General Category > General Discussion
Read Fun Adventure Stories - Some Comic Related
erwin-k:
Hello Everyone,
On September 14th my new book went live on Amazon. The book is titled: The Moon Man - Showdown on the Plains (or Sherwood in America.)
Here is the back cover blurb: Detective Sergeant Steve Thatcher got blindsided. He arrived for duty one morning to find his father, the Chief of Police, relieved of duty, under house arrest, and banned from speaking to any member of the force. Can not catching the Moon Man, the Robin Hood of the Great Depression, be the reason? Or the excuse? All Captains and some Lieutenants have been replaced with by members of the corrupt Chicago P.D. Steve is warned of pending investigation, himself. Then the underworld explodes! Several racket bosses die in hostile takeovers. Others leave town, for their health. The remaining bosses seem to begin working together. Any aggressive move by he Police is blocked by lawyers, the courts, or by their own supervisors. The honest cops seem more hand-cuffed than the felons. With King Richard, the Mayor, in exile, and the honest Sheriff of Nottingham powerless, who can protect the people? Into the breach leaps that 20th Century Robin Hood: The Moon Man! (Just wait until you meet his Modern Merry Men.)
The Moon Man appeared 38 times in the Ace Magazines pulp 10 Detective Aces. Detective Sergeant Steve Thatcher, son of the Chief of Police of Great City, became the Moon Man to help people thrown into poverty by the Great Depression. The Moon Man robbed criminals and rich people who refused to give, even from their excess. Believe it, or not, there is a DCM connection.
About mid-1940 Ace Magazines jumped on the comic book band wagon. They brought at least two of their pulp magazine prose heroes with them. Secret Agent X, who had had his own pulp title, became X - the Phantom Fed. The Moon Man lost his Argus glass globe headpiece to become The Raven. Both characters first appeared in Sure-Fire Comics #1 (go here to read Sure-Fire: https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?cid=323
With issue #5 Sure-Fire became Lightning Comics. ( https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?cid=307. ) The Raven stayed there until the end. The Raven also appeared in the first four issues of 4-Favorites. ( https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?cid=99 ) On the legendary cover of 4-Favorites #1, signed by Artist Jim Mooney, The Raven gets the first strike at Hitler. ( https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/preview/index.php?did=16796&page=1&nav=top )
At about 33,000 words, Showdown on the Plains may be the longest prose story ever about The Moon Man. The long link below will get you to the Amazon sales page. A preview scene can be read at https://erwin-k-roberts.com You can also order the book, at a discount, from me at erwin.k.roberts@gmail.com autographed, if you like.
https://www.amazon.com/Moon-Man-Showdown-Plains-Sherwood/dp/B08HTM6F31/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
erwin-k:
Only three more days until the U.S. Holiday Thanksgiving. (The Canadians celebrated a similar one in early October.) Even in this mostly grim year, most of us have things to be thankful for. I am thankful that our son cooked up an idea for a virtual dinner, with him doing the cooking. Thanks, Eric!
At https://erwin-k-roberts.com I posted the only story I've ever written set around Thanksgiving. In 1938, to be precise. In the interdictory post I've mentioned how military service has effected the holiday from my youngest days.
As for the story, "Union Station Showdown," is set around the historic Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri, USAonia. Master stage magician George Chance arrives to perform in town. Then discovers a criminal mystery swirls around the very tracks his special railroad cars sit on. With the help of Union station's security chief, Grant Rockwell, Chance (soon to become The Green Ghost) works to smash a despicable racket.
Yoc:
Thanks Bob and I wish you and your family as happy a Thanksgiving as possible.
-yoc
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[*] Previous page
Go to full version