Jimmy Christopher as Operator 5 is once again protecting America against enemy invasion in The Green Death Mists in pulp replica form from Girasol Collectables. We also have Oriental Stories replica from Spring 1932 featuring Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith and cover art from Margaret Brundage.
And to top it off, the October 1923 issue of Weird Tales is now available. This issue includes the first published story by H.P. Lovecraft called “Dagon”.
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Plenty of new items have made it out to the website. High Adventure #90 brings us this feature story from the July 1939 issue Black Bat Detective Mysteries Magazine plus two short stories from Ten Detective Aces.
Girasol is back with three new pulp replicas: The Spider in Dragon Lord of the Underworld, Golden Fleece #2 (with Robert E. Howard), and Spicy Adventure featuring Robert Leslie Bellem.
Tom Roberts and Black Dog Books have two new pulp chapbook reprints available. Adventures await with The Ocean Bastille by H. Bedford Jones and The Tower of Silence by Theodore Roscoe.
Old Time Radio brings us “the man with the action-packed expense account”, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar featuring America’s fabulous freelance insurance investigator in this 10 CD, 20 episode collectors set. We’ve also restocked our shelves and they’re filled with classic Old Time Radio shows for the holdiay season.
Our Free Spider paperback giveaway is back. Also, check out our Clearance-On Sale page for great bargains.
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Anthony Tollin and Nostalgia Ventures are getting close to the first issue of the upcoming Doc Savage reprint series. Issue number 1 will have two different covers. Here are the preliminary cover art designs for both variants, one with the original Robert Harris pulp cover and one with the James Bama paperback cover. Hopefully we’ll have the actual magazines in soon! I’ll keep you posted!
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More at our Doc Savage section on the Vintage Library
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Catching up on some old news, about a month old, Mickey Spillane passed away. This article talks about his writing career, dating back to the pulp era and his primary influence being Carroll John Daly. The article goes into considerable detail following Mr. Spillane’s entire career. Along with Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Carroll John Daly, Mickey Spillane with his tough guy hero Mike Hammer defined the hard boiled hero who lives on today.
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Here’s an interesting article which traces the roots of Film Noir back to the pulp fiction era with mention of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammet and “the lurid plotting of the pulp novel.” Double Indemnity, Film Noir and Pulp Fiction from the New York Times
Paul Malmont’s The China Death Cloud Peril gets another book review, this one from the Sun-Sentinel.
The recent pulp convention, Pulpcon 35 made the news. Here is an article quoting John Gunnison as well as announcing a new line of pulp reprints written by L. Ron Hubbard.
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Three new pulp replicas from Girasol are now available. Starting with the Spider in issue #21 Hordes of the Red Butcher. Next up is the Winter, 1932 issue of Oriental Stories with a Robert E. Howard Crusades adventure and we wrap it up with a Spicy Mystery issue with a Robert Leslie Bellem story.
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The latest issue of Ed Hulse’s Fanzines is now available. This issue features an interview with the Spider’s lady, Nita Van Sloan. Okay, maybe not Nita, but its an interview with Iris Meredith who played Nita in the 1938 serial The Spider’s Web.
Plus, this issue includes articles about Talbot Mundy’s Lost Serials, 10 Chapterplays in Desperate Need of More Respect and more!
Blood n Thunder #15 is now available.
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Anthony Tollin and Nostalgia Ventures and their hugely successful start with The Shadow reprints are about to kick off their Doc Savage series.
The upcoming DOC SAVAGE Volume 1 will be released with two different covers to commemorate the return of the Man of Bronze. The regular edition will feature the “Fortress of Solitude” pulp cover by Robert Harris, while the variant edition will reproduce James Bama’s “Fortress of Solitude” cover for the Bantam paperback.
Send me an email to docsavage@vintagelibrary.com and let me know which cover format you prefer and I’ll make sure we have enough in stock.
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I came across a new type of content/community website. Part content, part links organized by topics. You create and share something called a lens which is your particular view into the internet. It looks interesting so I created a lens for pulp fiction. I’ll be updating it over time if it works out. Take a look at it here: http://www.squidoo.com/pulpfiction/
You can create your own lens about pulp fiction or about any topic that you want. It’s a simple interface both to browse and to create your own lens pages. If this looks like something you’d like to try, use the following link to create your account. You and I will both receive a bonus, a $5 bonus last time I checked. http://www.squidoo.com/lensmaster/referral/JackSuto
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Mike Olafson brings us the fast-moving Modern Pulp tale Amulet of Atlantis, in which rogue adventurers, secret societies, and mystical warriors all clash while pursuing an ancient artifact in the wilds of 1938 Africa. Mike is the creator of Vintage Adventure, a documentary series that compares the adventures of past explorers and archeologists to those of modern-day specialists around the world.
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