent reference source featuring links to The Pulp Superhero Index and The Echoes Index. Such energy needs to be recognized and rewarded. Matt Moring and others like him are the future of the pulp collecting hobby.

The voting for the 2012 Munsey Award actually ended in a tie. The other select individual, David J. Cullers, better known as Jack Cullers, is the chairman of the PulpFest committee. Jack has worked quietly and tirelessly for the pulp community for decades. A longtime volunteer for any number of pulp conventions, Jack has ferried guests of honor to and from airports and made sure they had a friendly face with whom to dine. He has stuffed and addressed envelopes, arranged for advertising, organized auctions, and done many other behind-the-scenes tasks, selflessly and without seeking accolades. Time and again, he has welcomed newcomers to the hobby, even inviting them to his home for dinner during their earliest pulp conventions. He has offered space at his dealer tables for down-on-their-luck pulpsters unable to attend conventions.


As PulpFest chairman, Jack has worked to assure that convention guests, dealers, presenters, and attendees are treated fairly and respectfully, helping everyone to feel welcome and comfortable at the convention. Of course, Jack could not have done all that he has done without the support of his wife, Sally, herself a longtime pulp con volunteer, often helping with registrations and auctions. His children and friends have also lent a hand. Come convention time, the “Cullers Clan” is hard at work, making sure things run as smoothly as possible.

Not wishing to diminish Matt Moring’s “day in the sun,” Jack asked that his name be withdrawn from consideration. However, the remaining members of the PulpFest committee felt that it was well past time that Jack and Sally Cullers’ devotion to the pulp community be recognized.

With this in mind, it was determined to issue a second award, The Rusty Hevelin Service Award, designed to recognize those individuals within the pulp community who have worked long and hard for the pulp community with little thought for individual recognition. It is meant to reward especially good works and is thus reserved only for those individuals who are most deserving. And no individuals are more deserving than Jack and Sally Cullers who have labored long and hard for our small community of pulp lovers.

Congratulations to Matt Moring, the 2012 winner of The Munsey Award, and to Jack and Sally Cullers, the 2012 winners of The Rusty Hevelin Service Award. All three individuals are most deserving of these honor
.



Michael Neno: PulpFest 2012 Pictures  Day 1    Day 2    Day 3

Michael Haynes: PulpFest 2012 Pictures   Day 1    Day 2    Day 3


Pulpville Press - Now available!

Part One: Out of her orbit sped the teeming Earth-a marauding planet bent on starry conquest.

Part Two: Deep in the gnome-infested tunnels of the Moon, Sarka and Jaska are brought to Luar, the radiant goddess against whose minions the marauding Earth had struck in vain.

Part Three: Martian fire-balls and the terrific Moon-Cubes wreak tremendous destruction on helpless Earth in the final death struggle of the warring worlds.

This book originally appeared as a 3-part serial in Astounding Stories of Super-Science in July, August, and September 1930.


Trade paperback, 6x9, 172 Pages 
Price: $15.00



Pulpville Press - Now available!
Here is a smashing, red-blooded mystery yarn, packed with fast action. This is crime as the police in "open" towns know it; hard-boiled detectives and as tough a collection of criminals as can be found in any metropolitan line-up.

Torrey sets a speedy pace and the book tears to a climax you won't forget. Shean Connell, a private detective, sets out to clear up a divorce case in Reno, and finds that he has been framed by the man who is boss of the town's criminals. After he views the woman in the morgue and has the tip of his ear shot away, he realizes that murder and not divorce is being plotted.

Why wouldn't Tod Wendel's wife speak to him? Between the wealthy society woman and her husband stood the forces of the underworld-gangsters, white slavers, dope runners-and Shean Connell breaks the case in the hardest-hitting, lustiest mystery novel since Dashiell Hammett.
Originally published in 1938 by Hillman-Curl, Inc.


Trade paperback, 6x9, 204 Pages 
Price: $15.00



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

Everett, Commissioner of Justice - short story by Gordon MacCreagh - New!
The Jade Hunters - short story by Gordon MacCreagh - New!
Gordon MacCreagh – Adventurer, Explorer, Big game hunter, Writer - New!
Prince Sarath Kumar Ghosh - Article on Indian magic in Scientific American, 1918
Prince Sarath Kumar Ghosh - Indian writer, traveller, prince?, pulp author
Excerpt from Altar of the Legion - novel by Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur and Farnham Bishop
Farnham Bishop - Educator, Writer  


QUEEN SONJA #31- Arriving in comic shops August 22!
Writer: Luke Lieberman; Artist: Milton Estevam
Cover:  Lucio Parrillo

Queen Sonja learns the price of breaking her vows to the Goddess, as the tournament turns to chaos and ruin.  As enemies beset her on everty side, can Queen Sonja find the assassin who threatens to plunge her realm into bloodshed?

32 pages, Full Color, $3.99








ROBERT E. HOWARD’S SAVAGE SWORD #6
Coming in January!
Matt Kindt (Writer), Paul Tobin (Writer), Ian Edginton (Writer), Francesco Francavilla (Art/Color/Cover), Richard Pace (Art), and Keu Cha (Pencils)

Multi-Eisner Award nominee Matt Kindt teams with comic-book superstar Keu Cha to bring you a familiar Conan story with a twist! Paul Tobin and Francesco Francavilla deliver the second exciting installment of Dark Agnes: Sword Woman, while Ian Edginton and Richard Pace show us why the Picts are such a formidable fighting force in part 2 of Bran Mak Morn: Men of the Shadows. This and much more in Robert E. Howard’s Savage Sword #6!


Full Color, 80 pages, $7.99, On sale January 30


ROBERT E. HOWARD’S SAVAGE SWORD VOLUME 1 TP
Coming in January!
Paul Tobin (Writer), Scott Allie (Writer), Mark Finn (Writer), Mark Andreyko (Writer), Joe Casey (Writer), Jeremy Barlow (Writer), David Lapham (Writer), Joshua Williamson (Writer), Dave Land (Writer), Peter Doree (Writer), Wellington Alves (Art), Ben Dewey (Art), Tim Bradstreet (Art), Robert Atkins (Art), Pop Mhan (Art), Tim Seeley (Art), Tony Parker (Art), Fabio Cobiaco (Art), Patric Reynolds (Art), M.S. Corley (Art), Sean Phillips (Art), Rebecca Buchman (Inks), Michael Atiyeh (Color), Dave Stewart (Color), Grant Goleash (Color), Michelle Madsen (Color), José Villarubia (Color), Brian Miller (Color), Dan Jackson (Color), and Gerald Parel (Cover)

From the mind of pulp titan Robert E. Howard comes a slew of thrilling tales of savage heroism and brutal adventure! This collection features larger-than-life Howard heroes like Dark Agnes, El Borak, the Sonora Kid, and, of course, Conan, and showcases some of today’s top creators like Sean Phillips, Tony Parker, Joe Casey, Paul Tobin, and many, many more! This trade paperback collects all the original material from Robert E. Howard’s Savage Sword #1 – #4, along with a cover and pin-up gallery.

Trade Paperback, 7x10, Full Color, 144 pages, $17.99, On sale January 2


THE ROCKETEER: CARGO OF DOOM #1 (OF 4)
Arriving in comic shops August 22!

Mark Waid (writer) • Chris Samnee (art) • Samnee, Dave Stevens (cover)

Celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Rocketeer with an all-new full-length series!
Dave Stevens created the Rocketeer in 1982 and it has proven to be a uniquely enduring Character. Now Cliff Secord and the Rocketeer take to the skies once again as Mark Waid and Chris Samnee spin a yarn in the best tradition of Dave Stevens, bringing us a tale of great adventure, suspense and humor!

A ship docks in Los Angeles harbor from a far-off and exotic locale—with a big, mysterious… and living… cargo! Danger and mayhem abound as our hero leaps into the fray! Plus, we introduce a lovely new character who will be vying against Betty for Cliff’s affections!

*2 regular covers will be shipped in a 4-to-1 ratio (4 Chris Samnee, 1 Dave Stevens)
Full Color,  32 pages, $3.99








Coming soon!


KING SOLOMON'S MINES
Beautiful PABLO MARCOS page from the KING SOLOMON'S MINES graphic novel adapted by Mark Ellis and coming soon from Sequential Pulp/Dark Horse.
THIS version of H. Rider Haggard's classic tale will set a new standard.
 Artwork © Pablo Marcos.

AT THE EARTH'S CORE
Sequential Pulp Comics has posted a first look at the cover for the upcoming graphic novel adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic sci-fi adventure, AT THE EARTH'S CORE.  AT THE EARTH’S CORE is written by Martin Powell with artwork by Jamie Chase. This project is authorized by ERB, Inc., and published by Sequential Pulp/Dark Horse Comics. Artwork © Jamie Chase.




 

THE SHADOW #8 - Coming in November!
Written by Victor Gischler • Art by Aaron Campbell
Covers by Alex Ross (25), Mike Mayhew (25%), Tim Bradstreet (25%), Francesco Francavilla (25%)

Revolutionary Part 1 (of 4) – The Shadow traveled to Nepal to investigate a strange glitch in his mystic powers. He left with only partial answers. Now The Shadow and Miles Crofton, his pilot and sidekick, pause in Paris to take on some gun runners who are smuggling weapons bound for Spain. But a dark-eyed Spanish beauty named Esmeralda complicates matters when Cranston is unable to determine her intentions. The Shadow finds himself smack dab in the middle of the Spanish Civil War as he juggles the fate of a single solider who might help shape the future of humanity.


32 pages, Full Color, $3.99



SHADOW TP VOL 01 FIRE OF CREATION - Coming in November!
(Writer) Garth Ennis (Art) Aaron Campbell (Cover) Alex Ross

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows! It’s 1938 and The Shadow returns in a tale of blazing action and deadly intrigue, as a night of carnage on the New York waterfront plunges the mysterious vigilante into a conspiracy involving the fate of the world itself. As storm clouds gather across the globe, American Military Intelligence meets with a certain Lamont Cranston, determined to beat a host of spies and assassins to the greatest prize of all… but what that might be, only the Shadow knows.

Collecting the first six issues of the hit series written by Garth Ennis and drawn by Aaron Campbell, featuring Garth Ennis’ script to issue #1 as well as a complete cover gallery featuring art by Alex Ross, Jae Lee, John Cassaday, Ryan Sook, Howard Chaykin, and more.


Trade paperback, 7x10, 176 pages, Full Color, $19.99




Tangent  - Now online!
The Empire in the Air by George Allan England - New!
Mars is Heaven! -- Ray Bradbury
The Shadow: The Ring of Mah La Lay Lee
The Mystery of the Z-Rays -- Nick Carter, Master Detective


Tellers of Weird Tales - Now online!
Terence Hanley has created a blog in which he researches and writes about the contributors to Weird Tales magazine and its companion titles, Oriental Stories and The Magic Carpet Magazine.

Nineteenth Century American Authors
Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908)
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Weird Tales on Film: Weird Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

Tom Johnson
SAVAGE LAND OF JUR (Kindle Editon)
Now available!

“Savage Land of Jur” by Tom Johnson, the sequel to “Jur: A Story of Pre Dawn Earth”, with a new cover by talented artist, Teresa Tunaley. Originally written in 1970, this has been newly edited, and tightened from the previous editions. Searching for the Ancient Ones, Aaron and Odette must face great dangers in this savage land. And when they do find the Ancient One, will they find a way home, or fall into even greater danger?

Now Available on from Amazon on Kindle for $3.99.
Now available from NTD!

Coming soon to B&N Nook.



WARLORD OF MARS #26
Coming in November!
(W) Arvid Nelson (A) Leandro Oliveira (CA) Joe Jusko, Lucio Parrillo

John Carter might be the brand-new Warlord of Mars, but his his honeymoon’s gonna be real short. The savage green Martians start running amok the moment he ascends the throne, threatening to smash the fragile peace he has fought so hard to win. What’s behind the uptick in violence? Only John Carter and his old pal Tars Tarkas can find the truth. Warlord of Mars #26 is the first installment of the thrilling Savages of Mars story arc. John Carter’s exploits on the Red Planet are just beginning!

32 pages, Full Color, $3.99



WARLORD OF MARS: DEJAH THORIS #21
Coming in November!
Written by Robert Place Napton
Art by Carlos Rafael
Covers by Paul Renaud (50%), Fabiano Neves (50%)

Dejah and the weapons master infiltrate the deepest levels of the Barsoomian criminal underworld and are introduced to the “Red Circle” — the organization they believe will lead them to Mortus. But can Dejah survive the battle to the death initiation process to reach the Red Circle’s inner sphere?!


32 pages, Full Color, $3.99




DEJAH THORIS & THE WHITE APES OF MARS TP
Coming in November!
(Writer) Mark Rahner (Art) Lui Antonio (Cover) Brandon Peterson

The most harrowing survival-horror tale in the annals of Barsoom! Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, leads an archeological field trip to unearth the dark secret of the ancient battle site beneath the fabled “face of Mars” formation. Without John Carter or Tars Tarkas, Dejah Thoris must call upon all her nerve, cleverness and endurance in a relentless chase and horrifying bloodbath. You’ve never seen a Mars epic like this! No swashbuckling. No swordplay. It’s like a white-knuckle ’70s horror flick – on steroids!

Collecting one of the most harrowing horror stories in the annals of Barsoom, this trade paperback features the 4-issue mini-series, complete with a cover gallery by Brandon Peterson and Ale Garza.


96 pages, Full Color, $16.99








10 August 2012

Age of Aces
Now available!

New from Age of Aces Books just in time for Pulpfest 2012!

The Adventures of the Three Mosquitoes:
The Thunderbolt Ace by Ralph Oppenheim 
290 page Trade Paperback

Streaking swiftly through Hell skies, their three Hisso engines thundering, we find the famous and inseparable “Three Mosquitoes”. They were the mightiest flying combination that had ever blazed its way through overwhelming odds and laughed to tell of it! Captain Kirby, the impetuous leader of the great trio flew point with little mild-eyed “Shorty” Carn and lanky Travis, the eldest and wisest, filling out the “V” formation. With their customary battle cry, “Let’s go!”—they’re off on another dangerous mission in perilous skies!

From the pages of Popular Publications’ air war pulp magazines, author Ralph Oppenheim brings us four more unforgettable adventures of this reckless trio from 1932 and 1933:
The Invisible Circle, The Dynamite Flight, The Thunderbolt Ace, and The Iron Mask Patrol.


$16.99 Trade paperback
 6″x9″ trade paperback | 290 pages | ISBN: 978-0982095072


Coming soon from Age of Aces: Captain Philip Strange: Strange Enemies by Donald E. Keyhoe.
Our latest installment of the adventures of "The Brain Devil" collects the eight tales featuring "Fraulein Doktor", Germany's beautiful master spy, who also happens to be Philip Strange's pre-war lover. We hope to have this ready in time for Pulpfest.

Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
At the printer and coming later this month!
DOC SAVAGE Volume 61: "The Man Who Fell Up" and "The Three Wild Men"
The pulp era's greatest superman returns in two titanic tales by Lester Dent writing as "Kenneth Robeson." First, the unbelievable sight of "The Man Who Fell Up" sets Doc and Pat Savage on the trail of the Man of Bronze's missing aides and a super-weapon that could change the course of World War II. Then, the FBI wrongly links Doc Savage and his aides to brutal outbreaks of mindless insanity! Can the Man of Bronze elude the G-Men long enough to solve the incredible mystery of "The Three Wild Men"? This double-novel collector's edition features both original color pulp covers by Emery Clarke, Paul Orban's classic interior illustrations and historical commentary by Will Murray, writer of ten Doc Savage novels. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-089-2 Softcover, 7x10, 112 pages, B&W, $14.95


Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Twelve issues for $167 (first class) or $155 (media mail) [postpaid]
(includes bonus variant and ring premium)
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]

Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)
Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
At the printer and coming later this month!
THE SHADOW Volume 64: "Death Rides the Skyway" and "The Ribbon Clues"
The Master of Darkness investigates baffling mysteries in two classic pulp novels by Walter B. Gibson writing as "Maxwell Grant." First, The Shadow must unravel the baffling mystery of "The Ribbon Clues" to stop a serial killer and unearth hidden millions! Then, to unmask a diabolical supercrook, The Shadow follows a bizarre trail of murder that leads from San Francisco to Chicago and Manhattan as "Death Rides the Skyway" in an thrill-packed tale of industrial sabotage and deadly greed. This instant collector's item showcases both classic pulp covers by George Rozen and the original interior illustrations by legendary artist Tom Lovell, with historical commentary by Will Murray. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-088-5 Softcover, 7x10. 128 pages, B&W, $14.95


Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Twelve issues for $167 (first class) or $155 (media mail) [postpaid]
(includes bonus variant and ring premium)
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]

Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)
Bear Alley Books
Sexton Blake Annual 1940

Now available!


In 1938, the Amalgamated Press launched a softcover annual featuring one of the most popular characters they published. Created by Harry Blyth, Sexton Blake's first adventure had appeared in the pages of The Halfpenny Marvel in 1893. A year later, Blake became the regular star of the weekly storypaper Union Jack and, in 1915, star of the long-running Sexton Blake Library. With appearances across the company's wide-range of titles, Blake solved over 3,800 cases, with 150 million words dedicated to his thrilling adventures.

The Sexton Blake Annual brought together some of the most popular authors of the Blake saga. The 1940 annual includes stories by Gwyn Evans, George H. Teed, Rex Hardinge and two stories by Anthony Skene, one entitled 'Zenith the Albino' (guess who features in that one!). This volume also reprints of two early stories, "Sexton Blake — Detective" by Blake's creator, Harold Blyth, and "The Man From Scotland Yard" by Michael Storm (Ernest Sempill), which introduced the character of good-cop-turned-bad George Marsden Plummer.

From the stunning cover by Eric R. Parker to the revelations on the final page, this superb collection will take you back to the golden age of crime and action-packed drama as Sexton Blake battles some of his most dangerous foes.


Sexton Blake Annual 1940 is published in perfect bound format, 164 pages b/w with a stunning colour cover by Eric R. Parker.


Blogging Sax Rohmer’s DAUGHTER OF FU MANCHU - Now Online!
Sax Rohmer’s Daughter of Fu Manchu was originally serialized as Fu Manchu’s Daughter in twelve weekly installments of Collier’s from March 8 to May 24, 1930. It was published in book form the following year by Cassell in the UK and Doubleday in the US. Rohmer divides the novel into four sections comprising three chapters each. This week we examine the first part.

The rest is at the links below.

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

Gone fishing…. - New!
PulpFest, Here We Come!  - New!
Special Murania Press Sale At PulpFest: 20% Off All Books, New And Old!
Dark Knight, Meet The Spider  
Rafael De Soto Pulp-Cover Recreation To Be Auctioned At PulpFest
BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER’s Upcoming Tenth Anniversary Issue
Taking a Breather…But PulpFest Looms!
The Greatest Adventure Movie. Ever.
“What, another one?” Yep….
A New Magazine from Murania Press!


The Book Cave - New podcast now available online!
Episode 191: Bill Preston - New!
Bill Preston returns with his latest "Old Man" story in the September issue of Asimov.

Episode 190: Pamela Foster
Episode 189: Jim Beard
Episode 188: The Ruby Files
Episode 187:  Erwin K. Roberts
Episode 186: Radio Archives
Episode 185:  PulpFest
Ric's Comics Episode 76: Shadow #4 and More!
Jason Aiken and Ric talk about Shadow #4 to start with.
Bruce Minney: The Man Who Painted Everything
Now available!


In the days of Mad Men, men's adventure magazines thrived. With titles like Stag, Male, For Men Only, and Man's Illustrated their crazy covers and even crazier stories were distinctly American. Bruce Minney spent 20 years working as an illustrator for men's adventure magazines painting beautiful women, gorillas, lions, tigers, bears, elephants, alligators, headhunters, Nazis, airplanes, aircraft carriers, tanks, guns, and lots of explosions but hardly anyone knows who he is. He worked another 20 years painting covers for all kinds of paperbacks including western (The Lone Ranger), historical romance, action, military (Hornblower), biography, and Gothic horror. He truly was the man who painted everything. With over 380 illustrations, this book provides an overview of Bruce's career.

Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN-10: 1478232870
ISBN-13: 978-1478232872

$45


Classic Heroes Publishing
ZORRO - THE MASTER'S EDITION Volume 1

Arriving August 15!
Now available for pre-order!


Classic Heroes Publishing proudly announces the launch
of their all new ZORRO - The Masters Edition Line.
Officially licensed by Zorro Productions Inc.

ZORRO - THE MASTERS EDITION is back - from a new publisher - in a new format - and this time it looks like the dream of seeing the complete Zorro canon published in matching volumes will become a reality.

Classic Heroes of Hohenfurch, Germany, has been granted permission by Zorro Productions Inc to publish the entire series (all five novels and 59 shorter adventures) in both English and German editions. The books will be limited edition hardcovers (5.8 x 8.3 inches) featuring all of the original pulp art, plus new covers by Joel F. Naprstek.

Leading off the series will be The Further Adventures of Zorro, the sequel to The Mark of Zorro that first appeared in Argosy All-Story Weekly in 1922. The novel finds Don Diego Vega ready to get married and give up adventuring for good, until his betrothed is kidnapped by pirates. Zorro vs. Pirates. What could be better?

The book will sell for $24.95 plus $8 postage, and be available ONLY through the Classic Heroes website.
They're now taking orders, and offering the option to subscribe to the whole series. You can also sign up for their free newsletter.

Aside from these great story's, we offer you classic Zorro comic adventures. Our “Comic Edition” presents selected ZORRO adventures, many reprinted for the first time. You will find classic highlights like “Zorro vs. Dracula,“ “Zorro´s Renegade,“ the all new complete “Alex Toth collection” and—for the first time ever—the second and final year of “Zorro - The Dailies.”

As fellow fans and collectors, we also need your support: Please let us know what you think.
All comments, suggestions, praise and criticism welcome!
Further information will be given in time. So stay tuned.

We hope to welcome you to our ZORRO program soon. Have fun with our all new ZORRO creations. Please spread the word and enjoy.



Clive Cussler: Poseidon's Arrow (Dirk Pitt Adventure)
With Dirk Cussler

Coming November 13!

It's called Rapier. 

It is the most remarkable advance in naval technology in decades - an attack submarine capable of incredible underwater speeds. There is only one problem: A key element of the prototype has suddenly vanished, and the man who developed it is dead.  Now it's up to NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his team to go on a desperate international chase to retrieve it.  But as they close in on the prize they discover that they're facing a much, much greater threat than they ever imagined possible.  It's clear that if they fail in their mission, the world as they know it might end up a very different place - and not a very pleasant one
.

Hardcover: 528 pages
Publisher: Putnam Adult
ISBN-10: 0399162925
ISBN-13: 978-0399162923

$28.95


CONAN: THE DAUGHTERS OF MIDORA AND OTHER STORIES TP 
Arriving in comic shops August 15!

Written by Jimmy Palmiotti, Ron Marz, Timothy Truman, Ben Truman and Michael Avon Oeming, art by Michael Avon Oeming, Mark Texeira, Bart Sears and Marian Churchland, covers by Mark Texeira and Marian Churchland.

In addition to a brand-new story by Michael Avon Oeming (Rapture, Powers), this volume sees Jimmy Palmiotti (Jonah Hex) and Mark Texeira (Ghost Rider) introduce readers to the daughters of Midora, Ron Marz (Green Lantern) and Bart Sears (The Helm) visit the Island of No Return, and Tim Truman (King Conan: The Scarlet Citadel) and Marian Churchland (Elephantmen) provide a breathtaking yarn of their own! A must-buy for any Conan fan! Collects Conan and the Daughters of Midora, Conan: Island of No Return #1 & #2, and stories from MySpace Dark Horse Presents #11 and USA Today.

120 pages, $14.99, in stores on August 15.




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

Overlooked Films: Adventures of (ALMOST the Phantom) Captain Africa - New!
TOUGH AS NAILS: Frederick Nebel's complete Donahue series from Black Mask
King Corrigan's Treasure - Another great ADVENTURE collection from Black Dog Books
Overlooked Films: ZORRO is "The Bold Caballero" (1936)
Forgotten Books: A Task for Zorro by Johnston McCulley
Forgotten (and FREE) Stories: Race Williams in "Death for Two" by Carroll John Daly
Art Gallery: Masked Rider Western
Forgotten Books: Murder '97 by Frank Gruber
Forgotten Books: Dashiell Hammett's Secret Agent X-9 (now playing on BBC !)


E-texts on the net this week
The Shadow in Review:
This weeks Shadow review is "The Silent Seven" from the February 1, 1932 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
 
Pulpgen-Online Pulps:   Now with over 1000 stories online!

"MacGinley Catches Mice" by A. Lincoln Bender from ALL-STORY WEEKLY, September 22, 1917
What does catching mice have to do with playing major league baseball? Read the story and find out. 
"Gas-House Still" by Robert Leslie Bellem from DAN TURNER-HOLLYWOOD DETECTIVE, April, 1942
Featuring: Dan Turner
It's tough to have your client, a lovely movie star, killed almost before your eyes. . . . In trying to solve the murder mystery, Dan Turner nearly co-starred in it as a corpse!


Fading Shadows
DOUBLE DANGER TALES #64
Now available!

Compere had not been able to get Peggy away from the door leading to the stairwell, and he knew that danger lay in that direction. He increased his deadly fire, but had become a non-moving target himself. A bullet from one of the gangster’s guns clipped the little gas container on his belt, and suddenly two skull-faced apparitions appeared, one on each wrist of his hands. With a slight movement of his wrists, the gas-filled balloons were disconnected and flew from his outstretched arms with a loud hiss, each flying in opposite directions.

The appearance of the banshees was so sudden, gangsters turned their fire on the two escaping gas balloons, and Compere accounted for another four hoodlums as their guns had been diverted from him.

Unfortunately, his luck was running out. He heard a light sound from behind, a short sigh from Peggy, and then he felt the cold hard steel of the barrel of a revolver digging into his spine. A vicious voice grunted from behind, "Drop your cannons, friend, or this girl gets a bullet in the head!"


This Limited Edition Series consist of less than twenty copies, and is not currently scheduled for ebooks or elsewhere.
Copies are $10 postpaid, 4 x 7 paperback.

Ordering details will be posted when the book is available.


FLASH GORDON AND JUNGLE JIM VOLUME 2
Alex Raymond
Arriving in comic shops August 15!

The Definitive Flash Gordon & Jungle Jim presents every Sunday by Alex Raymond from both classic strips together for the first time, in the oversized 12” x 16” champagne edition format.

Part of IDW’s Library of American Comics Ultimate Alex Raymond Collection.

Hardcover,
12” x 16”, 176 pages, $75.00

 


GOLDEN AGE GREATS SPOTLIGHT VOLUME 10:
THE COMIC BOOK ART OF BOB POWELL
Arriving in comic shops August 15!
(Writer) Bill Black & Various (Art/Cover) Bob Powell

Legendary artist Bob Powell is spotlighted in this volume focusing on his action/adventure features, reprinting classic strips like Doc Savage, The Shadow, Nick Carter, Blonde Bomber, Dr. Neff, Spirit of '76, D-13 Secret Agent, Mr. Mystic, Man In Black, and Jet Powers, plus Powell "good girl" art galore; war, sci-fi and romance stories.

Softcover, 7x10, 160 pages, B&W, $29.95




ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE #38
Arriving in comic shops August 15!

This issue of Illustration features:
  • The Glamorius World of Jon Whitcomb
  • The Art of Sheilah Beckett
  • Discovering the Art of Wesley Snyder 
Magazine, Softcover, 96 pages, Full Color, $15.00


Moonstone Books
GREEN HORNET STILL AT LARGE
Now available from the online Moonstone Bookstore only!
This title will eventually be available from
Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and in select comic shops


The Green Hornet and Kato return for new adventures in a brand new anthology of stories! Witness the Green Hornet and Kato's final showdown with the notorious Yellowjacket! Discover "Clicker" Binney's shocking origin story! See Mike Axford pull a sting on The Hornet! Watch as the Hornet and Kato take on homegrown terrorists! Plus, in the hardcover edition, get a timeline of all 3 volumes of Moonstone stories fit into the chronology of the TV episodes, plus a bonus story by Batman producer Michael Uslan and Joe Gentile in which the radio era Green Hornet meets Richard Benson, The Avenger! Available in Softcover and Hardcover editions.

Edited by Joe Gentile, Win Scott Eckert, and Matthew Baugh, this third anthology featuring the 1960s Green Hornet, based on the television program starring Van Williams and Bruce Lee, follows The Green Hornet Chronicles and The Green Hornet Casefiles, and will ship in two editions.

The softcover trade paperback features a cover by Douglas Klauba, while the limited edition hardcover boasts a cover by Ruben Procopio. It is anticipated that as with the prior books, the third volume will also see an eBook edition, although the specific date has not been announced.


Softcover, 288 pages, B&W, $17.95
Hardcover, 302 pages, B&W, $29.99


Contents:
"Hero" by S.J. Rozan
"The Black Torpedo" by Will Murray
"The World Will End in Fire" by Richard Dean Starr
"The Man Inside" by Matthew Baugh
"Death from Beyond" by Ron Fortier
"Play the Game" by Thom Brannan
"The Gauntlet" by Bobby Nash
"Chaos and the Year of the Dog" by Bobbie Metevier
"Axford's Sting” by Dan Wickline
"Revenge of the Yellowjacket" by Howard Hopkins
"The Man in the Picture" by Patricia Weakley
"Masks" by C.J. Henderson
"Bad Man's Blunder" by John Allen Small
"Losers, Weepers" by Rich Harvey
"Stormfront" by Greg Gick
"The Night I Met The Hornet" by Mel Odom
"Progress" by Win Scott Eckert




The limited edition hardcover will also feature:
“The Green Hornet Timeline,” a chronology of the Moonstone stories from the three anthologies, fit into the timeline of the original television episodes, by Win Scott Eckert

A bonus story featuring the 1930s-40s Green Hornet from the radio show and serials, “The Green Hornet Meets The Avenger” by Michael Uslan


Pre-ordering information:
Amazon.com (trade paperback)  
Amazon.com (limited hardcover)  
B&N.com (trade paperback)  
B&N.com (limited hardcover)

Philip José Farmer: HADON OF ANCIENT OPAR
Cover reveal! Live at PulpFest and FarmerCon VII
Coming in January!

Twelve thousand years ago the great lost city of Opar was in its prime, with its Atlantean tradition, its fabled jewels, its living goddess and Hadon, son of ancient Opar, whose claim to a throne launches him upon an enthralling and dangerous venture.

A brand-new edition of the classic novel.


Softcover, 5x8, 208 pages, $9.95





PS Publishing - Now available!
 Black Wings II - New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror


This second instalment of S. T. Joshi’s critically acclaimed Black Wings series contains eighteen stories by leading contemporary writers, all drawing upon themes, images, and ideas from the life and work of H. P. Lovecraft. Caitlín R. Kiernan has written a poetic reinterpretation of “The Hound,” while Nicholas Royle plays a fascinating riff on the existential horror of “The Outsider.” Three separate tales, by Jason C. Eckhardt, Brian Evenson, and Jonathan Thomas, ring changes on Lovecraft’s seminal story, “The Call of Cthulhu.” Nick Mamatas writes an ingenious elaboration of “The Whisperer in Darkness.”
 
The cosmic indifferentism that is the core of Lovecraft’s fiction is treated in various ways by John Langan, Melanie Tem, Tom Fletcher, Darrell Schweitzer, and Richard Gavin. The archaeological horror that we find in some of Lovecraft’s most powerful tales is revivified by Donald Tyson, while Lovecraft’s media presence is made the subject of half-comic, half-horrific tales by Don Webb and Chet Williamson. John Shirley, Rick Dakan, and Jason V Brock use Lovecraft’s life and outlook as springboards for imaginative tales of psychological and supernatural horror.
 
All in all, Black Wings II affords a rich feast of terror inspired by the twentieth century’s greatest writer of the supernatural.


TITLE: Black Wings II - New Tales of Lovecraftian Horrror
AN ANTHOLOGY edited by S.T. Joshi
PUBLICATION DATE: June 2012
EDITION: Jacketed Hardcover
COVER ART: Jason Van Hollander
PRINT RUN: Unsigned
INTRODUCTION: S.T. Joshi
ISBN: 978-1-848631-19-9


CONTENTS
When Death Wakes Me to Myself - John Shirley
View - Tom Fletcher
Houndwife  -  Caitlín R. Kiernan
King of Cat Swamp  - Jonathan Thomas
Dead Media - Nick Mamatas
The Abject  -  Richard Gavin
Dahlias  -  Melanie Tem
Bloom - John Langan
And the Sea Gave Up the Dead  -  Jason C. Eckhardt
Casting Call  -  Don Webb
The Clockwork King, the Queen of Glass, and the Man with the Hundred Knives  -  Darrell Schweitzer
The Other Man -  Nicholas Royle
Waiting at the Crossroads Motel  - Steve Rasnic Tem
The Wilcox Remainder - Brian Evenson
Correlated Discontents - Rick Dakan
The Skinless Face - Donald Tyson
The History of a Letter  - Jason V Brock
Appointed - Chet Williamson


PULPDOM #71 (August 2012) - Now available!

The contents include:  
"Prehistoric Fiction" by Caz (A letter, notes, and novels)
Review: "John Carter the Movie" by Mike Taylor
Review: UNDER THE MOONS OF MARS (John Carter anthology) by Mike Taylor
Reprint: "Children Reared by Wolves" from THE ARGOSY, May 1896
"William Murray Graydon" by Dr. George T. Dodds
Review: THE JUNGLE BOY by William Murray Graydon, Review by Mike Taylor
Review: THE LOST KINGDOM by Chester Bryant, Review by Mike Taylor
"Jackson Gregory" by Mike Taylor
Review: "The Human Spark" by John Eyton, Review by Mike Taylor
Review: "The Land of Ophir" by Charles Beadle, Review by Mike Taylor
"Early Jungle Boys" by Dr. George T. Dodds (Notes)
Reprint: "Gold from Ophir" Conclusion by L. Patrick Greene.
    Reprinted from SHORT STORIES, May 25, 1924.

This issue has a full color front cover and is profusely illustrated with full color and black & white illustrations. Four issue subscriptions are $28.

Contact C. E. Cazedessus II, P.O. Box 2340, Pagosa Springs, Colorado 81147
Email: moonfire@frontier.net

Checkout the re-designed Pulpdom website at the link below!





Pulpville Press - Now available!
Tarzan’s son inherits his father’s love of the jungle and by an extraordinary combination of circumstances is taken to the African Wilderness. The lore of the jungle came easily to him; he battles mightily with Numa the Lion, with Hista the Snake, with crafty savages and slave traders till there is no one greater in the forest than Korak (the Killer), son of Tarzan. Long available only with censored text, ERBville Press is proud to present the original First Edition book version of this novel in the Tarzan Series.

Hardcover, 392 Pages 
Price: $30.00



Pulpville Press - Now available!
Tarzan is the dream man we would most of us like to be. When we surrender ourselves to the thrill of his exploits in the African Jungle we are yielding to the pull of primitive impulses and are back in prehistoric times swinging from tree to tree in glorious abandon through the primeval forest or fighting the great cave bear with our rude stone weapons. Tarzan is such a unique character, a majestic man and a noble beast, an aristocrat in civilization and a King in the Jungle. Tarzan came and he conquered and his marvelous adventures are today the favorite reading of millions of Americans. “Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar” is every bit as good as any previous Tarzan tale. It has the same breathless interest, the thrills, and the fascination. Long available only with censored text, ERBville Press is proud to present the original First Edition book version of this novel in the Tarzan Series.

Hardcover, 260 Pages 
Price: $30.00



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

Prince Sarath Kumar Ghosh - Article on Indian magic in Scientific American, 1918 - New!
Prince Sarath Kumar Ghosh - Indian writer, traveller, prince?, pulp author - New!
Excerpt from Altar of the Legion - novel by Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur and Farnham Bishop
Farnham Bishop - Educator, Writer  
Raymond Chandler - Good biographical article at the Daily Mail, UK
A celestial laureate - short story by Ernest Bramah
Ernest Bramah - Humorist, Detective fiction writer

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

Bringing the best of Classic Pulp to Fans today, Radio Archives presents Will Murray’s Pulp Classic’s line of top notch Pulp Fiction eBooks! 
 
New to Will Murray’s Pulp Classics, two new eBooks featuring the epic exploits of America’s best-loved pulp-fiction character of the 1930s and 1940s: The Spider — Master of Men!
 
Richard Wentworth — the dread Spider, nemesis of the Underworld, lone wolf anti-crime crusader who always fights in that grim no-man’s land between Law and lawless — returns in vintage pulp tales of the Spider, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.


These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and feature the original full color cover. Will Murray’s Pulp Classics line of eBooks are of the highest quality and feature the great Pulp Fiction stories of the 1930s-1950s.

The Spider #12: Reign of the Silver Terror
Fear stalked the corridors and offices on Capitol Hill, for it was from the ranks of the mighty — the rulers and lawmakers of America — that the Silver Assassins sought their victims! Singly, in pairs and in numbered groups they died, laying down their lives for their country — while panic spread, and the Spider, alone aware of the terrific catastrophe which impended, fought through black, bodiless shadows to reach and destroy the menace which festered underground! Another epic exploit of America's best-loved pulp-fiction character of the 1930s and 1940s: The Spider — Master of Men! As a special Bonus, Will Murray has written an introduction: “Meet the Spider” especially for this series of eBooks.

The Spider #14: Death’s Crimson Juggernaut
Hideous maniacal laughter shattered the dark silence of ghostly tenements. Sleepy-eyed men and women, stumbling through the dim halls of the building, found a sight that chilled their souls with terror. On a blank wall, spikes driven through her, hands and feet, blood coursing down her arms and breasts in tiny rivulets, a beautiful young woman was hanging, crucified, dying. Still another victim of the Torture Trust! And while panic spreads, while hundreds die victims of the Killers, the Spider is blinded, his faithful servants imprisoned, his friends dishonored! How can Richard Wentworth, desperate and alone, combat the powerful, well-organized Murder Syndicate whose gun hirelings hunt him down like a vicious mad dog? Another epic exploit of America's best-loved pulp-fiction character of the 1930s and 1940s: The Spider — Master of Men! As a special Bonus, Will Murray has written an introduction: “Meet the Spider” especially for this series of eBooks.

As a special Bonus, Will Murray has written “Meet the Spider” especially for this series of eBooks.

All eBooks produced by Radio Archives are available in ePub, Mobi, and PDF formats for the ultimate in compatibility. When you purchase this eBook from RadioArchives.com you receive all three formats in one ZIP file: PDF for PC or Mac computer; Mobi for Kindle; and ePub for iPad/IPhone, Android, Sony eReader, and Nook. When you upgrade to a new eReader, you can transfer your eBook novels to your new device without the need to purchase anything new.
 
Fight alongside the Master of Men as the Spider takes on Evil in these two latest Ebooks from Will Murray’s Pulp Classics, only $2.99 each! 
 

New Spider titles will be released every two weeks!
 
With the addition of The Spider eBooks, The Pulp Book Store is quickly becoming the best place to find everything Spider. From audio books by Radio Archives to exquisite Pulp reprints and replicas from Girasol Collectables and new tales of the Spider from Moonstone Books, The Master of Men is alive and well in The Pulp Book Store!
 
Stay tuned, Pulp fans, for the best in Pulp eBooks from Will Murray’s Pulp Classics and Radio Archives!


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

Operator 5 #12: The Army of the Dead
The news spread like wild-fire. A man had solved the problem of the ages — he was bringing the dead back to life! Operator 5, ace of the American Secret Service, recognized the grave menace. He realized the danger if the gigantic advances of modern science were employed selfishly by unscrupulous men. And that precisely was the danger facing his native land!

The Master of Death, using the promise of life everlasting, was cunningly building an army of fanatic, half-mad followers, men who were burning, pillaging and slaying at the will of the man-monster they worshipped!


Captain Future #17: Days of Creation
Four powerful factions work at cosmic cross purposes in a game of system-wide stakes as Curt Newton and his staunch comrades set out to create a brand new planet to add to the family of the Sun! Captain Future… the Ace of Space!

Born and raised on the moon, Curt Newton survived the murder of his scientist parents to become the protector of the galaxy known as Captain Future. With his Futuremen, Grag the giant robot, Otho, the shape-shifting android and Simon Wright, the Living Brain, he patrols the solar system in the fastest space ship ever constructed, the Comet, pursuing human monsters and alien threats to Earth and her neighbor planets.

The Scorpion #1: Satan’s Incubator
Wholesale murder-madness gripped an entire city when mothers killed their own children and husbands slew the wives they loved! Only two people knew the dread cause of this charnel-house terror; one was the Scorpion, relentless crime-master who would ride to power on the red crest of the death-mania. The other was the honest little medico of mystery — Dr. Skull!
 
The Scorpion was the pinnacle of weird menace. He appeared once, in a single pulp magazine issue, and never appeared again. The magazine never made to a series, for some reason. It was over-the-top action and audacious horror-thrills.  A classic, the likes of which has never been seen again! One of the rare supernatural series the pulps, The Scorpion returns in this vintage pulp tale, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.


When you purchase these beautifully reformatted eBooks from RadioArchives.com you receive all three formats in one ZIP file: PDF for PC or Mac computer; Mobi for Kindle and ePub for iPad/IPhone, Android, Sony eReader, and Nook. When you upgrade to a new eReader, you can transfer your eBook novels to your new device without the need to purchase anything new.
 
Find these legendary Pulp tales and more in Will Murray's Pulp Classics, available in the Kindle store and coming very soon to the iBook Store! The best Pulp eBooks now available for only $2.99 each from Radio Archives!



Raymond Chandler’s Phillip Marlow - Character revival in a new novel by John Banville!

Award winning novelist John Banville will write a new novel about Raymond Chandler‘s beloved private detective, Philip Marlowe. Henry Holt will publish the book in 2013 under Banville’s pen name, Benjamin Black.

Along with Marlowe, Banville will bring back policeman Bernie Olds, the gumshoe’s good friend. The book will have an original plot and take place in the 1940s. The setting will remain in Bay City – Chandler’s fictional stand-in for Santa Monica, California – and feature Chandler’s hallmark noir ambience.”



ROBERT E. HOWARD'S SAVAGE SWORD #5 
Arriving in comic shops August 15!

Written by Howard Chaykin, Paul Tobin, Ian Edginton and Steve Niles, art by Howard Chaykin, Francesco Francavilla, Richard Pace, Christopher Mitten, colored by Jesus Aburto and Michelle Madsen, covers by Francesco Francavilla and Raymond Swanland.

Howard Chaykin writes and draws a brand-new King Conan tale in Robert E. Howard's Savage Sword #5! Steve Niles teams with his Criminal Macabre partner Christopher Mitten to adapt one of Howard's exciting and horrific werewolf stories. Ian Edginton and Richard Pace adapt the Bran Mak Morn yarn "Men of the Shadows" and Paul Tobin and Francesco Francavilla bring the fan-favorite character Dark Agnes back into the fold with their adaptation of "Sword Woman"!

80 pages, $7.99, in stores on August 29.



SENTINELS: THE GRAND DESIGN -- OMNIBUS PAPERBACK
The First Trilogy of Van Allen Plexico’s Superhero Novel Series
At Last in a One-Volume Edition!
Now available!

White Rocket Books proudly announces the release in trade paperback format of Van Allen Plexico’s SENTINELS: THE GRAND DESIGN, a one-volume collection of the first three novels in the famed cosmic superhero saga!

Weighing in at a whopping 624 pages and with a stunning painted cover by celebrated artist Mitch Foust, the “Grand Design” Omnibus also features no fewer than fifteen full-page interior illustrations by series artist Chris Kohler.

The book contains all three volumes of the first Sentinels trilogy (When Strikes the Warlord, A Distant Star, and Apocalypse Rising) in their entirety, introducing the heroes and villains (and those in between) that make up this fascinating and compelling superhero universe. 

What begins as an attempted abduction of a young student from her college campus quickly spirals out to engulf a diverse collection of individuals, including billionaire inventor and hero-wannabe Esro Brachis, beloved national savior (and amnesiac) Ultraa, wisecracking daredevil Damon “Cavalier” Sinclair, and mysterious alien powerhouse Vanadium.  Can this motley crew come together as a team in time to save the Earth from conquest or destruction?



Through the eyes of central character Lyn Li, a Chinese-American teen that possesses amazing electromagnetic powers, we encounter aliens and androids, geniuses and demigods, megalomaniacal arch-villains, space-borne monsters, and everything else one would expect from a classic Bronze-Age comic series—in New Pulp novel form!

“For most of my life I’ve loved the concept of a superhero team made up of very distinct individuals who barely get along with one another,” says author Van Allen Plexico.  “The fun comes in watching them encounter mind-blowing menaces and have to find a way—some way!—to work together long enough to miraculously save the day.  Throw in the ability that a novel series provides, to allow characters to really change and grow (and even die!) along the way, and you get what I strongly believe is a saga every superhero comics fan will love.  And with Chris Kohler illustrating the whole thing, you can’t go wrong!”
Plexico’s Sentinels series has been praised by Kirkus Reviews for offering “a fresh take on the superhero theme,” and by Pulp Fiction Reviews as “spectacular, action-packed, imaginative and wonderful.”  Noted superhero novelist Ian Thomas Healy called them “Kirbyesque,” describing Volume One as “the first book that successfully translates the feel of a comic book into prose.”

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

On sale as of August 8, 2012, SENTINELS: THE GRAND DESIGN (Omnibus) is a $21.95, 6x9 format trade paperback from White Rocket Books.  (The individual novels are already available as $2.99 e-books for Kindle and other e-readers.)

624 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0-98413-925-5
6x9” Trade Paperback with 15 full-page illustrations



 
Coming soon!

THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
A peek inside the upcoming graphic novel, THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES, written by Martin Powell and illustrated by Jamie Chase.

Dark Horse Comics will be soliciting the book shortly. Release date coming soon.

From Sequential Pulp/Dark Horse Comics.
Artwork © Jamie Chase.




Tellers of Weird Tales - Now online!
Terence Hanley has created a blog in which he researches and writes about the contributors to Weird Tales magazine and its companion titles, Oriental Stories and The Magic Carpet Magazine.

Nineteenth Century American Authors
Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908)
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Weird Tales on Film: Weird Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

Tom Johnson
SAVAGE LAND OF JUR (Kindle Editon)
Now available!

“Savage Land of Jur” by Tom Johnson, the sequel to “Jur: A Story of Pre Dawn Earth”, with a new cover by talented artist, Teresa Tunaley. Originally written in 1970, this has been newly edited, and tightened from the previous editions. Searching for the Ancient Ones, Aaron and Odette must face great dangers in this savage land. And when they do find the Ancient One, will they find a way home, or fall into even greater danger?

Now Available on from Amazon on Kindle for $3.99.
Now available from NTD!

Coming soon to B&N Nook.



ZORRO RIDES AGAIN #11 (OF 12) - Arriving in comic shops August 15!
Writer: Matt Wagner; Artist: John K. Snyder III; Cover: Matt Wagner

We’ve reached the penultimate issue in Matt (MAGE, GRENDEL) Wagner’s epic run on Zorro!  Witness the beginning of the end in issue #11 of Zorro Rides Again!

32 pages, Full Color, $3.99











03 August 2012

2012 Film Release Dates
August 3, 2012
August 3, 2012
THE BOURNE LEGACY
TOTAL RECALL

September 21, 2012
September 28, 2012
October 5, 2012
October 26, 2012
DREDD
LOOPER

TAKEN 2
ALEX CROSS
November 9, 2012
November 16, 2012
November 21, 2012
December 14, 2012

SKYFALL (JAMES BOND)
TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN 2
RED DAWN
THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
January 13, 2013
HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS

Age of Aces
Now available!

New from Age of Aces Books just in time for Pulpfest 2012!

The Adventures of the Three Mosquitoes:
The Thunderbolt Ace by Ralph Oppenheim 
290 page Trade Paperback

Streaking swiftly through Hell skies, their three Hisso engines thundering, we find the famous and inseparable “Three Mosquitoes”. They were the mightiest flying combination that had ever blazed its way through overwhelming odds and laughed to tell of it! Captain Kirby, the impetuous leader of the great trio flew point with little mild-eyed “Shorty” Carn and lanky Travis, the eldest and wisest, filling out the “V” formation. With their customary battle cry, “Let’s go!”—they’re off on another dangerous mission in perilous skies!

From the pages of Popular Publications’ air war pulp magazines, author Ralph Oppenheim brings us four more unforgettable adventures of this reckless trio from 1932 and 1933:
The Invisible Circle, The Dynamite Flight, The Thunderbolt Ace, and The Iron Mask Patrol.


$16.99 Trade paperback
 6″x9″ trade paperback | 290 pages | ISBN: 978-0982095072


Coming soon from Age of Aces: Captain Philip Strange: Strange Enemies by Donald E. Keyhoe.
Our latest installment of the adventures of "The Brain Devil" collects the eight tales featuring "Fraulein Doktor", Germany's beautiful master spy, who also happens to be Philip Strange's pre-war lover. We hope to have this ready in time for Pulpfest.

Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Coming in October!
THE AVENGER Volume 8:
"House of Death," "The Hate Master" and "A Coffin for The Avenger"

The Pulps' original "Man of Steel" returns in three action-packed tales by Paul Ernst and Emile Tepperman writing as "Kenneth Robeson." First, The Avenger enters a "House of Death" to unravel the mysterious murders befalling the owners of strange gold medallions! Then, the fate of the nation hangs in the balance as Dick Benson attempts to prevent "The Hate Master" from winning the presidential election! Finally, a single misstep could result in "A Coffin for The Avenger" in an exciting novelette by Spider-wordsmith Emile Tepperman. BONUS: a Nick Carter mystery by Bruce Elliott! This classic pulp reprint leads off with a knockout color cover by Graves Gladney, and also features Paul Orban's classic interior illustrations and commentary by pulp historian Will Murray. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-095-3  Softcover, 7x10, 128 pages, B&W, $14.95

Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Twelve issues for $167 (first class) or $155 (media mail) [postpaid]
(includes bonus variant and ring premium)
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]

Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)

Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Coming in October!
THE SHADOW Volume 66:
"The Ghost of the Manor" and "Foxhound" - SPECIAL MOVIE EDITION
The Knight of Darkness crushes crime in the classic pulp novels that inspired Hollywood's first two Shadow feature films! First, the bizarre terms of a dead man's will lead to a series of murders that will condemn an innocent man unless The Shadow can unmask the true killer in Walter Gibson's "The Ghost of the Manor," the inspiration for the 1937 film, "The Shadow Strikes." Then, the Dark Avenger hunts a sadistic blonde murderess and the masked supervillain known as "Foxhound" in Theodore Tinsley's violent novel that was filmed in 1938 as "International Crime." BONUS: Film historian Ed Hulse unearths rare secrets behind the making of the first Shadow feature films! This instant collector's item showcases the original pulp covers by George Rozen and the classic interior illustrations by Tom Lovell, with historical commentary by Will Murray. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-094-6 Softcover, 7x10, 128 pages, B&W, $14.95

Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Twelve issues for $167 (first class) or $155 (media mail) [postpaid]
(includes bonus variant and ring premium)
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The Big Book of Ghost Stories
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original
Edited by Otto Penzler

Coming September 18!

THE BIG BOOK OF GHOST STORIES is a spirited Black Lizard anthology with over a thousand pages of haunted—and haunting—tales.

The ghost story is perhaps the oldest of all the supernatural literary genres and has captured the imagination of almost every writer to put pen to the page. Here, Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler has followed his keen sense of the supernatural to collect the most chilling and uncanny tales in the canon. These spectral stories span more than a hundred years, from modern-day horrors by Joyce Carol Oates, Chet Williamson and Andrew Klavan, to pulp yarns from August Derleth, Greye La Spina, and M. L. Humphreys, to the atmospheric Victorian tales of Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton, and H. P. Lovecraft, not to mention modern works by the likes of Donald E. Westlake and Isaac Asimov that are already classics. Some of these stories have haunted the canon for a century, while others are making their first ghoulish appearance  in book form.  Whether you prefer possessive poltergeists, awful apparitions, or friendly phantoms, these stories are guaranteed to thrill you, tingle the spine, or tickle the funny bone, and keep you turning the pages with fearful delight.

Including such classics as “The Monkey’s Paw” and “The Open Window” and eerie vintage illustrations, and also featuring haunted mansions, midnight frights, lovers from beyond the grave, rapping, tapping, wailing shades, and ghosts, ghouls, and specters galore! AlsoFeaturing haunted mansions, midnight frights, lovers from beyond the grave, rapping, tapping, wailing shades, and ghosts, ghouls, and specters galore!

Paperback: 848 pages
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN-10: 0307474496
ISBN-13: 978-0307474490

$25

Black Coat Press - Now available!
Seven proto-science fiction tales by
Pierre-Simon Ballanche, Victor Fournel, Alfred Franklin, Théophile Gautier,
Arsène Houssaye, Jean Jullien & Maurice Spronck
adapted by Brian Stableford


This is a new collection of seven French proto-science fiction stories devoted to explorations of the future, as imagined in the 1850s and early 1900s, translated and annotated by renowned science fiction writer and scholar Brian Stableford.

This collection includes fantastic explorations of Future Paris by Théophile Gautier, Arsène Houssaye, Victor Fournel as well as Alfred Franklin's visionary The Ruins of Paris in 4875 (1875), Maurice Spronck's devastating criticism of socialist utopianism, Year 330 of the Republic (1894), and Jean Jullien's An Investigation of the World of the Future (1909), in which a reporter interviews scientists whose discoveries are in the process of laying the foundations for the transformation of human society.

US $22.95 / GBP £14.99
5x8 trade paperback, 328 pages

THE CHILD WHO WALKED ON THE SKY
by Pierre Pelot
adapted by Michael Shreve

Pierre Pelot is one of the grandmasters of modern French science fiction. His writing career spans over 40 years and includes over 200 novels in various genres, from westerns to science fiction, and crime thrillers to prehistoric novels. His books have been translated into twenty languages. However, this is his first translation into English.

The Child Who Walked on the Sky (1972) is Pelot's third science fiction novel, in which a maladjusted eight-year old is forced to flee the strange, artificial world of Zod, but his search for truth and a better life will take him to an entirely new world, beyond even his imagination.


US $22.95 / GBP £14.99
5x8 trade paperback, 308 pages


THE ADVENTURES OF MISS BOSTON
THE FIRST FEMALE DETECTIVE
by Antonin Reschal
adapted by Nina Cooper


Long before Charlie's Angels, Jessica Fletcher, Miss Marple, and even Judith Lee, there was Ethel Boston, the first female consulting detective in America, a former associate of Nick Carter, trained by famous detective William Hopkins.

Miss Boston was the prototype of the New Woman, who believed and fought for sexual and legal equality with men. She was educated, athletic and vigorous, and avoided marriage as it interfered with her self-fulfillment and independence. Miss Boston not only achieved equality, she surpassed it.

Created by Antonin Reschal (1874-1935), Miss Boston's adventures and those of her sidekick, Chief Inspector Sokes, ran through 20 installments published in Paris in 1908-09. This book collects eleven of her exploits, including the adventure in which she helps Dr. Watson catch Sherlock Holmes' murderer, and the saga of her battle against the One Hundred Thousand Arms Gang.


US $22.95 / GBP £14.99
6x9 trade paperback, 312 pages





Black Gate - Now online!

Re-Discovering Sax Rohmer by William Patrick Maynard - New!
Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Mars, Part 8: Swords of Mars - New!
Vintage Treasures: Henry Kuttner’s “The Graveyard Rats”
Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Mars, Part 7: A Fighting Man of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Mars, Part 6: The Master Mind of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Mars, Part 5: The Chessmen of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Mars, Part 4: Thuvia of Mars
Black Gate

Black Mask 10:  Death Stops Payment Audio Collection - Now available!
Includes:
“Dirty Work” by Horace McCoy
“Merely Murder” by Julius Long
“Murder in One Syllable” by John D. MacDonald
“Three Apes from the East” by H. H. Stinson
“Death Stops Payment” by D. L. Champion

Available as an audio CD or in a downloadable MP3 format.
Audio CD - $29.95
MP3 format:  $20.97
     

 

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

Special Murania Press Sale At PulpFest: 20% Off All Books, New And Old! - New!
Dark Knight, Meet The Spider  
Rafael De Soto Pulp-Cover Recreation To Be Auctioned At PulpFest
BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER’s Upcoming Tenth Anniversary Issue
Taking a Breather…But PulpFest Looms!
The Greatest Adventure Movie. Ever.
“What, another one?” Yep….
A New Magazine from Murania Press!


Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER #34

Available at PulpFest & shipping to subscribers later this month!


Murania Press hits next week’s PulpFest with several new publications, beginning with BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER #34. This jumbo-sized Tenth Anniversary Issue boasts something unique in pulpzine history: the reprinting of a complete, book-length (60,000 words) novel. The yarn is Francis Lynde’s “B. Typhosus Takes a Hand,” originally published in a 1922 issue of THE POPULAR MAGAZINE.

In addition to this 80-page bonus feature, the anniversary issue contains the usual complement of high-quality articles and departments. There’s a history of Chandu the Magician on radio and in film; a lengthy examination of the “New Pulp” publishing phenomenon; a 1940 WRITER’S DIGEST piece by pulp writer Nelson Bond on the importance of snappy starts to manuscripts; a revisiting of science-fictional continuities from the 1940s Superman radio show; a celebration of pulp writer Frederick Nebel’s hardboiled detectives Donahue and Cardigan; a look back at the trend-setting 1914 movie serial THE PERILS OF PAULINE; and a pictorial review of this year’s Windy City Pulp and Paper Expo. Additionally, BNT editor Ed Hulse acknowledges the magazine’s tenth anniversary in a long, incisive essay.
 


This special issue of BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER -- at 162 pages it’s half again as long as an average issue -- is illustrated with the usual array of pulp covers, original art, and rare photos and posters from movies. Although priced at $15.95 for single-copy buyers, it will count as a regular issue for subscribers. Subscription copies will be mailed later this month.


Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
PIRATES OF THE PINES by A. M. Chisholm
Making its debut at PulpFest!


Also making its debut at PulpFest is A. M. Chisholm’s PIRATES OF THE PINES, #3 in Murania’s Classic Pulp Reprints series. Originally published in the October 20, 1915 issue of Street & Smith’s POPULAR MAGAZINE as “Fur Pirates,” this rousing adventure yarn is set in the wilderness fringing northwestern Canada’s great Carcajou River. It features as protagonist and narrator the 18-year-old Bob Cory, who lives with his sister Peggy on their uncle’s modest homestead.
 
While out one day with Jim Dunleath, an invalid who has gone north to recover his health, Bob unearths a buried letter written by notorious fur thief Angus McNab to his brother, revealing the location of a fortune in stolen pelts cached on one of the small islands that dot the nearby Burntwood Lakes. Since the 20-year-old missive never reached its intended recipient, Dunleath reasons that the treasure must still be in its hiding place. He confides in a wealthy Eastern sportsman named Fothergill, who agrees to bankroll an expedition to find the cache.
 
It’s giving away no secret to report that Chisholm quite deliberately patterned his tale on TREASURE ISLAND. (POPULAR’s editor Charles Agnew MacLean hinted as much in his introductory blurb to the story, which is included in Murania’s reprint.) Nearly every element in “Fur Pirates” corresponded to something in Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale. And yet Chisholm’s yarn is no slavish imitation. It’s a brilliantly executed pastiche, a genuine tour de force. The characters have personalities all their own, the settings are vividly described, and the yarn is suffused with verisimilitude. The story works magnificently on its own terms; you don’t have to be familiar with Stevenson’s immortal classic to appreciate Chisholm’s exhilarating homage. But if you are, well, that’ll just enhance the experience.



Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
CLIFFHANGER CLASSICS
Also available at PulpFest!

BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER’S CLIFFHANGER CLASSICS, also available at PulpFest, collects 20 informative essays that originally appeared in the pages of BNT and deal with the great movie serials. There are no gushy, repetitive fanboy puff-pieces in this book; each essay is the product of solid research and interviews with the actors, writers and directors involved.
 
Titles covered at length include THE IRON CLAW (1916), PATRIA (1917), THE GREEN ARCHER (1925), THE HOUSE WITHOUT A KEY (1926), JUNGLE MYSTERY (1932), THE RED RIDER (1934), NEW ADVENTURES OF TARZAN (1935), TIM TYLER’S LUCK (1937), SECRET OF TREASURE ISLAND (1938), THE LONE RANGER (1938), THE SHADOW (1940), DRUMS OF FU MANCHU (1940), and DAREDEVILS OF THE WEST (1943). Serial performers and technicians interviewed specifically for these articles (over a period of several decades) include Kay Aldridge, Henry Brandon, Herman Brix, Yakima Canutt, George DeNormand, Rose Hobart, Iris Meredith, Cecilia Parker, Barry Shipman, Frank Leon Smith, Frankie Thomas, and William Witney.
 
Nearly 100,000 words long and over 300 pages, the book is illustrated with two lengthy galleries including dozens of rare stills, posters and lobby cards from the serials under discussion.


NOTE: All Murania Press books will be sold during PulpFest at 20 percent off cover price.  But the sale will last only as long as the convention does, so if you  plan on attending, don’t miss your chance to get some real bargains! The discount will not apply to current or previous issues of BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER, only to Murania Press books.


The Book Cave - New podcast now available online!
Episode 190: Pamela Foster - New!
Pamela Foster’s humorous southern novel Redneck Goddess was published by High Hill Press in 2011 and is available in print and electronically on Amazon. Bigfoot Blues, set in the Pacific Northwest’s Humboldt and Trinity counties, is due to be released in 2012. In 2013 Pen-L Publishing will release On the Move with Chesty and Rocca, the true story of how the author and her Vietnam veteran husband immigrated to the Central American country of Panama with nothing but two suitcases and two giant service dogs.

Episode 189: Jim Beard
Episode 188: The Ruby Files
Episode 187:  Erwin K. Roberts
Episode 186: Radio Archives
Episode 185:  PulpFest
Centipede Press
HANNES BOK: A LIFE IN ILLUSTRATION
Introduction by Ray Bradbury


The Hannes Bok art book had a small delay and is now expected in late September. 
The reason is that the publisher found two previously unpublished color artworks,
as well as a new, brilliant scan of another color work, and these just had to be included.

The signed limited edition has sold out.
Centipede Press does have unsigned copies remaining, and these are identical and even come in a slipcase.
Supply is limited and the unsigned copies are nearly sold out!


With over 450 pages, and a large, 8 × 12 size, this collection covers the entire artistic career of Hannes Bok. Painstakingly edited by Joseph Wrzos, with essays and memoirs on Bok by Ray Bradbury, Stephen Fabian, and many others, this book features over 600 illustrations. Many come from the pulps and pulp covers. Our color section features all of Bok’s known dustjackets and the largest collection of Bok paintings ever published, including many works that have never before been printed. Key works also feature detail views.

Printed on heavy paper, with printed cloth panels, ribbon markers, and a printed cloth slipcase, the edition is limited to 200 copies for sale and is signed by most contributors. The book is printed using stochastic screening with five inks, resulting in unparalleled clarity and color reproduction.

Limited to 200 copies - $250
Signed by most contributors.
Edited by Joseph Wrzos.
Introduction by Ray Bradbury.
Loaded with gorgeous full-page, full-color prints.
Slipcase, ribbon marker, head and tail bands, printed cloth front panel, three-piece cloth construction.


Thanks to Editor Joseph Wrzos for providing the gorgeous dust jacket artwork!



Clive Cussler: THE TOMBS - Coming September 4!
With Thomas Perry

Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are intrigued when an archaeologist friend requests their help excavating a top secret historical site.  What they find will set them on a hunt for a prize greater than they could ever imagine.  The clues point to the hidden tomb of Attila the Hun, the High King who was reportedly buried with a vast fortune of gold and jewels and plunder . . . a bounty that has never been found.  As they follow the trail through Hungary, Italy, France, Russia, and Kazakhstan—a trail that they discover leads them not to one tomb, but five—the Fargos will find themselves pitted against a thieving group of amateur treasure hunters, a cunning Russian businessman, and a ruthless Hungarian who claims direct descent from Attila himself . . . and will stop at nothing to claim the tombs’ riches as his own.

Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Putnam Adult
ISBN-10: 0399159266
ISBN-13: 978-0399159268

$27.95
Amazon.com


CONAN THE BARBARIAN #7 - Arriving in comic shops August 8!
Brian Wood (Writer), James Harren (Art), Dave Stewart (Color), and Massimo Carnevale (Cover)

Artist Becky Cloonan rejoins Brian Wood for a new story arc! Hearing of an impostor committing atrocities in his name, Conan returns to Cimmeria to confront the scoundrel. In the frozen North of Conan’s birth, it is now Bêlit who is out of her element!

32 pages, $3.50



CONAN VOLUME 12: THRONE OF AQUILONIA HC 
Arriving in comic shops August 8!

Written by Roy Thomas, penciled by Mike Hawthorne and Dan Panosian, inked by John Lucas and Dan Panosian, colored by Dan Jackson, cover by Aleksi Briclot.

Conan finds himself wrapped up in a plot to unseat the king of Aquilonia as his journey down the Road of Kings concludes. But when everything goes wrong, the Cimmerian and his coconspirators become lost in the catacombs beneath the city, surrounded by zombies and monstrous insects, all while civil war brews above their heads! Collects Conan: Road of Kings #7-#12.

152 pages, $24.99, in stores on August 1.






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

TOUGH AS NAILS: Frederick Nebel's complete Donahue series from Black Mask - New!
King Corrigan's Treasure - Another great ADVENTURE collection from Black Dog Books
Overlooked Films: ZORRO is "The Bold Caballero" (1936)
Forgotten Books: A Task for Zorro by Johnston McCulley
Forgotten (and FREE) Stories: Race Williams in "Death for Two" by Carroll John Daly
Art Gallery: Masked Rider Western
Forgotten Books: Murder '97 by Frank Gruber
Forgotten Books: Dashiell Hammett's Secret Agent X-9 (now playing on BBC !)

Davy Crockett's Almanak

E-texts on the net this week
The Shadow in Review:
There is no new Shadow review this week.
 
Pulpgen-Online Pulps:   Now with over 1000 stories online!

"The Terror's Trademark" by Emile C. Tepperman from SECRET AGENT "X", February, 1935
It was just a slip of pink paper written in Spanish, but Don Manton was one of those wise dicks who could read death in any language.
"Passage to Mekka" by E. Hoffmann Price from SHORT STORIES, May 10, 1945
The Long Nosed Dutchman They Did Not Consider Their Friend - but He Was the Enemy of Their Enemies.


Fantom Press
Adventures of the Man of Bronze: A Definitive Chronology
Special Limited Edition

The benefit signed hard cover edition of Jeff Deischer’s
THE
ADVENTURES OF THE MAN OF BRONZE: A DEFINITIVE CHRONOLOGY
is now shipping!


Jeff Deischer's landmark chronology of Doc Savage, which first discovered the Man of Bronze's true birthday and included the radio plays in a timeline, is back in print in an expanded and updated edition that has been fully revised for better readability and easier consulting.

In addition to including Will Murray's new Wild Adventures of Doc Savage, a number of the author's groundbreaking essays on the Man of Bronze are also contained within, including some that have only seen limited publication.

Offered here for the first time anywhere is an expanded family tree that shows Doc Savage's relationships to other literary characters such as Sam Spade (Maltese Falcon), Wolf Larsen (Sea Wolf), the Phantom of the Opera and Frankenstein's Monster!

Limited to only 100 copies, Fantom Press’ exclusive hard cover edition is currently in the process of shipping out to collectors. Our exclusive hard cover edition features and all new cover painting by long time Doc Savage illustrator Bob Larkin and comics legend Josef Rubinstein. Each copy features a signature page signed by Larkin and Rubinstein as well as author Jeff Deischer.

Proceeds from the sales of the copies of the book, as well as all items from Fantom Press,  go to help out the Larkin family.  Bob's  wife Fran, is currently undergoing treatments in her battle against brain cancer at a New York area hospital. 

FREE shipping on any additional items with the purchase of the book. 
Please drop us an email to confirm availability and for an adjusted invoice.

Each copy  comes with a signature page signed by
writer Jeff Deischer, and cover artists Bob Larkin & Josef Rubinstein

Limited to 100 copies.

$39.99 plus $6.00 postage in the U.S.
$12.00 Canadian   -   $17.00 International



F. Paul Wilson - Pellucidar novelette in the works!
F. Paul Wilson announced that he has completed a draft of a Pellucidar novelette for an as-yet unnamed anthology.
Wilson is trying for a balance between his style and ERB's.

More news when available.

Girasol Collectables - August Pulp Replicas!
Girasol Collectables is pleased to announce three more issues in its ongoing series of Pulp Replicas.
Click here or on the images to the right for a look at larger Pulp Replica cover images.

Monthly Special: All three for $85 ($10 off)

Our first Replica this month is THE SPIDER #83 featuring "Pirates From Hell" from August 1940. $35

Our second Replica this month is WEIRD TALES #114 from June 1933. $35

Our third Replica is SPICY DETECTIVE #32 from December 1936. $25



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

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

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


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

Girasol Collectables




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

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


CIVIL WAR STORIES ($25 each postpaid) 
Spring 1940


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

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

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

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

EERIE TALES ($20 eachpostpaid)
#1 July 1941

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

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

#5  July 1935

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

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

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

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


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

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

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


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

#6  Autumn 1931
#7  Winter 1932

#8  Spring 1932
#9  Summer 1932

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

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

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

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

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ($25 each postpaid)
October 1931

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

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

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

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

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

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

#24 April 1936
#25 May 1936
#26 June 1936
#27 July 1936
#29 September 1936              
#30 October 1936
#31 November 1936
#32 December 1936
#76 August 1940
SPICY-MYSTERY STORIES  ($25 each postpaid)
#2  June 1935
#3  July 1935
#4  August 1935
#5  September 1935
#6  October 1935
#7  November 1935

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

#12 April 1936

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

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

#14 December 1937 

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

#17 The Pain Emperor  (
February 1935)

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

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

#79 The Man From Hell (April 1940)
#80 The Spider and the War Emperor (May 1940)
#81 Judgement of the Damned (June 1940)
#82
Dictator's Death Merchants
(July 1940)
#83 Pirates From Hell (August 1940)

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

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

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

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

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

#26 Jan-Feb 1937

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

#31 November/December 1937
#32 January-February 1938
#33 March-April 1938


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

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

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

#8   November 1923

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

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

#117 September 1933
#118 October 1933
#128 August 1934
#143 November 1935
#173 June 1938

Last Months Replicas



Gotham Pulp Collectors Club - August 11, 2012!
Gotham Pulp Collectors Club
 is a club for pulp collectors to meet in the NYC/Metro area.
It meets the 2nd Saturday of every month.

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

Contact:  Mark Halegua at msh@pulps1st.com


Go Hero
THE SHADOW 1/6-SCALE FIGURE

Now available
!

Lamont Cranston, aka the Shadow, fought against evil forces with his mysterious ring, his guns, and two fists! In 1930, The Shadow started out on Detective Hour for American radio and became a world-famous pulp magazine. For the first time ever, the Shadow is available as a detailed 1:6-scale figure.  Now you can fight evil with the Shadow's poseable scarf and cape, black suit and hat, guns, and holster. Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows! Limited to 750 pieces worldwide. 

Pre-orders that were placed directly with Go Hero are shipping from their Los Angeles-area warehouse, and other retailers and distributors are starting to receive their shipments as well.


SRP: $129.99




Hard Case Crime - Coming soon!

August 2012!
THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH by Ariel S. Winter
Cover art by Chuck Pyle

A breathtaking first novel written in the form of three separate crime novels, each set in a different decade and penned in the style of a different giant of the mystery genre.

1931
The body found in the gutter in France led the police inspector to the dead man’s beautiful daughter—and to her hot-tempered American husband.

1941
A hardboiled private eye hired to keep a movie studio’s leading lady happy uncovers the truth behind the brutal slaying of a Hollywood starlet.

1951
A desperate man pursuing his last chance at redemption finds himself with blood on his hands and the police on his trail...

Three complete novels that, taken together, tell a single epic story, about an author whose life is shattered when violence and tragedy consume the people closest to him. It is an ingenious and emotionally powerful debut performance from literary detective and former bookseller Ariel S. Winter, one that establishes this talented newcomer as a storyteller of the highest caliber.

First publication ever!

September 2012
THE COCKTAIL WAITRESS by James M. Cain
Cover art by Michael Koelsch

Cain died in 1977. And that’s where everyone thought the story ended. But James M. Cain has one more story to tell— one last blistering tale of sex and greed, betrayal and deception, written at the end of his life but never published—
THE COCKTAIL WAITRESS

Destined to take its place alongside his other classics, THE COCKTAIL WAITRESS is Cain at his brutal and seductive best.
First publication ever!

A lost, unpublished novel by one of the greatest noir novelists of all time, discovered 35 years after his death
Featuring a 4,000-word afterword by Hard Case Crime editor Charles Ardai discussing the book, its discovery, and the process of editing Cain’s original manuscripts



The Huntsman Legion: An Audio Adventure by Caine Dorr
Audio Drama that is out of this world!
Coming in December!

In conjunction with the Masked Marauder Matinee podcast, NOTHER Audio Drama
has announced that The Huntsman Legion: An Audio Adventure by Caine Dorr is scheduled for December 2012.

What started as ripples in the multiverse was soon recognized as quite possibly the most potentially disastrous event any one world within the multiverse would ever have to endure. This crisis was not limited to one world however as it existed in Nexus space, between alternate realities of the multiverse, and threatened thousands of worlds all at once.

The Huntsman Legion was born. One hundred special agents, most genetically enhanced, were drafted into the Legion and each one sent through the Nexus Gate into a Multiverse crisis hot spot in order to quell the spreading disaster before it could get rolling.

Huntsman R7R, Tom Spenser, is one of the Huntsman Legion…


The Huntsman Legion series is written by Caine Dorr.
Check out more work by Caine at The Masked Marauder Matinee
.





Some of the guests announced to date are:
James Darren, Singer and Actor
Tall, good-looking James Darren was a student of acting coach Stella Adler and made his name in the 1950s in a series of teenage-themed films. A better actor than most of his contemporary teenage heartthrobs, which is probably why he was the only actor who appeared in all three Gidget movies, Gidget (1959), Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961) and Gidget Goes to Rome (1963).  It was in 1965 that James Darren was approach to co-star in a television series, The Time Tunnel, which has since become a pop culture classic.

Robert Colbert from The Time Tunnel and Maverick
Robert Colbert became an enduring television icon when he got the starring leads on Maverick and The Time Tunnel, two classic televisions series that can still be seen in reruns today.

The Lone Ranger Rides Again!
Robert Daniel, grandson of the late Brace Beemer (radio's The Lone Ranger), will be among the many attendees at the 2012 Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention. Robert will have some impressive photos and artifacts from Beemer's scrapbooks on display.

Ron Ely, Doc Savage and Television’s Tarzan
The 15th screen Tarzan (if you don’t count Gordon Griffith) was to have played a Tarzan impersonator in a projected Mike Henry television show, which never materialized. He had been tested 14 months earlier when Henry got the part. In 1966, Ron Ely signed to play the lead role of Tarzan (a.k.a. Lord Greystoke), in a successful television series that ran two full seasons. Already well educated and fed up with civilization, Tarzan returned to the jungle and, more-or-less assisted by chimpanzee Cheetah and orphan boy Jai, waged war against poachers and other bad guys. Guest stars included Julie Harris, Jock Mahoney, James Earl Jones, Ethel Merman, Simon Oakland and Diana Ross, among others. The series was so successful he even starred in two movies made from that series in 1970. Ely claims that he refused to use a stunt double in his vine-swinging or animal fights, and as a result he was often injured on the set. It has been noted by Tarzan fans that Ely’s physical appearance and dialogue were much more like those of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ character than could be said for any other Tarzan.

In 1975, Ron Ely won the sought-after role of Doc Savage for George Pal’s 1975 motion-picture of the same name. While fans of the pulp magazines don’t feel the movie lives up to the expectations of the printed page, it’s still a fun film. During the late thirties, Doc Savage and his five Amazing Adventurers are sucked into the mystery of Doc’s father disappearing in the wilds of South America. The maniacal Captain Seas tries to thwart them at every turn as they travel to the country of Hidalgo to investigate Doc’s father’s death and uncover a vast horde of Incan gold. It was reported that a sequel had been filmed in the Lake Tahoe area simultaneously with the principal photography for the first Doc Savage movie, but the sequel was never completed because of the poor box office for that first film. George Pal, famous for The Time Machine (1960) and War of the Worlds (1953), passed away shortly after this movie was released in theaters, possibly another reason why a sequel was never completed.

Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention

Monte Herridge: THE SERIES CHARACTERS FROM DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY - Now online!
Monte Herridge has a new series at the Mystery*Files Blog on series characters from DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY.

#14 - Hanigan & Irving by Roger Torrey - New
#13 - Hugo Oakes, Lawyer Detective
#12 - Indian John Seattle
#11 - Inspector Frayne
#10 - Oscar Van Duyven & Pierre Lemasse
#9 - The Patent Leather Kid
#8 - Candid Jones
#7 - Tug Norton
#6 - Battle McKim
#5 - Secret Agent George Devrite
#4 - Colin Haig
#3 - Arty Beele
#2 - Happy McGonigle by Paul Allenby
#1 - Shamus Maguire by Stanley Day
Mystery*File Blog

Off-Trail Publications
The Land of Ophir 
The complete ADVENTURE serial

By Charles Beadle
Introduction by John Locke
Now available!

The story: a group of world-tested, globe-trotting adventurers-a dog-eared diary for a guide-a carefully-plotted plan-an indomitable armed expedition-a journey into Africa, where brave men were known to enter, never to be seen again. The mission: a quest for fabled Ophir and its legendary riches.

THE LAND OF OPHIR is a freewheeling saga full of fascinating characters, action, suspense, mystery, even horror, told in Charles Beadle's inimitable style.

His three-part serial is reprinted for the first time since its 1922 appearance in ADVENTURE magazine.


6x9-inch perfect bound; 146 pages, $12.00 postpaid

Contact: john.locke91@gmail.com
Also available on Amazon.com


Checkout  earlier titles by clicking on the link below.

Open Road Integrated Media
Andy Briggs’s
Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy & Tarzan: The Jungle Warrior

Coming to the U.S. on October 16!


Open Road Integrated Media, a digital publisher and multimedia content company, announced that it will digitally publish Andy Briggs’s Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy and Tarzan: The Jungle Warrior in the US this fall in celebration of the centenary of Burroughs’s original Tarzan. The titles go on sale on October 16 and will also be available in print from Open Road on the same day.

The ebooks will include an illustrated biography of Edgar Rice Burroughs and the history of Tarzan, and Open Road will produce marketing videos centered on Briggs and Tarzan that will be syndicated to content partners.





Join us Thursday, August 9th – Sunday, August 12th
at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Columbus, Ohio for PulpFest 2012.


On Friday, August 10th, at 10 PM, pulp art scholar David Saunders will be offering a previously unknown short silent film of famed Edgar Rice Burroughs illustrator J. Allen St. John during his presentation on the artist.
David discovered the footage while researching an obscure art club in Chicago.

While double-checking all his ERB facts with a Burroughs scholar, David realized that no one in that fan community had ever seen the St. John footage.

For more details, please visit http://www.pulpfest.com/2012/08/03/catch-j-allen-st-john-on-film/


Thanks to Tom Brown and Radio Archives, the leading producer of old time radio collections and pulp audiobooks, PulpFest 2012 will be giving away one door prize on Thursday, two door prizes on Friday, and two more on Saturday. We have five terrific Radio Archives audiobooks featuring superb readings of three Spider yarns and two Doc Savage adventures. Of course, you have to be at the convention for a chance to win one of these great prizes.

We’ll be awarding one audiobook per evening and one audiobook about noontime on Friday and Saturday. So if you plan to be at PulpFest 2012 from August 9 through August 12, you’ll have a chance to take home a free Radio Archives audiobook. Wow!!!


At 1 PM on Saturday, August 11th, Airship 27 editor-in-chief Ron Fortier will moderate a panel of
"New Pulp" writers who will explore the "New Pulp" renaissance and
what it portends for the future of the pulp genre.

Appearing on the panel will be Jim Beard, Tommy Hancock, Rick Lai, Bill Maynard, and Art Sippo.
Please visit http://www.pulpfest.com/2012/07/30/the-new-pulp-fiction/ for further details.


As part of PulpFest‘s continuing salute to today’s word slingers known as The New Fictioneers,
Win Scott Eckert will be reading from three of his recent works on Saturday, August 11th, beginning at 2:30 PM.

Along with Philip José Farmer, Win is the co-author of the Wold Newton novel
THE EVIL IN PERMBERLEY HOUSE, which concerns the daughter of a certain bronze-skinned hero.
Additionally, Win has written the critically acclaimed two-volume
CROSSOVERS: A SECRET CHRONOLOGY OF THE WORLD as well as numerous tales featuring
adventure and pulp characters, including Sherlock Holmes, Zorro, The Avenger, Captain Midnight,
The Scarlet Pimpernel, and The Green Hornet. He is also an editor for Moonstone Books.

You'll find more details at http://www.pulpfest.com/2012/07/29/win-eckert-wold-newton-new-fictioneer/


To thank those who are supporting PulpFest in its first year at a new and more expensive venue,
the Hyatt Regency Columbus, Ed Hulse of Murania Press has decided to offer
20% off all Murania Press book titles to those attending PulpFest 2012.

Visit http://www.pulpfest.com/2012/07/29/murania-press-sale/ for further details.
Information is also available at the Murania Press website at http://muraniapress.com/conventions/special-murania-press-sale-at-pulpfest-20-off-all-books-new-and-old/

Do take advantage of this great deal, you'll have to travel to Columbus, Ohio
for PulpFest 2012, August 9th-12th. We hope to see you soon.


In the past year, the pulp community lost two, relatively young and active members
David Burton and Howard Hopkins.

David was an accomplished artist, writer, and poet whose work appeared in
many fanzines and pulp-related books.
He was a gentle soul, a humble man, a talented artist, and a good friend. He will be sorely missed.

Howard Hopkins became involved with the pulp community through his fanzine, GOLDEN PERILS.
In later years, he became a published author. He wrote over seventy horror stories,
Westerns (using the pseudonym Lance Howard), and the children’s series The Chloe Files.
There was a vitality, a strength, and an ever present energy to Howard’s work.

On Saturday, August 11th at 3:30 PM, please join author Win Scott Eckert and
Wild Cat Books publisher Ron Hanna as they celebrate
the lives of these two fine men who left us far too early.

Further details can be found at http://www.pulpfest.com/2012/07/31/in-memory-of/


Check out the top attractions at this year's PulpFest by visiting the PulpFest website
and clicking on Links and then look under "Attractions."
Just another way we endeavor to make our website more helpful to all of you.
See you in August!

Meet “the yellow peril incarnate in one man” as William Patrick Maynard reads from
THE DESTINY OF FU MANCHU in a "New Fictioneers" reading on Friday, August 10th, at 2 PM.

The author licensed to continue Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu series, Bill's short fiction has appeared in
TALES OF THE SHADOWMEN, THE RUBY FILES, & GASLIGHT GROTESQUE.
His non-fiction has appeared in BLOOD 'N' THUNDER and BLACK GATE.
He has been a nominee for a "Pulp Factory Award" and a "Rondo Award."

You'll find more details at http://www.pulpfest.com/2012/07/27/bill-maynard-and-the-yellow-peril/


You don’t need to speak French to enjoy Rick Lai’s presentation,
"The French Connection: How French Literature May Have Influenced American Pulp Heroes,"
but you certainly need to come armed with an open mind.
Join "PulpFest 2012" at 8 PM, August 9th for this unique presentation and
the start of the convention’s exceptional programming schedule.


About a month back, PulpFest 2012 was very proud to announce that we’d be selling
longtime fan, scholar, and collector Al Tonik’s substantial collection of pulps, paperbacks,
hardcovers, dime novels, comic books, fanzines, and, particularly, reference books.

Now that we have begun cataloging Albert's substantial holdings,
it has become apparent that we must take a couple of years to work through the collection.
Therefore, only a portion–still rather substantial–will be put up for bid at our 2012 Saturday Night Auction.

In order to thank the PulpFest membership for their patience,
Al has decided to sell one of his most prized possessions–
a recreation of the November 1934 front cover art to The Phantom Detective,
painted by the original artist, Rafael DeSoto.

Visit http://www.pulpfest.com/2012/07/24/rafael-desoto-painting-to-be-sold-at-auction/
for further details, including a photo of the painting and replica of the pulp.


Pulp fiction authors survived by being fast.
Beginning at 4:30 PM on Thursday, August 9th, pulp historian and publisher John Locke
will discuss the complex working conditions faced by the army of writers who labored at breakneck speed
to provide millions of words—all at 1- to 2-cents apiece.

This lecture will take place at the Thompson Library, 1858 Neil Avenue Mall,
on the campus of Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
It is free and open to the public.
It is co-sponsored by the Aldus Society and the Rare Books and
Manuscripts Library of the Ohio State University Libraries, in conjunction with Pulpfest 2012.

In addition to Mr. Locke’s lecture, the Thompson Library will be hosting a small exhibit of
Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert E. Howard items culled from the university’s collections,
including some typescripts of Howard’s poetry.
It will be held in the Special Collections display area on the first floor of the library.

Further details can be found at www.pulpfest.com.


They were called scribes, word slingers, hacks, and penny-a-worders.
But perhaps the most favored term, especially among the men and women who labored for the
bloody pulps, was fictioneer or, more specifically, a fiction writer, particularly a
prolific creator of commercial or pulp fiction.

Since 2009, PulpFest has been celebrating today's fictioneers with afternoon reading by "New Pulp" writers.
We'll continue that practice in 2012 beginning with Christopher Paul Carey,
the author licensed by the estate of Philip José Farmer to continue the
Science-Fiction Grandmaster's Khokarsa series (begun in HADON OF ANCIENT OPAR and FLIGHT TO OPAR).

On Friday, 08/10, at 1 PM, Chris will start off our "New Fictioneers" readings.
He'll be reading from THE SONG OF KWASIN (which he co-authored with Farmer) and EXILES OF KHO.
In addition, at 11 AM on the same day, Chris will be signing the entire limited edition print run of
EXILES OF KHO. You can learn more details by visiting www.pulpfest.com.


In October 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs introduced readers of
THE ALL-STORY magazine to "Tarzan of the Apes."
100 years later, that name still resonates across the globe.

Stop by the PulpFest website for a look at PulpFest's Tarzan programming.
Our post "Tarzan: A Hero for the Ages" is now online.
You'll also be able to see a post on THE NEW ADVENTURES OF TARZAN,
the one and only Tarzan film that Burroughs produced.

PulpFest is very pleased to announce that illustrators Jim & Ruth Keegan,
best known for their comic strip series "The Adventures of Two-Gun Bob,"
published by Dark Horse Comics, will be appearing at the "Summer’s Great Pulp Con" in August.
Jim & Ruth, along with their friend Mark Schultz, will be helping PulpFest 2012 to celebrate
the 80th anniversary of Robert E. Howard’s Conan of Cimmeria.

In addition to their celebrated comic strip version of Howard's life, the Keegans have illustrated
Howard's fiction for Wandering Star, Del Rey Books, and The Robert E. Howard Foundation.

Jim, Ruth, and Mark will be appearing in PulpFest’s dealers’ room where they will have some of their Howard-related work on display. On Saturday evening, August 11th, the three artists will discuss the artistic challenges of illustrating Howard’s work and will present an historical overview of seven decades of Conan art.

Please visit http://www.pulpfest.com/programming/other-guests/ for more on Jim & Ruth Keegan
and Mark Schultz. PulpFest will run from August 9th through 12th.

To book a room at the Hyatt Regency (rooms are going fast),
visit https://resweb.passkey.com/Resweb.do?mode=welcome_ei_new&eventID=6939453


Pulpville Press - Now available!
Men or monsters? What were those thirteen hulking brutes Professor Maxon had created in his laboratory? Soulless, malformed, brainless they were, nevertheless composed of flesh and blood and endowed with the spark of Life. Only Number 13 was the redeeming feature of this grewsome experiment for he was a perfect specimen of a man but he, too, was soulless. Unconsciously he was the cause of the most diabolical plan Professor Maxon had yet concocted--his beautiful daughter Virginia was to marry this monster! Very effectively has Mr. Burroughs used the age old quest for the secret of Life as the theme of this remarkable story. And he has also created a powerful new character, Bulan the Mighty.

Hardcover, 260 Pages 
Price: $30.00



Pulpville Press - Now available!
In far Cambodia, where the Khmer kings built their mighty temples and vanished from the earth with their millions of subjects hundreds of years ago, leaving no trace upon the written pages of history, are secrets yet undivulged to man, jungles that even natives never enter. Into such went Gordon King. What he found there you will find in the pages of this book: stupendous temples guarded by priests of the great god Siva, the Destroyer; kings and dancing girls and warriors in brass; tigers and elephants; enemies, friends, and—the Jungle Girl. He found hunger and thirst and suffering and danger and sickness; he found adventure and, at last, a great love. But before that came he wandered almost naked in the savage jungle, taking his chances with other hunting beasts. In armor of brass he served as a warrior of the Leper King, fighting the King’s enemies from the howdah of a war elephant.

Hardcover, 348 Pages 
Price: $30.00



Pulpville Press - Now available!

SWINGING the princess to the window sill Barney fastened the rope about her and signaled to Joseph on the floor above. She was speedily raised to safety. But before Barney could escape by the same means, the door behind him burst open. Soldiers poured into the room. Shouting to Joseph and the princess to flee, Barney leaped outward. His body was heard to splash in the waters of the moat. So runs one of the thrilling adventures of Barney Custer in the kingdom of Lutha, where the American, owing to a strange likeness, was mistaken for the Mad King. Imprisoned in a castle, captured by bandits, stood up before a firing squad, Barney faced death in a dozen different forms. Within a short time he was forced to assume the dictatorship of all Lutha for forty-eight hours. Then came plots and counterplots, battles, intrigues, treachery, and a hundred other elements to make Barney’s position precarious and THE MAD KING a story of high interest.

Hardcover, 348 Pages 
Price: $30.00



Pulpville Press - Now available!

For the most part the scene of THE ETERNAL LOVER is laid in the Stone Age. Nu, the hero of the book, was a mighty hunter, famous even among the mighty hunters of his day. With his flint-headed spear and his crude knife he did not hesitate to fight single handed the great cave bear, the colossal mammoth, the ferocious saber-tooth tiger and other giant animals and reptiles of the tertiary period. Nat-ul was the belle of the tribe, greatly desired by all the young men, but Nat-ul loved only Nu and, it is the story of the love of Nu and Nat-ul through the ages which is told here. Weird, thrilling and mysterious, are the glimpses of pre-historic life. Brave, resourceful, valiant and daring is Nu, the perfect lover. Graceful and beautiful is Nat-ul, the primitive maiden. And finally, THE ETERNAL LOVER is from the pen of the man who wrote TARZAN OF THE APES, the most popular author of romantic fiction that ever lived.

Hardcover, 254 Pages 
Price: $30.00




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

Excerpt from Altar of the Legion - novel by Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur and Farnham Bishop - New!
Farnham Bishop - Educator, Writer  - New!
Raymond Chandler - Good biographical article at the Daily Mail, UK - New!
A celestial laureate - short story by Ernest Bramah
Ernest Bramah - Humorist, Detective fiction writer
When men were men, and clothes were clothes...  
A short history of the Saturday Evening Post by the Curtis Publishing Company
Bill Adams poem - Old temple of the deep - a sailor's prayer

The signal - short story by Bill Adams
Bill Adams - sailor, short story writer, poet

 Pulp Flakes

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

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

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


Pulp Magazines Project

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

RED SONJA: ATLANTIS RISES #1 - Arriving in comic shops August 8!
(Writer) Luke Lieberman (Art) Max Dunbar (Cover) Lucio Parrillo

Know also O Prince, that Thulsa Doom did not go quietly into the night, his spirit endured, weak and horrible and viscous.  Free of all humanity, hungering with a primal desire, all his thoughts were bent on but a single purpose, Thulsa Doom wanted to go Home.

Atlantis Resurrection!  When that which sank beneath the waves rises once more, and the Empire of Atlantis remembers is lost glory, can Sonja save the Hyborean nations from slavery and DOOM!


32 pages, Full Color, $3.99








Rough Edges - Now online!

Sunday Morning Bonus Pulp: Detective Fiction Weekly, September 2, 1939 - New!
Saturday Morning Western Pulp: Western Tales, February 1942 - New!
Sunday Morning Bonus Pulp: Blue Book, August 1935
Sunday Morning Bonus Pulp: North-West Romances, Winter 1950
Saturday Morning Western Pulp: Western Aces, February 1935

Rough Edges


Coming soon!

BLACK AMAZON OF MARS
Cover for Sequential Pulp's adaptation of Leigh Brackett's BLACK AMAZON OF MARS. Written by Mark Ellis and illustrated by Reno Maniquis. From Sequential Pulp/Dark Horse Comics. Artwork © Reno Maniquis.
Sequential Pulp is in talks with Mark Ellis and Ronn Sutton about another Brackett character. "Citadel of Lost Ships" is an awesome Brackett story with a Firefly/Serenity type of vibe and a Malcolm Reynolds type hero. It's got your alien planet, beautiful alien warrior babe, spaceship fights and a lot of action set on a bizarre space station. It should run 44-48 pages in the Sequential Pulp novelette format.



Teel James Glenn
HEADLINE GHOULS (The further adventures of Maxi & Moxie)
Now available!

Reporter Moxie Donnovan has followed his actor-wife to Hollywood and taken a job as a studio flack, but he hasn't lost his eye for a story... and Hollywood is full of stories. It's 1938, Hitler rules Germany and is supporting U.S. Nazi groups, the studio system is in full force, America still suffers from the Great Depression, and hard-boiled reporter heroes are the order of the day. HEADLINE GHOULS follows Moxie, along with his hard-dancing, hard-drinking wife Maxi, as they confront Hollywood blackmailers, Nazi cells, occult Nazi gangs who use human sacrifice, New Orleans voodoo, and Germany's attempts to infiltrate Hollywood. Moxie and Maxi play off against each other with quick dialogue, an assembly of interesting friends, and the glamour of the studio system in its heyday.

Author Teel James Glenn recreates the "pulp" style with over-the-top characters, bizarre situations that combine mystery, nazis and the occult, the hard-charging reporter hero, and plenty of fists, guns and drinking. I especially like the way Glenn pairs the fact-hungry reporter Moxie with his charming wife Maxi. Maxi, a Broadway dancer turned Hollywood actor, is nobody's idea of a damsel in distress. She can throw back drinks with the best of them and she's as likely to rescue Moxie as he is to save her.


Paperback: 186 pages
Publisher: BooksForABuck.com
ISBN-10: 1602151725
ISBN-13: 978-1602151727

$14.99

Teel James Glenn
QUEEN MORGANA & THE RENFAIRIES
Now available!

“If will Shakespeare wrote pulp it would be this book”: Fantasybookreview.uk

Queen Morgana will not allow free passage between the realms of the Fae and of humans. Because of this, both realms are dying. The only bridge between the worlds is the place where dreams live in the daylight: Renaissance Faires! A group of humans stumbles through the portal: a cocky movie make-up man who hits on the wrong woman, a Vietnam vet whose nightmares make living a chore, a private detective on the strangest case of his career, a crippled cop and a burger store manager who loves to go LARPing. One of them has to show the Queen of the Fae what true love is or they will perish in the greater darkness that is growing day by day. Oh, and in the process, they have to try and figure out who the strange guy in the Viking helmet is and why he is giggling all the time...


Print Length: 315 pages
Publisher: Whiskey Creek Press LLC

$4.99



Tellers of Weird Tales - Now online!
Terence Hanley has created a blog in which he researches and writes about the contributors to Weird Tales magazine and its companion titles, Oriental Stories and The Magic Carpet Magazine.

Nineteenth Century American Authors
Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908)
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Weird Tales on Film: Weird Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
Tellers of Weird Tales

ThrillerFest VII - July 11-14, 2012!
Registration is now available.
We have a fabulous line-up of special guests this year, including:
  * 2012 ThrillerMaster Jack Higgins
  * 2011 ThrillerMaster R.L. Stine
  * Spotlight Guest Lee Child
  * Spotlight Guest John Sandford
  * Spotlight Guest Catherine Coulter
  * 2012 True Crime Award Recipient Ann Rule
  * 2012 Silver Bullet Award Recipient Richard North Patterson
  * 2011 Silver Bullet Award Recipient Karin Slaughter


We have something for everyone, whether you’re an aspiring author, a fan, an industry professional, or an ITW author.
Some of the highlights include:

CraftFest: This section of the conference is ideal if you’re looking to hone your writing skills. Every year, CraftFest is growing in numbers and spaces are limited. If you are keen on hearing the writing secrets of NYT bestsellers, please sign up soon so you don’t miss out.
AgentFest: If you’d like to pitch your novel to the best literary agents in the business, this is the event for you. Last year, we had over 60 agents attending AgentFest. So far, we have had five people sign with top agencies. Their success stories will be posted on the website shortly.

ThrillerFest: This year, we’ll have counterterrorism expert David Major joining us to share his experiences of working at The White House and the FBI.

Banquet: Please join us at the annual Saturday night banquet for the presentation of the Thriller Awards and other entertainment.


ThrillerFest VII

Tom Johnson
SAVAGE LAND OF JUR (Kindle Editon)
Now available!

“Savage Land of Jur” by Tom Johnson, the sequel to “Jur: A Story of Pre Dawn Earth”, with a new cover by talented artist, Teresa Tunaley. Originally written in 1970, this has been newly edited, and tightened from the previous editions. Searching for the Ancient Ones, Aaron and Odette must face great dangers in this savage land. And when they do find the Ancient One, will they find a way home, or fall into even greater danger?

Now Available on from Amazon on Kindle for $3.99.
Now available from NTD!

Coming soon to B&N Nook.




Upcoming Modern Hero - Pulp Novels by Christopher R. Yates
(New publications to the list are in bold)

Now available!
A Once Crowded Sky, Tom King, Touchstone, $26.00, July 10,2012
The Coldest War, Ian Tregillis, Tor, $25.99, July 17, 2012
The Dark Knight Rises, Greg Cox, Titan Books, $7.99, July 24, 2012
Dredd [Dredd vs. Death, Kingdom of the Blind & Final Cut], Gordon Rennie, et al., Abaddon, $8.99, July 31, 2012

Coming soon!
The Black Stiletto, Raymond Benson, Oceanview Publishing, $15.00, August 7, 2012
Seven Wonders, Adam Christopher, Angry Robot, $12.99, August 28, 2012
Astonishing X-Men: Gifted, Peter David, Marvel, $24.99, September 5, 2012
Only Superhuman, Christopher L. Bennett, Tor, $24.99, October 12, 2012
The Rook, Daniel O’Malley, Back Bay Books, $15.99, October 16, 2012
S.C.P.D.: Avenging Amethyst, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Crossroad Press, $12.99, October 2012
Pax Britannia: Time’s Arrow, Jonathan Green, Abaddon Books, $9.99, November 13, 2012
The Last Days of Krypton, Kevin J. Anderson, It Books, $15.99, December 4, 2012
Enemies & Allies, Kevin J. Anderson, It Books, 
$15.99, December 4, 2012
Wayne of Gotham, Tracy Hickman, It Books, $15.99, December 4, 2012
Spellbound: Grimnoir Chronicles Book II, Larry Correia, Baen, $7.99, December 25, 2012
The Society of Steam: Power Under Pressure, Book 3, Andrew Mayer, Pyr, $16.00, January 8, 2013
The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination, ed. John Joseph Adams, Tor, $25.99, Feb. 2, 2013
Warbound: Grimnoir Chronicles Book III, Larry Correia, Baen, $25.00, February 2013
The Arena Man [Max August], Steve Englehart, Tor, $24.99, February 19, 2013
Hell to Pay: To Hell and Back, Book 3, Matthew Hughes, Angry Robot, $7.99, March 26, 2013
Necessary Evil, Ian Tregillis, Tor, $25.99, April 16, 2013
World Divided, Mercedes Lackey, et al., Baen, $7.99, April 30, 2013
The Deadline Man [Max August], Steve Englehart, Tor, July 2013
Wild Cards III, ed. George R.R. Martin, Tor, $15.99, December 01, 2014


WARRIORS OF MARS #4
Arriving in comic shops August 8!
Written by Robert Place Napton; Art by Jack Jadson; Cover by Joe Jusko

Before John Carter another earthman visited the Red planet: Lt. Gullivar Jones.
Now these legendary warriors are brought together for the first time!


The return of the Thither people has forced an uneasy alliance between John Carter and Gullivar Jones.  Fighting side by side, they venture into unknown regions to try to rescue Dejah Thoris and stop the Thither King from using the power of Gullivar's carpet to change the face of Barsoom.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99




William Preston
A new "Old Man" story is now available!


"Unearthed" is here! The next story in William Preston's pulpish "Old Man" sequence is now available. If you missed the earlier stories, "Helping Them Take the Old Man Down" and "Clockworks," you can buy them together in e-book format at either Barnes & Noble or Amazon.

Like "Clockworks," "Unearthed" is a prequel, a novella that takes our hero back to 1925 and his first, life-changing adventure—and resolving some mysteries raised in the previous stories. Two more stories, sequels to the original, are in the works.


Thanks to William Preston for the tip!




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