e-book Operator #5 #30 January 1937

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The Adventure, War, and Espionage Fiction Magazine Index

He returned to science fiction around Beb Books has big plans when it comes to reprinting early science fiction. His name sends icy shivers down the stalwart spines of French authorities. He deals in death and mayhem for high stakes profit! No stakes are higher than world freedom, so the shadowy criminal offers to combat the German war machine. When Fantomas makes an offer, the contract is signed in blood!

How often do cab drivers hear that snarled command? This cabbie steps on it, alright — steps on love and hate, stomps on heart and lungs, and grinds out the last spark of life! New illustrations by Ed Coutts. Cover design by Rich Harvey. Philips rubbed elbows with movie stars and directors. He owned a newspaper and scratched out columns in others. He penned hundreds of stories in pulp magazines, digests and slick magazines, under a trio of pen names. His words flooded radio, television and film. He filled pulp magazines like Argosy with stories about tough detectives, smooth-talking criminals, and down-and-out athletes who make Rocky-like comebacks.

As "Hugh Pentecost," he graduated into the lucrative slick-paper magazines and burgeoning paperback mystery field. The Secret Life of Judson Philips as Hugh Pentecost unveils the man who sneered at Yul Brynner, ignored McCarthyism, proposed to dozens of women, and created a lasting legacy of entertainment. Audrey Parente established her street cred with author biographies like Pulpmaster: A retired reporter for the Ormond Beach New Journal, she spents years preparing this volume, researching Philip's background, compiling a complete bibliography, and transcribing hours of interviews she conducted with Philips in the late s.

Man of Stone" by John L. Tim Faurote Interior illustrations: Earlier this summer, Howard Wright announced that issue 75 would be the final number of his Doc Savage-oriented fanzine, The Bronze Gazette. Howard began the zine in as The Doc Savage Gazette. The name was quickly changed after four issues because of trademark problems. But Howard decided it was time to move on. However, The Bronze Gazette will continue! Terry says the zine will keep its digest size, and will run about 48 pages.

There will be a slate of regular contributors, but article submissions will be welcomed. Castalia House Blog - Now online! Part 1 - New! Lovecraft on Immigration A Beautiful Friendship: And then the murders begin, each one of a man more powerful than the last, and as Bell discovers, to his dismay, the ultimate target may be the most powerful man of all. Then, Conan fights a deadly duel as Janissa the Widowmaker makes her triumphant return! This enthralling volume collects issues of the Conan the Avenger series. John Carter explores the conspiracy at home in Helium!

The Digest Enthusiast Blog - Now online! A Blonde for Murder by Walter B. Gibson Mysterious Traveler Magazine: New on Famous and forgotten Fiction! Introduction by Dan Neyer. Introduction and Afterword by Bob Gay. Also, the penultimate Harvard Illustrated story by George Allan England, "Bench Carvings at Harvard," which we strongly believe to be England's first attempt at science fiction. We've also discovered some interesting connections between this story and Leahy's other work, which you will find documented in an Afterword to the story. The long title novella and three others feature the dastardly Dr.

There are eight more stories in this book, no less characteristic of Sax Rohmer's art. Titan Books List Price: Volume 5 of our Pulp Cover Gallery series is in the works, scheduled for a mid-May release. This edition will be the same overall format as our other volumes, featuring sets of cover scans of The Spider, G-8 and His Battle Aces, and Operator 5. One difference this time out is that the images are square-cut, they do not show the rough pulp edges. The same bonded leather hardcover exterior, 8.

As before, this is not a book about the pulp titles featured, it is a visual reference of the covers. Lots of great viewing! Previous volumes are still available! The Golden Age - Now online!

A Handful of Hell: Classic War and Adventure Stories - Now available! Aviator, diplomat, and historian, Robert F. The hardcover limited edition includes an additional 40 pages of material exclusive to the hardcover edition. New Texture Product Dimensions: Howard Andrew Jones - Now online! This spectacular new book explores the life and work of the "Dean of Illustrators" — Dean Cornwell.

The book is pages long the same size as the Golden Age series of books and is filled to the brim with scores of beautiful illustrations reproduced almost exclusively from the original paintings and drawings This book is limited to copies total. This book will not be offered through Amazon at a discounted price unless you can find a "used" copy. If you want this book new, you will have to buy it directly from The Illustrated Press.

That is not going to happen. A Special Edition version of the book was available, limited to copies. These are presented in red slipcase with white stamped lettering, signed and numbered by Daniel Zimmer, with a bookplate affixed to the front endpaper. Created by the legendary Lee Falk, the creator of The Phantom, and drawn by Phil Davis, Mandrake the Magician and his ever-trusty manservant, Lothar, first appeared to battle crime in This collection reprints the first 2 and a half years of full-color Sunday newspaper strips that debuted in Mike has established a website where you can download his current and past newsletters.

The website is located at http: The New Pulp Heroes - Now online! Tom Johnson has started a new Blog for authors who have created new pulp heroes. The Paperback Fanatic 34 pages, all colour. Improved format following feedback on issue 33 - reduced page count and thicker cover lamination as well as better quality envelopes to help protect the mag in transit. Horror in SF special. Paperback Perils - Now online!

Pulpgen-Online Pulps - Now online! But he wasn't interested in the clock's hands; its eyes were what he needed. Pulp Crazy - Now online! Pulp Den - Now online! The ballot can be found online at http: Voters have until Tuesday, March 15th to select one nominee in several categories. We are limiting voting to the electronic ballot via Google forms to simplify the process.

Nominees in each category are as follows: Questions and concerns should be directed to PulpAwards gmail. This will insure a more prompt response than reaching out to individual committee members. Thank you for your interest, and looking forward to your votes! Pulp Super-Fan blog by Michael R.

Pulp AdventureCon Florida - New! Mabuse, pulp villain - New! A rundown of pulp shows for Genesis of the lightsaber? Take a sf journey back to Farewell ; welcome The Pulp. Originally written by master pulpsmith Frederick C. Davis, the Operator 5 series was a clear forerunner of the spy and espionage genre, which exploded in the s when President John F. Soon, America was surrounded by spies. 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.

Davis began pitting James Christopher—otherwise Operator 5 of the United States Intelligence Service—against the Yellow Empire, variously thinly-disguised European dictators, and other torn-from-the-headlines global actors. The more Operator 5 exploits Davis wrote, the wilder and more horrific the threats to national security became: Wicked would-be conquerors, creepy cults, weird weather-controllers and famine-creating menaces to our mid-western breadbasket.

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.

Originally published in the February, issue of Operator 5 magazine. One of the highs was the series' premiere novel, The Bat Staffel. Fangs of the Serpent introduced the villain of the title, the serpentine war cripple with the power of super hypnosis. This was no ordinary antagonist—not that any foe of G-8 was particularly ordinary—but the combination of this strange mesmerizing enemy agent, and the change-of-pace story, makes this one of the standout G-8 novels of the entire s.

In this uncanny epic, the Flying Spy faces a challenge that tests his courage to the utmost. For his opponent this time is not a rival ace, nor a mad scientist, but an occult entity able to bend others to his malign will, one who twists and poisons both sides of the global conflict.

Once the Serpent has G-8 in his power, escape seems impossible, victory remote and unattainable. Strangely, Hogan never brought the Serpent back for an encore bout. Perhaps he was just too creepy even for G-8 and His Battle Aces magazine. Once again, Nick Santa Maria brings G-8, Nippy and Bull to thrilling life in their desperate struggle to defeat a reptilian nemesis unlike anything they have ever before encountered.

Additional footage not seen since the serial's original release has been made available to the Squadron which will be incorporated into this DVD restoration of the serial that will be presented in original single-chapter form, with opening and closing titles and cliffhanger endings intact. Existing content here is presented in its original cliffhanger format, and every chapter is represented in the DVD. Stil-missing sections have been reconstructed and summarized according to the available information in the existing original script draft, the Big Little Book text, and published descriptions of chapters as released.

The content which remains missing from the serial involved a capture of the explorers by the Koso tribe and their escape from execution, and a sequence in which Tarzan rescues Mary from capture by the soldiers of Zar but is knocked from a high rock by a thrown bolo, then rescued by his friend Taug the gorilla. Photos from both sequences are included in the DVD. Light toning effects are used mostly on the early episodes to help bring out the clarity of the image and define action locations.

Temple of Crime - New! February 20 Pre-order Price: Tellers of Weird Tales - Now online! Frandzen Age of Aces. Airship 27 Productions Four new audio releases! Airship 27 Productions, in partnership with Radio Archives, is proud to announce the release of four of their titles to the world of audiobooks.

Cantin is a modern day thriller in the vein of the Jack Reacher novels and is read by Jamison R. Watson as read by Jem Matzan. Altus Press Now available in eBook editions! Longriders of the West, Volume 2 by Tom Mount Meet the five Mavericks—Lance Clayton, Doc Grimson, Charlie Parr, Lockjaw Johnson, and Flint Maddox… They were wanted men, those five hard-riding travelers of the still night trails… Mavericks all, they had entered outlawry for five different reasons, drawn irresistibly down the Owlhoot Trail from five different walks of rangeland life.

Daniels and The Spider's Norvell Page. First, voodoo drums sound in cities across the nation as a wave of mysterious murders fueled by ancient magic takes a terrifying toll in "The Black Bat's Crusade," edited by future Batman editors Mort Weisinger and Jack Schiff! First, "The Killer" launches a campaign of serial murder until he makes an appointment with death with The Shadow! Then, priceless treasures are moved to secret strongholds for wartime safekeeping, leading to vicious robbery attempts from two gangs of murderous cutthroats.

This collector's classic features the original color pulp covers by George Rozen and Graves Gladney plus interior illustrations by Tom Lovell and Paul Orban, with historical commentary by Will Murray. Author and publisher Tommy Hancock talks about Pro Se productions and its expanding line of products. We discuss new series, old series, up coming works and the market for audiobooks. Also as an exclusive, Tommy talks about a major publishing project that Pro Se will be launching very shortly.

There are lots of new books coming out in just the next few weeks that fans will want to know about. Don't miss this one! Edson - Now available! His hunt is interrupted, though, when a massive snake drops out of a tree and traps him in its thick coils. The constricting pressure is too much for him and he loses consciousness. Bunduki is rescued by a band of Amazons led by Beryl Snowhill, an Earth girl of his acquaintance who, previously unknown to him, was also transported to Zillikian.

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The Amazons and Bunduki join forces and the chase after Dawn's abductors continues. Meanwhile, the political in-fighting increases. Dryaka and Charole have the upper hand and Dawn is soon their prisoner once again. Bunduki and the Amazons fight their way into the city while the Mun-Gatahs descend into civil warfare. They arrive at the arena just in time. Dawn is desperately trying to fend off the Quagga God, a massive and extremely wild zebra.

She will need all her survival skills to survive. As does Bunduki to prevent the curse of the 'Thunder Powder' from descending upon the planet of Zillikian. Betrayals, plots and counter-plots are exposed, 'terrifiers' explode and the supporters of the Elders do battle with the rebels. Set in the mids, Casefile: And things only get worse for Flynn when a wealthy uptown socialite hires him to track down an artist by the name of Pickman.

What begins as a simple missing persons case leads Flynn down a dark path of flesh eating ghouls, vengeful witches, and the notorious Innsmouth mafia. Lovecraft on Immigration - New! But the barbarian warrior's path is unexpectedly fraught with legions of the undead under the unholy thrall of the Hyperborean witch Vammatar, who once held Conan's own chains! Fred Van Lente Writer , Brian Ching Art , Michael Atiyeh Color , and Paul Renaud Cover A depraved witch rules Khauran in place of her twin sister, plunging the city into debauchery and committing unspeakable atrocities—including blasphemous rites to the malevolent entity Thaug!

Can Conan rally an army and prove that the queen is an impostor before it's too late? Lee Bermejo Variant Cover: Mark Schultz 30th Anniversary Variant Alone, battle weary, and with nothing but his sword, Conan of Cimmeria faces his inevitable death in the arid wastes. With a knife at his throat and a band of Turanian hunters at his back, will the half-dead barbarian find a new ally in the Kozaki chief?

July 13, Dark Horse Comics. In this war, immortal cultists worship other-dimensional entities, and plot to raise an army of the dead. Incomprehensible undersea intelligences infiltrate and colonize American seaports, and alien races lurk beneath the ice of Antarctica and high in the mountains of Afghanistan. It is only through constant vigilance and violence that the earth has survived. Strange times are upon us, the world is changing, and even death may die — but, until then, the war continues. Gilbert returns to DHP with a new installment of Mr.

The Journal of Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan, Solomon Kane, Kull, and author of numerous pulp stories. Starting in , the journal will also run other articles on other pulp fiction writers. But when her unit is captured by powerful enemies, she must truly learn what it means to be a leader or suffer the consequences! An all-new chapter in the life of Dejah Thoris continues from the creative team of Frank J. Barbiere and Francesco Manna.

Under Wunder's stewardship the strip continued for almost another 27 years.

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Sharing and trading of Pulp Fiction covers. Up in the frozen north of Canada … an old secret and a lovely woman … and three men: Richard Wentworth - who, as the swift-killing Spider, is the scourge of the Underworld - thought the Fly was dead. Rocky Jones, Space Ranger. Fraser, his whereabouts unknown to his father following the Great War, finds himself in the middle of a battle over a lost idol and on the road to Baghdad. Take advantage of this great offer at the link below. Strangely, Hogan never brought the Serpent back for an encore bout.

Swain — was one of the most popular of the new post-war crop of science fiction writers in the pulps during the early fifties. Fans of the Star Wars movie series will thrill to The Weapon from Eternity, his offering here, which can best be described as a ring-a-ding space opera with style. Geier was one of the Chicago writers who began writing science fiction for Ray Palmer when he became editor Amazing Stories and Fantastic Adventures for the Ziff-Davis located in the Windy City chain of pulp magazines.

Reynard was a pseudonym of historical novelist Robert W. As a science fiction novelist, he is best known as the author a number of fine alien invasion tales written in the midst of the Cold War wave of flying saucer sightings. But you wake up today in another world, where the fearsome crime fighter is just a character you play in a radio show that bears his name.

You are no longer a man with a mission, just a 22 year old prodigy with an impressive voice, and a lot of questions… an honored guest who has been invited into… the Twilight Zone. His father hoped his son would make his way through life as a respectable businessman, but young Arthur was determined to make a name for himself as an author. Read the rest at the link below. On the Trail of the Octopus Eric Stedman of The Serial Squadron has a well-deserved reputation for restoring vintage serials in many cases salvaging otherwise lost serials and preserving them for posterity.

The Serial Squadron released their restored version of this forgotten gem in Frank Johnson - New! Lieutenant Alan Winslow - New! Nothing new this week. He is working to bring down a seedy underground human trafficking ring and he wants Alyssa to go in undercover. Putting the weapon and survival skills she learned as a child to the test, Alyssa finds herself embroiled in a sinister plan. Who can she trust? With bodies turning up across the country, Alyssa is in a race against time to stop the trafficking ring before anyone else dies.

May 10, Pre-order Price: Edson - Available for download February 15! Coming in February , a brand new series of horror readings performed by Dan Starkey Creeping out after our announcement of Dracula, Big Finish is pleased to be able to confirm details of a brand new range of audiobook readings for The Ghost-Finder brings to life the cases of the supernatural detective, created by writer William Hope Hodgson in The first six tales especially are incredibly atmospheric - a cross between Conan Doyle and MR James - as Carnacki finds himself investigating supernatural happenings in the early twentieth century.

Please note that this release is download-only. Behind the Curtain by Francis Stevens - New! Conan enters into an uncertain alliance to steal a legendary treasure -- and in the shadows a great evil lurks, awaiting its chance to destroy him! Robinson in Beyond Science Fiction - New! Alex Schomburg - New! Lee Falk's newspaper strip, Mandrake the Magician, offered readers, magic, occult and the fantastic and King Feature's comic book version, which saw print during the height of the Silver Age, was a worthy entry into the world of comic books. This first volume of the complete comic book run of Mandrake the Magician presents the first five comics in the series together with all of the back-up stories printed in King Features' Flash Gordon title.

Rare Treasures - New! Shannon Eric Denton, Art: To emancipate the girls from a fate worse than death, these masked women would ride into Hell itself… with such fury that the Devil would fear their coming! But with gangs of evil slavers, deadly natural elements, a cold-hearted madam, and a pack of frenzied wolves to contend with, will the valiant ladies survive the very worst that the lawless Californian wilderness has to offer? Frost and Nighthawk, can hope to stem the nightmare tide and save their city before it is too late.

Carl Kolchak doesn't have time for horror movies. His life is scary enough -- and now he's between jobs and desperate for a paycheck. But when a young actress goes missing on the set of a low-budget monster flick, he soon discovers that making it big in Hollywood can be murder!! Many of the pieces appear here for the first time anywhere, while others have previously appeared only in small run magazines that have remained elusive and avidly sought after by Farmer aficionados.

Pearls from Peoria represents outstanding value for people who want access to this incredibly rare work without spending a fortune, and copious amounts of time and energy, tracking down the individual original publications. New this week "Even Up" by Dale M. Flatiron Casey, a circus clown has returned after a three years absence.

He's welcome back with open arms but says nothing about his time away. Back in the day he was close to Miss La Verne, an aerialist. But in the time he was away she took up with a guy named Magee, who has of late disappeared. So they are reluctant to restart their relationship, each fearing to tell the other their secrets.

Aboard Ship That Happens, Too. A closer look at The Moon Man - New! Genesis of the lightsaber? For ten grim years, the Spider battled the underworld, imprinting his scarlet seal on the bodies of the criminals he slew. No one knew his name. His face was unknown. Pursued by the police, sought by the mob, the Master of Men crushed crime with a blazing intensity never witnessed before or since. Never before or since has there been a hero like the Spider. Driven, hunted, and violently committed to exterminating criminals of all calibers.

A self-appointed savior of humanity, driven manic-depressive, and possibly undiagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, the Spider was known as the Master of Men. Out of war-torn skies soars…G-8 and His Battle Aces! Flying a supercharged warplane, backed by his wild wingmen, Bull Martin and Nippy Weston, G-8 fought the most horrific foes the Kaiser could throw at him. The creation of writer Robert J. Hogan, G-8 and His Battle Aces appeared in the magazine of that same name for over a decade. This recipe ranged from merely super-scientific death rays to unabashedly supernatural manifestations.

Nothing was taboo in G Hogan was a pioneer of over-the-top plotting generations before the term was coined. For our newest exciting G-8 release, we have selected Patrol of the Cloud Crusher, a particularly wild tale torn from the June, issue. Hogan outdoes himself by pitting his hero against an astounding threat—titanic disembodied hands reach out of the clouds to ensnare and crush Allied aircraft! Even the Master Spy is baffled. It begins with a ghostly hand that snatched an important clue and vanished! If that wasn't baffling enough, a patrol flying past a giant cloud encountered a monster arm whose crushing fingers destroyed their warplanes.

Taking to the skies, G-8 rushes to investigate the so-called Hand of Providence that had seemingly taken the German side in the war. But it was one thing to fly into that hell cloud. Quite another to survive the encounter! When the Flying Spy and his Battle Aces take on the challenge of the Patrol of the Cloud Crusher, will they return——or will their own aircraft be pulverized by the seemingly supernatural power? Herr Doctor Kreuger strikes again! Marguerite Sauvage As her people turn warlike and become more vicious than even their enemies, Red Sonja battles to save Hyrkania from its own army.

Racing to the throne, with a price on her head, Sonja finds herself entangled in the charms and wiles of a mysterious and beautiful performer… and when the face of the King is revealed at last, Sonja is captured in intrigues more deadly than any she has known! Howard Museum in Cross Plains. Howard and Novalyne Price. Having read her book about Howard, he knew what a wonderful movie it would make. There is lots more information to follow and you can read about it here and at the Howard Days blog. While the cold winds of January are blowing now, make plans to come to Texas in June where the warmth will be in both the air and in the fellowship of Robert E.

The origins and history of Howard Days will be discussed, along with a showing of photos from over the years. Presentation of the Robert E. Rusty Burke, Bill Cavalier and a cast of several. Fists at the Ice House. Held on the actual site of the Ice House where Howard boxed. Panels to be held at the Cross Plains Senior Center Celebrating the Fifty Year Legacy of the Lancers. The Life of Robert E.

The Death Sleep - New! The Yellow Door - New! Rud - New! The Old West will meet the New West on October 24, in an art exhibition so wild and exploding with rawhide, smoking Colt 45s, and desert heat, that it took the Tucson Museum of Art to rein it in. For the first time ever, Wild West artwork from comic books, pulp fiction novels, dime novels, and magazine and book illustrations will have its own exhibition, curated by the Tucson Museum of Art Glasser Curator of Art of the American West, Christine Brindza.

And here is the best part! You can make a lasting impact on this historic exhibition by helping us get the catalog published! One of the most important and lasting components of any great exhibit is its catalog, so saddle up with us on our Indiegogo campaign , and take a look at the awesome rewards for donating to the publishing costs of the catalog.

You might even get your name in the book! Martin When a rogue band of superhumans launch a series of terrorist attacks inside the United States, the military springs into action. To hunt down the paranormal perpetrators will take more than the average soldier. It will require a special person, immune to mental manipulation and invisible to psychic detection. A hardened veteran of a dark war against the supernatural and paranormal, with decades of combat experience under his belt.

The only problem is, Colonel Mark Kenslir is no detective--he's a commando who's spent a lifetime working alongside psychics against the armies of darkness whenever they've shown their faces, not chasing down clues. Finding an unseen enemy hiding in plain sight may well prove beyond his incredible combat skills. Fortunately, the FBI has their top two paranormal hunters on the case as well. If they can work together, the mysterious "X-Ponent" and whoever is behind it may just be stopped before more innocents die. March 18, March 25, July 1, July 15, July 22, July 29, December 16, December 21, December 25, February 10, February 17, March 3, March 10, March 17, March 24, March 31, July 7, July 14, July 21, July 28, November 3, November 10, November 17, After winning in an all-night poker game, this sets in motion a series of events in The Anti-Gravity Steal where Noc must use all his abilities to prevent wholesale destruction.

Part Shaft and part Batman sans the cowl, Luke Warfield, a philanthropist with a black ops background, the Essex Man, goes on the trail in 10 Seconds to Death of the villain who killed his foster father and uncovers not only ghosts from his past, but must stop a deadly plan of mass slaughter in his own backyard. The 40th Annual Jack Williamson Lectureship, with events April 5, and April , , welcomes author Victor Milan, and writers, friends and fans from across the region for this annual celebration of Jack Williamson and the genre to which he contributed so significantly.

The lectureship showcases readings with visiting authors and friends of the lectureship at a reading on Thursday evening, 6 p. Friday morning features Guest of Honor Victor Milan reading from his work from 9: Everyone is welcome to attend the panels at Special Collections in Golden Library from p. Reservations for the lectureship luncheon can be made by calling Reservations must be received by Monday, April 6. For aspiring young writers, a special workshop will be offered by authors Connie Willis and Steven Gould at the Portales Public Library on Saturday morning from 10 a.

Participants are encouraged to reserve a space by contacting the Portales Library, S Avenue B, in Portales, at For more information, call Airship 27 Productions is damn happy to announce the release of writer B. A new gang boss is taking over the meat-packing district of Chicago and his tools are murder and intimidation. He calls himself the Butcher and the trail of death and destruction he leaves in his wake is a testament to that moniker. Canadian artist Art Cooper, joins Airship 27 Productions for the first time with his wonderful black and white illustrations.

Cooper has a Jack Kirby style of drawing that is perfectly suited to the pulps. Here is pulp action in a truly unique style starring one of the most original new pulp stars ever put to paper, the Bagman! A relatively young family man, this was a dangerous condition that threatened not only Tommy but his entire family. Almost immediately after this news was made public, several members of the New Pulp community began putting their heads together to see if anything could be done to help the Hancocks.

Doug is an amazing artist and his offering to do the cover was very much an omen that we were about to put together something truly unique. Amongst these creators were some of the most popular New Pulp writers and artists in the field. In fact, getting so many promised stories in just two days, Fortier begrudgingly realized he and his associates were being handed a giant book and he publicly closed the admission call. They were right, we got 62 instead.

Each tale features one black and white illustration. Ramos acted as his assistant editor proofing teach story after Fortier with them. Then, months into the project, Ramos, who suffers from diabetes, found his own health in jeopardy and after having handled half the stories, was forced to sideline himself. And so, after months of ups and downs. A giant treasure chest of some of the finest New Pulp fiction ever produced in an page collection. Representing the varied genres of pulp tradition, this volume features tales of horror, mystery, horror, suspense, pirates, fantasy, private eyes, crime-busting avengers and westerns to name a few.

All profits earned by this amazing book are going to Tommy Hancock and his family. Radio Archives is proud to announce that Ken St. Denis of New York City has signed the contract to record this 40 plus hour long audiobook. I talked to Ken on Christmas Eve to make sure he knew what he was signing up for. Ken had read the Airship 27 press release and thought it was a tremendous project and was anxious to get started. We tip our hats to Tom Brown and Radio Archives. Continuing the complete reprinting of one of the longest-running series in all of pulp fiction.

This instant collector's item features both classic color pulp covers and the original interior illustrations by Harry Parkhurst, with historical commentary by Will Murray and Anthony Tollin. For more information, contact: Amazingly, there has never been a book quite like this--a celebration of frightful images, compiled and presented by some of the genre's most respected names. Editor Stephen Jones and his stellar team of contributors have sourced visuals from archives and private collections including their own worldwide, ensuring an unprecedented selection that is accessible to those discovering the genre, while also including many images that will be rare and unfamiliar to even the most committed fan.

While acknowledging the beginnings of horror-related art in legends and folk tales, the focus of the book is on how the genre has presented itself to the world since the creations of Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley first became part of the public consciousness in the 19th century. From the shockingly lurid to the hauntingly beautiful--including images of vampires, werewolves, zombies, ghosts, demons, serial killers, alien invaders, and more--every aspect of the genre is represented in ten themed chapters. Among those writing chapters is Lovecraft expert S. Artists are far too many to list, but they do include Finlay, Hannes Bok, J.

From Paris in to Diaspar at the End of Time, from New York to Alphaville, the walls between the worlds of fiction crumble and fantasies become reality These legends from Otherwhere and Elsewhen have finally come to rest on the virtual beach of that utopia that stretches from Mexico to Canada and welcomes all dreams and dreamers Countess Cagliostro Doctor Omega: The Wolff that One Hears The Hive The Real Ghostbusters: Blood of a Poet Martin Mystere: Mystery rides high in this thrilling tale of the South Seas. Wind Patrol Black wings poise the finger of doom over the Indo-China coast.

Murder and pillage paralyze the great fleet of Brackett's Airway as Bill Shade flies a shadowy sky-path to a temple of terror. Jim Cole drapes the challenge around his seaplane's struts, and swoops into the red. Sky Blazers Over the frozen skies of Alaska, Jess Marlow plays a hand in the embittered battle for territorial freight rights between old Michael Harrigan and Kurt Dikeman.

When the rumor of gold is spread, the battle escalates, with death in its frosty wake! With an introduction by Tom Roberts. Saunders Central City runs red from gangland war. Corruption and political graft undermine authority to the highest levels. Unpopular with both the media and with his superiors, nevertheless Murdock's methods gets results,—whether battling blackmailers, bootleggers, drug runners or organized crime!

Collected are the initial twenty stories in this long-running, reader favorite series, including: Roberts, lecturer and award-winning popular culture historian. Cover art by Walter M. A Retro-Review Black Gate. The relationship between the adoptive cousins is gradually changing: At the village of Jey-Mat, Bunduki proves his value to the inhabitants by diverting a herd of elephants away from the village crops; befriending Tantor just as Tarzan did when he was a youngster.

Bunduki is troubled by the docility of the Telonga tribe; they don't even put up a struggle when the People-Taker steals their women and children.

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They quite simply don't know how to defend themselves. He vows to train them in the art of war. Meanwhile Dryaka visits Charole to put their rivalry aside. They agree that the only way to win back their power is to capture Bunduki and Dawn and take possession of their superior weapons. They wonder whether the mysterious tribe known as 'The Apes' might, in fact, be Zillikian's 'Suppliers'.

Bunduki is called to a neighbouring village to deal with a marauding tiger. He slays it in true Tarzan style and takes the skin back to Jey-Mat, presenting it to Dawn as an engagement present. With the village celebrating, the hunters drink their wine, unaware that it has been drugged by the Elders. Later, they awaken to find themselves in a cave, its entrance sealed by bars. They have been 'put away'. Bunduki hears elephants nearby and calls to Tantor in the language of the mangani. They tear down the bars, freeing their friends.

Back in the village, the People-Taker has taken everyone apart from babies and the elderly. Hunters from neighbouring villages arrive, eager to join with Bunduki in seeking revenge. They set off on the trail of the slavers. The battle is savage but, with more than a little help from Bunduki, they win; slaughtering the People-Taker's retinue and freeing the captured villagers But Dawn isn't among them.

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She has been sent ahead to Bon-Gatah. Bunduki has a better chance than most of finding her. Edson - Coming February 15! The Literary and the Fantastic Castalia House. The End of the Story: Visit the locations of H. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos with this special Cthulhu-themed edition of the classic property game, Monopoly!

January 1937

Available only within the United States and U. America's favorite dice game has a Lovecraftian theme with this special Cthulhu edition of Yahtzee! Heather Jacobs Big Fiction by D. Deep-hidden in evil, Satan's Suicide Club sat in council - and men died. What dreadful force drove these men, leaders of society with everything to live for, to end their lives at the behest of that sinister being who sardonically called himself Professor Mephisto? And why did men and women suffer the tortures of the damned, rather than defy this mysterious being? Richard Wentworth once more assumes the cloak of the Spider to free these lost ones from a living hell and a disgraceful death - and steps into the jaws of a devil's trap that casts his life among the lives in pawn!

War gongs clanged in Chinatown - but it was no tong war that tore the great Societies with fear, and suspicion, and deadly hate. For deeper in evil mystery than their own dark secrets, lay the hidden temple of crime, that loosed the Scourge of the Yellow Fangs - the menace that erupted in the yellow men's haunts, and overflowed into white men's lives, and threatened white men's rule.

Victims lived long enough to curse the unknown Man from Singapore - who knew the Spider and planned his quick removal from the finish fight. Without any forewarning, the madness struck. One moment the busy steel-mill town of Keystone was a peaceful industrial community. The next, it had become a shambles of murder, madness, and ruthless midnight slaughter. Horror walked its streets, and terror lurked in every close-locked home. Could the Spider, hastening to answer the distressed call of the dismayed inhabitants, prevail against the death which struck from darkness?

A stranger in a place of madness, unsupported by friends or allies, Richard Wentworth faces his greatest test - alone! With appalling suddenness, a new hooded monster of crime unleashed swift murder and soul-chilling madness upon Manhattan.

His army of assassins struck with wanton savagery to lash terrified millions into a paralysis of fear. The Dictator held sway! And Richard Wentworth, the avenging Spider, driven to the ambuscades of the underworld, faced the vortex of sudden peril alone. It's bedtime, and six-year-old Jonathan Thomas and his teddy bear, Guz, are ready for a story before going to sleep. But before the story can begin, a moonbeam shines through Jonathan's window, and, much to his surprise, two little elves slide down it into his bedroom.

Before Jonathan can stop him, Guz takes off after the elves and scampers up the moonbeam chasing them. Pitiless, astute, ambitious, yellow-skinned Wang-ba emerged from the mystic Orient to proclaim himself Emperor of America! Sight of his green face caused bloodcurdling terror; his anger could be appeased only by soul-twisting agony and writhing, long-lasting death Such was the criminal genius whom Richard Wentworth had to kill.

Never before has the Spider been squeezed so tightly between the vise-jaws of the law and the lawless. Nor has he ever struggled so fiercely against the pleading of his own brave heart! The mad emperor, warrior descendant of the ravagers of Asia, unleashed a new, horrible, ingenious weapon against the American people.

While slant-eyed Mongols bent over a powerful death machine, about 1, miles away, the air became unbreathable! Men and women and children - all living things - gasped for life-giving oxygen, and with searing, heaving lungs, fell strangled by the mysterious, deadly element. Against these demoniacal hordes, one man alone - Operator 5 - struggles while red revolt and destruction blasts America! In the heart of New York's Chinatown, on his imperial throne, guarded by swordsmen and gunmen and a labyrinth of death traps, sat the archcriminal of all time.

Master of life and death, of disease, of horrible, crawling things - the emperor of vermin released destruction over city and nation. The Spider, Master of Men, champion of humanity, fought with every ounce of his cunning against the monster who personified evil incarnate. Chaos, confusion, and disintegration fall with swift, breathtaking disaster upon America! Already terrorized by a tottering, unstable world, American men and women are swept into a mad stampede when the great leaders of the nation are spirited away one by one to return as broken men, useless and inept. Here Jimmy Christopher - Operator 5 - sets forth on his most thrilling and dangerous exploit while the great brains of America surrender to madness and despair, as a leaderless people seethe in revolt against a government that is crumbling before their eyes.

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 a subversive internal threat, or a full-scale invasion from an enemy land, James Christopher stood ready and resolute to defeat it. In the gaunt desolation of those dark Kentucky hills, the Dixie Limited, crack flyer, stood gutted of all living passengers The Spider, the only survivor, stood alone at that bleak scene, vowing silently, solemnly, to destroy the ambition-mad arch-criminal who had plotted this wholesale ruin.

For this, and manifold like disasters, were occurring everywhere in the land - at the direction, Richard Wentworth knew, of some diabolical brain, which was unleashing hordes of primitive barbarians to lay waste to civilization. The Spider - who was really Richard Wentworth, a true American aristocrat - had fought a hundred battles and faced a thousand foes But never before had a more brilliant criminal genius challenged him. For the Boss, employing a horrible new weapon, ruled the Underworld with an iron hand, slaughtering, maddening, and loosing maniacs to ravage the nation!

Pali, then began gathering about him a band of civic-minded citizens to join him in his Buddhistic battle against suffering in all forms-particularly those caused by criminals. And aiding him from the shadows, the mysterious Magga, a woman of many faces who had taken an interest in guiding the Green Lama's campaign against malefactors.

Above the panicked cries of terrified humans there rose the eerie howling of dogs gone mad. A hydrophobic army of destruction loosed cold-bloodedly to rend and tear and spread their shrieking madness through town and countryside And once more the crisis finds the Spider battling single-handed, fighting alone to save a people who have, in their blindness, put a price upon his head. When terror suddenly boarded a little tramp steamer and left crimson havoc littering its narrow decks, a spluttering wireless flashed the doom of every living thing aboard. Within a week, the same ghastly fate struck a gigantic new ocean liner, its luxurious cabins occupied by the elite and powerful of a dozen different nations!

Death - swift and terrible - rode the ocean lanes. And the Spider - taken for once off guard - was supposedly dying in a hospital room on the very day when that terror from the seas first showed itself above the city skyline. Another epic exploit of America's best-loved pulp-fiction character of the s and s: The Spider - Master of Men! Richard Wentworth - the dreaded Spider, nemesis of the Underworld, lone wolf anti-crime crusader who always fights in that grim no-man's land between law and lawless - returns in vintage pulp tales of the Spider.

Among fans of classic pulp fiction, aficionados of supernatural stories consider Popular Publications' Terror Tales, the magazine, for people who found the Lovecraftian stories in Weird Tales too tame and Universal's classic monsters too Hollywood! Between and , Terror Tales and its legion of unholy authors spewed forth an unremitting litany of horror, terror, torment, and torture - all directed at ordinary American couples faced with supernatural menaces torn from their deepest, darkest nightmares.

Operator #5 #30 January 1937

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