Whew, finally. After years of pleasant labor, I’ve gotten through all 182 original Doc Savage stories (counting THE RED SPIDER) and here we are with the very first novel, from the March 1933 issue. This started the saga of the pulp’s greatest adventure hero, which ran for sixteen years and (beginning in 1964) was eventually…
COMPLIMENTS OF THE BLACK STILETTO… A Review of Raymond Benson’s THE BLACK STILETTO by Andrew Salmon Raymond Benson’s The Black Stiletto (Oceanview Publishing) has a lot going for it but the sum is not quite equal to the parts that make up the novel. The set up is an intriguing one. Judy Talbot is an…
Because we can never have too many copies of Action Comics #1… the real one, no offense to Grant Morrison. Michael Rorrer said his great aunt once mentioned having comic books she would one day give him and his brother, but it was a passing remark made when they were boys and still into superheroes….
ALL PULP REVIEWS by Ron Fortier DOC VOODOOAces & Eights By Dale Lucas Beating Windward Press 201 pages Last year well known fantasy author Charles Saunders delighted the new pulp community by releasing his novel DAMBALLA, making it the very first pulp novel set in the 1930s to feature an African American hero. Just this…
This is never going to end, is it? Producers of Broadway’s “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” have fired back in their legal fight with one-time director Julie Taymor, claiming the woman who they once called a visionary later failed to fulfill her legal obligations, wrote a “disjointed” and “hallucinogenic” musical, and refused to collaborate on…
Reposted from www.tainted-archive.blogspot.com CBS has greenlighted a pilot, a revamp of Sherlock Holmes, that will place the legendary sleuth in modern-day New York. The pilot, currently titled “Elementary,” comes via CBS Television Studios and Timberman-Beverly Productions, the company behind the network’s current series “A Gifted Man” and “Unforgettable.” Robert Doherty, whose credits include “Medium” and…
Cover: Alex Ross Cover: Jae Lee In the first issue of the new ongoing The Shadow series, it’s 1938 and The Shadow returns in a tale of blazing action and deadly intrigue, as a night of carnage on the New York waterfront plunges the mysterious vigilante into a conspiracy involving the fate of the world…
Well, that was really quick: Thursday July 19 midnight shows for The Dark Knight Rises: The IMAX Experience have already sold out at New York’s AMC Loews Lincoln Square theater. The AMC Loews Universal City cineplex in Los Angeles has sold out all seats and all but two wheelchair slots, according to seating charts for…
On January 6th, 2012, for the first time EVER, the Green Lama came to life in an epic aerial performance at New York’s Rubin Museum of Art. Written by Adam Lance Garcia, author of the award-winning Green Lama Unbound novel, and based on his short story, “Case of the Final Column.” The stage play was…
Tor.com reports the sad news that Anne McCaffrey, best known for the Dragonriders of Pern series, passed away of a stroke in her home in Ireland yesterday at the age of 85. McCaffrey was the first woman to win a Hugo Award (for the first Dragonrider story “Weyr Search” in 1968) as well as the…
Publication Date: Oct 27 2011 ISBN/EAN13: 1466481900 / 9781466481909 Page Count: 184 Binding Type: US Trade Paper Trim Size: 6″ x 9″ Language: English Color: Black and White Related Categories: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Short Stories The hard-boiled private eye genre is one I dearly love. The trench-coated shamus with a cigarette dangling…
You’d think that billionaire Bruce Wayne wouldn’t get along well with the Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York, and the Hathaway most associated with Wall Street is Berkshire. And yet, it looks like Batman could be there by the end of the month: “The Dark Knight Rises,” Christopher Nolan’s third film in the Batman…
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