AMAZING NEWS: 9/27/2015 - Amazing Stories

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SPECIAL LITERATURE NOTE: The owner of Amazing Stories (me) remains committed to printed books. We’re happy for authors who get published (or publish themselves) in whatever media they choose, but I reserve a special place and reverence for the printed work. Just sayin.

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Viola Davis Wins and Emmy & Pushes the Dialogue Forward

Andy Samberg Makes Some Supporting Remarks: “This is the most diverse group of nominees in Emmy history, so congratulations Hollywood.”

And if POCs and Jews aren’t enough Hollywood Diversity for ya, here comes a dedication to the Transgender Community

The Mad Max Franchise and Disability

(I wonder how many Hollywood Puppies were trying to stuff the ballot box for the Emmys….)

ENTERTAINMENT

Game of Thrones makes Emmy History

New The Martian Trailers & Teasers

Ta-Nehisi to author new Black Panther series

Asimov’s Foundation Series on the Radio

As Comics See the Puppys

Caaaaaptain Videoooooooo! (I’ve checked and have yet to find ‘Video’ listed as a surname anywhere)

Some of the Best science fiction manages to show us unintended consequences of future developments. Here’s one….

INDUSTRY

Here’s the article that has all the MadGeniuses in a Twist: Ebook sales Declining; Print grows; Indie Bookstores thriving

Random Penguin Offers Big Prizes in Contest (closes 9/30)

Black SF Creators At Princeton

Stock Scam in the Book World

Another “Best” Listing

You can now sing Happy Birthday royaltyr free

Penguin Celebrates 80 Years: Cool infographic, cool info

SCIENCE

Open Source TREE of LIFE

Robot ‘Big Dog’ Training with Marine Corps

Is It Legal? Ethical? Robosex

We may be on the verge of measuring insect consciousness

James Benford thinks we might catch alien “power beams”

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editor@glo-quips.com>
September 23, 2015

I am the granddaughter of the late Will F. Jenkins/Murray Leinster and writing to seek information on the presentation of a meteorite at one of the conventions. It has been suggested that it occurred during the Hugo Awards in 1956. Could you direct me to someone who may know the history of this gift?

Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you,

Elizabeth Jenkins DeH. Richardson

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Meet the District of Wonders staff!

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First off…

StarShipSofa.
Tony C. Smith (this is an old photo – come over to FB to see how the years have aged me)!

Editor/Producer

Host/Editor/Producer of Hugo Award winning StarShipSofa podcast

Josh Leuze

Webmaster

Josh Leuze is a WordPress developer from Minnesota who loves making websites. He builds and maintains all of the sites in the District of Wonders.

When not building websites in his basement, Josh can be found doodling with his kids at the kitchen table, digging in the garden, or pedaling his bike around town.

Josh Leuze Jeremy Szal

Assistant Editor

Jeremy Szal is a young author and assistant editor for StarShipSofa, living in Sydney, Australia. He’s had over thirty publications in various magazines, anthologies and journals, including an Honourable Mentions from Writers of the Future contest. He was also nominated for the 2014 Parsec Award. He hopes to write for a living and take over the world with his robot-dragon hybrids.

Tales To Terrify

Stephen Kilpatrick

Host/Editor

Editor Stephen Kilpatrick is a IT professional living and working in northern Virginia. He has an associates degree in culinary arts and has also spent several years working in kitchens.

Stephen Kilpatrick also narrates for Tales to Terrify. His first aired narration was O. D. Hegre’s Just Tearing Me Apart, which aired on episode 60.

He was born and raised in Zanesville, Ohio, but has lived in Detroit, Denver, and Tampa prior to coming to rest in northern Virginia, just west of Washington D.C.

He loves the outdoors, particularly bicycling and hiking.

Philip Oldham

Editor
Philip Oldham is a Colorado native. A jack of all trades, working in everything from construction to retail to IT. He’s currently working on getting his degree in English and Digital Media Production. Living near Denver with Sweeney Todd, the psycho cannibal cat, Philip enjoys reading, gaming, and figuring out how to not burn his kitchen down while making something delicious. He’s joined the District with the hope of giving something back to the podiocast and the community which has brought such fun and adventure to his life.

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Submission Editor
Rock Manor is a voice actor, writer, and producer of a horror audiobook series entitled Manor House. His voice acting has been featured on Tales To Terrify, The NoSleep Podcast, Chilling Tales For Dark Nights, and others. He has acted in theatrical stage plays including the Player’s Guild Theatre productions of A Few Good Men and A Christmas Carol. His alter ego is that of a marketing copywriter. Follow him on twitter @TheRockManor

Laura Nealis

Intern/Assistant Editor
Laura attends the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and will be entering her junior year. She’s studying to get her BA in Creative Writing and a minor in Spanish. She switched her major six times in four semesters and is delighted with her final choice. When she’s not studying she spends her free time volunteering at the local nursing homes, soup kitchens, and elementary schools in the Champaign area.

Far Fetched Fables

Nicola Seaton-Clark

Editor and Host

Nicola lives in the wilds of (almost) Eastern Europe with her long-suffering husband, phenomenal children and a grumpy cat. Trained as an actress and singer, she has worked in entertainment for over 20 years and currently splits her time between writing speculative fiction, helping her husband run their voice-over company, Offstimme, and voicing everything from commercials and documentaries to public transport announcements.

Gary Dowell

Assistant Editor

Gary Dowell is a Dallas-based writer and former journalist who writes catalog copy for Heritage Auctions by day, and fights crime as a freelance film critic by night. In between, he works as a consultant for the USA Film Festival and Dallas International Film Festival. His inane ramblings can be read at MovieInk.net,PopCitizen.com, and DarkHorizons.com. He has fond memories of sleep.

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Audio Engineer

Mark Zanfardino is a software engineer presently working in the world of web development. Mark started mixing sound for a start-up church in northern California before returning to southern California to be close to his growing family. When not tinkering with hardware, delving into arcane Linux minutia, or entertaining his granddaughter, Mark can be found (when he chooses to be) riding the back country of San Diego on his Harley with his wife Kelley.

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The Secret War

MAX HASTINGS

Spies, codes and guerrillas played critical roles in the Second World War, exploited by every nation in the struggle to gain secret knowledge of its foes. The Secret War gives a new perspective on the greatest conflict in history.

‘As gripping as any spy thriller, Max Hasting’s account of the critical role of intelligence in the Second World War is the best yet.’ Sunday Times

Solomon Creed

SIMON TOYNE

A plane crashes in the Arizona desert. One lone figure emerges alive from the wreckage. He has no memory of his past, and no idea of his future. He only knows he must save a man. But how do you save someone who is already dead? Who is Solomon Creed?

‘Compelling, vivid and profound. It stays with you long after you’ve finished the final page.’ Peter James

Will and Tom

MATTHEW PLAMPIN

1797, West Yorkshire. Rising artist Will Turner arrives at Harewood House intending to sketch the house and grounds, receive his commission and return to London. But things at the grand house are not quite as he expects and Will witnesses something that will threaten both his commission and friendship.

‘Witty and engaging… A convincing portrait of a difficult, yet vulnerable genius.’ SUNDAY TIMES

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George R. R. Martin speaks to HarperVoyager

HarperVoyager publishes some of the world’s best names in science fiction and fantasy, and this year marks their 20th birthday. Watch this fabulous documentary, Voyagers of the Imagination, to discover the 20-year journey of the team behind George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones.

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Free Product of the Week

Hypercorps 2099: Hypernet
by Legendary Games

SYSTEM: Pathfinder

The Hypercorps 2099 Kickstarter is funding right now, and you can see what the cyberpunk superhero modification to your Pathfinder game has to offer in this suite of free stuff!

A world exists within the googols of electronic connections that encircle and suffuse Hypercorps 2099, a digital dimension — the Hypernet — that can be as a real as a bullet in the head. Within the cybernetic landscape are trillions of users and countless servers, creating a frontier for adventure by the technologically adept or those powerful enough to traverse to other planes of existence.

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Darknet servers, the Datacorps, Thrillville, and Veranthea: Life & Death
everything you need to take any party on futuristic adventures!

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Notes from Scott’s Desk

For all correspondence, feel free to contact me, Scott Holden, atscott@onebookshelf.com.

Hi friends!

Once again, we have a full slate this week!***

For starters, we’re entering the last week of our September d20 System Sale. Until the end of the month, you can get 15% offhundreds of d20 System titles, from publishers such as Kobold Press, Goodman Games, Crafty Games, and Malhavoc Press.

This weekend, in addition, we have a selection of our bestselling titles on sale for 40% off from Ondine Publishing and Sine Nomine Publishing. But only until Monday!

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As always, we also have a bunch of deals on our Today’s Sales page, including Raging Swan’s Birthday Sale, which has all of Raging Swan’s PDF titles marked down by 40%.

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BUNDLE OF HOLDING SCORES ACES — AND EIGHTS!

The Bundle of Holding has launched the ACES Bundle, a new collection of the Aces & Eights: Shattered Frontier game line from Kenzer & Company. Loosely based on Kenzer’s HackMaster rules,Aces & Eights is set in an alternate-history Wild West that never was. The fast-flying combat system uses target overlays you print onto printer transparency film. This offer presents almost the entire Aces & Eights line.

And you still have a few days to get the Hellfrost Bundle, featuring the chilly epic fantasy setting from Triple Ace Games for Pinnacle’sSavage Worlds RPG.

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I trust there’s a little something for everyone here in this week’s newsletter.

Until next time, game on!

~ SJH (09-24-2015)

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Pick of the Week

Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition
by Onyx Path Publishing

SYSTEM: Storyteller / Storytelling

I tell you this: We are Divinity. Reality is ours to bend. To subvert. To command. We have that power – all of us. Not everyone knows what to do with it, or uses it well. Most of us never realize just what it is we are or how much we can do. Those of us who do… well, some of us are monsters. Manipulators. Parasites. Tyrants. Fanatics.

And the rest of us never see that monster in our own mirror, only in the reflections of those folks who are not “us.” Here’s the truth, though: We are ALL “us.” We are ALL gifted, we can ALL change the world. Most of us remain asleep.

A blessed few Awaken. Fewer still use that power wisely. And none without consequences. And so, reality is up for grabs. Where do you stand?

And will you Fall… or Ascend?

What’s in Mage 20th?

• Updated profiles of the Council of Nine Traditions, the Technocratic Union, and the Disparate Crafts, with many unexpected developments

• An epic history of magick and its factions

• A compilation and clarification of essential and optional rules, including martial arts, vehicles, hazards, cybernetics, the Otherworlds, and far more besides

• Overviews of paradigms, practices and tools — the focus of your Art

• Detailed explorations of the epic concepts involved in Mage

• Chilling looks at the Nephandi and Marauders

• The Nine Spheres, plus their Technocratic variants

• Old favorites and new faces from among the Awakened Ones

• Reality Zones, Paradox, Quiet, the “coincidental vs. vulgar magick” debate, and far more

• New full-color original art by Michael William Kaluta, Echo Chernik, Steve Prescott, Christopher Shy, Larry MacDougall, and other classic Mage artists, as well as classic B&W pieces carefully chosen from the earlier editions

$29.99

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Other Featured Titles

d20 Cyberscape
by Wizards of the Coast

SYSTEM: D&D/d20 Modern

This new rules supplement provides everything players and Gamemasters need to create and run campaigns featuring cybernetics in the post-modern realm of cyberpunk fiction.

Building on the d20 Future cybernetic rules, d20 Cyberscape includes cybernetics and cyborgs, as well as new advanced classes and enhancements. d20 Cyberscape also features rules for magical and psionic cybernetics and virtual reality networks.

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d20 Cyberscape (2005), by Owen K.C. Stephens, is a setting supplement for d20 Future (2004), which is itself a supplement for the d20 Modern (2002) roleplaying game.

d20 Cyberscape includes the standard expansions that you’d expect of a d20 Future supplement. There’s some nice integration with the Future Progress Levels, plus a set of three new advanced classes: the bionic agent, the cyberwarrior, and the implant hack.

d20 Cyberscape also contains extensive new rules systems for cybernetics and computer networks — including VRNet, previously a web enhancement for d20 Future. It even includes bizarre alternate cybertech, including fantasy cybernetics, horror cybernetics, bio-cybernetics, and nanotech — covering a variety of major subgenres of cyberpunk.

$19.95 $9.99

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The Slaver’s Lash
by Schwalb Entertainment

SYSTEM: Shadow of the Demon Lord

An adventure for starting characters, by Chris Pramas

The emperor’s death and the subsequent collapse of the Empire loosed rampaging bands of orcs into the Empire’s provinces. While many of these orcs seek the freedom long denied to them, others see opportunity for vengeance, wealth, and power.

In this adventure, a band of orc slavers has moved into the Northern Reach, plundering frontier towns for slaves to sell or use for sport. When the adventure opens, the characters are among the captives, marching toward a life in chains.

$1.99

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The Hideous Game
by Monte Cook Games

SYSTEM: Cypher System

Download this adventure, and you could be playing in five minutes!

In the vast city of Qi, where technological wonders are the rule rather than the exception, a game begins. The slidikin have slipped once more from the shadows to play their elaborate game of blood, teeth, and knives. Can you discover the secrets of the past in time to save lives in the present?

With this Instant Adventure, you can skip the prep and get right to playing. The innovative Instant Adventure format makes prepping for an RPG no more difficult or time consuming than setting up a board game, while still showcasing the wonder, mystery, and awe of the Ninth World.

This isn’t an adventure seed or sketchy idea — it’s a complete adventure in a new format that requires minimal prep. Run it as a one-shot, or drop it into your ongoing campaign when you don’t have time to prep your own adventures!

This 22-page adventure was run in official GenCon 2015 Numenera events. It includes six pre-generated characters, so you have everything you need to play!

Note: The total page count of 22 pages includes the 10-page adventure, plus 6 pre-generated characters.

$2.99

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Also of Note

Armageddon Unlimited™
by Palladium Books

Rivalry between the forces of two different planes of Hell, Hades and Dyval, has turned into all-out war, one that spreads across the Megaverse like a cancer. Countless worlds and entire galaxies are caught in the crossfire and face invasion or outright destruction.

For some worlds — for your world — Armageddon looms. Can your heroes save the Earth? They’d better, because you and your entire world are expendable playing pieces in the mad game of vengeance and destruction between demons and devils.

Armageddon Unlimited™ is more than an epic, world-saving adventure, it is also a sourcebook jam-packed with new powers, magic, weapons, and Power Categories that can be incorporated into any Heroes Unlimited™ campaign.

7 new Minor Super Abilities and 15 new Major Super Abilities
15 new magic weapons and objects
new Power Categories and abilities for Demon Hunter, Crusader of Light, and Hellion
Hellion monster creation table and nearly two dozen NPC villains
magically bestowed variant Power Categories
Dr. Vilde, mastermind behind the Armageddon plot, and details of his secret island base
more than a dozen NPC villains, an adventure, and more

This book can be used as a standalone adventure sourcebook for Heroes Unlimited™ or as a pivotal plot in an expansive Minion War™ campaign.

$20.95 $10.49

Pulp-Themed Map Pack
by Just Insert Imagination

Get your treasure map, gun, and gear ready!

This pack has 26 battle-maps for a GM looking to run encounters in any pulp game and includes the following:

2 city roof maps
2 desert market maps
2 desert temple maps
2 hangar maps
2 jungle temple maps
2 park maps
3 city street maps
4 jungle maps
airship interior map
desert ruins map
grotto map
illegal whiskey still
museum map
oasis map
ship map

The PDF contains 26 prints that are set up to print on A3 paper. The RAR file contain the maps optimized for online use in VTTs.

$9.99 $4.99

The Big Book of Little Games
by John Wick Presents

For years, John Wick has been designing small, personal roleplaying games for conventions, friends, and family. And now, this complete collection of these games is available for the first time.

The Big Book contains over 200 pages of both new games and revised editions of out-of-print classics.

The Flux (New!): All worlds are the same world… you just don’t remember. A meta-RPG that links all RPG worlds as the same world… with the same dangers.
Enemy Gods (Revised!): Take the role of both a hero and a god as rival deities slug it out with their mythic heroes as the ultimate weapons.
Cat (Revised!): “A Little Game about Little Heroes” places the heroes as housepets protecting their owners from monsters they can’t see.
Byron Falls (New!): In the lonely town of Byron Falls, beautiful and lonely high school girls fall in love with beautiful and lonely monsters.
Wicked Heroes (New!): In a world where super powers are a curse and not a gift, the “blessed” find their worst enemies are themselves.
Sexcraft (New!): An urban fantasy world where the ultimate weapon is not a sword or a gun, but the power of sex.
Wilderness of Mirrors (Revised!): This classic spy game is fast and ruthless. Everything you need to play a Master Spy and nothing more.
Eldritch High (New!): Alexander Circe’s Academy of the Eldritch Arts has prepared your class schedule but, are you prepared?
Yesterday’s Tomorrow (Revised!): John’s classic game of Retro Science Fiction (designed for his wife) is a game of Action!, Mystery!, Romance! and Science!
All the Days of My Children Hospital (New!): A Game about Romance, Betrayal, Deception, Dynasties, and Soap Commercials.

$24.99 $12.99

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September 25, 2015

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Escape

Volume 4

“…designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half-hour of high adventure…”

While stories of mystery and crime were the bailiwick of Suspense, Escape concentrated more on tales of high adventure — war, westerns, supernatural horror and science-fiction. Esteemed authors like Rudyard Kipling, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Arthur Conan Doyle, H.G. Wells, and Joseph Conrad provided much of the source material for the program, setting Escape apart from most of the other dramatic anthologies on the air at the time.

Escape benefited from an ensemble cast which included actor William Conrad – who lent his voice to 90 episodes in this gem of a series from Radio’s Golden Age. Following a distant second, actor Ben Wright lent his voice to a mere 56 episodes. Trailing in third place for the most performances on Escape, actor Harry Bartell voiced a variety of characters in 55 episodes, while John Dehner lent his voice to 54 episodes.

Known as being the voice of Escape, actor William Conrad once estimated that he portrayed more than 7,500 roles during his long career as a voice actor during Radio’s Golden Age. Conrad was not an idle boaster. He lent his distinct voice as a supporting cast member to such shows as The Man Called X, Favorite Story, The Voyage of the Scarlet Queen, The Green Lama, Nightbeat, and even Escape’s sister show, Romance. He also voiced Sheriff Matt Dillon in Gunsmoke. Conrad appeared in a record 90 episodes of Escape.

Escape featured one of radio’s most memorable openings, with either William Conrad or Paul Frees intoning: “Tired of the everyday grind? Ever dream of a life of romantic adventure? Want to get away from it all? We offer you…ESCAPE!” The orchestra would then strike up Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain” and, within seconds, the listener would be transported to a Caribbean jungle or to an icy glacier, effectively putting them in the shoes of that episode’s protagonist.

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James Christopher, Operator #5 Audiobook

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by Frederick C. Davis writing as Curtis Steele

Read by Milton Bagby

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, a thousand 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!

Jimmy Christopher was the star of the most audacious pulp magazine ever conceived. Jimmy belonged to the clean-cut, square-jaw, clear-eyed breed of hero made popular by the F. B. I. back in those grim days. He carried a Colt automatic and wore a flexible rapier concealed in the hollow of his leather belt. A gold skull ornament dangled from a vest-pocket watch chain. It contained a fast-acting poison in case of capture by enemy agents. Jimmy Christopher played a very dangerous game, of which he was a past master.

Working for Agent Z-7, head of an unnamed branch of U. S. Intelligence in the decade before the C. I. A. was ever envisioned, Operator #5 was assisted by newspaper reporter Diane Elliott, a two-fisted street kid named Tim Donovan, as well as his twin sister, Nan Christopher. Jimmy’s father, a retired operative himself, often backed him up with sound advice on the fine art of counter-espionage.

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.

The Green Death Mists is read with stirring intensity by Milton Bagby. Originally published in the November, 1934 issue of Operator #5 magazine.

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Doc Savage, Volume 83

The pulps’ greatest superhero returns in action-packed thrillers by Alan Hathway and Lester Dent writing as “Kenneth Robeson.” First, in The Rustling Death, Ham Brooks is rendered helpless by a strange sound, a rustling noise that can destroy planes in midair and disintegrate entire populations! Then, after his cover is blown during an undercover mission, the Man of Bronze heads to the South Seas in Terror and the Lonely Widow to avert a atomic age threat in one of his most gripping postwar adventures. This instant collector’s item reprints the classic color pulp covers by Emery Clarke, and also features the original interior illustrations by Paul Orban and historical commentary by Will Murray, author of fifteen Doc Savage novels. Double Novel Reprint $14.95

The Shadow, Volume 99

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows! The Dark Avenger becomes immeshed in murderous masquerades in two pulp thrillers by Walter B. Gibson and Theodore Tinsley writing as “Maxwell Grant.” First, from colorful carnival festivities arises a baffling puzzle, leading The Shadow to don a series of disguises to solve “Mardi Gras Mystery.” Then, the Knight of Darkness journeys to a “City of Fear” to unmask a master of disguise who can impersonate anyone—even The Shadow himself! Which Shadow will have the last laugh? BONUS: Anthony Tollin unmasks “The Many Faces of The Shadow.” This instant collector’s item showcases the classic color pulp covers by George Rozen and Graves Gladney and the original interior illustrations by Tom Lovell and Earl Mayan, with original commentary by popular culture historian Will Murray. Double Novel Reprint $14.95

The Black Bat, Volume 1
Sanctum Books presents the 1939 novels that introduced the caped crimebuster whose adventures paralleled Batman’s and inspired Two-Face’s origin, written by Norman A. Daniels as “G. Wayman Jones” for future Batman editors Mort Weisinger and Jack Schiff. First, doomed to darkness by a murderous acid attack, D.A. Tony Quinn makes darkness his weapon with“The Brand of the Black Bat.” Then, “Murder Calls the Black Bat” into a deadly war against corruption as Tony Quinn battles to prevent the biggest jewel heist of the century! Golden Age of Comics Bonus: the debut of The Mask from Nedor’s Exciting Comics #1. This instant collector’s item showcases the classic color pulp covers by Rudolph Belarski and Emery Clarke and the original interior illustrations by Harry Parkhurst, with historical commentary by Will Murray relating how a lawsuit with DC Comics was narrowly averted. Double Novel Reprint $14.95

The Spider, Volume 7
Published by Sanctum Books

The pulp’s most murderous crimebuster wages his deadly war on crime in two violent 1935 thrillers by Norvell Page. Recovering from life-threatening injuries, Richard Wentworth confronts the lightning-wielding Lion Man from Mars to end mass slaughter and save his beloved city from “The Flame Master.” Then, with Nita held hostage and Commissioner Kirkpatrick enslaved by a criminal mastermind, The Spider wages his lone war against the acid-spraying “Overlord of the Damned.” This double novel pulp reprint showcases the original color covers by John Newton Howitt, John Fleming Gould’s classic interior illustrations and historical commentary by Will Murray. Double Novel Reprint $14.95

Doc Savage: The Sinister Shadow

by Will Murray and Lester Dent, writing as Kenneth Robeson, cover illustration by Joe DeVito

When millionaire Lamont Cranston and attorney Ham Brooks are kidnapped by gunmen driving a black hearse, it spells trouble for Doc Savage. Trouble with compound interest when Cranston’s personal lawyer is mysteriously murdered before he can consult with celebrated criminologist George Clarendon—who is secretly The Shadow!

These strange events put the Man of Bronze and the Dark Avenger on a collision course that threatens to expose the deepest secrets of both supermen. The conflict intensifies when underworld figure Cliff Marsland is captured and shipped off to Doc’s secret Crime College!

Will these legendary crimefighters join forces—or will the diabolical Funeral Director have the last laugh on Doc Savage and The Shadow? Softcover $24.95

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12″ LP Vinyl Records

The last 210 OTR LPs have been cut in price another $5 today. Prices as low as $5 for a group of 5 LPs this week.

We are selling a collection of 689 OTR 12″ LP Vinyl Records of which 469 LPs are now sold. Each group contains 5 LPs with the exception of Group #80 which has the 17 LP boxed set of Shadow radio shows. We started the pricing at $50 per group or $10 per record. The price has been lowered by $5 or $1 per record every newsletter. There are now groups selling for $20, $15, $10 and $5. Buy them before they are gone!

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