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Age of Aces
Now available!
The Jailbird Flight
By Donald E. Keyhoe
Below the Rio Grande he had once been
known as “The Killer.” Now Captain Bruce Kirby flew through hell
skies, leader of the strangest squadron that ever
dared face death from flaming Spandaus. Outcasts—all
of them—branded with the convict’s arrow! No
cowards came to the Jailbird drome—only those dishonored
war eagles who chose a chance to die in action rather
than rot behind prison bars. Hot tempers, liquor,
and the madness of war had brought them low—but beneath
it all they still were men! A former U.S. Marine pilot,
author Donald E. Keyhoe was a prolific contributor
to the pulp magazines, but he is perhaps best remembered
for his UFO research in the Fifties and Sixties.
In August of 1931, Keyhoe started three long-lived series
in three different aviation magazines: Captain Philip
Strange in Flying Aces; The Devil Dog Squadron in
Sky Birds; and The Jailbird Flight in Battle Aces.
This volume features the first seven Jailbird adventures
published by Popular Publications in 1931 and ‘32:
The Jailbird Flight, The Drome of Vanishing Men, The Masked
Skull Squadron, The Jailbird Ace, Dead Man’s Drome,
Claws of the Jailbird, and The Skeleton Ace.
$16.99 | 6″x9″ trade paperback
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America’s enemies have assembled squadrons
of flying furies, exploding skeletons, and invisible airplanes to
turn the tide of the First World War. But when
things get weird, we get Strange. Captain Philip
Strange, that is—ace pilot and so-called “Brain-Devil”
of G-2 Intelligence. His assignment? Journey from the
back-alleys of Paris to the skies over Germany,
taking down flying fortresses, cursed aerodromes,
strafing skulls, and other wild weapons of mass destruction!
This fourth volume of Philip Strange missions includes
seven thrilling tales: Satan's Staffel, The Vanishing
Staffel, Hoodoo Drome, The Skull Staffel, The Skeleton
Barrage, Staffel of the Starved, and The Staffel
Invisible.
$16.99 | 6″x9″ trade paperback
| 394 pages
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Press Pulp Blog by Morgan Wallace - Now online!
The Thing from Another World by John W. Campbell, Jr.
- New!
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Altus Press
The
Complete Adventures of Eric Trent Volume 1
by Donald E. Keyhoe
Coming soon!
Donald E. Keyhoe returns to chronicle the super-spy sagas of the
high-flying Eric Trent!
Running for only 12 stories in the pages of Flying Aces,
the series continued Keyhoe’s tradition of fast-paced air war
adventures,
this time featuring a character who hasn’t seen print since
these stories’ original publications!
Volume 1 collects the first six stories from 1940–41
“Secret Flight Sixteen”
“Death Flies Blind”
“Junkers Juggernaut”
“Swastika Scourge”
“The Ace From Hell”
“Television Tracers”
210 pages / $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover
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Altus Press
The
Complete Adventures of Richard Knight Volume 2
by Donald E. Keyhoe
Coming soon!
Best known for writing the adventures
of Philip Strange, UFO legend Donald E. Keyhoe
also wrote another long-running aerial hero for the pages of
Flying Aces: Richard Knight.
These wild adventures also mix in elements of lost races, dinosaurs
and more!
Volume 2 collects the next four stories from 1937–38:
“Masks Over Madrid”
“Wings of the Emerald”
“Hell Over China”
“Aces of Death”
266 pages / $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover
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Altus Press
The
Complete Adventures of The Griffon Volume 3
by Arch Whitehouse
Coming soon!
Fighting the aerial forces of evil for nearly ten years in the
pages of Flying Aces,
Kerry Keen aka The Griffon finally returns to print!
This edition continues the complete reprinting of the series.
Volume 3 contains the next six stories:
“Riddle of the Rocket”
“Cavalry of the Clouds”
“Twin-Engine Treachery”
“Test Pilot Terror”
“The Carrier Coup”
“Scourge of the Sky Brood”
275 pages / $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover
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Altus Press
Hazzard:
The Complete Series
by Frederick C. Davis
Coming soon!
The Fight Against the Lawless!
Featuring all six of Mark Hazzard’s adventures in one volume!
Contains the following stories:
“Coffins for Two”
“Juggernaut Justice”
“Corpses’ Court”
“The Murder Crypt”
“Terror Tribunal”
“The Death-Chair Challenge”
296 pages / $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover
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Altus Press
A
Matter of Range: The Complete Adventures of the Major, Volume 2
by L. Patrick Greene
Coming soon!
The long-running and much-beloved series from the pages of Short
Stories is finally collected in order and with a plethora of
bonus material.
Join Aubrey St. John Major—AKA the Major—and his faithful companion,
Jim the Hottentot, on their adventures across the diamond
country of Africa.
This collection includes the next nine stories, along with another
rare, never-before reprinted story by Greene.
279 pages / $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover
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Pulp
Logo T-shirts
Now available!
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.
$19.95
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This is the authentic logo used for this classic
pulp magazine from the 1930s.
Note: red fabric only.
$19.95
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This is the authentic logo used for this classic
pulp magazine from the 1930s.
Note: black fabric only.
$19.95
All shirts are available in Small,
Medium, Large, X-Large, and XX-Large.
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Tollin's Sanctum Books
DOC SAVAGE ANNIVERSARY INSTANT COLLECTION SALE!
Now available!
February 17 marked
the 83rd anniversary of the debut of DOC SAVAGE MAGAZINE.
On that day, Sanctum Books received
their first advance copies of Sanctum Books' DOC SAVAGE #87, which
completes the reprinting of ALL 182 Doc Savage pulp novels!
In commemoration of this event, for the next two months Sanctum
Books is offering a 30% discount off list price to anyone
who wants to purchase a complete set of all 87 DOC SAVAGE classic
volumes (plus replicas of the two 1930s Doc Savage giveaway premium
prints) ... or the first 100 Sanctum Books SHADOW volumes plus
SHADOW ANNUAL #1.
With insured postage,
the 87 DOC SAVAGE volumes (plus premium replicas) can be purchased for
just $900.00.
The first 101 SHADOW volumes (plus
a complete set of Shadow art prints and premium photo replicas)
can be purchased for just $1,050.00 postpaid.
Some of these volumes
are already sold out (except in superpacks) so this could be your last
chance to obtain a COMPLETE collection of these Sanctum Books
series!
Mail checks or money orders to:
Sanctum Books; P.O. Box 761474; San
Antonio, TX 78245
or
Paypal to: orders@shadowsanctum.com.
This offer
expires at midnight, April 17, 2016.
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Art's Reviews
Podcasts! - Now
online!
Stephanie Osborn - Sherlock Holmes
and the Mummy's Curse
Author and Rocket Scientist Stephanie Osborn discusses her award
winning novel "Sherlock Holmes and the Mummy's Curse."
Stephanie was a payload specialist for both DoD and NASA and now
is a full time writer. Her first novel "Burnout" was about
a fictional sabotaged Space Shuttle mission written before the Columbia
disaster which presaged some of the details of that tragedy.
She is also the author of The Displaced Detective series about
Sherlock Holmes brought forward into the 21st Century. This
series brought her tot he attention of Tommy Hancock from ProSe Press
who has engaged her to write Sherlock Holmes stories set in the Victorian
era. "The Mummy's curse is the first in her "Gentlemen Aegis"
series. From SciFi to SciFact to Mystery and Horror, Stephanie
has an impressive oeuvre. Once you have sampled her Work, you
will want more!
Past
episodes:
Nikki Nelson-Hicks:
Sherlock Holmes and the Shrieking Pits
Tommy Hancock
talks about Pro-Se Production!
Flinch Books with Jim Beard
and John Bruening
Legends of New Pulp Fiction: Ron Fortier and Rob Davis
Ellen and David Walters
discuss the adventures of Wire Dog!
Jean-Marc Lofficier and Black
Coat Press
The Grim Spectre by Ralph Angelo Jr.
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Lost Treasures from the Pulps #50
THE LADY FROM HELL by Eugene Thomas
Now available!
Red-headed Vivian Legrand was an
exotic and breath-taking beauty. She fascinated men, and when they babbled
their secrets she bled them of their wealth. The rich and influential of
three continents were her victims.
She operated a school that trained blackmailers in the art of
extortion. Her agents numbered hundreds, for she forced her victims
to ferret out the secrets of their friends, and to pay her in information
as well as money. Anybody in contact with the rich might be in
Vi Legrand’s pay, and the agents she recruited by blackmail
included social leaders and public officials and royalty whom the
world believed above suspicion!
Herein you will find a series of stories about the exploits of
this siren who came from Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, and flamed
across three continents.
Contents
The Lady from Hell (nv) (Detective Fiction Weekly January 19,
1935).
Bait for Men (ss) (Detective Fiction Weekly January 26, 1935).
The Episode of the Secret Service Blackmail (Detective Fiction
Weekly February 9, 1935).
The Episode of the Forty Murderers (Detective Fiction Weekly
February 16, 1935).
The Episode of the Grave Robbers (Detective Fiction Weekly March
2, 1935).
The Episode of the Levantine Monster (Detective Fiction Weekly
March 9, 1935).
The Episode of the League of Death (Detective Fiction Weekly
March 16, 1935).
The Episode of the Sensational Orient Express Robbery (Detective
Fiction Weekly April 20, 1935)
The Strange Episode of the House of Secrets (Detective Fiction
Weekly May 4, 1935)
The Episode of the Pounce of Death (Detective Fiction Weekly
May 11, 1935)
The Adventure of the King of Diamonds (Detective Fiction Weekly
September 21, 1935)
The Adventure of the Maharaja’s Wife (Detective Fiction Weekly
September 28, 1935)
The Episode of the London Queen of Crime (Detective Fiction Weekly
October 12, 1935)
The Adventure of the Dragon Claws (Detective Fiction Weekly
October 19, 1935)
The Adventure of the Headless Statue (Detective Fiction Weekly
January 25, 1936)
The Adventure of the Voodoo Moon (Detective Fiction Weekly February
1, 1936)
The Adventure of the Cayenne Fugitives (Detective Fiction Weekly
February 15, 1936)
The Adventure of the Dying Dictator (Detective Fiction Weekly
February 22, 1936)
Lady from Hell (Detective Fiction Weekly May 2, 1936)
A Fortune in Flight (Detective Fiction Weekly June 20, 1936)
Money-Bed and the Money-Belt (Detective Fiction Weekly July 11,
1936)
Spanish Prisoner (Detective Fiction Weekly August 22, 1936)
Treasure of the Bandit Village (Detective Fiction Weekly August
29, 1936)
Cross Killer and the Golden Bier (Detective Fiction Weekly September
5, 1936)
The Lady from Hell Returns (Popular Detective April 1938)
Hard Cover, 558 pages, $60.00
Mike Chomko is the only known U.S.
dealer for this title.
Contact Mike at mikechomko@gmail.com if you are interested in procuring this title.
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Lost Treasures from the Pulps #64
THE MARQUIS OF BROADWAY by John Lawrence
Introduction by Mike Nevins
Now available!
The Marquis of Broadway series
is Lawrence’s chief claim to a place in crime fiction history. Lieutenant
Martin Marquis and the men of his Broadway Squad are not only
the most vicious group of cops in the literature but support a
system in their own image, ruthless and tyrannical almost beyond imagining.
With 22 legalized murderers under his control, Marquis’s job is
"to rule half the city’s thieves" or, more precisely, the other half
of the city’s thieves. Marty is trimly built, dapper, deceptively slight,
with a round and weathered face and small deep-set blue eyes. Like
his creator, he prefers to be seen in fancy clothes. His habitual attire
includes an imported derby, a tight black silk scarf, black kid gloves
and shoes, a dark suit, an ankle-length black Chesterfield. Sound like
a gangster? Marquis’s behavior does nothing to change that perception.
He thinks of himself as a polished and quiet man of culture but his
immaculate appearance and good taste are a veneer, poorly concealing
the brutal and insecure mugg from Avenue A who worships power with the
intensity of a fanatic. He enjoys being mistaken for a vice-president,
supports a widowed mother and two sisters in Brooklyn and visits them once
a month, has had his Central Park West apartment redecorated "in proper
old oak and leather" like an English gentleman’s den, but he’s just a gangster
with a badge.
Contents
In Re: John Lawrence by Mike Nevins
John Lawrence: A Checklist
Volume One
1. Broadway Malady (Dime Detective Magazine, February 1937)
2. Live Man’s Shoes (Dime Detective Magazine, August 1937)
3. Escape Mechanism (Dime Detective Magazine, October 1937)
4. Natural Killer (Dime Detective Magazine, December 1937)
5. Boomerang Blastout (Dime Detective Magazine, February 1938)
6. Body About Town (Dime Detective Magazine, April 1938)
7. Witness! Witness! (Dime Detective Magazine, June 1938)
8. Twelve Morticians Named Green (Dime Detective Mag., August
1938)
9. Death in Round Numbers (Dime Detective Magazine, November 1938)
10. The Stars Said Murder (Dime Detective Magazine, March 1939)
11. Old Wives’ Tale (Dime Detective Magazine, April 1939)
12. Death for Twelve Months (Dime Detective Magazine, June 1939)
13. Man Hunt (Dime Detective Magazine, October 1939)
14. Albino Alibi (Dime Detective Magazine, December 1939)
Volume Two
15. Death in the Side Pocket (Dime Detective Magazine, Jan.
1940)
16. Inspector’s Funeral (Dime Detective Magazine, March 1940)
17. Murder Must Go On! (Dime Detective Magazine, June 1940)
18. The Death of the Party (Dime Detective Magazine, August
1940)
19. Gallows 9 (Dime Detective Magazine, October 1940)
20. Nothing for Christmas (Dime Detective Magazine, December 1940)
21. Floater (Dime Detective Magazine, June 1941)
22. Murder Come Back to Me (Dime Detective Magazine, January
1942)
23. Murder in the Family (Dime Detective Magazine, May 1942)
24. Death of a Dog (Dime Detective Magazine, July 1942)
25. Military Secret (Dime Detective Magazine, October 1942)
26. A Frame for the Marquis (Dime Detective Magazine, June 1948)
Hard Cover, 2 volumes, 485 pages and
512 pages,
$130 for the two-volume set
Mike Chomko is the only known U.S.
dealer for this title.
Contact Mike at mikechomko@gmail.com if you are interested in procuring this title.
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Beb Books
TIDES OF HATE & THE SCIENCE FICTION OF EARL REPP
Now available!
Tides of Hate a novel
of buccaneers, gold and revenge by Captain A. E. Dingle
Ed Davies, Swan and the Frenchman L’Escuyler, pirates
all, captured a fortune in Spanish gold only to see it vanish
one night. All three blame the other for the theft and all
three plan to return to the Isthmus of Panama to reclaim their
gold. To get there Davies must partner with another pirate,
John Cook, a man who no more trusts Davies than he does Swan
or L’Escuyler. But twenty ass’s load of gold is too great a lure
to ignore.
A thrilling tale of treachery on the high seas. Print editon
$6.00 plus postage.
Also new this week:
The Science Fiction of Ed Earl Repp
- Book 2 - The Invisible Raider and other Air Wonder Stories
Table of Contents
The Invisible Raider - Air Wonder Stories, October 1929
Beyond The Aurora - Air Wonder Stories November 1929
The Storm Buster - Air Wonder Stories January
1930
The Sky Ruler - Air Wonder Stories May 1930
and
The Science Fiction of Ed Earl Repp
- Book 3 - The Stellar Missile and Other Stories
Table of Contents
The Stellar Missile - Science Wonder Stories, November, 1929.
The Second Missile - (sequel to The Stellar Missile) - Amazing
Stories, December, 1930
The Synthetic Man - Wonder Stories, December 1930
Other recent releases include:
MEN AND WOMEN WITH WINGS
Leslie F. Stone was one of the earliest women
writers of Science Fiction, beginning in 1929. She never
hide her sex by using initials and didn’t try to write
like “one of the boys.”
“Men With Wings” is her first published story, a short novella
about the evolution of a species of flying humans and the
utopian society they form. Its sequel, “Women
With Wings” is set centuries later then winged humanity has
come to replace Homo Sapiens. But tragedy stalks the flying species
as the women are increasingly dying in childbirth. Unless
something drastic is done the species will go extinct.
From the pages of Air Wonder Stories, Beb Books presents
Men and Women with Wings.
Print edition $6.00 plus postage. Epub electronic edition $1.99
GULF
STREAM GOLD
Ed Earl Repp was a prolific writer from 1929 to 1933
before switching to Westerns where he was equally
prolific. He returned to science fiction around 1938. “Gulf
Stream Gold” collects four of his novelets from 1929-1932.
Modern day fortune hunters search for underwater gold in “Gulf
Stream Gold.” Submarine pirates stumbles into an air-filled
cavern inhabited by monsters from ages past. Monsters from
deep within the earth declare war on the surface in “The Metal World.”
and a desert-rat his weird experience in Death Valley with a mother
dragon in “From Out of the Earth.
From the pages of Wonder Stories and Amazing Stories Quarterly.
Print edition $6.00 plus postage. Epub electronic edition
$1.99.
Beb
Books has big plans when it comes to reprinting early science fiction.
Here’s a list of forthcoming titles:
Beb Books’ Library of
Early Science Fiction
Ed Earl Repp
(forthcoming) Book 1 - Beyond Gravity -
a collection of Air Wonder Stories
(Now available) Book 2 - The Invisible Raider - a second collection
of his Air Wonder Stories
(Now available) Book 3 - The Stellar Missile and other stories
(Now available) Book 4 - Gulf Stream Gold - Undersea and under
the earth stories
(Now available) Book 5 - The Radium Pool and other stories
A. Hyatt Verrill
(Now available) Book 1 - Beyond the Pole and Inside The
Crater’s Rim
(forthcoming) Book 2 - King of the Monkey
Man and Dirigibles of Death
(forthcoming) Book 3 - The Man Who Could
Vanish and other stories
Harl Vincent
(forthcoming) Book 1 - Subterrania, The Menace
From Below
(forthcoming) Book 2 - Air-War - a collection
(forthcoming) Book 3 - Before The Asteroids
- 3 space opera novelets.
(forthcoming) Book 4 - Vagabonds of Spaces
- 4 space opera novelets
(forthcoming) Book 5 - Wander of Infinity
- 5 Thrilling Adventures
Henrik Dahl Juve
(forthcoming) Book 1 - The Silent Destroyers
- 4 Air-War thrillers
(forthcoming) Book 2 - The Monsters of Neptune
- 4 stories on other worlds
Bob Olsen
(Now available) Book 1 - The Four Dimensional World of Bob
Olsen - explorations into higher physics
Earl L. Bell
(forthcoming) Book 1 - Moon of Doom - The
end of the world.
Nat Schnacher and Arthur Leo
Zaget
(Now available) Book 1 - The Tower of Evil - 4 weird adventures
on the earth, in the future and beyond.
Laurence Manning
(Now available) Book 1 - Voyage of the Asteroid
(forthcoming) Book 2 - The Wreck of The Asteroid
Pay by either
check or money order to:
Brian Brown
11675 Beaconsfield
Detroit, MI 48224
or via Paypal to beb01@sprynet.com
Print editions are printed on 8.5x11 paper and stapled
on the side. Postage is $3.00 for one to three books.
Add 25 cents extra for each copy over three.
Check out the rest of Beb Books many titles.
Ask for a catalog at beb01@sprynet.com
Ask for a list of everything in stock. It’s
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Black Coat Press
New titles now available!
THE MIRROR OF PRESENT EVENTS
Ten French scientific romances by Georges de La Fouchardière,
Henri Lanos, E.M. Laumann, Francois-Félix Nogaret, Jean
Rameau & Régis Vombal
adapted by Brian Stableford
The Mirror of Present Events (1790) is an irreverent
political allegory in which a Syracusan beauty, following Archimedes'
death, offers her hand in marriage to the inventor who can produce
the most innovative homage to the great man's mechanical genius.
A series of suitors comes forward, each offering a mechanical device
ostensibly more marvelous than the last.
Also included are an 1887collection of six futuristic stories
by Jean Rameau featuring electric guns, automata and a striking
vision of a future Paris in which people have become dependent
on industrial pollution; The Immortal (1908) extrapolates the
notion of immortality to a conclusion that might not be inevitable,
but is no less symbolically dramatic; a hilarious 1910 feuilleton
describing the career of an automaton racehorse; and L'Aerobagne
32 (1920), about a French engineer hired by a German company who discovers
that its industrial operations are a cover for a rearmament scheme,
and who refuses to surrender the formula for a new poison gas. He
is then incarcerated in a vast airborne prison.
This is the fourteenth in a series of anthologies of exemplary
texts in the evolution of the French genre of roman scientifique.
US $26.95 / GBP £18.99
5x8 trade paperback, 380
pages
The Chimerical Quest (1932) deals with an eccentric scientist,
crippled during the Great War, who has discovered a method of
converting lead into gold but wishes to give his secret away as
soon as he has perfected it, so that anyone will be able to make gold,
thus fulfilling his dream of turning society upside down by obliterating
wealth.
The Black Sun (1921) offers an account of the planet-wide catastrophe
that overwhelms the world when a collision with an errant dark
star causes the sun's radiation to flare up dramatically, and
tells of the heroes' battle for survival, hiding deep underground
in an old quarry.
René Pujol (1878-1942) was a journalist who branched out
after the Great War into the production of popular fiction and
librettos for comic opera. He went on to work prolifically as a screenwriter
and director in French cinema during the 1930s.
US $20.95 / GBP £12.99
5x8 trade paperback, 268
pages
VOYAGE TO THE CENTER
OF THE EARTH
by Jacques Collin de Plancy
adapted by Brian Stableford
The planet that occupies the center
of the Earth has a diameter of eight hundred leagues.
Its soil is vegetal except at its two extremities, which are
solidly magnetic over an extent of sixty leagues.
The sky that covers it-our globe-is, on its interior surface,
luminous...
Forty-three years before Jules Verne, and ninety-three
years before Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jacques Collin de Plancy, remembered
today for his Encyclopedia of Demons and Demonology, penned
Voyage to the Center of the Earth (1821), which is both an adventure
story and a utopian fantasy in the Voltairean tradition.
An expedition is mounted to discover the hypothetical opening at
the Earth's pole, the existence of which was popularized by Tyssot
de Patot's Pierre de Mésange (1720), Ludwig Holberg's Nils Klim
(1741) and Casanova's Icosameron (1788). There, they discover an alien
world located inside the Earth populated by humans who only differ
from us by size.
Although there are satirical elements, this world within is
treated as another planet, with its own geography and history,
a mildly exotic fauna and flora, and nations with different
politics and religions.
Voyage to the Center of the Earth differs from its predecessors
not merely because of its careful depiction of a society that has
preserved happiness by rejecting progress, but because its heroes
find it is too tedious to remain there.
US $20.95 / GBP £12.99
5x8 trade paperback, 252 pages
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Black Dog Books
New titles now available!
The Scourge of the South Sea Skies
When a flying buddy goes missing, Jack Pelham is thrust
into danger as the search expands from looking
for his friend to seeking a lost treasure. Mystery
rides high in this thrilling tale of the South Seas.
Wind Patrol
Black wings poise the finger of doom over the Indo-China
coast. Murder and pillage paralyze the great fleet
of Brackett's Airway as Bill Shade flies a shadowy
sky-path to a temple of terror.
Brood of the Wind
Murder paints a crimson swath across the South Pacific
sky from Noumea to Port Moresby. Pearls! . . .
Jim Cole drapes the challenge around his seaplane's
struts, and swoops into the red.
Sky Blazers
Over the frozen skies of Alaska, Jess Marlow plays
a hand in the embittered battle for territorial freight
rights between old Michael Harrigan and Kurt
Dikeman. When the rumor of gold is spread, the battle
escalates, with death in its frosty wake!
Fly-By-Night
Through icy air, Miller takes off with his motley passengers-only
to find himself battling sky pirates seeking
a $100,000 payday in bank gold!
With an introduction by Tom Roberts.
Trade paperback / 228 pages / Price:
$19.95 US
Central City runs red from gangland war. Corruption
and political graft undermine authority to the
highest levels. In steps Captain John Murdock, Chief
of Detectives, whose only interest is to do his job. Unpopular
with both the media and with his superiors, nevertheless
Murdock's methods gets results,—whether battling blackmailers,
bootleggers, drug runners or organized crime!
Collected are the initial twenty stories in this long-running,
reader favorite series, including:
Hard
The Murder Game
Pure Bluff
Tickets to Hell
Red Harvest
Frame-Up
The Pay-Off
The Square Seven
Wanted-One Corpse
Murder Ahead
Guests From the East
Furnace of Death
Trigger Traffic
The Key to Hell
The Wax Witness
The Murder Mill
The Dead Alibi
The Black Hood
The Juggernaut of Terror
Red Tape
With an introduction by Garyn G. Roberts, lecturer and
award-winning popular culture historian.
Cover art by Walter M. Baumhofer.
Trade paperback / 320 pages / Price:
$19.95 US
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Blood 'N' Thunder
/ Murania Press
This wildly melodramatic thriller, originally
published in the August 1933 issue of Dime Mystery
Magazine, provided the template for
countless pulp-hero novels published during the Thirties.
Depression-era readers craved outlandish menaces to
take their minds off their troubles, and The Purple
Eye was at the top of the list.
The Eye, maniacal criminal mastermind and leader of
the ancient death cult known as the Brotherhood
of Baktuun, terrorizes New York City with a
series of high-profile murders accomplished by mysterious
means. Seven million souls are at his mercy as
his outrages mount in dizzying succession. The police,
constrained by legal niceties and endless red tape,
seem powerless to thwart his mad schemes. Enter
Wayne Saxon, millionaire sportsman and world traveler,
who devotes his life to running the Eye to earth.
He works within the law when possible, but without
it when necessary. Will he succeed? There’s a thrill on
every page of this baffling mystery.
Shawn Danowski’s introduction, “The Pulp That Murder
Built,” provides a history of Dime Mystery
in its early, pre-weird menace phase.
Classic Pulp Reprints #6
Cover Art by H. L. Parkhurst
Introduction by Shawn Danowski
252 pages, 6x9, trade paperback
Price: $19.95
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The Bronze Gazette #75
(January 2016)
Now available!
This issue features:
Editorial by Howard Wright
“Lester Dent's Last Doc Savage Story” by
Will Murray
"The Mystery of the Coastal Yacht Club" by Julian Puga
"Doc Savage: Man of Stone" by John L. Vellutini
"Casting The Mind Assassins" by Howard Wright
"A New Beginning" by Terry Allen
Front Cover: Tim Faurote
Interior illustrations: Edd Cartier,
Frank Hamilton, Alvaro Fernandois, David Burton, Ron Wilber,
and Kevin Duncan.
Subscriptions
(via Paypal) are now available for No. 76, Spring 2016, and No. 77,
Fall 2016.
$20.00 U.S.A
$30.00 Canada (US Dollars)
$35.00 International
(Prices Include Postage)
Click HERE to
subscribe!
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THE BRONZE GAZETTE
Subscriptions for 2016 are now available!
Earlier this summer, Howard Wright announced that
issue 75 would be the final number of his Doc
Savage-oriented fanzine, The Bronze Gazette.
Howard began the zine in 1990 as The Doc Savage Gazette.
(The name was quickly changed after four issues
because of trademark problems.)
It’s clearly been a labor of love for Howard, who has
regularly put out three issues a year for 25 years
now.
But Howard decided it was time to move on.
However, The Bronze Gazette will continue!
PULPlications — run by Terry Allen of Fantom Press and
Keith Wilson of Doc Savage Fantasy Covers — will be
the publisher, while Chuck Welch of Flearun will be the
editor.
The Bronze Gazette’s 76th issue will debut in Spring 2016.
Terry says the zine will keep its digest size,
and will run about 48 pages.
There will be a slate of regular contributors, but article
submissions will be welcomed.
Subscriptions
(via Paypal) are now available for No. 76, Spring 2016, and No. 77,
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BUNDUKI by J.T. Edson
- Available for download
March 15!
FEARLESS
MASTER OF THE JUNGLE
FEARLESS MASTER OF THE JUNGLE marks the return of Charole,
last seen plunging from a balcony at the end of Sacrifice For
The Quagga God. Now she's determined to regroup before once
more making a bid for power. Secretly leaving the Mun-Gatah
capital she heads owards a quiet village but, on the way,
is captured by a band of sea-faring Orientals, the Cara-Bunte.
After demonstrating one of her 'terrifier' grenades and giving
a display of fighting prowess, she quickly persuades her
captors that she'll make a more valuable ally than prisoner.
Meanwhile, the newly married Bunduki and Dawn are enjoying
the wild freedom offered by Earth's counterpart. The couple
move into their tree-house, capture and train a couple
of magnificent zebras and deepen their friendship with the
Telonga tribe. But the honeymoon period isn't going to last
much longer ...
The Cara-Bunte want their own 'terrifiers'. But Charole
doesn't know how to make the 'thunder-powder' that fills them.
At the end of the first book in the series, she had witnessed
Bunduki's recognition when he saw some of the gunpowder.
She's certain that 'The Earths' know how to manufacture
it. So she tells the Cara-Bunte that they must hunt and capture
Bunduki and Dawn.
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The Burroughs Bulletin #94 - Now available!
Contents:
Editor's Page
"Tarzan the Mighty" by Ed Hulse
"The New Adventures of Tarzan" by Ed Hulse
Pictorial Gallery: Tarzan the Tiger
"Memories of Tarzan and the Leopard Woman" by Tommy
Cook
"Tarzan's Trapeze" by John Martin
Art Gallery: Tarzan and Jane by Jason Hardy and Eduard
Esteve Coch
"Hunting for Burroughs" by Michael A. Hatt
Bibliographer's Banter: "Tarzan Slept Here" by Henry G. Franke
III
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Short Reviews – Prodigal Weapon by Vaseleos Garson - New!
RETROSPECTIVE: “The People of the Pit” by A. Merritt
RETROSPECTIVE: “Through the Dragon Glass” by A. Merritt
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Clive Cussler: THE GANGSTER (Isaac Bell) - Now available!
by Clive Cussler & Justin Scott
It is 1906, and in New York City, the Italian crime
group known as the Black Hand is on a spree:
kidnapping, extortion, arson. Detective Isaac Bell
of the Van Dorn Agency is hired to form a special “Black
Hand Squad,” but the gangsters appear to be everywhere—so
much so that Bell begins to wonder if there are
imitators, criminals using the name for the terror effect.
And then the murders begin, each one of a man more
powerful than the last, and as Bell discovers, to his dismay,
the ultimate target may be the most powerful man of all.
Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0399175954
ISBN-13: 978-0399175954
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches
List Price: $28.95
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Davy Crockett's Almanak
of Mystery, Adventure, and the Wild West
- Now online!
Pulp Gallery: The UNDERWORLD Magazine (1932-33) - New!
Braggin' Time: BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES 2016
Overlooked Films: THE SPIDER'S WEB (serial)
Forgotten Books: CONAN THE DEFENDER by Robert Jordan (1982)
Overlooked Films: THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF WYATT EARP (Episode
1)
Overlooked Films: THE ADVENTURES OF KIT CARSON (TV episode)
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THE DIGEST ENTHUSIAST #3
Now available!
Explore the world
of digest magazines with the third fantastic issue of THE DIGEST
ENTHUSIAST!
Click HERE for a Preview!
Contents
Interview/Profile:
Heather Jacobs (Big Fiction) by D. Blake Werts
Timothy Green Beckley (Fate, Beyond, etc.) by Tom Brinkmann
Articles
Beyond by Tom Brinkmann
Super-Science Fiction by Peter Enfantino
Diabolik by Joe Wehrle, Jr.
Dashiell Hammett digests by Steve Carper
Gunsmoke by Peter Enfantino
Dope Fiends trading cards by Richard Krauss
Fiction
"The Rail City Rolls" by Ron Fortier
"Old Aunt Sin" by Gary Lovisi, with illustrations by Michael
Neno
"Planetstorm" by Joe Wehrle, Jr.
Reviews by Ron Fortier and Richard
Krauss
Weasels Ripped My Flesh!
Where Stories Dwell
The Man From Mars
The Executioner: Border Offensive
A Blonde for Murder
Popular Fiction Periodicals
Betty Fedora #2
Paperback Parade #89
Manhunt Dec. 1953
Children’s Digest Spring 1972
Fate #727
Artwork
Joe Wehrle, Jr. (cover & illustrations)
Brad Foster (illustration & cartoon)
Michael Neno (illustrations)
Bob Vojtko (gag cartoons)
Also includes
Editor's Notes
Hammett digest biblio
Indexes
Social media round-up
Opening Lines
Print version, $8.99, with nearly 100 B&W cover
images, 152 pages, 5.5" x 8.5" digest.
Kindle version, $2.99, with nearly 50 color cover images.
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Nostalgia Digest Spring 2016 - New!
Fantasy & Science Fiction Mar/Apr 2016 - New!
Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine April 2016 - New!
DreamHaven: The Digest Enthusiast #1-3 in stock - New!
Cyril Hume: From Mysterious Traveler to Forbidden Planet
Mike Chomko, Rob Lopresti and Gary Lovisi
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DOC SAVAGE: THE SPIDER’S WEB #4
- Arriving in comic shops
March 9!
Writer: Chris Roberson Art: Cezar Razek Cover:
Wilfredo Torres
A new recruit joins the team in 1995, just in time
to help Doc Savage and company contend with a group of cyber
terrorists who threaten to destabilize the world economy,
while in the modern day, the fallout of that case might
be the missing piece in the puzzle that Doc is trying to solve.
Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99
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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 Tom Grindberg, 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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Facebook - Now online!
There are numerous groups on Facebook that
are of potential interest to pulp fans.
The Shadow Knows
Agents of The Shadow
Flearun - A Doc Savage Group
Fans
of Bronze
G-8
and Operator #5
The Spider - Master of Men
Flash Gordon
The
Others [The Gray Seal, Nick Carter, Fantomas, Arsene Lupin, The Saint]
Professor
Jameson alias 21MM392
The Pulp Heroes
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Pulp Magazine Authors and Literature Fans
The Serial Squadron Cinema Cliffhanger Serial Archive
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Edgar Rice Burroughs - Facebook Forum
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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
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Now online!
New on Famous (and forgotten)
Fiction!
February 2016
All is revealed to the members of The Grill Club in the
third (and final) part of In the Fog by Richard Harding Davis, The Solicitor's
Story, just as it appeared in the May, 1902 issue of The Windsor Magazine,
including the illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen.
January 2016
The second part of "In The Fog" by Richard Harding Davis:
"The Story of the Queen’s Messenger," just as it appeared in the April,
1902 issue of The Windsor Magazine, including the illustrations
by Maurice Greiffenhagen.
December 2015
Direct from the March, 1902 issue of The Windsor
Magazine, we present the first portion of the three-part
short story "In The Fog" by Richard Harding Davis, including the
illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen.
Introduction by Dan Neyer.
Also, to wrap up our reprinting of the Harvard work of George
Allan England, we offer to you
"Reginald Pym's Class Day" as it appeared in the June,
1903 issue of The Harvard Illustrated Magazine. Introduction and Afterword
by Bob Gay.
November 2015
The only Christmas themed Holmes story, "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle," as it appeared
in the January, 1892 number of The Strand Magazine, is presented and
includes an introduction by Dan Neyer and all the
Sydney Paget illustrations.
Also, the penultimate Harvard Illustrated story by George
Allan England, "Bench Carvings at Harvard," which we strongly believe
to be England's first attempt at science fiction.
October 2015
Just in time for Halloween, we are pleased to
present "In Amundsen's Tent" by John Martin Leahy, a classic
horror story from the pages of Weird Tales. We've also discovered
some interesting connections between this story and
Leahy's other work, which you will find
documented in an Afterword to the story.
Also, in a continuation of our reprinting of the Harvard
work of George Allan England we present
"Sciurus Carolinensis, Esq." and article about the squirrels
that, in England's day, inhabited the Harvard Yard and environs.
September 2015
Another story from the Harvard years of George Allan
England, "The Divided Letter," a romance that originally appeared
in the October, 1902 issue of The Harvard Illustrated Magazine.
Also, The first Sherlock Holmes short story (and the
only appearance of Irene Adler) from
the July, 1891 issue of The Strand, "A Scandal in Bohemia," including all the Sidney Paget
illustrations and an introduction by Dan Neyer.
August 2015
A romantic adventure set in Morocco by A.
J. Dawson, The Powder Play, as it appeared in the January, 1898
issue of Pearson’s Magazine (UK).
Our presentation also includes the Warwick Goble
illustrations, an introduction by Bob Gay and,
as a part of the intro, a reprinting of an
article that appeared in the
January, 1901 issue of The Bookman that includes
additional biographical information about Dawson
not found in the usual sources.
And...
Continuing our reprinting of the Harvard work of
George Allan England, we present “Two-Fifty An Hour - A Tragedy in One Act” that
originally appeared in the February, 1902 issue of The Harvard
Illustrated Magazine.
July 2015
In Writings
Expanding our selection of stories by Baroness
Orczy, this month we introduce
The Baroness Orczy Collection, which includes a biography
of the Baroness and links to her stories all in one place.
And, to kick off our new addition, we have reprinted
the Baroness's third published story, The Traitor --a story which seems to have never been
reprinted and has nothing to do with the Scarlet Pimpernel.
Lastly, in our continuing reprinting of George
Allan England, we have put together another
selection from his Harvard years,
Illustrations: 3 Short Works that were originally written
while he was a student and, like with the Orczy story, have never
been reprinted.
June 2015
In Writings
The first, and chronologically the last, Mowgli
story, "In the Rukh" by Rudyard Kipling as it appeared in the
June, 1896 issue of McClure's Magazine with illustrations by W. A.
C. Page and dual introductions by Bob Gay and Dan
Neyer.
Famous (and forgotten) Fiction is a new
site featuring familiar and obscure fiction along with
articles, pictures and essays. In the Writings
section, we have fiction by H. C. Bailey (the first
Reggie Fortune story), Carl Stephenson, Sinclair
Lewis and a large selection of Kipling, including the
complete Mowgli stories and "The Man Who Would Be
King." We've also added an article about
Sleeman's An Account of Wolves Nurturing Children in Their
Dens, that includes a complete reprinting of the work.
In Comics, there is an overview of
Superman #205 ("The Man Who Destroyed Krypton!")
and a look at a Steve Ditko illustrated story
that bears a strong resemblance to a well-known story
by Carl Stephenson.The Pictures section starts
with a group of collectible (and some not so)
items and is the first of 24 collections.
The site is hoping for subscribers
to keep it going and future plans call
for more stories, more articles and there are
a number of novels we also intend to add
to the mix.
New material will be appearing on the
last Friday of each month (which means we'll
have more new stuff at the end of February).
In a few month s, we will also
be offering ebooks: on the site (in PDF)
and at Amazon and B&N in their proprietary
formats.
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Fu-Manchu: THE WRATH OF FU-MANCHU
- Now available!
by Sax Rohmer
This final volume in the Fu-Manchu collection
brings together some unpublished manuscripts, and stories
which have previously appeared only in magazine form, by
the late Sax Rohmer.
The long title novella and three others feature the dastardly
Dr. Fu-Manchu - and, of course, his unremitting
opponent, Sir Denis Nayland Smith.
There are eight more stories in this book, no less characteristic
of Sax Rohmer's art.
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Titan Books
List Price: $9.95
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Girasol Collectables
SPECIAL NOTICE
The Girasol Pulp Replicas
project is complete.
No NEW Replicas will be added to the catalogue.
We will, for an as yet undetermined period, be keeping
the existing catalogue available.
Girasol Collectables has begun retiring the less-active
Replicas.
The replicas listed below will be discontinued in the next
month or two.
Don't delay if there are any you're interested in!
Contact us before ordering large quantities to
confirm availability.
Soon to be retired
pulp replica editions!
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All Detective #27
Civil War Stories
Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective #1, 2
Dime Mystery Book #1
Eerie (Canadian pulp)
Mystery Adventures #7
Phantom Detective #1
Pirate Stories #1
Soldiers of Fortune #1
Strange Detective Stories #2
Strange Stories #1
Thrilling Mystery #1
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All of the remaining issues shown below are
available now.
We'd like to thank everybody that has supported
the project over the years, and we hope that
the Replicas continue to provide reading
and research enjoyment for years to come.
We do not anticipate taking on any other pulp
reprint projects at this time and our Pulp Cover
Gallery project is our only active item at present.
Girasol accepts checks,
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payment.
Other than Replicas, please confirm availability
first before ordering items such as pulp magazines
or other books.
Paypal payments can be made to our
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email address.
As always, these reprints are exact
copies including the illustrations, ads, and back-up
stories and have been printed on off-white
paper, staple-bound and finished off with a high quality
reproduction of the original cover.
The only thing missing is the smell
(alas) and the flaking newsprint.
All payments
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mailed to:
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(November 1936)
#39 Reign of the Snake Men
(December 1936)
#40 Dictator of the Damned (January
1937)
#41 The Mill-Town Massacres (February
1937)
#42 Satan's Workshop (March 1937)
#43 Scourge of the Yellow Fangs (April
1937)
#44 The Devil's Pawnbroker
(May 1937)
#45 Voyage of the Coffin Ship (June
1937)
#46 The Man Who Ruled in
Hell (July 1937)
#47 Slaves of the Black Monarch
(August 1937)
#48 Machine Guns Over the White
House (Sept 1937)
#49 The City That Dared Not
Eat (October 1937)
#50 Master of the Flaming Horde
(November 1937)
#51 Satan's Switchboard (December 1937)
#52 Legion of the Accursed
Light (January 1938)
#53 The City of Lost Men (February
1938)
#54 The Grey Horde Creeps (March
1938)
#55 City of Whispering Death (April 1938)
#56 When Thousands Slept in Hell (May 1938)
#57 Satan's Shackles (June 1938)
#58 The Emperor from Hell (July 1938)
#59 The Devil's Candlesticks
(August 1938)
#60 The City That Paid to Die
(September 1938)
#61 The Spider at
Bay (October 1938)
#62 Scourge of the Black Legions
(November 1938)
#63 The Withering Death (December
1938)
#64 Claws of the Golden Dragon
(January 1939)
#65 The Song of Death (February
1939)
#66 The Silver Death
Rain (March 1939)
#67 Blight of the Blazing Eye
(April 1939)
#68 King of the Fleshless Legion
(May 1939)
#69 Rule of the Monster
Men (June 1939)
#70 The Spider and
the Slaves of Hell (July 1939)
#71 The Spider and the Fire
God (August 1939)
#72 The Corpse Broker (September 1939)
#73 The Spider and the
Eyeless Legion (Oct. 1939)
#74 The Spider and the
Faceless One (Nov. 1939)
#75 Satan's Murder Machines
(December 1939)
#76 The Spider and the
Pain Master (January 1940)
#77 Hell's Sales Manager (February
1940)
#78 Slaves of the Laughing Death (March 1940)
#79 The Man From
Hell (April 1940)
#80 The Spider and the War Emperor (May
1940)
#81 Judgement of the Damned (June 1940)
#82 Dictator's Death Merchants
(July 1940)
#83 Pirates From Hell
(August 1940)
#84 Master of the Night-Demons (Sept. 1940)
#85 The Council
of Evil (October 1940)
#86 The Spider
and his Hobo Army (November
1940)
#87 The
Spider and the Jewels of Hell
(Dec. 1940)
#88 Harbor of Nameless
Dead (January 1941)
#89 The Spider
and the Slave Doctor (February
1941)
#90 The Spider
and the Sons of Satan (March
1941)
#91 Slaves of the Burning Blade (April 1941)
#92 The Devil's Paymaster (May 1941)
#93 The Benevolent
Order of Death (June 1941)
#94 Murder's Black Prince (July 1941)
#95 The Spider
and the Scarlet Surgeon (August 1941)
#96 The Spider
and the Deathless One (September1941)
#97 The Satan's
Seven Swordsmen (October1941)
#98 Volunteer Corpse Brigade
(November1941)
#99 The Crime Laboratory (December 1941)
#100 Death and The Spider (January 1942)
#101 Murder's Legionaires (February 1942)
#102 The
Gentleman from Hell
(March 1942)
#103 Slaves
of the Ring
(April 1942)
#104 The Spider
and the Death Piper (May 1942)
#105 Revolt of the Underworld (June 1942)
#106 Return of the Racket Kings (July 1942)
#107 Fangs of the Dragon (August 1942)
#108 Hell Rolls on the Highways (September 1942)
#109 Army of the Damned (October 1942)
#110 Zara, Master of Murder (November 1942)
#111 The Spider
and the Flame King (December
1942)
#112 The Howling Death (January 1943)
#113 Secret City of Crime (February 1943)
#114 Recruit for the Spider Legion
(March 1943)
#115 The
Spider and the
Man from Hell (June1943)
#116 The Criminal
Horde (August1943)
#117 The Spider
and Hell's Factory (October1943)
#118 When Satan Came to Town
(December1943)
STRANGE DETECTIVE STORIES ($25 each postpaid)
#2 December 1933
STRANGE STORIES ($25 each postpaid)
#1 February 1939
STRANGE TALES ($25 each postpaid)
#1 September
1931
#2 November
1931
#3 January
1932
#4 March
1932
#5 June 1932
#6 October
1932
#7 January
1933
TERROR TALES ($35 each postpaid)
#1 September
1934
#2 October
1934
#3 November
1934
#4 December
1934
#5 January
1935
#6
February 1935
#7 March1935
#8 April 1935
#9 May 1935
#10
June
1935
#11 July 1935
#12 August 1935
#13 September 1935
#14 October 1935
#15 November 1935
#16 December 1935
#17 January 1936
#18 February 1936
#19 March 1936
#20 April 1936
#21 May 1936
#22 June 1936
#23 July/Aug 1936
#24 Sept-Oct 1936
#25 Nov-Dec 1936
#26 Jan-Feb 1937
#27 March-April 1937
#28 May-June 1937
#29 July-August 1937
#30 September-October 1937
#31 November-December 1937
#32 January-February 1938
#33 March-April 1938
#34 May-June 1938
#35 July-August 1938
#36 September-October 1938
#37 November-December 1938
#38 January-February 1939
#39 March-April 1939
#40 May-June 1939
#41 July-August 1939
#42 September-October 1939
#43 November/December 1939
#44 January/February 1940
#45 March/ April 1940
#46 May/June 1940
#47 July 1940
#48 September 1940
#49 November 1940
#50 January 1941
#51 March 1941
THRILLING MYSTERY
($25 each postpaid)
#1
October 1935
WEIRD TALES ($35 each postpaid)
#1 March
1923
#2 April
1923
#3 May1923
#4 June 1923
#5 July/August
1923
#6 September 1923
#7 October
1923
#8 November 1923
#9
December 1923/January 1924
#10 February
1924
#11 March
1924
#12 April
1924
#13
Anniversary Issue May/June/July/24 ($50)
#14 November
1924 - One of the rarest WT's
#15 December 1924
#16 January 1925
#17 February 1925
#18 March 1925
#19 April 1925
#20 May 1925
#21 June 1925
#22
July
1925
#23 August 1925
#24 September 1925
#25 October 1925
#26 November 1925
#27 December 1925
#28 January 1926
#29 February 1926
#30 March 1926
#31 April
1926
#32 May 1926
#33 June 1926
#34 July 1926
#35 August 1926
#36 September 1926
#37 October 1926
#38 November 1926
#39
December 1926
#40
January 1927
#53 February 1928
#59 August
1928
#96 December 1931
#107 November 1932
#108 December 1932
#111 March 1933
#114 June 1933
#115 July 1933
#117 September 1933
#118 October 1933
#121 January 1934
#124 April 1934
#125 May 1934
#128 August
1934
#129
September 1934
#131 November 1934
#130 October 1934
#132 December
1934
#134 February 1935
#135 March
1935
#143 November 1935
#151 July 1936
#152 August 1936
#153 October 1936
#173 June 1938
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Girasol Collectables
Pulp Cover Gallery Edition Volume 5
The
Spider, G-8 and His Battle Aces, and Operator #5
Now available for pre-order; Release in mid-May!
Pre-release Special: $130 including
shipping & handling* (*within North America,
for overseas orders add $10.)
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!
Pre-release Special: $130 including shipping & handling*
(*within North America, for overseas orders add $10.)
Previous
volumes are still available!
Pulp Cover Gallery Volume
1 – WEIRD TALES -
$130
Pulp Cover Gallery Volume 2 – THRILING WONDER STORIES / STARTLING STORIES / CAPTAIN FUTURE
- $130
Pulp Cover Gallery 3 – DIME MYSTERY MAGAZINE / 15 MYSTERY STORIES /
TERROR TALES -
$130
Pulp Cover Gallery 4 – FANTASTIC ADVENTURES / PLANET STORIES
- $130
Please note
that the cover inset may not be the one
shown in the image.
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The Golden Age
- Now online!
Sherlock Holmes art by Frederic Dorr Steele, J. Allen St
John, Jim Steranko and others! - New!
Popular Library ~ covers 1944-1950's ~ art by Hoffman, Belarski,
Bergey and others...
Astounding Stories 1931-1941 ~ Art by Howard V. Brown, Wesso,
Graves Gladney & Hubert Rogers
Startling Stories ~ 1939-1955 ~ Cover art by Howard V. Brown,
Earle Bergey, Rudolph Belarski, Alex Schomburg, Ed Emsh, Jack Coggins,
Walter Popp & Ed Valigursky
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Gotham Pulp Collectors Club
3rd Saturday of every month
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
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Now available
for pre-order!
THIS
IS IT! The BIG one!
All the tales of Eric John Stark in a single volume.
The stories, the novels, and for the first time,
Brackett’s working notes for the abandoned
FOURTH “Stark” novel from 1977.
Contents
“Queen of the Martian Catacombs”
“Enchantress of Venus”
“Black Amazon of Mars”
“Stark and the Star Kings”
The Ginger Star
The Hounds of Skaith
The Reavers of Skaith
“1977: Notes for Stark #4″
Artwork by Raymond Swanland
Edited by Stephen Haffner
ISBN: 9781893887862
720+ pages
Smythe-sewn Hardcover
Preorder
price: $45
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Haffner Press
Leigh Brackett (1915-1978), noted
author of mystery & science fiction novels—with screenplays for
THE BIG SLEEP, RIO BRAVO and THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK—sees
her Centennial celebrated with a previously
unpublished story in the forthcoming Haffner Press
collection: LEIGH BRACKETT CENTENNIAL.
Discovered by editor Stephen Haffner, Brackett’s unpublished
story “They” is a mature science fiction
tale of power and intrigue, of homegrown xenophobia
versus stellar exploration, with an answer to
the ultimate question: “Are we alone?”
“They” leads off this tribute volume collecting the majority
of Brackett’s nonfiction writings, supplemented
with vintage interviews and commentaries/remembrances from such
luminaries as Ray Bradbury, Michael Moorcock,
Richard A. Lupoff and more.
“Her dialogue crackled, the characters lived and breathed.
For any burgeoning fan of film, you
couldn’t ask for a better inspiration than Leigh
Brackett.” —George Lucas
“She had a marvelous ability for moving a narrative along…I
remember one story of mine which had me frozen…she
took over and wrote the first thousand words—and
it was published that way.” —Ray Bradbury
LEIGH BRACKETT CENTENNIAL covers numerous facets and
events of Brackett’s life, in her own words,
and in the words of those who knew her:
- Brackett writes of bringing Philip Marlowe into
the 1970s for Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye
. . .
- SF-author and NASA employee Joseph Green records
the time he hosted Brackett at the launch
of Apollo XII . . .
- Bookseller Ray Walsh documents the day he escorted
Brackett to view a new groundbreaking
space-fantasy film in the summer 1977 . . .
Available for preorder, LEIGH BRACKETT CENTENNIAL continues
the effort begun in 2002 by Haffner Press
to collect, preserve, and present the works of
Leigh Brackett for current and future generations.
Edited by Stephen Haffner
ISBN-13 978-1893887-84-8
500pp. Trade Paperback
$25.00
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Haffner Press
FREDRIC BROWN MYSTERY LIBRARY
VOLUME 1: MURDER DRAWS A CROWD
(Writer) Fredric Brown,
Jack Seabrook (Cover) Norman Saunders
Still available for pre-order!
Production Update from Haffner
Press!
It is with much frustration we
announce that MURDER DRAWS A CROWD: THE FREDRIC BROWN MYSTERY LIBRARY,
VOLUME ONE hit another stumbling block. This was
a big one. We supplied materials to the printer in August
2015 and, after several challenges (see our previous e-newsletter),
we were informed in early December that the books were finally
finished.
However, the review copies sent by the printer for our final
approval did not meet the standards of Haffner Press.
The binding method they used to get the cloth-covered cases
to fit the page-blocks matches no book we've ever seen,
let alone published. This binding method also forces the spine
of the dustjacket to wrap onto the back of the book. When we were
informed that the balance of the inventory matched these review
copies, we rejected the entire lot.
As of this writing, we are scheduling a proper run of the
book, updated for 2016, bringing you the edition of MURDER
DRAWS A CROWD to which you're entitled. This means an
additional delay of several months. We wish there was better
news. As the first book of the multi-volume series collecting
the mystery fiction of Fredric Brown, we want this book
to be a point of pride in your collection. Fredric Brown — and you
— deserve it.
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
Preorder
price: $40
On publication: $45
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Haffner Press
Production
Update from Haffner Press!
While the news on the first volume of THE FREDRIC
BROWN MYSTERY LIBRARY is not the greatest, we are pleased
to report that work on the second volume, DEATH IN
THE DARK, is in the home stretch.
Fredric Brown scholar Jack Seabrook is on hand again with
an erudite introduction and we have been successful
in securing many more of the original illustrations; not
only those from the detective pulps, but also those for the
rarities from the trade magazines INDEPENDENT SALESMAN,
THE INVENTOR, FEEDSTUFFS, etc.
“. . . 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
Preorder
price: $40
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Before his marriage to (and subsequent collaborations
with) Catherine L. Moore, Henry Kuttner was a
frequent contributor to the pulp magazines that specialized
in the weird, supernatural, horror, and science fiction genre.
Beginning in 1936, with the minor classic “The Graveyard
Rats,” Kuttner launched a steady stream of short stories
aimed at Weird Tales, Strange Stories, Thrilling
Mystery, and others.
Writing for Weird Tales brought Kuttner into
direct correspondence with that magazine’s
premier contributor. H. P. Lovecraft. Kuttner
set several stories in Lovecraft’s “Cthulhu Mythos” and
two are presented in THE WATCHER AT THE DOOR:
“Hydra” and “The Hunt.”
At this point in his still-young career, Kuttner
had cracked the science fiction market and was
steadily publishing in Thrilling Wonder Stories,
Fantastic Adventures, Science Fiction, and made his
first sale to the new prestigious fantasy
magazine, UNKNOWN.
In the course of writing the stories collected
in this volume, Kuttner married Catherine Lucille Moore
on June 7, 1940 (in New York with artist Virgil
Finlay as Best Man).
THE WATCHER AT THE DOOR is the second volume in
a three-volume “Early Kuttner” set collecting many
of Kuttner’s earliest stories, most of which
have never been reprinted.
For those of
you that missed on getting a copy of Volume One:
For a limited time, Haffner Press is offering
the out-of-print TERROR IN THE HOUSE as a
combo with preorders of THE WATCHER AT THE
DOOR.
Take advantage of this great offer at
the link below.
You can also pre-order THE
WATCHER AT THE DOOR along with THE COMPLETE
IVY FROST and THE MICHAEL GRAY MYSTERIES for #125
and receive a Bonus Chapbook and free shipping. Take
advantage of this offer at the Haffner Press Homepage
at the link below.
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Haffner Press
The Complete Ivy Frost
by Donald Wandrei
Cover Art by Raymond Swanland
Now available for pre-order!
It may come as a surprise to some that
Donald Wandrei wrote more mysteries
than all his horror, fantasy, and science
fiction tales combined. This volume collects all eighteen
adventures of Wandrei’s ratiocinative detective I.V.
Frost, who is ably assisted by his beautiful and
tough female assistant, Jean Moray. A scientist and inventor,
Frost has his own approach to solving mysteries. Rather
than following the usual hard-drinking, trench-coated
style of many of his contemporaries, Frost’s strategy was to
mix the logic of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock
Holmes with the technology of Lester Dent’s Doc
Savage. In 2000, D.H. Olson edited a volume published by Fedogan
and Bremer collecting the first eight of Frost’s
adventures. A second volume of the remaining 10
tales was promised but never materialized.
Hardcover
$40
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Edited by Stephen Haffner Introduction by
Ed Gorman Cover Art by Lawrence Noble
A massive omnibus of four novels from the
late 1950s all featuring the amateur sleuthing
of San Francisco psychoanalyst Michael Gray.
The Murder of Eleanor Pope —Psychoanalyst
Michael Gray leads police to a three-time killer!
The Murder of Ann Avery —Psychoanalyst solves
brutal slaying!
Murder of a Mistress —Psychoanalyst Michael Gray
solves the killing of a girl who
knew too much about too many men who had too
damned much to lose.
Murder of a Wife —Marked for Murder! No one
believed her—not even the police!
Hardcover
$40
Haffner Press Status
Update:
Nearly everything is in hand to bring
this 4-novel omnibus to you.
Once we have Fredric Brown's MURDER DRAWS
A CROWD under our belt and out in the wild, this
is the next title to go to press.
NOTE: this title is part of a 3-book combo
of Horror & Detective titles that
features an exclusive chapbook. See the Haffner
Press homepage for details.
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Hard Case Crime
Coming March 15!
PIMP
Ken Bruen, Jason Starr
Cover art by Michael Koelsch
THERE’S NO DRUG MORE
ADDICTIVE THAN FAME.
EXCEPT, YOU KNOW, PIMP.
Ruined and on the lam, former drug kingpin Max Fisher
stumbles upon the biggest discovery of
his crooked life: a designer drug called PIMP that
could put him back on top. Meanwhile, a certain
femme fatale from his past is pursuing a comeback
dream of her own, setting herself up in Hollywood as
producer of a series based on her and Max’s life story.
But even in La-La Land, happy endings are hard to come
by, especially with both the cops and your enemies in
the drug trade coming after you...
- First publication ever!
- Tenth anniversary of Bruen and Starr’s first
collaboration, and first new book in the Max Fisher
series since 2008
- Two of the hottest authors in crime fiction
today, Bruen and Starr have been nominated
for or won almost every award in the field: the Edgar,
the Shamus, the Barry, the Anthony, the Macavity,
and more
- BUST,SLIDE and THE MAX received rave reviews
from Entertainment Weekly and other major publications
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Howard Andrew Jones
- Now online!
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Now available!
This spectacular new book explores the life
and work of the "Dean of Illustrators" — Dean Cornwell.
Unlike previous books published on the artist,
this volume is FULL COLOR throughout. The book
is 224 pages long (the same size as the Golden
Age series of books) and is filled to the brim with
scores of beautiful illustrations reproduced almost
exclusively from the original paintings and drawings
This book is limited to 1000 copies total. It is 224
pages, 9”x12”, full-color on premium glossy stock,
hardbound with dust jacket.
By ordering today, you will receive a copy of the
book for only $44.95 plus postage.
NOTE: This book will not be offered through Amazon at
a discounted price (unless you can find a "used" copy.)
If you want this book new, you will have
to buy it directly from The Illustrated Press.
In other words, don't worry about pre-ordering
the book and then turning around and seeing it listed
on Amazon later for $26. That is not going to happen.
A Special Edition version of the book was available,
limited to 100 copies.
These are presented in red slipcase with white stamped
lettering, signed and numbered by Daniel Zimmer,
with a bookplate affixed to the front endpaper.
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ILLUSTRATORS MAGAZINE #13
- Arriving in comic shops March
9!
Featured this issue in illustrators #13: Mitch O'Connell
"The World's Best Artist" bares his soul and his alphabet
to Diego Cordoba. Sep E. Scott: David Asford throws back the
curtain on the work of a swashbuckling septuagenerian. Jeff
Miracola: The inspiational story behind this amazing artist.
Brooke Boynton Hughes: Her delightful art and her children's book
illustrations. Tor Upson: Damien Hirst's assistant is making
waves with her darkly wry illustrations.
Softcover, 8x11, 96 pages, Full Color, $24.99
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Jerry Schneider Enterprises
Now available!
POLARIS OF THE SNOWS
A Fiction House Press Facsimile Reprint
"North! North! To the north, Polaris.
Tell the world-ah, tell them-boy- The north! The north! You must go,
Polaris!"
Polaris, born in the Antartic, strives to obey his father's
command to go north to America. Before long, he stumbles upon Rose
Emer who is lost in the snow. Together, they find Sardanes, the
lost city of Greeks at the South Pole.
Friends of Kalin the priest they make, but enemies of
Prince Helicon Polaris makes as the Prince orders Rose to marry
him.
Death and love follows Polaris and Rose in their adventures
at the South Pole and beyond.
Trade Paperback, 6 x 9 inch, 224 pages
$12.95
TARZAN THE CENSORED by Jerry L. Schneider
In Edgar Rice Burroughs: Master of Adventure
by Richard A. Lupoff, the author stated that the Ballantine Books'
versions of the Tarzan series were edited (evidently for political
correctness), not the "all complete and unabridged" as Ballantine
stated on the paperbacks. So, armed with the earliest hardcover
editions that I owned in my collection (McClurg, A. L. Burt, Grosset
& Dunlap, Burroughs Inc., and Canaveral Press) and post 1969
Ballantine editions, I scanned through them for discrepancies and changes.
There were changes from the early hardcovers that I found in some of
the paperbacks.
Some of the books in the Tarzan series were edited for "political
correctness" with regards to ethnicity dialects and derogatory
terms. Hard to read dialects (or hard to typeset) were changed
to an easier form (i.e. hit's changed to it's, heat to eat, and
hour to our), while extremely derogatory terms such as Jew (see Tarzan
and the Golden Lion ) and nigger were altered or eliminated (not for
the betterment of the story as the alteration in the words has lessened
the impact the originals imparted to the reader-the level of anger
toward the character who spoke the words has been lessened). The term
"black" remained in place in some books but removed from others-no rhyme
or reason to the changes. Esmeralda's original dialect in Tarzan of the
Apes remained in place through 1969, then edited downward to an easier
and friendlier version.
Because of these changes, an in-depth look at the various editions
of Tarzan of the Apes is shown, while the other books in the
Tarzan series are only compared by using an early hardcover version
and the first version that was edited, usually the Ballantine
edition.
Softcover, 8.5 x 11 inch, $4.99
14 pages
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Martin Grams' Blog - Now online!
The Lost 1933 Lone Ranger Radio Episodes
- New!
Three things you did not know about the Lone Ranger
The "Lost" Episodes of The Shadow Radio Program
The Shadow: The "Lost" 1953 Episodes
Beware of Wally the Spook
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Mystery*File -
Now online!
MIKE
NEVINS on His Latest Book and More on JOHN CREASEY - New!
A Movie Review by Jonathan Lewis: THE MASK OF FU MANCHU
(1932).
Reviewed by Walter
Albert: MICHAEL REAVES & JOHN PELAN, Editors – Shadows Over Baker
Street.
Reviewed by
Walter Albert: RAOUL WHITFIELD – Jo Gar’s Casebook.
JONATHAN LEWIS: Stories I’m Reading — W. H. HODGSON “The
Thing Invisible.”
CONVENTION REPORT: PulpFest 2015 by Richard Moore
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Off-Trail Publications
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Now available!
Before he was a comic-book pioneer, Major
Malcolm-Wheeler Nicholson wrote adventure tales for
the great pulp magazines—and no run-of-the-mill
pulp fiction was it. The Major served as a
cavalry officer on the southwest border
during the Mexican Revolution. While the
First World War raged in Europe, he fought
the Moro insurgency in the southern Philippines.
Then followed his strangest assignment, conducting
espionage in legendarily hostile Siberia. After the
war he was stationed in Western Europe. These places
became the settings for the majority of his hardboiled
adventure stories. His use of authentic detail,
combined with his superior storytelling ability, make
his stories difficult to put down. You read
one of the Major’s entrancing tales—and your
imagination is transported back to those real places of danger
and daring!
This inaugural collection of the Major’s fiction includes
stories set in all four of his real-life
arenas, originally published in top adventure pulps: Adventure,
Argosy, The Popular Magazine. It is time for
the Major to receive his due—as one of the
genuine larger-than-life men of the pulps. Included is an
in-depth introduction by Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson, the Major’s
granddaughter.
“Yes, Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson
is one of the very, very few people responsible for the birth
of the comic book industry as the visionary founder
of what we today call DC Comics. And, yes,
Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson is one of the very,
very few people responsible for giving
the world Superman.”
Michael Uslan,
Executive Producer of all the Batman movies,
Comic book historian, and author of his
memoir, The Boy Who Loved Batman.
“Not many adventure writers
can claim to have based their stories on their own exploits. Malcolm
Wheeler-Nicholson could—and because of it, his
evocations of heroism and combat have a believability
and a personal depth unlike anything else in pulp
fiction.”
Gerard Jones,
Author of Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters
and the Birth of the Comic Book.
6x9-inch perfect
bound; 264 pages, $20.00
Checkout earlier titles by clicking on the link below.
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PAPERBACK PARADE #92
- Now available!
The Magazine for Paperback Readers & Collectors!
Paperback Parade, if you are a book collector,
reader, or just love great old books then this is the
magazine for you!
Each 100 page, perfect-bound digest-size trade paperback,
is in FULL COLOR loaded with articles on rare books,
authors, artists, publisher runs, with dozens and dozens
of gorgeous FULL COLOR covers of rare books of all
kinds. Also “Paperback Talk” news, letters, show info, new
books, people in the hobby.
PAPERBACK PARADE #92 takes a detailed look at the wonderful
British science fiction of the 1950s and the man behind the pseudonyms
on many of the most wild digest-size paperbacks -- Denis Hughes!
It is amazing info never before available with amazing covers
shown in glorious FULL COLOR!
Also this issue is a look at:
the France Books series -- fancy fold-out cover gga '60s sleaze
Dead To Bed by Don Tracy
a look at Wages of Fear
the spy books featuring Colonel Peter Trees
a detailed examination of all the Tor Science Fiction Doubles
with most covers shown
"Paperback Talk" and much more, out now at $15 + postage.
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”
Please contact me with any questions or write to our 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.
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Paperback Perils
- Now online!
Doc Ardan: The City of Gold and Lepers (Guy D'Armen, 1928/Jean-Marc
& Randy Lofficier, 2004)
The Warlord of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1914)
The Gods of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1913)
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Perils On
Planet Perils On Planet X
- Now online!
Perils On Planet X is a swashbuckling adventure
on a lost planet… join Colonel Donovan Hawke
of Terra as he travels through time and space
to the ancient emerald world of Xylos – home of
vicious reptilian predators, ruthless strato-pirates, beautiful
princesses, and innumerable fantastic dangers!
Perils On Planet X is high adventure on alien
worlds – classic space opera in the
Burroughs and Alex Raymond traditions, revived
for a new millennium!
The adventure begins today at the link
below!
Three
issues of Perils On Planet X have been sent to the printer.
In just a very short while, they’ll be available for mail order
thru IndyPlanet.us.
These are being self-published and buying copies online is the
best way to directly support Christopher Mills and Gene Gonzales…
especially if you’d like to see more Planet X comics one day!
Remember, these will not be available in stores – only by mail
order or directly from Gene or Chris at conventions.
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Planetary Stories #35 - Now online!
Planetary Stories #35
COVER by Jose Sanchez
INTERPLANETARY SHOWDOWN AT JOB LOT by David Howard
. . . And you thought the shootour at the OK Corral was something!
ON GUARD by Gerd Maximovic
Emotion can be a strong weapon!
FROM "Q" TO OZ by J Eckert Lytle
We have fun with a frangible parody on Next Generation.
MORPHANESE by J Eckert Lytle
How could she overcome the enemy Emperor's strong weapon?
THE TRAP IN THE CLOSET by William Quincy Belle
It was deadly to open the closet door.
BLUE SKY by Gerd Maximovic
weirdly wrong.Up there in the sky all of a sudden clouds were
gathering. Just a moment ago the sun was shining, and now it seemed,
soon rain would be falling down, sent by the aliens.
A DAYOVER by Martian Edwards
It was a beautiful day. Then things started going wrong,
7 OF 9 by Robin Usher
An intriguing look at sex and space opera/science fiction. From
Voyager to the Bible and back!
WONDERLUST Click for unique fantasy
Pulp Spirit #25
MARTIAN HONEY by Pierre Comtois
Martian honey was sweet, but finding it could be murder!
QUEEN OF THE RIVER by James J Griffin
She yearned for money, but Death got in her way!
LOST MERMAID by Kevin Breen
Being a captive wasn't going to stop her!
THE LOCKED ROOM MURDER CASE by Richard Logan
Another exciting Gumshoe 2040
SHRINK RAP by Craig Faustus Buck
There was a gun in his drawer, and it was loaded.
WHERE IS HELEN? by Gerd Maximovic
BEING immortal was one thing; STAYING immortal was another matter.
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Pulpgen-Online Pulps - Now online!
New this week
"Postscript to Mein Kampf" by
William Rough from TEN DETECTIVE ACES, October, 1943
Because Sam knew how Hitler did it, Sam knew how to outfox the
smaller fry crooks.
"Program for Plunder" by Robert
Leslie Bellem from SECRET AGENT "X", March 1939
Private Detective Tim Mullane was a jack-in-the-box of the trigger
trade. But there was one box he wouldn't pop out of. And that was
- the ice-box in the morgue.
"Satan Holds the Key" by B. J. Benson
from POPULAR DETECTIVE, November, 1948
Featuring: Mike Dobson
On the trail of a fortune in stolen gems, Mike Dobson runs into
murder - and battles to unlock the sealed door of a bewildering
crime mystery.
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Pulp Crazy
- Now online!
The
Tree by H. P. Lovecraft -
New!
Weird
Detective: The Stars Are Wrong
Batman:
The Doom That Came To Gotham
The
Hound
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Pulp Den - Now online!
From My Mother - New!
Holliday Library - New!
Bonds of Resolve - New!
Author Interview With Darcy Leech
The Apparition
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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.
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Pulp AdventureCon 2016 report
A rundown of pulp shows for 2016
Genesis of the lightsaber?
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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/
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Ramble House
Now available!
TWELVE WHO WERE DAMNED
and Other Stories
Written by Paul Ernst
Introduced by John Pelan
Paul Ernst was a versatile writer and
one of the most creative of the weird menace authors who wrote for Popular
Publications’ triumvirate of “shudder pulps,” Dime Mystery Magazine,
Terror Tales and Horror Stories. Sourced predominantly from Dime
Mystery Magazine, the twelve stories in this volume display Ernst’s
talent for weaving ambiguous plot elements into his tales to create
stronger supernatural suggestion than was usual in the field.
Horror fiction authority John Pelan provides a new introduction
detailing the importance of Paul Ernst in the weird menace fiction
scene.
Twelve Who Were Damned, © Dime Mystery November 1937
Brides of the Dust Demon, ©, Dime Mystery December 1936
The Pallid Furies, © Dime Mystery November 1935
Danse Macabre, © Dime Mystery May 1935
The Town the Dead Things Claimed, © Dime Mystery July 1938
Death Dines Out, © Dime Mystery January 1936
Embrace of the Fire God © Dime Mystery February 1936
Horror in the Glass, © Dime Mystery March 1935
The Monster Who Worked in Clay © Dime Mystery March 1937
The Man Who Called on Death, © Dime Mystery Sept. 1935
Satan’s Flower Shop © Dime Mystery October 1936
Madman’s Circus © Horror Stories February 1935
Available Editions
$20 Trade
Paperback 6" x 9"
$35 Hardcover with dust jacket, 6" x 9"
$6 Ebook by e-mail (epub or mobi)
This book is available at Amazon and
the Create Space store but the publisher offers
you a discount and free shipping if you call or
e-mail him with your order.
fender@ramblehouse.com 318-455-6847
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We are proud to announce to official nominees for this
year’s REH Foundation Awards, honoring the top contributions from
the previous year in Howard scholarship and in the promotion of Howard’s
life and works.
The top three nominees in each category were selected by the
Legacy Circle members of the Foundation from an outstanding pool
of eligible candidates and their contributions represent the best
of the best.
All members of the REH Foundation will be eligible to vote on these
nominees to determine this year’s winners (with the exception of
the Black Circle which requires a premium membership).
An email with voting instruction will be sent out to all members
soon!
The winners will be announced at a special ceremony at Robert
E. Howard Days in Cross Plains on June 10.
Congratulations to all the nominnees and thank for your contributions
to Howard’s legacy!
The Atlantean — Outstanding Achievement,
Book (non-anthology/collection)
(Books may be print or digital, must be a minimum of 50,000 words,
and must be substantively devoted to the life and/or work of REH.
Reprinted works without significant revisions are not eligible.)
DERIE, BOBBY – The Collected Letters of REH: Index and Addenda (REH
Foundation Press)
LAFOND, JAMES – Dark
Art of an Aryan Mystic: The Racially Charged Fiction of Robert E. Howard
(Punch Buggy Books)
LOUINET, PATRICE – Le Guide Howard (ActuSF)
The Valusian — Outstanding Achievement,
Book (anthology/collection)
(Books may be print or digital, must be a minimum of 50,000 words,
and must be substantively devoted to the life and/or work of REH.
Reprinted works without significant revisions are not eligible.)
[No eligible candidates this year]
The Hyrkanian—Outstanding Achievement,
Essay (Print)
(Essays must have made their first public published appearance
in the previous calendar year and be substantive scholarly essays
on the life and/or work of REH. Short pieces, interviews, reviews,
trip reports, and other minor works do not count.)
GUENTHER, DIERK – “A
Farewell to the Old West – The End of the “Old Frontier”—Robert E. Howard’s
‘Old Garfield’s Heart’” REH: Two-Gun Raconteur #18
REASONER, JAMES – “Not
Your Ordinary Gun-Dummy: The Western Heroes of Robert E. Howard” REH:
Two-Gun Raconteur #18
SHANKS, JEFFREY – “Evolutionary
Otherness: Anthropological Anxiety in Robert E. Howard’s ‘Worms of the
Earth’” The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales
The Cimmerian—Outstanding Achievement,
Essay (Online)
(Essays must have made their first public published appearance
in the previous calendar year and be substantive scholarly essays
on the life and/or work of REH. Short blog posts, speeches, reviews,
trip reports, and other minor works do not count.)
BARRETT, BARBARA – “Hester Jane Ervin Howard and Tuberculosis
(3 parts)” REH: Two Gun Raconteur Blog
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
DERIE, BOBBY – “The Mirror of E’ch-Pi-El: Robert E. Howard
in the Letters of H.P. Lovecraft (3 parts)” On An Underwood No.
5
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
PISKE, DAVID – “Barbarism and Civilization in the Letters
of Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft: A Summary with Commentary
(6 parts)” On An Underwood No. 5
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6
The Venarium — Emerging Scholar
(The following candidates have recently begun making significant
contributions to Howard scholarship through publications and/or
presentations. Previous winners are not eligible)
DERIE, BOBBY – Contributed essays to TGR blog, On An Underwood
No. 5, and compiled the The Collected Letters of REH: Index and
Addenda
GUENTHER, DIERK – Contributed an essay to TGR #18; presented
paper at PCA; participated in panel at HDs
VICK, TODD – Contributed essays to TGR and On An Underwood No.
5; Editor of On An Underwood No. 5 blog
The Stygian—Outstanding Achievement,
Website
(Eligible candidates are limited to internet sites with substantive
static content and material that is primarily devoted to scholarship
on the life and works of Robert E. Howard. Websites must have
been updated with new content at least once in the previous calendar
year. Non-static social media like Facebook and Twitter would
not be eligible.)
BLACK GATE (John O’Neill)
HOWARD WORKS
(Bill Thom)
ON
AN UNDERWOOD NO. 5 (Todd Vick)
REH:
TWO-GUN RACONTEUR BLOG (Damon Sasser)
The Aquilonian — Outstanding
Achievement, Periodical
(Eligible candidates must be a periodical primarily devoted to
the life and work of Robert E. Howard with at least one issue published
during the previous calendar year)
THE HYBORIAN GAZETTE (Steve Dilks)
REH: TWO GUN RACONTEUR (Damon Sasser)
REH FOUNDATION NEWSLETTER (Damon Sasser)
The Black Lotus – Outstanding Achievement,
Multimedia
(Eligible candidates have produced a multimedia or audio/visual
work or series of works, such as videos, documentaries, podcasts,
animation, etc. related to the life and work of REH)
ADKINS, JOSH, LUKE DODD, AND JON LARSON – The Cromcast
(audio podcast)
FRIBERG, BEN – Howard Days Panels (videos)
SHEAFFER, SCOTT – REH Panel
at NecronomiCon 2015 (video)
The Black River—Special Achievement
(The following eligible candidates have produced or contributed
something special that doesn’t fit into any other category: scholarly
presentations, biographical discoveries, etc.)
BYRNE, BOB – For organizing the “Discovering REH” blog post series
at the Black Gate Website
JONES, HOWARD ANDREW and BILL WARD – For their “Re-Reading Conan”
series at www.howardandrewjones.com/
ROEHM, ROB – For his biographical research published at the
REH: Two-Gun Raconteur Blog, On an Underwood No. 5, and the Black
Gate website.
The Rankin — Artistic achievement in the depiction of REH’s
life and/or work
(Art must have made its first public published appearance in
the previous calendar year.)
GIANNI, THOMAS – For Fists of Iron Volume 4 cover.
GIORELLO, TOMAS and JOSE VILLARRUBIA: Cover and interior artwork for adaptation of “Wolves Beyond the
Border” King Conan: Wolves Beyond the Border issue 1 (Dark Horse).
KEEGAN, JIM & RUTH: Artwork for “The Adventures of
Two-Gun Bob,” [Various titles]
Black Circle Award – Lifetime Achievement
(Voting limited to Premium Members)
Individuals who have made significant and long-lasting contributions
to REH scholarship, publishing, or the promotion of Howard’s life
and works. Eligible candidates must have been publicly involved
in Howard-related activities for a minimum of two decades.)
THOMAS, ROY (Approve or Disapprove – 60% approval required)
Roy Thomas was the main impetus behind the Marvel comic series
Conan the Barbarian for which he wrote for many years. That
best-selling series and it’s sister titles, King Conan and Savage
Sword of Conan introduced many thousands of readers to the character,
and through Roy’s efforts in promoting Robert E. Howard, to the original
stories as well. In 2006 he authored Conan: The Ultimate Guide to the
World’s Most Savage Barbarian and was guest of honor at Howard Days.
List of approved eligible candidates
compiled by Legacy Circle members for 2017 ballot:
BLOSSER, FRED
CERASINI, MARC
De CAMP, LYON SPRAGUE (posthumous)
HOFFMAN, CHARLES
LOVING, BILLIE RUTH (posthumous)
PROJECT PRIDE
SCITHERS, GEORGE
VAN HISE, JAMES
WOLLHEIM, DONALD
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ROY THOMAS PRESENTS PLANET COMICS
VOLUME 12 - Arriving in comic
shops March 9!
(Art) Murphy Anderson & Various
Hey, PS Artbooks is continuing its epic journey
"out of this furshlugginer world" with the twelveth
volume of the groundbreaking awe-filled Planet Comics
that appeared from Fiction House over a thirteen year
period ending in 1953. They're all here: Flint Baker, Reef
Ryan, The Space Rangers, Gale Allen, Star Pirate, Mysta
of the Moon, Norge Benson plus many more and a bevy of the
most scantily-clad females you're likely to ever see! Collects
issues #54-59 (May 1948 to May 1949) of the original titles
from Fiction House.
Hardcover, 7x10, 336 pages,
Full Color, $59.99
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The Serial Squadron Cinema Cliffhanger
Archive
THE SPIDER'S WEB
Research copies are now available!
Archive DVD featuring Warren Hull -
15 Chapters (Complete)
One of the major original pulp heroes
comes to the screen in the greatest adaptation of pulp to film
ever created, featuring Warren Hull and Iris Meredith.
Consistently rated one of the top 5 cliffhanger
serials of all time by fans, and hugely
influential. Source: new digital transfer
of 16mm original print, complete, with generally excellent
sharp picture quality, restored picture element with stabilization,
exposure correction, and noise reduced audio.
Status: Restoration
complete, archive DVD requests are shipping now.
To request a research copy, click here.
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Now
available!
DVD Set, 12 Episodes + Memorabilia
Slideshow
2 hours 26 minutes
$ 21.95
Chapter Titles
1 THE DIVE OF DEATH 16:56
2 THE STORM GOD STRIKES! 18:11
3 THUNDERING DEATH 12:42
4 THE PIT OF PERIL 15:23
5 BLOOD MONEY 6:54
6 VOODOO VENGEANCE 11:21
7 CAUGHT BY CANNIBALS 8:10
8 THE CREEPING TERROR 7:05
9 EYES OF EVIL 13:53
10 THE DEATH PLUNGE 5:49
11 HARVEST OF HATE 9:14
12 JUNGLE JUSTICE 15:10
SLIDESHOW
Click on the link above for complete
details on this production, a preview from Chapter 1, and the
ordering link.
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THE RESTORATION
The existing feature version of TARZAN THE FEARLESS is
a hastily-assembled condensation of the original material which
presents a good deal of it out of order and some scenes without
proper setup or explanation.
Additional footage not seen since the serial's original release
has been made available to the Squadron which will be incorporated
into this DVD restoration of the serial that will be presented
in original single-chapter form, with opening and closing titles
and cliffhanger endings intact.
Existing content here is presented in its original cliffhanger
format, and every chapter is represented in the DVD. Stil-missing
sections have been reconstructed and summarized according to
the available information in the existing original script draft,
the Big Little Book text, and published descriptions of chapters
as released.
The content which remains missing from the serial involved a
capture of the explorers by the Koso tribe and their escape from
execution, and a sequence in which Tarzan rescues Mary from
capture by the soldiers of Zar but is knocked from a high rock
by a thrown bolo, then rescued by his friend Taug the gorilla.
Photos from both sequences are included in the DVD.
Light toning effects are used mostly on the early episodes to
help bring out the clarity of the image and define action locations.
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The Shadow - Under
the Blue Light -
Now online!
Treasure Trail - New!
The Gray Ghost - New!
Temple of Crime
Realm of Doom
The North Woods Mystery
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TARZAN ON FILM - Coming July 5, 2016!
by Scott Tracy Griffin
In this authoritative volume, writer
and historian Scott Tracy Griffin traces the development of the history-making
Tarzan franchise, from the motion-picture industry’s early silents and
serials, through the high point of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer era featuring
Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’Sullivan, to modern worldwide
hits like Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes and
Walt Disney Studios’ animated Tarzan.
Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Titan Books
Amazon Pre-order $39.95
This book will also be available
in comic shops.
It will likely be solicited in the April issue of Diamond PREVIEWS.
Amazon.com Titan Books
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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.
Was the Son of the Black Dahlia Murderer in Weird Tales?
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New!
Theodore Le Berthon (1892-1960)-Part Ten
- New!
Theodore Le Berthon (1892-1960)-Part Nine
- New!
Theodore Le Berthon (1892-1960)-Part Eight
Theodore Le Berthon (1892-1960)-Part Seven
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