Starting September 1, AudioComics will begin taking pre-orders for the audio drama adaptation of Moonstone Entertainment‘s “Battle for LA,” starring the Phantom Detective, the Black Bat, the Domino Lady, Secret Agent X, and Airboy. “Battle” will be released as a digital download October 1, available exclusively through the AudioComics website at www.audiocomicscompany.com! Between September 1…
While we’re all busy celebrating the 49th anniversary of Doctor Who and the 50th anniversary of both Spider-Man and the James Bond movies, the daddy of heroic fantasy characters quietly turned 76 way back in February. Or, depending upon how you look at it, he turned 476. The Phantom was the very first masked, costumed…
Terry Beatty, artist of the Phantom Sunday newspaper strips is offering some of his Phantom artwork for sale in order to raise the funds to replace the computer he uses to digitally pencil, letter and color the strip. From Terry’s blog:The process here is that I print the pencils (done in Manga Studio) in blue…
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 LAST PHANTOM VOLUME ONE:GHOSTWALKBeatty/FerigatoDynamite EntertainmentISBN 1-60690-201-6 Like many hardcore Phantom fans, I was disappointed when Moonstone lost the comics license. They had handled the character very well over the years, managing to both pay respect to his origins while also updating him to the 21st Century. When images began to filter out about the…
MOONSTONE SEPT ’11 RELEASES Moonstone Pulp Fiction Magazine #1 Story: CJ Henderson, Mike Bullock Art: misc Cover: Doug Klauba 96pgs, grayscale, 8” x 11.5”, $7.99 A “Return of the Originals” MEGA event! New comic and prose stories, of classic pulp characters like The Spider, The Black Bat, The Phantom Detective, Secret Agent X, G8, and…
THE PHANTOM: KGB NOIR – THE HAMMERWritten by Mike BullockArt by Fernando PenicheISBN 978-1933076805 This black-and-white trade collects the six issue limited series and also includes artist sketches and liner notes from the author. As Mike Bullock mentions in his notes, this series was changed midstream in length and I think that contributes to the…
For fans of pulp-based comics, be sure to check out BACK ISSUE! Magazine this month. Issue 47 includes the final interview with The Rocketeer’s Dave Stevens before his untimely death; a look back at Charlton’s run with The Phantom; an analysis of DC’s Phantom series; and a fond look back at the 1970s DC Justice,…
Awaken your sense of ADVENTURE! HOT OFF THE PRESSES!1. KOLCHAK Files #2 (can be found under “horror”). 2. The SPIDER #1 (“action”)3. ZORRO, More tales of! (“action”) 4. CHICKS in CAPES(“action”)5. ROTTEN #9 6. Can-huggers (Banzai, Capt Action, Ghost Skull, & Moonstone logo!) (“novelty”)& spec variant version(“horror”) SUPER SALE ITEMS!1. The PHANTOM KGB Noir, issues…
site suggested by Phil Bledsoe http://www.fantasticpulp.com/ From the Site- Welcome! The Shadow, the Phantom, Doc Savage, the Green Lama, Fu Manchu, the Lone Ranger. These are all characters that share the heritage of pulp magazines. Not the only ones of course, in fact only a very small fraction of the characters that have had stories…
THIS WEEK ON MOONSTONE CLIFFHANGER FICTION- Moonstone Books and ALL PULP are proud to present a jungle action adventure tale from MOONSTONE CLIFFHANGER FICTION featuring Lee Falk’s THE PHANTOM! This is another slam bam tale by Mike Bullock, longtime writer of THE PHANTOM for Moonstone and current writer of BLACK BAT, SAVAGE BEAUTY, and creator…
