Here's the site's home page link:
http://www.planetarystories.com/New issues of Planetary Stories & Pulp Spirit were released yesterday
http://www.planetarystories.com/PS21ToC.htm. Since I am an assistant editor of those on-line pulp magazines, and write for them, I decided its time for a little shameless self-promotion. (Back issues at
www.planetarystories.com )
In fact I feel a little bit like Red Buttons on those old TV roasts. "John Doe, who did this and that, never got a dinner."
Moonstone has been banging the drums for their "Return of the Originals" with new stories, and in some cases perhaps the first comics strips, about some of the old pulp characters.
But, there were also any number of pulp heroes who only appeared in comic books. They never had a
purple prose adventure! Think about it. Take DC's Crimson Avenger... Please! The Crimson, until he joined the long underwear brigade, was a cross between radio's Green Hornet and the Shadow. He never had a prose adventure. So many worthy and unworthy pulp style heroes never had a prose adventure.
In a wild fit of questionable sanity I decided to remedy that for one really undeserving pulp-comic hybrid character. What character you ask? From the incredibly derivative (sweat) shop of Harry A. Chesler, he dresses sort of like the Shadow. He operates like Captain Satan. The one and (thankfully) only...
The Black DwarfOkay. Show of hands. Has anybody here ever heard of the Black Dwarf? Hmmmm... Not too many. Check out these covers:
http://www.comics.org/series/377/covers/http://www.comics.org/series/433/covers/Read a collection of his stories here at Digital Comics Museum:
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=7056Then head over to:
http://www.planetarystories.com/spirit11cvr.htmI adapted George Tuska's great 1944 cover for Pulp Spirit
Then read the Black Dwarf's very first prose adventure at:
http://www.planetarystories.com/dwarf.htmPlanetary Stories & Pulp Spirit would like to thank DCM for permission to link directly to relevant content pages for the Black Dwarf and for stories of Secret Agent X and the Moon Man appearing in Ace's Sure-Fire Comics as X, the Phantom Fed & the Raven respectively.
We now return to our regularly scheduled discussion.
Best,
Bob Kennedy a/k/a Erwin K. Roberts
Who is having a snow day off in Kansas City