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ALL PULP NEWSSTAND BULLDOG EDITION 3/20/11

ALL PULP NEWSSTAND
BULLDOG EDITION
3/20/11

FLYING GLORY KICKS OFF NEW ISSUE WITH NEW COVER!

Beginning with a fully painted cover art, a special story begins as we take a new look at our heroine and her family. Enjoy and Share with your friends.

www.flying-glory.com

She wants to conquer the charts using the same superhero identity as her grandmother who dutifully served her country in WWII. Backed by her band, the Hounds of Glory, Flying Glory struggles with life’s battles while fighting supervillians.

ALL PULP NEWSSTAND 3/20/11

ALL PULP NEWSSTAND
BULLDOG EDITION
3/20/11
FLYING GLORY KICKS OFF NEW ISSUE!
From Kevin Paul Shaw Broden-
Beginning with a fully painted cover art, a special story begins as we take a new look at our heroine and her family. Enjoy and Share with your friends.

www.flying-glory.com

She wants to conquer the charts using the same superhero identity as her grandmother who dutifully served her country in WWII. Backed by her band, the Hounds of Glory, Flying Glory struggles with life’s battles while fighting supervillians.

Twitter Updates for 2011-03-20

A BOOK A DAY FROM ALL PULP GETS BLONDE!

As usual, except with one notable exception, ALL PULP’s Book a Day comes from http://www.bearmanormedia.com/, one of the best outlets for books on pulp and popular culture today!  If you have other books, though, that you feel should be featured here, drop ALL PULP  a line at allpulp@yahoo.com!

’50s Blondes

'50s Blondes
An illustrated look at the lives and careers of the sexiest women of the 1950s. From major star to starlet, author Richard Koper shows – with hundreds of rare photos from his personal collection – that gentlemen still prefer blondes!

Among the 100 actresses who are featured in the book are famous Hollywood names like Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Kim Novak and Anita Ekberg, as well as starlets like Jeanne Carmen, Gloria Pall, Sandra Giles and Kathy Marlowe. Also featured within the pages of this book are England’s reigning blondes Diana Dors, Belinda Lee and Carole Lesley, and fifties cult fan’s favourites: Mamie Van Doren, Cleo Moore, Beverly Michaels, Barbara Nichols and Joi Lansing.







Twitter Updates for 2011-03-19

A BOOK A DAY AND PULP REVIEW ALL ROLLED INTO ONE!!

PULP REVIEWS BY RON FORTIER
AND ALL PULP’S BOOK A DAY!
THE BONUS
By Georgia Lowe
Lucky Dime Press
398 pages
Release Date – Oct.10, 2010
ISBN 10 – 0615371450
ISBN 13 – 978-0615371450
(historical fiction/drama)
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The trouble with most history books is that they are generally impersonal.  They offer up the facts and then focus solely on the public figures who actually shaped events.  What is omitted, save for the grainy black and white photos of yesterday, are the tales of the average people who experienced those moments; days now slowly morphing into ghostly images of a past all too soon forgotten.  In choosing to read and review Georgia Lowe’s powerful retelling of the Bonus March, I purposely stepped away from this column’s focus on pulp fiction.  Why?  Because too many of us who love this unique brand of fiction some times need to be reminded of the times in which it was born.  To better appreciate those exciting and colorful tales of escapist fancy, we should be aware that they were created during a time of national pain and suffering; the Great Depression.
Sadly there have been too few novels set in this time of social upheaval, economic tragedy and hopelessness.  Not that there haven’t been many competent historical text, several of which the author mentions in her own lists of references, still it takes a fiction writer to make history personal.  John Steinbeck did it with his “Grapes of Wrath” and now, first time novelist, Georgia Lowe achieves the same emotional impact with “The Bonus.”  This is not an easy book to read for any American who loves his or her country.  Its honest depiction of the Hoover administration and the cavalier, egotistical attitude of its chief participants from the President on down to his Chief of Staff, General Douglas MacArthur is deplorable, to say the least.
In 1924, several years after the end of the War to End All Wars, America’s veterans were promised a bonus payment for their service.  The country’s representatives spend the next five years debating on what form and amount this “bonus” will be in.  Then comes the Wall Street crash of 1929 sending the economy into an unparalleled nosedive.  Unemployment rises to 25%, banks collapse like dominoes, home foreclosures are rampant.  On top of all this, Mother Nature delivers the second knock out punch in the form of a far reaching drought that devastates America’s central farmlands, turning abundant fields of wheat and corn into arid wastelands soon to be known as the Dust Bowl.  The end result, Congress votes to defer the Bonus until 1945.
Three years later, in the Spring of 1932, thousands of veterans, feeling betrayed by their own government, began to organize throughout the country.  As the news of their discontent and public gatherings spread, the idea of a united march on the Capitol is born and eagerly approved.  Charismatic leaders among the various groups like the VFW arise and by the start of summer, they are leading thousands of desperate veterans to Washington in every mode of travel possible from automobile caravans to train boxcars filled with weary travelers.  Their one unifying goal, to force Congress into giving them their money now.
We experience this historical pilgrimage through the yes of several characters including Will Hardy, a reporter for a Los Angeles tabloid, himself a veteran still enduring the effects of “shellshock,” and his lovely girlfriend, Bonnie.  Bonnie, enjoying her life as a Hollywood extra is naively unaware of the country’s ailing condition until she embarks on this odyssey with her girlfriend Myrna to rendezvous with their men.  By the time she arrives in Washington, she and Will become eye-witnesses to the monumental injustice perpetrated by President Hoover and his cronies.  Not only does Hoover publicly ignore the peaceful petitions and demonstrations of the Bonus marchers, in the end, he has them attacked and driven out by Army troops under the command of General McArthur.   
“The Bonus” is one of the finest historical novels I’ve ever read and it left me emotional drained.  It is clearly a cautionary tale of what happens to a people when its elected officials allow themselves to become disassociated with their constituents.  It is a story of governmental betrayal at its worst and a timely warning considering our nation’s current situation.  It is also a fine work of fiction with moving, believable characters that any reader will quickly recognize as each is driven to find their own piece of the American promise.  We tip our pulp fedora to Georgia Lowe and we thank her deeply for reminding us all what happened that summer in 1932.  It is up to each and every one of us to make sure it never happens again.

First Look At Adrianne Palacki As ‘Wonder Woman’

wonder_woman_tv_02-7117823Entertainment Weekly* has the first photo of Adrianne Palacki as Wonder Woman in the new NBC TV series being planned for the fall, produced by David E. Kelley.

The observant will note the great similarities to the new costume designed by Jim Lee and launched by J. Michael Straczynski when he took over the series last year. As I suspected at the time, the new costume was at least partially influenced by the desire of getting an actress into something other than a one-piece bikini.

Elizabeth Hurley and Cary Elwes are also in the pilot cast. NBC’s upfront presentation is scheduled for May 16, so we’ll know by then if Wonder Woman will be picked up as a series.

  • No real surprise here, as EW is owned by DC’s corporate parent. I think they had the inside track on this one.

Rose McGowan Goes Juicy


From CHARMED to that rumored RED SONJA film, ROSE McGOWAN never slows down and now she has a “bombshell” role in an NBC series this week. we’ll let her fill you in, but meantime that Silver Age Marvel there – makes over 150g’s on eBay!

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Mix March Madness Webcomics Tournament: Round 2 Play By Play!

comicmixmarchmadness550x681-5421982As you’ve seen if you’ve been following the site at all this week, we’ve taken sixty-four popular webcomics and are putting them head to head in a single-elimination tournament. As a result, it’s been a very busy week here at ComicMix, and we have less than 35 hours of voting in the first round, so we wanted to point to some of the highlights.

The contests getting the highest vote totals right now are Gronk vs.My Sister the FREAK, followed closely by PvP vs. Erfworld, which is not quite as bad a blowout as last time, but Erfworld is still looking pretty strong.

But at this point, nobody has an insurmountable lead– anybody can make a call out to their followers and retake the lead, and after two days of hand-to-hand electioneering at C2E2, the scores can really change. Every match is still too close to call.

So get your votes in– if you haven’t voted, your chance is right below! You get to determine who makes it to the Sweet 16!

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