The Man of Bronze returns as the pulps’ greatest superman battles The Devil Genghis, a criminal genius armed with incredible inventions stolen from Doc’s Fortress of Solitude. Doc Savage and his Iron Crew return in two classic thrillers by Lester Dent writing as Kenneth Robeson.

Doc Savage Reprint #1: Fortress of Solitude / Devil Genghis (Pulp Cover)

Doc Savage Reprint #1: Fortress of Solitude / Devil Genghis (James  Cover)

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The Dark Avenger returns in two more classic pulp thrillers!

In “The Chinese Disks”, a relentless foe from the Shadow’s past returns for a duel to the death.

In “Malmordo”, even rats abandon ship when fog-enshrouded steamship delivers a deadly cargo — the monstrous Malmordo.

The Shadow Volume 2 from Nostalgia Ventures featuring ”The Chinese Disks” and “Malmordo” is available now at the Vintage Library.  

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Adventure House brings us three new pulp reprints: Adventure Novels, Spicy Adventure (featuring Justin Case’s the Eel) and Fame and Fortune (subtitled Adventures in Making Money).

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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!

Doc Savage Reprint Full Size Image

More at our Doc Savage section on the Vintage Library

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Just a short note to let all my friends, family, and assorted fellow travelers that my web site, http://www.robertweinberg.net/ has undergone a major updating.  Lots of new stuff, including Phyllis’ first professionally published piece of journalism, a tribute to my father’s adventures in World War II (he was wounded on D-Day, scouting behind German lines, after landing at Omaha Beach — same spot that Saving Private Ryan begins!). 

Plus there’s news of latest books I’ve written, short stories published, Japanese movies I like, and much more.   The site is probably going to get a few more additions (and some spelling corrections) in days to come, but it’s worth checking out now.  I turn 60 on August 29th, so this is my birthday present to myself.  Drop by and leave a hello in my guest book.

as always,
bob weinberg

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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.

Related Vintage Library links:

• The China Death Cloud Peril by Paul Malmont
• Carroll John Daly
• Hardboiled Detective
• John Gunnison’s Adventure House
• Film Noir

 

 

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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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