The Shadowed Circle CompendiumEdited by Steve Donoso180 pages/Renaissance Arts Press/$30 softcover, $50 hardcover) There is no excuse for why this review is so late, and I owe editor Steve Donoso a major apology. The Shadow has endured for 92 years, first as a radio voice, then in pulp magazine exploits, selling so furiously that it…
Film and pop culture guru Steve Donoso successfully Kickstarted funds for a fanzine dedicated to the iconic pulp magazine hero The Shadow. The first issue of The Shadowed Circle was released in July and packs a lot in its 48 black and white pages. Billed as a thrice-annual publication it features pieces by experts and…
With Sanctum Books wrapping up production on reprinting every Doc Savage pulp with their 87th volume, the production schedule will see the addition of The Black Bat. The first volume will reprint “Brand of the Black Bat” and “Murder Calls the Black Bat”. According to the solicitation copy: Sanctum Books presents the 1939 novels that introduced…
Seventy-five years ago, The Shadow and Doc Savage made their four-color debut on January 21st, 1940 in SHADOW COMICS #1, which also featured the first comic book appearances of Nick Carter, Bill Barnes, Frank Merriwell, Iron Munro and a variety of other popular Street & Smith pulp characters. With the possible exception of WALT DISNEY’S…
Happy Fourth of July, America. Via http://www.gotham-news.com/news/2012/02/18/random-blam-us-presidents-re-imagined-as-pulp-action-heroes
Last week, I attended two conventions in Chicago: the massive C2E2 multimedia clusterfuck-on-the-lake, and the more sublime Windy City Pulp and Paper show out in the western suburb of Lombard. Guess which one I enjoyed more? To be fair, C2E2 is a lot of work for me, and my response to “work” is similar to…
The Shadow, the template for most of comic books’ mystery men, captured America’s imagination in radio and pulp magazines for decades. His paperback revival in the 1960s and 1970s (the latter with spectacular covers from Steranko) led to his brilliant portrayal by Denny O’Neil and Michael William Kaluta in the short-lived DC Comics adaptation. Currently,…
With the final volume currently on Kickstarter, I had a chance to talk to Brian Schrimer and Jeremy Saliba about Ultrasylvania – a comic series crafted in the classroom. Joshua Pantalleresco: How did Ultrasylvania came to be? Brian Schrimer: I was traveling in Europe in 2011, making any notes of things that crossed my mind…
THIS WEEK ON PULPED! Milton Davis Gets PULPED! This week Host Tommy Hancock welcomes Publisher and Author Milton Davis, the man behind MVMedia. Leading the charge for Sword and Soul as well as Steamfunk, Davis is the vanguard for African American Genre and Pulp Fiction. Listen in as he talks about how he became a…
New Pulp Publisher Airship 27 Productions has released New Pulp Author B.C. Bell‘s The Bagman vs. The World’s Fair. PRESS RELEASE: Airship 27 Productions is delighted to announce the release of its latest pulp title, THE BAGMAN vs THE WORLD’S FAIR by B.C. Bell. It is the summer of 1933 and the Windy…
Pro Se Productions, a leader in New Pulp and Genre Fiction, announces digital advanced reader copies of its newest anthology! Pro Se Productions proudly presents BLACK FEDORA! Following a Classic Pulp tradition, the stories under the BLACK FEDORA all feature villains in the lead role! Authors B. C. Bell, Phillip Drayer Duncan, and Kevin Paul…
Pro Se Productions, a leader in New Pulp and Genre Fiction, announces digital advanced reader copies of an upcoming title are now available for Reviewers! Pro Se Productions gladly commits THE FIRST SYNN: THE BLOODSTONE CONFIDENTIAL, the first of a new series of supernatural pulp thrillers by noted award winning author Teel James Glenn. Complete with chills and thrills harkening back…
