Pulp Ark 2012 doesn’t officially kick off until later today but organizer Tommy Hancock is reporting that the convention is off to a great start! In just the first few hours, more fans have come through the doors today than attended the entire weekend last year! In related news, sales are strong for those vendors…
THE GREEN LAMA UNBOUNDWritten by Adam Lance GarciaPublished by Airship 27 ProductionsISBN 978-10934935-75-0243 pages, $24.95 For much of the past year, I’ve had one person after another tell me that I should read this book. I resisted because nothing turns me off more than unceasing hype. Hell, I still haven’t seen Titanic for just that…
PRESS RELEASE Pro Se Press and Reese Unlimited are proud to announce TALES OF THE ROOK, a special anthology project that will bring together many of New Pulp’s finest! The Rook has become one of New Pulp’s most popular characters and has starred in six volumes so far, with more on the way. Tales of…
FORTUNE’S PAWNWritten by Nancy A. HansenPro Se PressISBN 9781466243460179 pages, $12.00 Okay, let’s establish something right away: I don’t generally read fantasy. I did when I was younger, really digging Dragonlance and the like… but nowadays, the only time I read fantasy is when I dig open a Robert E. Howard collection for old-times sake….
THE SHADOW: THE DEATH TOWERWritten by Maxwell GrantThis review is of the Bantam EditionOriginally published January 1932Bantam Edition published December 1969 The Death Tower of the title is not actually a tower but rather a 40-story skyscraper of which our villain, Doctor Palermo, occupies the top floor. This is a very early adventure of the…
THE MYTH HUNTER Written by Percival Constantine ISBN 978-1461050599 Pulpwork Press 208 pages, $11.95 When one first looks at The Myth Hunter, thoughts of Tomb Raider (or even the short-lived Tia Carrere vehicle, Relic Hunter) invariably come to the fore. This isn’t to suggest that the book is merely an homage to to earlier creations,…
The Black Bat Written by Mike Bullock Art by Michael Metcalf and Fernando Peniche Letters by Josh Aitken Moonstone Books ISBN 978-1-933076-96-6 $8.99 Longtime readers of my review column know that I’m a big fan of Mike Bullock’s run on The Phantom. So when Moonstone announced their “Return of the Originals” projects, I was intrigued…
After sixteen years, The Shadow will once again be haunting the comic book shops. The classic character who starred in both pulp magazines and his popular radio show will be returning in the hands of Dynamite Entertainment. Dynamite currently publishes pulp-related properties The Green Hornet, The Phantom and John Carter of Mars. Dynamite’s President and…
THE PHANTOM: GUARDIAN OF THE EASTERN DARK Written by Mike Bullock Art by Sivestre Szilagyi and Fernando Peniche Moonstone Books ISBN 978-1-933076-81-2 $24.95 This heavy tome collects the entire 12 issue run of Moonstone’s second ongoing Phantom series. All issues are written by Mike Bullock while Silvestre Szilagyi handles the art on what was originally…
The Good, The Bad and The UnknownWritten by Mike FrigonArt by Verne AndersonWild Cat BooksISBN 0982311680276 pages, $13.50 This one’s an odd mix: a novel length tale of the Moon Man followed by short stories of Doctor Satan and then Secret Agent X. The Moon Man tale is an epic one and very exciting —…
THE CHINATOWN DEATH CLOUD PERILPaul MalmontISBN 978-0-7432-8785-2 I realize that I’m coming rather late to this novel, which was published in 2006 and set the pulp world on fire. I’d heard many good things about it but I’d never gotten around to grabbing a copy for myself until now. This book takes the real-life figures…
Python IsleWritten by Will Murray, Based on a concept by Lester DentUnabridged AudiobookRadio ArchivesISBN 978-1610814010 Radio Archives has just released an audio version of Will Murray’s classic Doc Savage novel and it’s the same level of high quality that listeners have learned to associate with the company. Production values are top notch and the narrator…
