Tagged: Pulp

READ THE RETURN OF DOCTOR PIRANHA EPISODE 1 FREE!

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  • January 11, 2013

New Pulp Author Chuck Miller, writer of The Black Centipede, has shared a story, The Return of Doctor Piranha, on the Transitionhouse website

For a good cause. One of the best.
Read The Return of Doctor Piranha here.

Transition House is a private non-profit agency located in Norman, OK, that provides hope and support for recovery to adults with serious mental illness.


MARS MCCOY BLASTS OFF INTO COMICS!

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  • January 9, 2013
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New Pulp Publisher Airship 27 Productions has announced their 2013 Mars McCoy Space Ranger plans. The second volume of the pulp prose anthology series featuring the character will be available in early 2013 as well as in comic books. There is an 8 pg. Mars McCoy comic strip in development written by Mike Baron with art by Eric Hurley, as seen above.

FIGHT CARD’S RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE!

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  • January 9, 2013

Rumble In The Jungle, The latest release from Fight Card Books is now available.

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FIGHT CARD: RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE

HELL’S KITCHEN, 1953
Brendan O’Toole is on a downward slide. When his wife dies in a freak car accident, he quits his job and hits the bottle hard. Half tanked in the ring, he allows himself to be knocked out, ending his boxing career.

O’Toole, hits rock bottom. After a night of boozing, he is brutally mugged and left for dead. But O’Toole has friends, even if he can’t see it. One of them is Danny Reilly, a barman with a heart of gold. He arranges for O’Toole to join a construction crew set to work on a hotel being built in the Central African jungle nation of Sezanda. It’s O’Toole’s last shot at redemption.

SEZANDA, CENTRAL AFRICA, 1954

As things begin to look up for O’Toole, the Sezandan government is overthrown in a military coup. All foreigners are taken prisoner and locked in concentration camps. O’Toole is sent to the worst, Hell Camp XXI, under the control of a brutal ex-Nazi, Kommandant Krieger. Krieger has a special way of keeping his prisoners under control. In the camp, he has erected a boxing ring. And anyone who steps out of line is forced to face off against his man-mountain, wrecking machine, Crator – a man whose sole purpose is to inflict pain.

Fate has destined Brendan O’Toole to don the gloves one more time, in a fight not just for his life, but his very soul.

Fight Card Author David Foster gives us the lowdown on Fight Card’s January 2013 release, Fight Card: Rumble in the Jungle here.

OTR, PULP, AND MORE FROM RADIO ARCHIVES!

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  • January 7, 2013

RadioArchives.com Newsletter

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Featuring the “big three” pulp heroes, Doc Savage, The Spider and The Shadow, the redesigned Pulp Book Store is much easier to navigate and find the products you want.
 
Whether it’s the latest Doc Savage double novel reprint or the 330 Pulp replicas offered by Girasol Collectables, you’ll be able to find exactly what you are looking for, quickly and easy. The Pulp Book Store also spotlights best selling products in its Highly Recommended section and offers great deals on special items in its Bargain Basement.
 
Popular Characters, quality products and more can be found in the new, easy to use Pulp Book Store!
 
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Thanks, Darrel, and we’re listening! Due to your comment and hundreds of similar requests by many of our customers, Old Time Radio and Audiobook Digital Downloads will now be regularly priced at half the cost of our Audio CD sets! What started as a one newsletter experiment is now permanent!

 
 
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Lorne Greene and Westerns. Andy Griffith and Comedy. Vincent Price and Mystery. Cicely Tyson and Love & Hate. Leonard Nimoy and Adventure. Only one Radio Program boasted this line up and lived up to it. And its 20 final episodes have been collected in Mutual Radio Theater, Volume 5 from Radio Archives!
 
An entry in the comeback of radio drama in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Mutual Radio Theater provided new shows five nights a week for its entire run. Written by leading names in radio, Mutual Radio Theater also sported something that every show needs to succeed. Star power. And that didn’t stop with the nightly hosts.
 
The shows were peopled with stars from both classic radio and modern television and movies. Names from the golden era of radio drama included John Dehner, Vic Perrin, Hans Conried, Marvin Miller, Parley Baer, Elliot Lewis, Jeff Corey, Virginia Gregg, and Lurene Tuttle. Modern entertainment lent some of its best talent as well to Mutual Radio Theater, including Tom Bosley and Marian Ross, Lloyd Bochner, Rick Jason, Frank Campanella, Toni Tennille, Arthur Hill, and Jesse White.
 
The final volume from Radio Archives, Mutual Radio Theater, Volume 5 is a 20 CD set of programs as they originally aired, complete and uncut, with original commercials, and produced in full stereo-high fidelity. Thrills, chills, laughs, tears, and more. Radio Mutual Theater, Volume 5 is a star studded finale to a truly classic collection! Now available for $59.98 from Radio Archives! 20 hours $59.98 Audio CDs / $29.99 Download.
 
Bonus: Mutual Radio Theater broadcast 103 unique shows. The final three shows will be included FREE with every order of Mutual Radio Theater, Volume 5 until January 17th. These three hour long shows will not be available after January 17th.
 
 
 
 

 

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Take Leslie Charteris’ popular rogue, Simon Templar—better known as The Saint—add a dash of Carroll John Daly’s merciless crime-crusher, Satan Hall, then mix well with the Spider, and you have William O’Sullivan’s Captain Satan.
 
A 1930s Robin Hood, dashing Cary Adair steals from the wealthy—and splits the proceeds with his well-named Satan’s Crew. They are a loose collection of shifty characters with monikers like Doc, Kayo, Soapy, Big Bill and Gentleman Dan—many of whom don’t survive working for the satanic captain for very long. That was the refreshing thing about William O’Sullivan’s dashing demi-hero: In the realistic and hard-hitting milieu he painted, not every heroic henchman lives to fight another day.
 
As Satan tells them: “You know my principles: To smash every crook I can lay my hands on—and what he has is mine. I’ll break every petty or large crook, every swindling racketeer or grafting politician or gyp banker I can lay my hands on. The terms you already know. What they have is ours. I pay the expenses and take a one third cut. You boys spilt the remainder on equal shares.”

William O’Sullivan was a prolific producer of pulp crime, sports and aviation stories. He penned only five novels for Captain Satan magazine, but they are nice smooth examples of 1938 pulp. And they carry the distinct flavor of Popular Publications—a kind of pulpy Warner Bros. movie on paper.

 
One amusing thing about Cary Adair is that he was best buds with the head of the F.B.I.—in this series called Jo Desher. In real life, he was J. Edgar Hoover. Desher soon begins to suspect that his wealthy friend is the brains behind Captain Satan. But proving it is another matter….
 
The Mask of the Damned chronicles the first exploit of Cary Adair, and is ripped from the pages of Popular Publications’ premier issue of Captain Satan, dated March, 1938. Michael C. Gwynne narrates the action. Also included in this Total Pulp Experience audiobook is William R. Cox’s intriguing short story, “Mr. Detective is Annoyed.” 6 hours $23.98 Audio CDs / $11.99 Download.
 

 
 

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Six New Will Murray’s Pulp Classics eBooks

 
The best of timeless Pulp now available as cutting edge eBooks! Will Murray’s Pulp Classics brings the greatest heroes, awesome action, and two fisted thrills to your eReader! Presenting Pulp Icons such as the Spider and Operator #5 as well as wonderfully obscure characters like the Octopus and more, Will Murray’s Pulp Classics brings you the best of yesterday’s Pulp today!
 

A mass-murder weapon, too horrible for war, was sweeping New York with fire — under the barbaric, pitiless direction of the Master of the Flame Men! First warning of the unseen cloud of death was a breath of tainted air that transformed a sombre populace into a laughing, drunken riot. Then came a blast that would smash a skyscraper into bits… From the charred and twisted embers of the towering holocaust, Richard Wentworth rose, in the fear-inspiring guise of the Spider, to smoke the arson assassin out from behind the machine guns of his flame-cloaked bodyguard — and fight for the lives of a reeling, giggling people too blind-drunk to flee! Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine. $2.99.
 
At the coming of the Silencer, dread stillness blanketed all Manhattan — for no one’s most secret thought was safe from that prying terror-monarch who blackmailed men into bloody suicide! Neither trembling citizen, nor great corporation, was safe in this new crime empire, whose subjects were faceless corpses and whose coffers were jammed with gang-gathered gold. Richard Wentworth, in the Spider’s strange disguise, takes up his own weird weapons to fight the greatest battle of his career — against a monster who made a fortune out of harmless fools and struck a whole city dumb before it died! Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine. As a special bonus, Will Murray has written an introduction especially for this series of eBooks. $2.99.

 
The Scarlet Baron, a shrewd, criminal demagogue, had inflamed the American people to white-hot madness by his false promises of wealth for all! Great hosts of misguided men stormed the country, bent on plunder, rapine and murder. Countless innocent persons, were slaughtered, burned, crucified. No human was safe from one moment to the next. The greatest nation in the world had gone completely mad!… Only a pitiful handful of men were left to preserve the ideals of American liberty and justice. Headed by Jimmy Christopher, Ace of the Intelligence, they did their valiant best. With Diane Elliot and Tim Donovan apparently sacrificed in vain — with his own life a forfeited pawn — Operator 5 faces the gravest crisis of his career and his most dangerous enemy! Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine. As a special bonus, Will Murray has written an introduction especially for this series of eBooks. $2.99.

 
 
In 1934 a new type of magazine was born. Known by various names — the shudder pulps, mystery-terror magazines, horror-terror magazines — weird menace is the sub-genre term that has survived today. Terror Tales magazine was one of the most popular. It came from Popular Publications, whose publisher Harry Steeger was inspired by the Grand Guignol theater of Paris. This breed of pulp story survived less than ten years, but in that time, they became infamous, even to this day. This ebook contains a collection of stories from the pages of Terror Tales magazine, all written by Bruno Fischer, writing under the pen names of Harrison Storm and Russell Gray, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format. $2.99.

 

They called them the Ambassadors From Hell — these fighting fools of Satan’s Crew. Captain Satan! — only a name, but burned by the brand of justice into the heart of the underworld! Strange Detective Mysteries premiered in October of 1937.  After two issues, it changed its title — and its focus — to Captain Satan.  It featured a crime-fighting hero much in the style of Robin Hood or The Saint, who robbed from the crooks — a grim, hard vigilante of justice.  By day, he was wealthy Cary Adair.  By night, Captain Satan!  Assisted by a dozen aides, none of whom knew the identities of the others, this scourge of the underworld brought terror to all men of evil who saw his calling card, a devil figure projected onto the wall by a portable light. The series lasted a short five issues from March 1938 until July 1938, and then returned to Strange Detective Mysteries where it continued for 26 more issues into mid-1943. Captain Satan now returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format. $2.99.
 

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Get a taste of Romance in the Old West in Rangeland Romances #14.  One of the most popular genres of the Pulp era, the western romance appealed to men and women alike, combining the draw of love and drama with the six-gun. In Fiesta Kisses are Sweetest, Nedra despised rancher Bill McVeigh so furiously and unalterably — that she decided to be that arrogant cattle-king’s very last romance. When she gave rancher Bill a double dose of love-’em-and-leave-’em — she never figured she’d get stuck on the lovin’! Presented in a beautifully formatted eBook for easy reading, this tale of love and action on the frontier is a good addition to your eBook collection. $0.99.
 
All eBooks produced by Radio Archives are available in ePub, Mobi, and PDF formats for the ultimate in compatibility. When you upgrade to a new eReader, you can transfer your eBook to your new device without the need to purchase anything new.
 
Find these legendary Pulp tales and more in Will Murray’s Pulp Classics, now available in the Kindle store, Barnes and Noble Nook store, and RadioArchives.com! Search for RadioArchives.com in iTunes for over 200 eBooks are available.
 

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Receive an exciting original Spider adventure FREE! Part of the Will Murray Pulp Classics line, The Spider #11, Prince of the Red Looters first saw print in 1934 and features his momentous battle with The Fly and his armies of crazed criminal killers.
 
For those who have been unsure about digging into the wonderful world of pulps, this is a perfect chance to give one of these fantastic yarns a real test run. With a full introduction to the Spider written by famed pulp historian and author Will Murray, The Spider #11 was written by one of pulp’s most respected authors, Norvell W. Page. Writing as Grant Stockbridge, Page’s stories included some of the most bizarre and fun takes on heroes and crime fighting in the history of escapist fiction.
 
Even today Page’s scenarios and his edge-of-the-seat writing style are still thrilling both new and old fans everywhere. For those who have never read one of these rollercoaster adventures, you are in for a thrill. If you already know how much fun a classic pulp is, make sure you get a copy of this classic.
 

See what the Total Pulp Experience is for yourself. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine.
 
Send an eMail to eBooks@RadioArchives.com and start reading your FREE copy of  the Spider #11 within seconds! Experience The Best Pulps the Past has to offer in the most modern way possible!
 
 

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The legendary Master of Men returns in two classic stories from the 1930s. First, a spider should be able to catch a fly, but this particular Fly has other plans in mind! In Prince of the Red Looters (1934), you’ll join Richard Wentworth as he battles a criminal mastermind more lethal, more ruthless than any he has encountered before. So confident is the Fly of his own abilities that he dares challenge The Spider himself to a duel – to the death! Then, in The City That Dared Not Eat (1937), New York City staggers under a vicious crime wave aimed at controlling the very food supply! Mass murder, wholesale poisoning — nothing is beyond the maniac leading a gang of ruthless killers in their battle for supremacy. While The Spider matches guns and wits against an army of crime, the city starves! These two exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading and feature both of the original full color covers as well as interior illustrations that accompany each story. $14.95! On sale for $12.95, save $2.00

 

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Margo Lane Special
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows! The Knight of Darkness explores deadly enigmas in the Walter Gibson thrillers that introduced Margo Lane into the Shadow pulp mythos. First, The Shadow and Margo Lane (in her pulp debut) confront the deadly lightning of Thor, The Thunder King. Then, The Shadow investigates the strange machinations of the Secret Six whose giant sapphire, The Star of Delhi. is the centerpiece for serial murders. BONUS: The Witch Drums, a long-lost thriller from Orson Welles’ legendary Shadow broadcasts! This instant collector’s item showcases both classic pulp covers by Graves Gladney plus the original interior illustrations of Paul Orban, with historical commentary by Will Murray and Anthony Tollin. who pays tribute to the late Margot Stevenson, “the Woman who was Margo Lane.” $14.95.
 
 
The pulp era’s legendary superman returns in two action-packed novels by Alan Hathway and Lester Dent writing as “Kenneth Robeson.” First, the Man of Bronze confronts the deadly menace of The Headless Men, decapitated zombies commanded by a mad genius in the landmark 100th Doc Savage novel. Then, in his first solo adventure, a disguised Doc Savage travels to King Joe Cay to infiltrate a gang of schemers. This double-novel collector’s edition features the original color pulp covers by Emery Clarke and Modest Stein, Paul Orban’s classic interior illustrations and historical commentary by Will Murray, writer of ten Doc Savage novels. $14.95.
 

 
Unseen, impregnable, the strange war engine of a foreign power hovered over America, waiting the fatal moment to hurl death upon a thousand cities and towns. Foredoomed to destruction and desolation before the ravaging hordes of the Yellow Empire, bleak despair gripped the nation’s millions. And then men held their breath in agonizing hope — as Operator 5, single-handed, seized the last grim chance to save the United States!
 
This is an authentic replica of an original pulp magazine published by Girasol Collectables. This edition is designed to give the reader an authentic taste of what a typical pulp magazine was like when it was first issued – but without the frailty or expense of trying to find a decades-old collectable to enjoy. The outer covers, the interior pages, and the advertisements are reprinted just as they appeared in the original magazine, left intact to give the reader the true feel of the original as well as an appreciation for the way in which these publications were first offered to their avid readers. To further enhance the “pulp experience”, this edition is printed on off-white bond paper intended to simulate the original look while, at the same time, assuring that this edition will last far longer than the original upon which it is based. The overall construction and appearance of this reprint is designed to be as faithful to the original magazine as is reasonably possible, given the unavoidable changes in production methods and materials. $35.00
 
 
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The shattering sequel to Fortress of Solitude.
 
The Doc Savage exploit that went untold for 74 years—Death’s Dark Domain!
 
In the aftermath of the evil John Sunlight’s pillaging of the secret Fortress of Solitude, a dreadful super-weapon has fallen the hands of a Balkan dictator intent upon seizing control of the vampire-haunted zone of desolation known as Ultra-Stygia. War is imminent. Monsters are loose in the disputed region. A strange darkness falls over the sinister landscape. Only Doc Savage, the Man of Bronze, understands the terrible threat to humanity. And only he can prevent the terror from spreading…
 
There are unknown Things prowling the darkest patch of land on the planet. Haunted by creatures that might have emerged from the Hell’s lowest regions, ancient Ultra-Stygia has turned into a cauldron of conflict between rival countries. Monster bats careen through the night sky. Invisible Cyclopes patrol the scorched battleground. And a power beyond understanding robs men of their vision.
 
Can the 20th century’s premier scientist and superman untangle this Gordian knot of carnage before neighboring nations are drawn into an apocalyptic new world war? Or will the Man of Bronze succumb to an unstoppable power he himself has unleashed upon mankind?
 
From the frozen Arctic to the war-torn Balkans, Doc Savage and his fighting five follow a winding trail of terror to a blood-freezing climax.

 
Death’s Dark Domain features a fantastic cover painted by Joe DeVito! $24.95.

 

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Back in print after 20 years! The rare Lester Dent-Will Murray collaboration resurrecting the original pulp superman…
 
Also available is the first Altus Press edition of Will Murray’s 1993 Doc Savage adventure, The Forgotten Realm. Deep in the heart of the African Congo lies a secret unsuspected for thousands of years. Doc Savage and his men embark on a quest to discover the secret of the strange individual known only as X Man, X for unknown. Before they come to the end of the trail, they find themselves fighting for their lives like gladiators of old!
 
No one knows who—or what—the strange being who calls himself “X Man” truly is. He was found wandering the ruins of a crumbling Roman fort, dressed in a toga, speaking classical Latin—and clutching a handful of unearthly black seeds.
 
Declared insane, the X Man patiently tends his weird plants until the day, impelled by a nameless terror, he flees Wyndmoor Asylum to unleash a cyclone of violence that is destined to suck the mighty Man of Bronze into the blackest, most unbelievable mystery of his entire career. For far from Scotland lies a domain of death unknown to the world and called by the ancient Latin name of Novum Eboracum—New York!
 
From the wild Scottish moors to the unexplored heart of darkest Africa, Doc Savage and his indomitable men embarked upon a desperate quest for the Forgotten Realm….
 

The Forgotten Realm features a spectacular cover painted by Joe DeVito! $24.95.

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City of Crime takes The Shadow to Westford. Crime had infiltrated to the very highest levels of city government and it would take all the power and abilities of The Shadow to defeat the mobsters who ruled with impunity.
 
Westford is in the hands of mobsters, starting with low-lifes like Lance Gillick who runs the Club Adair as a gambling joint, and his lieutenant Beezer Dorsch. Gillick and Dorsch are getting away with murder… literally! It’s all simple when the Director of Police Kirk Borman is one of the mobsters running the show. And he’s created the Flying Squadron, a special khaki-clad force of forty officers who are in actuality hand-picked thugs. To the public, this is a special task force that can be rapidly deployed into action against crime. But in reality, it’s a cover-up squad that covers for crooks and guns down any innocents in the way.
 
The Shadow is on the case! And it’s a good thing, because without The Shadow, the entire town of Westford would fall under the evil sway of the mobsters hidden in the guise of high-level officials.  During most of the story, The Shadow works alone in Westford in his disguise as Theo D. Shaw, described as a tall, haggard-faced individual, whose eyes were restless. But this character is soon framed by the corrupt officials, and is on the run, himself. So The Shadow shows up next in another disguise; that of Trig Callister, a New York gangster and trigger-man.
 
It should be pointed out that The Shadow’s disguise as Theo D. Shaw was never used again in any other pulp novel. Apparently it was a throw-away disguise, one which he had no interest in keeping.

Even though World War II was still a ways off, apparently feeling against Japanese was running high. It shows in the racial slurs in this story. Haija, crime boss Stephen Ruthley’s Japanese house-man, is constantly referred to as a “grinning Jap.” And The Shadow has oppor-tunity to whip him good, using his own jujitsu against him. American readers probably found satisfaction in that.
 

This was a fun little crime drama. No ghosts, mad scientists or exotic locales. Just a straight-forward gangster tale, well told as only Walter Gibson could. And this tale plus another full length Shadow novel can be yours in The Shadow, Volume 16. $12.95

 

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The Fibber McGee and Molly Show: The 1939/1940 Season
I’ve had this great Fibber and Molly set for quite a while now, and I’ve been meaning to write you and thank you for it for nearly as long, but life got in the way. This set is amazing–not only because of the quality of the restored recordings, but also because of the number of firsts which occurred in this season of the show.
 
First, the quality. One would think that by now, I’d have become so accustomed to the great quality of your work that it would cease to amaze me, and yet, that is simply not the case. Considering the age of these episodes, I listen to the orchestral numbers and marvel at the separation which can be heard among the instruments. Oh, of course, I don’t mean separation in a stereophonic sense, but rather, in the clarity of the sounds. I can hear the crispness of the saxophones, the brightness of the brass, the smoothness of the strings. To compare to my average listening experience with old-time radio programs, if I heard a similar song, I’d know there was a brass section, a saxophone section and a string section, but the sound would not be nearly so well-defined. And that’s just the music! Barring small sections where one can hear some scratching buried deep in the background (which in no way affects the listening experience, I assure you!), the actors’ dialogue shines through with a pristine clarity which far surpassed my admittedly high expectations. (Hey, don’t blame me if you set the bar so high as to raise my expectations to such a degree.) And my, how young Harlow Wilcox sounds in these recordings!
 
Okay, enough about the quality. What are the “firsts” listeners can look forward to herein? Let’s see …
 
The first appearance of a certain Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve. There are even a few instances in the early episodes of the set where Hal Perry makes an appearance as other small roles, before Gildy is “officially” introduced. By the end of 1941, he would have his own spin-off show.
 
The first occurrence of the hall closet being opened. One of the most famous bits of Fibber and Molly comedy, and it got its start right here in this season of the show.
 
And last, but in no way least, this season introduces us to the King’s Men, who, if I’m not mistaken, would stay with the show to the end of the Johnson’s Wax run. We don’t get to hear their traditional “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” piece yet, but we do get to hear plenty of examples of why these four men are among the most talented quartets of the era … at least, in this listener/reviewer’s opinion.
 
All of this is just a long-winded way of saying thank you for providing this complete season of shows, which is not only a great season of comedy, but also a real slice of Fibber and Molly history. I hope there are more season sets to come. You can be sure I wil be a proud purchaser!

 

If you’d like to share a comment with us or if you have a question or a suggestion send an email to Service@RadioArchives.com. We’d love to hear from you!

 
The products you’ve read about in this newsletter are just a small fraction of what you’ll find waiting for you at RadioArchives.com. Whether it’s the sparkling audio fidelity of our classic radio collections, the excitement of our new line of audiobooks, or the timeless novels of the pulp heroes, you’ll find hundreds of intriguing items at RadioArchives.com.
 
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DOMINO LADY AND THE SPIDER TEAM UP

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  • January 5, 2013
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Moonstone Books’ Phases of the Moon #1 Domino Lady/The Spider trade paperback will ship to comic shops on January 11, 2013. Written by Steven L. Frank, Phases of the Moon #1 Domino Lady/The Spider features art by Remy Mokhtar and Bill McKay.

About Phases of the Moon #1 Domino Lady/The Spider:
A story arc so encompassing, it spans three flip comics, six Moonstone titles and several decades! A serial killer is terrorizing the city, but while The Spider investigates, all clues lead to his involvement and Domino Lady plans to stop him in his tracks. All is not as it seems, as the killer operates with equipment not of this time!

Learn more about Domino Lady here.
Learn more about The Spider here.
Learn more about Phases of the Moon here.

OLD TIME RADIO! AUDIOBOOKS! PULP! EBOOKS! THE LAST RADIO ARCHIVES NEWSLETTER OF 2012!

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  • December 21, 2012

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December 21, 2012
 
Merry Christmas from Radio Archives!
 
 
Be sure to get those last minute gift ideas for the Radio and Pulp fans on your Christmas list from Radio Archives with Priority Mail. With Lightning Fast Service, your order placed by 7:30 p.m. Eastern time will be shipped the same day you order!
 
The Lightning Fast Service graphic on the Home Page of RadioArchives.com will be updated everyday in Real Time so that you will know when your order will arrive!
 

Gift Certificates
 
Give the gift of great entertainment with a gift certificate from Radio Archives!  Available in any amount you choose, it’s always a welcome gift for anyone who loves classic radio entertainment or the thrilling adventures of Doc Savage and The Shadow.
 
 
Gift certificates are available to be sent via e-mail or standard First Class postage – your choice – and, what’s more, you can choose multiple recipients all at the same time. Imagine having all of your shopping done all at once…with just a few clicks!
 
To order, simply add a gift certificate to your cart, just as you would any other product. Once you have done so, you’ll be able to choose the exact amount, as well as choose other ways in which you can personalize your gift.

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Whistles, hissing steam escaping from smoke stacks, other train sounds all accompanying announcer Marvin Miller’s “Ladies and Gentlemen, The Railroad Hour!” This opening line heralded the beginning of each episode of one of the most beloved, often sought after music programs of the golden age of radio! You can enjoy the same ride now on The Railroad Hour, Volume 4!
 
The Railroad Hour presented abridged versions of some of the most popular and beloved musicals and operettas of all time. In these lush and tuneful half-hours, star and leading man Gordon MacRae was joined by a host of leading ladies – including MGM and Warner Brothers vocalist Lucille Norman, Metropolitan Opera stars Dorothy Kirsten and Nadine Conner, and many more. In his role as host and leading man, MacRae generally narrated the programs, giving listeners the basic structure of the plot as the show went along.
 
The job of adapting massive musicals and full-scale operettas into a forty five minute format fell to Jean Holloway and the writing team of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. The rich, room-filling music was provided by maestro Carmen Dragon, an arranger/conductor with vast musical experience in both radio and motion pictures, and the dozen or so members of the Norman Luboff choir.
 
If you love Broadway musicals, romantic operettas, or the popular songs of the mid-20th century, you’ll love The Railroad Hour, Volume 4, episodes from the initial run of this classic beloved program, presented in Sparkling audio quality. Six hours. $17.98 Audio CDs / $8.99 Download.
 
Radio Archives had a tremendous year in 2012, creating almost 250 new products. To celebrate, we are offering you a number of our most popular products at Half Price.
 
 
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Escape, a dramatic anthology series, concentrated primarily on tales of high adventure based on works by esteemed authors like Rudyard Kipling, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and H.G. Wells. Though it may not have received the attention lavished on other more well-known series, from 1947 to 1954, it managed to transcend its mostly network-sustained origins to provide top-quality entertainment, relying on outstanding performers like Elliott Lewis, Jeanette Nolan, and Hans Conried, as well as distinguished veterans like William N. Robson and Norman MacDonnell to oversee the production and direction. Week in and week out, Escape demonstrated that it was truly an outstanding and memorable show…even if it was lacking the Hollywood stars that attracted big-money sponsorship. Regular Price $29.98 – Christmas Special priced until January 3rd for $14.99 Audio CDs / $7.49 Download.
 
 
 
Screen legend Harold Lloyd hosts The Old Gold Comedy Theatre, a 1944/45 NBC anthology series featuring some of the top names in film and radio. Presenting half-hour versions of popular film comedies in much the same way that The Lux Radio Theater did with drama, this delightful and star-studded series was long considered a “lost show” until an almost complete set of recordings was found in Lloyd’s basement – recordings that have now been restored to sparkling audio fidelity by Radio Archives. The result is ten full hours of sparkling star-studded entertainment. Regular Price $29.98 – Christmas Special priced until January 3rd for $14.99 Audio CDs / $7.49 Download.
 
 
 
 
 
Give yourself the gift of a true Christmas Classic and make it your own holiday tradition! A 26 episode adventure, The  Complete Cinnamon Bear relates the adventures of Judy and Jimmy, The Barton Twins, in Maybeland. On a hunt for the silver star to top their tree, the twins meet Paddy O’Cinnamon, theCinnamon Bear.  In pursuit of the Crazy Quilt dragon that stole the star, listeners follow Paddy and the Twins on wonderfully fantastic journeys as they meet such memorable characters as Captain Tin Top, Fraidy Cat, Mr. Presto, and even Santa Claus himself! The show even includes eleven original holiday songs written exclusively for the program! The Complete Cinnamon Bear appeals to listeners of all ages, sparking nostalgia of a simpler time for some, carrying hints of childhood stories for others.  For all, The Complete Cinnamon Bear is a must have this holiday season! Regular Price $20.98 – Christmas Special priced until January 3rd for $10.49 Audio CDs / $5.24 Download.
 
 
 
 
Whether you remember the big band era yourself or simply appreciate the timeless music of the war years and beyond, you’ll find many treasures in this second collection from Radio Archives, featuring twenty of the top bands and musical groups of the era in twenty half-hour live remote broadcasts dating from 1944 to 1950. In addition to performances by orchestras that are still well remembered today, the set also features broadcasts by several lesser-known but equally talented ensembles, all performing live and in-person from some of the top ballrooms and night spots of the era. Regular Price $29.98 – Christmas Special priced until January 3rd for $14.99 Audio CDs / $7.49 Download.
 
 
 
 
Created and produced by the Australian-based George Edwards Productions, The Adventures of Marco Polo relates the remarkable journey which Marco Polo, his father, and his uncle took to Persia and China in the late 1200s. These Venetian businessmen risked their very lives to establish trade relations with countries that, at the time, were thought to be uncivilized, dangerous, and possibly deadly. Their treacherous journey, as well as the riches, action, and intrigue they found when they arrived in the Far East, makes for thrilling and adventurous entertainment. This six-CD set offers the first twenty-five broadcasts of this fifty-two episode series; the remaining programs can be found in Volume 2. Regular Price $17.98 – Christmas Special priced until January 3rd for $8.99 Audio CDs / $4.49 Download.
 
 
 
 

Space Patrol outlines the exploits of Commander Buzz Corey (Ed Kemmer), head of a 30th-century police-keeping force operating from the planet Terra. Assisting Corey is his youthful sidekick Cadet Happy (Lyn Osborne), as well as Major “Robbie” Robertson (Ken Meyer), Dr. Van Meter (Rudolph Anders) and Carol Karlyle (Virginia Hewett). Corey’s struggle to maintain law and order is frequently hampered by the villainous likes of Mister Proteus (Marvin Miller), Agent X (Norman Jolley), and Prince Baccaretti (Bela Kovacs). This collection offers you ten fun-filled hours of gee-whiz intergalactic action, featuring a wide range of special premium offers “just for sending in those box tops from Ralston cereals”.  Regular Price $29.98 – Christmas Special priced until January 3rd for $14.99 Audio CDs / $7.49 Download.

 
 
 
 
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Before James Bond was ever imagined, Jimmy Christopher was the bravest, boldest and best-equipped secret agent any nation ever had!
 
From out of the pages of Operator #5 magazine steps a dramatic hero who pits himself against threats to national security from all origins. Whether it’s subversive internal menace, or a full-scale invasion from an enemy land, James Christopher stood ready and resolute to defeat it.
 
In 1934, with Hitler consolidating power in Germany and the Japanese Empire on the rise in Asia, young pulp publisher Harry Steeger decided that the American public was ready for a magazine chronicling the exploits of an undercover agent dedicated to defending the United States from foreign aggressors. With his editors, Steeger came up with a title, Secret Service Operator #5, and a cover depicting a masked terrorist fleeing an exploding White House. Over this loomed the resourceful hero, blazing away with a .45 automatic. His job: to defeat a new invasion of the United States—every month!
 
James Christopher did not technically belong to the U. S. Secret Service. He was a top agent for an America’s unnamed Intelligence Service. It was in his blood. His father, John Christopher, retired from the same agency years before. Answerable only to his superior, Z-7, and carrying a letter from the President of the United States identifying him as Operator #5, Jimmy Christopher played for keeps. He carried a rapier sewn into his belt, and in a golden skull hanging from his watch-chain was a reservoir of poison to be taken in the event of capture.
 
Aided by a small group of trusted assistants, ranging from his twin sister Nan to scrappy street urchin Tim Donovan, Jimmy Christopher was a one-man defense force. Proud and patriotic, expert marksman and swordsman, he was the best America has to offer in a time of severe trial.
 
Originally written by master pulpsmith Frederick C. Davis, theOperator #5 series was a clear forerunner of the spy and espionage genre, which exploded in the 1960s when President John F. Kennedy happened remark that he enjoyed reading Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels. The first Bond film, Dr. No, was released in 1962. Soon, America was surrounded by spies. The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Our Man Flint,and Nick Carter, Killmaster were just a few of the most prolific. Jimmy Christopher was on the job a generation before them all, blazing the espionage trail, and keeping America safe from fascism and other wicked isms.
 
Unseen, impregnable, the strange war engine of a foreign power hovered over America, waiting the fatal moment to hurl death upon a thousand cities and towns. Foredoomed to destruction and desolation before the ravaging hordes of the Yellow Empire, bleak despair gripped the nation’s millions. And then men held their breath in agonizing hope — as Operator #5, single-handed, seized the last grim chance to save the United States!
 
Into this unprecedented crisis plunged Jimmy Christopher. Only one man, but a man who embodied the American spirit—and stands prepared to perish to protect his country.
 
This Total Pulp Experience audiobook contains all three stories from the second issue issue of Operator #5 Magazine, May 1934. Read by Richard Epcar. 6 hours. $23.98 Audio CDs / $11.99 Download.
 
 
Put the chilling in your Christmas with Terror Tales, Volume 1! Featuring seven stories from the original run of the classic weird menace magazine, this audiobook will give you goosebumps and have you leaving the light on at night! In Paul Ernst’s horrific The Mummy Maker, an innocent woman faces the fearsome fate of being mummified alive! Norvell Page’s disquieting Accursed Thirst takes us into the dark mind of a vampire—or is it a werewolf? Terror and horror compete for supremacy in Frederick C. Davis deeply disturbing Dig Deep the Graves! These and four more horror classics are read by Joey D’Auria and Michael C. Gwynne. Terror Tales is a guaranteed fright for sure! Regular Price $27.98 – Christmas Special priced until January 3rd for $13.99 Audio CDs / $6.99 Download.
 
Great Audiobooks for Christmas
 
Captain Future The Space Emperor – Thrill to the debut adventure of the Doc Savage of the Future!  Written by Edmond Hamilton, Captain Future and the Space Emperor is a wild adventure spanning from Jupiter to the Moon.  Armed with a proton pistol and accompanied by three nonhuman companions, Captain Future made the spaceways of the far flung 1990s safe flying around in the Comet! Read by Joey D’Auria! 6 Hours of Science Fiction Adventure. 6 hours. $23.98 Audio CDs /  $11.99 Download.
 

The Green Lama The Case of the Crimson Hand – One of the most unique and popular pulp characters ever created, Kendall Foster Crossen’s Green Lamafights once!  Created to compete with The Shadow, The Green Lama was Jethro Dumont, a millionaire who had gone to Tibet to become a lama and returned to America to fight crime! Surrounding himself with a team of companions, The Green Lama sets off on his first two adventures in this Audiobook, voiced by noted voice actor Michael McConnohie!  Thrill to the inaugural exploits of The Green Lama! 6 hours. $23.98 Audio CDs / $11.99 Download.
 
Dan Fowler: G-Man Snatch! – Pulp’s classic two fisted government agent fights crime in this wonderfully produced audiobook!  From an era when the real life FBI was tackling crime head and hands on throughout America comes Dan Fowler, a young but hardened agent schooled in the scientific methods of the FBI, but also able to hold his own in a bloody shootout! Listen as actor Richard Epcar breathes ruggedness and determination into every word as Fowler jumps in fists raised and guns blazing to deal with kidnappers and criminals! 5 hours. $19.98 Audio CDs / $9.99 Download.

The Spider The Prince of the Red Looters – A foe truly worthy of the Spider invites the Master of Men into his parlor in this pulp thriller! The Fly challenges Norvell W. Page’s iconic hero at every twist and turn in this riveting tale! And the challenge issued is one the Spider is only too glad to take up, a fight to the death! This audiobook, produced by Roger Rittner and wonderfully voiced by Nick Santa Mariaand Robin Riker, comes complete with a full period musical score and sound effects! 6 hours $23.98 Audio CDs / $11.99 Download.
 
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The best of timeless Pulp now available as cutting edge eBooks! Will Murray’s Pulp Classics brings the greatest heroes, awesome action, and two fisted thrills to your eReader! Presenting Pulp Icons such as the Spider and Operator #5 as well as wonderfully obscure characters like the Octopus and more, Will Murray’s Pulp Classics brings you the best of yesterday’s Pulp today!
 
Over the Capitol hung that suicide Senator’s warning of destruction and anarchy to come when he was gone — of a fair land of freemen to suffer shame and degradation, a nation to be torn apart by the hounds of hell! Upon the very Senate doors hammered those yogi-mesmerized mobs who sought to make a mad man America’s ruler. And Richard Wentworth, whose eyes had gazed upon a written message from the honored dead, must don the Spider’s cloak of darkness to fight off these Storm Troops of Satan who would not rest content until Washington was a bloody shambles and the Chief Executive, himself, hung from a lonely gallows! Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine.
 

America’s greatest metropolis struggled hopelessly in the toils of starvation — victim of the world’s most unscrupulous impostor — a criminal red Spider whose underworld cohorts had slashed the city’s life-giving arteries and established a bloody rule! While hollow-cheeked Famine left its ghastly imprint upon whimpering, peaked-faced little children, Richard Wentworth, in the real Spider’s eerie guise, took up their desperate cause — to wage death-battle against his most terrible foe — a crime-master who had cut the very throat of civilization in order to rear an evil empire on its white, picked bones! Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine. As a special bonus, Will Murray has written an introduction especially for this series of eBooks.

 

From the fleshpots of Asia they came — mailed warriors led by a brawny coolie emperor — a savage army against which no force could stand! Veteran military leaders turned craven before that dread new foe. Famous regiments broke, retreated, surrendered shamefully. Our navy was lost. The United States was waging two wars — and losing both!… Jimmy Christopher — Ace of the Intelligence — faces the supreme test of his career. Can he save America when all other commanders have furled their colors in dishonorable defeat? Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine. As a special bonus, Will Murray has written an introduction especially for this series of eBooks.

 
Terror Tales John H. Knox

In 1934 a new type of magazine was born. Known by various names — the shudder pulps, mystery-terror magazines, horror-terror magazines — weird menace is the sub-genre term that has survived today. Terror Tales magazine was one of the most popular. It came from Popular Publications, whose publisher Harry Steeger was inspired by the Grand Guignol theater of Paris. This breed of pulp story survived less than ten years, but in that time, they became infamous, even to this day. This ebook contains a collection of stories from the pages of Terror Tales magazine, all written by John H. Knox, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
 

Against a strange murder-master who held first a neighborhood, then a city, and then an entire, powerful nation in an icy paralyzing grip of fear, Captain Zero must wage a grim final battle — with only the guns of a small midnight patrol, that would seek him for a target at the first crimson streak of dawn!

 
All eBooks produced by Radio Archives are available in ePub, Mobi, and PDF formats for the ultimate in compatibility. When you upgrade to a new eReader, you can transfer your eBook to your new device without the need to purchase anything new.
 
Find these legendary Pulp tales and more in Will Murray’s Pulp Classics, now available in the Kindle store, Barnes and Noble Nook store, and RadioArchives.com! Search for RadioArchives.com in iTunes where over 100 eBooks and growing everyday are available.
 
 


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Get a taste of Romance in the Old West in Rangeland Romances #1.  One of the most popular genres of the Pulp era, the western romance appealed to men and women alike, combining the draw of love and drama with the six-gun.  In Another Girl’s Brand, cowboy Quent finds himself torn between two passionate women, pants wearing beauty Trudy offering him a business partnership and exotic and flirtacious Grace who he wants to take away from the roughneck mining town! Presented in a beautifully formatted eBook for easy reading, this tale of love and action on the frontier is a must have this Holiday Season! Regular price $0.99. Christmas Special priced until January 3rd for $0.49.
 
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Receive an exciting original Spider adventure FREE! Part of the Will Murray Pulp Classics line, The Spider #11, Prince of the Red Looters first saw print in 1934 and features his momentous battle with The Fly and his armies of crazed criminal killers.
 
For those who have been unsure about digging into the wonderful world of pulps, this is a perfect chance to give one of these fantastic yarns a real test run. With a full introduction to the Spider written by famed pulp historian and author Will Murray, The Spider #11 was written by one of pulp’s most respected authors, Norvell W. Page. Writing as Grant Stockbridge, Page’s stories included some of the most bizarre and fun takes on heroes and crime fighting in the history of escapist fiction.
 
Even today Page’s scenarios and his edge-of-the-seat writing style are still thrilling both new and old fans everywhere. For those who have never read one of these rollercoaster adventures, you are in for a thrill. If you already know how much fun a classic pulp is, make sure you get a copy of this classic.
 
See what the Total Pulp Experience is for yourself. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine.
 
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One of the top crime-fighters from the golden age of pulp fiction, the Spider returns in two thrill-packed adventures by Norvell W. Page writing as Grant Stockbridge. First, in The Spider and the Jewels Of Hell (1940), Tough, dauntless miners, accustomed to hardship and danger, paled in helpless terror as their homes were destroyed, their loved ones slaughtered! No one was safe, above ground or below, when The Killer walked among them. Only the Spider dared challenge the strangle-hold of fear that held an entire town in its deadly grip! Then, in Recruit For the Spider Legion (1943), Staunch supporter of justice and champion of the law Stanley Kirkpatrick, finds himself about to gain unexpected insights into the workings of the system when he himself is faced with the electric chair! Can the very man who has forever branded the Spider a criminal for his vigilante efforts join with his old enemy to battle the forces of Kali? These two exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading and feature both of the original full color covers as well as interior illustrations that accompany each story. Buy it today for $14.95!
 
 

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows! The Master of Darkness investigates baffling mysteries in two classic pulp thrillers by Walter B. Gibson writing as “Maxwell Grant.” First, a hidden “Death Clue” secreted by Joe Cardona prevents the Master of Darkness from stopping serial murders! Then, guised as Kent Allard and Lamont Cranston, The Shadow travels from Mexico City to New Orleans to defeat an Aztec murder cult devoted to “Xitli, God of Fire.” This instant collector’s item showcases the original pulp covers by George Rozen and Graves Gladney plus the classic interior illustrations by Tom Lovell and Earl Mayan, with historical commentary by pulp historian Will Murray. Buy it today for $14.95.

 
The pulp era’s greatest superman returns in three exotic tales by William Bogart and Lester Dent writing as “Kenneth Robeson.” First, a glowing scarab from “The Awful Dynasty” brings horrific deaths to financiers while a priceless scroll sends Doc and Patricia Savage to Egypt in search of the lost secret of the pyramid of Cheops! Then, the deadly mystery of “The Angry Canary” leads Doc and his aides to India. Finally, Monk Mayfair encounters “The Swooning Lady” during a trek through Central Park, in a tale newly illustrated by Dick Tracy’s Joe Staton! This triple-novel collector’s edition features both original color pulp covers by Emery Clarke, Paul Orban’s classic interior illustrations and historical commentary by Will Murray, writer of ten Doc Savage novels. Buy it today for $14.95.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Richard Wentworth, the Spider, swings into Pulpy action once more in The Spider #21 – #24 Double Novel reprints. Race alongside the Master of Men and his beloved Nita Van Sloan and trusted companions Ram Singh and Jackson as they risk life, limb, and sanity to keep New York safe from madmen and lunatics! Find out why the Spider is considered one of the top three classic Pulp characters still today! Each reprint contains two exciting pulp adventures that have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading and feature both of the original full color covers as well as interior illustrations that accompany each story. The Spider Volumes #21 to #24, regular price $14.95 – Christmas Special priced until January 3rd for $7.47.
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The Man of Bronze leaves his mark on Pulp once again in classic stories reprinted in Doc Savage from Radio Archives! Follow Doc and his trusted friends and aides –  Monk, Ham, Long Tom, Renny, and Johnny – as they take on supervillains, would be tyrants, and strange villains of all kinds! Read Lester Dent at his best as Doc uses both brain and brawn to fight for justice and save the world once more! Each reprint contains two full-length Pulp novels reformatted for easy reading and also includes articles, illustrations, and other Doc related information to make the experience more exciting! Doc Savage Volumes #14 Bama, #17 Bama, #22, #22 Bama and #23, regular price $12.95 – Christmas Special priced until January 3rd for $6.47.

 
Find out Who Knows What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of Men inThe Shadow #21 and #24 from Radio Archives! These classic tales beautifully reprinted and formatted for easy reading feature Pulp’s most mysterious hero as created by Walter Gibson. Each reprint features two full length Shadow Pulp novels as well as original covers and a multitude of extra material for the true fan! Follow The Shadow and his team of agents as they delve into the darkness of the city and fight the evil that hides in the night! Who is The Shadow? Wealthy playboy Lamont Cranston? Pilot Kent Allard? Or someone else! Join the mystery with The Shadow Volumes #21 and #24, regular price $12.95 – Christmas Special priced until January 3rd for $6.47!
 
 
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The shattering sequel to Fortress of Solitude.
 
The Doc Savage exploit that went untold for 74 years—Death’s Dark Domain!
 
In the aftermath of the evil John Sunlight’s pillaging of the secret Fortress of Solitude, a dreadful super-weapon has fallen the hands of a Balkan dictator intent upon seizing control of the vampire-haunted zone of desolation known as Ultra-Stygia. War is imminent. Monsters are loose in the disputed region. A strange darkness falls over the sinister landscape. Only Doc Savage, the Man of Bronze, understands the terrible threat to humanity. And only he can prevent the terror from spreading…
 
There are unknown Things prowling the darkest patch of land on the planet. Haunted by creatures that might have emerged from the Hell’s lowest regions, ancient Ultra-Stygia has turned into a cauldron of conflict between rival countries. Monster bats careen through the night sky. Invisible Cyclopes patrol the scorched battleground. And a power beyond understanding robs men of their vision.
 
Can the 20th century’s premier scientist and superman untangle this Gordian knot of carnage before neighboring nations are drawn into an apocalyptic new world war? Or will the Man of Bronze succumb to an unstoppable power he himself has unleashed upon mankind?
 
From the frozen Arctic to the war-torn Balkans, Doc Savage and his fighting five follow a winding trail of terror to a blood-freezing climax.
 
Death’s Dark Domain features a fantastic cover painted by Joe DeVito! Buy it today for only $24.95 from Radio Archives.
 
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Back in print after 20 years! The rare Lester Dent-Will Murray collaboration resurrecting the original pulp superman…
 
Also available is the first Altus Press edition of Will Murray’s 1993 Doc Savage adventure, The Forgotten Realm. Deep in the heart of the African Congo lies a secret unsuspected for thousands of years. Doc Savage and his men embark on a quest to discover the secret of the strange individual known only as X Man, X for unknown. Before they come to the end of the trail, they find themselves fighting for their lives like gladiators of old!
 
No one knows who—or what—the strange being who calls himself “X Man” truly is. He was found wandering the ruins of a crumbling Roman fort, dressed in a toga, speaking classical Latin—and clutching a handful of unearthly black seeds.
 
Declared insane, the X Man patiently tends his weird plants until the day, impelled by a nameless terror, he flees Wyndmoor Asylum to unleash a cyclone of violence that is destined to suck the mighty Man of Bronze into the blackest, most unbelievable mystery of his entire career. For far from Scotland lies a domain of death unknown to the world and called by the ancient Latin name of Novum Eboracum—New York!
 
From the wild Scottish moors to the unexplored heart of darkest Africa, Doc Savage and his indomitable men embarked upon a desperate quest for the Forgotten Realm….
 
The Forgotten Realm features a spectacular cover painted by Joe DeVito! Buy it today for only $24.95 from Radio Archives.
 
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Ranking the James Bond Films, Part One: Numbers 23-14

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  • December 20, 2012

Having read through Peter Travers’ travesty of a ranking of all the James Bond films, I decided the only thing to do was to create my own, much more accurate list in response.  That’s a little joke, of course, because it’s all subjective–few topics get fans more fired up than ranking any series of anything, and especially Bond movies.  But I’ve been watching Bond movies for four-plus decades; I grew up on them, as is my little daughter even now.  (Yesterday we finished her first viewing of “Dr. No” and she loudly demanded that we continue on into “Goldfinger!”)  So here is how I see them, beginning with what I view as the TEN WORST BOND MOVIES OF ALL:

23. A View to a Kill

Simply a wretched film under any circumstances, and the worst of the Roger Moore series—which is saying something.  I’ve watched it several times, and can’t get those hours of my life back, I’m afraid.  There’s virtually nothing redeeming about this movie.  Moore is a thousand years old.  Duran Duran does the theme song.  Dear lord.  It’s all just dreadful.
22. Octopussy

While overall not as terrible as “A View to a Kill,” it contains the single worst moment in any of the films: James Bond, in full clown makeup, pleading for someone in a circus audience to take him seriously and believe him that an atomic bomb is counting down toward detonation.  And they’re all laughing at him. YOU DON’T EVER LAUGH AT BOND.  Except, y’know, when he’s making one of his little dry jokes.  Just horrible.
21. License to Kill

Watching Dalton is as exciting as watching a layer of paint dry on your secret underground supervillain volcano lair, and the film looks more like a made-for-TV movie from the mid-1980s than a big-budget blockbuster.  Even “Dr. No,” made for about a buck fifty, looked more “epic” than this.  And a drug lord and his cartel–big in the Eighties as far as bad guys go–just seems so “yesterday” now.
20. Die Another Day

The parts are all there for a great Bond film–particularly the Korean DMZ opening, a locale we hadn’t seen before in any of the Bond films, and a very logical one for him to be seen at–but they came together in such a depressing way that this movie actually made me ready for Pierce Brosnan’s run as Bond to die thisday.  And that says a lot, considering he is my favorite Bond.

19. The Man with the Golden Gun

What seemed in the mid-1970s as an amazing spectacle—the fantastic Christopher Lee as the assassin “Scaramanga,” with his literal “golden gun,” flying car, and island base complete with lasers and fake Bond in the shooting gallery—now seems supremely cheesy.  Still, it did serve as sort of a backdoor pilot for “Fantasy Island,” so we’ll at least give it credit for that.  “The plane! The plane!”
18. The Living Daylights

While Timothy Dalton is the dullest Bond of all (and those who say he’s like the Bond of the books must be reading different books than I have), and while there are parts of the film that induce cringes to this day (toy soldiers shooting at Bond? Really?), it’s still tons better than Dalton’s other outing in the role.  Seeing Bond on the Rock of Gibraltar at the start was a nice touch.  Not horrible, but a far cry from “great.”
17. The World is Not Enough

As is true to one degree or another with all four of the Brosnan films, the pieces are there, but it doesn’t quite come together.  Love the villain; like the plot; don’t like the execution of any of it.  Denise “Nucular” Richards gets routinely trashed for her “contributions” to this film, and rightfully so; her performance in the final reel is the cruddy cherry on top.
16. Moonraker

Another that I have a particular soft spot for.  While the return of Jaws—in his new, comedic role—nearly sinks the picture, and while the plot is a virtual Xerox copy of the previous film, “The Spy Who Loved Me,” but in space rather than underwater, the deliciously understated Hugo Drax and the astronauts-with-laser-guns battle at the end save this movie for me.  Sort of.
15. Quantum of Solace

Parts of this movie—Craig’s performance, the whole “Quantum” bit that seemed to be setting up a modern-day SPECTRE, the theater sequence where he talks to the baddies over their communications link—border on spectacular.  Everything else (from Mr. Green to the Latin American dictator) slides over into the ridiculous.  The plotline involving Green’s girlfriend makes no sense whatsoever.  A huge letdown of a movie.
14. The Spy Who Loved Me

Others think very highly of this movie, but I am not the Viewer Who Loved It.  Part of it is personal, based on the circumstances under which I first saw it.  (It was 1977 and I wanted to see “Star Wars;” my brother wanted to see this.  He won.  I had to wait months longer to see “Star Wars.”) Part of it is that I’m not remotely intrigued by Barbara Bach.  Part of it is that, to borrow a phrase from Queen, “Jaws was never my speed.”  Hate me if you want, haters, but this one doesn’t do a lot for me.  Do like the underwater Lotus, though.
Back soon with numbers 13-4!  Then we’ll finish up with the three best of all.
If you loved –or hated–this list, please check out my weekly podcast, The White Rocket Podcast, where a special guest and I sit down each week for a one-on-one conversation about some topic (such as James Bond books and movies!) of interest to Pulp, comics, SF and pop culture fans in general.
You can follow me on Twitter: @VanAllenPlexico and find me on Facebook as “Van Allen Plexico.”  And my main web site is www.plexico.net.
See you next time!

DERRICK FERGUSON DELIVERS A BROOKLYN BEATDOWN

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  • December 19, 2012

The Fight Card series continues on in 2013 with Brooklyn Beatdown by New Pulp Author, Derrick Ferguson, writing as Jack Tunney.

Ferguson described the Fight Card experience here.

Look for Fight Card: Brooklyn Beatdown in February 2013.

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