May 10, 2008
12th Annual Fantastic
Pulps Show & Sale, Toronto, Ontario
June 12-14, 2008
Robert E. Howard Days, Cross Plains, Texas
June 21-22, 2008
Abingdon Pulp & Paperback Conference, Abingdon, Va.
July 24-27, 2008
Dum Dum 2008, Waterloo, Iowa
July 31-Aug. 3, 2008
PulpCon 38, Dayton, Ohio
Oct. 11-12, 2008
La Plata Doc Con 3, La Plata, Mo.
Nov. 1, 2008
Pulp Adventurecon, Bordentown, N.J.
Nov. 1, 2008
Doc Con XI, Ariz.
On-going
Gotham Pulp Collectors Club, second Saturday of each month, Hudson Park Library, Manhattan
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Grim returns
Brother Grim, an online pulp-ish comic strip and fiction series, should resume crimefighting this month as Supernatural Crime and Digital Comics and Pulps returns from a two-month hiatus. MORE . . .
A new beginning
The End of the Beginning brings a new start to one of paperbacks longest running pulp-like series, The Destroyer. MORE . . .
Pulp hang ups
Looking for something for that empty wall in your den? Check out a pulp cover print by CAPE Publishing Co. MORE . . .
The Spider strikes again
Don McGregor and Gene Colons graphic novel The Spider: Scavengers of the Slaughtered Sacrifices is due out in August. The Master of Men investigates a series of murders that mimic fictional killings depicted in movies and on television in this present-day adventure. (Lets hope this updated pulp character turns out better than others.) The 100-page signed, hardcover graphic novel will sell for $34.95. Its being published by Vanguard Productions, 59A Philhower Road, Lebanon, NJ 08833. Oh, Gene Colons Web site includes a few scans of his pencil work for the novel, as well as another project, The Spider: BATman, which is due out in late September.
Also due this month is Bold Venture Press latest Spider fascimile (No. 70), The Spider and the Slaves of Hell. Its $10 plus $2 shipping (or $72 for a six-issue, one-year subscription). For more information on the Bold Venture Press publications, visit the Web site, e-mail Rich Harvey or write Bold Venture Press, P.O. Box 64, Bordentown, N.J. 08505.
Pulp pun
Okay. So we cant pass up bad puns. Heres one Scotty Phillips sent in: Whos nose looks evil to most men? The Shadows nose!
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A few years ago there was a Doc Savage comic book from a small company. This company leased a villain/antihero from the estate of an Australian author. This character appeared in 1905. What was the adversarys name?
Sounds like youre referring to Millennium Comics, a Florida company that published about a dozen Doc Savage comic books in the 1990s. Pulp Companion turned to Mark Ellis, who wrote and edited the series for Millennium. Youre probably talking about the two-part Doom Dynasty, which featured Australian author Guy Boothbys Dr. Nikola as the villain, Ellis said in an e-mail. He was actually a late 19th century character. . . . The last book about him appeared in 05.
Ellis suggested a couple of Web sites where you can get more information about the villainous doctor. Jess Nevins site, Fantastic, Mysterious and Adventurous Victoriana, includes an entry about Nikola. And Win Scott Eckerts Wold Newton Universe includes several references. Eckerts site also includes Rick Lais The Life of Dr. Antonio Nikola, an article in a pdf file.
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