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Adventure House
Now available!

G-8 AND HIS BATTLE ACES #51

Drome of the Damned by Robert J. Hogan
Steel fists beat without mercy upon the hapless and tortured victims of the sky and the Drome of the Damned is the City of the Dead!
Fly and fight side by side with the Master Spy in a glorious bid for freedom and Supremacy in the skies!

Death Flies Alone
Grandpa Takes the Air by Greaseball Joe

Cover Artist: Frederick Blakeslee

   
7x10, 110 pages, $12.95



Adventure House
Now available!

THE PHANTOM DETECTIVE – April 1945


The Manuscript Murders by Robert Wallace
Documents valued at over a million dollars are the tempting bait that lures vicious criminal overlords to defy the sleuthing skill and battling power of the world-famed Phantom Detective!
Follow Richard Curtis Van Loan, the Nemesis of Crime, as he smashed into rapid action when murder and vandalism stalk!

The Merry Month Murders by Harry Finestone
Neighborhood Affair by Michael O’Brien

   
7x10, 82 pages, $14.95


 
Adventure House
Now available!

AIRPLANE STORIES – May 1931

The Poison Patrol by Stewart M. Emery
Horse Race Horace by Perry Paul
Cursed Angel by E.E. Burton
the Trail of the Traitor by R. Martini
The Bird From Jail by John Scott Douglas
The Phantom Escadrille  by Edgar A. Manley

Cover Artist: Chris Scharre

   
7x10, 128 pages, $14.95




Altus Press
MAVERICKS: LONGRIDERS OF THE WEST, THE COMPLETE SERIES
By Kent Thorn
Introduction by Will Murray

Now available!

Limited hardcover edition of 50 copies.

Collecting—for the first time in one edition—are all five adventures of the 5 Mavericks, Popular Publications’ Western adventure heroes!
 
Meet the five Mavericks—Lance Clayton, Doc Grimson, Charlie Parr, Lockjaw Johnson, and Flint Maddox…
They were wanted men, those five hard-riding travelers of the still night trails…
Mavericks all, they had entered outlawry for five different reasons, drawn irresistibly down the Owlhoot Trail from five different walks of rangeland life.
They became one living inseparable unit of grim, uncompromising justice, united as one man by their friendship,
their burning championship of the underdog—and the high, white flame of their courage….

Contains the following stories:
“Five Against the Law”
“Mesquite Manhunters”
“Bait for the Lobo Pack”
“Doc Grimson’s Outlaw Posse”
“Charlie Parr’s Gunsmoke Cure”


$75.00 deluxe hardcover



Altus Press: Pulp Blog - Now online!

Altus Press Releases Mavericks: Longriders of the West, The Complete Series (Deluxe Edition)

Altus Press Releases Deluxe Editions of Doctor Death and the Tomorrow Saga
The Mysterious Wu Fang Continues, Plus a New Pulp T-Shirt
Altus Press News: Dusty Ayres #3 and Moon Man Vol. 5

Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Coming to online retailers in November!
Coming to comic shops November 29!

THE BLACK BAT Volume 10: "The Eyes of the Blind" & "The Blackout Murders”
The Nemesis of Crime returns in classic pulp novels by Norman A. Daniels writing as "G. Wayman Jones." First, the Black Bat risks his own eyes to aid victims deprived of their sight in “The Eyes of the Blind.” Then, Tony Quinn battles a monstrous killer as “The Blackout Murders" panic the nation! GOLDEN AGE OF COMICS BONUS: The origin of the Black Terror from Nedor's EXCITING COMICS #9 by Richard Hughes and David Gabrielsen! This instant collector's item showcases the original covers and interior illustrations by V. E. Pyles, with historical commentary by Will Murray and Anthony Tollin. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-239-1 Softcover, 7x10, 128 pages, B&W, $14.95

THE BLACK BAT VOLUME 10 is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 30).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP172219.

Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]
Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)



Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Coming to online retailers in November!
Coming to comic shops November 29!

DOC SAVAGE Volume 4: “Land of Always-Night" & "The Mad Mesa”
Featuring a NEW foreword by JAMES BAMA!
- JAMES BAMA VARIANT EDITION

The pulps' legendary superman returns in two of his greatest adventures. In "Land of Always-Night," a strange being who kills with the touch of a finger leads Doc Savage to a lost underworld civilization, in an epic 1935 collaboration by W. Ryerson Johnson and Lester Dent writing as "Kenneth Robeson." Then, in 1938's "Mad Mesa," the Man of Bronze awakens to discover that he¹s in another man¹s body and imprisoned in a penitentiary; hundreds will die unless Doc Savage can escape and solve the mystery of the mesa madness! This instant collector’s item leads off with a stunning cover painting by legendary artist James Bama and also showcases the original color pulp covers by Walter Baumhofer and Emery Clarke, Paul Orban’s interior illustrations and historical articles by Will Murray, author of 21 Doc Savage novels. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-240-7 Softcover, 7x10, 128 pages, B&W, $14.95

DOC SAVAGE VOLUME 4 BAMA VARIANT is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 30).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP172220.

Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]
Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)



Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Coming to online retailers in November!
Coming to comic shops November 29!

THE SHADOW Volume 124: “The Ghost Makers” & “House of Ghosts”
The Master of Darkness unmasks phony spiritualists in two legendary pulp novels. First, in one of Walter Gibson’s greatest classics, the Dark Avenger investigates “The Ghost Makers” after a glowing dagger materializes to bring death at a seance. Then, The Shadow teams with real-life ghostbuster Joseph Dunninger to investigate a series of spirit murders in a “House of Ghosts." This haunting collectors collection showcases the original color pulp covers by George Rozen and Modest Stein and interior illustrations by Tom Lovell and Paul Orban, while Will Murray explores the Gibson-Houdini-Lovecraft connection and Anthony Tollin recalls The Shadow Big Little Books. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-241-4 Softcover, 7x10, 128 pages, B&W, $14.95

THE SHADOW VOLUME 124 is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 30).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP172221.

Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]
Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)




Art's Reviews Podcasts! - Now online!

Pulpfest Lecture: Michael Croteau on Philip Jose Farmer and Robert Bloch


Past episodes:
"The Strange Harvest of Dr. Aquarius" By Jeff Deischer
Win Scott Eckert discusses "The Monster on Hold"
PulpFest: Empire of the Nine- The Psychos of Philip Jose Farmer
John Bruening's readings
PulpFest: Peter McGarvey's readings
PulpFest: Jason Jack Miller's readings
PulpFest: Jim Beard's readings

ATHENA VOLTAIRE PULP TALES TPB VOLUME 1 - Coming in November!
(Writer) Steve Bryant, Chris Murrin (Art) Steve Bryant (Cover) Steve Bryant, Jason Millet

Authors Tom King, Corinna Bechko, Genevieve Pearson, Will Pfeifer, and a dozen more tell the swashbuckling tales of globetrotting aviatrix Athena Voltaire!

With illustrations by Steve Bryant, this collection of short stories in the spirit of the pulps which inspired the character sees Athena battling adversaries old and new, dodging lethal traps, fighting creatures natural and supernatural, and meeting some of history's most influential figures.


Softcover, 320 pages, B&W, $14.95, On sale November 29.

ATHENA VOLTAIRE PULP TALES is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 30).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP171036.


Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press

Writing pulp fiction for a living was a tough grind, but one that always attracted hopefuls. Dewy-eyed aspirants were willing to serve an apprenticeship in the pulps, secure in the knowledge that raw talent and hard work would carry them to inevitable success in the slicks. These neophytes, eager for helpful tips and sage advice from the pulpwood Big Timers, poured over the pages of trade journals such as Writer's Digest, Author & Journalist, Writer's Review, and Writer's Markets and Methods.

Established pulp writers and editors who contributed to these publications were surprisingly generous with advice and admonition both. Every now and then their articles were vague or self-serving, but a large number offered genuinely useful tips and outlined methods of working that are just as sound today as they were in 1930 or 1940. The two dozen essays collected in THE PENNY-A-WORD BRIGADE hold significant educational value for today's wannabe writers.

Some of these trade-journal pieces saw revival in issues of Blood 'n' Thunder. A few—specifically, those by hero-pulp legends Lester Dent, Norvell Page, and Walter B. Gibson—have been reprinted before, but never have all been included between two covers. In context, surrounded by similar articles from peers, each represents a vital piece in the larger puzzle.

Straight how-to articles are mixed with market analyses and personal reminiscences. In addition to Gibson & Company, you'll find contributions from such legendary high-volume producers as Arthur J. Burks, H. Bedford-Jones, and Erle Stanley Gardner along with many second-tier favorites, including Nelson Bond, Frederick C. Davis, G. T. Fleming-Roberts, Frank Gruber, and Henry Kuttner.

The blue-pencil boys also supplied guidance to followers of the writers' magazines, and PENNY-A-WORD BRIGADE includes excellent essays by Adventure's Arthur Sullivant Hoffman, Black Mask's Joseph T. "Cap" Shaw, and editorial directors of the major pulp outfits: Rogers Terrill (Popular Publications), Leo Margulies (the "Thrilling Group"), Robert A. W. Lowndes (Columbia/Double Action/Blue Ribbon), Ralph Daigh (Fawcett Publications), and Robert O. Erisman (Martin Goodman's "Red Circle" line). Agents Lurton Blassingame and August Lenninger, frequent contributors to Writer's Digest, present market reports that at the time of publication were considered valuable tools for newcomers aiming to crack well-established sheets.

This book is an invaluable addition to any reference library with books documenting the pulp era.  It can be ordered at muraniapress.com. The $24.95 cover price includes shipping to buyers in the U.S.


PURCHASE PRICE INCLUDES SHIPPING AND HANDLING TO DOMESTIC BUYERS.
OVERSEAS BUYERS MUST INQUIRE FOR SHIPPING RATES BEFORE PLACING ORDERS.


Trade paperback, 8.5 x 11, 220 pages
Price: $24.95



Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
BLOOD 'N' THUNDER PRESENTS, VOLUME ONE -- PRIDE OF THE PULPS
Now shipping!

In case you hadn't heard, last fall we brought to an end Blood 'n' Thunder's 14-year run as a periodical. The zine went out with a bang: a double issue numbered 49/50 and packed with some of the best articles in BnT history. In the editorial we promised to continue the franchise with a series of standalone volumes, issued at irregular intervals, covering various aspects of pulp and pop-culture history under the general title of Blood 'n' Thunder Presents.

Well, this week we proudly release the first volume of Blood 'n' Thunder Presents, subtitled Pride of the Pulps. It's been designed in the "deluxe" trade-paperback format of 8 1/2 x 11 inches, with the series title in a wraparound banner and the volume number printed at the top of the spine. All future volumes will have a uniform design.

Pride of the Pulps devotes nearly 100,000 words to in-depth surveys of six classic rough-paper magazines: Adventure, All-American Fiction, Famous Fantastic Mysteries, The Popular Magazine, Short Stories, and West. Earlier versions of these overviews were published in back issues of Blood 'n' Thunder, but all have been revised and expanded for this book. Greatly expanded, in some cases: the essay on Short Stories, for example, first appeared as a two-parter with a total word count of 11,500 words. Its counterpart in Pride of the Pulps runs close to 17,000 words.

The addition of new material extends as well to illustrative matter. The surveys in Pride include more pulp covers and interior illustrations than accompanied their earlier versions in BnT, but we've also added more scans of original cover paintings.

In short, this is not a reprint volume that simply repurposes old copy. It has a significant amount of new content and is a veritable textbook of pulp-fiction history. Even if you'd be satisfied with the essays as printed in BnT, it would cost you well over $100 to purchase those issues individually. And that's assuming you could find them all: the two issues with the Short Stories survey have been out of print for many years.

Future volumes of Blood 'n' Thunder Presents will be devoted to the following topics: a history of Argosy, the working life of pulp writers, the output of legendary scribe Edgar Wallace, a history of Doubleday's Crime Club book division, and a survey of films made during 1932, which we posit to be fantastic cinema's best year. We hope and expect to issue at least two volumes per calendar year, although we're on track to publish three in 2017. Stay tuned for more announcements.

In the meantime, don't miss out on our first release in the Blood 'n' Thunder Presents series. We guarantee it'll make a valuable addition to any home library of reference works covering pulp fiction and vintage American popular culture.




Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
BLOOD 'N' THUNDER'S CLIFFHANGER CLASSICS VOLUME 2
Now shipping!

For nearly 50 years the motion-picture chapter play was a vibrant part of our country’s pop-culture scene. Following their favorite serials turned moviegoing into a weekly habit for millions of Americans. During the silent-film era, episodic thrillers were marketed to adults and children alike, but their emphasis on base melodrama and contrived thrills appealed more to kids. Those youthful habitués of Saturday matinees faithfully followed serials and retained fond memories of them. Subsequent generations discovered cliffhanger classics via later broadcasts on TV and reissues in collectable home-video formats.
 
This sequel to 2012's well-received Blood 'n' Thunder's Cliffhanger Classics offers history and analysis of such popular and influential silent serials as The Perils of Pauline (1914), The Million Dollar Mystery (1914), The Diamond from the Sky (1915), The Riddle Rider (1924), and the four 1914-17 chapter plays of Francis Ford and Grace Cunard. Notable talkie-era serials covered at length include Tarzan the Fearless (1933), The Return of Chandu (1934), The Lost City (1935), Radio Patrol (1937), Red Barry (1938), The Spider's Web (1938, and its 1941 sequel The Spider Returns), Hawk of the Wilderness (1938), Adventures of Red Ryder (1940), and Secret Service in Darkest Africa (1943).
A special essay titled "Anatomy of a Serial," taking an approach not previously attempted by any chapter-play historian, chronicles the making of fan favorite Spy Smasher (1942) from the licensing of the character rights in June 1941 straight through to the film's national release in April 1942. All aspects of the production are detailed with facts and figures, as well as the recollections of director William Witney, star Kane Richmond, supporting player Tris Coffin, and stunt ramrod Dave Sharpe.
 
The essays in Cliffhanger Classics are not the typical puff pieces generally found in books on this subject. Each article has been carefully researched and supplemented with first-hand recollections of people who worked in the serials being examined, including leading men Buster Crabbe, Kane Richmond, Herman Brix, and Rod Cameron; leading ladies Jacqueline Wells, Iris Meredith, Kay Hughes, Vivian Coe; veteran serial writer Barry Shipman; stuntmen Dave Sharpe and Tom Steele; and directors Ford Beebe and William Witney. Their input makes this second volume of Cliffhanger Classics a valuable addition to the historical record, as well as an entertaining read.
 
The book is profusely illustrated with more than 60 pages of rare stills, posters, and lobby cards from the serials under examination. 
Purchase price includes shipping to domestic U.S. buyers only; international customers must inquire for shipping rates.

Cover Art by Chris Kalb
Trade paperback, 6x9 inches, 302 pages
Price: $24.95




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

Now Available for Immediate Shipping: THE PENNY-A-WORD BRIGADE
PulpFest 2017 Report
Now Available: The First Volume Of BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER PRESENTS
Now Available for Shipping: THE BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER SAMPLER



Bold Venture Press
ZORRO VOLUME 6
by Johnston McCulley

Now available!

“McCulley was a first-rate talent, who could create a sense of time and place with ease, who fashioned vivid characters from stock material, who wrote action well and conveyed mood beautifully.” From the introduction by Max Allan Collins, author of "Road to Perdition" and the Quarry series.

This volume features Zorro’s Fight for Life, originally published in West magazine for April 1951 and never reprinted. Sixteen additional short stories — from West, Max Brand’s Western Magazine, and Short Stories For Men — are included, with an introductio by Max Allan Collins, and an afterword by Rich Harvey.

Capitán Juan Ruelas had been at his new post for only a fortnight, but already was known as an extremist in brutality. He was certain the peons and natives sheltered Zorro, their masked defender. Don Estaban Santana relished the torture, and hatched a scheme to capture the vigilante and disgrace Don Diego Vega, unaware they were one and the same! Then Zorro had another challenger on his hands — Americano Pete Jordan, a loose cannon whose stubborn pride might kill them all!

Some Zorro stories had remnained out of print since their original appearance in the pulp magazines. Now, for the first time, Johnston McCulley's original stories of the "Curse of Capistrano" are collected into one complete set — Zorro: The Complete Pulp Adventures.

CONTENTS
Introduction by Max Allan Collins: "The Mystery of McCulley's Zorro"
Novel: Zorro’s Fight for Life
Short stories: "Zorro Shears Some Wolves", "The Face Behind the Mask", "Zorro Starts the New Year", "Hangnoose Reward", "Zorro’s Hostile Friends", "Zorro’s Hot Tortillas", "An Ambush for Zorro", "Zorro Gives Evidence", "Rancho Marauders", "Zorro’s Stolen Steed", "Zorro Curbs a Riot", "Three Strange Peons", "Zorro Nabs a Cutthroat", "Zorro Gathers Taxes", "Zorro Rides the Trail", "The Mask of Zorro"
Afterword by Rich Harvey: "Johnston McCulley's Authorial Amnesia"


ZORRO VOLUME 6 will be available at Amazon.com September 15th

Bold Venture Press   Amazon.com  CreateSpace   



Broadswords and Blasters - Now online!

Pulp Consumption: True Detective (Season 1)
Pulp Appeal: Indiana Jones
Issue 2 Now Available!
Issue 2 Run Down!


THE BRONZE GAZETTE
Issue #79 is now available and recommended!
 
Contents
Cover: Bob Larkin (commission for Terry Allen)
"The Woman In It" by Duane Spurlock
"Bending the Doc Savage Formula" by Will Murray
"Q&A with Sisters of Bronze" by Catherine Lavallée-Welch
"The Bantam Books that Never Appeared" by Will Murray
"Rhoda Haven: In Love with Everything Doc Savage Wasn't" by Bobb Cotter
"Review: Six Scarlet Scorpions" by Catherine Lavallée-Welch
"The Doc Savage Novel That Was Too Good Part 2" by Jeff Deischer
"The Bronze Gazette Publications News Update" by Terry Allen
"Daughter of Savage: A Wild Woman" by Win Scott Eckert
"In Memory of Ron Wilber"

Subscriptions (via Paypal) are now available for No. 78, 79, and 80.

$30.00 USA
$40.00 Canada (US Dollars)
$50.00 International
(Prices Include Postage)

Click HERE to subscribe!

Get back issues of #76 for $15, #77 for $12, #78 for $12, and Doc Con 2016 Special for $12 each in the USA.
 
 The Bronze Gazette  
 

Castalia House Blog - Now online!

RETROSPECTIVE: “Outpost on Io” by Leigh Brackett - New!
Forgotten Sword and Sorcery Artists: Richard Hescox - New!
Forgotten Sword and Sorcery Artists: Chris Achilleos
Retro Fandom Friday – Weird Tales Edition
The Dai Sword, by Manly Wade Wellman
PulpFest 2017

Centipede Press
SWORDS AND DEVILTRY
By Fritz Leiber
Now available!


In the annals of heroic fantasy one epic tale stands head and shoulders above the rest, spanning sixty years in the telling, the saga of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser has captivated fans ever since Fritz Leiber’s first tale of the duo appeared in the August, 1939 issue of Unknown. Just in time for the seventy-eighth anniversary of the characters debut, Centipede Press is releasing the first of what will be the definitive eight-volume set comprising not only all of the stories by Fritz Leiber (and his friend Harry Fischer), but also the brilliant epilogue to the series, Swords Against the Shadowland by Robin Wayne Bailey.

These are archival editions, lavishly illustrated and featuring guest introductions from some of the top writers in the field. We plan on releasing both Swords and Deviltry and Swords Against Death this year and customers are encouraged to contact us about reserving the entire set. There are 500 unsigned copies available.

The story of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser is among the most enduring in modern fantasy and we suggest reserving your set sooner rather than later.

Swords and Deviltry features five color interior illustrations, a full-color frontispiece, full color wraparound dustjacket, and custom illustrated endpapers. The introduction is by Michael Moorcock. The book includes all of the stories that make up Swords and Deviltry along with two archival essays by Harry O. Fischer, Fritz Leiber’s 1973 introduction, two “Gray Mouser” poems from The Acolyte, and an interview with Fritz Leiber from 1979. Yes, we will be publishing the entire series of novels, each one with a load of extras. This is the ultimate edition of this legendary fantasy series.


Edition information
• Bound in full black cloth, blind stamping on front board.
• Color illustrations hand-tipped into the book.
• Introduction by Michael Moorcock.
• Gorgeous dustjacket on Mohawk Superfine.
• Head and tail bands, ribbon marker.

Cloth, unsigned: $65 (save $10)





THE COMPLETE TALES OF JULES DE GRANDIN, VOLUME TWO: THE DEVIL'S ROSARY - Coming September 5!
by Seabury Quinn


Today the names of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, and Clark Ashton Smith, all regular contributors to the pulp magazine Weird Tales during the first half of the twentieth century, are recognizable even to casual readers of the bizarre and fantastic. And yet despite being more popular than them all during the golden era of genre pulp fiction, there is another author whose name and work have fallen into obscurity: Seabury Quinn.

Quinn’s short stories were featured in well more than half of Weird Tales’s original publication run. His most famous character, the supernatural French detective Dr. Jules de Grandin, investigated cases involving monsters, devil worshippers, serial killers, and spirits from beyond the grave, often set in the small town of Harrisonville, New Jersey. In de Grandin there are familiar shades of both Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, and alongside his assistant, Dr. Samuel Trowbridge, de Grandin’s knack for solving mysteries―and his outbursts of peculiar French-isms (grand Dieu!)―captivated readers for nearly three decades.

Collected for the first time in trade editions, The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin, edited by George Vanderburgh, presents all ninety-three published works featuring the supernatural detective. Presented in chronological order over five volumes, this is the definitive collection of an iconic pulp hero.

The second volume, The Devil’s Rosary, includes all of the Jules de Grandin stories from “The Black Master” (1929) to “The Wolf of St. Bonnot” (1930), as well as an introduction by Jim Rockhill.


Cover art by Donato Giancola

Hardcover, 512 pages, $34.99
The Complete Tales of Jules De Grandin, Volume Three: The Dark Angel is coming in March!


 

Conan - Dark Horse future comics plans!

Dark Horse has stated that they do have plans to publish more Conan.
However, at this time, they cannot confirm a timeline of what they will be releasing.


Thanks to Terry Allen contacting Dark Horse and providing the above information!





Conan: WONDER WOMAN / CONAN #3 (of 6) - Coming in November!
(Writer) Gail Simone (Art) Aaron Lopresti, Matt Ryan (Covers) Darick Robertson

Conan saved the island princess he’s chained to, but even as Diana’s memories start to return, their situation grows ever more dire.
For they learn the Corvidae are meddling in their fates, hoping to provoke a battle.
And what these witches want, they are determined to get!


Co-published by DC Comics and Dark Horse Comics.


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale November 15.

WONDER WOMAN / CONAN #3 is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 30).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP170374.








CTHULHU 2018 WALL CALENDAR - Now available!

Appearing in several of H.P. Lovecraft’s works, kraken-like monster Cthulhu is an iconic figure that has fed imagination and terrified generations.

Its name has come to define the whole mythos built up around Lovecraft's strange worlds and pantheon of monsters that continue to inspire many writers.

Featuring the fantastic work of talented artists, this calendar displays a fascinating mix of weird and wonderful depictions of this notorious monster that lurks beneath the deep. The datepad features previous and next month’s views.


12 pages, 12 illustrations
Dimensions: 300 x 300 x 3 mm
£9.99
 
 




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


TARZAN SONG (1952) Hear it Here!
 - New!
Pulp Gallery: SUPER SCIENCE (1940-42)  - New!
THE LONE RANGER rescues "The Cornered Sheriff"  
Lou Fine SCIENCE COMICS covers (1940)  
Pulp Gallery: DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY (1939)  
Tarzan of the Movies 3: THE REVENGE OF TARZAN (1920)  


The Digest Enthusiast Blog - Now online!

Men of Violence! #8 - New!
Pulp Horror #6 Wrightson Tribute - New!
Men of Violence! #7
Michael L. Cook’s Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines
Galaxy Novel #25
Fritz Leiber’s Dark Vengeance
Spaceway Science Fiction April 1955
Bulldog Drummond by Sapper




DOC CON 2017 REGISTRATION is now open!
We have our registration page up and available.

Registration is $40 and includes:
Doc Con XX Admission, Commemorative Name Badge, Deluxe 2017 Program, DCXX Swag, Commemorative Swag Bag, 5 Raffle Tickets, Lunch on Saturday and much more!

Go to http://docfantasycovers.com/Doc-Con/ and click the "Pre-Register Today" button at the bottom of the page.
Once your registration is paid, you will receive a confirmation letter with a Commemorative Ticket and details about the upcoming convention.
See you in October!


DOC CON 2017
Doc Con commemorative t-shirt
Now accepting pre-orders!

There will be a Doc Con XX commemorative t-shirt.
The design shown at the right is a work in progress and is not the final shirt.

If you would like to reserve one now, email Fantom Press (sales@fantompress.net) with your size and quantity.  
Sizes small through 2XL are $20.00 per shirt.
Sizes 3XL and 4XL are $23.00 per shirt.

The shirts will be available for pick up at Doc Con XX in October.
If you will not be attending Doc Con, the shirts will be mailed by late October.
No money is due for shirts at this time.
The shirts will be invoiced after Doc Con XX in mid October. 




Doc Savage: Fortress of Solitude: Audiobook - Now available!
Kenneth Robeson (Author), Jay Snyder (Narrator), Jeena Yi (Narrator), David Marantz (Narrator), Marc Vietor (Narrator), Carol Monda (Narrator), LJ Ganser (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

Pulp fiction's legendary "Man of Bronze", Doc Savage, stars in one of his most engrossing adventures. In this novel we meet Doc Savage's greatest enemy, the diabolical John Sunlight.
Sunlight has set out on an evil mission of revenge and has armed himself with incredible scientific inventions that he managed to steal from Doc Savage's own "Fortress of Solitude" in the arctic.
Doc must race to stop Sunlight before Doc's own inventions are put to sinister use.

Complete narrative cast includes Jay Snyder, Jeena Yi, David Marantz, Marc Vietor, Carol Monda, LJ Ganser, Allyson Johnson, Angelo Di Loreto, Kevin T. Collins, Victor Bevine, Nick Sullivan, and Jonathan Davis.


Listening Length: 3 hours and 59 minutes
$14.95

Thanks to Will Murray for the tip!


Domino Lady, Volume Two Audiobook - Now available!
Written by: Gene Moyers , Brad Mengel , Robert M. Ricci , Kevin Findley
Narrated by: Kalinda Little

Pulpdom's sexiest masked avenger returns in this second volume of her all new adventures.

From a gang of corrupt policemen to secret Nazis saboteurs out to destroy the Los Angeles Olympics, the beautiful and wily crime-fighter has her hands full in this new quartet of tales by Gene Moyers, Brad Mengel, Robert Ricci, and Paul Findley.

As always, lovely socialite Ellen Patrick weaves her way in and out of trouble, donning her black silk domino mask whenever injustice rears its ugly head. From the time of her father's murder, Ellen has dedicated herself to righting wrongs. She just does it in a most peculiar fashion, becoming the pulps' most alluring and deadly hero: the Domino Lady.

Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
$19.95

©2016 Gene Moyers, Brad Mengel, Robert M. Ricci, and Kevin Findley (P) 2017 RadioArchives.com



Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.
A SOLDIER OF POLODA
Further Adventures Beyond the Farthest Star
By Lee Strong

Now available in hardcover!
Softcover and eBook editions are coming soon!


Like fellow Earthman, Tangor from the story Beyond the Farthest Star, American OSS officer Thomas Randolph is mysteriously teleported to a foreign planet where he lands in the center of a 100-year war that mirrors the Allied Powers’ struggle against Adolph Hitler’s Third Reich.

Unlike Tangor, Randolph – now Tomas Ran – finds himself behind enemy lines where he gains a first-hand view of the inner workings of the corrupt Kapar empire. Will Tomas, using his OSS skills, be able to devise a plan to escape with the beautiful Unisan prisoner, Loris Kiri, that will allow them to join her countrymen in their struggle against the Kapars?

American novelist Edgar Rice Burroughs debuted the world of Poloda in the pulp story Beyond the Farthest Star in 1940 just as Hitler’s Nazis marched across Europe and the Imperial Japanese extended their reach across the South Pacific. Burroughs’ youthful idealism regarding the nobility of America’s previous war efforts had given way to a mature perspective of the savagery of combat that stains every battlefield. Burroughs’ deeply-held views are reflected in this tale about a planet ravaged by 100 years of conflict as the nation of Unis devotes its entire existence to the struggle of freedom against tyranny.

Author Lee Strong created this second adventure on the planet Poloda, which lies beyond the Globular Cluster NGC 7006 ‘ 450,000 light years away from earth. Join Tomas Ran as he explores Poloda, battles Kapars, and finds love Beyond the Farthest Star.


AUTHOR
Lee Strong’s heart was captured by the dinosaurs found At the Earth’s Core in 1962. He has been a Burroughs reader ever since. Lee also worked for the US Department of Defense (DOD); changed international policy with a single report; deployed to Kuwait; saved taxpayers $5 million; and reformed the $2 billion DOD Personal Property Program. A Soldier of Poloda is Lee’s first novel. He is currently working on two Pellucidar novels with more to come. Lee’s motto: More Adventure ! More Excitement !! More Burroughs !!!

ARTISTS
COVER ART: Chris Peuler is a genre illustrator based in Chicago, working primarily in fantasy and science fiction. A traditionally-trained digital painter, Chris has created vivid imagery for various gaming and book publications, as well as taking time to work on his own personal portfolio. This beautiful, other-worldly cover art is his first full wraparound dust jacket painting for ERB, Inc.

INTERIOR ILLUSTRATIONS: Earl Geier has illustrated horror, fantasy and science fiction scenes in the role playing game industry for Fasa, Chaosium, TSR, Fantasy Flight, Dark Conspiracy, and others. He has illustrated books for Cemetery Dance, Chaosium, Gryphon, American Fantasy Press and Subterranean Press, and covers for The Fandom Directory. In the comic book world Earl has drawn for Dark Horse Comics, Comizone, Now, Innovation and DC Comics. His artwork has been featured as background in the TV show “Supernatural Let It Bleed” Earl lives in Chicago, Illinois.


$34.95


   

ERB THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT TPB VOLUME 01 - Coming in November!
(Writer) Mike Wolfer (Art) Giancarlo Carracuzo (Cover) Mike Wolfer

One hundred years ago, ship-builder Bowen Tyler, a handful of British allies, and the crew of the German U-33 submarine were lost at sea, drifting near the Antarctic Circle. What they discovered was something that defied time, and all of known science: the island of Caspak! Hidden inside impregnable rock walls lay a prehistoric world, filled with terrifying creatures, man-eaters from every era of time, and races of savage, murderous primitives from each rung of the evolutionary ladder. Somehow, the island was never again found, and the stories of the survivors of Caspak were considered fantasy. Today, an expedition has been launched by Tyler's great-great-great-granddaughter Abby, a quest to find concrete evidence of Bowen Tyler's adventure. But what she and her research team will uncover is something far deadlier and more shocking than they could ever have imagined, as the modern day explorers find themselves thrust into The Land That Time Forgot!

This graphic novel includes The Land That Time Forgot #1-#3 and The Land That Time Forgot Annual Savage See-ta.

Softcover, 144 pages, Full Color, $19.99, On sale November 15.


Note: This will include THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT 2017 ANNUAL that has not yet been published.

ERB THE LAND TIME FORGOT TPB VOLUME 1 is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 30).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP171121.


Cover not available
Edgar Rice Burroughs
TARZAN OF THE APES
Coming in September!


Brand new recording, IMPROVED and 100% uncensored and unexpugated!
More details when available!




Audible Studios
 




Now available!

Dafydd Neal Dyar's Doc Savage Essays are back in print for the first time in nearly 40 years!

Each essay was painstakingly reconstructed and expanded with extensive annotations and new text.

Doc Savage fans will delight in the nearly 300 pages of insights and observations from a master of pulp history.

Foreword by pulp author/historian Rick Lai!

The signed and numbered hard cover edition is limited to 100 copies.

Each hard cover features The One That Got Away, an exclusive all-new essay chronicling a Dyar article lost to the ages.

$39.99




FLASH GORDON DAN BARRY SUNDAYS HC VOLUME 01 DEATH PLANET - Now available!
(Writer/Art) Dan Barry

Reprinting of the iconic Flash Gordon series by Dan Barry! Featuring classic strips from the beginning of Dan Barry's run, from 1967 - 1971, including Captured on Pluto, Invasion, The Cosmic Tower and Radiation Giants!

Hardcover, 7x10, 228 pages, Full Color, $49.99






THE GREATEST ADVENTURE #8 - Coming in November!
(Writer) Bill Willingham (Art) Cezar Razek (Covers) Cary Nord, Greg Smallwood, Robert Castro

The Resolve has been defeated by Tarzan’s team, but at a terrible cost in lives. And now, something odd is going on as the heroes attempt to pilot the captured ship—and they end up on Venus, rather than their intended destination – because the nefarious mastermind who craves the power of the ultimate death-ray still has a trick or two up his sleeve!


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale November 22.

THE GREATEST ADVENTURE #8 is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 30).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP171506 (Nord cover).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP171507 (Smallwood cover).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP171508 (Castro cover).


 
 

THE GREEN HORNET '66 MEETS THE SPIRIT #5 (of 5) - Coming in November!
(Writer) Fred Van Lente (Art) Bob Q
Cover
: Ty Templeton

KATO is fatally wounded! But as THE GREEN HORNET rushes him back to Central City, it becomes clear that only one man can save Kato’s life…their hateful enemy, THE SPIRIT!

The final shocking issue from FRED VAN LENTE and BOB Q!


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale
November 8.

THE GREEN HORNET '66 MEETS THE SPIRIT #5 is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 30).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP171510.



Haffner Press
THE VAMPIRE STORIES OF ROBERT BLOCH
By Robert Bloch, Edited by Stephen Haffner, Illustrated by Gahan Wilson
Now available for pre-order!

Robert Bloch (1917-1994) is one of the most fondly remembered and collected authors of crime, horror, fantasy, and science fiction of the 20th Century. Noted by many as the author of Psycho, Bloch wrote hundreds of short stories and over 30 novels. He was a member of the Lovecraft Circle and began his career by emulating H.P. Lovecraft's brand of "cosmic horror." He later specialized in crime and horror stories dealing with a more psychological approach.

500+ page Smythe-sewn Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-893887-90-9

Pre-order price: $45.00

TABLE OF CONTENTS
“The Feast in the Abbey”
“The Beasts of Barsac”
“The Shambler from the Stars”
“The Opener of the Way”
“The Mannikin”
“A Question of Identity”
“The Cloak”
“Unheavenly Twin”
“Nursemaid to Nightmares”
“Fear Planet”
“Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper”
“Black Barter”
“Death Is a Vampire”
“The Bat Is My Brother”
“The Skull of the Marquis de Sade”
“The Bogey Man Will Get You”
“Tooth or Consequences”
“The Hungry House”
“The Man Who Collected Poe”
“The Light-House”
“I Kiss Your Shadow”
“Dig That Crazy Grave”
“The Sleeping Redheads” aka “Sleeping Beauty”
“Hungarian Rhapsody”
“The Living Dead”
“A Case of the Stubborns”
“The Undead”
“The Yougoslaves”
“The Bedposts of Life”
“The Scent of Vinegar”







HALF PAST DANGER II: DEAD TO REICHS #3 - Coming in November! 
Stephen Mooney (Writer/Art/Cover A), Roch (Cover B)

Break In! The team must infiltrate the Japanese Chemical Warfare Division: Unit 731.
The prize: priceless intel on the Nazi pathogen. With the help of Ishi's sister Emiko and with Spot the Deinonychus in tow, the daring raid is afoot.
But something none of them expected lies in wait within… something BIG.


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale November 8.

HALF PAST DANGER 2: DEAD TO REICHS #3 is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 30).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP170477 (Mooney cover).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP170478 (Roch cover).


 

HEADLIGHTS HONEYS: THE "PERFECT PAIR" IN VINTAGE PAPERBACKS, PULPS, AND COMICS - Coming in November! 
(Writers) Monte Beauchamp, Steven Heller

Once celebrated by skilled painters and sculptors throughout the history of art, with the advent of the Industrial Age and assembly line production, scores of "mams" merchandisers soon got in on the act. From "boob" aprons, t-shirts, sweat-shirts, and baseball caps to salt and pepper shakers, mugs, coffee cups, and shot glasses, from greeting cards, books, and periodicals to candied treats, from jewelry to novelty gag gifts, billions of dollars are generated annually by the objectification of breasts. There was a time, however, when their low-budget portrayal in comic books, paperbacks, and pulps came under fervid assault, and effectively squelched, by the media censors. Headlight Honeys assembles dozens of rare, salacious cover examples and delivers the scoop on this harrowing, pre-code era in American publishing.

Hardcover, 6x8, 176 pages, Full Color, $29.95, On sale November 15.

HEADLIGHT HONEYS is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 30).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP172173.

Monte Beauchamp is an award-winning art director and founder of the graphics-illustration-comics annuals BLAB! and Blab World. His books include: Masterful Marks: Cartoonists Who Changed the World (2013), Krampus: The Devil of Christmas (2010), and The Life & Times of R. Crumb (2008). He has received numerous awards and honors, including the Society of Illustrator’s prestigious Richard Gangel Art Director Award for 2012.

Steven Heller wears many hats (in addition to the New York Yankees): For 33 years he was an art director at the New York Times, originally on the OpEd Page and for almost 30 of those years with the New York Times Book Review. Currently, he is co-chair of the MFA Designer as Author Department, Special Consultant to the President of SVA for New Programs, and writes the Visuals column for the New York Times Book Review.

This is a resolicitation. Previous orders have been cancelled.

Cernunnos    Amazon.com


Howard Andrew Jones - Now online!

Reruns: Harold Lamb
Remembering Corum
Adventure!
Novel Writing and Pulp
One Sword for Love

Illustrated Press
Reynold Brown: A Life in Pictures
Updated 2nd edition

Now shipping!

William Reynold Brown (1917 1991) was a prolific American artist whose career embraced virtually every facet of the illustration field. During his life he produced work for the newspaper comics (Tailspin Tommy), perfected the concept of the cutaway engineering drawing for North American Aviation, painted covers for some of the first paperback books ever published, illustrated scores of magazines and magazine covers, and most notably produced over 300 movie posters for the motion picture industry. After his retirement from commercial illustration, Reynold found success as a fine artist, producing hundreds of oil paintings and drawings for the Western art market. This book presents a rich overview of Reynold Brown s entire career, and showcases hundreds of original paintings, drawings, photographs, and printed illustrations often in glorious full-page reproductions. Many of his most iconic movie posters are featured, such as Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Spartacus, I was a Teenage Werewolf, and many more. 9 x 12 inches, full-color, hardcover with dust jacket. A massive 304 pages!

This spectacular new book explores the life and work of Reynold Brown, one of the greatest movie poster artists in Hollywood history. Shipping in September 2017, this whopping 304 page new edition adds 80 new pages to the original 2009 edition, and is filled to the brim with scores of beautiful illustrations reproduced from the original paintings and drawings, as well as rarely seen tear sheets from vintage magazines, movie posters, photographs, color studies, and more. A complete preview of the book is available here:

304 pages, 9”x12”, full-color on premium low-gloss stock, hardbound with dust jacket.

The Standard Edition is $49.95 plus postage.

A Special Edition of the book, limited to just 100 copies signed and numbered by author Daniel Zimmer, and presented in a red slipcase with white lettering, is available for $69.95 plus postage.







ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE #57 Now available and coming soon in comic shops!

Illustration features the spectacular art of Earl Mayan, best known for his photographically detailed slick magazine illustrations of the 1950s. Written by the artist's daughter, the profile presents a behind the scenes look at the creation of his finest illustrations, as well as dozens of reproductions of his original paintings, drawings, and rare reference photographs. The second feature examines the link between William Faulkner's paperbacks and the influential and widely imitated cover art of James Avati. Last up, James Witek returns to explore the graphics used in marketing bubblegum cards through the decades.

Magazine, 80 pages, Full Color, $15.00






I WATCHED THEM EAT ME ALIVE: KILLER CREATURES IN MEN'S ADVENTURE MAGAZINES - Now available!

I Watched Them Eat Me Alive is the first installment of The Men's Adventure Library Journal, a series focusing on specific facets of the vintage men's adventure magazines stories, artwork, and history.

Dedicated to exploring the lost world of vintage men’s adventure magazines (aka MAMs), The Men’s Adventure Library chronicles the mags’ three decades on American newsstands, from the early 1950s through the mid-1970s. Mixing elements from many sources—early pulp fiction, detective stories and true crime, mystery and noir films, exotic travel magazines, celebrity scandal rags and bachelor mags—MAMs ratcheted up the tension and amped up the testosterone to create explosive, entertaining, and often outrageous reading for millions of American men. Though long extinct and mostly unseen for generations, their pervasive influence continues to shape some of the most popular and enduring pop culture tropes and trends.

Curated by MAM historian/collector Robert Deis and writer Wyatt Doyle, The Men’s Adventure Library reprints and provides context for classic MAM stories and artwork drawn from the mags’ rich history of gonzo pulp, with releases available in full-color trade paperback and deluxe, expanded hardcover editions. Each volume is a vivid reminder that MAMs were extremely cool, unexpectedly influential, and still pack a bare-knuckle punch. Read ’em all…if you’ve got the guts!


Paperback: 108 pages
Publisher: New Texture
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.3 x 9 inches
$9.95


Hardcover: 128 pages
Publisher: New Texture
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
$24.95


James Bond - Ian Fleming Productions announces new hardcover editions!

Vintage UK will be publishing hardback editions of Casino Royale, Live and Let Die and Goldfinger this autumn.

As well as featuring new introductions to the novels, the editions are wrapped in stunning new covers designed by Budapest-based graphic designer and illustrator Levente Szabó, whose work includes projects for BAFTA and the Hungarian Design Council.  The cover illustrations cleverly pull together different characters and plot lines from the novels to form a dramatic silhouette. As well as designing the books’ covers, Szabó has produced decorative endpapers for the editions which provide an additional special flourish.


Each edition also includes new introductions by screenwriter, author and documentary filmmaker John Cork.
He has co-authored three books on the James Bond phenomenon and he wrote and directed the documentary, Ian Fleming: 007’s Creator.


This electrifying set combines scintillating designs and fascinating new intel with some of the finest writing from Fleming’s typewriter.
Just in time for Christmas, the new hardbacks will be hitting bookshops in the UK on 2nd November and are priced at £12.99.




JAMES BOND CLASSIC COLLECTION 1966-1969: OCTOPUSSY HC - Coming in November!
(Writer) Ian Fleming, Jim Lawrence (Art) Yaroslav Horak

James Bond is back in action in this deluxe omnibus, featuring four timeless tales starring Agent 007.

Featuring the iconic Octopussy and The Hildebrand Rarity, based on the short stories by Ian Fleming, these are presented alongside The Harpies and River of Death, two unique adventures created by Jim Lawrence.
This lavishly presented, high-action adventure is restored from the original Daily Express comic strips.

Hardcover, 10x11, 256 pages, B&W, $39.95, On sale November 29.


JAMES BOND CLASSIC COLLECTION 1966-1969: OCTOPUSSY is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 30).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP171922.

This is a resolicitation. Previous orders have been cancelled.



JAMES BOND: FELIX LEITER HC - Coming in November!
(Writer) James Robinson (Art) Aaron Campbell
Cover: Mike Perkins

Felix Leiter finds himself in Japan, tracking down a beautiful, Russian spy from his past. But when the mission takes a turn for the worse, he will discover that there are more deadly schemes afoot in Tokyo and beyond! From superstar creative team James Robinson (Starman, Red Sonja) and Aaron Campbell (The Shadow, Uncanny) comes the Bond spin-off highlighting 007’s American counterpart, blending spy thrills with the dark alleys and darker deeds of crime fiction!


Full Color, 184 pages, $24.99, On sale November 15.

JAMES BOND: FELIX LEITER HC is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 30).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP171448.





JAMES BOND: KILL CHAIN #5 (of 6) - Coming in November!
(Writer) Andy Diggle (Art) Luca Casalanguida
Cover: Greg Smallwood

As NATO tears itself apart from within, 007 is declared Europe’s most wanted man.
Hunted by SMERSH and the CIA, he must infltrate a nuclear airbase to learn the secrets of Operation Hooded Falcon before Europe erupts into all-out war!


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale November 15.

JAMES BOND: KILL CHAIN #5 is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 30).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP171449.




JAMES BOND: MONEYPENNY #1 - Arriving in comic shops August 30!
(Writer) Jody Houser (Art) Jacob Edgar (Cover) Tula Lotay

By writer JODY HOUSER (Mother Panic, Faith) and new artist JACOB EDGAR, a never-before-told mission starring MONEYPENNY, friend of JAMES BOND, former MI6 field agent and bodyguard of M! On a ‘routine' protection mission, Moneypenny discovers a complicated assassination plot that bears a startling resemblance to a terrorist attack from her childhood. Can she call upon her secret agent skills to stop the plot…?


Full Color, 40 pages, $4.99




JAMES BOND SOLSTICE ONE SHOT - Coming in November!
(Writer/Art/Cover) Ibrahim Moustafa

007 accepts an unofficial mission. He travels to Paris, in pursuit of a Russian. But is Bond the hunter, or the hunted? A stunning thirty-page tale by superstar writer/artist IBRAHIM MOUSTAFA (Savage Things, Mockingbird, Jaeger).



Full Color, 40 pages, $4.99, On sale November 22.

JAMES BOND: SOLSTICE is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 30).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP171447.



JAMES BOND: VARGR TPB - Coming in November!
(Writer) Warren Ellis (Art) Jason Masters
Cover: Gabriel Hardman

After a mission of vengeance in Helsinki, James Bond returns to London and assumes the workload of a fallen 00 Section agent. His new mission takes him to Berlin, presumably to break up an agile drug-trafficking operation. But Bond has no idea of the forces ranged in secret against him, the full range of an operation that’s much scarier and more lethal than he could possibly imagine. Berlin is about to catch fire… and James Bond is trapped inside.

Dynamite Entertainment proudly presents VARGR, the debut storyline in the all-new James Bond comic book series, as crafted by masterful writer Warren Ellis (Transmetropolitan, The Authority) and artist Jason Masters (Batman Incorporated, Guardians of the Galaxy).


Full Color, 176 pages, $17.99, On sale November 22.

JAMES BOND: VARGER TPB is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 30).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP171454.




Jerry Schneider Enterprises
Now available!

WANDL THE INVADER
A CLASSIC NOVEL OF INTERPLANETARY WARFARE


There were nine major planets in the Solar System and it was within their boundaries that man first set up interplanetary commerce and began trading with the ancient Martian civilization. And then they discovered a tenth planet—a maverick!

This tenth world, if it had an orbit, had a strange one, for it was heading inwards from interstellar space, heading close to the Earth-Mars spaceways, upsetting astronautic calculations and raising turmoil on the two inhabited worlds.

But even so none suspected then just how much trouble this new world would make. For it was WANDL THE INVADER and it was no barren planetoid. It was a manned world, manned by minds and monsters and traveling into our system with a purpose beyond that of astronomical accident!

It’s a terrific novel from the classic days of great science-fiction adventure.

Trade Paperback, 6 x 9 inch, 138 pages
Retail Price $19.95
Our Price $12.95


THE WORLD of literature is full of Atlantis stories, but we are certain, that there has never been a story written with the daring and with such originality as to approach “The Sunken World.”
Science is pretty well convinced today, that there was an Atlantis many thousands of years ago. Just exactly what became of it, no one knows. The author, in this story, which no doubt will become a classic some day, has approached the subject at a totally different angle than has ever been attempted before; and let no one think that the idea, daring and impossible as it would seem at first, is impossible. Nor is it at all impossible that progress and science goes and comes in waves. It may be possible that millions of years ago, the world had reached a much higher culture than we have today.

Electricity and radio, and all that goes with it, may have been well known eons ago, only to be swept away and rediscovered. Every scientist knows, that practically every invention is periodically rediscovered independently. It seems there is nothing new under the sun.

But the big idea behind the author’s theme is the holding of present-day science and progress up to a certain amount of ridicule, and showing up our civilization in a sometimes grotesque mirror, which may not be always pleasing to our vanity and to our appraisal of our so-called present day achievements.

The point the author brings out is that it is one thing to have power in science and inventions, but that it is another thing to use that power correctly. He shows dramatically and vividly how it can be used and how it should be used.

From the technical standpoint, this story is tremendous, and while some of our critics, will, as usual, find fault with the hydraulics contained in this story, the fact remains they are not at all impossible.

Trade Paperback, 6 x 9 inch, 332 pages
Retail Price $19.95
Our Price $14.95





JUSTICE INC: THE AVENGER #2 (of 6) - Arriving in comic shops August 30!
(Co-writers) Kyle Higgins & Joe Gentile (Art) Alexandre Shibao
Cover:
Tom Mandrake

The mystery only deepens! Who really could have killed the scientist Doctor Sprechen? It’s not looking good for the man who calls himself the Avenger! In the aftermath of a clash with some suspicious thugs, Team Avenger races the clock to follow up on a clue that might help exonerate their leader – and Benson finds himself contending with serious opponents in the diligent men and women of the nation’s Federal Bureau of Investigation!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99



KONG ON THE PLANET OF APES #1 - Coming in November!
(Writer) Ryan Ferrier (Art) Carlos Magno (Cover) Mike Huddleston

The damn dirty crossover event you demanded!

Following the events of the first Planet of the Apes film (1968), Dr. Zaius and General Ursus lead a small group of soldiers to the Forbidden Zone to destroy any remaining evidence of Taylor's time among them. To their surprise, they discover... A KONG! Now they must venture to Skull Island with Cornelius and Zira to discover the truth, but they may not survive the deadliest journey of their lives!


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale November 15.

KONG ON THE PLANET OF THE APES #1 is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 30).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP171275.





Martin Grams' Blog - Now online!

Patrick Duffy and the Man from Atlantis
Hopalong Cassidy is disintegrating
"Lost" Shadow Radio Programs Discovered
Willie Whopper and the Mysterious Airman

THE MASSACRE OF MANKIND: Sequel to The War of the Worlds - Now available!
by Stephen Baxter


It has been 14 years since the Martians invaded England. The world has moved on, always watching the skies but content that we know how to defeat the Martian menace. Machinery looted from the abandoned capsules and war-machines has led to technological leaps forward. The Martians are vulnerable to earth germs. The Army is prepared.

So when the signs of launches on Mars are seen, there seems little reason to worry. Unless you listen to one man, Walter Jenkins, the narrator of Wells' book. He is sure that the Martians have learned, adapted, understood their defeat.

He is right.

Thrust into the chaos of a new invasion, a journalist - sister-in-law to Walter Jenkins - must survive, escape and report on the war.

The Massacre of Mankind has begun.


Hardcover, 496 pages
Publisher: Crown
$27.00



Now available!

Farmerphile: The Magazine of Philip José Farmer was a quarterly fanzine that ran fifteen issues from July 2005 to January 2009. Michael Croteau served as Publisher for all fifteen issues; Christopher Paul Carey and Paul Spiteri coedited the first ten issues, while Spiteri and Win Scott Eckert coedited the last five. Thanks to the generosity of Philip José Farmer and his “Magic Filing Cabinet,” Farmerphile published—for the first time anywhere—short stories (mostly not science fiction), excerpts, articles, speeches, and letters written by Farmer. It even serialized the novel Up from the Bottomless Pit (not included in this collection, but forthcoming from Meteor House).

Farmerphile also contained articles and appreciations from Farmer’s fans and from his fellow science fiction authors, from critiques of his work to stories of personal encounters, and everything between. A complete list of the original contents of all fifteen issues can be found here.

Hardcover Limited Edition
Now the hard part: narrowing down so much content into one “Best of” collection. This was much harder than it sounds, as nearly all the content was worthy of inclusion. So, we focused on broadly covering as much ground as possible, as well as including pieces that touched on Farmer’s personal life. Assembled here is a wealth of information about one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time along, with some of his earliest writing.

The Best of Farmerphile is available in two editions: a Trade Paperback and a Hardcover Limited Edition. The hardcover is not “officially” a signed limited edition, but when the book debuts at PulpFest/FarmerCon XII in late July 2017, we will get as many contributors on hand as possible to sign it before we ship the books to those preordered (shipping will occur immediately after PulpFest/FarmerCon XII).


PREORDERING:
The trade paperback edition is $29 (plus shipping).
The hardcover limited edition is $45 (plus shipping).
Or you can preorder them together for only $67—that’s $7 off (plus you’ll save even more with combined shipping)!

Preorder early to ensure you get a copy of the limited edition hardcover.
As always, the print run on the limited edition will be determined by the number of preorders received.
Not many copies beyond those reserved will be printed.
NOTE: due to the complexities of publishing rights, no ebook edition will be produced!




by Heidi Ruby Miller
Now available!

In Philip José Farmer’s novel Two Hawks from Earth, Native American pilot Roger Two Hawks flew through his first “gate” while on a bombing run over Romania during World War II. The gate brought him to Earth 2, a world where the Americas never existed. Since then he has continued to fight battles on Earth after Earth, each more strange than the next.

In Heidi Ruby Miller’s short story “Dakota’s Gate” (Worlds of Philip José Farmer 3), set on Earth 3, North America never advanced past stone tools and rock shelters. But that’s where Two Hawks met another gate traveler, Dakota Cummings. It was Dakota, a woman turned friend and lover, who pulled him through a gate to her Earth, the most alien and deadly of all.

Earth 4. Two hundred years in the future. A war thirty-six thousand feet underwater. Two Hawks must draw upon all he’s learned during his gate travels in order to survive war between technologically advanced humans and their far-future hybrid cousins. This time more than just his and Dakota’s lives are at stake—the fate of an entire world is in his hands.

Featuring cover art by Mark Wheatley, an introduction by Christopher Paul Carey, and the short story “Dakota’s Gate” as a prelude, Man of War is a 24,500-word novella full of the action and adventure you’d expect of Philip José Farmer’s Roger Two Hawks.

Man of War will be published simultaneously in both hardcover and paperback signed limited editions!

Buy the Signed Limited Edition Trade Paperback for $16 (+shipping)
Buy the Signed Limited Edition Hardcover for $27 (+shipping)
Buy both together for $38—save $5 off the pair (+shipping)


As always, the print run with our Limited Editions is determined by the number of preorders. That’s why the names of those who preorder the book appear on its acknowledgments page–you make this book happen! (As long as you preorder by June 1st 2017.)

And, as an added bonus, if you preorder before June 1st, you will also receive a FREE ebook copy of Heidi Ruby Miller’s novel, Ambasadora.


Trade paperback, 5" x 8", $16 plus shipping
Hardcover, $27 
plus shipping


 
 


September 14-16, 2017! 

Hunt Valley Wyndham (recently changed now to a Marriott)
SAME HOTEL, NEW NAME.

Announcing the first half of our celebrity lineup for our 2017 event!
Remember you can purchase your admission tickets in advance through the website and save money. And book your hotel room early before they are sold out!
Hotel: (410) 785-7000


VENDOR HOURS: Thursday and Friday 9 am to 7 pm, Saturday 9 am to 5 pm
​CELEBRITY HOURS: Thursday and Friday, 10 am to 6 pm, Saturday 10 am to 5 pm
​MOVIE ROOM: 24 hours a day
​PANELS & PRESENTATIONS: 9 am to 9 pm (See schedule of events)





The New Pulp Heroes - Now online!

Simon Fogner

Captain Swashbuckle
The Wrath
Xenthe


 The Paperback Fanatic
PULP HORROR #6, MEN OF VIOLENCE #7 & #8
Now available and recommended!
 

Pulp Horror 6
128 pages (or so), all in colour with a book spine.
Giant Visual Guide to Berni Wrightson with many rare illustrations from early fanzine and comics work.
Jim O Brien on Rabid Dogs, The Fanatic on Killer Dogs, Kev Demant on Peter Saxon, Andreas Decker on German horror pulps, and letters.

 
Men of Violence 7
48 pages black and white
Peter Enfantino on The Sharpshooter - reviews of all 16 books!
Gavin Lyall - forgotten British thriller author!
Stephen Mertz- an interview by Paul Bishop with the men's adventure author!
Rockabye County - the modern westerns by J T Edson overviewed!


Men of Violence 8
56 pages black and white
Paul Bishop on Ben Haas- an overview of the author responsible for Fargo and Sundance!
Victor Kaylin by Bob Deis- an obituary of the men's adventure magazine writer!
Jack Higgins - vintage thrillers from the legendary British author!
Lyle Kenyon Engel - overview of the legendary book packager with checklist from Joe ‘Glorious Trash’ Kenney!
A Pair of Claws - adult western series Claw and Klaw!


Prices vary depending on the country it will be shipped to.
Prices are given at the Online Shop at the link provided.


The Paperback Fanatic



PAPERBACK PARADE #98 - Now available!

PAPERBACK PARADE #98, the magazine for paperback readers and collectors -- 100 pages in Full Color!

Articles on pre-vintage paperbacks, and fantastic Dime Novels, Dark Wing military sf series, Ace SF Reader, Brazil pbs, 1942 Canadian White Circle paperbacks, Bachelor Books gga sleaze, Dragnet in pb, Jacquiline Susann, news, more


$15.00 + $3.00 postage from Gryphon Books, www.gryphonbooks.com.
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Pulpgen-Online Pulps - Now online!

New this week

"The Long Night" by Philip Ketchum from THRILLING DETECTIVE, June, 1952
There was evidence, there was a witness, but Joe's faith in Mary Lambert's innocence made him blind to the facts!

"The Vishnu Emerald" by Jerry Severs Perry from SPICY DETECTIVE STORIES, July, 1935
From New York to the pleasure-houses of Calcutta, Cliff Downey follows the lure of a mysterious girl and a glittering green gem.

"Stir Buggy" by Hal G. Vermes from TEN
DETECTIVE ACES, March, 1939
A man is not an insect. But when Grig Orlanda staged his one-man jailbreak, he found that stir is not the only place where a man can go bugs.



Pulp Den - Now online!

Glamour of Crows
- New!
South California Purple
The Spawn of Lilithu  
A Taste of Blood And Ashes  
Manhattan Masquerade
         Pulp Den  

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

Pulpfest 2017 - photos
Robert H. Leitfred - Author
Presidential artist got his training in the pulps... 


The Pulp Guy:The Retro Future is Now! - Now online!

The Pulp Guy-The Man Who Invented A Genre - New!
The Pulp Guy-Barbarians, Spacers and Thunder!
The Pulp Guy-A Devil of A Bad Guy
The Pulp Guy-So Many Masks, So Little Crime!
The Pulp Guy-The Retro Future is Now! by Teel James Glenn


The Pulp Hermit - Now online!

The Corsican Cross - New!
The Fatima Secret  - New!
The Invaders
Congo War Cry
Calling Doctor Kill

Pulp Hero Press
PULP SLAM: RIP-ROARIN’ TALES OF MYSTERY, MURDER, AND MAYHEM
by Fred Blosser

Now available!
Pulp in Your Face!
In thirteen take-no-prisoners pulp yarns, Robert E. Howard scholar Fred Blosser caroms from the Old West to the noirish streets of urban America, and then beneath the earth itself, into a primitive world of savagery, to slam you silly with the best in pulp fiction.

By bullet and sword, fist and fortune, Blosser's square-jawed yet often brutal heroes face down the worst that evil has to offer:

Ringo and Horn blow away bootleggers, outlaws, Mafia thugs and assassins, and other lowlifes, from the backstreets to the backwoods
Commander Manta and Agent Gila battle the hallucinogenic horrors of a would-be world conqueror in Washington, D.C.
Dax the Go-Run struggles to survive in the savage, subterranean world of Kaal-Dur, as he goes in quest of a captive princess
All this, and hitmen vs Cthulhu, too. You can't go wrong with hitmen vs Cthulhu.

Plus, Blosser serves up a quintology of non-fiction analyses of such pulp topics as Dashiell Hammett's "Nightmare Town" and the Mafia novels of Richard Posner.

Get Slammed!


Softcover, 6 x 9 inches, 218 pages, $14.95
Kindle: $4.99




The Pulp.Net  - Now online!
The Pulp.Net features three ongoing blogs!
Pulp Super-Fan blog written by Michael R. Brown, That's Pulp by John Olsen, and the long-running Yellowed Perils written by William Lampkin.

Radio Archives
The Spider #43 Audiobook
Scourge of the Yellow Fangs

by Emile C. Tepperman writing as Grant Stockbridge
Read by Nick Santa Maria

Now available!

War gongs clanged in Chinatown — but it was no tong war that tore the great Societies with fear and suspicion and deadly hate. For deeper in evil mystery than their own dark secrets lay the hidden temple of crime that loosed the Scourge of the Yellow Fangs — the menace that erupted in the yellow men's haunts and overflowed into white men's lives and threatened white men's rule. Victims lived long enough to curse the unknown Man From Singapore — who knew the Spider and planned his quick removal from the finish fight... While in a tenuous truce with baffled police, Richard Wentworth, by night the Spider, accepted the top-heavy odds — and gave grim battle!

The Spider was the champion of oppressed humanity, its shield and protector against the murderous outbreaks of the Underworld; wherever crime struck terribly, that way he hastened, taking up the challenge. The police had offered rewards totaling thousands of dollars for his capture “dead or alive.” And the Underworld hated him, and plotted his destruction with a fierceness bred of abject terror.
 
But the Spider was indifferent alike to proscription by the Underworld and dogged persecution by police. Evading their bullets and traps, he continued to fight his thankless battle as humanity’s paladin....
 
And the Spider seemed to rejoice in being outnumbered by impossible odds. Captured by maniacs and madmen regularly, Wentworth shrugged off the mood of black despair, which often came over him when defeat seemed imminent.
 
Nick Santa Maria reads Scourge of the Yellow Fangs with the crackling intensity you have come to expect of his superb talent. Originally published in The Spider magazine, April, 1937.

 

5 hours - $9.99 Download / $19.98 Audio CDs

Radio Archives

Radio Archives
Secret Agent "X" #19 Audiobook
Horde of the Damned

by Paul Chadwick writing as Brant House
Read by Milton Bagby

Now available!

His true face unknown, his identity forever buried in a secret government file, Secret Agent “X” came back from the dead to take on the sinister sadists and evil extortionists who prey on innocent Americans. A master of disguise who carries a non-lethal gas gun, “X” the unknown is backed by a cabal of wealthy citizens and is answerable only to the shadowy K-9 in Washington.

Over the bleak, wave-whipped sea wall of the great Lasher estates swarmed a horror horde of the eternally damned. G-men rushed to check that tide of terror in order to prevent a kidnap plot. However, those G-men wilted on rubber legs...their deadly machine guns dropped harmlessly from arms that turned to jelly. For those government men had been scourged by the curse of the rubber corpses...Secret Agent “X” was among them. His thousand faces, his thousand disguises, his thousand surprises was swept before the mighty march of that dehumanized horde.
 
The enigma of enigmas, Secret Agent “X” has been deputized by a high government official to battle the darkest, most diabolical enemies of America before they sink their poisonous fangs into the nation’s healthy core. Faceless and unsung, “X” infiltrates these threats in a bewildering array of disguises.
 
Operating out of the supposedly haunted Montgomery Mansion, Secret Agent “X” ventures forth in a bewildering array of false identities to infiltrate the darkest underbelly of the underworld—and destroy it from within. A master investigator of a thousand guises and surprises. The only clue to his true identity is his haunting whistle…..
 
The harrowing, chilling exploits of Secret Agent “X” originally appeared in the magazine of that same name under the pen name of Brant House. “X” was the creation of author Paul Chadwick.
 
Follow the Man of a Thousand Faces as he confronts the menace of Horde of the Damned, ripped from the pages of Secret Agent “X” magazine, October 1935 and read with chilling intensity by Milton Bagby.
 
Performed by 2017 Audie Awards winner, voice actor Milton Bagby.

 
5 hours - $9.99 Download / $19.98 Audio CDs

Radio Archives

Radio Archives Pulp Classics
Secret Agent "X" #8 eBook
The Hooded Hordes - October 1934

Now available!

Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine.
 
From 1934 to 1939 America thrilled to the adventures of Secret Agent X — the "man of a thousand faces" — as he battled futuristic weapons and mad scientists. The true identity of Secret Agent X was never revealed. He used his mastery of disguise to work undercover for the U.S. government. With his aide, newspaper reporter Betty Dale, and his secretive government handler K-9, he battled weird and fantastical threats to America for forty-one amazing issues. Secret Agent X returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
 
Table of Contents:
 
“X” Scourge of Criminals
 
A Feature-Length Secret Agent “X” Novel
The Hooded Hordes by Paul Chadwick writing as Brant House
The shadow of fear hung darkly from coast to coast. With boiling lead that stilled men’s tongues, and bombs that mangled human bodies, The Hooded Hordes threatened America. Their spies were everywhere. Their power was growing daily. And against this dread secret society went the Man of a Thousand Faces, gambling with defeat and horror at every step he took.
 
The Secret Council — Column
Behind the scenes with Secret Agent “X”
 
The Playfair Cipher — Article
Learn how to “break” it
 
Satan’s Three by Joe Archibald
Detective Gil Talbot was on a vacation — and the first thing he stumbled across was a human hand.
 
Five Minutes To Death by Emile C. Tepperman
His life lay in the two hands of a clock.
 
Radio Archives Pulp Classics line of eBooks are of the highest quality and feature the great Pulp Fiction stories of the 1930s-1950s. All eBooks produced by Radio Archives are available in ePub and Mobi formats for the ultimate in compatibility. If you have a Kindle, the Mobi version is what you want. If you have an iPad/iPhone, Android, or Nook, then the ePub version is what you want. $3.99
 
Radio Archives


RED SONJA #11 - Coming in November!
Writer: Amy Chu
Art: Carlos Gomez
Cover A: V. Ken Marion
Cover B: Jan Duursema
Cover C: Marco Santucci
Cover D: Cosplay Cover
Cover E Subscription: Maria Sanapo


Their search comes to an end as Sonja, Holly and Spike discover the mysterious Hyborian expert Professor Wallace in the most unexpected of all places.
The professor agrees to help rescue Max, but little does everyone know, the old man has a BIG secret. Could it be the end of the road for the She-Devil and her friends?


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale November 22.

RED SONJA #11 is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 30).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP171530 (Marion cover).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP171531 (Duursema cover).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP171532 (Santucci cover).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP171533 (Cosplay cover).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP171534 (Sanapo cover).

      
 
     
      
      



SCI-FI ART OF VIRGIL FINLAY 2018 Wall Calendar - Now available!

Virgil Finlay (1914-71) was an American pulp fantasy, science fiction and horror illustrator.
While he worked in a range of media, from gouache to oils, Finlay specialized in detailed pen-and-ink drawings accomplished with abundant stippling, cross-hatching, and scratchboard techniques.

This calendar showcases 12 such intricate and atmospheric line pen and ink drawings in all their glory.
Informative text accompanies each work and the datepad features previous and next month's views.

12 pages, 12 illustrations
Dimensions: 300 x 300 x 3 mm
£9.99







THE SHADOW #4 - Coming in November!
(Writer) Si Spurrier (Art) Daniel HDR (Cover) Lee Weeks, Kelly Jones, Tom Mandrake

When violence strikes close to home, Mary Jerez is faced with a deadly decision that may change her life forever.
Meanwhile, those who would seek to use the legend for their own means begin to learn why they should fear the shadows.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale November 8.

THE SHADOW #4 is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 30).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP171455 (Weeks cover).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP171456 (Jones cover).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP171457 (Mandrake cover).


 

 



THE SHADOW / BATMAN #2 (OF 6) - Coming in November!
Writer: Steve Orlando
Art: Giovanni Timpano

Cover A: Tony Daniel Cover B: Brandon Peterson Cover C: Artyom Trakhanov Cover D: Philip Tan Cover E Subscription: Giovanni Timpano

The truth of what the Shadow doesn’t know threatens to destroy his partnership with Batman and Robin just when they need him the most. Three generations of heroes stand at a crossroads as the secret of the Silent Seven threatens to encompass and obliterate them all. To fight the Seven, Batman and the Shadow must force them to reveal themselves. But how do men make moves against a behemoth evil that measures assaults in centuries?

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale November 1.

Co-published by Dynamite Entertainment and DC Comics

THE SHADOW / BATMAN #2 is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 30).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP171462 (Daniel cover).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP171463 (Peterson cover).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP171464 (Trakhanovcover).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP171465 (Tan cover).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP171466 (Timpano cover).


 
 
 
  
 


SHEENA #3 - Coming in November!
Writer: Marguerite Bennett, Christina Trujillo
Art: Moritat

Cover A: Moritat
Cover B: Maria Sanapo
Cover C: Rodney Buchemi
Cover D: Cosplay


Sheena must navigate the forbidden temple grounds or risk losing the key to saving her home, but something deep within the temple has awoken…Something hungry.


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale
November 1.

SHEENA #3 is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 30).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP171538 (Moritat cover).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP171539 (Sanapo cover).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP171540 (Buchemi cover).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP171541 (Cosplay cover).

 
 
 
 


STEVE HOLLAND—THE FACE OF A HERO by Paul Bishop - Now online!

Known as The Face That Launched A Thousand Paperbacks, artists’ model Steve Holland embodied and defined the words rough, tough, manly, and heroic.
Author and pulp fan Paul Bishop has written a comprehensive, illustrated article on Steve Holland that you do not want to miss!
Check it out at the link below.



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.

Barker and Bender on the Case-Part One
Another Silly Season-Part Two
Another Silly Season-Part One
The Summer of Flying Saucers

WEIRDBOOK #36
Softcover & eBook editions are now available!
Subscriptions are also now available - see link below!


Great fantasy and horror tales by current and upcoming masters of the genre...

Weirdbook #36 presents another great assortment of stories and poems in the Weird Tales tradition:
fantasy, horror, sword & sorcery, and the just plain unclassifiable find a home here!

Included are:
Burn on the Bayou, by L.F. Falconer
The Mumbler, by Gillian French
Cleric at Sentinel Hill, by Franklyn Searight
Whores and Criminals, by Dean Macallister
The Quiet on the Water, by C. C. Adams
The Haggard Brothers Go to Town, by James Pratt
The Awakening, by Megan Neumann
Dead Line, by D.C. Lozar
The Waterman’s Song, by MB Vigil
Maleficium, by Kelly Gould
The Green Dome, by Joe DiCicco
We Who Walk on Worlds, by Matt Sullivan
Insect Song, by William Tea
The Harvest Moon Festival, by Gigi Eng
Like Falling Snow, by W.D. Clifton
The Oldest Story, by S. L. Edwards
Geronimo Versus Frankenstein, by Neal Privett
The Black-and-White Dozen, by Chris Kuriata
Omzetten, by C.M. Muller
Vandegald’s Globes, by Jeremy Hayes

Trade Paperback, 6 x 9 inches, $12.00
Kindle: $3.99

WEIRDBOOK is now offering Subscriptions!!!!

 

Welcome to The 11th Golden Age of Weird Fiction MEGAPACK®, which features the weird fiction of E. Hoffmann Price.
Wildside Press, in association with Mr. Price’s heirs, are dedicated to making the extensive body of work of this pulpsmith extraordinaire accessible once again to the public through our line of MEGAPACK® collections.

Included in this volume are 18 more of Price's classic stories from the pages of Weird Tales and other pulp magazines.

Here are:
SALADIN'S THRONE-RUG
THE GIRL FROM SAMARCAND
THE PEACOCK'S SHADOW
THE LORD OF ILLUSION
PALE HANDS
TARBIS OF THE LAKE
THE GARDEN OF EVIL
THE WALKING DEAD
TOMB DWELLER
KEEPER OF THE GATEWAY
PIT OF MADNESS
SATAN'S DAUGHTER
THE DESTROYING DEMON
SPANISH VAMPIRE
SELENE WALKS BY NIGHT
THE OLD GODS EAT
PRAYER TO SATAN
WEB OF WIZARDRY


eBook: $0.99


ZAGRIBUD: A CLASSIC SPACE OPERA, BY JOHN RUSSELL FEARN

In this sequel to John Russell Fearn’s classic Liners of Time, Time Liner Pilot Sandford Lee continues his battle against Elnek Jelfel, the Jovian wizard of science intent on galactic domination. Zagribud carries out their contests against an interstellar canvas, with Jelfel using his scientific powers to ultimately take possession of the Earth and carry out mass vivisection on humanity.

This is the first unabridged book edition of a classic pre-war serial from the pages of Amazing Stories. It’s a cosmic saga of super-science from a bygone era of science fiction, in the tradition of E. E. 'Doc' Smith!










18 August 2017

Adventure House
Now available!

HIGH ADVENTURE #155

Weird Menace Special Issue

"Land of Living Flame" by E. Hoffman Price
"Too Bad To Kill" by Stan Warner
"Death Spurs" by R.T. Maynard
"Daughter of the Serpent" by G.T. Fleming-Roberts
Death Cove by Ray King
"The Fiend’s Club" by Harry F. Olmsted
"The Cannibal Floor" by Arthur J. Burks


Cover Artist: Rudolph Belarski
   
7x10, 112 pages, $12.95



Adventure House
Now available!

THRILLING WONDER STORIES - June 1943

"Through the Blackboard" by Joel Townsley Rogers
Unexpectedly tossed into the fourth dimension, little mathematics professor Noel Goug has an amazing chance to solve all of his personal problems while time stand motionless!

"Wobblies In the Moon" by Frank Belknap Long
"The Devil’s Fiddle" by N.R. de Mexico
"Children of the Gods" by D.D. Sharp
"Grief of Bagdad" by Kelvin Kent
"Two-Timing Man" by Thaedra Alden
"The Golden Temple" by Ray Cummings
"World of Living Dead" by Wilm Carver

Cover Artist: Earle Bergey

   
7x10, 128 pages, $14.95



Adventure House
Now available!

GANGSTER STORIES - November 1931

"Black Ice" by C.B. Yorke
"King Joe Dies" by E. Parke Levy
"Gangland"
“Ex-Dick—Feminine” by Margie Harris
“Doctor Jim” by Ward D. Binns
"Vice Racket" by Tom Champion
"Ducky Swings A Deal" by Homer Faust

Cover Artist: Tom Lovell

   
7x10, 156 pages, $14.95



Age of Aces
Now available!

SKY DEVIL: ACE OF DEVILS
By Harold F. Cruickshank


The Sky Devil and his Brood were riders of the hell trail! Nowhere along the Western Front could you find a more feared crew, both in their element or out. 120 Squadron could always be counted on to whip Germany's best Aces, out-scrap entire squadrons of Boche killers, or tackle not one, but two crazed Barons with an Egyptology fetish! But what happens when they find themselves up in a dirigible fighting a fleet of ghost zeppelins, or down in the English Channel battling ferocious deep water beasts, or even behind enemy lines dealing with a crazed Major Petrie? Plenty, and you can read it all here. The prolific Harold F. Cruickshank was a mainstay of Popular Publications’ aviation titles, with a series in each. For Battle Aces he wrote Sky Wolf; For Battle Birds he created Red Eagle; and in Dare-Devil Aces, from 1932 to 1935, he wrote the 29 tales of Sky Devil. This second volume from Age of Aces Books collects half of the run—15 stories in all—including the seminal story where Bill Dawe is rooked out of the command of 120 Squadron!

Stories include
“The Green Devils” – Dare-Devil Aces, July 1932
“Killer’s Drome” – Dare-Devil Aces, November 1932
“Ace of Devils” – Dare-Devil Aces, November 1933
“Skeleton’s Drome” – Dare-Devil Aces, December 1933
“The Sky Pirates” – Dare-Devil Aces, January 1934
“Staffel of Hate” – Dare-Devil Aces, February 1934
“The Flaming Vulture” – Dare-Devil Aces, March 1934
“No-Man’s Squadron” – Dare-Devil Aces, April 1934
“The Storm Buzzard” – Dare-Devil Aces, May 1934
“The Derelict Patrol” – Dare-Devil Aces, June 1934
“Staffel of Skeletons” – Dare-Devil Aces, July 1934
“Graveyard Staffel” – Dare-Devil Aces, September 1934
“The Stratosphere Patrol” – Dare-Devil Aces, February 1935
“The Undersea Buzzard” – Dare-Devil Aces, June 1935
“Staffel of Dead Men” – Dare-Devil Aces,September 1935

$16.99 | 6″x9″ trade paperback | 364 pages




The German Empire has unleashed Hell on Earth! The dead are climbing out of their graves and giant skeletons attack the living. Heads are detonating and soldiers are turning to bronze. But flying to the rescue like an avenging angel is America’s own “Brain Devil,” Captain Philip Strange, the phantom ace of G-2 Intelligence. Whether it’s deadly bridges or killer broadcasts, when the Allies need a miracle they pray for Philip Strange! This sixth volume of Donald Keyhoe’s flying spy features six weird World War I adventures: The Devil's Holocaust, Hell's Gateway, The Brain-Devil of G-2, Tombstone Tarmac, The Bridge of Death, and Hellions of Headless Death.

Stories include
“The Devil’s Holocaust,” – Flying Aces, June 1932
“Hell’s Gateway,” – Flying Aces, April 1932
“The Brain-Devil of G-2,” – Flying Aces, September 1932
“Tombstone Tarmac,” – Flying Aces, September 1933
“The Bridge of Death,” – Flying Aces, May 1935
“Hellions of Headless Death,” – Flying Aces, September 1936

$16.99 | 6″x9″ trade paperback | 322 pages


 

Airship 27 Productions
JIM ANTHONY, SUPER DETECTIVE VOLUME 5
VERSUS MASTERMIND

Now available!

Airship 27 Productions is thrilled to present the fifth book in their continuing new adventures of that classic pulp hero, Jim Anthony – Super Detective.

Jim Anthony had battled all manner of evil and villainy in his illustrious career as a globe-trotting adventurer. But now he finds himself challenged by three unique criminals, each with devastating weapons of destruction; the Flame Wizard, Baron Strum and Prof. Meteon. Each is determined to wreak unimaginable havoc on the world and vanquish the Super Detective in the process.

The hero soon comes to suspect there is a fourth nemesis; a super Mastermind orchestrating these other villains in a cunning, deadly plot for reasons he is unable to fathom. But the Super Detective is never alone thanks to his various allies ala pilot Tm Gentry and British butler Dawkins and along the way he is joined by the beautiful Maria Flores and her All-Girl Squad. 

Writer Adam Mudman Bezecny has plotted a fast-paced, action-packed novel in four parts creating some of the most dastardly pulp villains ever to challenge the Super Detective.  “This is a really interesting collection,” explains Airship 27 Productions’ Managing Editor Ron Fortier. “Although each of the chapters works very much like a stand alone adventure, ultimately they create a longer narrative plot leading to the Super Detective’s newest arch-fiend, Mastermind.”

Artist Richard Jun provides the marvelous black and white interior illustrations and Adam Shaw delivers the stunning cover based on one of those pieces. All of which are assembled under the guiding hand of Airship 27 Art Director Rob Davis.

 “Jim Anthony is one of our favorite pulp heroes,” Fortier adds happily, “and we hope to continue this series of new books for as long as our readers enjoy them.” So buckle up for a wild ride, pulp fans, this is adventure with a capital A …for Jim Anthony!

Now available at Amazon in paperback and on Kindle!

Airship 27 Productions – Pulp Fiction For A New Generation!

 

Altus Press
MAVERICKS: LONGRIDERS OF THE WEST, THE COMPLETE SERIES
By Kent Thorn
Introduction by Will Murray

Now available!

Limited hardcover edition of 50 copies.

Collecting—for the first time in one edition—are all five adventures of the 5 Mavericks, Popular Publications’ Western adventure heroes!
 
Meet the five Mavericks—Lance Clayton, Doc Grimson, Charlie Parr, Lockjaw Johnson, and Flint Maddox…
They were wanted men, those five hard-riding travelers of the still night trails…
Mavericks all, they had entered outlawry for five different reasons, drawn irresistibly down the Owlhoot Trail from five different walks of rangeland life.
They became one living inseparable unit of grim, uncompromising justice, united as one man by their friendship,
their burning championship of the underdog—and the high, white flame of their courage….

Contains the following stories:
“Five Against the Law”
“Mesquite Manhunters”
“Bait for the Lobo Pack”
“Doc Grimson’s Outlaw Posse”
“Charlie Parr’s Gunsmoke Cure”


$75.00 deluxe hardcover


Altus Press
THE COMPLETE EXPLOITS OF DOCTOR DEATH
By Harold Ward
Now available!

Limited hardcover edition of 50 copies.
Comes with eBook versions of all the stories.

For the first time in one edition, all five Doctor Death pulp adventures are collected authorized by the Ward estate.
Contains the first three stories from 1935: “12 Must Die,” “The Gray Creatures” and “The Shriveling Murders,”
as well as two unpublished stories, “Waves of Madness” and “The Red Mist of Death.”
As a bonus, Harold Ward's treatment for a Doctor Death comic strip is included.
With an introduction by pulp historian Will Murray.


$75.00 deluxe hardcover


Altus Press


Altus Press
TOMORROW, THE COMPLETE SAGA
By Arthur Leo Zagat
Limited Edition Hardcover
Now available!

Limited hardcover edition of 50 copies.
Comes with eBook versions of all the stories.


The complete saga of Dikar and The Bunch is collected for the first time in a single volume.
Set in a decimated post-invasion United States, Dikar and The Bunch fight to restore America to its former glory.
A classic post-apocalyptic saga from the pages of Argosy Magazine.


$75.00 deluxe hardcover




Altus Press: Pulp Blog - Now online!

Altus Press Releases Mavericks: Longriders of the West, The Complete Series (Deluxe Edition) - New!

Altus Press Releases Deluxe Editions of Doctor Death and the Tomorrow Saga
The Mysterious Wu Fang Continues, Plus a New Pulp T-Shirt
Altus Press News: Dusty Ayres #3 and Moon Man Vol. 5


Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Coming soon!

BLACK BAT Volume 10: "The Eyes of the Blind" & "The Blackout Murders”
The Nemesis of Crime returns in classic pulp novels by Norman A. Daniels writing as "G. Wayman Jones." First, the Black Bat risks his own eyes to aid victims deprived of their sight in “The Eyes of the Blind.” Then, Tony Quinn battles a monstrous killer as “The Blackout Murders" panic the nation! GOLDEN AGE OF COMICS BONUS: The origin of the Black Terror from Nedor's EXCITING COMICS #9 by Richard Hughes and David Gabrielsen! This instant collector's item showcases the original covers and interior illustrations by V. E. Pyles, with historical commentary by Will Murray and Anthony Tollin. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-239-1 Softcover, 7x10, 128 pages, B&W, $14.95
Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]
Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)



Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Coming soon!

DOC SAVAGE Volume 4: “Land of Always-Night" & "The Mad Mesa”
Featuring a NEW foreword by JAMES BAMA!
- JAMES BAMA VARIANT EDITION

The pulps' legendary superman returns in two of his greatest adventures. In "Land of Always-Night," a strange being who kills with the touch of a finger leads Doc Savage to a lost underworld civilization, in an epic 1935 collaboration by W. Ryerson Johnson and Lester Dent writing as "Kenneth Robeson." Then, in 1938's "Mad Mesa," the Man of Bronze awakens to discover that he¹s in another man¹s body and imprisoned in a penitentiary; hundreds will die unless Doc Savage can escape and solve the mystery of the mesa madness! This instant collector’s item leads off with a stunning cover painting by legendary artist James Bama and also showcases the original color pulp covers by Walter Baumhofer and Emery Clarke, Paul Orban’s interior illustrations and historical articles by Will Murray, author of 21 Doc Savage novels. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-240-7 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
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 to online retailers in November!
Coming to comic shops November 29!

THE SHADOW Volume 124: “The Ghost Makers” & “House of Ghosts”
The Master of Darkness unmasks phony spiritualists in two legendary pulp novels. First, in one of Walter Gibson’s greatest classics, the Dark Avenger investigates “The Ghost Makers” after a glowing dagger materializes to bring death at a seance. Then, The Shadow teams with real-life ghostbuster Joseph Dunninger to investigate a series of spirit murders in a “House of Ghosts." This haunting collectors collection showcases the original color pulp covers by George Rozen and Modest Stein and interior illustrations by Tom Lovell and Paul Orban, while Will Murray explores the Gibson-Houdini-Lovecraft connection and Anthony Tollin recalls The Shadow Big Little Books. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-241-4 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
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 to online retailers in December!
Coming to comic shops December 27!

THE SHADOW Volume 125: “The Death Tower” & “The Silent Seven”
The Dark Avenger hunts down members of a hidden criminal order in two superb 1932 pulp thrillers by Walter. B. Gibson writing as “Maxwell Grant." First, the Dark Avenger’s investigation of the murderous Dr. Palermo leads him invade “The Death Tower” and discover the existence of a hooded secret society, in the early novel that introduced reporter Clyde Burke and The Shadow’s autogyro. Then, when a wealthy businessman is killed, The Shadow must infiltrate and unmask “The Silent Seven” to solve the murder! This classic pulp collection features the original color pulp covers by George Rozen and interior illustrations by Tom Lovell with historical commentary by Will Murray. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-243-8 Softcover, 7x10, 128 pages, B&W, $14.95
Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]
Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)




Art's Reviews Podcasts! - Now online!

Nothing new this week.

Past episodes:
"The Strange Harvest of Dr. Aquarius" By Jeff Deischer
Win Scott Eckert discusses "The Monster on Hold"
PulpFest: Empire of the Nine- The Psychos of Philip Jose Farmer
John Bruening's readings
PulpFest: Peter McGarvey's readings
PulpFest: Jason Jack Miller's readings
PulpFest: Jim Beard's readings

BATMAN/SHADOW #5 (of 6) - Arriving in comic shops August 23!
Written by Steve Orlando & Scott Snyder
Art and cover by Riley Rossmo, Variant covers by Tim Sale and Chris Burnham


The Stag and The Joker have kidnapped the Shadow’s greatest allies and are preparing to enter Shamba-La.
It’s Batman and the Shadow’s last stand—if they don’t stop the evil duo from entering Shamba-La, it will mean an eternity of darkness in a world ruled by crime!


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99



Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press

Writing pulp fiction for a living was a tough grind, but one that always attracted hopefuls. Dewy-eyed aspirants were willing to serve an apprenticeship in the pulps, secure in the knowledge that raw talent and hard work would carry them to inevitable success in the slicks. These neophytes, eager for helpful tips and sage advice from the pulpwood Big Timers, poured over the pages of trade journals such as Writer's Digest, Author & Journalist, Writer's Review, and Writer's Markets and Methods.

Established pulp writers and editors who contributed to these publications were surprisingly generous with advice and admonition both. Every now and then their articles were vague or self-serving, but a large number offered genuinely useful tips and outlined methods of working that are just as sound today as they were in 1930 or 1940. The two dozen essays collected in THE PENNY-A-WORD BRIGADE hold significant educational value for today's wannabe writers.

Some of these trade-journal pieces saw revival in issues of Blood 'n' Thunder. A few—specifically, those by hero-pulp legends Lester Dent, Norvell Page, and Walter B. Gibson—have been reprinted before, but never have all been included between two covers. In context, surrounded by similar articles from peers, each represents a vital piece in the larger puzzle.

Straight how-to articles are mixed with market analyses and personal reminiscences. In addition to Gibson & Company, you'll find contributions from such legendary high-volume producers as Arthur J. Burks, H. Bedford-Jones, and Erle Stanley Gardner along with many second-tier favorites, including Nelson Bond, Frederick C. Davis, G. T. Fleming-Roberts, Frank Gruber, and Henry Kuttner.

The blue-pencil boys also supplied guidance to followers of the writers' magazines, and PENNY-A-WORD BRIGADE includes excellent essays by Adventure's Arthur Sullivant Hoffman, Black Mask's Joseph T. "Cap" Shaw, and editorial directors of the major pulp outfits: Rogers Terrill (Popular Publications), Leo Margulies (the "Thrilling Group"), Robert A. W. Lowndes (Columbia/Double Action/Blue Ribbon), Ralph Daigh (Fawcett Publications), and Robert O. Erisman (Martin Goodman's "Red Circle" line). Agents Lurton Blassingame and August Lenninger, frequent contributors to Writer's Digest, present market reports that at the time of publication were considered valuable tools for newcomers aiming to crack well-established sheets.

This book is an invaluable addition to any reference library with books documenting the pulp era.  It can be ordered at muraniapress.com. The $24.95 cover price includes shipping to buyers in the U.S.


PURCHASE PRICE INCLUDES SHIPPING AND HANDLING TO DOMESTIC BUYERS.
OVERSEAS BUYERS MUST INQUIRE FOR SHIPPING RATES BEFORE PLACING ORDERS.


Trade paperback, 8.5 x 11, 220 pages
Price: $24.95



Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
BLOOD 'N' THUNDER PRESENTS, VOLUME ONE -- PRIDE OF THE PULPS
Now shipping!

In case you hadn't heard, last fall we brought to an end Blood 'n' Thunder's 14-year run as a periodical. The zine went out with a bang: a double issue numbered 49/50 and packed with some of the best articles in BnT history. In the editorial we promised to continue the franchise with a series of standalone volumes, issued at irregular intervals, covering various aspects of pulp and pop-culture history under the general title of Blood 'n' Thunder Presents.

Well, this week we proudly release the first volume of Blood 'n' Thunder Presents, subtitled Pride of the Pulps. It's been designed in the "deluxe" trade-paperback format of 8 1/2 x 11 inches, with the series title in a wraparound banner and the volume number printed at the top of the spine. All future volumes will have a uniform design.

Pride of the Pulps devotes nearly 100,000 words to in-depth surveys of six classic rough-paper magazines: Adventure, All-American Fiction, Famous Fantastic Mysteries, The Popular Magazine, Short Stories, and West. Earlier versions of these overviews were published in back issues of Blood 'n' Thunder, but all have been revised and expanded for this book. Greatly expanded, in some cases: the essay on Short Stories, for example, first appeared as a two-parter with a total word count of 11,500 words. Its counterpart in Pride of the Pulps runs close to 17,000 words.

The addition of new material extends as well to illustrative matter. The surveys in Pride include more pulp covers and interior illustrations than accompanied their earlier versions in BnT, but we've also added more scans of original cover paintings.

In short, this is not a reprint volume that simply repurposes old copy. It has a significant amount of new content and is a veritable textbook of pulp-fiction history. Even if you'd be satisfied with the essays as printed in BnT, it would cost you well over $100 to purchase those issues individually. And that's assuming you could find them all: the two issues with the Short Stories survey have been out of print for many years.

Future volumes of Blood 'n' Thunder Presents will be devoted to the following topics: a history of Argosy, the working life of pulp writers, the output of legendary scribe Edgar Wallace, a history of Doubleday's Crime Club book division, and a survey of films made during 1932, which we posit to be fantastic cinema's best year. We hope and expect to issue at least two volumes per calendar year, although we're on track to publish three in 2017. Stay tuned for more announcements.

In the meantime, don't miss out on our first release in the Blood 'n' Thunder Presents series. We guarantee it'll make a valuable addition to any home library of reference works covering pulp fiction and vintage American popular culture.




Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
BLOOD 'N' THUNDER'S CLIFFHANGER CLASSICS VOLUME 2
Now shipping!

For nearly 50 years the motion-picture chapter play was a vibrant part of our country’s pop-culture scene. Following their favorite serials turned moviegoing into a weekly habit for millions of Americans. During the silent-film era, episodic thrillers were marketed to adults and children alike, but their emphasis on base melodrama and contrived thrills appealed more to kids. Those youthful habitués of Saturday matinees faithfully followed serials and retained fond memories of them. Subsequent generations discovered cliffhanger classics via later broadcasts on TV and reissues in collectable home-video formats.
 
This sequel to 2012's well-received Blood 'n' Thunder's Cliffhanger Classics offers history and analysis of such popular and influential silent serials as The Perils of Pauline (1914), The Million Dollar Mystery (1914), The Diamond from the Sky (1915), The Riddle Rider (1924), and the four 1914-17 chapter plays of Francis Ford and Grace Cunard. Notable talkie-era serials covered at length include Tarzan the Fearless (1933), The Return of Chandu (1934), The Lost City (1935), Radio Patrol (1937), Red Barry (1938), The Spider's Web (1938, and its 1941 sequel The Spider Returns), Hawk of the Wilderness (1938), Adventures of Red Ryder (1940), and Secret Service in Darkest Africa (1943).
A special essay titled "Anatomy of a Serial," taking an approach not previously attempted by any chapter-play historian, chronicles the making of fan favorite Spy Smasher (1942) from the licensing of the character rights in June 1941 straight through to the film's national release in April 1942. All aspects of the production are detailed with facts and figures, as well as the recollections of director William Witney, star Kane Richmond, supporting player Tris Coffin, and stunt ramrod Dave Sharpe.
 
The essays in Cliffhanger Classics are not the typical puff pieces generally found in books on this subject. Each article has been carefully researched and supplemented with first-hand recollections of people who worked in the serials being examined, including leading men Buster Crabbe, Kane Richmond, Herman Brix, and Rod Cameron; leading ladies Jacqueline Wells, Iris Meredith, Kay Hughes, Vivian Coe; veteran serial writer Barry Shipman; stuntmen Dave Sharpe and Tom Steele; and directors Ford Beebe and William Witney. Their input makes this second volume of Cliffhanger Classics a valuable addition to the historical record, as well as an entertaining read.
 
The book is profusely illustrated with more than 60 pages of rare stills, posters, and lobby cards from the serials under examination. 
Purchase price includes shipping to domestic U.S. buyers only; international customers must inquire for shipping rates.

Cover Art by Chris Kalb
Trade paperback, 6x9 inches, 302 pages
Price: $24.95




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

Now Available for Immediate Shipping: THE PENNY-A-WORD BRIGADE
PulpFest 2017 Report
Now Available: The First Volume Of BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER PRESENTS
Now Available for Shipping: THE BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER SAMPLER



Bold Venture Press
ZORRO VOLUME 6
by Johnston McCulley

Coming soon!



Bold Venture Press   Amazon.com  Kindle   



Broadswords and Blasters - Now online!

Pulp Consumption: True Detective (Season 1)
Pulp Appeal: Indiana Jones
Issue 2 Now Available!
Issue 2 Run Down!


THE BRONZE GAZETTE
Issue #79 is now available and recommended!
 
Contents
Cover: Bob Larkin (commission for Terry Allen)
"The Woman In It" by Duane Spurlock
"Bending the Doc Savage Formula" by Will Murray
"Q&A with Sisters of Bronze" by Catherine Lavallée-Welch
"The Bantam Books that Never Appeared" by Will Murray
"Rhoda Haven: In Love with Everything Doc Savage Wasn't" by Bobb Cotter
"Review: Six Scarlet Scorpions" by Catherine Lavallée-Welch
"The Doc Savage Novel That Was Too Good Part 2" by Jeff Deischer
"The Bronze Gazette Publications News Update" by Terry Allen
"Daughter of Savage: A Wild Woman" by Win Scott Eckert
"In Memory of Ron Wilber"

Subscriptions (via Paypal) are now available for No. 78, 79, and 80.

$30.00 USA
$40.00 Canada (US Dollars)
$50.00 International
(Prices Include Postage)

Click HERE to subscribe!

Get back issues of #76 for $15, #77 for $12, #78 for $12, and Doc Con 2016 Special for $12 each in the USA.
 
 The Bronze Gazette  
 

Castalia House Blog - Now online!

Forgotten Sword and Sorcery Artists: Chris Achilleos - New!
Retro Fandom Friday – Weird Tales Edition
The Dai Sword, by Manly Wade Wellman
PulpFest 2017

Centipede Press
SWORDS AND DEVILTRY
By Fritz Leiber
Now available!


In the annals of heroic fantasy one epic tale stands head and shoulders above the rest, spanning sixty years in the telling, the saga of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser has captivated fans ever since Fritz Leiber’s first tale of the duo appeared in the August, 1939 issue of Unknown. Just in time for the seventy-eighth anniversary of the characters debut, Centipede Press is releasing the first of what will be the definitive eight-volume set comprising not only all of the stories by Fritz Leiber (and his friend Harry Fischer), but also the brilliant epilogue to the series, Swords Against the Shadowland by Robin Wayne Bailey.

These are archival editions, lavishly illustrated and featuring guest introductions from some of the top writers in the field. We plan on releasing both Swords and Deviltry and Swords Against Death this year and customers are encouraged to contact us about reserving the entire set. There are 500 unsigned copies available.

The story of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser is among the most enduring in modern fantasy and we suggest reserving your set sooner rather than later.

Swords and Deviltry features five color interior illustrations, a full-color frontispiece, full color wraparound dustjacket, and custom illustrated endpapers. The introduction is by Michael Moorcock. The book includes all of the stories that make up Swords and Deviltry along with two archival essays by Harry O. Fischer, Fritz Leiber’s 1973 introduction, two “Gray Mouser” poems from The Acolyte, and an interview with Fritz Leiber from 1979. Yes, we will be publishing the entire series of novels, each one with a load of extras. This is the ultimate edition of this legendary fantasy series.


Edition information
• Bound in full black cloth, blind stamping on front board.
• Color illustrations hand-tipped into the book.
• Introduction by Michael Moorcock.
• Gorgeous dustjacket on Mohawk Superfine.
• Head and tail bands, ribbon marker.

Cloth, unsigned: $65 (save $10)





CONAN THE SLAYER #12 - Arriving in comic shops August 23!

Writer: Cullen Bunn
Artist: 
Dheeraj Verma
Cover:
Tom Grindberg
Colorist: Michael Atiyeh


Jehungir Agha's plan to ambush Conan in the dead city of Xapur goes awry when his men encounter the enraged demon Khosatral Khel, who seeks the Cimmerian's blood.
But Agha's plight may be the break Conan needs to turn the tables on the Devil in Iron!


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99




THE COMPLETE TALES OF JULES DE GRANDIN, VOLUME TWO: THE DEVIL'S ROSARY - Coming September 5!
by Seabury Quinn


Today the names of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, and Clark Ashton Smith, all regular contributors to the pulp magazine Weird Tales during the first half of the twentieth century, are recognizable even to casual readers of the bizarre and fantastic. And yet despite being more popular than them all during the golden era of genre pulp fiction, there is another author whose name and work have fallen into obscurity: Seabury Quinn.

Quinn’s short stories were featured in well more than half of Weird Tales’s original publication run. His most famous character, the supernatural French detective Dr. Jules de Grandin, investigated cases involving monsters, devil worshippers, serial killers, and spirits from beyond the grave, often set in the small town of Harrisonville, New Jersey. In de Grandin there are familiar shades of both Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, and alongside his assistant, Dr. Samuel Trowbridge, de Grandin’s knack for solving mysteries―and his outbursts of peculiar French-isms (grand Dieu!)―captivated readers for nearly three decades.

Collected for the first time in trade editions, The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin, edited by George Vanderburgh, presents all ninety-three published works featuring the supernatural detective. Presented in chronological order over five volumes, this is the definitive collection of an iconic pulp hero.

The second volume, The Devil’s Rosary, includes all of the Jules de Grandin stories from “The Black Master” (1929) to “The Wolf of St. Bonnot” (1930), as well as an introduction by Jim Rockhill.


Cover art by Donato Giancola

Hardcover, 512 pages, $34.99
The Complete Tales of Jules De Grandin, Volume Three: The Dark Angel is coming in March!


 

CTHULHU 2018 WALL CALENDAR - Now available!

Appearing in several of H.P. Lovecraft’s works, kraken-like monster Cthulhu is an iconic figure that has fed imagination and terrified generations.

Its name has come to define the whole mythos built up around Lovecraft's strange worlds and pantheon of monsters that continue to inspire many writers.

Featuring the fantastic work of talented artists, this calendar displays a fascinating mix of weird and wonderful depictions of this notorious monster that lurks beneath the deep. The datepad features previous and next month’s views.


12 pages, 12 illustrations
Dimensions: 300 x 300 x 3 mm
£9.99
 
 




The Dark Man: The Journal of Robert E. Howard and Pulp Fiction Studies Volume 8 No. 2 - Now available!

An annual academic journal dedicated to the study of the writer Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan, Solomon Kane, Kull, and author of numerous pulp stories.
Since 2016, the journal will also run other articles on other pulp fiction, horror, and sword and sorcery writers.


Softcover, 5.5 x 8.5, 58 pages, $6



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


THE LONE RANGER rescues "The Cornered Sheriff"  
 - New!
Lou Fine SCIENCE COMICS covers (1940)   - New!
Pulp Gallery: DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY (1939)  - New!
Tarzan of the Movies 3: THE REVENGE OF TARZAN (1920)  - New!
Paperback Gallery: FRANK FRAZETTA  
Pulp Gallery: THRILLING DETECTIVE  
Johnny Weissmuller as JUNGLE JIM (1951-52)


The Digest Enthusiast Blog - Now online!

Men of Violence! #7
- New!
Michael L. Cook’s Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines - New!
Galaxy Novel #25
Fritz Leiber’s Dark Vengeance
Spaceway Science Fiction April 1955
Bulldog Drummond by Sapper




DOC CON 2017 REGISTRATION is now open!
We have our registration page up and available.

Registration is $40 and includes:
Doc Con XX Admission, Commemorative Name Badge, Deluxe 2017 Program, DCXX Swag, Commemorative Swag Bag, 5 Raffle Tickets, Lunch on Saturday and much more!

Go to http://docfantasycovers.com/Doc-Con/ and click the "Pre-Register Today" button at the bottom of the page.
Once your registration is paid, you will receive a confirmation letter with a Commemorative Ticket and details about the upcoming convention.
See you in October!


DOC CON 2017
Doc Con commemorative t-shirt
Now accepting pre-orders!

There will be a Doc Con XX commemorative t-shirt.
The design shown at the right is a work in progress and is not the final shirt.

If you would like to reserve one now, email Fantom Press (sales@fantompress.net) with your size and quantity.  
Sizes small through 2XL are $20.00 per shirt.
Sizes 3XL and 4XL are $23.00 per shirt.

The shirts will be available for pick up at Doc Con XX in October.
If you will not be attending Doc Con, the shirts will be mailed by late October.
No money is due for shirts at this time.
The shirts will be invoiced after Doc Con XX in mid October. 




Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.
A SOLDIER OF POLODA
Further Adventures Beyond the Farthest Star
By Lee Strong

Now available in hardcover!
Softcover and eBook editions are coming soon!


Like fellow Earthman, Tangor from the story Beyond the Farthest Star, American OSS officer Thomas Randolph is mysteriously teleported to a foreign planet where he lands in the center of a 100-year war that mirrors the Allied Powers’ struggle against Adolph Hitler’s Third Reich.

Unlike Tangor, Randolph – now Tomas Ran – finds himself behind enemy lines where he gains a first-hand view of the inner workings of the corrupt Kapar empire. Will Tomas, using his OSS skills, be able to devise a plan to escape with the beautiful Unisan prisoner, Loris Kiri, that will allow them to join her countrymen in their struggle against the Kapars?

American novelist Edgar Rice Burroughs debuted the world of Poloda in the pulp story Beyond the Farthest Star in 1940 just as Hitler’s Nazis marched across Europe and the Imperial Japanese extended their reach across the South Pacific. Burroughs’ youthful idealism regarding the nobility of America’s previous war efforts had given way to a mature perspective of the savagery of combat that stains every battlefield. Burroughs’ deeply-held views are reflected in this tale about a planet ravaged by 100 years of conflict as the nation of Unis devotes its entire existence to the struggle of freedom against tyranny.

Author Lee Strong created this second adventure on the planet Poloda, which lies beyond the Globular Cluster NGC 7006 ‘ 450,000 light years away from earth. Join Tomas Ran as he explores Poloda, battles Kapars, and finds love Beyond the Farthest Star.


AUTHOR
Lee Strong’s heart was captured by the dinosaurs found At the Earth’s Core in 1962. He has been a Burroughs reader ever since. Lee also worked for the US Department of Defense (DOD); changed international policy with a single report; deployed to Kuwait; saved taxpayers $5 million; and reformed the $2 billion DOD Personal Property Program. A Soldier of Poloda is Lee’s first novel. He is currently working on two Pellucidar novels with more to come. Lee’s motto: More Adventure ! More Excitement !! More Burroughs !!!

ARTISTS
COVER ART: Chris Peuler is a genre illustrator based in Chicago, working primarily in fantasy and science fiction. A traditionally-trained digital painter, Chris has created vivid imagery for various gaming and book publications, as well as taking time to work on his own personal portfolio. This beautiful, other-worldly cover art is his first full wraparound dust jacket painting for ERB, Inc.

INTERIOR ILLUSTRATIONS: Earl Geier has illustrated horror, fantasy and science fiction scenes in the role playing game industry for Fasa, Chaosium, TSR, Fantasy Flight, Dark Conspiracy, and others. He has illustrated books for Cemetery Dance, Chaosium, Gryphon, American Fantasy Press and Subterranean Press, and covers for The Fandom Directory. In the comic book world Earl has drawn for Dark Horse Comics, Comizone, Now, Innovation and DC Comics. His artwork has been featured as background in the TV show “Supernatural Let It Bleed” Earl lives in Chicago, Illinois.


$34.95


   

Now available!

Dafydd Neal Dyar's Doc Savage Essays are back in print for the first time in nearly 40 years!

Each essay was painstakingly reconstructed and expanded with extensive annotations and new text.

Doc Savage fans will delight in the nearly 300 pages of insights and observations from a master of pulp history.

Foreword by pulp author/historian Rick Lai!

The signed and numbered hard cover edition is limited to 100 copies.

Each hard cover features The One That Got Away, an exclusive all-new essay chronicling a Dyar article lost to the ages.

$39.99




Fedogan & Bremer
TIME BURIAL by Donald Wandrei
Now available!


Howard Wandrei's pulp work was extensive and popular. Collections, however, long remained non-existent.

Wandrei used several pseudonyms, for one thing. But another factor came in: the copyrights were held after his death by his brother Donald, co-founder of Arkham House, who became embroiled in a bitter copyright battle after the death of August Derleth.

Fedogan and Bremer first collected Howard Wandrei's Weird and Fantastic fiction over 20 years ago in TIME BURIAL, now long out-of-print in hardcover. Here is a paperback facsimile edition, at popular price, of that book, illustrated with the author's own very weird art work, reminiscent of Bosch and influenced by Blake. We expect you'll enjoy his stories!

Dwayne Olson provides a fulsome background for both the stories and Howard's place in the bygone era of pulp authors, full of the regional influences that marked this literature.

Fedogan and Bremer is proud to return Howard Wandrei's best Weird fiction to print.







FLASH GORDON DAN BARRY SUNDAYS HC VOLUME 01 DEATH PLANET - Arriving in comic shops August 23!
(Writer/Art) Dan Barry

Reprinting of the iconic Flash Gordon series by Dan Barry! Featuring classic strips from the beginning of Dan Barry's run, from 1967 - 1971, including Captured on Pluto, Invasion, The Cosmic Tower and Radiation Giants!

Hardcover, 7x10, 228 pages, Full Color, $49.99






THE GREATEST ADVENTURE #8 - Coming in November!
(Writer) Bill Willingham (Art) Cezar Razek (Covers) Cary Nord, Greg Smallwood, Robert Castro

The Resolve has been defeated by Tarzan’s team, but at a terrible cost in lives. And now, something odd is going on as the heroes attempt to pilot the captured ship—and they end up on Venus, rather than their intended destination – because the nefarious mastermind who craves the power of the ultimate death-ray still has a trick or two up his sleeve!


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale November TBA.

THE GREATEST ADVENTURE #8 is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 30).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP17 TBA (Nord cover).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP17 TBA (Smallwood cover).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP17 TBA (Castro cover).


 
 

THE GREEN HORNET '66 MEETS THE SPIRIT #5 (of 5) - Coming in November!
(Writer) Fred Van Lente (Art) Bob Q
Cover
: Ty Templeton

KATO is fatally wounded! But as THE GREEN HORNET rushes him back to Central City, it becomes clear that only one man can save Kato’s life…their hateful enemy, THE SPIRIT!

The final shocking issue from FRED VAN LENTE and BOB Q!


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale
November TBA.

THE GREEN HORNET '66 MEETS THE SPIRIT #5 is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 30).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP17 TBA.



Haffner Press
THE VAMPIRE STORIES OF ROBERT BLOCH
By Robert Bloch, Edited by Stephen Haffner, Illustrated by Gahan Wilson
Now available for pre-order!

TABLE OF CONTENTS
“The Feast in the Abbey”
“The Beasts of Barsac”
“The Shambler from the Stars”
“The Opener of the Way”
“The Mannikin”
“A Question of Identity”
“The Cloak”
“Unheavenly Twin”
“Nursemaid to Nightmares”
“Fear Planet”
“Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper”
“Black Barter”
“Death Is a Vampire”
“The Bat Is My Brother”
“The Skull of the Marquis de Sade”
“The Bogey Man Will Get You”
“Tooth or Consequences”
“The Hungry House”
“The Man Who Collected Poe”
“The Light-House”
“I Kiss Your Shadow”
“Dig That Crazy Grave”
“The Sleeping Redheads” aka “Sleeping Beauty”
“Hungarian Rhapsody”
“The Living Dead”
“A Case of the Stubborns”
“The Undead”
“The Yougoslaves”
“The Bedposts of Life”
“The Scent of Vinegar”


Pre-order price: $45.00




Howard Andrew Jones - Now online!

Reruns: Harold Lamb
Remembering Corum
Adventure!
Novel Writing and Pulp
One Sword for Love

Illustrated Press
Reynold Brown: A Life in Pictures
Updated 2nd edition

Now shipping!

William Reynold Brown (1917 1991) was a prolific American artist whose career embraced virtually every facet of the illustration field. During his life he produced work for the newspaper comics (Tailspin Tommy), perfected the concept of the cutaway engineering drawing for North American Aviation, painted covers for some of the first paperback books ever published, illustrated scores of magazines and magazine covers, and most notably produced over 300 movie posters for the motion picture industry. After his retirement from commercial illustration, Reynold found success as a fine artist, producing hundreds of oil paintings and drawings for the Western art market. This book presents a rich overview of Reynold Brown s entire career, and showcases hundreds of original paintings, drawings, photographs, and printed illustrations often in glorious full-page reproductions. Many of his most iconic movie posters are featured, such as Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Spartacus, I was a Teenage Werewolf, and many more. 9 x 12 inches, full-color, hardcover with dust jacket. A massive 304 pages!

This spectacular new book explores the life and work of Reynold Brown, one of the greatest movie poster artists in Hollywood history. Shipping in September 2017, this whopping 304 page new edition adds 80 new pages to the original 2009 edition, and is filled to the brim with scores of beautiful illustrations reproduced from the original paintings and drawings, as well as rarely seen tear sheets from vintage magazines, movie posters, photographs, color studies, and more. A complete preview of the book is available here:

304 pages, 9”x12”, full-color on premium low-gloss stock, hardbound with dust jacket.

The Standard Edition is $49.95 plus postage.

A Special Edition of the book, limited to just 100 copies signed and numbered by author Daniel Zimmer, and presented in a red slipcase with white lettering, is available for $69.95 plus postage.







I WATCHED THEM EAT ME ALIVE: KILLER CREATURES IN MEN'S ADVENTURE MAGAZINES - Now available!

I Watched Them Eat Me Alive is the first installment of The Men's Adventure Library Journal, a series focusing on specific facets of the vintage men's adventure magazines stories, artwork, and history.

Dedicated to exploring the lost world of vintage men’s adventure magazines (aka MAMs), The Men’s Adventure Library chronicles the mags’ three decades on American newsstands, from the early 1950s through the mid-1970s. Mixing elements from many sources—early pulp fiction, detective stories and true crime, mystery and noir films, exotic travel magazines, celebrity scandal rags and bachelor mags—MAMs ratcheted up the tension and amped up the testosterone to create explosive, entertaining, and often outrageous reading for millions of American men. Though long extinct and mostly unseen for generations, their pervasive influence continues to shape some of the most popular and enduring pop culture tropes and trends.

Curated by MAM historian/collector Robert Deis and writer Wyatt Doyle, The Men’s Adventure Library reprints and provides context for classic MAM stories and artwork drawn from the mags’ rich history of gonzo pulp, with releases available in full-color trade paperback and deluxe, expanded hardcover editions. Each volume is a vivid reminder that MAMs were extremely cool, unexpectedly influential, and still pack a bare-knuckle punch. Read ’em all…if you’ve got the guts!


Paperback: 108 pages
Publisher: New Texture
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.3 x 9 inches
$9.95


Hardcover: 128 pages
Publisher: New Texture
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
$24.95


JAMES BOND: FELIX LEITER HC - Coming in November!
(Writer) James Robinson (Art) Aaron Campbell
Cover: Mike Perkins

Felix Leiter finds himself in Japan, tracking down a beautiful, Russian spy from his past. But when the mission takes a turn for the worse, he will discover that there are more deadly schemes afoot in Tokyo and beyond! From superstar creative team James Robinson (Starman, Red Sonja) and Aaron Campbell (The Shadow, Uncanny) comes the Bond spin-off highlighting 007’s American counterpart, blending spy thrills with the dark alleys and darker deeds of crime fiction!


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale November TBA.

JAMES BOND: FELIX LEITER HC is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 30).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP17 TBA.





JAMES BOND: KILL CHAIN #5 (of 6) - Coming in November!
(Writer) Andy Diggle (Art) Luca Casalanguida
Cover: Greg Smallwood

As NATO tears itself apart from within, 007 is declared Europe’s most wanted man.
Hunted by SMERSH and the CIA, he must infltrate a nuclear airbase to learn the secrets of Operation Hooded Falcon before Europe erupts into all-out war!


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale November TBA.

JAMES BOND: KILL CHAIN #5 is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 30).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP17 TBA.




JAMES BOND: VARGR TPB - Coming in November!
(Writer) Warren Ellis (Art) Jason Masters
Cover: Gabriel Hardman

After a mission of vengeance in Helsinki, James Bond returns to London and assumes the workload of a fallen 00 Section agent. His new mission takes him to Berlin, presumably to break up an agile drug-trafficking operation. But Bond has no idea of the forces ranged in secret against him, the full range of an operation that’s much scarier and more lethal than he could possibly imagine. Berlin is about to catch fire… and James Bond is trapped inside.

Dynamite Entertainment proudly presents VARGR, the debut storyline in the all-new James Bond comic book series, as crafted by masterful writer Warren Ellis (Transmetropolitan, The Authority) and artist Jason Masters (Batman Incorporated, Guardians of the Galaxy).


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale November TBA.

JAMES BOND: VARGER TPB is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 30).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP17 TBA.




Jerry Schneider Enterprises
Now available!

THE BLACK GALAXY
by Murray Leinster

ROD CANTRELL, whose trick of teleportation does considerable world-saving, emerges under the able guidance of author Murray Leinster as the chief figure in THE BLACK GALAXY.

His other-world gadget has enabled him to become the pioneer interplanetary explorer of Earth and he is infuriated with a politics-ridden Space Project Committee. He and his secretary, pretty Pat Bowen, visit the Stellaris, first real space-ship, which Cantrell has been designing, before he is kicked upstairs to a desk job he doesn't want.

Construction is still going on and, through a worker's accident, the ship, still incomplete and utterly unarmed, is sent flashing into the "other" space, a universe of complete darkness, in which its hyper-drive operates.

Cantrell has been removed from his job as chief space-explorer because of his insistence, thanks to a booby-trapped pyramid of strange design he found on Calypso during one of his previous space-flights, that some intelligent species, hostile to all other space-travelers and their worlds, has long been roving the star lanes. At some time, perhaps a few thousand years ago, they have utterly wiped out an advanced Martian civilization and left the planet dead and gutted behind them.

The Stellaris and its passengers—hardly a crew in any sense of the word—are virtually a space-derelict and forced to rely upon their wits and ingenuity, as well as Cantrell's brilliant leadership. They are tracked down by the alien race, who travel in immense pyramids and are utterly foreign and vicious to all human concepts.

Before the final battle is fought amid the shining stars Cantrell and his little group have traveled through a journey that makes this novel one of the most scientifically ingenious as well as stirring science fiction stories ever to emerge from the Leinster typewriter.

Trade Paperback, 6 x 9 inch, 142 pages
Retail Price $19.95
Our Price $12.95

THE RADIUM POOL
 by Ed Earl Repp

Deep beneath the many-hued, volcanic sands of the Manalava Plains is an eerie world. And in this world, in a gem-encrusted cavern, is a pool of shimmering, iridescent matter, guarded by creatures from outer space. Into this unexplored region go two men following the shadowy trail of a vanished girl; searching down the corridors of time for a fragment of a departed age. Intent upon their quest they do not heed the silent voice that warns them of the great peril in the secret recesses of the cavern land. Lured irrisistibly toward danger, the Earthmen discover that the interlopers from a far planet plan to use their superior powers to protect their lootings.

THE RADIUM POOL is the story of the desperate search by two gallant men for a lost woman; of their meeting with the weird Jovians in the hidden workshop under the Valley of Death; of the uncanny mysteries of the Pool, and the immortality found therein. Throughout this tale of dark adventure the unseen hand of fate is deftly guiding the destinies of each man toward good and evil.

Included in this volume is a scientific detective story, “The Phantom of Terror”, and “The Red Dimension”, once reprinted in Startling Stories’ Hall of Fame, and considered by many readers to be the author’s best science fiction shorty story.

Trade Paperback, 6 x 9 inch, 190 pages
Retail Price $19.00
Our Price $12.95





The Korshak Collection: Illustrations Of Imaginative Literature
June 07, 2017 to August 26, 2017

The Society is proud to present a rare opportunity to view some of the greatest fantasy masterpieces of our time. Presenting a grouping of illustrations of imaginative literature from the Korshak Collection, on display in Gallery 1 & 2. 

"As a young man I was fortunate enough to grow up with great art in my bedroom. My father, Erle Korshak, was the publisher of a pioneering science fiction book company, Shasta Publishers. Shasta ushered in the transition of important science fiction literature from magazines printed on cheap pulp paper to hardcover, library-quality books. Much of that art lived with us at our house and at the company office in Chicago.

In particular, the J. Allen St. John illustration for the 1941 Amazing Stories magazine cover of John Carter battling the Dead in "The City of Mummies" lured me into a fantastic world that I never knew existed. I read and enjoyed the Edgar Rice Burroughs story behind the illustration but for me, the illustration itself gave me a sense of wonder I had never previously experienced.

So began a lifelong love affair with illustration art. This collection is a vision of the fantastic. It is one of great illustrators, as well as illustrations that had a great influence on imaginative literature."

The Society of Illustrator
128 East 63rd Street (between Park and Lexington Avenues)
New York, NY 10065

LAND THAT TIME FORGOT FROM THE EARTH'S CORE #1 - Arriving in comic shops August 23!
(Writer) Mike Wolfer (Art) Gene Magora (Cover) Mike Wolfer

Two of Edgar Rice Burroughs' greatest science fiction series meet at last, as the lost continent of Caspak from THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT and PELLUCIDAR, the prehistoric world at the Earth's core, collide in one colossal crossover!

Stranded in time on the remote island continent of Caspak, Bowen Tyler, his future granddaughter Abby, the Galu warrior woman See-Ta, and the evil Baron von Schoenvorts and the crew of the German U-33 submarine have had their hands full fighting for survival against the rampaging dinosaurs of Caspak, as well as each other. But they are all about to be thrust into a war of worlds unlike anything ever seen, as the insidious inhabitants of Pellucidar find their way to the surface world, right in the heart of Caspak. The goal of the telepathic, prehistoric Mahars is the total subjugation of Caspak, a land that they seek to claim as their new kingdom, and with an invasion force of giant ants and an army of corpse-like, cannibalistic, subterranean creatures, they just might succeed! Officially licensed by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., this is a series that any lover of dinosaurs, science fiction, lost worlds, and high adventure must not miss!

The Land That Time Forgot: Terror From The Earth's Core comes with three covers - Two Connecting Main Covers by Mike Wolfer and a Wish You Were Here Postcard Retailer Incentive Edition by Dan Parsons.


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99







LOVECRAFT P. I. (Paranormal Investigator) #1, 2, & 3 - Now available!

This three issue limited series finds our own Ward Lovecraft arriving to Innsmouth, circa 1937.
In search of answers for the missing Necronomicon and the mysterious death of Joshua Marsh.
The son of prominent business man Barnabas Marsh.

Created by Fritz Striker and D.W. Kann
Written and Edited by Fritz Striker and D.W. Kann
Illustrated by António Brandão
Breakdowns and Shading by Fritz Striker
Lettering by Hanna Östman
Cover Art by Paul Shipper


Available in print and eBook editions at the link below.






Martin Grams' Blog - Now online!

Patrick Duffy and the Man from Atlantis
Hopalong Cassidy is disintegrating
"Lost" Shadow Radio Programs Discovered
Willie Whopper and the Mysterious Airman

THE MASSACRE OF MANKIND: Sequel to The War of the Worlds - Arriving in book stores August 22!
by Stephen Baxter


It has been 14 years since the Martians invaded England. The world has moved on, always watching the skies but content that we know how to defeat the Martian menace. Machinery looted from the abandoned capsules and war-machines has led to technological leaps forward. The Martians are vulnerable to earth germs. The Army is prepared.

So when the signs of launches on Mars are seen, there seems little reason to worry. Unless you listen to one man, Walter Jenkins, the narrator of Wells' book. He is sure that the Martians have learned, adapted, understood their defeat.

He is right.

Thrust into the chaos of a new invasion, a journalist - sister-in-law to Walter Jenkins - must survive, escape and report on the war.

The Massacre of Mankind has begun.


Hardcover, 496 pages
Publisher: Crown
$27.00



Now available!

Farmerphile: The Magazine of Philip José Farmer was a quarterly fanzine that ran fifteen issues from July 2005 to January 2009. Michael Croteau served as Publisher for all fifteen issues; Christopher Paul Carey and Paul Spiteri coedited the first ten issues, while Spiteri and Win Scott Eckert coedited the last five. Thanks to the generosity of Philip José Farmer and his “Magic Filing Cabinet,” Farmerphile published—for the first time anywhere—short stories (mostly not science fiction), excerpts, articles, speeches, and letters written by Farmer. It even serialized the novel Up from the Bottomless Pit (not included in this collection, but forthcoming from Meteor House).

Farmerphile also contained articles and appreciations from Farmer’s fans and from his fellow science fiction authors, from critiques of his work to stories of personal encounters, and everything between. A complete list of the original contents of all fifteen issues can be found here.

Hardcover Limited Edition
Now the hard part: narrowing down so much content into one “Best of” collection. This was much harder than it sounds, as nearly all the content was worthy of inclusion. So, we focused on broadly covering as much ground as possible, as well as including pieces that touched on Farmer’s personal life. Assembled here is a wealth of information about one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time along, with some of his earliest writing.

The Best of Farmerphile is available in two editions: a Trade Paperback and a Hardcover Limited Edition. The hardcover is not “officially” a signed limited edition, but when the book debuts at PulpFest/FarmerCon XII in late July 2017, we will get as many contributors on hand as possible to sign it before we ship the books to those preordered (shipping will occur immediately after PulpFest/FarmerCon XII).


PREORDERING:
The trade paperback edition is $29 (plus shipping).
The hardcover limited edition is $45 (plus shipping).
Or you can preorder them together for only $67—that’s $7 off (plus you’ll save even more with combined shipping)!

Preorder early to ensure you get a copy of the limited edition hardcover.
As always, the print run on the limited edition will be determined by the number of preorders received.
Not many copies beyond those reserved will be printed.
NOTE: due to the complexities of publishing rights, no ebook edition will be produced!




by Heidi Ruby Miller
Now available!

In Philip José Farmer’s novel Two Hawks from Earth, Native American pilot Roger Two Hawks flew through his first “gate” while on a bombing run over Romania during World War II. The gate brought him to Earth 2, a world where the Americas never existed. Since then he has continued to fight battles on Earth after Earth, each more strange than the next.

In Heidi Ruby Miller’s short story “Dakota’s Gate” (Worlds of Philip José Farmer 3), set on Earth 3, North America never advanced past stone tools and rock shelters. But that’s where Two Hawks met another gate traveler, Dakota Cummings. It was Dakota, a woman turned friend and lover, who pulled him through a gate to her Earth, the most alien and deadly of all.

Earth 4. Two hundred years in the future. A war thirty-six thousand feet underwater. Two Hawks must draw upon all he’s learned during his gate travels in order to survive war between technologically advanced humans and their far-future hybrid cousins. This time more than just his and Dakota’s lives are at stake—the fate of an entire world is in his hands.

Featuring cover art by Mark Wheatley, an introduction by Christopher Paul Carey, and the short story “Dakota’s Gate” as a prelude, Man of War is a 24,500-word novella full of the action and adventure you’d expect of Philip José Farmer’s Roger Two Hawks.

Man of War will be published simultaneously in both hardcover and paperback signed limited editions!

Buy the Signed Limited Edition Trade Paperback for $16 (+shipping)
Buy the Signed Limited Edition Hardcover for $27 (+shipping)
Buy both together for $38—save $5 off the pair (+shipping)


As always, the print run with our Limited Editions is determined by the number of preorders. That’s why the names of those who preorder the book appear on its acknowledgments page–you make this book happen! (As long as you preorder by June 1st 2017.)

And, as an added bonus, if you preorder before June 1st, you will also receive a FREE ebook copy of Heidi Ruby Miller’s novel, Ambasadora.


Trade paperback, 5" x 8", $16 plus shipping
Hardcover, $27 
plus shipping


 
 


September 14-16, 2017! 

Hunt Valley Wyndham (recently changed now to a Marriott)
SAME HOTEL, NEW NAME.

Announcing the first half of our celebrity lineup for our 2017 event!
Remember you can purchase your admission tickets in advance through the website and save money. And book your hotel room early before they are sold out!
Hotel: (410) 785-7000


VENDOR HOURS: Thursday and Friday 9 am to 7 pm, Saturday 9 am to 5 pm
​CELEBRITY HOURS: Thursday and Friday, 10 am to 6 pm, Saturday 10 am to 5 pm
​MOVIE ROOM: 24 hours a day
​PANELS & PRESENTATIONS: 9 am to 9 pm (See schedule of events)





Moonstone Books
I.V. FROST: TALES OF MYSTERY AND SCIENTIFIC DETECTION
Now available!

Authors: Matthew Baugh, David Boop, Eric Fein, Ron Fortier, Chuck Miller, Gene Moyers, William Nedrow, Barry Reese, and Frank Schildiner.
Cover: Alex Innocenti


Stalking a territory that is somewhere between the gaslit world of the Victorian Consulting Detective
and the flickering neon darkness of Film Noir, Wandrei’s Frost is part analytical rationalist, part Angel of Death.
Like someone took Sherlock Holmes, armed him to the teeth, and turned him loose on the mean streets of Phillip Marlowe.

–Peter Atkins

For the first time ever, a NEW collection of I.V. Frost stories!
Guest-starring: The Green Ghost, The Phantom Detective, Dr. Satan, The Moon Man, & more!
Matthew Baugh, David Boop, Eric Fein, Ron Fortier, Chuck Miller, Gene Moyers, William Nedrow, Barry Reese, and Frank Schildiner.



Softcover, 266 pages, $16.95



The New Pulp Heroes - Now online!

Simon Fogner

Captain Swashbuckle
The Wrath
Xenthe


PAPERBACK PARADE #98 - Now available!

PAPERBACK PARADE #98, the magazine for paperback readers and collectors -- 100 pages in Full Color!

Articles on pre-vintage paperbacks, and fantastic Dime Novels, Dark Wing military sf series, Ace SF Reader, Brazil pbs, 1942 Canadian White Circle paperbacks, Bachelor Books gga sleaze, Dragnet in pb, Jacquiline Susann, news, more


$15.00 + $3.00 postage from Gryphon Books, www.gryphonbooks.com.
You can pay via Paypal or with a check to our address:
Gryphon Books, PO Box 280209, Brooklyn, NY 11228, USA. (Inquire on subscription rates and outside USA).
Thank you and all best to you for 2017! Enjoy!


Back issues also available while they last!

 
ORDERING INFORMATION: 
We accept VISA, Mastercard, US checks drawn on a US bank, (in USD only) or Paypal to our email address at “gryphonbooks@att.net
You can also purchase Paperback Parade at our ebay store at the link below. 
You can pay via check to our mailing address:
GRYPHON BOOKS,  PO Box 280209,  Brooklyn, NY 11228-0209,  USA

Paperback Parade single issue is $15.00 + postage. Query on back issues AND ON AD RATES.
Subscriptions:   Domestic: 3 issues for $40.00;    ALL INTERNATIONAL: 3 issues $65.00

POSTAGE RATES:
Domestic: the first item (book) is $3.00 media mail + 50 cents each additional item.
International: the first book is $14.00 via First Class International, $2.00 each additional book.
All books and magazines are mailed through the U.S. Postal Service.
Query on Priority Mail or other mailing methods.



 




PulpFest reports and photos

Airship27: PulpFest 2017

Castalia House: PulpFest 2017

Facebook - Peter Renfro: Photos 1,  Photos 2Photos 3  

File 770:  2017 Munsey Award

Murania Press: PulpFest 2017 Report  

Mystery*File:  PulpFest 2017 by Walker Martin

PulpFlakes:  PulpFest 2017 photos



Pulpgen-Online Pulps - Now online!

New this week

"Shooting Script" by Lew Martin from POPULAR DETECTIVE, December, 1942

When death strikes on a Hollywood sound stage, Blake Dustin, young leading man, plays his greatest role!

"The Man on the Bench" by W. J. Campbell from AMAZING STORIES, January, 1928
A scientist demonstrating a serum that can bring out the best instincts of a person ends up helping a minor criminal recover memories lost from a concussion.

"The Enemy's Colors" by Edgar R. Hoadley, Jr. from ARGOSY, May, 1899
Civil War story. This is an action-filled story about a Midshipman leading a raid on an enemy blockader, winning the day when it seemed lost by pulling down the enemy ship's flag, making everyone think the ship had already surrendered.

"Sleuth Sample" by Joseph H. Hernandez from TEN DETECTIVE ACES, March, 1939
A man is as old as he feels. And Pop felt young enough to pull a classic in clues.



Pulp Den - Now online!

South California Purple
- New!
The Spawn of Lilithu  
A Taste of Blood And Ashes  
Manhattan Masquerade
ONYX
Waltzing Mathilde
         Pulp Den  

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

Pulpfest 2017 - photos
Robert H. Leitfred - Author
Presidential artist got his training in the pulps... 


The Pulp Guy:The Retro Future is Now! - Now online!

The Pulp Guy-Barbarians, Spacers and Thunder!
The Pulp Guy-A Devil of A Bad Guy
The Pulp Guy-So Many Masks, So Little Crime!
The Pulp Guy-The Retro Future is Now! by Teel James Glenn


The Pulp Hermit - Now online!

The Invaders - New!
Congo War Cry
Calling Doctor Kill
The Red Rider of Smoky Range
Dying Space
Hammerhead
Pulp Hero Press
PULP SLAM: RIP-ROARIN’ TALES OF MYSTERY, MURDER, AND MAYHEM
by Fred Blosser

Now available!
Pulp in Your Face!
In thirteen take-no-prisoners pulp yarns, Robert E. Howard scholar Fred Blosser caroms from the Old West to the noirish streets of urban America, and then beneath the earth itself, into a primitive world of savagery, to slam you silly with the best in pulp fiction.

By bullet and sword, fist and fortune, Blosser's square-jawed yet often brutal heroes face down the worst that evil has to offer:

Ringo and Horn blow away bootleggers, outlaws, Mafia thugs and assassins, and other lowlifes, from the backstreets to the backwoods
Commander Manta and Agent Gila battle the hallucinogenic horrors of a would-be world conqueror in Washington, D.C.
Dax the Go-Run struggles to survive in the savage, subterranean world of Kaal-Dur, as he goes in quest of a captive princess
All this, and hitmen vs Cthulhu, too. You can't go wrong with hitmen vs Cthulhu.

Plus, Blosser serves up a quintology of non-fiction analyses of such pulp topics as Dashiell Hammett's "Nightmare Town" and the Mafia novels of Richard Posner.

Get Slammed!


Softcover, 6 x 9 inches, 218 pages, $14.95
Kindle: $4.99




The Pulp.Net  - Now online!
The Pulp.Net features three ongoing blogs!
Pulp Super-Fan blog written by Michael R. Brown, That's Pulp by John Olsen, and the long-running Yellowed Perils written by William Lampkin.

RED SONJA #11 - Coming in November!
Writer: Amy Chu
Art: Carlos Gomez
Cover A: V. Ken Marion
Cover B: Jan Duursema
Cover C: Marco Santucci
Cover D: Cosplay Cover
Cover E Subscription: Maria Sanapo


Their search comes to an end as Sonja, Holly and Spike discover the mysterious Hyborian expert Professor Wallace in the most unexpected of all places.
The professor agrees to help rescue Max, but little does everyone know, the old man has a BIG secret. Could it be the end of the road for the She-Devil and her friends?


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale November TBA.

RED SONJA #11 is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 30).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP17 TBA (Marion cover).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP17 TBA (Duursema cover).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP17 TBA (Santucci cover).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP17 TBA (Cosplay cover).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP17 TBA (Sanapo cover).

      
 
     
      
      



RED SONJA #8 - Arriving in comic shops August 23!
Writer: Amy Chu
Art: Carlos Gomez
Cover A: Mike McKone
Cover B:
Ben Caldwell
Cover C: Jonboy Myers
Cover D:  Cosplay Cover
Cover E Subscription: Mel Rubi

Buckle up for a wild journey as Sonja treks across America looking for a way back to Hyrkania. But as she heads further West, all she seems to find is trouble...

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99

     
 
    
     
     



The Saint 2017 - Now available for streaming on Netflix!

Master thief Simon Templar -- also known as the Saint -- is hired by a wealthy banker to find his kidnapped daughter, but not all is as it seems.

Adam Rayner, Eliza Dushku, Ian Ogilvy, James Remar, Roger Moore, Enrique Murciano, Thomas Kretschmann, Beatrice Rosen, Greg Grunberg, Yani Gellman
Directed by Ernie Barbarash




SCI-FI ART OF VIRGIL FINLAY 2018 Wall Calendar - Now available!

Virgil Finlay (1914-71) was an American pulp fantasy, science fiction and horror illustrator.
While he worked in a range of media, from gouache to oils, Finlay specialized in detailed pen-and-ink drawings accomplished with abundant stippling, cross-hatching, and scratchboard techniques.

This calendar showcases 12 such intricate and atmospheric line pen and ink drawings in all their glory.
Informative text accompanies each work and the datepad features previous and next month's views.

12 pages, 12 illustrations
Dimensions: 300 x 300 x 3 mm
£9.99







The Serial Squadron
PERILS OF NYOKA
New restoration with original titles!
Now available!

Kay Aldridge, Clayton Moore, Adrian Booth, Tristram Coffin, Charles Middleton
D: William Witney/John English


Adventurers Nyoka Gordon and her friend Larry Grayson search for the golden tablets of Hippocrates, which contain a cure for cancer. Arabian queen Vultura, who masquerades as an earthly incarnation of a pagan Sun Goddess, also wants the tablets and the treasure associated with them and with her lieutenant Cassib and Count Torrini, as well as her bodyguard, an ape named Satan, travels across the desert in her chariot to try to obtain them. An action-packed classic with more torturous deathtraps than possibly any other serial ever made.

Transfer Quality: Superb, stabilized, presented in warm black and white with restored audio & newly synched sound
DVD Contents: Complete 15 episode serial
Special Features: Reconstructed original "Perils of Nyoka" titles, re-release trailer


List price $16.99



 

THE SHADOW #4 - Coming in November!
(Writer) Si Spurrier (Art) Daniel HDR (Cover) Lee Weeks, Kelly Jones, Tom Mandrake

When violence strikes close to home, Mary Jerez is faced with a deadly decision that may change her life forever.
Meanwhile, those who would seek to use the legend for their own means begin to learn why they should fear the shadows.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale November TBA.

THE SHADOW #4 is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 30).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP17 TBA (Weeks cover).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP17 TBA (Jones cover).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP17 TBA (Mandrake cover).


 

 



THE SHADOW / BATMAN #2 (OF 6) - Coming in November!
Writer: Steve Orlando
Art: Giovanni Timpano

Cover A: Tony Daniel Cover B: Brandon Peterson Cover C: Artyom Trakhanov Cover D: Philip Tan Cover E Subscription: Giovanni Timpano

The truth of what the Shadow doesn’t know threatens to destroy his partnership with Batman and Robin just when they need him the most. Three generations of heroes stand at a crossroads as the secret of the Silent Seven threatens to encompass and obliterate them all. To fight the Seven, Batman and the Shadow must force them to reveal themselves. But how do men make moves against a behemoth evil that measures assaults in centuries?

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale November TBA.

Co-published by Dynamite Entertainment and DC Comics

THE SHADOW / BATMAN #2 is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 30).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP17 TBA (Daniel cover).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP17 TBA (Peterson cover).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP17 TBA (Trakhanovcover).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP17 TBA (Tan cover).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP17 TBA (Timpano cover).


 
 
 
  
 


SHEENA #3 - Coming in November!
Writer: Marguerite Bennett, Christina Trujillo
Art: Moritat

Cover A: Moritat
Cover B: Maria Sanapo
Cover C: Rodney Buchemi
Cover D: Cosplay


Sheena must navigate the forbidden temple grounds or risk losing the key to saving her home, but something deep within the temple has awoken…Something hungry.


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale
November TBA.

SHEENA #3 is solicited in the September PREVIEWS (Available August 30).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP17 TBA (Moritat cover).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP17 TBA (Sanapo cover).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP17 TBA (Buchemi cover).
The Diamond Item Code is SEP17 TBA (Cosplay cover).

 
 
 
 


SHEENA: QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE COLLECTION: THE MOVIE & TV SERIES - Now available!

Featuring the 1984 Theatrical Feature Film starring Tanya Roberts (TV's Charlie's Angels and That '70s Show) and Ted Wass (TV's Soap and Blossom), directed by John Guillermin (1976 King Kong remake). Also featuring all 35 episodes from the 2 seasons of the hit syndicated TV series starring Gena Lee Nolin (TV's Baywatch) and John Allen Nelson (Killer Klowns From Outer Space and TV's Baywatch). This DVD collection also includes 5 bonus episodes of the 1950s TV series starring Irish McCalla!

Sheena: Queen of the Jungle -
She is an ancient prophecy fulfilled. A golden God child possessed with a mystic gift. A gift which grew in strength as she grew in years. A gift about to be put to the ultimate test. Innocence against evil. Part Animal. Part Legend. All Woman. Journey to deepest, darkest Africa for thrills, romance and high adventure! Orphaned in Zambouli territory, the blonde Sheena (Tanya Roberts) is raised by a noble tribe and taught to communicate telepathically with all creatures. She gets a firsthand lesson in love from Vic Casey (Ted Wass), a wisecracking TV journalist. In Africa for a story on a royal football player, Prince Otwani (Trevor Thomas), Vic soon finds himself embroiled in a web of political intrigue. And when the evil prince decides to invade the Zamboulis' land, it is up to Sheena to rescue Vic and save her idyllic kingdom!

Sheena - The TV Series:
Orphaned at a young age by tragedy in the jungle, Sheena was raised by the last living member of a native tribe, the Kaya, who possessed the mystical power to "shape shift" into the forms of wild animals by feeling the spirit of their soul. It is a gift shared by Sheena, who can turn herself into an animal and travel through the jungle unrecognized while battling outside forces that invade La Mistas, her primal home.

Notable Cast/Crew: Tanya Roberts, Ted Wass, Gena Lee Nolin, John Allen Nelson. Sheena: Queen of the Jungle was the first female comic book character with her own title, preceding Wonder Woman by 3 years. Sheena was ranked 59th in Comics Buyer's Guide's "100 Sexiest Women in Comics" list. An all-new Sheena: Queen of the Jungle comic is being published by Dynamite Entertainment for launch in August 2017!


6-disc set
$14.98



THE STRANGE HARVEST OF DR. AQUARIUS - Now available!
by Jeff Deischer

THE AGE OF AQUARIUS IS HERE!

America’s Bicentennial is fast approaching as the existence of a new race of superhumans is revealed – Homo Nova! But amid this exciting and anxious news comes tragedy – America’s Greatest Hero has been killed! It is up to America’s superheroes to find the killer! And to deal with the fact that humans are no longer Earth’s sole inheritors.

The Strange Harvest of Dr. Aquarius unites for the first time Jack Kirby’s characters that have fallen into the public domain.

The King of Comics either created or co-created the stars of this novel: Mr. Scarlet, the Stuntman, the Boy Explorers, the Red Demon, Captain 3D – and more, as the mantle has been passed from the Golden Age heroes to a new generation!

Join the Guardians of Democracy in this fast-paced tribute to Jack Kirby, the King of Comics!


Softcover, 5 x 8 inches, 318 pages, $20
Kindle: $5



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.

Barker and Bender on the Case-Part One
Another Silly Season-Part Two
Another Silly Season-Part One
The Summer of Flying Saucers

WEIRDBOOK #36
Softcover & eBook editions are now available!
Subscriptions are also now available - see link below!


Great fantasy and horror tales by current and upcoming masters of the genre...

Weirdbook #36 presents another great assortment of stories and poems in the Weird Tales tradition:
fantasy, horror, sword & sorcery, and the just plain unclassifiable find a home here!

Included are:
Burn on the Bayou, by L.F. Falconer
The Mumbler, by Gillian French
Cleric at Sentinel Hill, by Franklyn Searight
Whores and Criminals, by Dean Macallister
The Quiet on the Water, by C. C. Adams
The Haggard Brothers Go to Town, by James Pratt
The Awakening, by Megan Neumann
Dead Line, by D.C. Lozar
The Waterman’s Song, by MB Vigil
Maleficium, by Kelly Gould
The Green Dome, by Joe DiCicco
We Who Walk on Worlds, by Matt Sullivan
Insect Song, by William Tea
The Harvest Moon Festival, by Gigi Eng
Like Falling Snow, by W.D. Clifton
The Oldest Story, by S. L. Edwards
Geronimo Versus Frankenstein, by Neal Privett
The Black-and-White Dozen, by Chris Kuriata
Omzetten, by C.M. Muller
Vandegald’s Globes, by Jeremy Hayes

Trade Paperback, 6 x 9 inches, $12.00
Kindle: $3.99

WEIRDBOOK is now offering Subscriptions!!!!

 

Welcome to The 11th Golden Age of Weird Fiction MEGAPACK®, which features the weird fiction of E. Hoffmann Price.
Wildside Press, in association with Mr. Price’s heirs, are dedicated to making the extensive body of work of this pulpsmith extraordinaire accessible once again to the public through our line of MEGAPACK® collections.

Included in this volume are 18 more of Price's classic stories from the pages of Weird Tales and other pulp magazines.

Here are:
SALADIN'S THRONE-RUG
THE GIRL FROM SAMARCAND
THE PEACOCK'S SHADOW
THE LORD OF ILLUSION
PALE HANDS
TARBIS OF THE LAKE
THE GARDEN OF EVIL
THE WALKING DEAD
TOMB DWELLER
KEEPER OF THE GATEWAY
PIT OF MADNESS
SATAN'S DAUGHTER
THE DESTROYING DEMON
SPANISH VAMPIRE
SELENE WALKS BY NIGHT
THE OLD GODS EAT
PRAYER TO SATAN
WEB OF WIZARDRY


eBook: $0.99


ZAGRIBUD: A CLASSIC SPACE OPERA, BY JOHN RUSSELL FEARN

In this sequel to John Russell Fearn’s classic Liners of Time, Time Liner Pilot Sandford Lee continues his battle against Elnek Jelfel, the Jovian wizard of science intent on galactic domination. Zagribud carries out their contests against an interstellar canvas, with Jelfel using his scientific powers to ultimately take possession of the Earth and carry out mass vivisection on humanity.

This is the first unabridged book edition of a classic pre-war serial from the pages of Amazing Stories. It’s a cosmic saga of super-science from a bygone era of science fiction, in the tradition of E. E. 'Doc' Smith!











11 August 2017

Adventure House
Now available!

HIGH ADVENTURE #155

Weird Menace Special Issue

"Land of Living Flame" by E. Hoffman Price
"Too Bad To Kill" by Stan Warner
"Death Spurs" by R.T. Maynard
"Daughter of the Serpent" by G.T. Fleming-Roberts
Death Cove by Ray King
"The Fiend’s Club" by Harry F. Olmsted
"The Cannibal Floor" by Arthur J. Burks


Cover Artist: Rudolph Belarski
   
7x10, 112 pages, $12.95



Adventure House
Now available!

THRILLING WONDER STORIES - June 1943

"Through the Blackboard" by Joel Townsley Rogers
Unexpectedly tossed into the fourth dimension, little mathematics professor Noel Goug has an amazing chance to solve all of his personal problems while time stand motionless!

"Wobblies In the Moon" by Frank Belknap Long
"The Devil’s Fiddle" by N.R. de Mexico
"Children of the Gods" by D.D. Sharp
"Grief of Bagdad" by Kelvin Kent
"Two-Timing Man" by Thaedra Alden
"The Golden Temple" by Ray Cummings
"World of Living Dead" by Wilm Carver

Cover Artist: Earle Bergey

   
7x10, 128 pages, $14.95



Adventure House
Now available!

GANGSTER STORIES - November 1931

"Black Ice" by C.B. Yorke
"King Joe Dies" by E. Parke Levy
"Gangland"
“Ex-Dick—Feminine” by Margie Harris
“Doctor Jim” by Ward D. Binns
"Vice Racket" by Tom Champion
"Ducky Swings A Deal" by Homer Faust

Cover Artist: Tom Lovell

   
7x10, 156 pages, $14.95



Age of Aces
Now available!

SKY DEVIL: ACE OF DEVILS
By Harold F. Cruickshank


The Sky Devil and his Brood were riders of the hell trail! Nowhere along the Western Front could you find a more feared crew, both in their element or out. 120 Squadron could always be counted on to whip Germany's best Aces, out-scrap entire squadrons of Boche killers, or tackle not one, but two crazed Barons with an Egyptology fetish! But what happens when they find themselves up in a dirigible fighting a fleet of ghost zeppelins, or down in the English Channel battling ferocious deep water beasts, or even behind enemy lines dealing with a crazed Major Petrie? Plenty, and you can read it all here. The prolific Harold F. Cruickshank was a mainstay of Popular Publications’ aviation titles, with a series in each. For Battle Aces he wrote Sky Wolf; For Battle Birds he created Red Eagle; and in Dare-Devil Aces, from 1932 to 1935, he wrote the 29 tales of Sky Devil. This second volume from Age of Aces Books collects half of the run—15 stories in all—including the seminal story where Bill Dawe is rooked out of the command of 120 Squadron!

Stories include
“The Green Devils” – Dare-Devil Aces, July 1932
“Killer’s Drome” – Dare-Devil Aces, November 1932
“Ace of Devils” – Dare-Devil Aces, November 1933
“Skeleton’s Drome” – Dare-Devil Aces, December 1933
“The Sky Pirates” – Dare-Devil Aces, January 1934
“Staffel of Hate” – Dare-Devil Aces, February 1934
“The Flaming Vulture” – Dare-Devil Aces, March 1934
“No-Man’s Squadron” – Dare-Devil Aces, April 1934
“The Storm Buzzard” – Dare-Devil Aces, May 1934
“The Derelict Patrol” – Dare-Devil Aces, June 1934
“Staffel of Skeletons” – Dare-Devil Aces, July 1934
“Graveyard Staffel” – Dare-Devil Aces, September 1934
“The Stratosphere Patrol” – Dare-Devil Aces, February 1935
“The Undersea Buzzard” – Dare-Devil Aces, June 1935
“Staffel of Dead Men” – Dare-Devil Aces,September 1935

$16.99 | 6″x9″ trade paperback | 364 pages




The German Empire has unleashed Hell on Earth! The dead are climbing out of their graves and giant skeletons attack the living. Heads are detonating and soldiers are turning to bronze. But flying to the rescue like an avenging angel is America’s own “Brain Devil,” Captain Philip Strange, the phantom ace of G-2 Intelligence. Whether it’s deadly bridges or killer broadcasts, when the Allies need a miracle they pray for Philip Strange! This sixth volume of Donald Keyhoe’s flying spy features six weird World War I adventures: The Devil's Holocaust, Hell's Gateway, The Brain-Devil of G-2, Tombstone Tarmac, The Bridge of Death, and Hellions of Headless Death.

Stories include
“The Devil’s Holocaust,” – Flying Aces, June 1932
“Hell’s Gateway,” – Flying Aces, April 1932
“The Brain-Devil of G-2,” – Flying Aces, September 1932
“Tombstone Tarmac,” – Flying Aces, September 1933
“The Bridge of Death,” – Flying Aces, May 1935
“Hellions of Headless Death,” – Flying Aces, September 1936

$16.99 | 6″x9″ trade paperback | 322 pages


 

Airship 27 Productions
JIM ANTHONY, SUPER DETECTIVE VOLUME 5
VERSUS MASTERMIND

Now available!

Airship 27 Productions is thrilled to present the fifth book in their continuing new adventures of that classic pulp hero, Jim Anthony – Super Detective.

Jim Anthony had battled all manner of evil and villainy in his illustrious career as a globe-trotting adventurer. But now he finds himself challenged by three unique criminals, each with devastating weapons of destruction; the Flame Wizard, Baron Strum and Prof. Meteon. Each is determined to wreak unimaginable havoc on the world and vanquish the Super Detective in the process.

The hero soon comes to suspect there is a fourth nemesis; a super Mastermind orchestrating these other villains in a cunning, deadly plot for reasons he is unable to fathom. But the Super Detective is never alone thanks to his various allies ala pilot Tm Gentry and British butler Dawkins and along the way he is joined by the beautiful Maria Flores and her All-Girl Squad. 

Writer Adam Mudman Bezecny has plotted a fast-paced, action-packed novel in four parts creating some of the most dastardly pulp villains ever to challenge the Super Detective.  “This is a really interesting collection,” explains Airship 27 Productions’ Managing Editor Ron Fortier. “Although each of the chapters works very much like a stand alone adventure, ultimately they create a longer narrative plot leading to the Super Detective’s newest arch-fiend, Mastermind.”

Artist Richard Jun provides the marvelous black and white interior illustrations and Adam Shaw delivers the stunning cover based on one of those pieces. All of which are assembled under the guiding hand of Airship 27 Art Director Rob Davis.

 “Jim Anthony is one of our favorite pulp heroes,” Fortier adds happily, “and we hope to continue this series of new books for as long as our readers enjoy them.” So buckle up for a wild ride, pulp fans, this is adventure with a capital A …for Jim Anthony!

Now available at Amazon in paperback and on Kindle!

Airship 27 Productions – Pulp Fiction For A New Generation!

 

Altus Press
THE COMPLETE EXPLOITS OF DOCTOR DEATH
By Harold Ward
Now available!

Limited hardcover edition of 50 copies.
Comes with eBook versions of all the stories.

For the first time in one edition, all five Doctor Death pulp adventures are collected authorized by the Ward estate.
Contains the first three stories from 1935: “12 Must Die,” “The Gray Creatures” and “The Shriveling Murders,”
as well as two unpublished stories, “Waves of Madness” and “The Red Mist of Death.”
As a bonus, Harold Ward's treatment for a Doctor Death comic strip is included.
With an introduction by pulp historian Will Murray.


$75.00 deluxe hardcover


Altus Press


Altus Press
TOMORROW, THE COMPLETE SAGA
By Arthur Leo Zagat
Limited Edition Hardcover
Now available!

Limited hardcover edition of 50 copies.
Comes with eBook versions of all the stories.


The complete saga of Dikar and The Bunch is collected for the first time in a single volume.
Set in a decimated post-invasion United States, Dikar and The Bunch fight to restore America to its former glory.
A classic post-apocalyptic saga from the pages of Argosy Magazine.


$75.00 deluxe hardcover




Altus Press: Pulp Blog - Now online!

Altus Press Releases Deluxe Editions of Doctor Death and the Tomorrow Saga

The Mysterious Wu Fang Continues, Plus a New Pulp T-Shirt
Altus Press News: Dusty Ayres #3 and Moon Man Vol. 5
Altus Press Completes the Dr. Yen Sin Series, Plus Wu Fang Continues
Pulps Pricings Sales Census: Solder Stories (April and May 1929)
Science Fiction Classics: “Veiled Knowledge” by Edwin James and “No More Pencils” by Joquel Kennedy


Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
At the printer and coming soon!

DOC SAVAGE Volume 12 BAMA VARIANT: "The Squeaking Goblin" & "The Evil Gnome”
RESTORED MANUSCRIPT EDITION

The pulp era's greatest superhero battles evil in two expanded novels by Lester Dent writing as Kenneth Robeson. First, the Man of Bronze and his Iron Men journey to Kentucky to investigate the mystery of a skeletal sharpshooter and his "disappearing bullets." Can they stop the mountain feud orchestrated by "The Squeaking Goblin"? Then, serial killings by an unstoppable foe set Doc Savage on the trail of "The Evil Gnome." This collector's item pulp reprint showcases a haunting cover by legendary illustrator James Bama and the classic color pulp covers by Walter Baumhofer and Emery Clarke, interior illustrations by Paul Orban and historical articles by Will Murray, author of 21 Doc Savage novels. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-235-3 Softcover, 7x10, 128 pages, B&W, $14.95

Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]
Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)

Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
At the printer and coming soon!

THE SHADOW #121: “Hidden Death" and “The Shadow Meets The Mask"
The Dark Avenger aides Commissioner Weston in landmark pulp novels by Walter B. Gibson writing as "Maxwell Grant." First, can a dead man kill? All the clues suggest that the cunning brain behind serial murders was the first victim! Only The Shadow can unearth the bizarre secret behind “Hidden Death,” in the 1932 novel that introduced Commissioner Weston! Then, the Knight of Darkness is accused of terrible crimes by a radio pundit when “The Shadow Meets The Mask.” BONUS: "Murder in the Ball Park," a classic thriller from the Golden Age of Radio! This instant collector’s item showcases the original color pulp covers by George Rozen and Modest Stein and the classic interior illustrations by Tom Lovell and Paul Orban, with historical commentary by Anthony Tollin and Will Murray. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-236-0 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
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]
Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)


Art's Reviews Podcasts! - Now online!

"The Strange Harvest of Dr. Aquarius" By Jeff Deischer

August 28, 2017 is the 100th birthday of the legendary comic author and artist Jack Kirby.  Jack had a long career in comics from the 1940s onwards.  During that tie he created and collaborated on several of the most memorable comic book characters including superheroes and supervillains including: Captain America, Blue Bolt, the Boy Explorers, The Fighting American, The Fantastic Four, Darkseid, and many others. Writer and scholar Jeff Deischer has written a novel incorporating several of Kirby's characters in the public domain to a crossover story taking place in the early 1960s which respects the original character lines and carries them forward.  This is a tribute to Jack Kirby and his genius carrying forward his legacy.
 
 This is a volume that comic fans and anyone who enjoys superheroes cannot afford to miss!  As usual, Jeff provides detailed information on the creative process underlying the story and a chronology of the events taking place. Take a trip to yesteryear when Jack Kirby ruled as king of the comics and revel in his creations.


Past episodes:
Win Scott Eckert discusses "The Monster on Hold"
PulpFest: Empire of the Nine- The Psychos of Philip Jose Farmer
John Bruening's readings
PulpFest: Peter McGarvey's readings
PulpFest: Jason Jack Miller's readings
PulpFest: Jim Beard's readings

Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press

Writing pulp fiction for a living was a tough grind, but one that always attracted hopefuls. Dewy-eyed aspirants were willing to serve an apprenticeship in the pulps, secure in the knowledge that raw talent and hard work would carry them to inevitable success in the slicks. These neophytes, eager for helpful tips and sage advice from the pulpwood Big Timers, poured over the pages of trade journals such as Writer's Digest, Author & Journalist, Writer's Review, and Writer's Markets and Methods.

Established pulp writers and editors who contributed to these publications were surprisingly generous with advice and admonition both. Every now and then their articles were vague or self-serving, but a large number offered genuinely useful tips and outlined methods of working that are just as sound today as they were in 1930 or 1940. The two dozen essays collected in THE PENNY-A-WORD BRIGADE hold significant educational value for today's wannabe writers.

Some of these trade-journal pieces saw revival in issues of Blood 'n' Thunder. A few—specifically, those by hero-pulp legends Lester Dent, Norvell Page, and Walter B. Gibson—have been reprinted before, but never have all been included between two covers. In context, surrounded by similar articles from peers, each represents a vital piece in the larger puzzle.

Straight how-to articles are mixed with market analyses and personal reminiscences. In addition to Gibson & Company, you'll find contributions from such legendary high-volume producers as Arthur J. Burks, H. Bedford-Jones, and Erle Stanley Gardner along with many second-tier favorites, including Nelson Bond, Frederick C. Davis, G. T. Fleming-Roberts, Frank Gruber, and Henry Kuttner.

The blue-pencil boys also supplied guidance to followers of the writers' magazines, and PENNY-A-WORD BRIGADE includes excellent essays by Adventure's Arthur Sullivant Hoffman, Black Mask's Joseph T. "Cap" Shaw, and editorial directors of the major pulp outfits: Rogers Terrill (Popular Publications), Leo Margulies (the "Thrilling Group"), Robert A. W. Lowndes (Columbia/Double Action/Blue Ribbon), Ralph Daigh (Fawcett Publications), and Robert O. Erisman (Martin Goodman's "Red Circle" line). Agents Lurton Blassingame and August Lenninger, frequent contributors to Writer's Digest, present market reports that at the time of publication were considered valuable tools for newcomers aiming to crack well-established sheets.

This book is an invaluable addition to any reference library with books documenting the pulp era.  It can be ordered at muraniapress.com. The $24.95 cover price includes shipping to buyers in the U.S.


PURCHASE PRICE INCLUDES SHIPPING AND HANDLING TO DOMESTIC BUYERS.
OVERSEAS BUYERS MUST INQUIRE FOR SHIPPING RATES BEFORE PLACING ORDERS.


Trade paperback, 8.5 x 11, 220 pages
Price: $24.95



Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
BLOOD 'N' THUNDER PRESENTS, VOLUME ONE -- PRIDE OF THE PULPS
Now shipping!

In case you hadn't heard, last fall we brought to an end Blood 'n' Thunder's 14-year run as a periodical. The zine went out with a bang: a double issue numbered 49/50 and packed with some of the best articles in BnT history. In the editorial we promised to continue the franchise with a series of standalone volumes, issued at irregular intervals, covering various aspects of pulp and pop-culture history under the general title of Blood 'n' Thunder Presents.

Well, this week we proudly release the first volume of Blood 'n' Thunder Presents, subtitled Pride of the Pulps. It's been designed in the "deluxe" trade-paperback format of 8 1/2 x 11 inches, with the series title in a wraparound banner and the volume number printed at the top of the spine. All future volumes will have a uniform design.

Pride of the Pulps devotes nearly 100,000 words to in-depth surveys of six classic rough-paper magazines: Adventure, All-American Fiction, Famous Fantastic Mysteries, The Popular Magazine, Short Stories, and West. Earlier versions of these overviews were published in back issues of Blood 'n' Thunder, but all have been revised and expanded for this book. Greatly expanded, in some cases: the essay on Short Stories, for example, first appeared as a two-parter with a total word count of 11,500 words. Its counterpart in Pride of the Pulps runs close to 17,000 words.

The addition of new material extends as well to illustrative matter. The surveys in Pride include more pulp covers and interior illustrations than accompanied their earlier versions in BnT, but we've also added more scans of original cover paintings.

In short, this is not a reprint volume that simply repurposes old copy. It has a significant amount of new content and is a veritable textbook of pulp-fiction history. Even if you'd be satisfied with the essays as printed in BnT, it would cost you well over $100 to purchase those issues individually. And that's assuming you could find them all: the two issues with the Short Stories survey have been out of print for many years.

Future volumes of Blood 'n' Thunder Presents will be devoted to the following topics: a history of Argosy, the working life of pulp writers, the output of legendary scribe Edgar Wallace, a history of Doubleday's Crime Club book division, and a survey of films made during 1932, which we posit to be fantastic cinema's best year. We hope and expect to issue at least two volumes per calendar year, although we're on track to publish three in 2017. Stay tuned for more announcements.

In the meantime, don't miss out on our first release in the Blood 'n' Thunder Presents series. We guarantee it'll make a valuable addition to any home library of reference works covering pulp fiction and vintage American popular culture.




Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
BLOOD 'N' THUNDER'S CLIFFHANGER CLASSICS VOLUME 2
Now shipping!

For nearly 50 years the motion-picture chapter play was a vibrant part of our country’s pop-culture scene. Following their favorite serials turned moviegoing into a weekly habit for millions of Americans. During the silent-film era, episodic thrillers were marketed to adults and children alike, but their emphasis on base melodrama and contrived thrills appealed more to kids. Those youthful habitués of Saturday matinees faithfully followed serials and retained fond memories of them. Subsequent generations discovered cliffhanger classics via later broadcasts on TV and reissues in collectable home-video formats.
 
This sequel to 2012's well-received Blood 'n' Thunder's Cliffhanger Classics offers history and analysis of such popular and influential silent serials as The Perils of Pauline (1914), The Million Dollar Mystery (1914), The Diamond from the Sky (1915), The Riddle Rider (1924), and the four 1914-17 chapter plays of Francis Ford and Grace Cunard. Notable talkie-era serials covered at length include Tarzan the Fearless (1933), The Return of Chandu (1934), The Lost City (1935), Radio Patrol (1937), Red Barry (1938), The Spider's Web (1938, and its 1941 sequel The Spider Returns), Hawk of the Wilderness (1938), Adventures of Red Ryder (1940), and Secret Service in Darkest Africa (1943).
A special essay titled "Anatomy of a Serial," taking an approach not previously attempted by any chapter-play historian, chronicles the making of fan favorite Spy Smasher (1942) from the licensing of the character rights in June 1941 straight through to the film's national release in April 1942. All aspects of the production are detailed with facts and figures, as well as the recollections of director William Witney, star Kane Richmond, supporting player Tris Coffin, and stunt ramrod Dave Sharpe.
 
The essays in Cliffhanger Classics are not the typical puff pieces generally found in books on this subject. Each article has been carefully researched and supplemented with first-hand recollections of people who worked in the serials being examined, including leading men Buster Crabbe, Kane Richmond, Herman Brix, and Rod Cameron; leading ladies Jacqueline Wells, Iris Meredith, Kay Hughes, Vivian Coe; veteran serial writer Barry Shipman; stuntmen Dave Sharpe and Tom Steele; and directors Ford Beebe and William Witney. Their input makes this second volume of Cliffhanger Classics a valuable addition to the historical record, as well as an entertaining read.
 
The book is profusely illustrated with more than 60 pages of rare stills, posters, and lobby cards from the serials under examination. 
Purchase price includes shipping to domestic U.S. buyers only; international customers must inquire for shipping rates.

Cover Art by Chris Kalb
Trade paperback, 6x9 inches, 302 pages
Price: $24.95




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

Now Available for Immediate Shipping: THE PENNY-A-WORD BRIGADE
PulpFest 2017 Report
Now Available: The First Volume Of BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER PRESENTS
Now Available for Shipping: THE BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER SAMPLER



Bold Venture Press
ZORRO VOLUME 6
by Johnston McCulley

Coming soon!



Bold Venture Press   Amazon.com  Kindle   



Broadswords and Blasters - Now online!

Pulp Consumption: True Detective (Season 1)
Pulp Appeal: Indiana Jones
Issue 2 Now Available!
Issue 2 Run Down!


THE BRONZE GAZETTE
Issue #79 is now available and recommended!
 
Contents
Cover: Bob Larkin (commission for Terry Allen)
"The Woman In It" by Duane Spurlock
"Bending the Doc Savage Formula" by Will Murray
"Q&A with Sisters of Bronze" by Catherine Lavallée-Welch
"The Bantam Books that Never Appeared" by Will Murray
"Rhoda Haven: In Love with Everything Doc Savage Wasn't" by Bobb Cotter
"Review: Six Scarlet Scorpions" by Catherine Lavallée-Welch
"The Doc Savage Novel That Was Too Good Part 2" by Jeff Deischer
"The Bronze Gazette Publications News Update" by Terry Allen
"Daughter of Savage: A Wild Woman" by Win Scott Eckert
"In Memory of Ron Wilber"

Subscriptions (via Paypal) are now available for No. 78, 79, and 80.

$30.00 USA
$40.00 Canada (US Dollars)
$50.00 International
(Prices Include Postage)

Click HERE to subscribe!

Get back issues of #76 for $15, #77 for $12, #78 for $12, and Doc Con 2016 Special for $12 each in the USA.
 
 The Bronze Gazette  
 

Castalia House Blog - Now online!

Retro Fandom Friday – Weird Tales Edition - New!
The Dai Sword, by Manly Wade Wellman - New!
PulpFest 2017 - New!
THROWBACK SF THURSDAY: The Next Conan Movie Should Look More Like Mad Max
Forgotten Sword and Sorcery Artists: Melvyn Grant 
Pulp Revolution: The Future Is Ours  

Centipede Press
SWORDS AND DEVILTRY
By Fritz Leiber
Now available!


In the annals of heroic fantasy one epic tale stands head and shoulders above the rest, spanning sixty years in the telling, the saga of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser has captivated fans ever since Fritz Leiber’s first tale of the duo appeared in the August, 1939 issue of Unknown. Just in time for the seventy-eighth anniversary of the characters debut, Centipede Press is releasing the first of what will be the definitive eight-volume set comprising not only all of the stories by Fritz Leiber (and his friend Harry Fischer), but also the brilliant epilogue to the series, Swords Against the Shadowland by Robin Wayne Bailey.

These are archival editions, lavishly illustrated and featuring guest introductions from some of the top writers in the field. We plan on releasing both Swords and Deviltry and Swords Against Death this year and customers are encouraged to contact us about reserving the entire set. There are 500 unsigned copies available.

The story of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser is among the most enduring in modern fantasy and we suggest reserving your set sooner rather than later.

Swords and Deviltry features five color interior illustrations, a full-color frontispiece, full color wraparound dustjacket, and custom illustrated endpapers. The introduction is by Michael Moorcock. The book includes all of the stories that make up Swords and Deviltry along with two archival essays by Harry O. Fischer, Fritz Leiber’s 1973 introduction, two “Gray Mouser” poems from The Acolyte, and an interview with Fritz Leiber from 1979. Yes, we will be publishing the entire series of novels, each one with a load of extras. This is the ultimate edition of this legendary fantasy series.


Edition information
• Bound in full black cloth, blind stamping on front board.
• Color illustrations hand-tipped into the book.
• Introduction by Michael Moorcock.
• Gorgeous dustjacket on Mohawk Superfine.
• Head and tail bands, ribbon marker.

Cloth, unsigned: $65 (save $10)





COMIC BOOK CREATOR #15 (Spring 2017) - Arriving in comic shops August 16!

Celebrating 30 years of artist’s artist Mark Schultz, creator of the Cadillacs and Dinosaurs franchise, with a feature-length, career-spanning interview conducted in Mark’s Pennsylvanian home, examining the early years of struggle, success with Kitchen Sink Press, and hitting it big with a Saturday morning cartoon series. Includes rarely-seen art and fascinating photos from Mark’s amazing and award-winning career.

Magazine, 84 pages, Full Color, $8.95





THE COMPLETE TALES OF JULES DE GRANDIN, VOLUME TWO: THE DEVIL'S ROSARY - Coming September 5!
by Seabury Quinn


Today the names of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, and Clark Ashton Smith, all regular contributors to the pulp magazine Weird Tales during the first half of the twentieth century, are recognizable even to casual readers of the bizarre and fantastic. And yet despite being more popular than them all during the golden era of genre pulp fiction, there is another author whose name and work have fallen into obscurity: Seabury Quinn.

Quinn’s short stories were featured in well more than half of Weird Tales’s original publication run. His most famous character, the supernatural French detective Dr. Jules de Grandin, investigated cases involving monsters, devil worshippers, serial killers, and spirits from beyond the grave, often set in the small town of Harrisonville, New Jersey. In de Grandin there are familiar shades of both Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, and alongside his assistant, Dr. Samuel Trowbridge, de Grandin’s knack for solving mysteries―and his outbursts of peculiar French-isms (grand Dieu!)―captivated readers for nearly three decades.

Collected for the first time in trade editions, The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin, edited by George Vanderburgh, presents all ninety-three published works featuring the supernatural detective. Presented in chronological order over five volumes, this is the definitive collection of an iconic pulp hero.

The second volume, The Devil’s Rosary, includes all of the Jules de Grandin stories from “The Black Master” (1929) to “The Wolf of St. Bonnot” (1930), as well as an introduction by Jim Rockhill.


Cover art by Donato Giancola

Hardcover, 512 pages, $34.99
The Complete Tales of Jules De Grandin, Volume Three: The Dark Angel is coming in March!


 

The Dark Man: The Journal of Robert E. Howard and Pulp Fiction Studies Volume 8 No. 2 - Now available!

An annual academic journal dedicated to the study of the writer Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan, Solomon Kane, Kull, and author of numerous pulp stories.
Since 2016, the journal will also run other articles on other pulp fiction, horror, and sword and sorcery writers.


Softcover, 5.5 x 8.5, 58 pages, $6



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

Paperback Gallery: FRANK FRAZETTA  
 - New!
Pulp Gallery: THRILLING DETECTIVE  - New!
Johnny Weissmuller as JUNGLE JIM (1951-52)
Comic Gallery: CRIME DOES NOT PAY (1945)
Pulp Gallery: SPEED ADVENTURE (1943)  
Multi-Genre FURY Magazine paintings by Thomas Beecham (1956)


The Digest Enthusiast Blog - Now online!

Galaxy Novel #25
- New!
Fritz Leiber’s Dark Vengeance
Spaceway Science Fiction April 1955
Bulldog Drummond by Sapper
Broadswords and Blasters #2
Don Mardick’s Not a Leg to Stand On





DOC CON 2017 REGISTRATION is now open!
We have our registration page up and available.

Registration is $40 and includes:
Doc Con XX Admission, Commemorative Name Badge, Deluxe 2017 Program, DCXX Swag, Commemorative Swag Bag, 5 Raffle Tickets, Lunch on Saturday and much more!

Go to http://docfantasycovers.com/Doc-Con/ and click the "Pre-Register Today" button at the bottom of the page.
Once your registration is paid, you will receive a confirmation letter with a Commemorative Ticket and details about the upcoming convention.
See you in October!


DOC CON 2017
Doc Con commemorative t-shirt
Now accepting pre-orders!

There will be a Doc Con XX commemorative t-shirt.
The design shown at the right is a work in progress and is not the final shirt.

If you would like to reserve one now, email Fantom Press (sales@fantompress.net) with your size and quantity.  
Sizes small through 2XL are $20.00 per shirt.
Sizes 3XL and 4XL are $23.00 per shirt.

The shirts will be available for pick up at Doc Con XX in October.
If you will not be attending Doc Con, the shirts will be mailed by late October.
No money is due for shirts at this time.
The shirts will be invoiced after Doc Con XX in mid October. 




Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.
A SOLDIER OF POLODA
Further Adventures Beyond the Farthest Star
By Lee Strong

Now available in hardcover!
Softcover and eBook editions are coming soon!


Like fellow Earthman, Tangor from the story Beyond the Farthest Star, American OSS officer Thomas Randolph is mysteriously teleported to a foreign planet where he lands in the center of a 100-year war that mirrors the Allied Powers’ struggle against Adolph Hitler’s Third Reich.

Unlike Tangor, Randolph – now Tomas Ran – finds himself behind enemy lines where he gains a first-hand view of the inner workings of the corrupt Kapar empire. Will Tomas, using his OSS skills, be able to devise a plan to escape with the beautiful Unisan prisoner, Loris Kiri, that will allow them to join her countrymen in their struggle against the Kapars?

American novelist Edgar Rice Burroughs debuted the world of Poloda in the pulp story Beyond the Farthest Star in 1940 just as Hitler’s Nazis marched across Europe and the Imperial Japanese extended their reach across the South Pacific. Burroughs’ youthful idealism regarding the nobility of America’s previous war efforts had given way to a mature perspective of the savagery of combat that stains every battlefield. Burroughs’ deeply-held views are reflected in this tale about a planet ravaged by 100 years of conflict as the nation of Unis devotes its entire existence to the struggle of freedom against tyranny.

Author Lee Strong created this second adventure on the planet Poloda, which lies beyond the Globular Cluster NGC 7006 ‘ 450,000 light years away from earth. Join Tomas Ran as he explores Poloda, battles Kapars, and finds love Beyond the Farthest Star.


AUTHOR
Lee Strong’s heart was captured by the dinosaurs found At the Earth’s Core in 1962. He has been a Burroughs reader ever since. Lee also worked for the US Department of Defense (DOD); changed international policy with a single report; deployed to Kuwait; saved taxpayers $5 million; and reformed the $2 billion DOD Personal Property Program. A Soldier of Poloda is Lee’s first novel. He is currently working on two Pellucidar novels with more to come. Lee’s motto: More Adventure ! More Excitement !! More Burroughs !!!

ARTISTS
COVER ART: Chris Peuler is a genre illustrator based in Chicago, working primarily in fantasy and science fiction. A traditionally-trained digital painter, Chris has created vivid imagery for various gaming and book publications, as well as taking time to work on his own personal portfolio. This beautiful, other-worldly cover art is his first full wraparound dust jacket painting for ERB, Inc.

INTERIOR ILLUSTRATIONS: Earl Geier has illustrated horror, fantasy and science fiction scenes in the role playing game industry for Fasa, Chaosium, TSR, Fantasy Flight, Dark Conspiracy, and others. He has illustrated books for Cemetery Dance, Chaosium, Gryphon, American Fantasy Press and Subterranean Press, and covers for The Fandom Directory. In the comic book world Earl has drawn for Dark Horse Comics, Comizone, Now, Innovation and DC Comics. His artwork has been featured as background in the TV show “Supernatural Let It Bleed” Earl lives in Chicago, Illinois.


$34.95


   

Now available!

Dafydd Neal Dyar's Doc Savage Essays are back in print for the first time in nearly 40 years!

Each essay was painstakingly reconstructed and expanded with extensive annotations and new text.

Doc Savage fans will delight in the nearly 300 pages of insights and observations from a master of pulp history.

Foreword by pulp author/historian Rick Lai!

The signed and numbered hard cover edition is limited to 100 copies.

Each hard cover features The One That Got Away, an exclusive all-new essay chronicling a Dyar article lost to the ages.

$39.99




Fedogan & Bremer
TIME BURIAL by Donald Wandrei
Now available!


Howard Wandrei's pulp work was extensive and popular. Collections, however, long remained non-existent.

Wandrei used several pseudonyms, for one thing. But another factor came in: the copyrights were held after his death by his brother Donald, co-founder of Arkham House, who became embroiled in a bitter copyright battle after the death of August Derleth.

Fedogan and Bremer first collected Howard Wandrei's Weird and Fantastic fiction over 20 years ago in TIME BURIAL, now long out-of-print in hardcover. Here is a paperback facsimile edition, at popular price, of that book, illustrated with the author's own very weird art work, reminiscent of Bosch and influenced by Blake. We expect you'll enjoy his stories!

Dwayne Olson provides a fulsome background for both the stories and Howard's place in the bygone era of pulp authors, full of the regional influences that marked this literature.

Fedogan and Bremer is proud to return Howard Wandrei's best Weird fiction to print.







Howard Andrew Jones - Now online!

Reruns: Harold Lamb - New!
Remembering Corum
Adventure!
Novel Writing and Pulp
One Sword for Love

I WATCHED THEM EAT ME ALIVE: KILLER CREATURES IN MEN'S ADVENTURE MAGAZINES - Now available!

I Watched Them Eat Me Alive is the first installment of The Men's Adventure Library Journal, a series focusing on specific facets of the vintage men's adventure magazines stories, artwork, and history.

Dedicated to exploring the lost world of vintage men’s adventure magazines (aka MAMs), The Men’s Adventure Library chronicles the mags’ three decades on American newsstands, from the early 1950s through the mid-1970s. Mixing elements from many sources—early pulp fiction, detective stories and true crime, mystery and noir films, exotic travel magazines, celebrity scandal rags and bachelor mags—MAMs ratcheted up the tension and amped up the testosterone to create explosive, entertaining, and often outrageous reading for millions of American men. Though long extinct and mostly unseen for generations, their pervasive influence continues to shape some of the most popular and enduring pop culture tropes and trends.

Curated by MAM historian/collector Robert Deis and writer Wyatt Doyle, The Men’s Adventure Library reprints and provides context for classic MAM stories and artwork drawn from the mags’ rich history of gonzo pulp, with releases available in full-color trade paperback and deluxe, expanded hardcover editions. Each volume is a vivid reminder that MAMs were extremely cool, unexpectedly influential, and still pack a bare-knuckle punch. Read ’em all…if you’ve got the guts!


Paperback: 108 pages
Publisher: New Texture
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.3 x 9 inches
$9.95


Hardcover: 128 pages
Publisher: New Texture
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
$24.95


JAMES BOND: KILL CHAIN #2 - Arriving in comic shops August 16!
(Writer) Andy Diggle (Art) Luca Casalanguida
Cover A: Greg Smallwood, Cover B: Luca Casalanguida, Cover C: Juan Doe

As tensions rise between MI6 and CIA, James Bond investigates the death of a fellow agent. Someone is smuggling military-grade weapons to European neo-Nazis, an arms pipeline stretching from the gutters of Munich to the upper echelons of Swiss high society. The trail will lead 007 to an old friend, a deadly betrayal, and an enigmatic art connoisseur named Chantal Chevalier.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99






Jerry Schneider Enterprises
Now available!

PLAGUE SHIP

In the field of interstellar commerce, where trade was pretty well sewn up by the giant companies, tramp-freighter spaceships like the Solar Queen were up against it.
Their only tools were ingenuity and personal fearlessness, the qualities that had gained the Solar Queen exclusive trading rights to Sargol and its fabulous gems.

But those qualities were to be strained to the breaking point to meet Sargol’s three challenges.
First was the enigmatic obstinacy of the catlike natives. Second was the ruthless incursion of an illegal competitor.

But the third and worst was to be the invisible, indetectable stowaway that would brand the Solar Queen anathema to all inhabited worlds.


Trade Paperback, 6 x 9 inch, 180 pages
$12.95



 
Jimmie Dale, Alias the Gray Seal
The New Adventures of the Gray Seal Book 1

by Michael Howard 
 Now available in softcover and Kindle editions!


In the summer of 1912 New York City was being terrorized by a bizarre organization of metal-clawed criminals who ascend stone walls as easily as others climb stairs. Dubbed the Spider Gang by the press, they roamed over every part of Manhattan from neighborhoods of squalid tenements to the most luxurious mansions of the rich. It wasn't wealth that they sought however, instead it was the City's most beautiful women who were being carried off for some sinister purpose.

A new challenge for the Gray Seal! The very first in a long, long line of crime-fighting urban vigilantes has returned in an all new novel length adventure. More than a century ago bored society millionaire Jimmie Dale hid his identity behind a mask and slouch hat to become the safe-cracking master criminal known as the Gray Seal. His objective was excitement rather than financial gain, but quickly decided that justice was a still more worthy goal. Dale became feared and hunted by both the police and the underworld as he waged a one-man war on evildoers the law could not stop. Commanded by the mysterious woman of a thousand faces known as the Tocsin, Jimmie Dale pits himself against those who prey on the weakest members of society. The Gray Seal novels of Frank Packard influenced a wide range of heroes including The Shadow, the Spider, the Green Hornet, and Batman. The Gray Seal strikes again!

Trade paperback,
6 x 9 inches, 374 pages
$15.99
Kindle Price:    $4.99

Coming later this year!
A compilation of the original Gray Seal novels written by Frank Packard.
There were five in all and the fifth book (Jimmie Dale and the Missing Hour) has never appeared before in a digital version.
This is going to be an annotated edition with a detailed chronology of the series - and photos of the main characters!

More news when available!

Amazon     Kindle  



The Korshak Collection: Illustrations Of Imaginative Literature
June 07, 2017 to August 26, 2017

The Society is proud to present a rare opportunity to view some of the greatest fantasy masterpieces of our time. Presenting a grouping of illustrations of imaginative literature from the Korshak Collection, on display in Gallery 1 & 2. 

"As a young man I was fortunate enough to grow up with great art in my bedroom. My father, Erle Korshak, was the publisher of a pioneering science fiction book company, Shasta Publishers. Shasta ushered in the transition of important science fiction literature from magazines printed on cheap pulp paper to hardcover, library-quality books. Much of that art lived with us at our house and at the company office in Chicago.

In particular, the J. Allen St. John illustration for the 1941 Amazing Stories magazine cover of John Carter battling the Dead in "The City of Mummies" lured me into a fantastic world that I never knew existed. I read and enjoyed the Edgar Rice Burroughs story behind the illustration but for me, the illustration itself gave me a sense of wonder I had never previously experienced.

So began a lifelong love affair with illustration art. This collection is a vision of the fantastic. It is one of great illustrators, as well as illustrations that had a great influence on imaginative literature."

The Society of Illustrator
128 East 63rd Street (between Park and Lexington Avenues)
New York, NY 10065

LOVECRAFT P. I. (Paranormal Investigator) #1, 2, & 3 - Now available!

This three issue limited series finds our own Ward Lovecraft arriving to Innsmouth, circa 1937.
In search of answers for the missing Necronomicon and the mysterious death of Joshua Marsh.
The son of prominent business man Barnabas Marsh.

Created by Fritz Striker and D.W. Kann
Written and Edited by Fritz Striker and D.W. Kann
Illustrated by António Brandão
Breakdowns and Shading by Fritz Striker
Lettering by Hanna Östman
Cover Art by Paul Shipper


Available in print and eBook editions at the link below.






Martin Grams' Blog - Now online!

Patrick Duffy and the Man from Atlantis
Hopalong Cassidy is disintegrating
"Lost" Shadow Radio Programs Discovered
Willie Whopper and the Mysterious Airman

THE MASSACRE OF MANKIND: Sequel to The War of the Worlds - Coming August 22!
by Stephen Baxter


It has been 14 years since the Martians invaded England. The world has moved on, always watching the skies but content that we know how to defeat the Martian menace. Machinery looted from the abandoned capsules and war-machines has led to technological leaps forward. The Martians are vulnerable to earth germs. The Army is prepared.

So when the signs of launches on Mars are seen, there seems little reason to worry. Unless you listen to one man, Walter Jenkins, the narrator of Wells' book. He is sure that the Martians have learned, adapted, understood their defeat.

He is right.

Thrust into the chaos of a new invasion, a journalist - sister-in-law to Walter Jenkins - must survive, escape and report on the war.

The Massacre of Mankind has begun.


Hardcover, 496 pages
Publisher: Crown
$27.00



Now available!

Farmerphile: The Magazine of Philip José Farmer was a quarterly fanzine that ran fifteen issues from July 2005 to January 2009. Michael Croteau served as Publisher for all fifteen issues; Christopher Paul Carey and Paul Spiteri coedited the first ten issues, while Spiteri and Win Scott Eckert coedited the last five. Thanks to the generosity of Philip José Farmer and his “Magic Filing Cabinet,” Farmerphile published—for the first time anywhere—short stories (mostly not science fiction), excerpts, articles, speeches, and letters written by Farmer. It even serialized the novel Up from the Bottomless Pit (not included in this collection, but forthcoming from Meteor House).

Farmerphile also contained articles and appreciations from Farmer’s fans and from his fellow science fiction authors, from critiques of his work to stories of personal encounters, and everything between. A complete list of the original contents of all fifteen issues can be found here.

Hardcover Limited Edition
Now the hard part: narrowing down so much content into one “Best of” collection. This was much harder than it sounds, as nearly all the content was worthy of inclusion. So, we focused on broadly covering as much ground as possible, as well as including pieces that touched on Farmer’s personal life. Assembled here is a wealth of information about one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time along, with some of his earliest writing.

The Best of Farmerphile is available in two editions: a Trade Paperback and a Hardcover Limited Edition. The hardcover is not “officially” a signed limited edition, but when the book debuts at PulpFest/FarmerCon XII in late July 2017, we will get as many contributors on hand as possible to sign it before we ship the books to those preordered (shipping will occur immediately after PulpFest/FarmerCon XII).


PREORDERING:
The trade paperback edition is $29 (plus shipping).
The hardcover limited edition is $45 (plus shipping).
Or you can preorder them together for only $67—that’s $7 off (plus you’ll save even more with combined shipping)!

Preorder early to ensure you get a copy of the limited edition hardcover.
As always, the print run on the limited edition will be determined by the number of preorders received.
Not many copies beyond those reserved will be printed.
NOTE: due to the complexities of publishing rights, no ebook edition will be produced!




by Heidi Ruby Miller
Now available!

In Philip José Farmer’s novel Two Hawks from Earth, Native American pilot Roger Two Hawks flew through his first “gate” while on a bombing run over Romania during World War II. The gate brought him to Earth 2, a world where the Americas never existed. Since then he has continued to fight battles on Earth after Earth, each more strange than the next.

In Heidi Ruby Miller’s short story “Dakota’s Gate” (Worlds of Philip José Farmer 3), set on Earth 3, North America never advanced past stone tools and rock shelters. But that’s where Two Hawks met another gate traveler, Dakota Cummings. It was Dakota, a woman turned friend and lover, who pulled him through a gate to her Earth, the most alien and deadly of all.

Earth 4. Two hundred years in the future. A war thirty-six thousand feet underwater. Two Hawks must draw upon all he’s learned during his gate travels in order to survive war between technologically advanced humans and their far-future hybrid cousins. This time more than just his and Dakota’s lives are at stake—the fate of an entire world is in his hands.

Featuring cover art by Mark Wheatley, an introduction by Christopher Paul Carey, and the short story “Dakota’s Gate” as a prelude, Man of War is a 24,500-word novella full of the action and adventure you’d expect of Philip José Farmer’s Roger Two Hawks.

Man of War will be published simultaneously in both hardcover and paperback signed limited editions!

Buy the Signed Limited Edition Trade Paperback for $16 (+shipping)
Buy the Signed Limited Edition Hardcover for $27 (+shipping)
Buy both together for $38—save $5 off the pair (+shipping)


As always, the print run with our Limited Editions is determined by the number of preorders. That’s why the names of those who preorder the book appear on its acknowledgments page–you make this book happen! (As long as you preorder by June 1st 2017.)

And, as an added bonus, if you preorder before June 1st, you will also receive a FREE ebook copy of Heidi Ruby Miller’s novel, Ambasadora.


Trade paperback, 5" x 8", $16 plus shipping
Hardcover, $27 
plus shipping


 
 


September 14-16, 2017! 

Hunt Valley Wyndham (recently changed now to a Marriott)
SAME HOTEL, NEW NAME.

Announcing the first half of our celebrity lineup for our 2017 event!
Remember you can purchase your admission tickets in advance through the website and save money. And book your hotel room early before they are sold out!
Hotel: (410) 785-7000


VENDOR HOURS: Thursday and Friday 9 am to 7 pm, Saturday 9 am to 5 pm
​CELEBRITY HOURS: Thursday and Friday, 10 am to 6 pm, Saturday 10 am to 5 pm
​MOVIE ROOM: 24 hours a day
​PANELS & PRESENTATIONS: 9 am to 9 pm (See schedule of events)





Moonstone Books
I.V. FROST: TALES OF MYSTERY AND SCIENTIFIC DETECTION
Arriving in comic shops August 16!

Authors: Matthew Baugh, David Boop, Eric Fein, Ron Fortier, Chuck Miller, Gene Moyers, William Nedrow, Barry Reese, and Frank Schildiner.
Cover: Alex Innocenti


Stalking a territory that is somewhere between the gaslit world of the Victorian Consulting Detective
and the flickering neon darkness of Film Noir, Wandrei’s Frost is part analytical rationalist, part Angel of Death.
Like someone took Sherlock Holmes, armed him to the teeth, and turned him loose on the mean streets of Phillip Marlowe.

–Peter Atkins

For the first time ever, a NEW collection of I.V. Frost stories!
Guest-starring: The Green Ghost, The Phantom Detective, Dr. Satan, The Moon Man, & more!
Matthew Baugh, David Boop, Eric Fein, Ron Fortier, Chuck Miller, Gene Moyers, William Nedrow, Barry Reese, and Frank Schildiner.



Softcover, 266 pages, $16.95




The New Pulp Heroes - Now online!

Simon Fogner
- New!
Captain Swashbuckle - New!
The Wrath  - New!
Xenthe
Cobalt
Manteau
The Protectors




PulpFest reports and photos

Airship27: PulpFest 2017

Castalia House: PulpFest 2017

Facebook - Peter Renfro: Photos 1,  Photos 2Photos 3  

File 770:  2017 Munsey Award

Murania Press: PulpFest 2017 Report  

Mystery*File:  PulpFest 2017 by Walker Martin

PulpFlakes:  PulpFest 2017 photos



Pulpgen-Online Pulps - Now online!

New this week

"His Inner Self" by Philip M. Fisher, Jr.  from ALL-STORY WEEKLY, January 25, 1919

A professor and a student engage in an exercise in logic in order to reveal the student's inner self.

"Murder Trail" by Anthony Tompkins from G-MEN DETECTIVE, May, 1947
When a kid swipes a gun from Hank Carmel of Homicide, it leads Hank right to the solution of a grim crime mystery!

"A Hundred Grand" by Mort Lansing from SPICY DETECTIVE STORIES, October, 1935
She confessed to Johnny that she'd killed a man. "Maybe," Johnny said, "but it stinks to me!" Thereafter Johnny stuck to the money trail.



Pulp Den - Now online!

The Spawn of Lilithu  
- New!
A Taste of Blood And Ashes  - New!
Manhattan Masquerade - New!
ONYX
Waltzing Mathilde
         Pulp Den  

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

Pulpfest 2017 - photos - New!
Robert H. Leitfred - Author
Presidential artist got his training in the pulps... 


The Pulp Guy:The Retro Future is Now! - Now online!

The Pulp Guy-Barbarians, Spacers and Thunder! - New!
The Pulp Guy-A Devil of A Bad Guy
The Pulp Guy-So Many Masks, So Little Crime!
The Pulp Guy-The Retro Future is Now! by Teel James Glenn


The Pulp Hermit - Now online!

Congo War Cry
Calling Doctor Kill
The Red Rider of Smoky Range
Dying Space
Hammerhead
Pulp Hero Press
PULP SLAM: RIP-ROARIN’ TALES OF MYSTERY, MURDER, AND MAYHEM
by Fred Blosser

Now available!
Pulp in Your Face!
In thirteen take-no-prisoners pulp yarns, Robert E. Howard scholar Fred Blosser caroms from the Old West to the noirish streets of urban America, and then beneath the earth itself, into a primitive world of savagery, to slam you silly with the best in pulp fiction.

By bullet and sword, fist and fortune, Blosser's square-jawed yet often brutal heroes face down the worst that evil has to offer:

Ringo and Horn blow away bootleggers, outlaws, Mafia thugs and assassins, and other lowlifes, from the backstreets to the backwoods
Commander Manta and Agent Gila battle the hallucinogenic horrors of a would-be world conqueror in Washington, D.C.
Dax the Go-Run struggles to survive in the savage, subterranean world of Kaal-Dur, as he goes in quest of a captive princess
All this, and hitmen vs Cthulhu, too. You can't go wrong with hitmen vs Cthulhu.

Plus, Blosser serves up a quintology of non-fiction analyses of such pulp topics as Dashiell Hammett's "Nightmare Town" and the Mafia novels of Richard Posner.

Get Slammed!


Softcover, 6 x 9 inches, 218 pages, $14.95
Kindle: $4.99




The Pulp.Net  - Now online!
The Pulp.Net features three ongoing blogs!
Pulp Super-Fan blog written by Michael R. Brown, That's Pulp by John Olsen, and the long-running Yellowed Perils written by William Lampkin.

Radio Archives
The Spider #42 Audiobook
Satan's Workshop
by Emile C. Tepperman writing as Grant Stockbridge

Read by Nick Santa Maria

Now available!

There was no clue to the kidnapping of wealthy, powerful men and beautiful, talented women — until the Man Who Dealt in Death broke into Richard Wentworth’s stroll in the moonlight with the wanton wounding of his own lookout. From that stricken gangster Wentworth obtained the first hint of the devil-brain that was using science and surgery, death and torture and extortion, to enslave the city’s great. And Wentworth, better known as the Spider, answered the challenge of the Laboratory of the Lost — gambling life and more against weird dangers that no man had ever faced before!

 
The Spider was the star of his own pulp magazine for a wild decade bound by 1933 and 1943. Seeing rival pulp house Street & Smith breaking sales records with The Shadow Magazine, Popular Publications president Harry Steeger decided to clone him. Legend has it that he was playing tennis and spotted a spider walking across the court. That gave him a catchy yet creepy title. He hired mystery novelist and occultist R. T. M. Scott to write The Spider Strikes! and a sequel, The Wheel of Death. Mysteriously, Scott bowed out of the picture around the time of the first issue, dated October, 1933.
 
Enter Norvell W. Page, a newspaperman and practitioner of the Edgar Allen Poe tradition in pulps such as Dime Mystery Magazine. Writing under the pseudonym of Grant Stockbridge, he remade the Spider into his own psychic twin, often dressing up as the Master of Men when delivering his monthly manuscripts.
 
Nick Santa Maria reads Satan's Workshop with indescribable emotion. Originally published in The Spider magazine, March, 1937.


5 hours - $9.99 Download / $19.98 Audio CDs

Radio Archives

No man could explain that death which struck from the stratosphere, turning men into statues, stripping the United States of defenses. Operator #5 — Ace of the American Secret Service — uncovered an espionage organization which was working against our country when Washington recaptured Yorktown, in 1781!... But now, a madman with limitless ambition headed the Secret Loyalists, determined to make himself Emperor of America, and Operator #5 takes a million-to-one gamble which brings him face to face with disgrace and death!

 
Jimmy Christopher was the star of the most audacious pulp magazine ever conceived. With the rise of European fascism in the form of Benito Mussolini of Italy, Adolf Hitler of Nazi Germany and General Francisco Franco of Spain—not to mention myriad lesser despots and dictators—Americans began to fear for their future. The dread of being drawn into a second World War became a topic of grave concern in that Depression year of 1934.
 
At pulp magazine publisher Popular Publications, they took note of this isolationist trend. Pulp publisher Harry Steeger commissioned writer Frederick C. Davis to help develop a hero for their new monthly magazine, entitled Secret Service Operator #5.
 
“The basic concept of Operator 5 came from Harry Steeger, the publisher, or Rogers Terrill, the editor, or both,” Davis recalled. “It was that Operator 5 must save the United States from total destruction in every story, every month. When I was called in to start the series Terrill already had a cover illustration—the White House being blown up. I did the first Operator 5 around this picture.”
 
Into this unprecedented crisis plunged Jimmy Christopher. Only one man, but a man who embodied the American spirit — and stands prepared to perish to protect his country.
 
Scourge of the Invisible Death is read with stirring intensity by Milton Bagby. Originally published in the November, 1935 issue of Operator #5 magazine.
 
Performed by 2017 Audie Awards winner, voice actor Milton Bagby.


5 hours - $9.99 Download / $19.98 Audio CDs

Radio Archives

Radio Archives Pulp Classics
Secret Agent "X" #7 eBook
Octopus of Crime - September 1934

Now available!
 
Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine.
 
From 1934 to 1939 America thrilled to the adventures of Secret Agent X — the "man of a thousand faces" — as he battled futuristic weapons and mad scientists. The true identity of Secret Agent X was never revealed. He used his mastery of disguise to work undercover for the U.S. government. With his aide, newspaper reporter Betty Dale, and his secretive government handler K-9, he battled weird and fantastical threats to America for forty-one amazing issues. Secret Agent X returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
 
Table of Contents:
 
Friends of Agent “X”
 
A Feature-Length Secret Agent “X” Novel
Octopus of Crime by Paul Chadwick writing as Brant House
A monstrous octopus of evil gained slow power over the underworld. His identity as mysterious as that of Secret Agent “X” himself, this apostle of wickedness led the horror hordes of the nation into a bloody carnival of crime.
 
The Secret Council
Behind the scenes with Secret Agent “X”
 
The Murder Masterpiece by G.T. Fleming-Roberts
That hideous thing in bronze was like a tormented soul captured in metal.
 
Considine Laughs by Emile C. Tepperman
For sixteen long years these four men lived together in fierce hate and distrust.
 
Ink’s Jinx by Anthony Clemens
A short short surprise
 
Radio Archives Pulp Classics line of eBooks are of the highest quality and feature the great Pulp Fiction stories of the 1930s-1950s. All eBooks produced by Radio Archives are available in ePub and Mobi formats for the ultimate in compatibility. If you have a Kindle, the Mobi version is what you want. If you have an iPad/iPhone, Android, or Nook, then the ePub version is what you want. $3.99


Radio Archives


The Saint 2017 - Now available for streaming on Netflix!

Master thief Simon Templar -- also known as the Saint -- is hired by a wealthy banker to find his kidnapped daughter, but not all is as it seems.

Adam Rayner, Eliza Dushku, Ian Ogilvy, James Remar, Roger Moore, Enrique Murciano, Thomas Kretschmann, Beatrice Rosen, Greg Grunberg, Yani Gellman
Directed by Ernie Barbarash




The Serial Squadron
PERILS OF NYOKA
New restoration with original titles!
Now available!

Kay Aldridge, Clayton Moore, Adrian Booth, Tristram Coffin, Charles Middleton
D: William Witney/John English


Adventurers Nyoka Gordon and her friend Larry Grayson search for the golden tablets of Hippocrates, which contain a cure for cancer. Arabian queen Vultura, who masquerades as an earthly incarnation of a pagan Sun Goddess, also wants the tablets and the treasure associated with them and with her lieutenant Cassib and Count Torrini, as well as her bodyguard, an ape named Satan, travels across the desert in her chariot to try to obtain them. An action-packed classic with more torturous deathtraps than possibly any other serial ever made.

Transfer Quality: Superb, stabilized, presented in warm black and white with restored audio & newly synched sound
DVD Contents: Complete 15 episode serial
Special Features: Reconstructed original "Perils of Nyoka" titles, re-release trailer


List price $16.99



 

SHEENA #0 - Arriving in comic shops August 16!
(Writter) Marguerite Bennett, Christina Trujillo (Art)  Moritat (Cover) Emanuela Lupacchino

In this riveting relaunch, the guardian of the jungle, SHEENA, pursues a mysterious invader that has come to spy on the Amazon's most ancient secrets... Following the path of the trespasser, she encounters a forbidden ruin in which even more deadly dangers lie in wait -- and begins an adventure that will take her beyond her wildest imaginings!

Full Color, 32 pages, $0.25




SHEENA: QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE COLLECTION: THE MOVIE & TV SERIES - Coming August 15!

Featuring the 1984 Theatrical Feature Film starring Tanya Roberts (TV's Charlie's Angels and That '70s Show) and Ted Wass (TV's Soap and Blossom), directed by John Guillermin (1976 King Kong remake). Also featuring all 35 episodes from the 2 seasons of the hit syndicated TV series starring Gena Lee Nolin (TV's Baywatch) and John Allen Nelson (Killer Klowns From Outer Space and TV's Baywatch). This DVD collection also includes 5 bonus episodes of the 1950s TV series starring Irish McCalla!

Sheena: Queen of the Jungle -
She is an ancient prophecy fulfilled. A golden God child possessed with a mystic gift. A gift which grew in strength as she grew in years. A gift about to be put to the ultimate test. Innocence against evil. Part Animal. Part Legend. All Woman. Journey to deepest, darkest Africa for thrills, romance and high adventure! Orphaned in Zambouli territory, the blonde Sheena (Tanya Roberts) is raised by a noble tribe and taught to communicate telepathically with all creatures. She gets a firsthand lesson in love from Vic Casey (Ted Wass), a wisecracking TV journalist. In Africa for a story on a royal football player, Prince Otwani (Trevor Thomas), Vic soon finds himself embroiled in a web of political intrigue. And when the evil prince decides to invade the Zamboulis' land, it is up to Sheena to rescue Vic and save her idyllic kingdom!

Sheena - The TV Series:
Orphaned at a young age by tragedy in the jungle, Sheena was raised by the last living member of a native tribe, the Kaya, who possessed the mystical power to "shape shift" into the forms of wild animals by feeling the spirit of their soul. It is a gift shared by Sheena, who can turn herself into an animal and travel through the jungle unrecognized while battling outside forces that invade La Mistas, her primal home.

Notable Cast/Crew: Tanya Roberts, Ted Wass, Gena Lee Nolin, John Allen Nelson. Sheena: Queen of the Jungle was the first female comic book character with her own title, preceding Wonder Woman by 3 years. Sheena was ranked 59th in Comics Buyer's Guide's "100 Sexiest Women in Comics" list. An all-new Sheena: Queen of the Jungle comic is being published by Dynamite Entertainment for launch in August 2017!


6-disc set
$14.98



THE STRANGE HARVEST OF DR. AQUARIUS - Now available!
by Jeff Deischer

THE AGE OF AQUARIUS IS HERE!

America’s Bicentennial is fast approaching as the existence of a new race of superhumans is revealed – Homo Nova! But amid this exciting and anxious news comes tragedy – America’s Greatest Hero has been killed! It is up to America’s superheroes to find the killer! And to deal with the fact that humans are no longer Earth’s sole inheritors.

The Strange Harvest of Dr. Aquarius unites for the first time Jack Kirby’s characters that have fallen into the public domain.

The King of Comics either created or co-created the stars of this novel: Mr. Scarlet, the Stuntman, the Boy Explorers, the Red Demon, Captain 3D – and more, as the mantle has been passed from the Golden Age heroes to a new generation!

Join the Guardians of Democracy in this fast-paced tribute to Jack Kirby, the King of Comics!


Softcover, 5 x 8 inches, 318 pages, $20
Kindle: $5



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.

Barker and Bender on the Case-Part One
Another Silly Season-Part Two
Another Silly Season-Part One
The Summer of Flying Saucers

WEIRDBOOK #36
eBook edition now available!
Print edition coming soon!


Great fantasy and horror tales by current and upcoming masters of the genre...

Weirdbook #36 presents another great assortment of stories and poems in the Weird Tales tradition:
fantasy, horror, sword & sorcery, and the just plain unclassifiable find a home here!

Included are:
Burn on the Bayou, by L.F. Falconer
The Mumbler, by Gillian French
Cleric at Sentinel Hill, by Franklyn Searight
Whores and Criminals, by Dean Macallister
The Quiet on the Water, by C. C. Adams
The Haggard Brothers Go to Town, by James Pratt
The Awakening, by Megan Neumann
Dead Line, by D.C. Lozar
The Waterman’s Song, by MB Vigil
Maleficium, by Kelly Gould
The Green Dome, by Joe DiCicco
We Who Walk on Worlds, by Matt Sullivan
Insect Song, by William Tea
The Harvest Moon Festival, by Gigi Eng
Like Falling Snow, by W.D. Clifton
The Oldest Story, by S. L. Edwards
Geronimo Versus Frankenstein, by Neal Privett
The Black-and-White Dozen, by Chris Kuriata
Omzetten, by C.M. Muller
Vandegald’s Globes, by Jeremy Hayes

Trade Paperback, 6 x 9 inches
Kindle: $3.99

 






04 August 2017

2017 Pulp Shows

The Pulp Coming Attractions Pulp Shows page has been updated with available information on the presently known pulp & paperback shows scheduled for 2017!
Click on the PULP SHOWS link below or the icon at the top of the page and start making your reservations!



2017 & 2018 Film Releases
All dates are subject to change.

2017

September 4, 2017
September 29, 2017
THE INHUMANS
THE EQUALIZER 2
October 6, 2017
KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE
November 3, 2017
November 10, 2017
November 17, 2017

THOR: RAGNAROK
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
JUSTICE LEAGUE: PART 1

December TBA, 2017
December TBA, 2017
December 22, 2017
AVATAR 2
STAR WARS: EPISODE VIII
THE SIX BILLION DOLLAR MAN
2018

February 16, 2018
BLACK PANTHER
March 2, 2018
March 16, 2018
UNTITLED FOX MARVEL FILM
THE FLASH [May be delayed]
May 4, 2018
May 25, 2018
AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR
STAR WARS: UNTITLED HAN SOLO FILM
June 8, 2018
June 15, 2018
June 22, 2018
June 29, 2018
OCEAN'S EIGHT
THE INCREDIBLES 2
JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM
UNTITLED FOX MARVEL FILM

July 6, 2018
July 20, 2018
ANT-MAN AND THE WASP
ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL
October 5, 2018
AQUAMAN
November 2, 2018
UNTITLED FOX MARVEL FILM
December 21, 2018
SPIDER-MAN ANIMATED FEATURE

Adventure House
Now available!

HIGH ADVENTURE #155

Weird Menace Special Issue

"Land of Living Flame" by E. Hoffman Price
"Too Bad To Kill" by Stan Warner
"Death Spurs" by R.T. Maynard
"Daughter of the Serpent" by G.T. Fleming-Roberts
Death Cove by Ray King
"The Fiend’s Club" by Harry F. Olmsted
"The Cannibal Floor" by Arthur J. Burks


Cover Artist: Rudolph Belarski
   
7x10, 112 pages, $12.95



Adventure House
Now available!

THRILLING WONDER STORIES - June 1943

"Through the Blackboard" by Joel Townsley Rogers
Unexpectedly tossed into the fourth dimension, little mathematics professor Noel Goug has an amazing chance to solve all of his personal problems while time stand motionless!

"Wobblies In the Moon" by Frank Belknap Long
"The Devil’s Fiddle" by N.R. de Mexico
"Children of the Gods" by D.D. Sharp
"Grief of Bagdad" by Kelvin Kent
"Two-Timing Man" by Thaedra Alden
"The Golden Temple" by Ray Cummings
"World of Living Dead" by Wilm Carver

Cover Artist: Earle Bergey

   
7x10, 128 pages, $14.95



Adventure House
Now available!

GANGSTER STORIES - November 1931

"Black Ice" by C.B. Yorke
"King Joe Dies" by E. Parke Levy
"Gangland"
“Ex-Dick—Feminine” by Margie Harris
“Doctor Jim” by Ward D. Binns
"Vice Racket" by Tom Champion
"Ducky Swings A Deal" by Homer Faust

Cover Artist: Tom Lovell

   
7x10, 156 pages, $14.95



Age of Aces
Now available!

SKY DEVIL: ACE OF DEVILS
By Harold F. Cruickshank


The Sky Devil and his Brood were riders of the hell trail! Nowhere along the Western Front could you find a more feared crew, both in their element or out. 120 Squadron could always be counted on to whip Germany's best Aces, out-scrap entire squadrons of Boche killers, or tackle not one, but two crazed Barons with an Egyptology fetish! But what happens when they find themselves up in a dirigible fighting a fleet of ghost zeppelins, or down in the English Channel battling ferocious deep water beasts, or even behind enemy lines dealing with a crazed Major Petrie? Plenty, and you can read it all here. The prolific Harold F. Cruickshank was a mainstay of Popular Publications’ aviation titles, with a series in each. For Battle Aces he wrote Sky Wolf; For Battle Birds he created Red Eagle; and in Dare-Devil Aces, from 1932 to 1935, he wrote the 29 tales of Sky Devil. This second volume from Age of Aces Books collects half of the run—15 stories in all—including the seminal story where Bill Dawe is rooked out of the command of 120 Squadron!

Stories include
“The Green Devils” – Dare-Devil Aces, July 1932
“Killer’s Drome” – Dare-Devil Aces, November 1932
“Ace of Devils” – Dare-Devil Aces, November 1933
“Skeleton’s Drome” – Dare-Devil Aces, December 1933
“The Sky Pirates” – Dare-Devil Aces, January 1934
“Staffel of Hate” – Dare-Devil Aces, February 1934
“The Flaming Vulture” – Dare-Devil Aces, March 1934
“No-Man’s Squadron” – Dare-Devil Aces, April 1934
“The Storm Buzzard” – Dare-Devil Aces, May 1934
“The Derelict Patrol” – Dare-Devil Aces, June 1934
“Staffel of Skeletons” – Dare-Devil Aces, July 1934
“Graveyard Staffel” – Dare-Devil Aces, September 1934
“The Stratosphere Patrol” – Dare-Devil Aces, February 1935
“The Undersea Buzzard” – Dare-Devil Aces, June 1935
“Staffel of Dead Men” – Dare-Devil Aces,September 1935

$16.99 | 6″x9″ trade paperback | 364 pages




The German Empire has unleashed Hell on Earth! The dead are climbing out of their graves and giant skeletons attack the living. Heads are detonating and soldiers are turning to bronze. But flying to the rescue like an avenging angel is America’s own “Brain Devil,” Captain Philip Strange, the phantom ace of G-2 Intelligence. Whether it’s deadly bridges or killer broadcasts, when the Allies need a miracle they pray for Philip Strange! This sixth volume of Donald Keyhoe’s flying spy features six weird World War I adventures: The Devil's Holocaust, Hell's Gateway, The Brain-Devil of G-2, Tombstone Tarmac, The Bridge of Death, and Hellions of Headless Death.

Stories include
“The Devil’s Holocaust,” – Flying Aces, June 1932
“Hell’s Gateway,” – Flying Aces, April 1932
“The Brain-Devil of G-2,” – Flying Aces, September 1932
“Tombstone Tarmac,” – Flying Aces, September 1933
“The Bridge of Death,” – Flying Aces, May 1935
“Hellions of Headless Death,” – Flying Aces, September 1936

$16.99 | 6″x9″ trade paperback | 322 pages


 

Airship 27 Productions
TALES FROM THE HANGING MONKEY VOLUME 2
MORE ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH SEAS

Now available!

Airship 27 Productions is happy to announce the release of our second “Tales From The Hanging Monkey” anthology.

When Irishman Corky O’Brian opened his bar, the Hanging Monkey, on the island of Motugra he had no idea it would become a magnet for some of the most colorful rogues ever to ply their trades in the South Seas.  The cast includes his lovely, but deadly Chinese waitress Miko, Khuna the powerful island warrior, sea captain Nick Fortune and pilot Jimmy Dolan.

Together these five colorful characters fight their way through one breath-taking adventure after another courtesy of writers Bill Craig, J. Walt Layne, Don Gates, Nancy Hansen and Lee Houston Jr.  From chasing after a cursed diamond to uncovering the mystery of a lethal mermaid, when you stop in at the Hanging Monkey, there’s no telling what will happen next.

“Reaction to our first volume was overwhelming positive,” reports Airship 27 Productions Managing Editor Ron Fortier. “Enough so that we knew we had to whip up a second quartet of these fun adventures.”  Fortier then recruited professional artist Mike Harris to do the twelve interior illustrations with Award Winning Art Director Rob Davis taking on the cover to complete the project.

These are old fashion South Seas tales as done New Pulp style with fast paced action amidst tropical sea breezes that will have readers soon clamoring for more…Tales From the Hanging Monkey.



Now available at Amazon in paperback and soon on Kindle!

Airship 27 Productions – Pulp Fiction For A New Generation!


Altus Press
Pulp Logo T-shirts

Now available!   

Thrilling Adventures T-Shirt

This is the authentic logo used for this classic pulp magazine from the 1930s.
Normal fit: Classic-cut standard weight t-shirt for men, 100% pre-shrunk cotton, Brand: Gildan

$22.95


Pecos Kid Western T-Shirt

This is the authentic logo used for this classic pulp magazine from the 1950s.
 Normal fit: Classic-cut standard weight t-shirt for men, 100% pre-shrunk cotton, Brand: Gildan
 Note: grey fabric only.

$22.95

Captain Combat T-Shirt

This is the authentic logo used for this classic pulp magazine from the 1940s. 
Normal fit: Classic-cut standard weight t-shirt for men, 100% pre-shrunk cotton, Brand: Gildan 
Note: black fabric only.
$22.95


Horror Stories T-Shirt  
This is the authentic logo used for this classic pulp magazine from the 1930s.
Normal fit: Classic-cut standard weight t-shirt for men, 100% pre-shrunk cotton, Brand: Gildan
 Note: black fabric only.
$22.95
 
Doctor Death T-Shirt
This is the authentic logo used for this classic pulp magazine from the 1930s.
 Normal fit: Classic-cut standard weight t-shirt for men, 100% pre-shrunk cotton, Brand: Gildan
 Note: black fabric only.
$22.95


Black Mask T-Shirt
This is the authentic logo used for this classic pulp hero’s magazine from the 1930s. This aviation hero fought the foes of America from 1934 to 1935.
Note: blue fabric only.
$22.95
The Mysterious Wu Fang T-Shirt
This is the authentic logo used for this classic pulp hero’s magazine from the 1930s. This aviation hero fought the foes of America from 1934 to 1935.
Note: blue fabric only.
$22.95

Dr. Yen Sin T-Shirt
This is the authentic logo used for this classic pulp hero’s magazine from the 1930s. This aviation hero fought the foes of America from 1934 to 1935.
Note: blue fabric only.
$22.95

Short Stories T-Shirt
This is the authentic logo used for this classic pulp hero’s magazine from the 1930s. This aviation hero fought the foes of America from 1934 to 1935.
Note: blue fabric only.
$22.95

Popular Publications Logo 1 T-Shirt
This is the authentic logo used for this classic pulp hero’s magazine from the 1930s. This aviation hero fought the foes of America from 1934 to 1935.
Note: blue fabric only.
$27.95

Popular Publications Logo 2 T-Shirt
This is the authentic logo used for this classic pulp hero’s magazine from the 1930s. This aviation hero fought the foes of America from 1934 to 1935.
Note: blue fabric only.
$27.95


Dusty Ayres and his Battle Birds T-Shirt
This is the authentic logo used for this classic pulp hero’s magazine from the 1930s. This aviation hero fought the foes of America from 1934 to 1935.
Note: blue fabric only.
$22.95

Argosy Magazine T-Shirt
This is the authentic logo used for this classic pulp magazine from the 1930s.
Note: red fabric only.
$22.95

Famous Fantastic Mysteries T-Shirt
This is the authentic logo used for this classic pulp magazine from the 1940s.
Note: red fabric only.
$22.95

Dime Detective Magazine T-Shirt
This is the authentic logo used for this classic pulp magazine from the 1930s.
Note: black fabric only.
$22.95
Argosy 1970s Logo T-Shirt

This is the authentic logo used for this classic magazine.
In 1974, the new owners of Argosy revamped the decades-old periodical, introducing a new design—including a completely-updated logo—
by Herb Lubalin and Roger Ferriter, two of the greatest designers of the 20th Century.

Note: burgundy fabric only.
$22.95
Terror Tales Magazine T-Shirt
This is the authentic logo used for this classic pulp magazine from the 1930s.
 Normal fit: Classic-cut standard weight t-shirt for men, 100% pre-shrunk cotton, Brand: Gildan
 Note: black fabric only.

$22.95

Captain Zero T-Shirt
This is the authentic logo used for this classic pulp magazine from the 1950s.
 Normal fit: Classic-cut standard weight t-shirt for men, 100% pre-shrunk cotton, Brand: Gildan
 Note: black fabric only.

$22.95

Captain Satan T-Shirt
This is the authentic logo used for this classic pulp magazine from the 1930s.
 Normal fit: Classic-cut standard weight t-shirt for men, 100% pre-shrunk cotton, Brand: Gildan
 Note: black fabric only.

$22.95

Dime Mystery Magazine T-Shirt
This is the authentic logo used for this classic pulp magazine from the 1930s.
 Normal fit: Classic-cut standard weight t-shirt for men, 100% pre-shrunk cotton, Brand: Gildan
 Note: black fabric only.

$22.95

All shirts are available in Small, Medium, Large, X-Large, and XX-Large.

















 




Altus Press
Altus Press Gift Card
Now available!

Not sure what to buy?
Get an Altus Press Gift Card.
hese never expire and you can choose the amount.
From $25

Altus Press
THE COMPLETE EXPLOITS OF DOCTOR DEATH
By Harold Ward
Now available!

Limited hardcover edition of 50 copies.
Comes with eBook versions of all the stories.

For the first time in one edition, all five Doctor Death pulp adventures are collected authorized by the Ward estate.
Contains the first three stories from 1935: “12 Must Die,” “The Gray Creatures” and “The Shriveling Murders,”
as well as two unpublished stories, “Waves of Madness” and “The Red Mist of Death.”
As a bonus, Harold Ward's treatment for a Doctor Death comic strip is included.
With an introduction by pulp historian Will Murray.


$75.00 deluxe hardcover


Altus Press


Altus Press
TOMORROW, THE COMPLETE SAGA
By Arthur Leo Zagat
Limited Edition Hardcover
Now available!

Limited hardcover edition of 50 copies.
Comes with eBook versions of all the stories.


The complete saga of Dikar and The Bunch is collected for the first time in a single volume.
Set in a decimated post-invasion United States, Dikar and The Bunch fight to restore America to its former glory.
A classic post-apocalyptic saga from the pages of Argosy Magazine.


$75.00 deluxe hardcover




Altus Press: Pulp Blog - Now online!

Altus Press Releases Deluxe Editions of Doctor Death and the Tomorrow Saga - New!

The Mysterious Wu Fang Continues, Plus a New Pulp T-Shirt
Altus Press News: Dusty Ayres #3 and Moon Man Vol. 5
Altus Press Completes the Dr. Yen Sin Series, Plus Wu Fang Continues
Pulps Pricings Sales Census: Solder Stories (April and May 1929)
Science Fiction Classics: “Veiled Knowledge” by Edwin James and “No More Pencils” by Joquel Kennedy

American Fantasy Press
THE FANTASTIC FICTION OF HANNES BOK

THE FANTASTIC FICTION OF HANNES BOK Kickstarter will begin in September.

Three previously published Bok fantasies gathered together in one volume, the book will include:
BEYOND THE GOLDEN STAIR, STARSTONE WORLD, and THE SORCERER'S SHIP.

It will be the first time any of them appear in hardcover.

At the right is a very rough cover (the type will change) with art from the collection of John Cosgriff.
It's an unpublished Bok piece from 1956.
Follow Robert Garcia on Kickstarter for the most current news.





Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Now available and arriving in comic shops August 9!

BLACK BAT Volume 8: "The Black Bat's Summons" & "The White Witch” plus the origin of Super-Mouse!
The Nemesis of Crime returns in classic pulp novels by THE SPIDER’s Norvell Page and Norman A. Daniels writing as "G. Wayman Jones." First, the Masked Avenger of Crime fights to save a city from sinister looters, pitting himself against evil murderers with blank faces in “The Black Bat’s Summons.”  Then, a Master Hypnotist materializes the Grim Reaper in his audience, hurling Tony Quinn into the bizarre mystery of “The White Witch." GOLDEN AGE OF COMICS BONUS: The Mask returns in an illustrated adventure by Kin Platt from Nedor's EXCITING COMICS plus the origin of Super-Mouse, the ONLY non-DC Golden Age superhero to continue into the Silver Age! This instant collector's item showcases a knockout voodoo cover by Rudolph Belarski and interior illustrations by V. E. Pyles, with historical commentary by Will Murray and Anthony Tollin. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-231-5 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
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]
Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)

Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Now available and arriving in comic shops August 9!

THE SHADOW Volume 120: “The Cup of Confucius" and “No Time for Murder"
The Master of Darkness searches for deadly relics in thrilling pulp novels by Theodore Tinsley and Walter B. Gibson. First, only The Shadow knows the deadly secret that lurks within the priceless "Cup of Confucius." Then, a feathered figure of the Quetzal promises death to all who possess it, until The Shadow proves it's "No Time for Murder" in a magic-based mystery that reveals the secret behind Houdini's greatest illusion! Plus, "The Shadow on the Silver Screen" examines the 1946 Monogram films starring Kane Richmond Softcover, 7x10, 128 pages, B&W, $14.95

Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]
Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)

Art's Reviews Podcasts! - Now online!

Win Scott Eckert discusses "The Monster on Hold"
Author Win Scott Eckert  discusses the 4th book in the series "The Secrets of the Nine" which Philip Jose Farmer outlined and started writing but never finished. it was entitled "The Monster on Hold".  Win has been given permission to complete Farmer's unfinished novel which PJF fans have been awaiting for 34 years! He also gives us a reading from PJ's original introduction.

PulpFest: Empire of the Nine- The Psychos of Philip Jose Farmer
A panel of experts on the work of Philip Jose Farmer discuss his Pulp Pastiches set in the Universe of John  Cloamby , Lord Grandith King of the Jungle and Doc Caliban, the man of tomorrow and the evil cabal of the Nine, the secret rulers of the world.   The members of the panel include Win Scott Eckert, Frank Schildiner, Paul Spiteri, and Art Sippo.

John Bruening's readings
Author John Bruening does readings from his works including from his award winning Novel, "The Midnight Guardian" and from the "Restless: An Anthology of Mummy Horror.  He is the co-publisher of Flinch Books.

PulpFest: Peter McGarvey's readings
Author Peter McGarvey does readings from a few of his books including some from his Rip and Wilma series highlighting the adventures of 2 contract killers.

PulpFest: Jason Jack Miller's readings
Jason Jack Miller does readings from his books including his Preston Black series which is a modern homage to Faust

PulpFest: Jim Beard's readings
Author Jim Beard reads from his recent publications including his recent story in the anthology, "Planet of the Apes: Forbidden Zone.  He also discusses his label Flinch Books.

Heidi Ruby Miller does some readings
Author Heidi Ruby Miller readings from her books including the newly published "Man of War" which is a sequel to Philip Jose Farmer's novel "Two Hawks From Earth".
Past episodes:
Watch your Back, Mr. Minimoto - Frank Schildiner's homage to a classic hero
At long last: The Ruby Files Volume 2 is here!
James Palmer discusses his new novel "IX Incursion"


Black Coat Press
New titles now available!

THE MARVELOUS STORY OF CLAIRE D'AMOUR & OTHER STORIES (1 of 12)
by Maurice Magre
Adapted by Brian Stableford
Cover by Mike Hoffman

Maurice Magre (1877-1941) was one of the most far-ranging and extravagant French writers of fantastic fiction in the first half of the 20th century, and perhaps the finest of them, because of the fertility and versatility of his imagination and the manner and purpose for which he deployed it.
 
This volume, the first of a series of twelve dedicated to Magre’s works, offers thirteen stories mostly written between 1900 and 1905, that belong to the genre called conte merveilleux, often inadequately translated as “fairy tales,” but more accurately rendered as “tales of enchantment,” or, in this case, disenchantment.
 
Although these stories might be considered atypical of Magre’s work, variants of the symbolic figure of Claire d’Amour continued to recur in his work. The flower of youth was replaced in the fullness of time by other blooms, but that motif remained perennial in numerous variations.

Contents:
Marcelle [1901]
Le Premier amour du docteur Faust [Dr. Faust’s First Love, 1902]
Marinette et le vieil ondin [Marinette and the Old Water-Sprite, 1902]
Histoire merveilleuse de Claire d’Amour [The Marvelous Story of Claire d’Amour, 1903]
La Fleur de jeunesse [The Flower of Youth, 1903]
Histoire d’un grenadier qui n’avais pas de chance [The Story of an Unlucky Grenadier, 1903]
Le Marchand de jouets [The Toy Merchant, 1903]
Le Pauvre musician et le petit génie [The Poor Musician and the Little Genie, 1903]
La Poupée [The Doll, 1903]
Histoire de Lili-des-Roses et du prince nègre [The Story of Lili-des-Roses and the Black Prince, 1903]
La Dernière Sirène [The Last Siren, 1905]
Le Berger roi [The Goatherd King, 1905]
Les trois métiers de Jeannet [Jeannet’s Three Professions, 1913]
Introduction, Afterword and Notes by Brian Stableford.


US $21.95 /GBP £12.99
5x8
trade paperback, 248 pages

THE CALL OF THE BEAST & OTHER STORIES (2 of 12)
by Maurice Magre
Adapted by Brian Stableford
Cover by Mike Hoffman


Maurice Magre (1877-1941) was one of the most far-ranging and extravagant French writers of fantastic fiction in the first half of the 20th century, and perhaps the finest of them, because of the fertility and versatility of his imagination and the manner and purpose for which he deployed it.
 
This volume, the second of a series of twelve dedicated to Magre’s works, offers three novellas: Stabbed Doves The Tender Comrades and The Call of the Beast written between 1917 and 1920. Having tried sex and opium as roads to the ideal and found them wanting, Magre found a further potential resource, in the occult underworld of Paris
 
In all three works the intrusion of the fantastic is limited, confined to opium dreams in the first two and maintained in a strictly ambiguous fashion in the third. Thereafter, the fantastic was liberated in all of his fiction, initially mostly in a malign role, but eventually serving much more various functions, many of them life-enhancing.

Contents:
Les Colombes poignardées [Stabbed Doves, 1917]
La Tendre camarade [The Tender Comrade, 1918]
L’Appel de la bête [The Call of the Beast, 1920]
Introduction, Afterword and Notes by Brian Stableford.


US $23.95 /GBP £14.99
5x8 
trade paperback, 308 pages


NAPOLEON'S VAMPIRE HUNTERS
by Frank Schildiner
Cover by Mariusz Gandzel

"A loup-garou possesses very little self-control. The Seine would be choked with bodies if he didn’t. But these werewolves, when controlled, will feast sparingly. However, very few beings possess the power necessary to control a rampaging beast like a loup-garou..."

November 1804: Napoleon Bonaparte is mere weeks away from being crowned Emperor, when a great evil from his past returns to Paris. The leader of France knows he is engaged in a race against time. To fail would cause the whole of Europe to fall into darkness. To defeat this fearsome threat, Napoleon calls upon the one man who defeated it before, his former fencing teacher, swordmaster Jean-Pierre Séverin,  now director of the Paris Morgue; for only he, and a strange exorcist named Karnstein, stand a chance against an ancient fiend and his unholy beasts...

Swordmaster and vampire-hunter Jean-Pierre Séverin is the hero of legendary French author Paul Féval's seminal horror novel, THE VAMPIRE COUNTESS, written forty years before DRACULA.. He returns in this historical fright fest by the author of THE QUEST OF FRANKENSTEIN.


US $23.95 /GBP £14.99
5x8 trade paperback, 300 pages
 



 
 
 
 
 
 
Black Dog Books
SOMEDAY I'LL KILL YOU!
by Seabury Quinn, Gene Christie (Editor, Introduction)

Now available!

“The best writer since Poe.”—a Weird Tales reader

Through the popularity of his occult detective Jules de Grandin, the name Seabury Quinn is synonymous with the weird mystery.
Seabury Quinn was a versatile author who wrote hundreds of works for various genres.

Someday I’ll Kill You! makes available all of Quinn’s non-series stories published outside of Weird Tales between 1925 and 1963.

Combining the intrigue of the detective story with the excitement of the adventure story, Someday I’ll Kill You! is a collection of murder and mayhem at its best, showcasing Seabury Quinn as a master of his craft.

Edited and with an introduction by Gene Christie.


First book publication.
Softcover, 288 pages, $19.95


Black Dog Books
THE TRAIL OF BLOOD
by Murray Leinster, Tom Roberts (Editor, Cover Design), Garyn G. Roberts (Introduction)

Now available!

From the arid desert to the arctic wastes, adventure takes many paths.
Journey with master storyteller Murray Leinster as he guides the reader on a series of thrilling exploits in remote locales around the globe.

* Ju-Ju—A novel-length adventure of weird magic on the Dark Continent, reprinted from the legendary Thrill Book.
* The Trail of Blood—Along a jungle route bathed in scarlet did Wellington follow a long path of conquest.
* Tuilagi—Little did Wade know when he sought refuge on this island of beauty how close behind death lurked.
* Jungle Stream—Life was never the same after Hepple and Schmidt steamed the Mariposita up the Amazon.
* Sharks—A man learns that in the South Seas one has to be wary of shark —not only the finned kind, but the human kind as well.

These and fifteen other pulse-pounding tales are collected, many for the first time, in The Trail of Blood.


First book publication.
Softcover, 364 pages, $19.95


Black Dog Books
MURDER: STRICTLY PRIVATE
by Norvell Page, Tom Roberts (Editor), James Reasoner (Introduction)

Now available!

From the author of The Spider comes the amorous investigations of crack reporter Bill Carter.

A wide swath of crime sweeps its way through upper crust society in Miami. The slow action of the police does little to appease the outrage of the privileged. In steps Bill Carter, crack investigative journalist. His detective works drags him from the ballroom to the boudoir, dogging every lead and loose skirt.

For the first time the complete cases of Bill Carter are collecting into one volume. Follow along as Carter unravels such pulse-pounding mysteries as “The Chinese Garden Murders,” “The Clue of the Blue Stain,” “Death Plays Knock-Knock,” and seventeen other thrilling cases . . . while kissing a few distressed dames in the process.

With an introduction by award-winning author James Reasoner.


First book publication.
Softcover, 292 pages, $19.95


Black Dog Books
PATHS OF FIRE
by Albert Richard Wetjen, Tom Roberts (Introduction)

Now available!

Lovers of exotic adventure will welcome this new collection. Filled with excitement and clever drama, these stories cover murder, intrigue, stolen pearls, gun smuggling, mutiny and a fight for treasure!

Albert Richard Wetjen has been compared to John Masefield, while the O. Henry Awards said “he is in direct line of succession to Joseph Conrad.” As a writer of sea stories, Wetjen was equally adept at penning fiction for the Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s and Good Housekeeping, while also catering to readers in Blue Book, Adventure and Action Stories. Wetjen left home at age thirteen for a life at sea, carrying on the traditions of his sailing forefathers.

These stories vividly display his intimate knowledge of the habits of sailors. But this collection is more than just a chronicle of man’s struggle against the relentless sea. Grim humor, pathos and tragedy are skillfully blended to make Paths of Fire entertaining from cover to cover. With a biographical introduction by Tom Roberts.


First book publication.
Softcover, 322 pages, $19.95


Black Dog Books
WINDY CITY PULP STORIES #17
Now available!
Recognizing the Gangster Pulps and the Red Circle Publications
A must have for anyone interested in the history of the pulp magazine field!

CONTENTS

The Gang Pulps
“The NEW Gangster Story,” by Joseph Lichtblau, “Underworld, Gangster, G-Men, Etc.,” by Harold Hersey, “Two Magazines Suspend Under Sumner Threat,” by Anon., “Gangsters Real and Fictional,” by George Hagenauer

Art Focus
“Tom Lovell: The Hersey Years,” by Tom Roberts, “Steranko: Daydreams, Nightmares, and Other Obsessions ,” “Steranko Sounds Off!,” by Tom Roberts

The Red Circle of Menace
“Have You a Little Sadism in Your Dome?” by Harry Adler, “Meet the Editor: Robert O. Erisman,” by Anon., “An Interview with Abe Goodman,” by Robert Weinberg, “A Short History and Checklist of Martin Goodman’s Pulp Publications” by Gene Christie

Fiction Section
“Pineapples!,” by Robert Leslie Bellem, “The Gargoyles of Madness,” by Russell Grey

In Memoriam
“My Life In Science Fiction,” by David Kyle, “I Remember David A. Kyle,” by John D. Coker III, “David Kyle: A Life of Science Fiction Ideas and Dreams,” by John D. Coker III

Film Focus
“From Pulp to the Silver Screen, 2017,” by Ed Hulse


Softcover, 130 pages, $14.95




Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press

Writing pulp fiction for a living was a tough grind, but one that always attracted hopefuls. Dewy-eyed aspirants were willing to serve an apprenticeship in the pulps, secure in the knowledge that raw talent and hard work would carry them to inevitable success in the slicks. These neophytes, eager for helpful tips and sage advice from the pulpwood Big Timers, poured over the pages of trade journals such as Writer's Digest, Author & Journalist, Writer's Review, and Writer's Markets and Methods.

Established pulp writers and editors who contributed to these publications were surprisingly generous with advice and admonition both. Every now and then their articles were vague or self-serving, but a large number offered genuinely useful tips and outlined methods of working that are just as sound today as they were in 1930 or 1940. The two dozen essays collected in THE PENNY-A-WORD BRIGADE hold significant educational value for today's wannabe writers.

Some of these trade-journal pieces saw revival in issues of Blood 'n' Thunder. A few—specifically, those by hero-pulp legends Lester Dent, Norvell Page, and Walter B. Gibson—have been reprinted before, but never have all been included between two covers. In context, surrounded by similar articles from peers, each represents a vital piece in the larger puzzle.

Straight how-to articles are mixed with market analyses and personal reminiscences. In addition to Gibson & Company, you'll find contributions from such legendary high-volume producers as Arthur J. Burks, H. Bedford-Jones, and Erle Stanley Gardner along with many second-tier favorites, including Nelson Bond, Frederick C. Davis, G. T. Fleming-Roberts, Frank Gruber, and Henry Kuttner.

The blue-pencil boys also supplied guidance to followers of the writers' magazines, and PENNY-A-WORD BRIGADE includes excellent essays by Adventure's Arthur Sullivant Hoffman, Black Mask's Joseph T. "Cap" Shaw, and editorial directors of the major pulp outfits: Rogers Terrill (Popular Publications), Leo Margulies (the "Thrilling Group"), Robert A. W. Lowndes (Columbia/Double Action/Blue Ribbon), Ralph Daigh (Fawcett Publications), and Robert O. Erisman (Martin Goodman's "Red Circle" line). Agents Lurton Blassingame and August Lenninger, frequent contributors to Writer's Digest, present market reports that at the time of publication were considered valuable tools for newcomers aiming to crack well-established sheets.

This book is an invaluable addition to any reference library with books documenting the pulp era.  It can be ordered at muraniapress.com. The $24.95 cover price includes shipping to buyers in the U.S.


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OVERSEAS BUYERS MUST INQUIRE FOR SHIPPING RATES BEFORE PLACING ORDERS.


Trade paperback, 8.5 x 11, 220 pages
Price: $24.95



Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
BLOOD 'N' THUNDER PRESENTS, VOLUME ONE -- PRIDE OF THE PULPS
Now shipping!

In case you hadn't heard, last fall we brought to an end Blood 'n' Thunder's 14-year run as a periodical. The zine went out with a bang: a double issue numbered 49/50 and packed with some of the best articles in BnT history. In the editorial we promised to continue the franchise with a series of standalone volumes, issued at irregular intervals, covering various aspects of pulp and pop-culture history under the general title of Blood 'n' Thunder Presents.

Well, this week we proudly release the first volume of Blood 'n' Thunder Presents, subtitled Pride of the Pulps. It's been designed in the "deluxe" trade-paperback format of 8 1/2 x 11 inches, with the series title in a wraparound banner and the volume number printed at the top of the spine. All future volumes will have a uniform design.

Pride of the Pulps devotes nearly 100,000 words to in-depth surveys of six classic rough-paper magazines: Adventure, All-American Fiction, Famous Fantastic Mysteries, The Popular Magazine, Short Stories, and West. Earlier versions of these overviews were published in back issues of Blood 'n' Thunder, but all have been revised and expanded for this book. Greatly expanded, in some cases: the essay on Short Stories, for example, first appeared as a two-parter with a total word count of 11,500 words. Its counterpart in Pride of the Pulps runs close to 17,000 words.

The addition of new material extends as well to illustrative matter. The surveys in Pride include more pulp covers and interior illustrations than accompanied their earlier versions in BnT, but we've also added more scans of original cover paintings.

In short, this is not a reprint volume that simply repurposes old copy. It has a significant amount of new content and is a veritable textbook of pulp-fiction history. Even if you'd be satisfied with the essays as printed in BnT, it would cost you well over $100 to purchase those issues individually. And that's assuming you could find them all: the two issues with the Short Stories survey have been out of print for many years.

Future volumes of Blood 'n' Thunder Presents will be devoted to the following topics: a history of Argosy, the working life of pulp writers, the output of legendary scribe Edgar Wallace, a history of Doubleday's Crime Club book division, and a survey of films made during 1932, which we posit to be fantastic cinema's best year. We hope and expect to issue at least two volumes per calendar year, although we're on track to publish three in 2017. Stay tuned for more announcements.

In the meantime, don't miss out on our first release in the Blood 'n' Thunder Presents series. We guarantee it'll make a valuable addition to any home library of reference works covering pulp fiction and vintage American popular culture.




Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
BLOOD 'N' THUNDER'S CLIFFHANGER CLASSICS VOLUME 2
Now shipping!

For nearly 50 years the motion-picture chapter play was a vibrant part of our country’s pop-culture scene. Following their favorite serials turned moviegoing into a weekly habit for millions of Americans. During the silent-film era, episodic thrillers were marketed to adults and children alike, but their emphasis on base melodrama and contrived thrills appealed more to kids. Those youthful habitués of Saturday matinees faithfully followed serials and retained fond memories of them. Subsequent generations discovered cliffhanger classics via later broadcasts on TV and reissues in collectable home-video formats.
 
This sequel to 2012's well-received Blood 'n' Thunder's Cliffhanger Classics offers history and analysis of such popular and influential silent serials as The Perils of Pauline (1914), The Million Dollar Mystery (1914), The Diamond from the Sky (1915), The Riddle Rider (1924), and the four 1914-17 chapter plays of Francis Ford and Grace Cunard. Notable talkie-era serials covered at length include Tarzan the Fearless (1933), The Return of Chandu (1934), The Lost City (1935), Radio Patrol (1937), Red Barry (1938), The Spider's Web (1938, and its 1941 sequel The Spider Returns), Hawk of the Wilderness (1938), Adventures of Red Ryder (1940), and Secret Service in Darkest Africa (1943).
A special essay titled "Anatomy of a Serial," taking an approach not previously attempted by any chapter-play historian, chronicles the making of fan favorite Spy Smasher (1942) from the licensing of the character rights in June 1941 straight through to the film's national release in April 1942. All aspects of the production are detailed with facts and figures, as well as the recollections of director William Witney, star Kane Richmond, supporting player Tris Coffin, and stunt ramrod Dave Sharpe.
 
The essays in Cliffhanger Classics are not the typical puff pieces generally found in books on this subject. Each article has been carefully researched and supplemented with first-hand recollections of people who worked in the serials being examined, including leading men Buster Crabbe, Kane Richmond, Herman Brix, and Rod Cameron; leading ladies Jacqueline Wells, Iris Meredith, Kay Hughes, Vivian Coe; veteran serial writer Barry Shipman; stuntmen Dave Sharpe and Tom Steele; and directors Ford Beebe and William Witney. Their input makes this second volume of Cliffhanger Classics a valuable addition to the historical record, as well as an entertaining read.
 
The book is profusely illustrated with more than 60 pages of rare stills, posters, and lobby cards from the serials under examination. 
Purchase price includes shipping to domestic U.S. buyers only; international customers must inquire for shipping rates.

Cover Art by Chris Kalb
Trade paperback, 6x9 inches, 302 pages
Price: $24.95




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Bold Venture Press
I'LL GRIND THEIR BONES
by Theodore Roscoe

Now available!

American news reporter John Keats interviews Count Vasil Garganoff, mysterious manufacturing mogul of Hertha Gun Works in Transylvania. When Teutony and Esperench diplomats are found dead, the world suddenly teeters on the brink of war!

I’ll Grind Their Bones is a pulp-ish detective story, where the dogged protagonist must investigate the death of two men that escalates into impossible shootings and other mysterious occurrences. The title, taken from a rhyme most typically associated with Jack and the Beanstalk, refers to the casual death of men in violent ways. But Roscoe also escalates this cause up from a simple quest of righteous vengeance to play it instead to very different ends in the largest theater of all: WAR.

I’ll Grind Their Bones plays out like an international nightmare showing the insanity and futility of throwing so many innocent lives away in the cause of conflict.

The three countries which become the canvas for this carnage — the aggressor Teutony, the conspirator Esperance, and the unknown threat of Helvania — have clear parallels in real life, and it is telling that Roscoe takes a moment to remove Italy from proceedings so as to streamline this already complex international thrust-and-parry.

Mystery / Political Thriller
330 pages, 5.5" x 8.5"
Paperback: $17.95 | eBook: $4.99




Bold Venture Press
Bold Venture Press presents the first installment in the Jack Hagee, Private Eye series.

When Carl Miller's fiancee disappears, her trail leads him to New York City, and the office of private investigator Jack Hagee. Taking the case against his better judgement, Hagee quickly finds himself in the center of a circle of blood, with the corpses piling up fast.

Now he must rescue poor little runaway Mara Phillips to avoid landing in the slaughter pit. But he wonders if she's worth rescuing ...


Mystery
274 pages, 5.5" x 8.5"
Paperback: $16.95 | eBook: $3.99





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THE BRONZE GAZETTE
Issue #79 is now available and recommended!
 
Contents
Cover: Bob Larkin (commission for Terry Allen)
"The Woman In It" by Duane Spurlock
"Bending the Doc Savage Formula" by Will Murray
"Q&A with Sisters of Bronze" by Catherine Lavallée-Welch
"The Bantam Books that Never Appeared" by Will Murray
"Rhoda Haven: In Love with Everything Doc Savage Wasn't" by Bobb Cotter
"Review: Six Scarlet Scorpions" by Catherine Lavallée-Welch
"The Doc Savage Novel That Was Too Good Part 2" by Jeff Deischer
"The Bronze Gazette Publications News Update" by Terry Allen
"Daughter of Savage: A Wild Woman" by Win Scott Eckert
"In Memory of Ron Wilber"

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Call of Cthulhu, Traveller, and Railroads
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Centipede Press
SWORDS AND DEVILTRY
By Fritz Leiber
Now available!


In the annals of heroic fantasy one epic tale stands head and shoulders above the rest, spanning sixty years in the telling, the saga of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser has captivated fans ever since Fritz Leiber’s first tale of the duo appeared in the August, 1939 issue of Unknown. Just in time for the seventy-eighth anniversary of the characters debut, Centipede Press is releasing the first of what will be the definitive eight-volume set comprising not only all of the stories by Fritz Leiber (and his friend Harry Fischer), but also the brilliant epilogue to the series, Swords Against the Shadowland by Robin Wayne Bailey.

These are archival editions, lavishly illustrated and featuring guest introductions from some of the top writers in the field. We plan on releasing both Swords and Deviltry and Swords Against Death this year and customers are encouraged to contact us about reserving the entire set. There are 500 unsigned copies available.

The story of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser is among the most enduring in modern fantasy and we suggest reserving your set sooner rather than later.

Swords and Deviltry features five color interior illustrations, a full-color frontispiece, full color wraparound dustjacket, and custom illustrated endpapers. The introduction is by Michael Moorcock. The book includes all of the stories that make up Swords and Deviltry along with two archival essays by Harry O. Fischer, Fritz Leiber’s 1973 introduction, two “Gray Mouser” poems from The Acolyte, and an interview with Fritz Leiber from 1979. Yes, we will be publishing the entire series of novels, each one with a load of extras. This is the ultimate edition of this legendary fantasy series.


Edition information
•Bound in full black cloth, blind stamping on front board.
•Color illustrations hand-tipped into the book.
•Introduction by Michael Moorcock.
•Gorgeous dustjacket on Mohawk Superfine.
•Head and tail bands, ribbon marker.

Cloth, unsigned: $65 (save $10)





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Johnny Weissmuller as JUNGLE JIM (1951-52)  
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Multi-Genre FURY Magazine paintings by Thomas Beecham (1956)
TARZAN 3D Gum Cards (1953)
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We have our registration page up and available.

Registration is $40 and includes:
Doc Con XX Admission, Commemorative Name Badge, Deluxe 2017 Program, DCXX Swag, Commemorative Swag Bag, 5 Raffle Tickets, Lunch on Saturday and much more!

Go to http://docfantasycovers.com/Doc-Con/ and click the "Pre-Register Today" button at the bottom of the page.
Once your registration is paid, you will receive a confirmation letter with a Commemorative Ticket and details about the upcoming convention.
See you in October!


Edgar Rice Burroughs Comics
 All New Comic Strips created exclusively for ERB, Inc.
You can subscribe for only $1.99 / month

 
 
Fifteen strips currently available on the  Burroughs comics website:
"Tarzan of the Apes" by Roy Thomas and Pablo Marcos, adapting the original Tarzan novels.
"Tarzan" by Roy Thomas and Benito Gallego, featuring new Tarzan adventures.
John Carter: Warlord of Mars by Roy Thomas and Rodolfo Pérez Garcia.
"Korak the Killer" by Ron Marz and Rick Leonardi.
"Carson of Venus" by Martin Powell and Tom Floyd.
"The Eternal Savage" by Martin Powell and Steven E. Gordon.
"The War Chief" by Martin Powell and Nik Poliwko.
"The Cave Girl" by Martin Powell and Diana Leto.
"Pellucidar" by Chuck Dixon and Gary Kwapsiz.
"The Land That Time Forgot" by Martin Powell and Pablo Marcos.
"The Mucker" by Ron Marz and Lee Moder
"The Monster Men" by Tom Simmons, Erik Roman, L Jamal Walton, and Cristian Docolomansky
 "The Lost Continent" by Martin Powell and Oscar González 

 "The Jungle Girl" by Martin Powell and Will Meugniot
"The Outlaw of Torn" by Thomas Simmons and Jake Bilbao





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Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.
A SOLDIER OF POLODA
Further Adventures Beyond the Farthest Star
By Lee Strong

Now available in hardcover!
Softcover and eBook editions are coming soon!


Like fellow Earthman, Tangor from the story Beyond the Farthest Star, American OSS officer Thomas Randolph is mysteriously teleported to a foreign planet where he lands in the center of a 100-year war that mirrors the Allied Powers’ struggle against Adolph Hitler’s Third Reich.

Unlike Tangor, Randolph – now Tomas Ran – finds himself behind enemy lines where he gains a first-hand view of the inner workings of the corrupt Kapar empire. Will Tomas, using his OSS skills, be able to devise a plan to escape with the beautiful Unisan prisoner, Loris Kiri, that will allow them to join her countrymen in their struggle against the Kapars?

American novelist Edgar Rice Burroughs debuted the world of Poloda in the pulp story Beyond the Farthest Star in 1940 just as Hitler’s Nazis marched across Europe and the Imperial Japanese extended their reach across the South Pacific. Burroughs’ youthful idealism regarding the nobility of America’s previous war efforts had given way to a mature perspective of the savagery of combat that stains every battlefield. Burroughs’ deeply-held views are reflected in this tale about a planet ravaged by 100 years of conflict as the nation of Unis devotes its entire existence to the struggle of freedom against tyranny.

Author Lee Strong created this second adventure on the planet Poloda, which lies beyond the Globular Cluster NGC 7006 ‘ 450,000 light years away from earth. Join Tomas Ran as he explores Poloda, battles Kapars, and finds love Beyond the Farthest Star.


AUTHOR
Lee Strong’s heart was captured by the dinosaurs found At the Earth’s Core in 1962. He has been a Burroughs reader ever since. Lee also worked for the US Department of Defense (DOD); changed international policy with a single report; deployed to Kuwait; saved taxpayers $5 million; and reformed the $2 billion DOD Personal Property Program. A Soldier of Poloda is Lee’s first novel. He is currently working on two Pellucidar novels with more to come. Lee’s motto: More Adventure ! More Excitement !! More Burroughs !!!

ARTISTS
COVER ART: Chris Peuler is a genre illustrator based in Chicago, working primarily in fantasy and science fiction. A traditionally-trained digital painter, Chris has created vivid imagery for various gaming and book publications, as well as taking time to work on his own personal portfolio. This beautiful, other-worldly cover art is his first full wraparound dust jacket painting for ERB, Inc.

INTERIOR ILLUSTRATIONS: Earl Geier has illustrated horror, fantasy and science fiction scenes in the role playing game industry for Fasa, Chaosium, TSR, Fantasy Flight, Dark Conspiracy, and others. He has illustrated books for Cemetery Dance, Chaosium, Gryphon, American Fantasy Press and Subterranean Press, and covers for The Fandom Directory. In the comic book world Earl has drawn for Dark Horse Comics, Comizone, Now, Innovation and DC Comics. His artwork has been featured as background in the TV show “Supernatural Let It Bleed” Earl lives in Chicago, Illinois.


$34.95


   

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The Spider - Master of Men
Flash Gordon
The Others [The Gray Seal, Nick Carter, Fantomas, Arsene Lupin, The Saint]
Professor Jameson alias 21MM392
Sheena Queen of the Jungle (A History of TV, Films, & Comics)

Old Pulp
The Pulp Heroes
Pulp, Pulp Everywhere and Lots and Lots to Read
Pulp Talk
Pulp Magazine Authors and Literature Fans

The Serial Squadron Cinema Cliffhanger Serial Archive

ERBzine
Edgar Rice Burroughs Barsoom Pellucidar and Others
Edgar Rice Burroughs Dejah Thoris and other Heroines

Edgar Rice Burroughs - Facebook Forum
Edgar Rice Burroughs: Worlds of Adventure

PulpFest
Windy City Pulp & Paper Convention

Pulp Coming Attractions


Robert E. Howard Comics Group
The Robert E. Howard Foundation

Robert E. Howard Readers
Two Gun Bob--The Worlds of Robert E.  Howard
The International Robert E. Howard Fan Association
Conan the Cimmerian
REH: Two-Gun Raconteur

Altus Press
Weird Tales Magazine



  Now online!

New on Famous (and forgotten) Fiction!

July 2017
This month, we present "The Jameson Satellite," direct from the pages of the July, 1931 issue of Amazing Stories, along with an introduction by Bob Gay.
Also, we have added another annotated gallery of Bob's Stuff, with even more wonderment from Bob's boxes and shelves.


June 2017
Back after a short hiatus (insert your favorite quote about life here) we present the fourth, and final story of Doyle's Tales of the High Seas, "The Striped Chest." 
Dan Neyer introduces the story and also addresses the unknowns that surround the tale, as Captain Sharkey is nowhere to be found in the narrative. 
All of Doyle's text is there, along with the illustrations by Warwick Goble, just as they appeared in the July 1897 issue of Pearson’s Magazine (UK).

April 2017
This month we present the final tale of Captain Sharkey, "The Voyage of Copley Banks," just as it appeared in the May, 1897 issue of Pearson's Magazine (UK), including the illustrations by Warwick Goble.  Dan Neyer adds a short introduction.
And, just for the completists out there: We do realize that there is a 4th Sharkey tale, but we consider it apocryphal and its true origins are unknown.


March 2017
Captain Sharkey returns in the second of Arthur Conan Doyle's Tales of the High Seas in a tale entitled, "The Two Barques," just as it appeared in the March, 1897 issue of Pearson's Magazine, including the illustrations by Warwick Goble. 
Dan Neyer's introduction is also included as a more modern addition.


February 2017
Pirates...Tall sailing ships...the High Seas...and the villainous buccaneer, Captain Sharkey...all these, and more, are part of the Arthur Conan Doyle series, Tales of the High Seas. 
Starting this month, we begin the series with "The Governor of St. Kitts," just as it appeared in the January, 1897 issue of the British version of Pearson's Magazine, including the illustrations by Warwick Goble. 
Dan Neyer provides the introduction to the story and the series.

January 2017
Concluding our reprinting of the first series of Father Brown stories, we present “The Sign of the Broken Sword” including all the George Gibbs illustrations and an introduction by Dan Neyer.
Next month, prepare to hoist the jib and steer for clear water!



Now available!

Dafydd Neal Dyar's Doc Savage Essays are back in print for the first time in nearly 40 years!

Each essay was painstakingly reconstructed and expanded with extensive annotations and new text.

Doc Savage fans will delight in the nearly 300 pages of insights and observations from a master of pulp history.

Foreword by pulp author/historian Rick Lai!

The signed and numbered hard cover edition is limited to 100 copies.

Each hard cover features The One That Got Away, an exclusive all-new essay chronicling a Dyar article lost to the ages.

$39.99




Fedogan & Bremer
TIME BURIAL by Donald Wandrei
Now available!


Howard Wandrei's pulp work was extensive and popular. Collections, however, long remained non-existent.

Wandrei used several pseudonyms, for one thing. But another factor came in: the copyrights were held after his death by his brother Donald, co-founder of Arkham House, who became embroiled in a bitter copyright battle after the death of August Derleth.

Fedogan and Bremer first collected Howard Wandrei's Weird and Fantastic fiction over 20 years ago in TIME BURIAL, now long out-of-print in hardcover. Here is a paperback facsimile edition, at popular price, of that book, illustrated with the author's own very weird art work, reminiscent of Bosch and influenced by Blake. We expect you'll enjoy his stories!

Dwayne Olson provides a fulsome background for both the stories and Howard's place in the bygone era of pulp authors, full of the regional influences that marked this literature.

Fedogan and Bremer is proud to return Howard Wandrei's best Weird fiction to print.







Girasol Collectables
Pulp Cover Gallery Edition Volume 5
The Spider, G-8 and His Battle Aces, and Operator #5
Now available!

Volume 5 of our Pulp Cover Gallery series is in the works, scheduled for a mid-May release.
This edition will be the same overall format as our other volumes, featuring sets of cover scans of The Spider, G-8 and His Battle Aces, and Operator #5.
One difference this time out is that the images are square-cut, they do not show the rough pulp edges.
The same bonded leather hardcover exterior, 8.5" x 11" interior pages, 130+ pages, full color throughout,
with a brief introduction and checklist with cover artist credit where known.
As before, this is not a book about the pulp titles featured, it is a visual reference of the covers. Lots of great viewing!

Order before April 01, 2016 and save $10!
$140 including shipping & handling* (*within North America, for overseas orders add $25.)







Gotham Pulp Collectors Club
Typically the 3rd Saturday of every month
Check the website at the link below for the latest schedule.

 Gotham Pulp Collectors Club is a club for pulp collectors to meet in the NYC/Metro area.
It meets the 3rd Saturday of every month.
Check the website at the link below for exact time and place information.

Name:  Gotham Pulp Collectors Club
Time: 1-5 PM
Place:  
Muhlenberg Library on West 23rd Street.

Contact:  Mark Halegua at msh@pulps1st.com

Gotham Pulp Collectors Club

Haffner Press
FREDRIC BROWN MYSTERY LIBRARY VOLUME 1: MURDER DRAWS A CROWD
(Writer) Fredric Brown, Jack Seabrook (Cover) Norman Saunders
Now available!


 Shipping Update!
The start of shipping preorders was delayed for two weeks while we waited for the arrival of the bonus bookmarks as well as several hundred more shipping cartons. So, we've been packing and mailing the preorders in waves for the past few weeks. While this has put a nice dent in the volume of preorders, we're still handling orders from 2014 (yeah, I know . . .). Plus, an additional delay sprung up this week with jury-duty for yer humble Poobah. But that's behind us and we're back in the groove getting these orders out.

At the current pace, it looks to be another 2-3 weeks to get all the preorders out the door.
Then we'll start in on the orders placed after we took delivery of the books in late April.
Ideally, all open orders will have been shipped by the end of June.


A massive fix of liquor-fueled murder, smoke-clouded mystery, and hard-hitting revenge from the author of The Screaming Mimi and The Fabulous Clipjoint. This archival-quality hardcover assembles 38 incredibly rare stories from 1938-1942, with the original Pulp artwork from such magazines as Thrilling Detective, Masked Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, and more. This is the book Fredric Brown fans have been waiting for!

Introduction by Jack Seabrook                     
ISBN: 9781893887787                               
744 pages                                         
Over 100 illustrations                            
39 pulp magazine stories:  • Detective  • Mystery  • Horror  • Western   
100-pg appendix with the "V.O.N. Munchdriller" &  "William Z. Williams" comedies                  
Decorated endpapers                               
Smythe-sewn binding                               
Full cloth-covered binding boards              
$50.00                                                



Haffner Press
FREDRIC BROWN MYSTERY LIBRARY VOLUME 2: DEATH IN THE DARK
(Writer) Fredric Brown, Jack Seabrook (Cover) Norman Saunders
Now available!


 Shipping Update!
The start of shipping preorders was delayed for two weeks while we waited for the arrival of the bonus bookmarks as well as several hundred more shipping cartons. So, we've been packing and mailing the preorders in waves for the past few weeks. While this has put a nice dent in the volume of preorders, we're still handling orders from 2014 (yeah, I know . . .). Plus, an additional delay sprung up this week with jury-duty for yer humble Poobah. But that's behind us and we're back in the groove getting these orders out.

At the current pace, it looks to be another 2-3 weeks to get all the preorders out the door.
Then we'll start in on the orders placed after we took delivery of the books in late April.
Ideally, all open orders will have been shipped by the end of June.

“. . . enough good people put Brown on their must-read lists and then become evangelists to keep his name alive on the same high shelf as Hammett, Thompson, Ross Macdonald and other crime icons. Somewhere up in literary heaven, I hope he’s looking down, sipping a beer, playing his flute and smiling.”—Dick Adler, Chicago Tribune

While the editor of this series only recently came upon the above quote from 2008, these eyes read no truer words. Work has been underway for nearly a year on assembling the first two volumes of a series provisionally titled LOADED: THE COLLECTED FREDRIC BROWN. Now is your chance to get in on the ground floor of what is hoped to be the definitive collection of Fredric Brown sans his science fiction works. Assembled in chronological order of publication, this set will contain all the short fiction (of all genres: mystery, horror, noir, western, detection, etc.) and all of Brown’s novels (again, excepting his sf works). You’ll be able to enjoy Fredric Brown at his longer lengths from The Fabulous Clipjoint and Night of the Jabberwock to The Lenient Beast and Mrs. Murphy’s Underpants.

Assisting with this effort have been Brown bibliographer Phil Stephensen-Payne and Brown biographer Jack Seabrook. This massive undertaking could not have been accomplished without their help.


Introduction by Jack Seabrook
744 pages                                     
Over 90 illustrations                         
32 pulp magazine stories: • Detective  • Mystery  • Horror          
80-pg appendix with the "Colonel Cluck/Kluck,"  "Barnyard Bill Says—" & "Willie Skid" bits  
Decorated endpapers                           
Smythe-sewn binding                           
Full cloth-covered binding boards   
          
$50.00


 

Hard Case Crime
Coming soon!
October 2017

QUARRY'S CLIMAX
Max Allan Collins
Cover art by Robert McGinnis


Memphis, 1975. "Raunchy" doesn’t begin to describe Max Climer’s magazine, Climax, or his all-hours strip club, or his planned video empire. Evangelists, feminists, and local watchdog groups all want him out of business. But someone wants more than that, and has hired a killer to end Max’s career permanently. Only another hit man—the ruthless professional known as Quarry, star of the acclaimed series on Cinemax—can keep Climer from becoming a casualty in the Sexual Revolution.

The longest-running series from Max Allan Collins, author of ROAD TO PERDITION, the Quarry novels tell the story of an assassin with an unlikely taste for justice. Once a Marine sniper, Quarry found a new home stateside with a group of contract killers. But some men aren’t made for taking orders…

First publication ever!
A new Quarry novel set in the time of the hit Cinemax series
Features a new cover painting by the legendary Robert McGinnis


November 2017

TURN ON THE HEAT
Erle Stanley Gardner
Cover art by Laurel Blechman, Robert Maguire


Erle Stanley Gardner was not just the creator of PERRY MASON—at the time of his death, he was the best-selling American author of all time, with hundreds of millions of books in print. Among those books were the 29 cases of the brash, irresistible detective team of Bertha Cool and Donald Lam. Last year, Hard Case Crime brought out the first new Cool and Lam novel in decades, THE KNIFE SLIPPED, lost for 77 years after Gardner’s publisher refused it. Now, we’re bringing you the book Gardner wrote to replace it, often considered the best in the series: TURN ON THE HEAT.

Hired by a mysterious "Mr. Smith" to find a woman who vanished 21 years earlier, Donald Lam finds himself facing a sadistic cop, a desperate showgirl, a duplicitous client, and one very dogged (and beautiful) newspaper reporter—while Bertha Cool’s attempts to cut herself in on this lucrative opportunity land them both hip-deep in murder...

First appearance in bookstores in half a century!
Erle Stanley Gardner remains one of the most popular American authors of all time
Features a new cover painting by Laurel Blechman, working from reference photos shot by the legendary pulp illustrator Robert Maguire.




Howard Andrew Jones - Now online!

Remembering Corum
Adventure!
Novel Writing and Pulp
One Sword for Love

I WATCHED THEM EAT ME ALIVE: KILLER CREATURES IN MEN'S ADVENTURE MAGAZINES - Now available!

I Watched Them Eat Me Alive is the first installment of The Men's Adventure Library Journal, a series focusing on specific facets of the vintage men's adventure magazines stories, artwork, and history.

Dedicated to exploring the lost world of vintage men’s adventure magazines (aka MAMs), The Men’s Adventure Library chronicles the mags’ three decades on American newsstands, from the early 1950s through the mid-1970s. Mixing elements from many sources—early pulp fiction, detective stories and true crime, mystery and noir films, exotic travel magazines, celebrity scandal rags and bachelor mags—MAMs ratcheted up the tension and amped up the testosterone to create explosive, entertaining, and often outrageous reading for millions of American men. Though long extinct and mostly unseen for generations, their pervasive influence continues to shape some of the most popular and enduring pop culture tropes and trends.

Curated by MAM historian/collector Robert Deis and writer Wyatt Doyle, The Men’s Adventure Library reprints and provides context for classic MAM stories and artwork drawn from the mags’ rich history of gonzo pulp, with releases available in full-color trade paperback and deluxe, expanded hardcover editions. Each volume is a vivid reminder that MAMs were extremely cool, unexpectedly influential, and still pack a bare-knuckle punch. Read ’em all…if you’ve got the guts!


Paperback: 108 pages
Publisher: New Texture
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.3 x 9 inches
$9.95


Hardcover: 128 pages
Publisher: New Texture
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
$24.95


Jerry Schneider Enterprises
Now available!

KALDAR WORLD OF ANTARES
The complete trilogy as originally published in the 1930's


Kaldar, World of Antares
A stupendous novelette of a world far removed from Earth, of the Chan of Kaldar, and the spider-people from beyond the metal mountains

The Snake-Men of Kaldar
Another mighty tale of Kaldar, world of Antares—a tale of red warfare against a race of monsters on a distant planet

The Great Brain of Kaldar
A superb tale of distant Kaldar, world of the great star Antares

Trade Paperback, 6 x 9 inch, 156 pages
$12.95



 
Jimmie Dale, Alias the Gray Seal
The New Adventures of the Gray Seal Book 1

by Michael Howard 
 Now available in softcover and Kindle editions!


In the summer of 1912 New York City was being terrorized by a bizarre organization of metal-clawed criminals who ascend stone walls as easily as others climb stairs. Dubbed the Spider Gang by the press, they roamed over every part of Manhattan from neighborhoods of squalid tenements to the most luxurious mansions of the rich. It wasn't wealth that they sought however, instead it was the City's most beautiful women who were being carried off for some sinister purpose.

A new challenge for the Gray Seal! The very first in a long, long line of crime-fighting urban vigilantes has returned in an all new novel length adventure. More than a century ago bored society millionaire Jimmie Dale hid his identity behind a mask and slouch hat to become the safe-cracking master criminal known as the Gray Seal. His objective was excitement rather than financial gain, but quickly decided that justice was a still more worthy goal. Dale became feared and hunted by both the police and the underworld as he waged a one-man war on evildoers the law could not stop. Commanded by the mysterious woman of a thousand faces known as the Tocsin, Jimmie Dale pits himself against those who prey on the weakest members of society. The Gray Seal novels of Frank Packard influenced a wide range of heroes including The Shadow, the Spider, the Green Hornet, and Batman. The Gray Seal strikes again!

Trade paperback,
6 x 9 inches, 374 pages
$15.99
Kindle Price:    $4.99

Coming later this year!
A compilation of the original Gray Seal novels written by Frank Packard.
There were five in all and the fifth book (Jimmie Dale and the Missing Hour) has never appeared before in a digital version.
This is going to be an annotated edition with a detailed chronology of the series - and photos of the main characters!

More news when available!

Amazon     Kindle  



The Korshak Collection: Illustrations Of Imaginative Literature
June 07, 2017 to August 26, 2017

The Society is proud to present a rare opportunity to view some of the greatest fantasy masterpieces of our time. Presenting a grouping of illustrations of imaginative literature from the Korshak Collection, on display in Gallery 1 & 2. 

"As a young man I was fortunate enough to grow up with great art in my bedroom. My father, Erle Korshak, was the publisher of a pioneering science fiction book company, Shasta Publishers. Shasta ushered in the transition of important science fiction literature from magazines printed on cheap pulp paper to hardcover, library-quality books. Much of that art lived with us at our house and at the company office in Chicago.

In particular, the J. Allen St. John illustration for the 1941 Amazing Stories magazine cover of John Carter battling the Dead in "The City of Mummies" lured me into a fantastic world that I never knew existed. I read and enjoyed the Edgar Rice Burroughs story behind the illustration but for me, the illustration itself gave me a sense of wonder I had never previously experienced.

So began a lifelong love affair with illustration art. This collection is a vision of the fantastic. It is one of great illustrators, as well as illustrations that had a great influence on imaginative literature."

The Society of Illustrator
128 East 63rd Street (between Park and Lexington Avenues)
New York, NY 10065

Martin Grams' Blog - Now online!

Patrick Duffy and the Man from Atlantis
Hopalong Cassidy is disintegrating
"Lost" Shadow Radio Programs Discovered
Willie Whopper and the Mysterious Airman

THE MASSACRE OF MANKIND: Sequel to The War of the Worlds - Coming August 22!
by Stephen Baxter


It has been 14 years since the Martians invaded England. The world has moved on, always watching the skies but content that we know how to defeat the Martian menace. Machinery looted from the abandoned capsules and war-machines has led to technological leaps forward. The Martians are vulnerable to earth germs. The Army is prepared.

So when the signs of launches on Mars are seen, there seems little reason to worry. Unless you listen to one man, Walter Jenkins, the narrator of Wells' book. He is sure that the Martians have learned, adapted, understood their defeat.

He is right.

Thrust into the chaos of a new invasion, a journalist - sister-in-law to Walter Jenkins - must survive, escape and report on the war.

The Massacre of Mankind has begun.


Hardcover, 496 pages
Publisher: Crown
$27.00




The Robert E. Howard Newsline
Now online!


Bringing you the latest news in Robert E. Howard books, pulp reprints, comics, audio, conventions, games, and whatever else seems applicable.

Now available!

Farmerphile: The Magazine of Philip José Farmer was a quarterly fanzine that ran fifteen issues from July 2005 to January 2009. Michael Croteau served as Publisher for all fifteen issues; Christopher Paul Carey and Paul Spiteri coedited the first ten issues, while Spiteri and Win Scott Eckert coedited the last five. Thanks to the generosity of Philip José Farmer and his “Magic Filing Cabinet,” Farmerphile published—for the first time anywhere—short stories (mostly not science fiction), excerpts, articles, speeches, and letters written by Farmer. It even serialized the novel Up from the Bottomless Pit (not included in this collection, but forthcoming from Meteor House).

Farmerphile also contained articles and appreciations from Farmer’s fans and from his fellow science fiction authors, from critiques of his work to stories of personal encounters, and everything between. A complete list of the original contents of all fifteen issues can be found here.

Hardcover Limited Edition
Now the hard part: narrowing down so much content into one “Best of” collection. This was much harder than it sounds, as nearly all the content was worthy of inclusion. So, we focused on broadly covering as much ground as possible, as well as including pieces that touched on Farmer’s personal life. Assembled here is a wealth of information about one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time along, with some of his earliest writing.

The Best of Farmerphile is available in two editions: a Trade Paperback and a Hardcover Limited Edition. The hardcover is not “officially” a signed limited edition, but when the book debuts at PulpFest/FarmerCon XII in late July 2017, we will get as many contributors on hand as possible to sign it before we ship the books to those preordered (shipping will occur immediately after PulpFest/FarmerCon XII).


PREORDERING:
The trade paperback edition is $29 (plus shipping).
The hardcover limited edition is $45 (plus shipping).
Or you can preorder them together for only $67—that’s $7 off (plus you’ll save even more with combined shipping)!

Preorder early to ensure you get a copy of the limited edition hardcover.
As always, the print run on the limited edition will be determined by the number of preorders received.
Not many copies beyond those reserved will be printed.
NOTE: due to the complexities of publishing rights, no ebook edition will be produced!




by Heidi Ruby Miller
Now available!

In Philip José Farmer’s novel Two Hawks from Earth, Native American pilot Roger Two Hawks flew through his first “gate” while on a bombing run over Romania during World War II. The gate brought him to Earth 2, a world where the Americas never existed. Since then he has continued to fight battles on Earth after Earth, each more strange than the next.

In Heidi Ruby Miller’s short story “Dakota’s Gate” (Worlds of Philip José Farmer 3), set on Earth 3, North America never advanced past stone tools and rock shelters. But that’s where Two Hawks met another gate traveler, Dakota Cummings. It was Dakota, a woman turned friend and lover, who pulled him through a gate to her Earth, the most alien and deadly of all.

Earth 4. Two hundred years in the future. A war thirty-six thousand feet underwater. Two Hawks must draw upon all he’s learned during his gate travels in order to survive war between technologically advanced humans and their far-future hybrid cousins. This time more than just his and Dakota’s lives are at stake—the fate of an entire world is in his hands.

Featuring cover art by Mark Wheatley, an introduction by Christopher Paul Carey, and the short story “Dakota’s Gate” as a prelude, Man of War is a 24,500-word novella full of the action and adventure you’d expect of Philip José Farmer’s Roger Two Hawks.

Man of War will be published simultaneously in both hardcover and paperback signed limited editions!

Buy the Signed Limited Edition Trade Paperback for $16 (+shipping)
Buy the Signed Limited Edition Hardcover for $27 (+shipping)
Buy both together for $38—save $5 off the pair (+shipping)


As always, the print run with our Limited Editions is determined by the number of preorders. That’s why the names of those who preorder the book appear on its acknowledgments page–you make this book happen! (As long as you preorder by June 1st 2017.)

And, as an added bonus, if you preorder before June 1st, you will also receive a FREE ebook copy of Heidi Ruby Miller’s novel, Ambasadora.


Trade paperback, 5" x 8", $16 plus shipping
Hardcover, $27 
plus shipping


 
 



September 14-16, 2017! 

Hunt Valley Wyndham (recently changed now to a Marriott)
SAME HOTEL, NEW NAME.

Announcing the first half of our celebrity lineup for our 2017 event!
Remember you can purchase your admission tickets in advance through the website and save money. And book your hotel room early before they are sold out!
Hotel: (410) 785-7000


VENDOR HOURS: Thursday and Friday 9 am to 7 pm, Saturday 9 am to 5 pm
​CELEBRITY HOURS: Thursday and Friday, 10 am to 6 pm, Saturday 10 am to 5 pm
​MOVIE ROOM: 24 hours a day
​PANELS & PRESENTATIONS: 9 am to 9 pm (See schedule of events)






Mystery*File - Now online!

MICHAEL AVALLONE’s “MAN FROM U.NC.L.E.” Books, by MIKE NEVINS
- New!
CON REPORT: PulpFest 2017, by Walker Martin - New!
COLLECTING PULPS: A Memoir, Part 19, by Walker Martin: PULP ART
A HARD CASE CRIME Mystery Review: LESTER DENT – Honey in His Mouth
WINDY CITY PULP CONVENTION 2017 REPORT, by Walker Martin
A 1001 Midnights Review: LEIGH BRACKETT – No Good from a Corpse  
Stories I’m Reading: DASHIELL HAMMETT “The Tenth Clew”



The New Pulp Heroes - Now online!

Xenthe
Cobalt
Manteau
The Protectors

PULPDOM
PULPDOM ONLINE #14
Featuring: KASPA THE LION MAN & THE CAVE MEN Part 1
PULPDOM ONLINE #15
Now available!

In the early 1930's British author C.T. Stoneham published two novels about a Tarzan-like character:  THE LION'S WAY and KASPA THE LION MAN. 

The first was made into the movie KING OF THE JUNGLE starring Buster Crabbe and was reprinted in the Oct 1948 FAMOUS FANTASTIC MYSTERIES . 

Now more than 80 years later a third Kaspa novel by the original author will see the light of day. 

Part 1 is in serialized in Pulpdom Online #14.
Email ridgefirecaz@gmail.com and ask for your free copy.


Part 2 is in serialized in Pulpdom Online #15.
Send $2.50 to Caz's Paypal account: ridgefirecaz@gmail.com

Pulpdom #16 will contain part 3 of KASPA AND THE CAVE MEN. 
Pulpdom #16 will cost $2.50.






PulpFest reports and photos
Pulpgen-Online Pulps - Now online!

New this week

"The Hero of Tournay" by Tom Hall from ARGOSY, August, 1899

A fantastic tale of an encounter in a public library. Forgotten Hawkins, his story of the self sacrificing death he died, and the plausible explanation he received of why posterity had neglected to mete out to him the honors he merited.

"Ten Thousand Hectareas" by Farnham Bishop from ADVENTURE, 1st April, 1920
Man buys a plot of land in Panama only to find that the natives there are so fierce that no one wants to work his land. He finds a military adventurer to organize an army and clean out the natives and things don't work out as planned.

"A Grave is Waiting" by Bruno Fischer from POPULAR DETECTIVE, September, 1952
The lovely lady with the very red lips had a lovely proposition - to which any gentleman with guts would reply: "Nuts!"



Pulp Den - Now online!

ONYX
- New!
Waltzing Mathilde - New!
Trouble My Bones
Jimmie Dale Alias The Gray Seal
Set The Night On Fire
Crimson

         Pulp Den  

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

Pulpfest 2017 - photos - New!
Robert H. Leitfred - Author - New!
Presidential artist got his training in the pulps... 
Ray Millholland – Engineer, Sailor, Author
Alfred Batson – Soldier, Journalist, Author
Issue Review - Blue Book magazine, January 1936

The Pulp Guy:The Retro Future is Now! - Now online!

The Pulp Guy-A Devil of A Bad Guy
The Pulp Guy-So Many Masks, So Little Crime!
The Pulp Guy-The Retro Future is Now! by Teel James Glenn


The Pulp Hermit - Now online!

Congo War Cry
Calling Doctor Kill
The Red Rider of Smoky Range
Dying Space
Hammerhead
Pulp Magazines Project - Now online!

Publishing legends The Black Mask (1920), Weird Tales (1923), and Amazing Stories (1926) are considered so “extremely rare and valuable” that the U.S. Library of Congress houses its collection of 277 issues in Washington, D.C.’s Rare Book and Special Collections Division—along with the personal libraries of Presidents, medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, and one of only three known perfect copies of the Gutenberg Bible in existence. With its latest addition of 4 issues of The Black Mask (Aug. & Sept. 1920; Dec. 1921; and Apr. 1922), the Pulp Magazines Project has made all 3 classic titles available together—for the first time—in high-quality, cover-to-cover digital editions.

Also available at the Pulp Magazines Project, new issues of the iconic “weird menace” pulp, Dime Mystery Magazine (Apr. 1938 and Sept. 1946); Adventure (Jul. 1, 1928; feat. Walt Coburn’s “The Man Who Hated Himself”); Western Story (Jul. 27, 1940); Detective Story (May 1938; feat. Zorro-creator Johnston McCulley’s “Thubway Tham’s Thothial Thecurity”); and histories of both The Black Mask (E.R. Hagemann; UCLA) and Dime Mystery Magazine (Emily Sisler; University of West Florida).



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.



The Pulp.Net  - Now online!
The Pulp.Net features three ongoing blogs!
Pulp Super-Fan blog written by Michael R. Brown, That's Pulp by John Olsen, and the long-running Yellowed Perils written by William Lampkin.

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/

 Burroughs Group:
This group is dedicated to the study and appreciation of one of the greatmasters of literary adventure,  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/

Recoverings

These new dust-jackets use scans of the original cover paintings by J. Allen St. John and Studley O. Burroughs, producing the extremely sharp detail and rich color that my dust-jackets are known for.
Click on the image to the right and see for yourself.

APACHE DEVIL was the last cover that Studley O. Burroughs did for ERB, Inc. and CITY OF GOLD was the first that J. Allen St. John did, marking a return of the illustrator to his favorite and most well-known subjects.

Studley originally had the CITY OF GOLD assignment in the fall of 1932, but his personal problems got the better of him and he ended up way behind schedule.

Burroughs had C.R. Rothmund, his secretary, write to St. John as early as February of that year to ask him if he could reduce his prices for artwork, which he had quoted teh previous February, to match their "budget allowance" in the event that "the artist who is doing the work at present" would not be able to deliver on time. St. John agreed to a 37% decrease and ERB, Inc. put him off until it became clear that Studley would miss his deadline. Read more about this on The Back Flap Blog soon to come…


Tarzan and the City of Gold: 1933
Cover by J. Allen St. John.
$25.00

Apache Devil: 1933
Cover by Studley O. Burroughs.
$25.00





RED SONJA #7 - Arriving in comic shops August 9!
Writer: Amy Chu
Art: Carlos Gomez
Cover A: Mike McKone
Cover B:
Ben Caldwell
Cover C: Tyler Kirkham
Cover D:  Cosplay Cover
Cover E Subscription: Mel Rubi

The She-Devil embarks on a whole new adventure… across America! Sonja takes a ride with Max in search of a way back home, and discovers maybe our worlds aren’t that different after all…


Full Color, 24 pages, $3.99
 

    
 
 



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The Serial Squadron
PERILS OF NYOKA
New restoration with original titles!
Now available!

Kay Aldridge, Clayton Moore, Adrian Booth, Tristram Coffin, Charles Middleton
D: William Witney/John English


Adventurers Nyoka Gordon and her friend Larry Grayson search for the golden tablets of Hippocrates, which contain a cure for cancer. Arabian queen Vultura, who masquerades as an earthly incarnation of a pagan Sun Goddess, also wants the tablets and the treasure associated with them and with her lieutenant Cassib and Count Torrini, as well as her bodyguard, an ape named Satan, travels across the desert in her chariot to try to obtain them. An action-packed classic with more torturous deathtraps than possibly any other serial ever made.

Transfer Quality: Superb, stabilized, presented in warm black and white with restored audio & newly synched sound
DVD Contents: Complete 15 episode serial
Special Features: Reconstructed original "Perils of Nyoka" titles, re-release trailer


List price $16.99



 

THE SHADOW #1 - Arriving in comic shops August 9!
(Writer) Si Spurrier (Art) Daniel HDR (Cover) Kenneth Rocafort, Mike Kaluta, Brandon Peterson, Neal Adams, Tyler Kirkham

For the better part of a century the Shadow’s sinister laughter brought the chill of fear to evil-doers — but in our modern times, the streets of Manhattan have gone largely silent. But he is not forgotten. Not by the people he’s saved. Mary Jerez, is one of those people. The Shadow saved her from a horrifying school shooting — Mary knows all too well what evil lurks in the hearts of men.  So when a horribly burnt man — incredibly strong and fierce, despite his terrible injuries— arrives under her care as a resident at the hospital – she believes she knows who he is, too. Is this mysterious man actually the Shadow — and with Mary’s help, will evil-doers again know what it means to fear his terrible justice?

Si Spurrier (X-Force, X-Men: Legacy, Judge Dredd) and Daniel HDR (Superman, Cyborg) bring the pulp icon into modern day in a tale full of deadly intrigue, gun-blazing action, and a study of the nature of evil!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99











SHEENA: QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE COLLECTION: THE MOVIE & TV SERIES - Coming August 15!

Featuring the 1984 Theatrical Feature Film starring Tanya Roberts (TV's Charlie's Angels and That '70s Show) and Ted Wass (TV's Soap and Blossom), directed by John Guillermin (1976 King Kong remake). Also featuring all 35 episodes from the 2 seasons of the hit syndicated TV series starring Gena Lee Nolin (TV's Baywatch) and John Allen Nelson (Killer Klowns From Outer Space and TV's Baywatch). This DVD collection also includes 5 bonus episodes of the 1950s TV series starring Irish McCalla!

Sheena: Queen of the Jungle -
She is an ancient prophecy fulfilled. A golden God child possessed with a mystic gift. A gift which grew in strength as she grew in years. A gift about to be put to the ultimate test. Innocence against evil. Part Animal. Part Legend. All Woman. Journey to deepest, darkest Africa for thrills, romance and high adventure! Orphaned in Zambouli territory, the blonde Sheena (Tanya Roberts) is raised by a noble tribe and taught to communicate telepathically with all creatures. She gets a firsthand lesson in love from Vic Casey (Ted Wass), a wisecracking TV journalist. In Africa for a story on a royal football player, Prince Otwani (Trevor Thomas), Vic soon finds himself embroiled in a web of political intrigue. And when the evil prince decides to invade the Zamboulis' land, it is up to Sheena to rescue Vic and save her idyllic kingdom!

Sheena - The TV Series:
Orphaned at a young age by tragedy in the jungle, Sheena was raised by the last living member of a native tribe, the Kaya, who possessed the mystical power to "shape shift" into the forms of wild animals by feeling the spirit of their soul. It is a gift shared by Sheena, who can turn herself into an animal and travel through the jungle unrecognized while battling outside forces that invade La Mistas, her primal home.

Notable Cast/Crew: Tanya Roberts, Ted Wass, Gena Lee Nolin, John Allen Nelson. Sheena: Queen of the Jungle was the first female comic book character with her own title, preceding Wonder Woman by 3 years. Sheena was ranked 59th in Comics Buyer's Guide's "100 Sexiest Women in Comics" list. An all-new Sheena: Queen of the Jungle comic is being published by Dynamite Entertainment for launch in August 2017!


6-disc set
$14.98



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.

Barker and Bender on the Case-Part One
Another Silly Season-Part Two
Another Silly Season-Part One
The Summer of Flying Saucers

 Terence McVicker, Rare Books
Rare, used, and out-of-print books
Now online!

Lots of pulp-related items for sale!

ROBERT E. HOWARD!
 H. P. LOVECRAFT! 
 CLARK ASHTON SMITH!
E. E. (DOC) SMITH!


Terence McVicker, Rare Books



Upcoming Modern Hero - Pulp Novels
by Christopher R. Yates
(New publications to the list are in bold)

Now available!
Avengers: Serpent Society, Patrick Shand, Joe Books, $12.99, July 25, 2017
Monster Hunter Siege, Larry Correia, Baen, $27.00, July 25, 2017
Miles Morales: Spider-Man, Jason Reynolds, Marvel Press, $17.99, August 1, 2017

Coming soon!
The God Peak: A Novel, Patrick Hemstreet, Harper Voyager, $26.99, August 22, 2017
Hellboy: An Assortment of Horrors, ed. Christopher Golden, Dark Horse, $14.99, August 29, 2017
Wonder Woman: Warbringer, Leigh Bardugo, Random House, $18.99, August 29, 2017
Immortal Architects (Interminables #2), Paige Orwin, Angry Robot, $7.99, September 5, 2017
MJ-12: Shadows, Michael J. Martinez, Night Shade Books, $7.99, September 5, 2017
Black Panther: Who is the Black Panther, Jesse Holland, Marvel, $24.99, September 12, 2017

The Monster Hunter Files, eds. Bryan Thomas Schmidt & Larry Correia, Baen, $29.99, October 3, 2017
Ghosts of Empire, George Mann, Titan Books, $9.95, October 10, 2017
Judge Dredd: Year Two, Michael Carroll, Matt Smith & Cavan Scott, Abaddon, $9.99, October 10, 2017
Hulk: Planet Hulk, Greg Pak, Marvel, $24.99, October 17, 2017

All Those Explosions Were Someone Else’s Fault, James Alan Gardner, Tor, $17.99, November 7, 2017
Captain America: The Never-Ending Battle, Robert Greenberger, Joe Books, $12.99, November 7, 2017
Thor: Crusade of the Forgotten, Patrick Shand, Joe Books, $12.99, November 7, 2017
Thor: Tales of Asgard, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Joe Books, $24.99, November 10, 2017
Monster Hunter Memoirs: Saints, Larry Correia & John Ringo, Baen, $27.00, November 10, 2017
Gotham: subtitle to be announced, Jason Starr, Titan Books, $7.99, November 28, 2017
The Flash: subtitle to be announced, author to be announced, Titan Books, $7.99, November 28, 2017
Wild Cards XXIV: Mississippi Roll, ed. George R.R. Martin, Tor, $25.99, December 5, 2017
Princess Holy Aura, Ryk E. Spoor, Baen, $16.00, December 5, 2017
Batman: Nightwalker, Marie Lu, Random House, $18.99, January 2, 2018
Monster Hunter Guardian, Larry Correia & Sarah Hoyt, Baen, $27.00, January 6, 2018
Avalanche: Secret World Chronicle (Bk. 5), Mercedes Lackey, et al., Baen, $25.00, January 19, 2018
Arrow: subtitle to be announced, author to be announced, Titan Books, $7.99, January 30, 2018
Monster Hunter Memoirs: Sinners, Larry Correia & John Ringo, Baen, $7.99, January 30, 2018
Constance Verity Saves the World, A. Lee Martinez, Saga Press, $24.99, March 6, 2018



WEIRDBOOK #36
Coming soon!

Great fantasy and horror tales by current and upcoming masters of the genre...
Trade Paperback, 6 x 9 inches